The Lyric Chain

[Bob the Unbeliever]

Motherland cradle me, close my eyes, lullaby me to sleep.
Keep me safe, lie with me, stay beside me don't go.
Don't you go.
Oh, my five & dime queen tell me what have you seen?
The lust and the avarice, the bottomless, cavernous greed, is that what you see?

Natalie Merchant, Motherland, lines from chorus

[Shooting Star]

Artist: Snow Patrol
Album: Eyes Open
Title: Hands Open



It's hard to argue when
you won't stop making sense
But my tongue still misbehaves and it
keeps digging my own grave with my

Hands open, and my eyes open
I just keep hoping
That your heart opens

Why would I sabotage
the best thing that I have
Well, it makes it easier to know
exactly what I want with my...

[Poincare's Stepchild]

I have this feeling that my luck is none too good
This sword here at my side don't act the way it should
Keeps calling me its master, but I feel like its slave
Hauling me faster and faster to an early, early grave
And it howls! it howls like hell!

Blue Oyster Cult, Black Blade

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[Shooting Star]

Artist: Meat Loaf
Album: Bat Out Of Hell
Title: Bat Out Of Hell


And wherever you are and wherever you go
There's always gonna be some light
But i gotta get out
I gotta break it out now
Before the final crack of dawn
So we gotta make the most of our one night together
When it's over you know
We'll both be so alone

Like a bat out of hell
I'll be gone when the morning comes
When the night is over
Like a bat out of hell i'll be gone gone gone
Like a bat out of hell i'll be gone when the morning comes
When the day is done
And the sun goes down
And the moonlight's shining through
Then like a sinner before the gates of heaven
I'll come crawling on back to you

[Poincare's Stepchild]

Ooh. Good song, Star.

There's a lady who's sure all that glitters is gold
And she's buying a stairway to heaven
And when she gets there she knows if the stores are closed
With a word she can get what she came for.

Led Zeppelin, Stairway to Heaven

Edit: OOPS...cross post...what now?

[Shooting Star]

Artist: Creedence Clearwater Revival
Album: Green River
Title: Bad Moon Rising


I see the bad moon arising.
I see trouble on the way.
I see earthquakes and lightnin'.
I see bad times today.

Chorus:
Don't go around tonight,
Well, it's bound to take your life,
There's a bad moon on the rise.

[Poincare's Stepchild]

She drives me crazy
Like no one else
She drives me crazy
And I cant help myself

Fine Young Cannibals, She Drives Me Crazy

[Poincare's Stepchild]

They burned down the gambling house - It died with an awful sound
Funky & Claude was running in and out, pulling kids out of the ground
When it all was over, we had to find another place
Swiss time was running out - It seemed that we would lose the race

Smoke on the water - A fire in the sky
Smoke on the water

Deep Purple, Smoke on the Water

[Bob the Unbeliever]

Pink Floyd: Final Cut
Song: Two Suns in the Sunset
Lyrics: Roger Waters

In my rear view mirror the sun is going down
Sinking behind bridges in the road
And I think of all the good things
That we have left undone
And I suffer premonitions
Confirm suspicions
Of the holocaust to come.

The wire that holds the cork
That keeps the anger in
Gives way
And suddenly it's day again.
The sun is in the east
Even though the day is done.
Two suns in the sunset
Hmmmmmmmmmm
Could be the human race is run.

[Poincare's Stepchild]

Trailer for sale or rent
Rooms to let...fifty cents.
No phone, no pool, no pets
I ain't got no cigarettes
Ah, but..two hours of pushin' broom
Buys an eight by twelve four-bit room
I'm a man of means by no means
King of the road.

Roger Miller, King of the Road

[Bob the Unbeliever]

Tom Petty: Wildflowers
Song: It's Good To Be King

It's good to be king, if just for a while
To be there in velvet, yeah, to give 'em a smile
It's good to get high, and never come down
It's good to be king of your own little town

Yeah, the world would swing if I were king
Can I help it if I still dream time to time

[St John the Blasphemist]

Oh, yes, Im the great pretender
Just laughing and gay like a clown
I seem to be what Im not, you see
Im wearing my heart like a crown
Pretending that you're still around

The Great Pretender - The Platters, Freddy Mercury, and it seems Dolly Parton, Roy Orbison, and The Grateful Dead

[St John the Blasphemist]

Where do you stand for happiness (wa-la, wa-la!)
When you no say you no want it,
While some o' dem (some o' dem, some o' dem) out deh, eh!

I bus dem shut right now
Fi get it.
Bread and pyaka:
Cut down pyaka-yism!
Bread and pyaka:
Cut down pyaka-yism!

Bus Dem Shut (Pyaka) - Bob Marley

[Grey]

Chorus~
When you get a haircut, be sure to go back home
When you get a haircut, get a barber you have known
Since you were a little bitty boy sittin' in a booster chair
Or you might look like Larry, Moe or Curly if a stranger cuts your hair.

The Haircut song, Ray Stevens

[Shooting Star]

Artist: Bob Seger
Album: Stranger In Town
Title: Feel Like A Number


I'm just another statistic on a sheet
To teachers i'm just another child
To irs i'm just another file
I'm just another consensus on the street
Gonna cruise out of this city
Head down to the sea
Gonna shout out at the ocean
Hey it's me
And i feel like a number
Feel like a number
Feel like a stranger
A stranger in this land
I feel like a number
I'm not a number
I'm not a number
Dammit i'm a man
I said i'm a man