10 pm. I feel the rain pouring down.
Remind me to buy you a beer, Kvallulf 
Off the top of my head:
“Your day breaks, your mind aches, you find that all her words of kindness linger on when she no longer needs you.” For No One, the Beatles
“I could stand here and do this again; I could say it but where to begin?” Because of You, Letters to Cleo
“Out here in the fields, I fight for my meals, I put my back into my living.” Baba O’Riley, the Who
“The girls today in society
Go for classical poetry
So to win them all you much quote with ease
Aesculus and Euripides.”
“Folks are dumb where I come from . . .”
“We’ve got sunlight on the shore
We’ve got moonlight on the sea
We’ve got mangoes and bananas that you pick right off a tree.”
“I say ya got trouble, my friends, I say ya got lots and lots of trouble.”
“I dreamed last night I got on a boat to heaven.”
“The loviness of Paris seems somehow sadly gay.
The glory that was Rome was of another day.”
Which is the perfect segue into the next group:
“I have seen Mr. Apollo uproot trees with his bare hands.”
“She’s broken all the super-hearts of the superheroes of the galaxy.
So why does she want to mess around with me?”
“Greetings. Glad to see you stuck around. Like to introduce Legs Larry Smith, drums.”
“Life’s like that, isn’t it?”
“Wendy Wetlips stares from her poster
Ignoring the drawing adorning her smile.”
“We arrived at the gig looking rough.”
“What we have here is failure to communicate.” – Strother Martin, anticipating the Internet.
one
— “Sing a Mean Tune Kid from Chicago 3”
“You are as reliable as a painting in wave wet sand” Wavw Wet Sand by Ace of Base
A planet on the go
It’s ok, watching the weeds grow
and if you listen really hard
the earth, she hums when it’s dark.
I Just Wanna See
Smash Mouth
Chrisbar
St. Chrisbar: Patron Saint of Newbies who have already caught on to the fact that nothing else matters, as long as your post count is high.
Courtesy of SwimmingRiddles
Harry got up
Dressed all in black
Went down to the station
And he never came back
They found his clothing
Scattered somewhere down the track
And he won’t be down on Wall Street in the morning…
I am diagonally parked in a parallel universe.
Royal Crown Revue - Friday the 13th
It was a fine left coast morning
I found my self planted outside the cap’n court
tippin’ back the hops to calm my damson hands
see I don’t usually play that tired up watchdog routine, lookin’ up and down the street
A long time ago, The Sip’n Fly invented velcro, and there was much rejoicing, then he invented cheese, and there was even more rejoicing!
A man came up to me and said I’d like to poison your mind
With wrong ideas that appeal to you, though I am not unkind
(TMBG, Whistling in the Dark)
Hey maman, pourquoi je suis pas un garçon?
(Mylène Farmer, Sans Contrefacon)
My friend Jerry Vandergriff kissed me in home ec class
Later in the afternoon some jarheads in the locker room kicked my ass
(Bloodhound Gang, I Wish I Was Queer So I Could Get Chicks)
Eh Mec! Ton regard oblique en rien n’est lubrique
Ta maman t’a trop fessé
Ton gout du revers n’a rien de pervers et
Ton bébé n’est pas fâché
(Mylène Farmer, Pourvu qu’elles soient douces)
Put on my blue suede shoes, and I boarded the plane…
Walkins in Memphis; don’t recall the singer
I can see clearly now, the rain is gone…
Bright, Sunshiny Day (Four Seasons?)
Chaim Mattis Keller
ckeller@kozmo.com
“Sherlock Holmes once said that once you have eliminated the
impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be
the answer. I, however, do not like to eliminate the impossible.
The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it that the merely improbable lacks.”
– Douglas Adams’s Dirk Gently, Holistic Detective
Chaim–
It’s Marc Cohn
Another Dead tune:
“Sugar Magnolia blossoms blooming
Head’s all empty and I don’t care.
Saw my baby down by the river,
Knew she’d have to come up soon for air.”
And the Springsteen classic:
"The screen door slammed, Mary’s dress waves.
Like a vision she dances across the porch as the radio plays
Roy Orbison singing for the lonely,
Yeah, that’s me and I want you only…
Guest contributor
Straight Dope Science Advisory Board
Happy, and I’m smiling
Walk a mile to drink your water
J. Tull
No, I'm never gonna do it without the fez on...
Steely Dan“When you attend a funeral
it is sad to think that sooner’l
later those goodbyes are being said for you
And you may have thought it tragic
Not to mention other adjec
tives to think of all the weeping they will do
But don’t you worry;
No more ashes, nor more sack cloth
And an armband made of blackcloth
Will someday never more adorn a sleeve
For when the bomb that drops on you
Kills your friends and neighbors too
There’ll be nobody left behind to grieve!”
–Tom Lehrer, “We’ll All Go Together When We Go”
“I was working late at night in my office
When a man I had recently killed
Called me up from the phone near my building
So I looked out the window at him
He had the same obsequious manner
Which was the reason I had him killed
So to calm my nerves I sang this song to him
over the phone…”
–They Might Be Giants, “Turn Around”
JMCJ
“Y’know, I would invite y’all to go feltch a dead goat, but that would be abuse of a perfectly good dead goat and an insult to all those who engage in that practice for fun.” -weirddave, set to maximum flame
“In the second city of the Empire, Mother Glasgow watches all her weans, trying hard to feed her little starlings unconsciously she clips their little wings” - Mother, Glasgow, Hue and Cry (makes me think of home)
Not an opening lyric but I like it:
“Looked out at the ocean, tried hard to imagine, the way they felt the day they sailed from Wester Ross to Nova Scotia”
Last but not least:
“Time, why you punish me?” Story of my frickin life 
two from REM:
Looking at your watch a third time waiting in the station for a bus
Going to a place that’s far, so far away and if that’s not enough
Going where nobody says hello, they don’t talk to anybody they don’t know
- (Don’t Go Back to) Rockville
You wake up in the morning
and fall out of your bed
Mean cat eat parakeets
and this one’s nearly dead.
- Parakeet
“Lisa! In this house we OBEY the laws of Thermodynamics!” - Homer Simpson
Woke up this morning, put on my slippers /
Walked into the kitchen, and died.
-John Prine.
Oh the year was 1778 (how I wish I was in Sherbrooke now)
-Stan Rogers.
She gets too hungry for dinner at 8…
-Frank Sinatra. (or was it Ella??)
In the chilly hours and minutes / of uncertainty, I want to be / in the warm hold of your loving mind. / To feel you all around me / to take your hand along the sand / Ah but I may as well try and catch the wind.
- The Irish Descendants.
Regards,
Jai Pey
Springsteen’s got a bunch of them.
From “No Retreat, No Surrender”:
Well we busted outta class,
Had to get away from those fools,
We learned more from a three-minute record baby
than we ever learned in school.
This isn’t really an opening line, but it still gets my adrenaline AND testosterone pumping when Robert Plant does that battle shriek at the beginning of “Immigrant Song.” Any rock song with the line “Valhalla, I am coming,” must automatically be placed among the all-time coolest.
Give me immortality, or give me death!
Some More:
“Make a hole with a gun perpendicular
To the name of this town on a desktop globe
Exit wound in a foreign nation
Showing the home of the one this was written for.”
– They Might Be Giants, “Ana Ng”
“Uncle Vernon, Uncle Vernon, independent as a hog on ice
He’s a big shot down there at the slaughterhouse
Plays accordion for Mr. Weiss.”
– Tom Waits, “Cemetery Polka”
“The women all control their men
With razors and with wrists”
– Tom Waits, “In the Colliseum”
“They say you’re stupid
That you’re too young to vote
They say you’ll swallow anything
That they shove down your throat”
– Oingo Boingo, “Grey Matter”
and, of course, as has already been mentioned:
I used to know a girl, she had two pierced nipples and a black tatoo…
-heroin girl by Everclear
“I don’t try anymore, 'cause only booze improves with age.”
-Urge Overkill, View of the Rain
“I am just a poor boy, though my story’s seldom told.
I have squandered my resistance for a pocketful of mumbles
Such are promises.”
-Simon & Garfunkel, The Boxer
“In every heart there is a room,
A sanctuary safe and strong,
To heal the woudns of lovers past
Until the next one comes along.”
-Billy Joel, And So It Goes
“Tell me something I don’t know, something I can’t use
Push the buttons, connect the goddammned dots!”
Ministry, TV II