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Well all the apostles, they're sitting in swings
Saying, "Id sell off my savior for a set of new rings
And some sandles with the style of straps that cling best to the era."

So all of the businessers in their unlimited Hell
where they buy and they sell and they sell all their
Trash to each other but theyre sick of it all
And theyre bankrupt on selling
And all of the angels
Theyd sell off your soul for a set of new wings and anything gold
They remember
The people they loved their old friends
And Ive seen throughem all seen throughem all and seen through most everything
All the people you knew were the actors
All the people you knew were the actors
Well, Ill go to college and Ill learn some big words
And Ill talk real loud
Goddamn right Ill be heard
Youll remember all the guys that said all those big words he must've
Learned in college
And it took a long time
I came clean with myself
I come clean out of love with my lover
I still love her
Loved her more when she used to be sober and I was kinder

-Brock, Modest Mouse

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"I shot my mouth off and he showed me what that hole was for... yeah" The Pretenders Chrissie Hynde - Tattooed Love Boys

"What do you get for pretending the danger's not real.
Meek and obedient you follow the leader
Down well trodden corridors into the valley of steel.
What a surprise!
A look of terminal shock in your eyes.
Now things are really what they seem.
No, this is no bad dream." Pink Floyd - Sheep

"Freedom of choice is what you got. Freedom from choice is what you want" Devo - Freedom of Choice

"7 a.m.
The garbage truck beaps as it backs up
And I start my day thinking about what I've thrown away" Incubus - 11a.m.

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Probably my favorite couple of lines from a recent song are from Iron & Wine's "Upward Over the Mountain" -- a song sketched out in the form of a "lost" young man's letter(s) back home to his mother. This part absolutely kills me everytime I hear it:

 

Mother remember the night that the dog HAD her pups in the pantry?

Blood on the floor, fleas on their paws,

And you cried 'til the morning

The upshot, I think, is that the mother dog dies in childbirth, leaving the puppies alone... ("blood on the floor, fleas on their paws" -- the fleas wouldn't normally leave the mother unless she was dead).

 

The chorus gives a little bit of hope:

So may the sunrise bring hope where it once was forgotten

Sons are like birds, flying always over the mountain

But, really, for me, it's that pivotal image... the human mother crying over the dead dog and her orphaned puppies. Some kind of image...

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I think I will crash this party. This one because it is personal:

...it's an awful awakening in a country boy's life,

To look in the mirror in total surprise

At the hair on my shoulders and the age in my eyes.


It's a measure of people who don't understand,

The pleasures of life in a hillbilly band....



And one more, just because I like the song so much:

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Piggy In The Middle

 

 

 

(Nasty/McQuickly)

 

Lead Vocal: Ron Nasty

 

 

 

 

 

I know you know what you know

but you should know by now that you're not me

Talk about a month of Sundays

Toffee nosed wet weekend as far as I can see

Hey diddle diddle

The cat and the fiddle

Piggy in the middle

Doo-a-poo-poo

 

Bible punching heavyweight

evangelistic boxing kangaroo

Orangutang and anaconda

Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse

even Pluto too

 

Hey diddle diddle

The cat and the fiddle

Piggy in the middle

Doo-a-poo-poo

 

(Stig is dead, honestly)

 

One man's civilization

is another man's jungle, yeah

They say revolution's in the air

I'm dancing in my underwear

'cause I don't care

 

Hey diddle diddle

The Cat's in the fiddle

Piggy in the middle

Doo-a-poo-poo

Doo-a-poo-poo

 

 

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Anger he smiles, towering in shiny metallic purple armour
Queen jealousy, envy waits behind him
Her fiery green gown sneers at the grassy ground

"Jimi Hendrix" Bold as Love

and,

I just remembered that time at the market
snuck up behind me and jumped on my shopping cart
and rolled down aisle five
you looked behind you to smile back at me
and crashed into a rack full of magazines
they asked us if we could leave

John Mayer "Comfortable"

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the only thing i can think of at the moment:

"between the champagne hand jobs and the kissin' ass by everyone involed, cocaine rich comes quick and that's when the small dicks have it all"

Mike Cooley - Drive By Truckers

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too many to put them all down but some are as follows:
my soul's just a sillouette in the ashes of a cigarette- beck, broken drum
so i reached in my pockets and felt with my thumbs, and galently handed her my very last piece of gum - bob dylan, 4th time around
the carpet too is moving under you, it's all over now baby blue - bob dylan, it's all over now baby blue
from everywhere, to nowhere, from no where to here- blue rodeo, nowhere to here
'cause when i look into your eyes, well our love shines, like a diamond mine- blue rodeo, diamond mine
you said your gonna put the old band back together agian, just need to find a drummer who understands - blue rodeo, rage
so i called the operator of time, to hear a voice of some kind, when you hear the beep it will be 3 o'clock, she said that for over an hour so i hung up. and from the same song " i'll let you be in my dreams if i can be in yours" - bob dyaln, talkin world war 3 blues
"oh but if i had the stars from the darkest night, and the diamonds from the deepest ocean, i'd forsake them all for your sweet kiss, for that's all i'm wishin to be owning"- bob dylan, boots of spanish leather
" you say that your leaving, well tha comes as no surprise, still i kinda like this feeling, of being left behind. this ain't nothing new to me, well it's just like goin home, it's kinda like those sun sets that leav you feeling so, stoned. hey hey, i guess it hasn't him me yet, i fell through this crack and i kinda lost my head. i stand trans fixed before the street light. watching the snow fall on this cold december night" blue rodeo, hasn't hit me yet

all these really make me feel and i just love the songs, it means so much more to me when i can almost feel as if i should have written it. truky great songwriters here.

and just to add it in, this is from a song i finished last night. "your eyes a window into your soul, but i'm outside in the cold"

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From Beatle's "Getting Better All the Time"

" I used to mean to my woman...I beat her and kept her apart from the things that she loved. Man I was mean but I'm changing my scence and I'm doing the best that I can"

(I might have these slightly wrong, but you get the gist).

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