My heart is beating too big
It’s beating too big
for the space that’s meant to hold it
So goodnight…
Goodnight my little lovely
As we turn
As we turn down the lights
Say goodbye
- Hunters & Collectors
You say goodbye
And I say hello
Hello hello
I don’t know why you say goodbye
I say hello
( The Beatles)
You know that old trees just grow stronger
And old rivers grow wilder every day
Old people just grow lonesome
Waiting for someone to say
“Hello in there, hello”
- John Prine
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Old friends
Sat on their park bench like bookends
A newspaper blown through the grass
Falls on the round toes of the high shoes
Of the old friends
Old friends
Winter companions, the old men
Lost in their overcoats
Waiting for the sunset
The sounds of the city
Sifting through trees
Settle like dust on the shoulders
Of the old friends
(Simon and Garfunkel)
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And when the house is empty
And the light begins to fade
And there’s nothing to protect you
Except the window shade
And it’s hard to put your finger
On the thing that scares you most
And you can’t tell the difference
Between an angel and a ghost
Old friends, they shine like diamonds
Old friends, you can always call
Old friends Lord, you can’t buy 'em
You know it’s old friends after all…
- Guy Clark “Old Friends”
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The alligator, the god that made her
And all the creatures that got left behind
In Mycenae, Ave Maria
And everything you gotta dig harder to find
I don’t want to be a vapor of heavenly light
Everybody guess if I’m an angel or sprite
(Dar Williams)
And if you feel that you can’t go on
And your will’s sinkin’ low
Just believe, and you can’t go wrong
In the light you will find the road
You will find the road
- Led Zeppelin
Got the keys to the city
Baby, I can feel my luck
I got two days’ money
If you light me up
This heart will shine on
- Cold Chisel
Remember when you were young
You shone like the sun
Shine on, you crazy diamond
- Pink Floyd
When I was younger, so much younger than today
I never needed anybody’s help in any way
But now these days are gone, I’m not so self-assured
Now I find I’ve changed my mind and opened up the doors
- The Beatles
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Two doors to go between the wall was raised today
Two doors two names to call your others and your own
Keep these books well stocked away and take your happy home
-REM
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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.
You and me with wings on our feet
Oops sorry- messed that up missed out
There is nothing up my sleeve
Were sick of being jerked around
Wear that on your sleeve
Broadcast me a joyful noise in two times, Lord
Count your blessings
We’re sick of being jerked a-round we all fall down
Have you ever seen the televised St Vitus of committee prize
Investigation dance
Those ants in pants glances
Ah look behind the eyes
It’s a hallowed hollow anaesthetise
Sink my own ass, screw these guys
Smoking mirror, lockdown
Broadcast me a joyful noise in two times, Lord
Count your blessings
The papers wouldn’t lie, I sigh
Not what more
It’s been a Bad Day
-R.E.M (although as Jools Holland once said on his late night programme “Later” on BBC2 once “How can it be a Bad Day when R.E.M are in the studio?” 
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And what have you got at the end of the day?
What have you got to take away?
A bottle of whiskey and a new set of lies
Blinds on the windows and a pain behind the eyes
Scarred for life, no compensation
Private investigations
- Dire Straits
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But ya ring dum-a-doo dum-a-da
Wait for my Daddy-O
Wait for my Daddy-O
There’s whiskey in the jar-O
- Thin Lizzy
“For a taste of your whiskey, I’ll give you some advice.”
So I handed him my bottle, and he drank down my last swallow.
Then he bummed a cigarette and asked me for a light.
And the night got deathly quiet, and his faced lost all expression.
He said, “If you’re gonna play the game, boy, you gotta learn to play it right.”
- Kenny Rogers (Don Schlitz)
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Jonathon posted this one in a bluesky thread “Songs that mention other songs or artists.”
My smile for the day.
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Also to have you in stitches…laughter - the best medicine…
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Why’d we stop doing the lyrics game?
Because the night belongs to lovers
Because the night belongs to lust
Because the night belongs to lovers
Because the night belongs to us
(Bruce Springsteen & Patti Smith)
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