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REM: Life's Rich Pageant
- We are young despite the
years,
We
are concerned, we are hope
despite these
times...
Tricky: Pre-Millennium Tension
- It means we'll manage
I'll master your language, but in
the
meantime, I'll invent my own...
Bob Mould: Workbook
- I used to be a big
shopper, 'round
the
world, big credit cards
They don't matter anymore
Tragically Hip: Day for Night
- Anyway, Susan, if you
like,
our
conversation is as faint as a
sound in my memory, as those
fingernails scratching on my hull
Richard Thompson: Rumor and Sigh
- I thought she was saying
good luck
She
was saying good-bye
The Setters
- Let's take some drugs
and
drive around...
P.J. Harvey: Rid of Me
- You leave me dry...
Archers of Loaf: Icky Mettle
- There's something wrong
with my toast!
The Velvet Underground and Nico
- I'll be your mirror,
reflect what you are,
in
case you don't know...
Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man
- Everybody knows the fight
was fixed;
the
poor stay poor, the rich get rich...
Marianne Faithfull:
Broken English
- They hate you if you're
clever,
and
they despise a fool...
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Tom Waits: Bone Machine
- 'cause there's nothin' strange about an ax
with bloodstains in the barn; there's always
some killin' you got to do around the farm
Greg Brown: In the Dark With You
- Now we say that we could
eat a horse
but
it's not true; we can't eat a horse, no,
because
we don't want to
We
want something from the cookbook
that new one with the great graphics!
The Pixies: Doolittle
- And all the while as
vampires feed
I
bleed
Dinosaur Jr.: Whatever's Cool With Me
- Whatever's cool with me,
'cause I've got nothin' happening...
Fugazi: 13 Songs
- Promises are shit;
just stupid fucking words
Patti Smith: Easter
- Love is an angel,
disguised as lust
here in our bed until the morning comes...
Meca Normal: Dovetail
- I went down there
yesterday
I'm
coming home today
You
won't be there anyway...
Nirvana: Nevermind
- "I don't even care,
we
can have all three"
she
said...
Liz Phair: Exile
in Guyville
- But if I had known
how
that would sound to you
I
would have stayed in your bed...
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