For thirty days, salt air I sniffed
While I was shipwrecked and cast adrift
With a man who looked like Montgomery Clift
Monotonous
Traffic has been known to stop for me
Prices even rise and drop for me
Harry S.Truman plays bop for me
Monotonous, monotone-eous
Eartha Kitt, Monotonous
Monty this seems strange to me.
The movies had that movie thing,
But nonsense has a welcome ring
And heroes don’t come easily.
Now, nonsense isn’t new to me.
I know my head, I know my feet,
But mischief knocked me in the knees.
Said, Just let go. Just let go.
I saw the ocean meet the man.
I saw you buried in the sand.
Monty Got a Raw Deal, R.E.M.
I’m Teacher’s Pet on Ship of Fools. The movies were my special school,
I’m The Graduate of Twelve O’Clock High;
The movies are great medicine – I thank you, Tommy Edison,
For giving us the best years of our lives.
The Statler Brothers - The Movies
-“BB”-
Michael Rennie was ill
The Day the Earth Stood Still
But he told us where we stand
And Flash Gordon was there
In silver underwear
Claude Rains was The Invisible Man
Then something went wrong
For Fay Wray and King Kong
They got caught in a celluloid jam
Science Fiction Double Feature, Rocky Horror Picture Show
Everbody’s tryin’ to make a comment
About our doubts and fears
True Grit’s the only movie
I’ve really understood in years
You gotta take your analyst along
To see if it’s fit to see
Whatever happened to Randolph Scott
Has happened to the best of me.
Statler Brothers - Whatever Happened to Randolph Scott
Everybody’s talking at me,
I don’t hear a word they’re saying,
Only the echoes of my mind.
People stopping, staring,
I can’t see their faces,
Only the shadows of their eyes.
Harry Nilsson, “Everybody’s Talkin’”
Suddenly thousands of faces I see,
Everyone seemed to be staring at me.
Clowns laughed in the penny arcade,
What was this game my mind played?
I took a trip down to look at the fair,
When I arrived I found nobody there.
It seemed I was all alone,
Must be that they’ve all gone home.
Renaissance, “Trip to the Fair”
Suddenly, life has new meaning to me
There’s beauty up above
And things we never take notice of
You wake up, and suddenly you’re in love
Ooh yeah
Suddenly, Billy Ocean
When you’re in love with a beautiful woman, it’s hard.
When you’re in love with a beautiful woman, you know it’s hard.
Everybody wants her, everybody loves her,
Everybody wants to take your baby home.
Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show - When You’re In Love With a Beautiful Woman
-“BB”-
You are so beautiful to me.
You are so beautiful to me.
Can’t you see?
You’re everything I hoped for,
You’re everything I need.
You are so beautiful to me.
Joe Cocker, “You Are So Beautiful.”
I said “Go if you want to go
Stay if you want to stay”
I didn’t care if you hung around me
I didn’t care if you went away
And I know you were never right
I’ll admit I was never wrong
I could never make up my mind
I made it up as I went along
And though I treated you like a child
I’m gonna miss you for the rest of my life
All I need is a miracle, all I need is you
All I need is a miracle, all I need is you
All I need is a miracle, all I need is you
Mike and the Mechanics - All I Need Is a Miracle
I believe in miracles
Where you from, you sexy thing
Sexy thing, you
I believe in miracles
Since you came along, you sexy thing
“You Sexy Thing!”, Hot Chocolate
It’s a miracle (miracle),
A true, blue spectacle, a miracle come true (whoa oh-oh-oh-oh),
We’re together, baby, I was goin’ crazy ‘till a miracle came through,
(Whoa oh-oh-oh-oh),
Now you’re here and my arms are around you,
And, baby, there’ll be dancin’ in the street.
Barry Manilow, “It’s a Miracle.”
If you’re a stranger here
And you need some action
We have a remedy
That could really catch on
Pleased to see another face
At light-up time
If you’re feeling dull and run-down
We can really make you shine.
Dancing in the city
Alleys that we run through
Now we’ve just begun to
Have fun tonight.
Dancing In the City
Marshall Hain
There’ll be dancing in Chicago
Down in New Orleans
Or in New York City
Martha & the Vandellas, Dancing In The Street
All free souls beware
The moon is in my head
Around the empire state
I saw the angels fly
Heaven above and ten below
We don’t have long to wait
Ran out of alibis
Ran out of things I’ve ever known
The streets were paved with snow
And I saw your halo glow
Echo & The Bunnymen, Empire State Halo
Lies, lies, using lies as alibis
Lie’s, lies, just a devil in disguise
En Vogue - Lies
You look like an angel,
Walk like an angel,
Talk like an angel,
But I got wise…
You’re the devil in disguise.
Oh yes you are,
The devil in disguise.
Elvis Presley - (You’re the) Devil in Disguise
-“BB”-
Somebody’s knocking, should I let him in
Lord it’s the devil - would you look at him
I’ve heard about him but I never dreamed
He’d have blue eyes and blue jeans
Terri Gibbs - Somebody’s Knocking
She tried to hide it by the faded denim clothes she wore,
But I knew she’d never been inside a bar before.
And I felt like a peasant who just had met a queen,
And she knew I saw right through her tight fittin’ jeans.
Conway Twitty, “Tight Fittin’ Jeans.”