Random Lyrics - Things that I like today!

                        1. Velvet Underground - 'Between thought and expression. Lies a lifetime'

 

                          2. ABBA - 'The history book on the shelf. Is always repeating itself.'

 

 

3. R.E.M - 'Alone in a crowd...'

 

 

3. The Go Betweens - 'Helps me find Hemingway. Helps me find Genet. Helps me find Brecht. Helps me find Chandler. Helps me find James Joyce.She always makes the right choice.'

 

5. The Cure - 'I'm alive. I'm dead.'

 

 

6. Curtis Mayfield - 'If I were only a child again. No-one's ever been so good to be since then.'

 

 

7. Echo & the Bunnymen - 'Say we can. Say we will. Not just another drop in the ocean.'

 

 

8. The Ronettes - 'Have I ever told you. How good it feels to hold you. It isn't easy to explain.'

 

 

9. David Bowie 'Inspirations have I none.  Just to touch the flaming dove.  All I have is my love of love.  And love is not loving.'

 

10. Aretha Franklin - 'R E S P E CT. Find out what it means to me. R E S P E C T. Take care. TCB..'

 

 

11. Television - 'It was a tight, toy night. Streets were so bright. The world was so thin. Between my bones and skin.'

 

 

12. The Rutles - 'I have always thought in the back of my mind. Cheese and Onions. Do I have to spell it out?' 

 

 

13. The Clash 'Ring! Ring! It's 7:00 A.M.! Move y'self to go again. Cold water in the face. Brings you back to this awful place.'

 

 

14. Primal Scream 'Here she comes again. With vodka in her veins. Been playing with a spike. She couldn't get it right .'

 

 

15. The Go Betweens (They get two. One for each writer.) 'I recall a schoolboy coming home. Through fields of cane. To a house of tin and timber. And in the sky. A rain of falling cinders. From time to time. The waste memory-wastes.'

 

 

16. Lloyd Cole and the Commotions ' She's got cheekbones like geometry. And eyes like sin. And she's sexually enlightened. By Cosmopolitan.'

 

 

17.Patti Smith 'Sixteen and time to pay off.  'I get this job in a piss factory inspecting pipe
Forty hours thirty-six dollars a week.  But its a paycheck, Jack.'

 

 

18. Modern Lovers. 'Well I said hello to the old spirit of 1956. It was patient in the bushes next to '57.'

 

 

19. Gil Scott Heron 'The revolution will not be brought to you by Xerox. In 4 parts without commercial interruptions. The revolution will not show you pictures of Nixon blowing a bugle and leading a charge by John Mitchell, General Abrams and Spiro Agnew to eat hog maws confiscated from a Harlem sanctuary. The revolution will not be televised.... the revolution will put you in the driver's seat.'

 

 

20. Iggy & the Stooges 'I'm a street walking cheetah with a heart full of napalm.  I'm a runaway son of the nuclear A-bomb. I am the  world's forgotten boy. The one who searches and destroys.'

 

 

21. Marvin Gaye 'Are they still gettin' down  Where we used to go and dance. Will our ball club win the pennant. Do you think, they have a chance? And tell me friend, how in the world have you been?'

 

22. Blondie 'I will give you my finest hour. The one I spent watching you shower.'

 

 

23. The B52s 'She came from Planet Claire. I knew she came from there. She drove a Plymouth Satellite.  Faster than the speed of light. Planet Claire has pink air. All the trees are red. No one ever dies there. No one has a head.'

 

 

24. Ian Dury & the Blockheads 'Van Gogh did some eyeball pleasers. He must have been a pencil squeezer. He didn't do The Mona Lisa. That was some Italian geezer.'

 

 

25. The Triffids 'The children are walking back from the beach.  Sun on the sidewalk is burning their feet. Washing the salt off under the shower. And just wasting away, wasting away. The hours and hours and hours.'

 

26. Pere Ubu 'My mom threw me out 'til I get some pants that fit. She just don't approve of my strange kind of wit.'

 

 

27. The Beatles 'Well she was just seventeen. You know what I mean. And the way she looked was way beyond compare.'

 

 

 28. Dexys Midnight Runners  'Back in '68 in a sweaty club. Before Jimmy's Machine and The Rocksteady Rub. On a night when flowers didn't suit my shoes.After a week of flunkin' and bunkin' school. The lowest head in the crowd that night. Just practicin' steps and keepin' outta the fights'

 

 

29. Richard Hell & the Voidoids 'I was saying get me out of here. Before I was even born.. It's such a gamble when you get a face.'
 

30. The Ramones ' The first rule is: The laws of Germany.  The second rule is: Be nice to mommy
The third rule is: Don't talk to commies. The fourth rule is: Eat kosher salamis.'

 

31. The Smiths 'Belligerent ghouls.Run Manchester schools.Spineless swines. Cemented minds'

 

 

32. Johnny Thunders 'You can't put your arms around a memory. Don't try.'

 

 

33. Creedence Clearwater Revival 'Some folks are born to wave the flag, Ooh, they're red, white and blue.And when the band plays "Hail to the chief".Ooh, they point the cannon at you.'