004: Favourite Lyrics

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ABBA

The Day Before You Came
"And turning out the light
I must have yawned and cuddled up for yet another night
And rattling on the roof I must have heard the sound of rain
The day before you came"

Our Last Summer
"I can still recall our last summer
I still see it all
Walks along the Seine, laughing in the rain
Our last summer
Memories that remain"

ADRIENNE PIERCE

Arizona
"And I wanted to take a picture but you wouldn't stop the car
and it all confirmed that a gap could extend that far"

BARENAKED LADIES

Adrift
"Ever since we said our goodbyes,
The onion rings, the phone makes me cry
[..]
You're an abacus
And my heart was counting on us
Your heart's got a heavy load but there's still a long way to go
Keep your eyes on the road
[..]
I'm adrift without a snowflake"

Alcohol
"I love you more than I did the week before I discovered alcohol"

Angry People
"Angry people think a good solution
Is getting others involved
So they surround themselves with happy people
And watch their smiles dissolve"

Bank Job
"We all had our ski masks and sawed-off shotguns
But how do you plan for a bank full of nuns?"

Break Your Heart
"And now I'm over you, I'll be OK,
and that I've got what I want, and that's rid of you
Bye
And it's not 'cause I'll be missing you
That makes me fall apart
It's just that I didn't mean to break your heart"

Bull In A China Shop
"I'm a kid in a candy store
I'm a bull in a china shop
I'm a tired old metaphor
[..]
I'm a public embarrassment
I'm a bottle of diet poison
I'm a walking advertisement
For everything I never meant
And everything I never meant to be
[..]
I'm the reason I don't go out
I'm afraid I might tell me something
I'm the shadow of every doubt
I'm the product this song's about
I'm the product this song's about to be"

Call and Answer
"So if you call, I will answer
and if you fall, I'll pick you up
and if you court this disaster
I'll point you home
But I'm warning you, don't ever do
those crazy, messed up things that you do
If you ever do
I promise you I'll be the first to crucify you
Now it's time to prove that you've come back here
To rebuild"

Fun and Games
"While you all slumbered
We sat and crunched numbers
Of all the causalities we could afford
There's no need to draft them
You could hear us laugh then
The poor and black all need the room and board
Did I say that out loud?
It was a gag
It was all for a laugh
And now our very nation has been blown in half
Fun and games
We're just pulling legs
We knew this barrel of fun
Would be a powder keg"

Go Home
"There's nothing better than affairs of the heart
To make you feel so good then tear you apart"

"If you're lucky to be one of the few
To find somebody who can tolerate you
Then I shouldn't have to tell you again
Just pack your bags and get yourself on a plane
If you need her, you should be there
Go home"

Half A Heart
"Anyone with half a heart would help me out
Before they ever let the other half find out
But if they could see how far I've let you down
Anyone with half a heart would let me drown"

Helicopters
"Though it's only half a month away, the media's gone
An entertaining scandal broke today, but I can't move on
I'm haunted by a story and I do my best to tell it
Can't even give this stuff away, why would I sell it?
Everybody's laughing, while at me they point a finger
A world that loves its irony must hate the protest singer"

The Humour of the Situation
"Have you heard the one about the boy
Who moved into the henhouse to sleep?
He woke up with egg on his face
When he found out all the hens had crossed the street"

I'll Be That Girl
"If I were the sun, you would be in shadow
If I had a gun, there'd be no tomorrow"

In The Car
"In the car
We were looking for ourselves
but found each other"

It's All Been Done
"Alone and bored on a thirtieth-century night
Will I see you on The Price Is Right?
Will I cry? Will I smile? As you run down the aisle?"

Jane
"Jane, desired by the people at her school and work
Jane is tired 'cos every man becomes a lovesick jerk"

Life, in a Nutshell
"When she was three, her Barbies always did it on the first date
Now she's with me, there's never any need for them to demonstrate"

Off the Hook
"When you awaken you will
Make him eat his words right off the hook
Hook and line, every time"

The Old Apartment
"Only memories, fading memories
Blending into dull tableaux
I want them back"

Quality
"It's quality
It can't be beat
If you're not down
Vote with your feet
My quality biology
Enhanced with high technology"

Rule The World With Love
"Hearts are won, empires fall
In love with love
Love will conquer all for one
One for all is fair in love and war
Love and war are one"

Sell Sell Sell
"In terms of Roman numberals, he's IV league with Roman Polanski"

"Buy buy buy buy
Sell sell sell
How well you learn
To not discern
Who's foe and who is friend
We'll own them all in the end"

Some Fantastic
"Bye-bye self-respect
I haven't had much of it since you left"

Take It Outside
"Any other guy would wanna take it outside
But I'd never even try, who wants to get their lights knocked out?"

This Is Where It Ends
"I don't buy everything I read,
I haven't even read everything I've bought
I don't cry every time I bleed,
my eyes are dry, but they're bloodshot
I have faith in medication
I believe in the Prozac Nation
You play doctor, but I've lost patience"

"Call the police and call the press
But please, dear God, don't tell my friends"

Tonight Is The Night I Fell Asleep At The Wheel
"As usual, I'm almost on time
You're the last thing that's on my mind
I wish I could tell you the way that I feel
But tonight is the night I fell asleep at the wheel
[..]
In all the confusion, there's something serene
I'm just a posthumous part of the scene
Now I'm floating above looking in
As the radio blares and wheels spin
I can see my face slump with a grin
And you...you're the last thing on my mind
You're the last thing on my mind"

War on Drugs
"Near where I live there's a viaduct
Where people jump when they're out of luck
Raining down on the cars and trucks below
They've put a net there to catch their fall
Like it'll stop anyone at all
What they don't know is when nature calls, you go"

"Hard to admit I fought the war on drugs
My hands were tied and the phone was bugged
Another died and the world just shrugged it off"

When I Fall
"My hands clench the squeegee, my secular rosary
Hang on to your wallet, hang on to your rings
Can't look below me, or something might throw me
Curse at the windstorms that October brings"

"I wish I could fly
From this building
From this wall
And if I should try
Would you catch me if I fall?"

THE BEACH BOYS

Wouldn't It Be Nice
"Wouldn't it be nice if we were older?
Then we wouldn't have to wait so long"

THE BEATLES

Here Comes The Sun
"Little darling, it's been a long cold lonely winter
Little darling, it feels like years since it's been here
Here comes the sun, here comes the sun
and I say it's all right"

BILLY JOEL

And So It Goes
"And so it goes, and so it goes
And so will you, soon, I suppose"

The Downeaster "Alexa"
"I was a bayman like my father was before
Can't make a living as a bayman anymore
There ain't much future for a man who works the sea
But there ain't no island left for islanders like me"

The Entertainer
"It was a beautiful song, but it ran too long
If you wanna have a hit, you've gotta make it fit
So they cut it down to 3:05"

Only The Good Die Young
"Come out, Virginia, don't let me wait
You Catholic girls start much too late
Oh, but sooner or later it comes down to fate
I might as well be the one"

Piano Man
"They're sharing a drink they call loneliness
But it's better than drinking alone"

The River of Dreams
"I've been searching for something so undefined
that it can only be seen by the eyes of the blind
in the middle of the night"

Scenes from an Italian Restaurant
"A bottle of red, a bottle of white
Whatever kind of mood you're in tonight
I'll meet you anytime you want
In our Italian restaurant"

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)
"Did you hear? The cops finally busted Madam Marie for tellin' fortunes better than they do"

Adam Raised a Cain
"You're born into this life paying for the sins of somebody else's past"

Atlantic City
"Everything dies baby that's a fact
But maybe everything that dies someday comes back"

Backstreets
"One soft infested summer me and Terry became friends
Trying in vain to breathe the fire we was born in
Catching rides to the outskirts, tying faith between our teeth
Sleeping in that old abandoned beach house, getting wasted in the heat"

"At night sometimes it seemed you could hear that whole damn city crying"

"Remember all the movies, Terry, we'd go see,
trying to learn how to walk like the heroes we thought we had to be?
And after all this time to find we're just like all the rest
Stranded in the park and forced to confess to hiding on the backstreets"

"Blame it on the lies that kill us, blame it on the truths that drag us down
You can blame it all on me, Terry, it don't matter to me now"

Badlands
"It ain't no sin to be glad you're alive"

"Poor man wanna be rich,
Rich man wanna be King
And a King ain't satisfied
'till he rules everything"

Better Days
"I took a piss at fortune's sweet kiss
It's like eating caviar and dirt"

"It's a sad man, my friend, who's living in his own skin
and can't stand the company"

Born to Run
"Someday, girl, I don't know when
We're gonna get to that place where we really wanna go
And we'll walk in the sun
But, till then, tramps like us, baby, we were born to run"

Darkness On The Edge Of Town
"I'll be there on time and I'll pay the cost
For wanting things that can only be found
In the darkness on the edge of town"

Devil's Arcade
"A voice says 'don't worry, I'm here'
Just whisper the word 'tomorrow' in my ear
A house on a quiet street, a home for the brave
The glorious kingdom of the sun on your face
Rising from a long night as dark as the grave
On a thin chain of next moments and something like faith
On a morning to order a breakfast to make
A bed draped in sunshine, a body that waits
For the touch of your fingers, the end of the day
The beat of your heart, the beat of your heart
The beat of your heart, the beat of your heart
The beat of your heart, the beat of her heart
The beat of your heart, the slow burning away
Of the bitter fires of the devil's arcade"

Devils and Dust
"I got God on my side and I'm just tryin' to survive
But what if what you do to survive kills the things you love?"

Don't Look Back
"Cold rain running down the front of my shirt
I'm flat on my back wheels in the dirt"

Downbound Train
"I work down at the car wash, where all it ever does is rain"

Factory
"End of the day, factory whistle cries,
Men walk through these gates with death in their eyes.
And you just better believe, boy,
somebody's gonna get hurt tonight,
It's the working, the working, just the working life"

Girls In Their Summer Clothes
"Love's a fool's dance,
I ain't got much sense but I've still got my feet"

Growin' Up
"I swear I found the key to the universe in the engine of an old parked car"

Gypsy Biker
"Now I'm out counting white lines, counting white lines and getting stoned"

Hungry Heart
"Like a river that don't know where it's flowing,
I took a wrong turn and I just kept going"

I'm on Fire
"Sometimes it's like someone took a knife, baby, edgy and dull
And cut a six-inch valley through the middle of my soul"

Jungleland
"Barefoot girl sitting on the hood of a Dodge
Drinking warm beer in the soft summer rain"

"Outside the street's on fire in a real death waltz,
between what's flesh and what's fantasy.
And the poets down here don't write nothing at all.
They just stand back and let it all be"

Livin' in the Future
"Your bootheels clicking like the barrel of a pistol spinnin' round"

"My faith's been torn asunder,
tell me is that rollin' thunder?
or just the sinkin' sound of
something righteous going under?"

Long Walk Home
"that flag flying over the courthouse
Means certain things are set in stone
Who we are, what we'll do and what we won't"

Lucky Town
"When it comes to luck you make your own
Tonight I got dirt on my hands but I'm building me a new home"

Kingdom of Days
"We laugh beneath the covers and count the wrinkles and the greys"

Nebraska
"I can't say that I'm sorry for the things that we done
At least for a little while sir me and her we had us some fun"

"I guess there's just a meanness in this world"

Night
"You work all day to blow 'em away in the night"

No Surrender
"We learned more from a three-minute record, baby, than we ever learned in school"

The Price You Pay
"Now they'd come so far and they'd waited so long,
just to end up caught in a dream where everything goes wrong.
Where the dark of night holds back the light of day,
and you've gotta stand and fight for the price you pay"

The Promised Land
"Blow away the dreams that tear you apart
Blow away the dreams that break your heart
Blow away the lies that leave you nothing but lost and brokenhearted"

Queen of the Supermarket
"I turn back for a moment and catch a smile
That blows this whole f**king place apart"

Racing In The Street
"Some guys they just give up living
And start dying little by little, piece by piece
Some guys come home from work and wash up
And go racin' in the street"

"She stares off alone into the night
With the eyes of one who hates for just being born"

The River
"Is a dream a lie if it don't come true or is it something worse?"

Shut Out the Light
"Well on his porch they stretched a banner that said 'Johnny Welcome Home'
Bobby pulled his Ford out of the garage and they polished up the chrome
His mama said 'Johnny oh Johnny, I'm so glad to have you back with me'
His pa said he was sure they'd give him his job back down at the factory"

Spare Parts
"Bobby said he'd pull out, Bobby stayed in
Janey had a baby, it wasn't any sin"

Thunder Road
"Show a little faith, there's magic in the night
You ain't a beauty, but hey you're alright"

"Well now I'm no hero, that's understood
All the redemption I can offer, girl, is beneath this dirty hood"

"It's a town full of losers, and I'm pulling out of here to win"

The Ties That Bind
"It's a long dark highway and a thin white line
Connecting baby, your heart to mine
We're runnin' now but darlin' we will stand in time
To face the ties that bind"

Tunnel of Love
"It ought to be easy, ought to be simple enough
Man meets woman and they fall in love
But the house is haunted and the ride gets rough
And you've got to learn to live with what you can't rise above"

You'll Be Comin' Down
"You'll be fine long as your pretty face holds out
Then it's gonna get pretty cold out
[..]
Like a thief on a Sunday morning
It all falls apart with no warning
Your cinnamon sky's gone candy-apple green
The crushed metal of your little flying machine"

You're Missing
"Morning is morning, the evening falls
I got too much room in my bed,
too many phone calls
How's everything, everything?
Everything, everything
You're missing"

Your Own Worst Enemy
"Your flag you flew so high
It drifted up to the sky"

Walk Like A Man
"All I can think of is being five years old following behind you at the beach
Tracing your footprints in the sand
Trying to walk like a man"

Wreck On The Highway
"An ambulance finally came and took him to Riverside
I watched as they drove him away
And I thought of a girlfriend or a young wife
And a state trooper knocking in the middle of the night
To say 'your baby died in a wreck on the highway'
Sometimes I sit up in the darkness
And I watch my baby as she sleeps
Then I climb in bed and I hold her tight
I just lay there awake in the middle of the night
Thinking 'bout the wreck on the highway"

The Wrestler
"I always leave with less than I had before
But I can make you smile when the blood, it hits the floor"

GEOFF BYRD

Plasti-Queens
"You need surgery to feel pretty enough
So Daddy bought you a D-cup
For your 21st birthday
Now you can blend right in in west LA
Everyone is buying good genes
For their plasti-queens"

LEONARD COHEN

Hallelujah
"I've seen your flag on the marble arch
and love is not a victory march
It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah"

LOS CAMPESINOS!

Death to Los Campesinos!
"If you catch me with my hands in the till
I promise, sugar, I wasn't trying to steal
I'm just swimming in copper to smell and pretend like a robot"

"Splitting necks and calling it dichotomy"

MAGNETIC FIELDS

All My Little Words
"I could make you fly away
But I could never make you stay"

Born On A Train
"I have to go when the whistle blows, the whistle knows my name
Baby, I was born on a train"

California Girls
"I have planned my grand attack
I will stand behind their backs
With my brand new battle-axe
And will they taste my wrath..
They will hear me say,
as the pavement whirls,
'I hate California girls'"

I Looked All Over Town
"Nobody wants you when you're a circus clown
I should know, I looked all over town"

If You Don't Cry
"if you don't cry, it isn't love
if you don't cry, then you just don't feel it deep enough"

The Luckiest Guy On The Lower East Side
"I'm the luckiest guy on the lower east side
'Cos I've got wheels and you wanna go for a ride"

Yeah! Oh, Yeah!
"What a dark and dreary night
Are you reaching for your knife?
Could you really kill your wife?
Yeah, oh yeah"

R.E.M.

Aftermath
"Now the universe left you for a runner's lap
and it feels like home when it comes crashing back.
and it makes you laugh
and it makes you cry,
when London falls
and you're still alive.
the radio stutters,
it makes you laugh
and the aftermath"

The Ascent of Man
"I'm a cactus trying to be a canoe"

At My Most Beautiful
"At my most beautiful
I count your eyelashes secretly"

Belong
"Her world collapsed early Sunday morning
She took the child held tight
Opened the window
A breath, this song, how long
and knew, knew; belong"

Daysleeper
"I see today with a newsprint fray
my night is colored headache grey"

Electrolite
"You are the star tonight.
Your sun electric outasight.
Your light eclipsed the moon tonight.
Electrolite.
You're outasight"

Everybody Hurts
"Hold on"

Fall On Me
"Well I could keep it above
But then it wouldn't be sky anymore
So if I send it to you you've got to promise to keep it whole
Buy the sky and sell the sky and lift your arms up to the sky
And ask the sky and ask the sky
Don't fall on me"

Find the River
"I have got to find the river,
bergamot and vetiver
run through my head and fall away.
Leave the road and memorize
this life that pass before my eyes.
Nothing is going my way."

Hope
"You want to go out Friday
and you want to go forever"

I'll Take the Rain
"I used to think, as birds take wing,
they sing through life, so why can't we?
we cling to this, and claim the best
if this is what you're offering
I'll take the rain, I'll take the rain"

It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
"The other night I dreamt of knives, continental
drift divide. Mountains sit in a line, Leonard
Bernstein. Leonid Brezhnev, Lenny Bruce and Lester
Bangs. Birthday party, cheesecake, jelly bean, boom! You
symbiotic, patriotic, slam book neck, right? Right.
It's the end of the world as we know it"

Losing My Religion
"Oh no I've said too much
I haven't said enough"

Man-Sized Wreath
"Turn on the TV, and what do I see?
A pageantry of empty gestures all lined up for me, wow!"

Make It All Okay
"Was it my imagination, or did I hear you say,
'We don't have a prayer between us'
Didn't you, now? Didn't you, now?
Didn't you?"

Mr. Richards
"Mr. Richards, your position is a messenger pigeon
Left behind you when the camp moved on"

Nightswimming
"The photograph reflects,
every streetlight a reminder.
Nightswimming deserves a quiet night"

Perfect Circle
"Heaven assumed, shoulders high in the room"

Strange Currencies
"These words, 'You will be mine'
These words, they haunt me, hunt me down,
Catch in my throat, make me pray,
say, love's confined, oh"

Sweetness Follows
"Readying to bury your father and your mother,
what did you think when you lost another?
I used to wonder why did you bother,
distanced from one, blind to the other?
Listen here my sister and my brother
what would you care if you lost the other?
I always wonder why did we bother,
distanced from one, deaf to the other.
Oh, oh, but sweetness follows"

Texarkana
"40,000 stars in the evening
Look at them fall from the sky
40,000 reasons for living
40,000 tears in your eye
I would give my life to find it
I would give it all
Catch me if I fall"

Time After Time (Annelise)
"Ask the girl of the hour, by the water tower's watch
We can fight if you want but who will turn out the light"

Try Not to Breathe
"I will try not to breathe.
This decision is mine. I have lived a full life
and these are the eyes that I want you to remember"

THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS

Ana Ng
"I don't want the world
I just want your half"

Birdhouse In Your Soul
"Blue canary in the outlet by the light-switch, who watches over you
Make a little birdhouse in your soul
Not to put too fine a point on it, say I'm the only bee in your bonnet
Make a little birdhouse in your soul"

Climbing The Walls
"I got tired of pacing the floor
Sick of it all, I'm done with the floor
Walked away ever since I got a new job climbing the walls"

Dead
"I returned a bag of groceries
Accidentally taken off the shelf
Before the expiration date
I came back as a bag of groceries
Accidentally taken off the shelf
Before the date stamped on myself"

Destination Moon
"Thank you for the card with the cartoon nurse,
But you see, there's nothing wrong with me
You think, 'That's what you think, that's what they all say',
before I blow you away"

Don't Let's Start
"No one in this world ever gets what they want, and that is beautiful
Everybody dies frustrated and sad, and that is beautiful"

The End of the Tour
"At the end of the tour, where the road disappears
If there's anymore people around when the tour runs aground
and if you're still around, then we'll meet at the end of the tour
The engagements are booked through the end of the world
so we'll meet at the end of the tour"

Experimental Film
"You're all gonna be in this experimental film
And even though I can't explain it
I already know how great it is"

Hey Mr DJ, I Thought You Said We Had A Deal
"I could never sleep my way to the top
'Cos my alarm clock always wakes me right up"

I Palindrome I
"'Son, I am able', she said, 'though you scare me'.
'Watch', said I. 'Beloved', I said, 'watch me scare you'
Though, said she, 'able am I, son'"

I Should Be Allowed To Think
"I saw the best minds of my generation
Destroyed by madness, starving, hysterical
[..]
I should be allowed to glue my poster
I should be allowed to think
And I should be allowed to blurt the merest idea
If, by random whim, one should occur to me
[..]
I was the worst hope of my generation
Destroyed by magic marker to drywall"

Love Is Eternity
"Don't act like the other doesn't know how to drive"

Memo to Human Resources
"Then the people tried to talk me down
But I don't need advice, I'm down"

Out of Jail
"Long before the screen door slammed
She was out of Xenia"

The Shadow Government
"Crawling out of the flophouse
I saw the mayor stealing my junk
I doth protest, citizen's arrest
Now my body's in his trunk
Where's the shadow government when you need it?"

She's An Angel
"When you're followin' an angel
Does it mean you have to throw your body off a building?
Somewhere they're meeting on a pinhead
Calling you an angel, calling you the nicest things
I heard they had a space program
When they sing you can't hear, there's no air
Sometimes I think I kind of like that and
Other times I think I'm already there"

Snowball In Hell
"If it wasn't for disappointment
I wouldn't have any appointment"

Thunderbird
"We'll have fun, fun, fun until
T-Bird takes her dad away"

Twisting
"She wants to see you again
Slowly twisting
In the wind"

Where Your Eyes Don't Go
"Every jumbled pile of person has a thinking part
that wonders what the part that isn't thinking isn't thinking of"

The World's Address
"The world's address:
a place that's worn
A sad pun that reflects a sadder mess
I'll repeat it one more time for those who may not have already guessed:
the world's a dress"