I am the very model of a scientist salarian
I’ve studied species turian, asari and batarian
I’m quite good at genetics as a subset of biology
Because I am an expert which I know is a tautology
My xenoscience studies range from urban to agrarian
I am the very model of a scientist Salarian!
OK, more Dylan-- “Black Diamond Bay”
Up on the wide veranda
She wears a necktie and a
Panama hat
Her passport shows a face
From another time and place
She looks nothing like that
Cinematic type lyrics, and these are the opening lines setting the scene.
“She’s a summer storm, I’m a hurricane.
One just blows through town,
The other blows the town away,
I’m wilder than her.”
-‘Wilder Than Her’ Fred Eaglesmith
The name she gave was Caroline
Daughter of a miner
Her ways were free
It seemed to me
That sunshine walked beside her
“Tecumseh Valley” by Townes Van Zandt
mmm
The first thing I thought of was Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds’ Stagger Lee.
Beck, Lord Only Knows
You only got one finger left and it’s pointing at the door
Can the character be a city?
Dallas is a rich man with a death wish in his eyes
A steel and concrete soul with a warm hearted love disguise
A rich man who tends to believe in his own lies
Dallas is a rich man with a death wish in his eyes
(From “Dallas” by the Flatlanders)
*We got the bubble-headed-bleach-blonde who
Comes on at five
She can tell you 'bout the plane crash with a gleam
In her eye
It’s interesting when people die- *
Katie Couric, Don Henley’s talking about you.
Another Jethro Tull: Cross-Eyed Mary
Laughing in the playground gets no kicks from little boys
Would rather make it with a letching grey
Or maybe her attention is drawn by Aqualung
Watching through the railings as they play…
David Bowie: Ziggy Stardust
Ziggy played guitar, jamming good with Weird and Gilly
And the Spiders from Mars
He played it left hand but made it to far
Became the special man; then we were Ziggy’s band.
50,000 Names[/U by Jamie O’Hara
“There’s teddy bears & high school rings
And old photographs that mamas bring
That daddies with their young boys, playing ball.
There’s combat boots that he used to wear,
When he was sent over there.
There’s 50, 000 names carved in the wall”
Classic George Jones
Yup…perfection!
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“Tangled Up in Blue” has always been one of my favourite Dylan poems/songs because of the intense description of characters, particularly the woman and also her husband “he started dealing in slaves (drugs?) and something inside of him died”.. so vivid.
/QUOTE]This is my favorite Dylan tune…very awseomeness!!!
And this is just the BEST! Describes me, unfortunately, to a T.
Chantilly Lace and a Pretty Face with a pony tail hanging down, a wiggle in the walk and a giggle in the talk makes the world go round.
Joe Jackson, Stranger Than You:
At 83rd and Amsterdam there’s an Indian Jew
Who pierced all his private parts with a permanent screw
He sleeps on a bed of nails
Which came from outer space
And in my taller tales
I gave him pride of place
Until you came along . . .
[QUOTE=Brooke Fraser, Something In The Water]
I wear a demeanor made of bright pretty things
What she wears, what she wears, what she wears
Birds singing on my shoulder in harmony it seems
How they sing, how they sing, how they sing
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It just sounds so cool, and a really catchy song as well.
Si
He was not in the least bit scared to be mashed into a pulp
Or to have his eyes gouged out and his elbows broken
To have his kneecaps split and his body burned away
And his limbs all hacked and mangled, brave Sir Robin*
More Dylan
“She takes just like a woman/she makes love like just like a woman/she fakes just like a woman/but she breaks just like a little girl”