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polygon
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response 25 of 113:
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May 18 16:12 UTC 1997 |
Um, I realize I contributed to this, but I really meant "lines" to be one
or two or maybe a verse, not entire songs. No matter how interesting the
song may be, yards and yards of song lyrics only annoy and bore your readers.
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orinoco
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response 26 of 113:
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May 18 17:10 UTC 1997 |
Well, I'm neither annoyed nor bored, but that's just me.
"What is the point of this story? What information pertains?
The though that life could be better is woven indelibly into our hearts
And our brains."
--Paul Simon
"Got to be good looking 'cause he's so hard to see."
--The Beatles
"I'm gonna blow this damn candle out,
I don't want Nobody comin' over to my table
I got nothing to talk to anybody about
All good dreamers pass this way some day
Hidin' behind bottles in dark cafes
Only a dark cocoon before I get my gorgeous wings and fly away
Only a phase, these dark cafe days."
--Joni Mitchell
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arianna
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response 27 of 113:
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May 18 19:43 UTC 1997 |
I love Joni Mitchell.
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bruin
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response 28 of 113:
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May 18 21:42 UTC 1997 |
For all of Joni Mitchell's fans, here are some more memorable lyrics from her:
They paved paradise; put in a parking lot
With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swinging hot spot.
Don't it always seem to know
That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone.
They paved paradise; put in a parking lot.
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eeyore
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response 29 of 113:
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May 19 06:27 UTC 1997 |
oh, boy, you guys just put in something that could keep me WAY too
amused....:)
well, lets just start with rush, pink floyd, styx, and supertramp, and move
from there. :)
"All the worlds indeed a stage, and we are mearly players
Performers and portryaers
Each anothers audieance outside that guilded cage"
Camera Eye, Rush
"But when your born to run, it's so hard to just slow down"
Back in the Highlife
"Luxemburg is next to go, and who knows, maybe Monoco
We'll try to stay serene and calm, when Alabama gets the bomb!"
Who's Next, Tom Leher (it's about the cold war)
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valerie
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response 30 of 113:
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May 19 12:16 UTC 1997 |
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jor
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response 31 of 113:
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May 19 13:19 UTC 1997 |
We came up, from the subway
To the music midnight makes
With Charlie's bass and Lester's saxophone
And taxi horns and brakes
(Joni)
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exar
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response 32 of 113:
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May 20 17:09 UTC 1997 |
here's one of my favs: If i had a million dollars by Bare Naked Ladies
"if i had a million dollars... i'd buy you a monkey.... havnt you always
wanted a monKEY!?!?!!? :)"
****i dedicate this quote to Megan... my heart beat****
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birdlady
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response 33 of 113:
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May 20 18:32 UTC 1997 |
"Children growing up, old friends getting older.
Freeze this moment a little bit longer;
Make each sensation a little bit stronger."
-- "Time Stand Still" by Rush
"I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints."
-- "Only the Good Die Young" by Billy Joel
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aruba
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response 34 of 113:
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May 20 21:07 UTC 1997 |
"I'd rather die while I'm living than live while I'm dead"
- Jimmy Buffett, "Growing Older But Not Up"
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eeyore
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response 35 of 113:
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May 21 01:09 UTC 1997 |
"and pray that there's intelligent life somewhere there in space
because there's bugger all down here on hearth!"
Monty Python
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hematite
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response 36 of 113:
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May 21 01:54 UTC 1997 |
"To love another person is to see the face of God.."
-Les Mis
I'm not a religious type (just the opposite) but that quote always
gets me in the heart.
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valerie
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response 37 of 113:
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May 21 13:26 UTC 1997 |
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bruin
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response 38 of 113:
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May 21 21:20 UTC 1997 |
Counting flowers on the wall;
That don't bother me at all.
Playing solitaire 'til dawn
With a deck of fifty-one.
Smoking cigarettes and watching "Captain Kangaroo."
Now don't tell me I've nothing to do.
- Statler Brothers, "Flowers On The Wall"
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hematite
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response 39 of 113:
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May 22 00:26 UTC 1997 |
(Wow! Another Statler's fan! Neato)
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tsty
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response 40 of 113:
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May 22 02:35 UTC 1997 |
[reminds me, i used to do that tune... /rush]
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omni
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response 41 of 113:
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May 22 04:20 UTC 1997 |
I like the Statler's as well, as I do most country music.
"Look up on the wall baby, and hand me down my shootin' iron
Look up on the wall baby, and hand me down my shootin' iron
Call your mama long distance, tell her to expect your body home
You've done me so wrong, you're way out on that boot hill"
-Stevie Ray Vaughan "Boot Hill"
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bru
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response 42 of 113:
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May 22 13:21 UTC 1997 |
Rise again, rise again. Though your heart it be broken
And life about to end.
No matter what you've lost, be it a home, a love, a friend,
Like the Marry Ellen Carter rise again.
Stan Rogers
So come all you fine young fellows who've been beaten to the ground.
This weatern life's no paradise, but it's better than lying down.
Oh, the streets aren't clean, and there's nothin' green, and the hills are
dirty brown.
But the government dole will rob your soul back there in your home town.
So bid fair well to the eastern town you never more will see.
There's self respect and a steady cheque in this refinery.
You will miss the green and the hills and streams and the dust will fill
your nose.
But you'll be free, and just like me, an idiot, I suppose.
Stan Rogers
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bruin
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response 43 of 113:
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May 23 00:03 UTC 1997 |
She was bred in Old Kentucky,
But she's just a crumb down here.
She's knock-kneed and double jointed
With a cauliflower ear.
Someday we'll get married,
And if the vegetables aren't too dear,
I'll cut me up a slice
Of her cauliflower ear,
'Cause that ain't rationed.
- Curly (of the Three Stooges) in "I Can Hardly Wait"
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bmoran
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response 44 of 113:
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May 23 05:13 UTC 1997 |
"ARE WE NOT MEN?"
"WE ARE DEVO!"
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katt
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response 45 of 113:
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May 23 17:02 UTC 1997 |
heeeeee. . .
okay, here's one of my favorties:
We go to the playground in the witertime
the sun is fading fast upon the slides into the past
upon the swings of indecision
in the wintertime
We play that we're actors on a movie screen
I will be ---? and you will be Dean
YOu stand with your hands in your pocket
and lean against the wall
YOu can be bogart and I will be BeCall
-Suzanne Vega
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birdlady
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response 46 of 113:
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May 23 17:50 UTC 1997 |
"So we asked for some tea, and she said, "No! We only have iced."
So we jumped up on the table and shouted "ANARCHY!"
<eg> "Punk Rock Girl" -- Dead Milkmen
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aruba
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response 47 of 113:
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May 23 20:12 UTC 1997 |
Heh. THe Dead Milkmen's song "Bitchin' Camaro" was a big hit on campus when
I was a freshman in college. I didn't know they were still around.
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scott
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response 48 of 113:
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May 24 00:15 UTC 1997 |
The strange thing is that I'm very heavily into music (I play at least one
instrument at a pro level, and several more at lesser skill levels), but I
don't find anything interesting about lyrics themselves. I think Tom Waits
writes some great stuff, and I like songs, but in general I listenr more to
*sounds* rather than words. Right now I'm listening to some Japanese pop
music.
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orinoco
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response 49 of 113:
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May 24 01:55 UTC 1997 |
Some music is like that for me--it doesn't matter what the lyrics are.
Other music, I find the best way to listen is to read along on the liner notes
so I don't miss a word.
It doesn't even seem to depend on the quality of the lyrics.
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