Dirty old river, must you keep rolling / Flowing into the night / People so busy, makes me feel dizzy / Taxi light shines so bright / But I don’t need no friends / As long as I gaze on Waterloo sunset / I am in paradise
—Kinks

You in the moonlight with your sleepy eyes / Could you ever love a man like me? / And you were right: When I walked into your house / I knew I’d never want to leave
—Stevie Nicks

She looks like the real thing / She tastes like the real thing / My fake plastic love / But I can’t help the feeling / I could blow through the ceiling / If I just turn and run
—Radiohead

Oh, I used to be disgusted / And now I try to be amused. / But since their wings have got rusted, / You know, the angels wanna wear my red shoes.
—Elvis Costello

Show me a man that’s got a good woman / Show me a man that’s got a good woman / Show me a man that’s got a good woman / Show me a man that’s got a good woman / Show me a man that’s got a good woman / I’ll show you a man that goes to work humming / He knows he’s got some sweet love coming / At the end of his working day, yeah!
—Joe Tex

I’ve got love, love so strange / And now my life must be rearranged / So down the subway / The lights kind of make me know what to do
—Hanoi Rocks

Friends say it’s fine, friends say it’s good / Everybody says it’s just like Robin Hood / I move like a cat, charge like a ram / Sting like a bee, babe, I wanna be your man / Well it’s plain to see you were meant for me / Yeah, I’m your boy, your 20th century toy
—Marc Bolan

You’re just about to move in / And you’re thinking it’s a breeze / There’s a light in your eye, and then a guy says, / “Out of the car, longhair! / Louise, you’re coming with me / Local Police!”
—Kenny Loggins

Ipso facto / Using up your oxygen / You know I’m shallow / Calling out for extra help / You’ve got to let me in or let me out
—Badly Drawn Boy

White line fever / A sickness born down deep within my soul /White line fever / The years keep flying by like the highline poles
—Merle Haggard

You’re hot then you’re cold / You’re yes then you’re no / You’re in and you’re out / You’re up and you’re down / You’re wrong when it’s right / It’s black and it’s white / We fight, we break up /We kiss, we make up
—Katy Perry

You know I hate to ask / But are ‘friends’ electric? / Only mine’s broke down / And now I’ve no one to love
—Gary Numan

It’s been six months and still no word - I don’t deserve it? / I know you got my last two letters / I wrote the addresses on ‘em perfect / So this is my cassette I’m sending you, I hope you hear it
—Eminem

I’m comin’ up, so you better you better get this party started / I’m comin’ up, so you better you better get this party started / I’m comin’ up, so you better you better get this party started / I’m comin’ up, so you better you better get this party started
—Linda Perry

Knock down the old, grey wall / Be a part of it all / Nothing to say, nothing to see, nothing to do / If you would give me all / As I would give it to you / Nothing would be, nothing would be, nothing would be
—Pete Ham

Got me looking so crazy right now, your love’s / Got me looking so crazy right now (in love) / Got me looking so crazy right now, your touch / Got me looking so crazy right now (your touch) / Got me hoping you’ll page me right now, your kiss / Got me hoping you’ll save me right now / Looking so crazy in love’s, / Got me looking, got me looking so crazy in love
—Knowles, Harrison, Carter, Record

Hard luck and trouble is my only friend / I been on my own ever since I was 10 / Born under a bad sign / I been down since I begin to crawl / If it wasn’t for bad luck, I wouldn’t have no luck at all
—Booker T. Jones and William Bell

I’m not present / I’m a drug that makes you dream / I’m an Aerostar / I’m a Cutlass Supreme / In the wrong lane / Trying to turn against the flow / I’m the ocean / I’m the giant undertow / I’m the ocean / I’m the ocean
—Neil Young

Been trying to show you over and over / Look at these, my child-bearing hips / Look at these, my ruby-red ruby lips / Look at these, my work-strong arms
—PJ Harvey

Picked her up on a Friday night / Sha-La-La-La-Lee, yeah / I knew everything gonna be alright / Sha-La-La-La-Lee, yeah / Sha-La-La-La-Lee
—Kenny Lynch and Mort Shuman

She wore blue velvet / Bluer than velvet were her eyes / Warmer than May her tender sighs / Love was ours
—Bernie Wayne and Lee Morris

John Wilmot penned his poetry / Riddled with the pox. / Nabokov wrote on index cards, / At a lectern, in his socks. / St. John of the Cross did his best stuff / Imprisoned in a box. / And Johnny Thunders was half alive / When he wrote Chinese Rocks.
—Nick Cave

Visions of someone who loved me brings / Along salty tears to my eyes / And I know that my life’s been a failure / Watching the bubbles in my beer
—Cindy Walker

I was supposed to tell you the case of a cult / It’s called the cult of inspiration and it is rewarding / You can be filled with the tingle of euphoria / Of total animation and of wonder / No doubt we love the Doubting Women
—Vic Chestnutt

But don’t change one hair for me / Not if you care for me / Stay, little Valentine, stay / Each day is Valentine’s day
—Rogers and Hart

Do it light, taking me through the night / Shadow dancing / Baby you do it right / Give me more, drag me across the floor / Shadow dancing
—the four brothers Gibb

Don’t you lie to me / No babe, don’t you lie to me / Because it make me mad, girl / I get evil as a man can be
—Albert King

After you go, I can catch up on my reading / And after you go, I’ll have a lot more time for sleeping / And when you’re gone / Looks like things are gonna get a lot easier
—Nanci Griffith

You know you shook me, / You shook me all night long / You know you shook me, pretty mama, / You shook me all night long / Oh, you kept on shakin’ me darlin’, / Oh, you messed up my happy home
—Dixon and Lenoir

It wasn’t me that started that crazy Asian war / But I was proud to go and do my patriotic chore / And yes, it’s true that I’m not the man I used to be / Oh, Ruby, I still need some company / It’s hard to love a man whose legs are bent and paralyzed / That my wants and needs of a woman of your age / Ruby, I realized / Oh, Ruby, don’t take your love to town
—Mel Tillis

But only the lonely / Know why I cry / Only the lonely
—Roy Orbison

With you I’m not shy / To show the way I feel / With you I might try / My secrets to reveal / For you are a magnet and I am steel
—Walter Egan

If you break the law, you’ll hear from me, I know / I’m a-workin’ for the state, I’m the highway patrol
—Junior Brown

A quiet voice is singing something to me / An age old song about the home of the brave / In this land here of the free / One time one night in America
—Los Lobos

Now I’m a soldier, a lonely soldier / Away from home through no wish of my own / That’s why I’m lonely, I’m Mr. Lonely / I wish that I could go back home
—Bobby Vinton and Gene Allan

Insane in da membrane / (Insane in da brain) / Insane in da membrane / (Insane in da brain)/ Insane in da membrane / (Crazy insane, got no brain)
—Cypress Hill

If I only had a dollar, for every song I’ve sung / And every time I’ve had to play while people sat there drunk / You know, I’d catch the next train back to where I live / Oh lord, I’m stuck in Lodi again / Oh lord, I’m stuck in Lodi again
—John Fogerty

In the time of chimpanzees, I was a monkey / Butane in my veins / So I’m out to cut the junkie / With the plastic eyeballs / Spray paint the vegetables / Dog food stalls with the beefcake pantyhose
—Beck

The more you ignore me, the closer I get / You’re wasting your time / The more you ignore me, the closer I get
—Morrissey

You love a sinking stone / That’ll never elope / So get used to used to the lonesome / Girl, you must atone some / Don’t leave me no phone number there
—Shins

Human, human, human, human, / Human, human, human, human, / Human, human, human, human, / Human, human, human after all
—Daft Punk

I cheated myself / Like I knew I would / I told you I was trouble / You know that I’m no good
—Amy Winehouse

Taking a spin through the neighborhood / The neighbors scream, Whatchya talkin’ bout? / Cuz they don’t know how to let you in / And I can’t let you out / Get down!
—Mark Oliver Everett

Come fly with me / Let’s fly, let’s fly away / If you can use some exotic booze / There’s a bar in far Bombay
—Sammy Cahn

That’s why / You need / That’s what / This is what you need / I’ll give you what you need
—INXS

Outrageous, alarming, courageous, charming / Oh, who would think a boy and bear / Could be well accepted everywhere?
—Randy Newman

I am like a big, strong cable / I am like a girl, so soft inside / Finally today I’m able / To put you in the ground / I’ll meet you in the ground
—Jimmy Gnecco

Antmusic / Antmusic / Antmusic / Antmusic
—Adam Ant

If you want to view paradise / Simply look around and view it / Anything you want to, do it / Want to change the world, there’s nothing to it
—Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley

Want to keep your dream alive? / Can I keep it with mine? / But I’m no good for you / I suppose when you get a cold bath / You still hold me close at night
—Beth Orton

Well, I’ve been down so goddamn long / That it looks like up to me / Well, I’ve been down so very damn long / That it looks like up to me
—Doors

Whispers at the bus stop / I heard about nights out in the school yard / I found out about you / I found out about you
—Gin Blossoms

Here you come again / Just when I’ve begun to get myself together / You waltz right in the door / Just like you’ve done before / And wrap my heart round your little finger
—Dolly Parton

Hey there, Georgy girl / Swinging down the street so fancy-free /Nobody you meet could ever see the loneliness there inside you
—Jim Dale

We hate it when our friends become successful / Oh, look at those clothes / Now look at that face it’s so old / And such a video / Well, it’s really laughable / Oh, ha ha ha-ha ha, ha ha ha-ha ha
—Morrissey

No one I think is in my tree / I mean, it must be high or low / That is, you can’t you know tune in, but it’s all right / That is, I think it’s not too bad / Let me take you down / Cuz I’m going to / Strawberry Fields / Nothing is real / And nothing to get hung about
—Lennon/McCartney

Shiny shiny pants and bleached blond hair / A double kick drum by the river in the summer / She fell in love with the drummer / Another and another / She fell in love
—Wilco

I’m too sexy for my shirt / Too sexy for my shirt / So sexy it hurts / And I’m too sexy for Milan / Too sexy for Milan / New York and Japan / And I’m too sexy for your party / Too sexy for your party / No way I’m disco dancing
—Right Said Fred

Oh, yeah… / Oh, yeah… / Oh, yeah…
—Yello

The arena is empty except for one man, / Still driving and striving as fast as he can. / The sun has gone down and the moon has come up, / And long ago somebody left with the cup. / But he’s driving and striving and hugging the turns. / And thinking of someone for whom he still burns. / He’s going the distance.
—Cake

Show me the way / To the next whiskey bar / Oh, don’t ask why / Oh, don’t ask why
—Bertolt Brecht

Run to the hills / Run for your lives / Run to the hills / Run for your lives
—Iron Maiden

And coming around, coming around / Nobody likes to, but I really like to cry / Nobody likes me, maybe if I cry / Encircle me, I need to be taken down
—Tegan And Sara

Got a devil’s haircut in my mind / Got a devil’s haircut in my mind / Got a devil’s haircut in my mind / Got a devil’s haircut in my mind
—Beck

Give me the reason to want you back. / Why should I love you again? / Do you know, tell me how / How to forgive and forget?
—Luther Vandross

Don’t call it a comeback / I been here for years / Rockin my peers and puttin suckas in fear / Makin the tears rain down like a monsoon / Listen to the bass go boom
—LL Cool J

I touch you once I touch you twice / I won’t let go at any price / I need you now like I needed you then / You always said we’d meet again someday
—Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark

And there’s nothing wrong with me / This is how I’m supposed to be / In a land of make believe / That don’t believe in me
—Green Day

All is quiet on New Year’s Day / A world in white gets underway
—U2

But in case I stand one little chance, / Here comes the jackpot question in advance: / What are you doing New Year’s, New Year’s Eve?
—Frank Loesser

You’re always scratching at the eight ball, / No one really knows the reason why. / You get to the top and then you fall, / Gonna hang down your head and cry.
—Social Distortion

I’ve got a story I really want to tell / About Bo Diddley at the O.K. Corral / Now, Bo Diddley didn’t stand no mess / He wore a gun on his hip and a rose on his chest / Bo Diddley’s a gunslinger / Bo Diddley’s a gunslinger
—Bo Diddley

If everybody minded their own business / They’d be too busy to worry ‘bout mine / If I live life the way I wanna live it / It ain’t no crime, it ain’t no crime / If I wanna kick back and chill or steal / A kiss from a girl, I will every time / It ain’t no crime
—Martin, Shapiro, Nesler

He only sings when he’s sad and he’s sad all the time / So he sings the whole night through / Yeah, he sings in the daytime too
—M.Ward

I’m a reluctant rebel / I just want to be Aaron Neville / With a crown on my head / And my denim shirt all dark with sweat
—Vic Chestnutt

We three kings of orient are. / Bearing gifts we traverse afar, / Field and fountain, / Moor and mountain, / Following yonder star.
—John Henry Hopkins, Jr.

I saw my baby wearing Santa’s beard / She kissed him once and whispered in his ear
—They Might Be Giants

Heard it in a love song / Heard it in a love song / Heard it in a love song / Can’t be wrong
—Marshall Tucker Band

How lucky can one guy be / I kissed her and she kissed me / Like the fella once said, / Ain’t that a kick in the head
—Sammy Cahn

Slowly we make love / Sign your name / Across my heart / I want you to be my baby
—Terence Trent D’Arby

Up on the sun where it never rains or snows / There’s an ocean with a wind that never blows / And if you see it closer, then the finer points will show / Not to much more, too much more / Not to much more, too much more
—Meat Puppets

And I wonder / When I sing along with you / If everything could ever feel this real forever / If anything could ever be this good again
—Foo Fighters

Your sweet expression / The smile you gave me / The way you looked when we met / It’s easy to remember / So hard to forget
—Lorenz Hart

He died drunk one morning / Alone in the land he fought to save / Two inches of water in a lonely ditch / Was a grave for Ira Hayes
—Johnny Cash

And I have no compass / And I have no map / And I have no reasons / No reasons to get back
—U2

One pill makes you larger / And one pill makes you small / And the ones that mother gives you / Don’t do anything at all
—Grace Slick

She needs wide open spaces / Room to make her big mistakes / She needs new faces / She knows the high stakes
—Susan Gibson

Sugar Ray say, Oh-oh-oh, / Every morning, Oh-oh-oh, / Every morning when I wake up / Shut the door baby, don’t say a word
—Sugar Ray

Now you’re messin’ with a, a son of a bitch / Now you’re messin’ with a son of a bitch / Now you’re messin’ with a, a son of a bitch / Now you’re messin’ with a son of a bitch
—Nazareth

God forbid you ever had to walk a mile in his shoes / Cuz then you really might know what it’s like to sing the blues / Then you really might know what it’s like / Then you really might know what it’s like
—Everlast

Picture you upon my knee / Just tea for two and two for tea / Just me for you and you for me, alone / Nobody near us / to see us or hear us
—Irving Caesar

Stars racing to burn out / The storm beginning to break / This was inevitable / This was inevitable / Inevitable
—Beth Orton

Sundown, ya better take care / If I find you been creeping ‘round my back stairs
—Gordon Lightfoot

It’s a war on war / It’s a war on war / It’s a war on war / There’s a war on / You’re gonna lose / You have to lose / You have to learn how to die
—Wilco

Money burns a hole in my pocket / How I wish I had millions of dollars and nothing to do / But just buy pretty presents for you
—Bob Hilliard

Wait till the warm-up’s underway / Wait till our lips have met / Wait till you see that sunshine day / You ain’t seen nothin’ yet / The best is yet to come / And, babe, won’t it be fine? / The best is yet to come / Come the day you’re mine
—Carolyn Leigh

I caught you knocking at my cellar door / I love you, baby, can I have some more? / Ooh, ooh, the damage done.
—Neil Young

This is getting to be / A joke. / I’m a negative creep
—Nirvana

Oh darling, you’re a million ways to be cruel.
—Ok Go

When the grave digger puts on the forceps / The stonemason does all the work / The barber can give you a haircut / The carpenter can take you out to lunch
—Cake

How much is that doggie in the window, / The one with the waggley tail? /How much is that doggie in the window? / I do hope that doggie’s for sale.
—Bob Merrill

Instant Karma’s gonna get you / Gonna knock you right on the head / You better get yourself together / Pretty soon you’re gonna be dead
—John Lennon

No matter how hard you try, you can’t stop us now / No matter how hard you try, you can’t stop us now
—Afrika Bambaataa

Everybody loves somebody sometime / Everybody falls in love somehow / Something in your kiss just told me / That sometime is now
—Irving Taylor

All the ladies and gentlemen / Who made this all so probable / Thank you, friends / I rejoice to the skies
—Alex Chilton

In the wee small hours of the morning, / While the whole wide world is fast asleep, / You lie awake and think about the girl / And never, ever think of counting sheep.
—Bob Hilliard

She’s got her ear to the walls / And she’s tapping the calls / If you’ve got a secret / Boy, forget about it / Cuz she’s a hotel detective / My little hotel detective
—They Might Be Giants

Somebody’s out to get your lady / A few of your buddies, they sure look shady
—O’Jays

We skipped the light fandango / Turned cartwheels ‘cross the floor / I was feeling kinda seasick / But the crowd called out for more
—Procol Harum

We are hoping / Yes, we are praying / This time will be the last time / That we will fight like this
—INXS

Millions of peaches / Peaches for me / Millions of peaches / Peaches for free
—Presidents of the United States of America

Privacy is my middle name / My last name is Control / No, my first name ain’t “baby” / It’s Janet / Miss Jackson, if you’re nasty
—Harris, Lewis, and Jackson

I know I’d go from rags to riches / If you would only say you care / And though my pocket may be empty / I’d be a millionaire
—Adler and Ross

So can you squeeze me / Into an empty page of your diary / And supernaturally change me / Change me / Change me?
—Morrissey

I don’t have a chance at writing the book / I just wanna be a page / In Jeannie’s diary / One single page / In Jeannie’s diary
—Mark Oliver Everett

Before you accuse me, take a look at yourself / Before you accuse me, take a look at yourself
—Bo Diddley

After all these implements and text designed by intellects / So vexed to find evidently there’s just so much that hides / And though the saints dub us divine in ancient fading lines / Their sentiment is just as hard to pluck from the vine
—Shins

Soy un perdedor / I’m a loser, baby / So why don’t you kill me?
—Beck

Grab your coat and get your hat / Leave your worries on the doorstep / Life can be so sweet / On the sunny side of the street
—Dorothy Fields

Work It Harder Make It Better Do It Faster Makes Us Stronger More Than Ever Hour After Our Work Is Never Over
—Daft Punk

Sometimes I wonder what I’m a gonna do / But there ain’t no cure for the summertime blues
—Eddie Cochran and Jerry Capehart

From the South Bay to the Valley / From the West Side to the East Side / Everybody’s very happy / Cuz the sun is shining all the time / Looks like another perfect day / I love L.A. (We love it) / I love L.A. (We love it)
—Randy Newman

He went down down down / And the devil called him by name / He went down down down / Hanging onto the back of a train
—Tom Waits

They laughed at me wanting you / Said I was reaching for the moon / But oh, you came through / Now they’ll have to change their tune
—Ira Gershwin

I’ve finally stabilized / I’ve finally stabilized / Everyone will see / Everyone will see
—Jimmy Gnecco

I thought I had them all nailed down / But you turned them around / You did it / You did it / You did it in a minute / It didn’t take long
—Hall and Oates

Late at night when the people were gone / He used to pick up my guitar / And sing a song in a shaky voice / That was real as the day was long / Tonight’s the night / Tonight’s the night
—Neil Young

Sweet dreams till sunbeams find you / Sweet dreams that leave our worries behind / But in your dreams whatever they be / Dream a little dream of me
—Gus Kahn

You’re so misunderstood / I’d like to thank you all for nothing / I’d like to thank you all for nothing at all / I’d like to thank you all for nothing / Nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing at all / Nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing at all
—Wilco

I was working in the lab late one night / When my eyes beheld an eerie sight / For my monster from his slab began to rise / And suddenly to my surprise / He did the mash / He did the monster mash
—Bobby “Boris” Pickett

Yeah, you bet we care a lot / And it’s a dirty job but someone’s gotta do it / Yeah, it’s a dirty job but someone’s gotta do it
—Faith No More

I wish you would / Come pick me up / Take me out / F**k me up / Steal my records / Screw all my friends / They’re all full of s**t / With a smile on your face / And then do it again / I wish you would
—Ryan Adams

You keep hangin’ ‘round me / And I’m not so glad you found me / You’re still doing things that I gave up years ago
—Lou Reed

It means nothing to me / This means nothing to me / Oh, Vienna / This means nothing to me / This means nothing to me / Oh, Vienna
—Ultravox

Things never are as bad as they seem / So dream, dream dream
—Johnny Mercer

Yeah, I am the astro-creep / A demolition-style hell American freak / I am the crawling dead / A phantom in a box, shadow in your head
—White Zombie

There was a time that the pieces fit, but I watched them fall away / Mildewed and smoldering, strangled by our coveting / I’ve done the the math enough to know the dangers of a second guessing / Doomed to crumble unless we grow, and strengthen our communication
—Tool

Save me, oh save me / It’s unreal, the suffering / There’s gonna be a showdown
—Electric Light Orchestra

They’re all bold as love / Yes, they’re all bold as love / Yeah, they’re all bold as love / Just ask the axis
—Jimi Hendrix

I can say what I want to say / Ain’t nothing to it / Gangsta rap made me do it
—Ice Cube

Band on the run / Band on the run / And the country judge who held a grudge / Will search for ever more / For the band on the run
—Paul McCartney

I want something good to die for / To make it beautiful to live
—Queens of the Stone Age

I’ll be the one to show you the way / You’ll be the one to always complain
—Kings of Leon

Shake it, shake, shake it, shake it (oh, oh) / Shake it, shake it, shake, shake it, shake it, shake it (oh, oh) / Shake it, shake it like a Polaroid picture
—Andre 3000

You will believe in love / And all that it’s supposed to be / But just until the fish start to smell / And you’re struck down by a hammer
—Rufus Wainwright

Hit the lights / Hit the lights / Hit the lights
—Metallica

I’m on a boat (I’m on a boat) / I’m on a boat (I’m on a boat) / Everybody look at me cause I’m sailing on a boat (sailing on a boat)
—Lonely Island

I can’t stand it / I know you planned it / I’m gonna set it straight / This Watergate
—Beastie Boys

I fight authority / Authority always wins / I fight authority / Authority always wins
—John Mellencamp

She can’t help it, the girl can’t help it, / She can’t help it, the girl can’t help it, / If she walks by, the men folks get engrossed, / She can’t help it, the girl can’t help it, / If she winks an eye, the bread slice turn to toast
—Bobby Troup

Hold me close and tell me how you feel / Tell me love is real / Mm, mm, mm, mm
—Buddy Holly

You know your love (your love keeps lifting me) / Keep on lifting (love keeps lifting me) / Higher (lifting me) / Higher and higher (higher)
—Gary Jackson, Raynard Miner and Carl Smith

Unknown quotients / You must be using potions / How else could you tie / My head to the sky / This new convection has left me wondering why / I can’t concern myself with ordinary tripe.
—Shins

Complicating, circulating / New life, new life / Operating, generating / New life, new life
—Depeche Mode

And you know I might / Have just flown too far from the floor this time / Cuz they’re calling me by my name / And the zipping white light beams / Disregards the bombs and satellites / That was the turning point / That was one lonely night
—Killers

Five and 20 burglars by the reservoir / A teenage lookout on the signal tower / The mogul’s daughter in hog-tie / The mogul figures the wrong guy, all right / It was a perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect crime / It was a perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect crime
—Decemberists

Give me absolute control / Over every living soul / And lie beside me, baby, / That’s an order!
—Leonard Cohen

Who is the man that would risk his neck / For his brother man? / Shaft! / Can you dig it?
—Isaac Hayes

Birdie in the hand for life’s rich demand /The insurgency began and you missed it /I looked for it and I found it
—R.E.M.

I was alone, you were away /In Fayetteville or in another state /There’s so many towns I hate
—Old 97s

I must look like a dork.
—Minutemen

Na na na na, na na na na, hey hey-ey, goodbye /Na na na na, na na na na, hey hey-ey, goodbye
—DeCarlo-Frashuer-Leka

Wakin’ up feelin’ good and limber / When the telephone it ring / Was a bad man from California
—My Morning Jacket

Delores was her middle name / She read the book and everything / Now I know how old I am / Have you ever seen that film? / Talking to a hotel mirror with my glasses off / Now you know just what he’s crying about
—Freedy Johnston

When you sing, when you sing / The stars fill up my eyes /  Galaxies pour down my cheeks /  Galaxies, they flood the street
—Laura Veirs

Father of mine / Tell me what do you see / When you look back at your wasted life / And you don’t see me
—Everclear

We are the Village Green Preservation Society / God save Donald Duck, Vaudeville, and Variety / We are the Desperate Dan Appreciation Society / God save strawberry jam and all the different varieties / Preserving the old ways from being abused / Protecting the new ways for me and for you / What more can we do?
—Kinks

There’s something about u, baby / It happens all the time / Whenever I’m around u, baby / I get a dirty mind
—Prince

We’re back, back / Back by popular demand / Back, back /  Back by popular demand
—Supagroup

Hear me calling out to you / Cuz that’s all that I can do / Your eyes tell me to pursue /  But you say “Look yeah, but don’t touch, baby” / Nah, nah, nah don’t touch
—Isley Brothers

It isn’t you, isn’t me / Search for things you can’t see / Going blind, out of reach / Somewhere in the Vaseline
—Stone Temple Pilots

No no no no no no no no no / No no no no no no no no / No no no no no no no no / No no no no no
—Human Beinz

And she’s watching him with those eyes / And she’s lovin’ him with that body, I just know it! / And he’s holding her in his arms late, late at night / You know I wish that I had Jessie’s girl
—Rick Springfield

But a queen’s prize awaits / She might rub her legs / But a queen’s prize awaits / Currently fabulous / And perhaps at last the song you sing will have meaning
—Guided by Voices

We’ve got stars directing our fate / And we’re praying it’s not too late / Cuz we know we’re falling from grace… / Millennium
—Robbie Williams

The beginning was the end / Of everything now. / The ape regards his tail. / He’s stuck on it. / Repeats until he fails. / Half a goon and half a god, / A man’s not made of steel.
—Devo

Lisa says, on a night like this / It’d be so nice if you gave me a great big kiss / And Lisa says, honey, for just one little smile / I’ll sing and play for you for the longest while
—Lou Reed

En la distancia te puedo ver / Cuando tus fotos me siento a ver / En las estrellas tus ojos ve / Cuando tus fotos me siento a ver
—Juanes

And if young Nigel says he’s happy / He must be happy / He must be happy in his work
—XTC

Since you’ve been gone / All that’s left is a band of gold / All that’s left of the dream I hold / Is a band of gold / And the dream of what love could be / If you are still here with me
—Holland-Dozier-Holland

It’s the little old lady from Pasadena / The little old lady from Pasadena / Go granny, go granny, go granny, go
—Altfeld-Berry-Christian

She’s the illegitimate daughter / Of an illegitimate son / Of an illegitimate nephew / Of Napoleon / (Napoleon?!)
—George and Ira Gershwin

I enjoy stealing / It’s just as simple as that / Well, it’s just a simple fact / When I want something / I don’t want to pay for it
—Jane’s Addiction

I’m fixing a hole where the rain gets in / And stops my mind from wandering / Where it will go
—Lennon/McCartney

Eastern to Mountain, third party call, the lines are down / The wise man built his words upon the rocks / But I’m not bound to follow suit
—R.E.M.

Yes, I am intense, / Maybe quite obsessed. / Everything she does is curious.
—Mark Oliver Everett

Come on now, who do you, who do you, who do you, who do you think you are? / Ha ha ha, bless your soul / You really think you’re in control? / Well, I think you’re crazy.
—Gnarls Barkley

Every time I see you falling / I get down on my knees and pray / I’m waiting for that final moment / You say the words that I can’t say
—New Order

But there are times that you feel you’re part of the scenery / All the greenery is coming down, boy /And then your wife seems to think you’re part of the
furniture / Oh, it’s peculiar; she used to be so nice.
—Supertramp

If you want something to play with / Go and find yourself a toy / Baby, my time is too expensive / And I’m not a little boy
—Aaron Neville

Why does love got to be so sad? / Why does love got to be so sad? / Why does love got to be so sad? / Why does love got to be so sad?
—Eric Clapton and Bobby Whitlock

Sleep tight, dream right / We have 200 couches / Where you can sleep tight, dream right / We have 200 couches / Where you can sleep tight, dream right / We have 200 couches / Where you can sleep tonight, sleep tonight, sleep tonight, sleep tonight
—Interpol

Leave all the things that are real behind / Leave all the things that you love from mind / All of the things that you learned from fears / Nothing is left for the years
—Aerosmith

Hey mama, don’t you treat me wrong / Come and love your daddy all night long / All right now, hey hey, all right
—Ray Charles

Well, he walked up to me and he asked me if I wanted to dance. / He looked kinda nice, so I said I might take a chance. / When he danced, he held me tight, / And when he walked me home that night, / All the stars were shining bright, / And then he kissed me.
—Greenwich - Spector - Barry

I never knew how much I cared about you / Till your memory made me a lovesick fool / She wants to take your place and be my lover / And I could make her mine if she were you
—John Prine

My, my, at Waterloo Napoleon did surrender / Oh, yeah, and I have met my destiny in quite a similar way / The history book on the shelf / Is always repeating itself.
—ABBA

Now gather round / I’m the new fool in town / And my sound’s laid down by the Underground.
—Digital Underground

I know I got a bad reputation / And it isn’t just talk, talk, talk
—Freedy Johnston

Baby did a bad, bad thing / Baby did a bad, bad thing / Baby did a bad, bad thing ? Baby did a bad bad thing / You ever love someone so much you thought your little heart was gonna break in two? / I didn’t think so.
—Chris Isaak

We’re so wonderfully, wonderfully, wonderfully, wonderfully pretty! / Oh, you know that I’d do anything for you. / We should have each other to tea, huh? /
We should have each other with cream, / Then curl up in the fire and sleep for awhile / It’s the grooviest thing, it’s the perfect dream
—The Cure

Can’t you hear me knockin’ on your window? / Can’t you hear me knockin’ on your door? / Can’t you hear me knockin’ down your dirty street, yeah? / Help me baby, ain’t no stranger
—Jagger-Richards

I’m adaptable and I like my new role / I’m getting better and better / And I have a new goal / I’m changing my ways where money applies / This is not a love song / This is not a love song
—Public Image Limited

When you are sad and lonely and have no place to go / Call me up, sweet baby, and bring along some dough / And we’ll go honky tonkin’, honky tonkin’
—Hank Williams

I saw you caught between / All the people out making a scene / And a bright ideal, tomorrow / Don’t go too far / Stay who you are
—Elliott Smith

The waiting drove me mad / You’re finally here and I’m a mess / I take your entrance back / Can’t let you roam inside my head
—Pearl Jam

We don’t need to escalate / War is not the answer / For only love can conquer hate / You know you’ve got to find a way / To bring some understanding today
—Marvine Gaye

Um ba ba be / Um ba ba be / De day da / Ee day da / That’s OK
—Queen and David Bowie

I’m gonna wash that man right outa my hair / I’m gonna wash that man right outa my hair / And send him on his way
—Oscar Hammerstein

One nation under a groove / Gettin’ down just for the funk of it / One nation and we’re on the move / Nothing can stop us now
—Parliament Funkadelic

I thought that if you had an acoustic guitar / It meant that you were a protest singer / Oh, I can smile about it now, but at the time it was terrible
—Smiths

Lost and found, you still remain there / You’ll find a meadow filled with grain there / I’ll give you a home on the range
—Parks-Wilson

Now I wanna sniff some glue / Now I wanna have somethin’ to do / All the kids wanna sniff some glue / All the kids want somethin’ to do
—Ramones

I get no kick from champagne / Mere alcohol doesn’t thrill me at all / So tell me why should it be true / That I get a kick out of you
—Cole Porter

A blackened shroud, a hand-me-down gown / Of rags and silks, a costume / Fit for one who sits and cries / For all tomorrows parties
—Velvet Underground

Little Eiffel stands in the archway / Oh, Alexander, I see you beneath the archway of aerodynamics / Oh, Alexander, I see you beneath the archway of aerodynamics
—Pixies

But this is Phil talking, / I want to tell you / What I’ve found to be true, / I love your love action
—Human League

Oh, what a crying shame / To let it all slip away / And call it yesterday
—Mavericks

Talking to you, girl, is like long division
—Rhett Miller

I don’t got what you want / And I don’t care what you think / Better back off, back off, back off, baby / If you don’t, into the drink / Into the drink /Into the drink / Into the drink
—Mudhoney

I am a dull and simple lad / Cannot tell water from champagne / And I have never met the Queen / And I wish I could have all that he has got / I wish I could be like David Watts
—Kinks

L.A. is a great big freeway. / Put a hundred down and buy a car. / In a week, maybe two, theyll make you a star. / Weeks turn into years. How quck they pass. / And all the stars that never were /Are parking cars and pumping gas
—Hal David and Burt Bacharach

Wouldn’t it be good to be in your shoes even if it was for just one day? / And wouldn’t it be good if we could wish ourselves away? / Wouldn’t it be good to be on your side?
—Nick Kershaw

Mercy mercy me / Things ain’t what they used to be
—Marvin Gaye

I just don’t know where to begin /Though he says he’ll wait forever /It’s now or never /But she keeps him hanging on
—Elvis Costello

I don’t wanna work /I just wanna bang on the drum all day
—Todd Rundgren

Brown paper, white paper /Stick it together with tape, the tape of love /The sticky stuff
—Flight of the Conchords

Next week will solve your problems /But now, fish fingers all in a line /The milk bottles stand empty /Stay glued to your TV set
—Wire

I am the Eggman /They are the Eggmen /I am the Walrus /Goo-goo-ga-joob-goo-goo-goo-ga-joob
—Lennon/McCartney

God bless you, please, Mrs. Robinson /Heaven holds a place for those who pray /Hey, hey, hey
—Paul Simon

There’s too many people you used to know /They see you coming, they see you go /They know your secrets, and you know theirs /This town is crazy, but nobody cares
—Beck

With your long blonde hair, I couldn’t sleep last night /With your long blonde hair
—Feldman-Goldstein-Gottehrer

Keep your eyes on the road, your hands upon the wheel /Keep your eyes on the road, your hands upon the wheel /Yeah, we’re going to the roadhouse /We’re gonna have a real /Good time
—Doors

Don’t drink, don’t smoke, what do you do? /Don’t drink, don’t smoke, what do you do? /Subtle innuendos follow /Must be something inside
—Adam Ant

So tell me what I see when I look in your eyes /Is that you, baby, or just a brilliant disguise?
—Bruce Springsteen

I resolve to call her up 1000 times a day /And ask her if she’ll marry me in some old fashioned way /But my silent fears have gripped me /Long before I reach the phone /Long before my tongue has tripped me /Must I always be alone?
—Police

Hey, good lookin’ /Whatcha got cookin’? /How’s about cookin’ somethin’ up with me? /Hey, sweet baby /Don’t you think maybe /We could find us a brand new recipe?
—Hank Williams

I never, ever stop wondering /Wondering if you still think of us /I don’t need a photograph cuz you never left my mind /No, you’ve never left my mind
—Of Montreal

We’re sick and tired of your ism-schism game /Die and go to heaven in Jesus’ name, Lord /We know and we understand Almighty God is a living man /You can fool some people sometimes /But you can’t fool all the people all the time
—Bob Marley and Peter Tosh

Of thee I sing, baby /Summer, autumn, winter, spring, baby /You’re my silver lining /You’re my sky of blue /There’s a love light shining /All because of you
—Rogers-Hart

I’ve been in this town so long that back in the city I’ve been taken for lost and gone and unknown for a long long time / Fell in love years ago with an innocent girl from the Spanish and Indian home / Home of the heroes and villains
—Beach Boys

I’ve seen you on the beach and I’ve seen you on TV /Two of a billion stars it means so much to me /Like a birthday or a pretty view
—Duran Duran

You drink and drink /You never got a reason /But you put it on my tab /You put it on my tab
—Silkworm

Sugar Pie Honey Bunch /I’m weaker than a man should be /I can’t help myself /I’m a fool in love ‘ya see
—Holland-Dozier-Holland

Oh, death! / Oh, death! / Won’t you spare me over till another year?
—Trad. by Stanley Brothers

It’s funny how I could never cry /Until tonight and you pass by /Hand in hand with another guy /You’re dressed to kill and guess who’s dying?
—Roxy Music

I’m a Yankee Doodle Dandy /A Yankee Doodle, do or die /A real live nephew of my Uncle Sam /Born on the Fourth of July
—George M. Cohan

I am going to the corner, gonna buy a diamond ring /Would you pardon me if it’s a 19 carat golden thing /Good golly, Miss Molly, sure like a ball /When you’re rockin’ and a rollin’ can’t hear your momma call
—Little Richard

What good is sitting alone in your room? /Come hear the music play/Life is a Cabaret, old chum /Come to the Cabaret
—Ebb-Kander

I want you to want me /I need you to need me /I’d love you to love me /I’m begging you to beg me
—Cheap Trick

I’m dreaming of a white Christmas /Just like the ones I used to know /Where the treetops glisten and children listen /To hear sleigh bells in the snow
—Irving Berlin

We’re all exchanging pleasantries, no matter how we feel /And no one knows the difference, cuz it all seems so unreal /You’d better grab ahold of something, simple but it’s true /If you don’t stop to smell the roses now, they might end up on you
—Husker Du

If only I’d thought of the right words /I could have held on to your heart /If only I’d thought of the right words /I wouldn’t be breaking apart /All my pictures of you
—Cure

He don’ plant tater /He don’ plant cotton /An’ dem dat plants ‘em /Is soon forgotten /but ol’ man river /He jes’ keeps rollin’ along
—Oscar Hammerstein

It’s a comedy of errors, you see /It’s about taking a fall /To vanish into oblivion is easy to do /And I try to be, but you know me /I come back when you want me to /Do you miss me, Miss Misery /Like you say you do?
—Elliott Smith

Say, it’s only a paper moon /Sailing over a cardboard sea /But it wouldn’t be make-believe /If you believed in me
—Yip Harburg

Someone tell me why I do the things /That I don’t want to do? /When you’re around me, I’m somebody else
—Guided By Voices

How’s it going to be /When you don’t know me anymore? /Yeah, how’s it going to be? /Want to get myself back in again
—Third Eye Blind

I was dreaming when I wrote this /Forgive me if it goes astray /But when I woke up this morning /Could have sworn it was judgment day
—Prince

What kind of a fool do you think I am? /You think I know nothing of the modern world /All my life has been the same /I’ve learned to live by hate and pain /It’s my inspiration drive
—The Jam

Are the stars out tonight? /I don’t know if it’s cloudy or bright /Cuz I only have eyes for you
—Caesar-Harbach

Peace and love is here to stay /And now I can wake up and face the day /Happy happy happy all the time! /Shock treatment, I’m doing fine
—Ramones

Welcome to the jungle /It gets worse here everyday /Ya learn ta live like an animal /In the jungle where we play
—Guns N’Roses

What you don’t have you don’t need it now /What you don’t know you can feel it somehow /What you don’t have you don’t need it now /You don’t need it now, you don’t need it now
—U2

Tonight’s the night. /Tonight’s the nigh-igh-igh-ight. /Tonight’s the night. /Tonight’s the nigh-igh-igh-ight. /
—Neil Young

Waiting over here, for life to begin /Still looking for the new thing /And you were the sunshine heading my front line /I was alone, you were just around the corner from me.
—Pete Yorn

Got a monkey on my back /A m-m-m-m-monkey on my back back back back /Gonna change my ways tonight /Nobody’s fault but mine
—Led Zeppelin

Ain’t no wrong now, ain’t no right /Ain’t no wrong now, ain’t no right /Only pleasure and pain
—Jane’s Addiction

When I met you in the restaurant /You could tell I was no debutante
—Blondie

Youth culture killed my dog /And I don’t think it’s fair /And his suicide can be justified /By the taste makers, how they cried and cried
—They Might Be Giants

Highway’s jammed with broken heroes /On a last chance power drive /Everybody’s out on the road tonight, but /There’s no place left to hide /Together, Wendy, we can live with the sadness /I’ll love you with all the madness in my soul
—Bruce Springsteen

My funny valentine, sweet comic valentine /You make me smile with my heart /Your looks are laughable, unphotographable /Yet you’re my favorite work of art
—Rogers-Hart

It’s your big day, your big day, your big day, your big day
—XTC

You, and your sweet desire /You took me, ohhh higher and higher baby /It’s a livin’ thing /It’s a terrible thing to lose /It’s a given thing /What a terrible thing to lose
—Electric Light Orchestra

Not everyone can carry the weight of the world
—R.E.M.

All your two-bit psychiatrists are giving you electric shocks /They said, they’d let you live at home with mom and dad /Instead of mental hospitals /But every time you tried to read a book you couldn’t get to page 17 /Cuz you forgot where you were, so you couldn’t even read
—Lou Reed

Isis, oh, Isis, you mystical child /What drives me to you is what drives me insane /I still can remember the way that you smiled /On the fifth day of May in the drizzling rain.
—Bob Dylan
(Note: Hey, shouldn’t this have been on May 5?  How did I mess that up, LOL?)

Here a tower shinning bright /Once stood gleaming in the night /Where now there’s just the rubble. /In the hole here the paddies and the frogs /Came to gamble on the dogs /Came to gamble on the dogs not long ago.
—Pogues

Whatta man, whatta man, whatta man, whatta mighty good man / Whatta man, whatta man, whatta man, whatta mighty good man
—Salt’n'Pepa

People rushing round with no time to spare. /I’m so dizzy, I’m neither here nor there. /In this traffic jam, I just want to shout, /Let me off of this English roundabout /English roundabout
—XTC

How long, how long must we sing this song? /How long, how long?
—U2

I gotta make plans for the plans I make /Gotta have friends for the friends I make /I gotta make plans for the friends I make /Gotta have friends for the plans I make
—Husker Du

Sometimes I know, sometimes I rise /Sometimes I fall, sometimes I don’t /Sometimes I cringe, sometimes I live /Sometimes I walk, sometimes I kneel /Sometimes I speak of nothing at all /Sometimes I reach to myself, dear God.
—Pearl Jam

Now, if you’re blue /And you don’t know where to go to /Why don’t you go where fashion sits /Puttin’ on the Ritz
—Irving Berlin

When you motor away down the icy streets /You can’t lie to yourself that it’s the chance of a lifetime /You can be anyone they told you to /You can belittle every little voice that told you so
—Guided By Voices

Frankly, Mr. Shankly, this position I’ve held /It pays my way, and it corrodes my soul /I want to leave, you will not miss me /I want to go down in musical history
—Smiths

A lady doesn’t leave her escort /It isn’t fair, it isn’t nice /A lady doesn’t wander all over the room /And blow on some other guy’s dice.
—Frank Loesser

My big day, it was the biggest day of my life /It was the summit of my long career /But I felt so down, and I drank too much beer /The management said that I shouldn’t appear.
—Kinks

I’m black and I’m proud /I’m ready and hyped, plus I’m amped /Most of my heroes don’t appear on no stamps
—Public Enemy

I don’t want to hold you and feel so helpless /I don’t want to smell you and lose my senses /And smile in slow motion with eyes in love
—Rufus Wainwright

I hear your footsteps in the street /It wont be long before we meet /It’s obvious /Just count me in and count me out /I’ll be waiting for the shout /Oblivious
—Aztec Camera

This is not my life /It’s just a fond farewell to a friend /It’s not what I’m like /It’s just a fond farewell to a friend /Who couldn’t get things right
—Elliott Smith

From the morning, past the evening, till the end of the light /A brimful of Asha on the 45 /A brimful of Asha on the 45
—Cornershop

Hey Johnny, hey Dee Dee /Little Tom and Joey /You know who’s coming over?  /Sweet sweet little Ramona
—Ramones

Bow-wow-wow-yippie-yo-yippie-yeah /Bow-wow-yippie-yo-yippie-yeah /Just walkin’ the dog /Oh, atomic dog /Futuristic bow-wow
—George Clinton

Me and this girl, we’ve been working it out /We’ve got a long way to go, we’ve got a long way to go /Me and this girl, we’ve been having it out /On a road called Oppenheimer
—Old 97s

You say it’s over, but the world keeps turnin’ round /World goes round /Life goes on, and on, and on.
—Cheap Trick

And then maybe later /We’ll get hot by the refrigerator /In the kitchen next to the pantry /You think that might be what you fancy?
—Flight of the Conchords

Did you stand by me, no not at all /Now I got a job, but it don’t pay /I need new clothes, I need somewhere to stay /But without all of these things I can do /But without your love, I won’t make it through
—Clash

Reviewed, it thought, as if someone were watching over it /Before, had sooner been denied /Renewed, it seemed, as if it had a cause to live for /Destroyed, was later based on fact
—Wire

And if I don’t see ya, in a long, long while /I’ll try to find you left of the dial
—Replacements

I’ve come to wish you an unhappy birthday /Cuz you’re evil and you lie /And if you should die /I may feel slightly sad, but I won’t cry
—Smiths

Shiny, shiny pants and bleach-blond hair /A double kick drum by the river in the summer /She fell in love with the drummer /Another and another /She fell in love
—Wilco

In the light /Everybody needs the light /Ooh yeah, ooh baby, everybody, everybody, everybody /Sure ‘nuff they do
—Led Zeppelin

Jump back, what’s that sound? /Here she comes, full blast and top down /Hot shoe, burnin’ down the avenue /Model citizen, zero discipline
—Van Halen

I was talking to preachy preach about kissy kiss /He bought me a soda /He bought me a soda
—Pixies

And all the world is football-shaped /It’s just for me to kick in space /And I can see, hear, smell, touch, taste /And I’ve got one, two, three, four, five /Senses working overtime
—XTC

She gets too hungry to wait for dinner at eight /She loves the theatre but never comes late /She’d never bother with people she’d hate /That’s why the lady is a tramp
—Rogers-Hart

I said now, overcast days never turned me on /But something about the clouds and her mixed /She wasn’t 2 bright /But I could tell when she kissed me /She knew how 2 get her kicks
—Prince

The public gets what the public wants /But I want nothing this society’s got /I’m going underground, going underground
—The Jam

Shedding off one more layer of skin /Keeping one step ahead of the persecutor within.
—Bob Dylan

As I pushed my foot down to the floor /I was going round and round the hotel garage /Must have been touching close to 94
—Bowie

And there’s even some evil mothers /They’re gonna tell you that everything is just dirt /Y’know, that women never really faint /And that villains always blink their eyes /And that, y’know, children are the only ones who blush /And that life is just to die!
—Lou Reed

And I’m dizzy from her kiss /So vertiginous, lost in lysergic bliss!
—Of Montreal

How I dearly wish I was not here /In the seaside town that they forgot to bomb /Come, come, come, nuclear bomb!
—Morrissey

I’m your only friend /I’m not your only friend /But I’m a little glowing friend /But really I’m not actually your friend
—They Might Be Giants

There’s no business like show business like no business I know /Everything about it is appealing /Everything that traffic will allow /Nowhere could you get that happy feeling /When you are stealing that extra bow
—Irving Berlin

And the car-parks going up /And they’re pulling down the pubs /And it’s just another bloody rainy day
—Pogues

I’ve waited too long to have you hide in the back of me /I’ve cheated so long I wonder how you keep track of me /You could never be strong /You can only be free /And I never asked for the truth /But you owe that to me
—Guided By Voices

Psycho killer /Qu’est-ce que c’est?
—Talking Heads

Listen to the bargain holler /Listen to the barter holler /Listen to the auctioneer
—R.E.M.

Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome /Im Cabaret, au Cabaret, to Cabaret
—Ebb-Kander

Me used to be angry young man /Me hiding me head in the sand
—Lennon/McCartney

It’s criminal /There ought to be a law /Criminal! /There ought to be a whole lot more
—AC/DC

I bought a ticket to the world /But now I’ve come back again /Why do I find it hard to write the next line /Oh I want the truth to be said /Huh huh huh hu-uh huh, I know this much is true /Huh huh huh hu-uh huh, I know this much is true
—Spandau Ballet

Oh yes he is (oh yes he is), oh yes he is (oh yes he is) /His world is built round discoteques and parties /This pleasure-seeking individual always looks his best /Cuz he’s a dedicated follower of fashion.
—Kinks

They’re tearing the Buick City Complex down /I think we’re the only people left in town /Where are you gonna move, where are you gonna move? /Do you wanna mess around?
—Old 97s

Make my funk the P.Funk /I wants to get funked up /I want the bomb /I want the P.Funk
—Parliament Funkadelic

Go on, take everything, take everything I want you to /Go on, take everything, take everything, take everything, take everything
—Hole

You’re the top! /You’re the Colosseum. /You’re the top! /You’re the Louvre Museum.
—Cole Porter

I wanna run, I want to hide /I want to tear down the walls that hold me inside /I want to reach out and touch the flame /Where the streets have no name
—U2

The silence of a falling star /Lights up a purple sky /And as I wonder where you are /I’m so lonesome I could cry
—Hank Williams

I’ve got the world on a string /I’m sitting on a rainbow /Got the string around my finger /What a world, what a life /I’m in love
—Ted Koehler

Everybody all aboard /Don’t you miss it, baby /If you miss that train /Don’t miss the party train
—Gap Band

You know you’re not in high finance /Considering second hand underpants /Check your mind, how’d it get so bad? /What happened to those other underpants you had?
—Flight of the Conchords

By order of the prophet we ban that boogie sound /Degenerate the faithful with that crazy Casbah sound /But the Bedouin they brought out the electric camel drum /The local guitar picker got his guitar picking thumb
—Clash

Alive in the superunknown /First it steals your mind /And then it steals your soul
—Soundgarden

Hey diddle-diddle, I’m-a play my fiddle /Ain’t got nothing to lose /Roll over Beethoven /And tell Tchaikovsky the news
—Chuck Berry

We ain’t got no friends /Our troubles never end /No Christmas cards to send /Daddy likes men
—Ramones

Ah, c’mon all you lads, let’s forget and forgive /There’s a world to explore /Tales to tell back on shore /I just spent six months in a leaky boat
—Split Enz

Now I’m a priest teenager on a tower of dust /I’m a dead generator in a cloud of exhaust /I eat alone in the desert with skulls for my pets /I rate the days, one to ten, with lead cigarettes
—Beck

The dream police, they live inside of my head /The dream police, they come to me in my bed /The dream police, they’re coming to arrest me, oh, no!
—Cheap Trick

Picture me givin’ a damn! I said never /Here is a land that never gave a damn /About a brother like me and myself /Because they never did
—Public Enemy

Back and forth between good and the bad, /It’s indecision time
—Husker Du

And if they don’t believe us now /Will they ever believe us?
—Smiths

Melt the guns /Melt the guns /Melt the guns /And never more desire them.
—XTC

And he hit me with a surprise left /My jaw left hurting, ooh, dropped wide open /Just like the day, oh, like the day I heard
—Pearl Jam

Where were you when we needed you /Well, you could not be found /What can I do, oh, I believed in you /You’re running me around
—Greg Kihn

Oh oh oh oh, oh oh /You don’t have to go, oh oh, oh oh
—Led Zeppelin

The door pointing to others /“Door” means a separate wall is in between /Symbols assert the big butt whuppin’ /Close your eyes, open them. /Take our test!
—Minutemen

It’s a losing proposition, but one you can’t refuse /It’s the politics of contraband, it’s the smugglers’ blues
—Glenn Fry

Is she weird? /Is she white? /Is she promised to the night? /And her head has no room
—Pixies

I fell /(Did you feel low?) /No /(Huh?) /I fell right into the arms of Venus de Milo
—Television

You’re caught in a vicious circle /Surrounded by your so called friends /You’re caught in a vicious circle /And it looks like it will never end
—Lou Reed

We’ve got to keep our little click clicking at 130 b.p.m. /It’s not too slow /If we’ve got to burn out let’s do it together /Let’s all melt down together
—Of Montreal

Let there be sound, and there was sound /Let there be light, and there was light /Let there be drums, there was drums /Let there be guitar, there was guitar /Let there be rock!
—AC/DC

Quench me when I’m thirsty /Come on and cool me down, baby, when I’m hot /Your recipe is, darling, is so tasty /When you show and stir your pot /So, stir it up
—Bob Marley

This is Radio Clash on pirate satellite /Orbiting your living room /Cashing in the bill of rights /This is Radio Clash on pirate satellite /This is Radio Clash /Everybody hold on tight
—Clash

I’ve waited hours for this /I’ve made myself so sick I wish I’d stayed /Asleep today /I never thought this day would end /I never thought tonight could ever be /This close to me
—Cure

How could I apologise for all those lies /The world may keeps us far apart but up in heaven, angel /You can have my heart
—Roxy Music

I am an antichrist /I am an anarchist /Don’t know what I want /But I know how to get it /I wanna destroy the passerby
—Sex Pistols

She’s a killer queen /Gunpowder, gelatine /Dynamite with a laser beam /Guaranteed to blow your mind /Anytime!
—Freddie Mercury

U walked in, I woke up /I’ve never seen a pretty girl look so tough /Baby, u got that look
—Prince

I ordered a scotch as I bust through them doors /Spilled half on my jeans, the other half on the floor /When I saw you standing by that video game
—Replacements

In our mountain greenery /Where God paints the scenery /Just two crazy people together
—Rogers-Hart

(When we do it) you’re never there /(When you show it) just stop and stare /(Abacab) he’s in anywhere /(Abacab) doesn’t really care
—Genesis

So unplug the jukebox /And do us all a favour /Now that music’s lost its taste /So try another flavour /Antmusic! /Antmusic!
—Adam and the Ants

I am a scientist, I seek to understand me /All of my impurities and evils yet unknown /I am a journalist, I write to you to show you /I am an incurable and nothing else behaves like me
—Guided By Voices

Steppin’ out with my baby /Can’t go wrong cuz I’m in right /It’s for sure, not for maybe /That I’m all dressed up tonight
—Irving Berlin

Gimme that night fever, night fever /We know how to do it /Gimme that night fever, night fever /We know how to show it
—Bee Gees

This is your correspondent running out of tape /Gunfire’s increasing /Looting /Burning /Rape
—Wire

And when it’s party time /Like 1999 /I party by myself /Because I’m such a special guy /I’m a troublemaker
—Weezer

Jackie is a punk /Judy is a runt /They both went down to Berlin /Joined the ice-capades
—Ramones

Girl, you’re a hot-blooded woman-child /And it’s warm where you’re touching me /But I can tell by your trembling smile /You’re seeing way too much in me
—Mac Davis

You’re always talking ‘bout your crazy nights /One of these days you’re gonna get it right /Don’t bring me down, no, no, no, no, no /I’ll tell you once more before I get off the floor /Don’t bring me down /Don’t bring me down, Grooss
—Electric Light Orchestra

I hate myself for loving you /Can’t break free from the the things that you do /I wanna walk, but I run back to you /That’s why I hate myself for loving you
—Joan Jett

When I was just a baby my mama told me, “Son, /Always be a good boy, don’t ever play with guns” /But I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die /Now every time I hear that whistle I hang my head and cry
—Johnny Cash

This world is big and wild and half insane /Take me where real animals are playing /Just a dirty old shack where the hound dogs bark /That we called our home /I want to be back there /Among the cats and dogs /And the pigs and the goats /On animal farm, my animal home
—Kinks

Dark in the city, night is a wire /Steam in the subway, earth is a fire /Do dodo do dodo do dodo do dodo do doo doo
—Duran Duran

Hold my head /We’ll trampoline /Finally through the roof /On to somewhere near /And far in time /Velouria
—Pixies

Everywhere people stare /Each and every day /I can see them laugh at me /And I hear them say /Hey, you’ve got to hide your love away
—Lennon/McCartney

Tonight, tonight-tonight-tonight /You’re on top of the world /On top of the world and you can’t get any higher /You’re on top of the world /You’re on top of the world tonight
—Cheap Trick

At night I drink myself to sleep and pretend /I don’t care if you’re not here with me /Cuz it’s so much easier to handle /All my problems if I’m too far out to sea
—R.E.M.

I saw the light, I saw the light /No more darkness, no more night /Now I’m so happy, no sorrow in sight /Praise the Lord, I saw the light
—Hank Williams

Ain’t talkin’ ‘bout love /My love is rotten to the core /Ain’t gonna talk about love /Just like I told you before! /Before! Before! Before! Before!
—Van Halen

If you don’t eat your meat, you can’t have any pudding! /How can you have any pudding if you don’t eat your meat?
—Pink Floyd

And them south side sisters sure look pretty /The cripple on the corner cries out, “Nickels for your pity” /And them downtown boys sure talk gritty /It’s so hard to be a saint in the city
—Bruce Springsteen

On the avenue, Fifth Avenue, /The photographers will snap us /And you’ll find that you’re in the rotogravure
—Irving Berlin

I have spoke with the tongue of angels /I have held the hand of a devil /It was warm in the night /I was cold as a stone /But I still haven’t found what I’m looking for
—U2

Mother Earth is pregnant for the third time /For y’all have knocked her up /I have tasted the maggots in the mind of the universe /I was not offended
—Parliament Funkadelic

William Zanzinger killed poor Hattie Carroll /With a cane that he twirled around his diamond ring finger
—Bob Dylan

Tangerine, Tangerine /Living reflections from a dream /I was her love, she was my queen /And now a thousand years between
—Led Zeppelin

I’ll run around in circles /Till I run out of breath /I’ll eat you all up /Or I’ll just hug you to death /You’re so wonderful! /Too good to be true! /You make me make me hungry for you
—Cure

Well, I just got into town about an hour ago /Took a look around see which way the wind blow /With a little girl in a Hollywood bungalow /Are you a lucky little lady in the City of Light /Or just another lost angel /City at night /City at night
—Doors

I gotta be cool, relax, get hip /Get on my track /Take a back seat, hitchhike /And take a long ride on my motorbike
—Freddie Mercury

All these crazy mixed up lies floating all around /Making these assumptions brings me down /And you get tight lipped /How do I know what you think? /Is it something I said when I lost my mind? /Temper too quick, makes me blind /I apologize
—Husker Du

Out there is a fortune waitin’ to be had /You think I’ll let it go, you’re mad /You’ve got another thing comin’ /You’ve got another thing comin’
—Judas Priest

Tower to the skies /An academy of lies /And what goes up surely must come down /And we felt the mighty blow-up with the walls coming down /Or something like that
—Guided By Voices

She’s not just a pretty face /She’s a big black hole as well /She swallows everything she sees /She’s not of the human race /She’s a creature out of hell /She’s a disease
—Robyn Hitchcock

It’s quarter to three /There’s no one in the place except you and me /So set ‘em up, Joe /I got a little story I think you should know
—Johnny Mercer