‘Cause we’re okay, we’re fine.
Baby I’m here to stop your cryin’.
Chase all the ghosts from your head,
I’m stronger than the monster beneath your bed,
smarter than the tricks played on your heart.
We’ll look at them together,
then we’ll take them apart.
Adding up the total of a love that’s true,
multiply life by the power of two.
-Indigo Girls, Power of Two
I can’t pick a single line-
“I was lied to when I was told life was fair
and that someone would always be there
I hated myself more than anyone else
I was so unhappy with the cards I was dealt
When I was a child, my castle was my home
but now I walk down empty streets, memories and me alone
it’s easier to burn a bridge than to cross it
to slip, give in, give up; move on and try to forget
more’s been said in silence than could ever be spoken in words
secrets shared, promises kept, and feelings that will never be cured”
Slap, Link 80. God I love that song.
There are lots more, but I don’t feel like thinking right now.
“If you choose not to decide you still have made a choice.”
RUSH, Freewill.
“There’s more than one answer to these questions pointing me in a crooked line, and the less I seek my source for some definitive, the closer I am to fine.”
THE INDIGO GIRLS, Closer To Fine.
“You’re breaking my heart, you’re tearing it apart, so fuck you.” NIELSON, Your Breaking My Heart.
Just to name a few…
Another really long one I just thought of:
“yesterday I went outside with my momma’s mason jar
caught a lovely butterfly
when i woke up today, looked in on my fairy pet
she had withered all away
no more sighing in her breast
I’m sorry for what I did
…
every time I pin down what I think I want it slips away”
Butterfly, weezer.
Actually, I just thought of a whole bunch more, too, but I’ll spare you all.
Sorry 'bout the attitude I need to give when I’m with you, but no one else will take this shit from me. – Matchbox 20
So now I’m rollin’ down Rodeo with a shotgun. These people ain’t seen a brown-skinned man since their grandparents bought one. - Rage Against the Machine
It’s so easy, you see. You’d really swear it was me. I do the best imitation of myself. - Ben Folds Five
You, sugar taste. Sweetness doesn’t often touch my face. Stay, if you please. You may not be here when I leave. As of now, I think you got me wrong. - Alice in Chains
Instead of a war on poverty, they got a war on drugs so the police can bother me - Tupac
Probably my sig. And I could pick out any number of others from Elvis.
You can’t always gget what you want. But if you try sometimes, you find, you get what you need. - Stones
There’s a hole in daddy’s arm where all the money goes. Jesus Christ died for nothing I suppose. - John Prine
(and any other number from him).
Give the people what they want.
I’m not like anybody else. - Kinks
Pick just about any line from “For You” - *Bruce Springsteen (and many others of his)
I’m so goddamned horny the crack of dawn better look out around me - Tom Waits
“Come and hear those dancing feet
On the avenue I’m calling to you
42nd Street.” – Al Dubin
“Now, ain’t it funny
They pay them money
Shows you what can happen if your horse can act.” – Johnny Mercer, “Hooray for Hollywood”
“There one, two, three, four, five, six pockets on a table.
Pockets that mark the difference between a gentleman and a bum.
With a capital B and that rhymes with P and that stands for pool!” – Meredith Willson
“And that glorious morn
Jack the Ripper was born
Ah-ha-ha-ha those were the good old days!” - Adler/Ross
You love the thunder and you love the rain
What you see revealed within the anger is worth the pain
And before the lightning fades and you surrender
You’ve got a second to look at the dark side of the man
-You Love the Thunder, Jackson Browne
the beauty of this vision alone
just like yesterday’s sunset
has been perverted by the sentimental
and mistaken for love
-Iris, Live
All alone in space and time.
There’s nothing here but what here’s here’s mine.
Something borrowed, something blue.
Every me and every you.
-Every Me and Every You, Placebo
Every time i talk to you you’re down
and every time you need a laugh i’m around
and when you forget i’m here i’m not
it isn’t really me that you forgot
-Manchild, The Eels
Never thought that I knew too much
I always thought I knew enough
I didn’t want to learn this stuff
I didn’t ever want to be that tough
-Murder 101, The Wallflowers
I don’t know just what it’s all about…
... but put on your red pajamas and find out.
Velvet Underground
Some Kinda Love
I’d go with that one, too.
I could leave but I’ll just stay/ All my stuff’s here anyway.
Pinch Me, Bare Naked Ladies
I may not be a lady/ But I’m all woman…
?, Lisa Stansfield
SR-71 is the band, singing Right Now.
That’s Silverchair. The song is Tomorrow.
As for me, I submit the following:
How can I get there from here, and I don’t care where I’m going? - Van Halen - Unchained
“She used her body just like a band-aid, she used my body just like a wound. I’ll never know where she disappeared but I see her rising out of the backseat now just like an angel rising up from the moon.” Meatloaf. “Objects in the Rear View Mirror (May appear closer than they are)” [I think]
IMHO, Jim Steiman, Meatloaf’s partner/writer, is one of the under-rated poets of my generation.
“All of us are in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars” - The Pretenders (sorry but I can’t remember the name of the song)
This is to poetry what Mr. T is to acting.
“…there’s nothing like regret to make you feel you’re alive…”
–Sheryl Crow (can’t remember song’s name though)
“Just when I thought my vista was golden in hue;
One thousand umbrellas open to spoil the view.”
1,000 Umbrella’s - Andy Partridge (XTC)
How young are you?
How old am I?
Let’s count the rings
Around my eyes
Ain’t lost yet, so I gotta be a winner
Bacon and cigarettes - a lousy dinner
We’re all exchanging pleasantries
No matter how we feel
And no one knows the difference
'cause it all seems so unreal
You’d better grab ahold of something
Simple but it’s true
If you don’t stop to smell the roses now
They might end up on you
Expectations only mean you really think you know
What’s coming next, and you don’t
And when we die
Will we be that disappointed or sad
If heaven doesn’t exist
What will we have missed
This life is tge best
We’ve ever had
Many more when I get home and look at my CD collection.
Fly me to the moon
Let me sing among those stars
Let me see what spring is like
On Jupiter and Mars
In other words, hold my hand
In other words, baby, kiss me
Fill my heart with song
Let me sing for ever more
You are all I long for
All I worship and adore
In other words, please be true
In other words, I love you
Little TV sets
Going off inside my ears
Spaceships passing by
Firecracker beer
Chase the demons lightly
Newt inside my eye
Up and down the sidewalk
Take a doodoo pie
I love you…
“been around the world and found
that only stupid people are breeding”
Harvy Danger’s “Flagpole Sitta”
(it’s my CSR dept theme song, or should be)