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my favorite song lyrics are by the Cure... ( awesome band) here's one from to wish impossible things

"To Wish Impossible Things"


remember how it used to be
when the sun would fill up the sky
remember how we used to feel
those days would never end
those days would never end

remember how it used to be
when the stars would fill the sky
remember how we used to dream
those nights would never end
those nights would never end

it was the sweetness of your skin
it was the hope of all we might have been
that fills me with the hope to wish
impossible things

but now the sun shines cold
and all the sky is grey
the stars are dimmed by clouds and tears
and all i wish
is gone away
all i wish
is gone away

all i wish
is gone away
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One of my favourite lines of poetry is from The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost- well, three lines actually-
Two roads diverged in a wood,and I-
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
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I like that quote, powerful words
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Heres one I always liked, it was one of my wife's favorites.

Barney Google with the goo-goo googely eyes
Barney Google had a girl he idolized
But she put him down of course
He said love me love my horse
Barney Google with the goo-goo googely eyes.

Barney Google with the goo-goo googely eyes
Barney Google was the wisest of the wise
You can lead a horse to drink he said
But a pencil must be lead
Barney Google with the goo-goo googely eyes.
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haha that's a good lyric
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I always got a kick out of that. Barney Google was a Sunday paper cartoon character years ago. He had a horse named Spark Plug.
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Bighuey wrote:I always got a kick out of that. Barney Google was a Sunday paper cartoon character years ago. He had a horse named Spark Plug.
We never got Barney Google...had to settle for Snuffy Smith. I've got the Great White Way Orchestra version of BG...gotta listen to it now. :)

Imelda May:

Keep on takin' your medication,
Lock that temper behind those pills.
Your brain is flyin', insanely fryin'...
Just remember it's bad to kill!
--Psycho

She said he didn't mean a thing so she threw her diamond ring
Out the window of a black cab in Camden.
He couldn't take it, what she did,
So he threw a hissy fit and he took it out on anyone at random.

Dinning sound, lights spinning 'round,
Some mother's son
Gotta fight or got to run...
--Mayhem

Wheatus:

Cough up the rent, Mr. Kent
And don't try to blame it on the government.
Your wife is a clown, she's in town
She gets with some other guy.
Are you gonna finish your fat?
'Cause I'd like to give it to my kitty cat.
The big fat look is coming back,
You skinny people are screwed.
And I know you're right,
Yeah I know it's time.
--Hump 'Em -n- Dump 'Em
How perfectly goddamned delightful it all is, to be sure.
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Tralala wrote:
Bighuey wrote:I always got a kick out of that. Barney Google was a Sunday paper cartoon character years ago. He had a horse named Spark Plug.
We never got Barney Google...had to settle for Snuffy Smith. I've got the Great White Way Orchestra version of BG...gotta listen to it now. :)

Imelda May:

Keep on takin' your medication,
Lock that temper behind those pills.
Your brain is flyin', insanely fryin'...
Just remember it's bad to kill!
--Psycho

She said he didn't mean a thing so she threw her diamond ring
Out the window of a black cab in Camden.
He couldn't take it, what she did,
So he threw a hissy fit and he took it out on anyone at random.

Dinning sound, lights spinning 'round,
Some mother's son
Gotta fight or got to run...
--Mayhem

Wheatus:

Cough up the rent, Mr. Kent
And don't try to blame it on the government.
Your wife is a clown, she's in town
She gets with some other guy.
Are you gonna finish your fat?
'Cause I'd like to give it to my kitty cat.
The big fat look is coming back,
You skinny people are screwed.
And I know you're right,
Yeah I know it's time.
--Hump 'Em -n- Dump 'Em
Those are different lyrics. Thats odd, Ive got The Great White Way Orch. version of BG too. I got another version by Phil Harris I think it is Ill have to look it up.
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Bighuey wrote:
Those are different lyrics. Thats odd, Ive got The Great White Way Orch. version of BG too. I got another version by Phil Harris I think it is Ill have to look it up.
What are?
Please let me know if you look it up, and what the verdict is...I'm looking for new tunes. Old-new.
How perfectly goddamned delightful it all is, to be sure.
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This one`s for Tralala

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

Just try to see in the dark
Just try to make it work
To feel the fear before you're here
I make the shapes come much too close
I pull my eyes out, hold my breath and wait
Until I shake

But if I had your faith
Then I could make it safe and clean
If only I was sure
That my head on the door was a dream

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
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Crusher, you might like this one.

Sunday is gloomy
My hours are slumberless
There is the shadows
I live with are numberless
Little white flowers
Will never awaken you
Not where the black coach
Of sorrow has taken you

Angels have no thought
of ever returning you
Would they be angry
If I thought of joining you
Gloomy Sunday.

Gloomy Sunday
With shadows I spend it all
My heart and I
Have decided to end it all
Soon there will be candles
And prayers are said I know
Let them not weep
Let them know
That I am glad to go

Death is no dream
For in death Im carresing you
With the last breath
Of my soul Ill be blessing you
Gloomy Sunday.

Gloomy Sunday- Artie Shaw and his Orch. Shaw made some strange songs, his theme song Nightmare is cool and depressing as is A Deserted Farm.

Have you ever heard The Cherry Poppin Daddies? Their stuff is kind of different, its sort of a jazz-rock-swing style. Also if you like Felix The Cat Music check out Duke Ellington's Jungle Jazz from the late 20's and early 30's.
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Pawpoint--Ah, yes, The Cure! I was on the phone with some dippy student-services chick, back when I was in college, and she asked me what I was listening to (I had music playing, as always)...I told her it was The Cure (Six Different Ways, as I recall...funny how my brain works) and she said, "Hahahaha... That's so cool, you call music the cure!". Yeeeeesh. Some people. I didn't bother to explain.

Bighuey--I just looked in my ipod for Gloomy Sunday, and I don't have it...in fact, I've only got Nightmare, Stardust, and Summit Ridge Drive. That's just wrong! I was sure I had more than that. I'm on a mission, now. :)
Cherry Poppin' Daddies are great, but I've gotta be in the right mood. DARK lyrics (Drunk Daddy freaks me out), cheery music. Like watching an Alfred Hitchcock movie while Bon Jovi plays, or something.
Jungle Jazz, was that an album? I've gotten my music from so many different sources (friends, mostly) I've completely lost track of albums. No pun intended.
How perfectly goddamned delightful it all is, to be sure.
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Have you ever listened to the album "Pornography" by The Cure - Total mind-blow!
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Tralala wrote:Pawpoint--Ah, yes, The Cure! I was on the phone with some dippy student-services chick, back when I was in college, and she asked me what I was listening to (I had music playing, as always)...I told her it was The Cure (Six Different Ways, as I recall...funny how my brain works) and she said, "Hahahaha... That's so cool, you call music the cure!". Yeeeeesh. Some people. I didn't bother to explain.

Bighuey--I just looked in my ipod for Gloomy Sunday, and I don't have it...in fact, I've only got Nightmare, Stardust, and Summit Ridge Drive. That's just wrong! I was sure I had more than that. I'm on a mission, now. :)
Cherry Poppin' Daddies are great, but I've gotta be in the right mood. DARK lyrics (Drunk Daddy freaks me out), cheery music. Like watching an Alfred Hitchcock movie while Bon Jovi plays, or something.
Jungle Jazz, was that an album? I've gotten my music from so many different sources (friends, mostly) I've completely lost track of albums. No pun intended.
Jungle Jazz was what white guys called it. Black guys probably thought it was insulting. Look for Okeh Ellington or Duke Ellington's Complete Brunswick Recordings. Gloomy Sunday I got from an Artie Shaw 10 CD set I got from Oldies.com.
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"Spent some time, feeling inferior, standing in front of my mirror.
Combed my hair in a thousand ways, but it came out looking just the same."

Every Picture Tells A Story - Rod Stewart


"I thought if I could draw my pains
Through rhyme's vexation, I should them allay."

The Triple Fool - John Donne
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