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    Sing me a Song, You're the Piano Man...

    And the bartender's practicing politics,
    As the businessmen slowly get stoned,
    They're all sharing a drink we call lonliness,
    But it's better than drinking alone
    I'm weary with right-angles, abbreviated daylight,
    Waiting for a winter to be done.
    Why do I still see you in every mirrored window,
    In all that I could never overcome?

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    Mirrors on the ceiling,
    The pink champagne on ice
    And she said we are all just prisoners here, of our own device
    And in the masters chambers,
    They gathered for the feast
    They stab it with their steely knives,
    But they just cant kill the beast
    I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.


    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

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    And other wonderful lines from Kamelot's "Anthem" :

    "And so another page is turned, I pray I understand what's happening, but if anything, I do know this, I'll be the best I can."
    None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe that they are free.
    -Goethe

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    From Liar's Bar by the beautiful South

    If I look rough I am rough
    If I look sad I am
    If I look broke I am broke
    Just a broke down piece of man

    I've turned over enough leaves
    to fill an autumn
    and if I had one final wish
    I'd be your slave for a decade
    if you could take me away from this
    If you took me away from this
    I'd be different you'd see
    'Cause I didn't choose the drink
    a drink just chose me
    There once was a scotsman named Drew
    Who put too much wine in his stew
    He felt a bit drunk
    And fell off his bunk
    And landed smack into his shoe
    ~(C) Ms Niamh Anne King

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    Quote Originally Posted by dramasnot6 View Post
    Mirrors on the ceiling,
    The pink champagne on ice
    And she said we are all just prisoners here, of our own device
    And in the masters chambers,
    They gathered for the feast
    They stab it with their steely knives,
    But they just cant kill the beast
    I simply love this song.
    ~
    "It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
    ~


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    And same does your life by
    Please don't die on me

    Wings won't take me
    Eyes closed face me
    So take a step
    But don't look down

    - Rise against, Ready to fall
    It is not too late, to be wild for roundabouts - to be wild for life
    Wolfsheim - It is not too late

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    There she was just-a walking down the street
    Singing; Do-ah-diddy diddy-dum diddy-dee.

    The simple ones are the best.

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    Off the top of my head, some Bob Dylan, since I have been listening to him a lot lately:

    "The only thing I knew how to do
    Was to keep on keepin on like a bird that flew,
    Tangled up in blue."

    and

    "A lone soldier on the cross, smoke pouring out of a box car door."

    From 'Tangled up in Blue' and 'Idiot Wind.'

    These are only of the top of my head, however...

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    From Pearl Jam's Black:

    I know someday you'll have a beautiful life,
    I know you'll be a sun in somebody else's sky, but why
    Why, why can't it be, can't it be mine


    (they might not be such great lyrics in type, but when you hear them sung with such drama, they're much better)

    And Grateful Dead's Ripple:

    Reach out your hand if your cup be empty,
    If your cup is full may it be again,
    Let it be known there is a fountain,
    That was not made by the hands of men


    I'm pretty sure I've mentioned somewhere on here before how much I like these lyrics -

    and then for funniness I'm going with Sublime's Santeria:

    Believe me when I say that I've got something for his punk (arse) (the lyrics are best appreciated when heard)
    "...if you weren't smart enough to get a pedophile in a dress to put a small amount of water on the child’s forehead, then what the eff did you think was going to happen?

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    "Saiba que os poetas, como os cegos, podem ver na escuridão"

    (it translates as "Know that poets, like blindmen, can see in the dark", but it definitely carries not the poetry of the original tongue ...)

    Edu Lobo, e Chico Buarque,
    the song is "Choro bandido", I call it "Canção do aqueu apaixonado", the "Song of the Achaean inlove"~

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    You open your eyes, look around
    You feel the earth it wanders -
    Out, from under your feet - the ground
    Is not firm but soft and weak - like skin
    Under the touch, cannot stop to falter

    ~ Sarah McLachlan, Back door Man
    (actually, the whole song is wonderful, difficult to choose a few lines)
    It is not too late, to be wild for roundabouts - to be wild for life
    Wolfsheim - It is not too late

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    Been up all night staring at you
    wondering what's on your mind
    i've been this way with so many before
    but this feels like the first time

    -Schuyler Fisk and Joshua Radin, Paperweight
    Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right.

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    "Born from silence, silence, full of it
    Perfect concert my best friend
    So much to live for, so much to die for
    If only my heart had a home."

    Nightwish- "Dead Boy's Poem"
    None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe that they are free.
    -Goethe

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    'Saying goodbye knowing this is the end' Chris Isaak - Life will go on

    Can you imagine this? As human beings NO MATTER what we always always have hope but saying goodbye to someone KNOWING this is the end...waaaahhhh...
    We can never know what to want, because living only one life we can neither compare it with our previous lives, nor perfect it in our lives to come'
    Milan Kundera,The Unbearable Lightness of Being


    Parce que c'est toi, parce que c'est moi

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    When your remarks are off the cuff.



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