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favorite line from a song?

Here's a band I spend a great deal of time listening to, but was never old enough to see live before the principal players quit.

Wall of Voodoo. From Call of the West:

He got dropped off on a street in town
Where a grey old man looked him up and down and said
"Son this ain't no western movie matinee
And you're a long way off from yippee yi yay
Cause I can tell at a glance
You're not from 'round these parts
Got a green look about ya
And that's a gringo for starts
Sometimes the only thing a western savage understands
Are whiskey and rifles and an unarmed man like you."
 
with god as my witness
this vow i will make
to have and to hold you
no other to take
for rich or for poor
under skies gray or blue
till my death i will stand by you
 
and it goes in one ear
and right out the other,
people talkin' shit:
they can kiss the back of my hand!
 
Lessons taught but never learned
All around us anger burns
Guide the future by the past
Long ago the mold was cast

- - -

For they marched up to Bastille Day
La guillotine claimed her bloody prize
Hear the echoes of the centuries
Power isn't all that money buys
 
The queen of diamonds let you down,
She was just an empty fable.
The queen of hearts you say you never met.
Your twisted fate has found you out
and it's finally turned the table,
Stole your dreams and paid you with regret.
 
I had a woman
Who gave me her soul
But I wasn't ready to take it
Her heart was so fragile
And heavy to hold
And I was afraid I might break it
 
And kind old King George sent mother a note
When he heard that father was gone.
It was, I recall, in the form of a scroll,
With gold leaf and all.
And I found it one day
In a drawer of old photographs, hidden away,
And my eyes still grow damp
To remember
His majesty signed
With his own rubber stamp.
 
person man, person man
who came up with person man??
lives his life in a garbage can.
person man.

is he a mess, or is he depressed?
does he feel totally worthless?
who came up with person man?
degraded man.
person man.

triangle man, triangle man
triangle man hates person man
they will fight, triangle wins.
triangle man.
 
I was the brass key, tied to the string of the kite and you were the lightning
If there was a rope from my head to my hands then I guess after this it'd be tightening
I feel like the Yeti, who reads in the paper, reports of a farcical sighting
And if barks could ever really be worse, there'd be no more biting
 
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Midnight, on the water
I saw the ocean's daughter
Walking on a wave she came
Staring as she called my name
 
wasn't just the music
wasn't just the wine
some other kind of magic sending shivers up my spine
and i was falling
and i fell for you and how
darling
are we in trouble now
 
I was standing in the shower thinking
About what makes a man
An outlaw or a leader
I’m thinking about power…
The ways a man could use it
Or be destroyed by it
The water hits my neck
And i’m pissing on myself…

Standing
In the shower
Thinking…
 
Now don't you get it I don't want to dream your dream
Don't you get it I don't want to dream it
Don't you get it I don't want to dream your dream
Don't you get it I don't want to dream your dream

Cause I gotta be a free man to run
I gotta be a free man to ride
I gotta be a free man to run

Don't you get it...
 
If you waste your time a' talking
to the people who don't listen
to the things that you are saying
who do you think's gonna hear?

And if you should die explaining how
the things that they complain about
are things they could be changing
who do you think's gonna care?
 
SuperMike said:
If you waste your time a' talking
to the people who don't listen
to the things that you are saying
who do you think's gonna hear?

And if you should die explaining how
the things that they complain about
are things they could be changing
who do you think's gonna care?
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Oh yeah! The Silver Tongued Devil 😈
 
Now life's a bowl of bagel dogs but there are unpleasantries,
cold toilet seats, dentist's chairs and trips to DMV
 
ZCR

Life is for the living,
So get off your ass,
Quit smoking grass,
That stuff went out a long time ago.

Yeah life, is for the living!
 
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