And they called it puppy love / Oh, I guess they’ll never know / How a young heart how it really feels / And why I love her so
—Paul Anka

Do you know your place / In the big charade? / Are you more than they? / Leaders and followers / Leaders and followers
—Greg Graffin

Near, far, in our motor car / Oh what a happy time we’ll spend. / Bang Bang Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / Our fine four-fendered friend.
—Sherman and Sherman

Now I’ve got you in my sights / With these hungry eyes / One look at you and I can’t disguise / I’ve got hungry eyes
—Eric Carmen

Man, you needn’t travel far to feel completely alive / On strawberry Philadelphia Drive / On a hazy day in 19 something and 5
—Sprout and Pollard

A-B-boys rock the world / CDs and tapes help generate papes / E-F is the important Def / G-good, H is what style be / When I grab the microphone and MC / Roll off the tongue like L-M-N-O-P
—Mos Def

Elope with me Miss Private and we’ll sail around the world / I will be your Ferdinand and you my wayward girl / How many nights of talking in hotel rooms can you take?
—Belle & Sebastian

I was the third brother of five, / Doing whatever I had to do to survive. / I’m not saying what I did was all right, / Trying to break out of the ghetto was a day-to-day fight.
—Bobby Womack

I ought to say, “No, no, no, sir” / Mind if I move a little closer? / At least I’m gonna say that I tried / What’s the sense of hurting my pride? /  I really can’t stay / Baby, don’t hold out /  Ah, but it’s cold outside
—Frank Loesser

This is finest time of my life / These are the biggest times of my life / These are the greatest times of my life
—Mark E. Smith

It was easy when you were younger, / You could put it back together, / It was there if you ever wanted it, / But you closed the door and said goodbye for good, for good.  / You were easy, you were easy
—Pete Yorn

You can’t judge an apple by looking at the tree, / You can’t judge honey by looking at the bee, / You can’t judge a daughter by looking at the mother, / You can’t judge a book by looking at the cover.
—Willie Dixon

See her eager face, / Her charm, her grace, / Her glance, her stance, / Her style, walks nice / Talks nice, suits me fine. / Trouble is / The girl is his, not mine.
—Comden and Green

Sometimes I’m dreaming / Charlotte, sometimes
—Robert Smith

Lydia, the tattooed lady, / She has the eyes that folks adore so, / And a torso even more so.
—Yip Harburg

A woman gets all the blame / For everything that happens under the sun, / But when it comes to being bad / A woman’s not the only one.
—Alec Wilder

We know a place where no planes go / We know a place where no ships go / Hey! No cars go / Hey! No cars go / Where we know
—Win Butler

Tell me something good / Tell me, tell me, tell me / Tell me that you love me
—Stevie Wonder

Up a lazy river by the old mill river, / That lazy, lazy river in the noonday sun. / Linger in the shade of a kind, old tree. / Throw away your troubles, / Dream a dream with me.
—Hoagy Carmichael

My new lovers all seem so tame, / For I haven’t met a gent / So magnificent or elegant / As my old flame.
—Sam Coslow

I love the looks of you, the lure of you. / I’d love to make a tour of you, / The eyes, the arms, the mouth of you, / The east, west, north, and the south of you. / I’d love to gain complete control of you.
—Cole Porter

We believe in / One nation under a groove, / Getting’ down just for the funk / Gettin’ down just for the funk of it
—Clinton - Morrison - Shider

Couldn’t you? Couldn’t I? Couldn’t we? / Make believe our lips are blending / In a phantom kiss, or two, or three?
—Oscar Hammerstein II

My heroes are all off in the great beyond / England is old, but Atlantis is gone / Feathers are floating down and I can’t dodge them
—Vic Chestnutt

I get too hungry for dinner at eight. / I like the theater, but never come late. / I never bother with people I hate. / That’s why the lady is a tramp.
—Lorenz Hart

Sittin’ here together, baby we’re all alone / Now I can tell ya, girl, you turn me on / I get lifted up hi-high, hi-high / I get lifted up hi-high, hi-high
—George McCrae

Gee, it’s all fine and dandy, / Sugar candy, / When I’ve got you. / Then I only see the sunny side. / Even trouble has its funny side.
—James and Swift

I would tell you that I loved you / If I thought that you would stay, / But I know that it’s no use, / That you’ve already gone away.
—Robert Smith

Remember, you’ve been told / Together, we can go / My brother, I watch you go / Like a river, all love has flow
—Cymande

Ev’ry time my heart begins to dance / The world steps on my little toes. / Ev’ry time I take a little chance / I pay right through my nose.
—Martin and Blane