That lyrics meme, again
Dec. 13th, 2004 08:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eye_of_a_catIt's amazing how much you can find to do when your housemate suggests that doing the washing-up might fill that chapter-shaped hole in your life.
1. They retired him thirty years ago, gave him a watch made of gold, and took his train
2. Baby, in this world without pity / Do you think what I'm asking's too much?
3. When you first took my hand on that cold Christmas Eve / You promised me Broadway was waiting for me
4. You promised me everything, you promised me thick and thin / Now you just say hey, Romeo, yeah, I used to have a scene with him
5. Even underlining Nabokov / When I am not in love, in love
6. Well everybody wants to live forever, / I just want to burn up hard and bright
7. To those of us who knew the pain / Of Valentines that never came / And those whose names were never called / When choosing sides for basketball
8. You know the preacher likes the cold / He knows I'm going to stay
9. God will take good care of you / Just do as I say, don't do as I do
10. I want to know who the men in the shadows are / I want to hear somebody asking them why / They can be counted on to tell us who our enemies are / But they're never the ones to fight and to die
11. But the airport's almost always empty this time of the year / So let's go play on a baggage carousel
12. Ophelia was the rebel girl, a bluestockinged suffragette / Who remedied society between her cigarettes
13. And the old men march slowly, old bones stiff and sore / They're tired old heroes from a forgotten war
14. You can offer to the righteous all the good that you have won / But down here among the unclean ones, all your good just comes undone
15. They paved Paradise, put up a parking lot
16. At the age of thirty-seven, she realised she'd never ride / Through Paris in a sports car, with the warm wind in her hair
17. So come back Emma Goldman, rise up old Joe Hill / The barricades are going up, and they cannot break our will / Come back to us, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King / Marching into Selma as the bells of freedom ring
18. I swear I left her by the river / I swear I left her safe and sound
19. There were ghosts in the eyes of all the boys you sent away / They haunt this dusty beach road in the skeleton frames of burned-out Chevrolets
20. But every junkie's like a setting sun
1. They retired him thirty years ago, gave him a watch made of gold, and took his train
2. Baby, in this world without pity / Do you think what I'm asking's too much?
3. When you first took my hand on that cold Christmas Eve / You promised me Broadway was waiting for me
4. You promised me everything, you promised me thick and thin / Now you just say hey, Romeo, yeah, I used to have a scene with him
5. Even underlining Nabokov / When I am not in love, in love
6. Well everybody wants to live forever, / I just want to burn up hard and bright
7. To those of us who knew the pain / Of Valentines that never came / And those whose names were never called / When choosing sides for basketball
8. You know the preacher likes the cold / He knows I'm going to stay
9. God will take good care of you / Just do as I say, don't do as I do
10. I want to know who the men in the shadows are / I want to hear somebody asking them why / They can be counted on to tell us who our enemies are / But they're never the ones to fight and to die
11. But the airport's almost always empty this time of the year / So let's go play on a baggage carousel
12. Ophelia was the rebel girl, a bluestockinged suffragette / Who remedied society between her cigarettes
13. And the old men march slowly, old bones stiff and sore / They're tired old heroes from a forgotten war
14. You can offer to the righteous all the good that you have won / But down here among the unclean ones, all your good just comes undone
15. They paved Paradise, put up a parking lot
16. At the age of thirty-seven, she realised she'd never ride / Through Paris in a sports car, with the warm wind in her hair
17. So come back Emma Goldman, rise up old Joe Hill / The barricades are going up, and they cannot break our will / Come back to us, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King / Marching into Selma as the bells of freedom ring
18. I swear I left her by the river / I swear I left her safe and sound
19. There were ghosts in the eyes of all the boys you sent away / They haunt this dusty beach road in the skeleton frames of burned-out Chevrolets
20. But every junkie's like a setting sun
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Date: 2004-12-13 10:07 pm (UTC)8. "California Dreamin," Mamas and the Papas
15. "Big Yellow Taxi," Joni Mitchell
...and that's all I've got.
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Date: 2004-12-13 10:16 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-12-13 11:36 pm (UTC)18. "Hazard" by somebody--ha HA, I remember that post. It's a very Bruce song, anyway, although I'm sure it's not by him...
19. Bruce Springsteen's "Thunder Road".
Who's 13 by? That's a good line.
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Date: 2004-12-14 03:02 pm (UTC)#13 is "And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda", by Eric Bogle. Gorgeous and horrible song about Gallipoli, lyrics here (http://lyricsplayground.com/alpha/songs/a/andthebandplayedwaltzingmatilda.shtml)
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Date: 2004-12-14 12:50 am (UTC)If it was about 5 yrs ago, i'd remember the exact year too. hehe. ^_^
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Date: 2004-12-14 03:06 pm (UTC)