I got what you need
No hesitation when I bring
I’m your man
It’s a promise and a ring
I got a secret for you, if you promise not to tell
Sometimes you feel a little closer to heaven when you raise a little hell
Griffin House
Write the holy terror
Suck the marrow from the bones
Singe your own wings burning books
You got the chorus and the ring
- R.E.M.
The sand-castle virtues are all swept away in
The tidal destruction, the moral melee
The elastic retreat rings the close of play
As the last wave uncovers the newfangled way
But your new shoes are worn at the heels and
Your suntan does rapidly peel and
Your wise men don’t know how it feels
To be thick as a brick
Jethro Tull
Intravenously polite it was the walkie-talkies
That had knocked the pins down
As their shoes gripped the dirt floor
In the silhouette of dying…
- At The Drive-In
Brown shoes don’t make it
Quit school, why fake it?
Brown shoes don’t make it?
TV dinner by the pool
Watch your brother grow a beard
Got another year of school
You’re OK, he’s too weird
The Mothers Of Invention
I was gruntled when it was just feet on gravel
To have come apart, I must have once been raveled
Now when pretty phrases don’t mean nothing
And I wanna sell 'em, I sing the line again
So smooth you can hear the beard
So smooth you can hear the beard
Three times is poetry
So smooth you can hear the beard
(Ben Folds Five)
Margery’s wingspan’s all feathers and coke cans, and,
TV dinners and letters she won’t send, and,
Every race night is shot through with sunlight,
Trying to hit the big one one last time tonight for,
Drunken fathers and stupid mothers and,
Boys who can’t tell one girl from another,
So she takes her pills, careful and round,
One of these days she’s gonna throw the whole bottle down.
- Counting Crows
Mum to mud to mad to dad
Dad diddley office, dad diddley office,
You’re all full of ball.
Dad to dam to dum to mum
Mum diddley washing, mum diddley washing,
You’re all full of ball.
Genesis
But here in Topeka, the screen door’s a bangin’
The coffee’s boilin’ over and the wash needs a hangin’
One wants a cookie and one wants a changin’
And one’s on the way
- Loretta Lynn (Shel Silverstien)
Pray God you can cope.
I stand outside this woman’s work,
This woman’s world.
Ooh, it’s hard on the man,
Now his part is over.
Now starts the craft of the father.
I know you have a little life in you yet.
I know you have a lot of strength left.
I know you have a little life in you yet.
Kate Bush
This is a woman’s world, this is my world
This is a woman’s world for this man’s girl
There ain’t a woman in this world, not a woman or a little girl
That can’t deliver love in a man’s world
- Neneh Cherry
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And she will always carry on
Something is lost
But something is found
They will keep on speaking her name
Somethings change
Some stay the same
The Pretenders
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I’m so alone and I feel just like somebody else
Man, I ain’t changed, but I know I ain’t the same
But somewhere here in between the city walls of dying dreams
I think of death, it must be killin’ me
- The Wallflowers
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I’m laughing at the frozen rain
And I’m so alone
Honey when they gonna send me home
Bad sneakers and a Piña Colada
My friend
Stompin’ on the avenue
By Radio City
Steely Dan
We’re gonna stomp
All night
In the neighbourhood
Don’t it feel alright?
Gonna stomp
All night
Wanna party ‘til the mornin’ light
- The Brothers Johnson
Pump up the jam
While your feet are stompin
And the jam is pumpin
Pump it up a little more
Get your booty out on the dance floor
Look around
The crowd is jumpin
Technotronic
Why can’t we pantomime
Just close our eyes
And sleep sweet dreams
Me and you with wings on our feet
- R.E.M.
Got no time for spreadin’ roots
The time has come to be gone
And though our health we drank a thousand times
It’s time to ramble on
Led Zeppelin
I have a winter’s tale
How vagrant hearts relent prevail
Sow their seed into the wind
Seize the sky and they’re gone again
- Patti Smith
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Now don’t hang on
Nothing lasts forever but the earth and sky
It slips away
And all your money won’t another minute buy
Dust in the wind
Kansas