Well I know what’s right
I got just one life
In a world that keeps on pushin’ me around
But I’ll stand my ground
And I won’t back down
Tom Petty
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One love, one blood
One life, you got to do what you should
One life with each other
Sisters, brothers
- U2
He wear no shoeshine, he got toe-jam football
He got monkey finger, he shoot coca-cola
He say, “I know you, you know me”
One thing I can tell you is you got to be free
Come together, right now
Over me
The Beatles
I know you
I know you’ve seen her
She’s a sad tomato
She’s three miles of bad road
Walking down the street
Will I never meet her?
She’s a real woman-child
Oh, my kiss breath turpentine
- R.E.M.
I went out walking
Through streets paved with gold
Lifted some stones, saw the skin and bones
Of a city without a soul
I went out walking
Under an atomic sky
Where the ground won’t turn and the rain it burns
Like the tears when I said goodbye
Yeah, I went with nothing
Nothing but the thought of you
I went wandering
(U2)
When I walk myself
Down Sycamore Street
The sun beats down
No shoes on my feet
And I stumble on
A daisy through concrete
- Eels
So she fills up her sails with my wasted breath
And each one’s more wasted that the others you can bet
On Allison Road
Now I can’t hide so why not drive
I know I want to love her but I can’t decide
On Allison Road
Gin Blossoms
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It’s 8 o’clock and the dawn’s arrived
In Orchard Road, it’s breakfast time
I climb in my car and I turn the key
And I’m gone, I am coming home
To Orchard Road
- Leo Sayer
Slip slidin’ away
Slip slidin’ away
You know the nearer your destination
The more you’re slip slidin’ away
Paul Simon
There’s a destination a little up the road
From the habitations and the towns we know
A place we saw the lights turn low
Jig-saw jazz and the get-fresh flow…
- Beck
Just a thought 'til I said it out loud
Who are you when the lights go out?
In a dream we were Polaroid lovers
In the deep where the edges don’t lie
You and me fading into each other
And it makes me wonder
(Sarah Jarosz)
when it’s time I’ll go and lay
Beside the legendary fountain
'Till I see her form reflected
In its clear and jewelled waters
And if you think I’m ready
You may lead me to the chasm
Where the rivers of our visions
Flow into one another
Carole King & Gerry Goffin, made famous by The Byrds
“Wasn’t Born To Follow “
Fade into you
Strange you never knew
Fade into you
I think it’s strange you never knew
- Mazzy Star
All I want is 20-20 vision
A total portrait with no omissions
All I want is a vision of you…
- Blondie
Lying on the roof, counting
the suns that fill the sky
I wonder is
someone in the heavens looking back down on me?
I’ll never know
So much space to believe
funny, when you’re small
the moon follows the car
there’s no one but you, see
hey, the moon is chasing me
I worried if I looked away she’d be gone
(Dave Matthews Band)
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So much space to believe
funny, when you’re small
the moon follows the car
there’s no one but you, see
hey, the moon is chasing me
I worried if I looked away she’d be gone
If you believe they put a Man on the Moon
(Man on The Moon?)
If you believe there’s nothing up their sleeve
Nothing is cool
U No Hoo
If you intend thus to disdain,
It does the more enrapture me,
And even so, I still remain
A lover in captivity.
Greensleeves was all my joy
Greensleeves was my delight,
Greensleeves was my heart of gold,
And who but my lady Greensleeves.
King Henry VIII, that rascal
On the roof, it’s peaceful as can be
And there the world below don’t bother me, no…
- Gerry Goffin, Carole King
And the cat’s in the cradle and the silver spoon
Little boy blue and the man in the moon
“When you coming home, son?” “I don’t know when”
But we’ll get together then, dad
We’re gonna have a good time then
- Harry & Sandra Chapin
So, nobody wants to take on King Henry’s magnum opus, huh? I guess I have to do that myself, then. Hope I’m not breaking any rules. Are there any rules in this topic? Well, if there is, you may not tar and feather me or worse. Yanno, Greensleeves is still sung today. Oh yes.
A smile like the cartoon, tooth for a tooth
You said that irony was the shackles of youth
you wore a shirt of violent green, uh huh
I never understood the frequency, uh huh.
The Henry VIII quartet, aka R.E.M.
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Anything that makes one smile is the rule apparently. 
I want to live
I want to give
I’ve been a miner
For a heart of gold
It’s these expressions
I never give
That keep me searching
For a heart of gold
And I’m getting old
Keep me searching
For a heart of gold
And I’m getting old
- Neil Young
Once there were greenfields kissed by the sun;
Once there were valleys where rivers used to run;
Once there was blue sky with white clouds high above;
Once they were part of an everlasting love.
We were the lovers who strolled through greenfields.
- The Easy Riders. (and beautifully covered by Michael Stipe. )
What if our hard work ends in despair?
What if the road won’t take me there?
Oh, I wish, for once
We could stay gold
What if to love and be loved’s not enough?
What if I fall and can’t bear to get up?
Oh, I wish, for once
We could stay gold
(First Aid Kit)