Beam me up, 'cause I can’t breathe
Spaceman, I always wanted you to go into space, man…
Babylon Zoo lyric ref.
Twenty degrees and the hockey games on
Nobody cares they are way too far gone
Screamin’ “boat drinks” somethin’
To keep them all warm
This morning I shot six holes in my freezer
I think I got cabin fever
Somebody sound the alarm
I’d like to go where the pace of life’s slow
Could you beam me somewhere, Mister Scott?
Any old place here on earth or in space
You pick the century and I’ll pick the spot
- Jimmy Buffett “Boat Drinks”
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At the summer camp where you volunteered
No one saw your face, no one saw your fear
If that apparition had just appeared
Took you up and away from this place
And sheer humiliation
Of your teenage station
Nobody cares, no one remembers and nobody cares…
R.E.M. Lyric ref.
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I think I’d like to go back home and take it easy
There’s a woman that I’d like to get to know, living there
Everybody seems to wonder what it’s like down here
I gotta get away from this day-to-day running around
Everybody knows this is nowhere…
- Neil Young “Everybody Knows This is Nowhere”
My girlfriend’s run off with my car
Gone back to her ma and pa
Telling tales of drunkenness and cruelty
Now I’m just sitting here
Sipping at my ice cold beer
Lazing on a sunny afternoon
Random Kinks lyric
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I’ll drive through the mountains
The crumbling west
Ill sing like the whales before man was a pest
Radio transistor my friend by my side
I’ll drive to the ocean the ocean I’ll drive
(Michael Stipe lyric)
All this running around
I can’t fight it much longer
Something’s tryin’ to get out
And it’s never been closer
Tame Impala lyric ref.
You gotta be fortunate
You gotta be lucky now
I was just sitting here
Thinking good and bad…
Neneh Cherry Lyric ref.
And in between the moon and you
The angels get a better view
Of the crumbling difference between wrong and right
Counting Crows lyric ref.
I’m on a roll!
So we sailed on to the Sun
Til we found the sea of green
And we lived beneath the waves
In our yellow submarine
{Beatles lyric}
When I was a young boy
I wanted to sail around the world
That’s the life for me
Living on the sea
- Split Enz “Six Months In A Leaky Boat”
(I liked that Jonathon mentions the song also, I’m doing it to now)
Mother, mother ocean, I have heard you call
Wanted to sail upon your waters since I was three feet tall
You’ve seen it all, you’ve seen it all…
- Jimmy Buffett “A Pirate Looks at Forty”
On a crowded beach in a distant time
At the height of summer see a boy of five
At the water’s edge so nimble and free
Jumping over the ripples looking way out to sea
Paul Kelly Deeper Water
Never fails to make me cry
Sitting out on the Palm Beach Road
I’m so drunk and the car won’t go
My crazy eyes keep looking out to sea…
- Richard Clapton “Deep Water”
I’m in the phone booth, it’s the one across the hall
If you don’t answer, I’ll just ring it off the wall
I know he’s there, but I just had to call…
- Blondie “Hanging On The Telephone”
Hello Hello
I don’t know why you say goodbye
I say hello
(Beatles lyric)
Oh (oh) Telephone Line
Give me some time
I’m living in twilight
(ELO lyric- I’m also on a roll!)
I know you called, I know you called
I know you hung up my line
*69
(R.E.M. lyric)
I understand that you will soon be leaving town
Don’t try to call me when they finally run you down
Just give fair notice when you come around
With a gun
Steely Dan ref
I understand you are soon leaving town
Don’t try to call me when they finally run you down
Just give fair notice when you come around
With a gun
Robbin’ people with a six-gun
I fought the law and the law won
(written by Sonny Curtis, covered by many)
Down by the river
I shot my baby…
Was going to attribute this to Jimi Hendrix, but it appears Neil Young wrote it.
As I went down in the river to pray
Studying about that good old way
And who shall wear the starry crown?
Good Lord, show me the way
(Traditional)
(Also I went back and listened to “I Fought the Law” after I posted it this morning, and found I had forgotten the Crickets’ original version with Sonny Curtis has “zip gun”; “six-gun” was a change with Bobby Fuller’s cover.)
You’re probably thinking of “Hey Joe”, which touches on similar images:
Hey Joe
Where you goin’ with that gun in your hand?
Hey Joe
I said, where you goin’ with that gun in your hand?
I’m going down to shoot my old lady
You know, I’ve caught her messin’ around with another man (yeah)
I’m going down to shoot my old lady
You know, I’ve caught her messin’ around with another man
Or of course Frank Zappa with “Flower Punk” 
Hey Punk, where you goin’ with that flower in your hand?
Hey Punk, where you goin’ with that flower in your hand?
Well, I’m goin’ up to Frisco to join a psychedelic band.
I’m goin’ up to Frisco to join a psychedelic band.
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