Who is the strongest
Who is the best
Who holds the aces
The East
Or the West
This is the crap our children are learning
But oh, oh, the tide is turning
The tide is turning
- Roger Waters
The white porpoise comes to me at night
Singing in the river of time
With a thousand dolphins in radiant attendance
Bringing charismatic greetings from the Prince of Tides…
• Jimmy Buffett “Prince of Tides”
She comes to me at night when I’m sleeping
She comes to me when I’m alone
She comes to me she holds my head when I’m crying
She comes to me she shuts my eyes
She brings me home
- Counting Crows
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The city, it calls to me
Decadent scenes from my memory
Sorrow, eternity
My demons are coming to drown me
Help, I’m falling, I’m crawling
I can’t keep away from its clutch
Can’t have it, this habit
It’s calling me back to my home
(Dream Theater)
Hot town, summer in the city
Back of my neck gettin’ dirty and gritty
Been down, isn’t it a pity?
Doesn’t seem to be a shadow in the city
All around, people lookin’ half dead
Walkin’ on the sidewalk, hotter than a match head
But at night, it’s a different world
Go out and find a girl
Come on, come on, and dance all night
Despite the heat, it’ll be alright
- The Lovin’ Spoonful
I’ve just seen a face I can’t forget
the time or place where we just met
She’s just the girl for me
and I want all the world to see we’ve met
Had it been another day
I might have looked the other way
And I’d have never been aware
But as it is, I’ll dream of her tonight
(the Beatles)
(man, this uses both the “girl/world” rhyme and rhymes “met” with itself? proof you can get away with anything if you’re Paul McCartney.)
(well, almost anything. I’m not letting him get away with “Wonderful Christmastime”.)
Time, time, time it cannot revive
You, you can’t turn away
You asked me to stay
But something needs to change
- R.E.M.
Time, time, time
See what’s become of me
While I looked around for my possibilities
I was so hard to please
But look around
Leaves are brown
And the sky is a hazy shade of winter
(Simon & Garfunkel)
All the leaves are brown
And the sky is gray
I’ve been for a walk
On a winter’s day
I’d be safe and warm
If I was in L.A.
California dreamin’
On such a winter’s day
- The Mamas & the Papas
California’s been good to me
Hope it don’t fall into the sea
Sometimes you got to trust yourself
It ain’t like anywhere else
(Tom Petty)
Out on bail, fresh out of jail, California dreamin’
Soon as I step on the scene, I’m hearin’ hoochies screamin’
Fiendin’ for money and alcohol, the life of a Westside player
Where cowards die and the strong ball
Only in Cali where we riot, not rally, to live and die
- 2Pac
Step out of the shade and look at the day
Out here the weather’s better
Now the sky comes into view
Step into the sun, let go of the rung
You’ve been hanging onto
Then take hold of something new
You might find you
(Amy Speace)
Let go, it ain’t worth it if it hurts you
Let go, you don’t need it if she don’t care
Like a good ol’ wine or rock ‘n’ roll
If it feels real good let it move your soul
But if it hurts to say her name, baby, let go
- Brian Cadd
She’s winding them down
On her clock machine
And she won’t give up
'Cause she’s seventeen
She’s a frozen fire
She’s my one desire
And I don’t want to hold her down
Don’t want to break her crown
When she says
Let’s go
(The Cars)
There she is again standing over by the record machine
Oooh, she’s looking like a model on the cover of a magazine
Why she’s too cute to be a minute over seventeen
- Chuck Berry
Oh, can’t you see me standing here?
I got my back against the record machine
I ain’t the worst that you’ve seen
Oh, can’t you see what I mean?
Might as well jump
(Van Halen)
The stillness still that doesn’t end
But slowly drifts into sleep
The greatest thing you’ve ever seen
And they’re there for you
For you alone, you are the everything
- R.E.M.
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For you there’ll be no more crying
For you the sun will be shining
And I feel that when I’m with you
It’s alright, I know it’s right
And the songbirds are singing like they know the score
And I love you, I love you, I love you, like never before
(Christine McVie/Fleetwood Mac)
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When we go out stepping on the town for a while
My money’s low and my suit’s out of style
But it’s all right if my clothes aren’t new
Out of sight, because my heart is true
She says, baby, everything is alright
- Stevie Wonder/Silvia Moy/Henry Cosby - I’m not 100% who wrote the lyrics. I do believe they all contributed to the song though.
Money, get away
Get a good job with more pay, and you’re okay
Money, it’s a gas
Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash
New car, caviar, four-star daydream
Think I’ll buy me a football team
(Pink Floyd)