Lyrics game
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Topic: Lyrics game
Posted By: Tsevir Leirbag
Subject: Lyrics game
Date Posted: August 09 2009 at 20:53
Since there's already an "album game" and a "song game", I decided to start a "Lyrics game".
Same rules as the two previous games.
«And no-one sings me lullabies» Pink Floyd, Echoes.
------------- Les mains, les pieds balancés
Sur tant de mers, tant de planchers,
Un marin mort,
Il dormira
- Paul Éluard
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Replies:
Posted By: A Person
Date Posted: August 09 2009 at 23:41
"The choir softly sings" - King Crimson, In the Court of the Crimson King
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Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: August 10 2009 at 01:26
"Sweet Thames flow softly" - Planxty, Sweet Thames Flow Softly
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Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: August 10 2009 at 03:29
"Drinking tea with the taste of the Thames" - Morrissey, Come Back to Camden
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Posted By: TGM: Orb
Date Posted: August 10 2009 at 03:44
"Note he left was signed old father Thames - it seems he's drowned" - Genesis, Dancing With The Moonlit Knight
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Posted By: progkidjoel
Date Posted: August 10 2009 at 04:14
"Theres an old photo by your bed, of the two of us in Europe, and it scares me, to think of, how many different man may have layed their eyes upon it, on a sunday... Morning?"
Pour Me Into A Taxi - ARROWS
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Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: August 10 2009 at 04:18
"Different colours, different shades, over each mistakes were made." - Joy Division, New Dawn Fades
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Posted By: progkidjoel
Date Posted: August 10 2009 at 04:31
I'm colourblind, three way tragedy, pantone memory, grayscale eyes, maybe I'm paranoid, yeah that's my problem, you almost have to be, when you look like me"
Colourblind - Chroma Key
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Posted By: The Sleepwalker
Date Posted: August 10 2009 at 04:39
"I know that I am almost lost" A Plague of Lighthouse keepers - VDGG
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Posted By: progkidjoel
Date Posted: August 10 2009 at 04:42
"When The Evening Reaches here, you're tying me up, I'm dying of love... Its okay..."
Porcupine Tree - TRAINS
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Posted By: The Runaway
Date Posted: August 10 2009 at 06:35
Won't want for love (Won't want for love - Decemberists)
------------- http://www.formspring.me/Aragorn224" rel="nofollow - Trendsetter win!
The search for nonexistent perfection.
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Posted By: St.Cleve Chronicle
Date Posted: August 10 2009 at 06:38
"Woman don't want to love me, she says it makes her cry" (Woman don't want to love me - Chicago)
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Posted By: progkidjoel
Date Posted: August 10 2009 at 06:47
"You don't believe in Love, you have to make it up"
Marillion - FAITH
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Posted By: St.Cleve Chronicle
Date Posted: August 10 2009 at 06:50
"It's so erotic when your make-up runs" (PT - Blackest eyes)
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Posted By: progkidjoel
Date Posted: August 10 2009 at 06:55
"Run, Rabbit run, dig that hole, forget the sun"
Pink Floyd - Breathe
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Posted By: camilleanne
Date Posted: August 10 2009 at 07:39
"Running through the fields of sorrow"
Opeth- Coil
------------- The planet is fine the people are f**ked.
-George Carlin-
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Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: August 10 2009 at 07:42
And the carny had a horse, all skin and bone, a bow-backed nag that he named "Sorrow".
Nick Cave - The Carny
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Posted By: St.Cleve Chronicle
Date Posted: August 10 2009 at 10:23
"His horses were edgy, sensing trouble ahead"
Genesis - Ballad of big
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Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: August 10 2009 at 11:40
"I'm tired of singing trouble"
R.E.M. - Tired of Singing Trouble
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Posted By: St.Cleve Chronicle
Date Posted: August 10 2009 at 12:34
"There's no way to delay that trouble coming everyday"
FZ - (More) trouble everyday
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Posted By: Tsevir Leirbag
Date Posted: August 10 2009 at 13:41
«Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away» The Beatles, Yesterday
------------- Les mains, les pieds balancés
Sur tant de mers, tant de planchers,
Un marin mort,
Il dormira
- Paul Éluard
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Posted By: progkidjoel
Date Posted: August 11 2009 at 01:41
You make me feel so low, so low
Porcupine Tree - Feel So Low
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Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: August 11 2009 at 02:54
And the love that I feel is so far away
Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick
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Posted By: progkidjoel
Date Posted: August 11 2009 at 03:02
Everyone I love, lives Somewhere Else
Marillion - Somewhere Else (AMAZING song!)
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Posted By: TGM: Orb
Date Posted: August 11 2009 at 05:09
Somewhere, somewhere... if you can hear me, if you're still there
Stay Tuned - Robert Wyatt
absolutely astounding song
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Posted By: el dingo
Date Posted: August 11 2009 at 05:10
Be a hip cat, be a ship's cat - somewhere - anywhere - PF - Lucifer Sam
------------- It's not that I can't find worth in anything, it's just that I can't find worth in enough.
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Posted By: progkidjoel
Date Posted: August 11 2009 at 05:24
"You're like a record, on repeat, the vinyl scratching and you see"
Nick Shean - Like A Record
(He's my friend at school )
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Posted By: el dingo
Date Posted: August 11 2009 at 05:33
Repeat after me - f*** Queen and country - Manic Street Preachers, Repeat
------------- It's not that I can't find worth in anything, it's just that I can't find worth in enough.
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Posted By: progkidjoel
Date Posted: August 11 2009 at 05:36
"She named him after me"
Marillion - After Me
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Posted By: camilleanne
Date Posted: August 11 2009 at 07:32
"In the afterlife will dark be bright, will cold be warm.." Dream Theater
------------- The planet is fine the people are f**ked.
-George Carlin-
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Posted By: el dingo
Date Posted: August 11 2009 at 08:34
Bright eyes, burning like fire - Manic Street Preachers, Bright Eyes (really!)
------------- It's not that I can't find worth in anything, it's just that I can't find worth in enough.
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Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: August 11 2009 at 09:04
Have you heard how Sonny's burning like some bright erotic star? - The Birthday Party - Sonny's Burning
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Posted By: el dingo
Date Posted: August 11 2009 at 09:10
Burning sounds make me feel strong - make me feel like I can go on - foreverrrrrrrrrrrrrrr - Rich Kids, Burning Sounds
------------- It's not that I can't find worth in anything, it's just that I can't find worth in enough.
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Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: August 11 2009 at 10:01
Stupid snake, big strong boss, break my back, blood runs black - The Swans, Big Strong Boss
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Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: August 11 2009 at 16:37
The noble art of breaking someone''s back - City Boy, The Hap-ki-do Kid
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Posted By: el dingo
Date Posted: August 11 2009 at 16:43
Something's calling me back like a light in the black - A Light in the Black, Rainbow
------------- It's not that I can't find worth in anything, it's just that I can't find worth in enough.
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Posted By: Tsevir Leirbag
Date Posted: August 11 2009 at 20:20
«I'm too close to the light, I don't think I see right» - A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers, VDGG
------------- Les mains, les pieds balancés
Sur tant de mers, tant de planchers,
Un marin mort,
Il dormira
- Paul Éluard
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Posted By: A Person
Date Posted: August 11 2009 at 21:40
"Shade my eyes and I can see
you" - Green is the Colour, PF
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Posted By: Tsevir Leirbag
Date Posted: August 11 2009 at 22:31
«Yippee - You can't see me but I can you» - Flaming, Pink Floyd
------------- Les mains, les pieds balancés
Sur tant de mers, tant de planchers,
Un marin mort,
Il dormira
- Paul Éluard
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Posted By: progkidjoel
Date Posted: August 12 2009 at 01:49
And I can hear, your lungs rattle in my ears
I can hear your Lungs rattling - ARROWS
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Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: August 12 2009 at 02:02
You, your lungs and your wrists, they throb like trains
The Birthday Party - The Friend Catcher
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Posted By: progkidjoel
Date Posted: August 12 2009 at 02:10
Train set and match spied, under the blind
Porcupine Tree - Trains
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Posted By: el dingo
Date Posted: August 12 2009 at 03:10
Lime and limpid green the sound resounds around the icy waters underground - Astronomy Domine, PF
------------- It's not that I can't find worth in anything, it's just that I can't find worth in enough.
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Posted By: progkidjoel
Date Posted: August 12 2009 at 03:28
Hear the sound of muzak drifting in the aisles, elevator prozac stretching on for miles..."
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Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: August 12 2009 at 03:32
Hey you, standing in the aisles, with itchy feet and fading smiles, can you feel me?
Pink Floyd - Hey You
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Posted By: progkidjoel
Date Posted: August 12 2009 at 05:23
...And Konstantine came walking down the stairs... Doesn't she look good, standing in her underwear?
Something Corporate - Constantine
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Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: August 12 2009 at 07:59
I know the wind-swept mystical air, it means: I'd like to see your underwear
The Smiths - Miserable Lie
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Posted By: refugee
Date Posted: August 12 2009 at 10:32
I know what I like and I like what I know Genesis, I Know What I Like
------------- He say nothing is quite what it seems;
I say nothing is nothing
(Peter Hammill)
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Posted By: Tsevir Leirbag
Date Posted: August 12 2009 at 16:02
«Like a dog in the night, I've run to a manger» - A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers, VDGG
------------- Les mains, les pieds balancés
Sur tant de mers, tant de planchers,
Un marin mort,
Il dormira
- Paul Éluard
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Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: August 12 2009 at 16:05
I hear stories from the chamber how Christ was born into a manger - The Mercy Seat, Nick Cave
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Posted By: Tsevir Leirbag
Date Posted: August 12 2009 at 16:23
«But how can I ever keep my feet dry?» A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers, VDGG
------------- Les mains, les pieds balancés
Sur tant de mers, tant de planchers,
Un marin mort,
Il dormira
- Paul Éluard
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Posted By: The Sleepwalker
Date Posted: August 12 2009 at 16:40
"I must keep my eyes on all parts of me." Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers - VDGG
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Posted By: Tsevir Leirbag
Date Posted: August 12 2009 at 16:59
Looks like there is another person who knows VDGG's Plague's lyrics around here!
«Unreal, unreal, ghosts helmsmen scream and fall in through the sky» A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers, VDGG
------------- Les mains, les pieds balancés
Sur tant de mers, tant de planchers,
Un marin mort,
Il dormira
- Paul Éluard
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Posted By: A Person
Date Posted: August 12 2009 at 18:44
"like black holes in the sky." - Shine on You Crazy Diamond, parts I-IV, PF
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Posted By: Tsevir Leirbag
Date Posted: August 12 2009 at 19:28
«The sun is up, the sky is blue, it's beautiful, and so are you» Dear Prudence - The Beatles
------------- Les mains, les pieds balancés
Sur tant de mers, tant de planchers,
Un marin mort,
Il dormira
- Paul Éluard
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Posted By: progkidjoel
Date Posted: August 12 2009 at 19:30
<<<I was born in '67, the year of Sgt. Peppers, and are you experienced?>>>
Porcupine Tree - Time Flies
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Posted By: Tsevir Leirbag
Date Posted: August 12 2009 at 20:22
«But first, are you experienced? Well, I have» - Are You Experienced, The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Easy one, I admit
------------- Les mains, les pieds balancés
Sur tant de mers, tant de planchers,
Un marin mort,
Il dormira
- Paul Éluard
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Posted By: A Person
Date Posted: August 12 2009 at 22:59
Well now, where is the time, and who the hell am I? - Pioneers over C, VDGG
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Posted By: progkidjoel
Date Posted: August 12 2009 at 23:06
How does time break down?
Porcupine Tree - Time Flies
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Posted By: el dingo
Date Posted: August 13 2009 at 02:39
And when the dam breaks down, many years too soon, I'll see you on the DSOTM - PF
------------- It's not that I can't find worth in anything, it's just that I can't find worth in enough.
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Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: August 13 2009 at 02:46
And none of you stands so tall, Pink Moon 's gonne get ye all
Nick Drake - Pink Moon
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Posted By: A Person
Date Posted: August 13 2009 at 03:10
"Call her Moonchild...." - Moonchild, KC
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Posted By: el dingo
Date Posted: August 13 2009 at 03:21
Space child ages as he turns and faces the light... UFO - Space Child
------------- It's not that I can't find worth in anything, it's just that I can't find worth in enough.
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Posted By: progkidjoel
Date Posted: August 13 2009 at 05:31
Simple, like a child, you are
Porcupine Tree - The Start Of Something Beautiful
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Posted By: refugee
Date Posted: August 13 2009 at 05:55
My fingers feel like seaweed VdGG - A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers
------------- He say nothing is quite what it seems;
I say nothing is nothing
(Peter Hammill)
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Posted By: progkidjoel
Date Posted: August 13 2009 at 05:57
"You who wiped me from you memory like a Grease-paint mask"
Marillion - Incubus
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Posted By: refugee
Date Posted: August 13 2009 at 06:31
The maelstrom of my memory
is a vampire and it feeds on me
now, staggering madly, over the brink I fall VdGG - A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers
------------- He say nothing is quite what it seems;
I say nothing is nothing
(Peter Hammill)
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Posted By: progkidjoel
Date Posted: August 13 2009 at 06:35
It can't keep me from your door, like a vampire I will call
Pendragon - The Shadow
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Posted By: refugee
Date Posted: August 13 2009 at 06:43
Lighthouses might house the key
but can I reach the door? Guess what song …
------------- He say nothing is quite what it seems;
I say nothing is nothing
(Peter Hammill)
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Posted By: progkidjoel
Date Posted: August 13 2009 at 06:45
The same as one as before!
A plague Of Lighthouse Keepers - VDGG
I'll always be Kezia, as long as any hope remains
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Posted By: refugee
Date Posted: August 13 2009 at 06:53
Spot on!
------------- He say nothing is quite what it seems;
I say nothing is nothing
(Peter Hammill)
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Posted By: progkidjoel
Date Posted: August 13 2009 at 07:01
^^
More lyrics please?
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Posted By: refugee
Date Posted: August 13 2009 at 07:11
OK, I had to google your quote first: Protest the Hero - The Divine Suicide of K.
When all life is over who can say no mutated force shall remain? VdGG - Childlike Faith in Childhood’s End
------------- He say nothing is quite what it seems;
I say nothing is nothing
(Peter Hammill)
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Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: August 13 2009 at 07:16
I've got a grand piano to prop up my mortal remains
Pink Floyd - Nobody Home
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Posted By: refugee
Date Posted: August 13 2009 at 07:34
The piano has been drinking
not me, not me, not me, not me, not me
Tom Waits - The Piano has been Drinking (Not Me)
------------- He say nothing is quite what it seems;
I say nothing is nothing
(Peter Hammill)
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Posted By: The Sleepwalker
Date Posted: August 13 2009 at 08:38
Reddened eyes stared up into the void, 1000 stars to be exploited
VDGG - Pioneers Over C.
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Posted By: refugee
Date Posted: August 13 2009 at 08:49
We’ll probably end up quoting all A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers:
my eyes have borne stark witness
and now my nights/knights are numbered, too/two
------------- He say nothing is quite what it seems;
I say nothing is nothing
(Peter Hammill)
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Posted By: The Sleepwalker
Date Posted: August 13 2009 at 09:23
So I only think of how it might have been, Locked in silent momologue, in silent scream.
I probably don't have to say which song/band anymore.
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Posted By: refugee
Date Posted: August 13 2009 at 09:31
It doesn't feel so very bad now
I think the end is the start
Er … do you think we have a copyright problem?
------------- He say nothing is quite what it seems;
I say nothing is nothing
(Peter Hammill)
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Posted By: The Sleepwalker
Date Posted: August 13 2009 at 09:37
I am me / me are we / we can't see any way out of here.
Well, if we do, we should just say it was an "accident". Everything will be fine.
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Posted By: refugee
Date Posted: August 13 2009 at 10:02
Good idea! All power to the accident!
But seriously, we’re repeating ourselves a bit, so I’ll quote from a different song:
You knew what friend and foe meant from the very moment you came out.
Jellyfish in Ice – The End (written by yours truly, so I own the copyright myself)
------------- He say nothing is quite what it seems;
I say nothing is nothing
(Peter Hammill)
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Posted By: Tsevir Leirbag
Date Posted: August 13 2009 at 13:32
«Things are not so very bad now, I think the end is the start» - A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers, VDGG
------------- Les mains, les pieds balancés
Sur tant de mers, tant de planchers,
Un marin mort,
Il dormira
- Paul Éluard
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Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: August 13 2009 at 13:36
These things take time and I know that I'm the most inept that ever stepped
These Things Take Time, The Smiths
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Posted By: Tsevir Leirbag
Date Posted: August 13 2009 at 13:50
«Take me to the station and put me on a plane» - No Expectations, The Rolling Stones
------------- Les mains, les pieds balancés
Sur tant de mers, tant de planchers,
Un marin mort,
Il dormira
- Paul Éluard
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Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: August 13 2009 at 13:54
And if you ever need self-validation, just meet me in the alley by the railway station
I Want the One I Can't Have, The Smiths
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Posted By: refugee
Date Posted: August 13 2009 at 14:11
I need a fix ´cause I’m going down
The Beatles – Happiness is a Warm Gun
------------- He say nothing is quite what it seems;
I say nothing is nothing
(Peter Hammill)
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Posted By: Tsevir Leirbag
Date Posted: August 13 2009 at 15:34
«Down to the bits that I left uptown» Happiness Is a Warm Gun, The Beatles
------------- Les mains, les pieds balancés
Sur tant de mers, tant de planchers,
Un marin mort,
Il dormira
- Paul Éluard
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Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: August 13 2009 at 15:39
<<I'm in love with an uptown girl>> Uptown Girl, Billy Joel
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Posted By: refugee
Date Posted: August 13 2009 at 15:47
I took my harp to the party, but nobody asked me to play
I have no idea who made the song, but my mother loved to sing it when she was drunk.
Off to bed now, keep on playing!
------------- He say nothing is quite what it seems;
I say nothing is nothing
(Peter Hammill)
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Posted By: Tsevir Leirbag
Date Posted: August 13 2009 at 16:43
«She asked me did I want one; asked me with a grin» - Golf Girl, Caravan
------------- Les mains, les pieds balancés
Sur tant de mers, tant de planchers,
Un marin mort,
Il dormira
- Paul Éluard
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Posted By: progkidjoel
Date Posted: August 14 2009 at 07:27
And are you that optimistic, or are you just so f***ing naive, you asked me, you asked me
Arrows - Pour me Into A Taxi
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Posted By: Tsevir Leirbag
Date Posted: August 14 2009 at 14:36
«And you and I climb over the sea to the valley» - And You and I, Yes
------------- Les mains, les pieds balancés
Sur tant de mers, tant de planchers,
Un marin mort,
Il dormira
- Paul Éluard
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Posted By: camilleanne
Date Posted: August 15 2009 at 02:13
"You're in the way of all that I believe in.." "As I am"
------------- The planet is fine the people are f**ked.
-George Carlin-
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Posted By: refugee
Date Posted: August 15 2009 at 06:56
So I asked this God a question
and by way of firm reply,
He said -- I'm not the kind you have to wind up on Sundays.
Jethro Tull – Wind Up
------------- He say nothing is quite what it seems;
I say nothing is nothing
(Peter Hammill)
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Posted By: Tsevir Leirbag
Date Posted: August 15 2009 at 12:54
«He said - I was just a child then; now I'm only a man» - Your Possible Pasts, Pink Floyd
------------- Les mains, les pieds balancés
Sur tant de mers, tant de planchers,
Un marin mort,
Il dormira
- Paul Éluard
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Posted By: refugee
Date Posted: August 16 2009 at 03:49
Sorry, I couldn’t resist:
I'm just a man, and killers, angels, all are these:
Dictators, saviours, refugees
VdGG – Man Erg
------------- He say nothing is quite what it seems;
I say nothing is nothing
(Peter Hammill)
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Posted By: Tsevir Leirbag
Date Posted: August 16 2009 at 21:33
Me neither...
«The killer lives inside me; yes I can feel him move» Man-Erg, VDGG
------------- Les mains, les pieds balancés
Sur tant de mers, tant de planchers,
Un marin mort,
Il dormira
- Paul Éluard
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Posted By: A Person
Date Posted: August 16 2009 at 22:41
So you live in the bottom of the sea, and you kill all that come near
you... - Killer, VDGG
Is this the unofficial VDGG lyrics thread?
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Posted By: Tsevir Leirbag
Date Posted: August 16 2009 at 23:21
«So you think you can tell heaven from hell» Wish You Were Here, PF
Yes, in fact it's their SEMI-official thread
------------- Les mains, les pieds balancés
Sur tant de mers, tant de planchers,
Un marin mort,
Il dormira
- Paul Éluard
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Posted By: A Person
Date Posted: August 16 2009 at 23:55
Tell me true, tell me why was Jesus crucified? - The Post War Dream, PF
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