When the day is long and the night, the night is yours alone. When you’re sure you’ve had enough of this life, hang on - R.E.M Everybody Hurts
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When I was 17, it was a very good year. a very good year for small town girls and soft summer nights- Frank Sinatra It Was A Very Good Year
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When she had 20 years, well she turned to her mother saying mother I know that you’ll grieve, but I’ve given my soul to St. John the Gambler. Townes Van Zandt St. John The Gambler
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I, planted in the dark, was watered by the rain, sloughing off of the bark of my neighbors. Ginger & Pear - Blooming Strangely
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Ice, Ice, Baby...
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Sleep, don’t visit so, I choke on the sun and the days blur into one and the backs of my eyes hum with things I’ve never done. Radical Face - Welcome Home Son
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Hangman, hangman, hold it a little while. Led Zeppelin Gallows Pole
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Measuring a summers day, I only find it slips away to grey. The hours they bring me pain. Led Zeppelin Tangerine
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Life’s the same, I’m moving in stereo, life’s the same, except for my shoes. The Cars - Moving In Stereo
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Close the door, put out the light, you know they won’t be home tonight. Led Zeppelin No Quarter
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Mother earth is pregnant for the third time
For y’all have knocked her up
Maggot Brain - Funkadelic
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I went into this expecting to see a bunch of garbage 21st century music so seeing lots of Bob Dylan and such was a welcome sight
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Oh let the sun beat down upon my face, with stars to fill my dream. I am a traveler of both time and space to be where I have been. Led Zeppelin Kashmir
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Okay, I am challenging myself to get this right from memory, so here goes:
"Well they blew up chicken man in Philly last night, and they blew up his house, too.,"
How did I do?
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Put down that chainsaw and listen to me...
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The idea of the single greatest opening line to a song is enough to make my head spin, so I’m rejecting that premise altogether. I think these ones are good.
God said to Abraham, “Kill me a son,”
Abe said “Man, you must be putting me on.”
-Highway 61 Revisited
And an old Louis Jordan song that was an obvious inspiration for Highway 61:
There was Adam, happy as a man could be
Till Eve got him messing with that old apple tree
Ain’t that just like a woman?
-Ain’t That Just Like A Woman
What you gonna do when you get out of jail?
I’m gonna have some fun
What do you consider fun?
Fun, natural fun
-Tom Tom Club
A couple Beatles lyrics:
Half of what I say is meaningless
But I say it just to reach you, Julia
-Julia
Words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup
They slither wildly as they slip away across the universe
-Across the Universe
And one more weird Dylan opener just for good luck:
Well, there was this movie I seen one time
About a man riding across the desert and it starred Gregory Peck
-Brownsville Girl
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"An extremely quiet child" they called you in your school report
"He's always taken interest in the subjects that he's taught"
So what was it that brought the squad car screaming up your drive
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Never made as a wise man. I couldn't cut it as a poor man stealing.
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Louis Jordan greatly under appreciated.
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Hello darkness, my old friend
I've come to talk with you again91
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