Lyrical Association

[IFUSEEKAMY]

In a house full of fairday fakes
Where the next-day neighbour makes the cakes
With Elton John records playing loud upstairs
It could be just the time to strike
I'll be casual and ask about
A will that could be mine throughout
An opportunist you might think but I have to earn my brass
I'll take advantage, I'm a so-called friend
I'll push you from behind to save time
I'll stab you in the back as soon as I look at you
For I'm a hypocrite, a crocodile cryer and it feels so good

(Martin Stephenson & The Daintees — Crocodile Cryer)

 

[EJunkie]

You ain’t got no money?
He’ll get you some
You ain’t got no car?
He’ll get you one
You ain’t got no self-respect,
 you feel like an insect
Well don’t you worry buddy,
 cause here he comes
Through the ghetto and the barrio
 and the Bowery and the slum
A shadow is cast wherever he stands
Stacks of green paper in his 
red right hand

You’ll see him in your nightmares,
 you’ll see him in your dreams
He’ll appear out of nowhere but 
he ain’t what he seems
You’ll see him in your head, 
on the TV screen
And hey buddy, I’m warning
 you to turn it off
He’s a ghost, he’s a god, 
he’s a man, he’s a guru
You’re one microscopic cog 
in his catastrophic plan
Designed and directed by his red right hand

Red Right Hand; Nick Cave

 

[IFUSEEKAMY]

If you ain't got no money, take yo' broke ass home
G-L-A-M-O-R-O-U-S
We flyin first class, up in the sky
Poppin champagne
Livin my life in the fast lane
I won't change by the glamorous
Ooh the flossy flossy

(Fergie & Ludacris — Glamorous)

 

[bluebro69]

All you need is your own imagination
So use it, that's what it's for (that's what it's for)
Go inside for your finest inspiration
Your dreams will open the door (open up the door)
It makes no difference if you're black or white
If you're a boy or a girl
If the music's pumping it will give you new life
You're a superstar
Yes, that's what you are, you know it

Come on, vogue (vogue)
Let your body groove to the music (groove to the music)
Hey, hey, hey
Come on, vogue (vogue, vogue)
Let your body go with the flow (go with the flow)
You know you can do it

(Vogue -- Madonna)

 

[EJunkie]

Well, we're big rock singers, we got golden fingers and we're loved everywhere we go (that sounds like us)
We sing about beauty and we sing about truth at 10, 000 dollars a show (right)
We take all kinda pills that give us all kinda thrills but the thrill we've never known
Is the thrill that'll get ya when you get your picture on the cover of the Rolling Stone
wanna see my picture on the cover
(Stone) wanna buy five copies for my mother (yes)
(Stone) wanna see my smiling face
On the cover of the Rolling Stone (that's a very, very good idea)

The Cover of Rolling Stone; Dr Hook & the Medicine Show (written by Shel Silverstein)

 

[downbound123]

Once upon a time you dressed so fine
Threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn't you?
People call say 'beware doll, you're bound to fall'
You thought they were all kidding you
You used to laugh about
Everybody that was hanging out
Now you don't talk so loud
Now you don't seem so proud
About having to be scrounging your next meal
How does it feel, how does it feel?
To be without a home
Like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone


Like a Rolling Stone ..Bob Dylan 1965

 

[downbound123]

It was the third of September
That day I'll always remember, yes I will
'Cause that was the day that my daddy died
I never got a chance to see him
Never heard nothin' but bad things about him
Momma I'm depending on you to tell me the truth
Momma just hung her head and said, son
Papa was a rolling stone
Wherever he laid his hat was his home
And when he died, all he left us was alone
Papa was a rolling stone (my son, yeah)
Wherever he laid his hat was his home
And when he died, all he left us was alone


Papa was a Rolling Stone...the Temptations 1972

 

[fromtheshwa]

Do you remember
The 21st night of September?
Love was changin' the minds of pretenders
While chasin' the clouds away

Our hearts were ringin'
In the key that our souls were singin'
As we danced in the night, remember
How the stars stole the night away, oh, yeah
Hey, hey, hey

Ba-dee-ya, say, do you remember?
Ba-dee-ya, dancin' in September
Ba-dee-ya, never was a cloudy day


(Earth, Wind & Fire - September)

 

[EJunkie]

Wake up Maggie
I think I got something to say to you;
it's late September and I really should be back at school.
I know I keep you amused
but I feel I'm being used

oh
Maggie
I couldn't have tried anymore.
You lured me away from home
just to save you from being alone.
You stole my heart and that's what really hurts.
The morning sun
when it's in your face
really shows your age

Maggie May; Rod Stewart

 

[kherg007]

Wake up, wake up
King in a catholic style
With your man
With your man make up

And your big money business smile
Cut 'em up, cut 'em up
Crucial to every child
With a mind
With a mind made up

And your main man confidence smile
The residential black sea band
They rose up out of a sinking sand
The presidential elect man said
For what you want take me instead

China Crisis "King in a Catholic style"

 

[EJunkie]

I'm on my second cup of coffee and I still can't face the day
I'm thinkin' of the lady who got lost along the way
And if I don't stop this tremblin' hand from reachin' for the phone
I'll be reachin' for the bottle, Lord, before this day is done

I'm on my second cup of coffee and I still can't face the day
The room was filled with laughs as we sang the night away
But my sleep was filled with dreaming of the wrongs that I had done
The gentle sweet reminder of a daughter and a son

Sitting alone, my friends have all gone home
You never know when they'll come droppin' in
Thinking of girls with their fingers in my curls
Too young to understand how love begins

Second Cup of Coffee; Gordon Lightfoot

 

[IFUSEEKAMY]

She always stood at the back of the line
A smile beneath her nose
Her favorite number was twenty and every single day
If you asked her what she had for breakfast
This is what she'd say
Starfish and coffee
Maple syrup and jam
Butterscotch clouds and a tangerine
And a side order of ham

(Prince — Starfish and Coffee)

 

[fromtheshwa]

There's a starman waiting in the sky
He'd like to come and meet us
But he thinks he'd blow our minds
There's a starman waiting in the sky
He's told us not to blow it
'Cause he knows it's all worthwhile
He told me:
Let the children lose it
Let the children use it
Let all the children boogie


(David Bowie - Starman)

 

[kherg007]

Picture yourself in a boat on a river
With tangerine trees and marmalade skies
Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly
A girl with kaleidoscope eyes

Cellophane flowers of yellow and green
Towering over your head
Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes
And she's gone

Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds, ahh

Lennon/McCartney - "Lucy in the sky with diamonds"

 

[EJunkie]

Papa don't go down that road
Don't you know it's paved with sin
If you go down that road
You won't ever get back again
They will try to sell you lies
Sell you satan’s paradise
Papa don’t go down that road again

Brother, don't go down that road
Don’t you go down after him
If you go down that road
You won’t ever come back again
He's as poisoned as they come
Can’t you see, what's done is done ?

Brother, don’t go down that road after him

Sister, don’t go down that road
Where so many have lost their way
Sister, don’t go down that road
If you do, I only pray
You’ll return to see the sky
With your soul still in you eye
Sister dear, I only fear
That you can’t win

There’s a blue light down that road
Over the hill and out of sight
In that shack down that road
Something’s cooking day and night
I know well and so do you
It’s that lonеsome devil’s brew
Baby, don’t go down that road tonight

Satin’s Paradise; Kieran Kane, Kevin Welch, and Fats Kaplin

 

[ogibowt]

Well there,s a place you really get your kicks
It,s open every night about twelve to six
Now if you want to hear some boogie
You can get your fill
And shove and sting like an old steam drill
Come along you can lose your lead
Down the road down the road a piece

The Will Bradley Trio ..Down The Road Apiece 1940
covered by numerous rock and blues artists...among them Jerry Lee Louis and The Rolling Stones

if i can share a little story...My late father loved Jazz Blues and Boogie Woogie music...one night he heard me playing the Stones version.as a teen.and then showed me the Single from 1940.. an old 75..rpm...and played it...i never heard him play that song until then...my Dad was a cool cat ..

 

[EJunkie]

This here a song from back in the day
Nineteen hundred and sixty two
My woman put my black ass out in the cold
I said, "Baby, why you leavin'?"
She said, "Our love done gone cold"
Well, I waded through water, and I waded through mud
'Til I come to this place they calls the Bucket of Blood

You know that bartender gave me a dirty look and a dirty glass
I said, "Say, motherfucker, do you know who I am?"
He said, "Hell no, nigga! I don't give a God damn!"

I reached down in my pocket and pulled out my shiny .44
Shot that motherfucker twice—he hit the God damn floor
'Bout that time you could've heard the drop of a pin
That's when that bad motherfucker Billy Lyons walked in

'Bout that time a pimp eased up and turned out the lights
That's when I had ol' Billy Lyons dead in my sight
When the lights come back on old Billy gone to rest
I popped nine of my bullets in his motherfuckin' chest!

Many versions, many titles many artists. This is Stack O Lee from Black Snake Moan

 

[IFUSEEKAMY]

Your everlasting summer you can see it fading fast
So you grab a piece of something that you think is gunna last
Well you wouldn't even know a diamond if you held it in your hand
The things you think are precious I can't understand
Are you reelin' in the years?
Stowin away the time
Are you gatherin up the tears?
Have you had enough of mine?

(Steely Dan — Reelin’ In The Years)

 

[bluebro69]

She comes across like diamonds diamonds
Easy in love when the lights are low
She comes into focus focus
The closer she gets the more I know
She takes more whiskey than I wine
I whine...
(never want to be lost without you)

(Max Webster -- Diamonds, Diamonds)

 

[EJunkie]

Well, I started the engine
and I gave it some gas
And Cathy was closing her purse
Well, we hadn't gone far in my beat old car
And I was prepared for the worst.
"Will you still see me tomorrow?"
"No, I got too much to do."
Well, a question ain't really a question
If you know the answer too.

And the sky is black and still now
On the hill where the angels sing
Ain't it funny how an old broken bottle
Looks just like a diamond ring
But it's far, far from me

far from Me; John Prine