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ON BROADWAY
They say the neon lights are bright
On Broadway
They say there's always magic
In the air
But when you're walkin' down the street
And you ain't had enough to eat
The glitter rubs right off
And you're nowhere
They say the women treat you fine
On Broadway
But lookin' at them
Just gives me the blues
How ya gonna make some time
When all you got is one thin dime
And one thin dime won't even
Shine your shoes?
They say that I won't last too long
On Broadway
I'll catch a Greyhound bus for home
They all say
But they're dead wrong
I know they are
'Cause I can play this here guitar
I won't quit till I'm a star
On Broadway
On Broadway
On Broadway
Barry Mann/Cynthia Weill/Jerry Leiber/Mike Stoller
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"Let us be lovers we'll marry our fortunes together" "I've got some real estate here in my bag" So we bought a pack of cigarettes and Mrs. Wagner pies And we walked off to look for America "Kathy," I said as we boarded a Greyhound in Pittsburgh "Michigan seems like a dream to me now" It took me four days to hitchhike from Saginaw I've gone to look for America Laughing on the bus Playing games with the faces She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy I said "Be careful his bowtie is really a camera" "Toss me a cigarette, I think there's one in my raincoat" "We smoked the last one an hour ago" So I looked at the scenery, she read her magazine And the moon rose over an open field "Kathy, I'm lost," I said, though I knew she was sleeping I'm empty and aching and I don't know why Counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike They've all gone to look for America All gone to look for America All gone to look for America another guy 
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A Man I'll Never Be
If I said what's on my mind
You'd turn and walk away
Disappearing way back in your dreams
It's so hard to be unkind
So easy just to say
That everything is just the way it seems
You look up at me
And somewhere in your mind you see
A man I'll never be
If only I could find a way
I'd feel like I'm the man you believe I am
And it gets harder every day for me
To hide behind this dream you see
A man I'll never be
I can't get any stronger
I can't climb any higher
You'll never know just how hard I've tried
Cry a little longer
And hold a little tighter
Emotions can't be satisfied
You look up at me
And somewhere in your mind you see
A man I'll never be
If only I could find a way
I'd feel like I'm the man you believe I am
And it gets harder every day for me
To hide behind this dream you see
A man I'll never be
--Boston - Tom Scholz
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Feeling's gettin stronger
Music's gettin longer too
Music is flashin me
I want to take you higher
Baby baby baby light my fire
Boom shaka-laka-laka Boom shaka-laka-laka
I Want To Take You Higher~Sly and the Family Stone
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laka rat
in a maze
the path before me lies
and the pattern never alters
until the rat dies
Lady Liberty sings Simon of Garfunkel
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You know that it would be untrue
You know that I would be a liar
If I was to say to you
Girl, we couldn’t get much higher
Come on baby , light my fire
Come on baby, light my fire
Try to set the night on fire
Time to hesitate is through
No time to wallow in the mire
Try now we can only lose
And our love become a funeral pyre
Come on baby, light my fire
Come on baby, light my fire
Try to set the night on fire
Aouh, come on!
Come on, babe!
Yeah! come on!
Come on!
The DOORS - Light my fire
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Nashville Katz
He runs a kosher deli . . .
don't remember who
and now, on with the show
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ah, the Lovin' Spoonful - I still love that song! Thanks for bringing that back to mind :] So, where do we pick up from, yours or belM's, or got to tie the two together...? hmmmm...
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And love lies bleeding in my hand
Oh it kills me to think of you with another man
I was playing rock and roll and you were just a fan
But my guitar couldn't hold you
So I split the band
Love lies bleeding in my hands
from Love lies bleeding - Bernie Taupin's lyrics, Elton John's music
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Rollin' down a backwoods Tennessee byway, one arm on the wheel, holdin' my
lover with the other: a sweet, soft, Southern thrill.
Worked hard all week; got a little jingle on a Tennessee Saturday night.
Couldn't feel better: I'm together with my Dixieland Deli...ght.
Chorus
Spend my dollar; parked in a holler 'neath the mountain moonlight; hold her
uptight; make a little lovin', a little turtle dovin' on a Mason Dixon night.
Fits my life, oh, so right: My Dixieland Delight.
Whitetail buck deer munchin' on clover, redtail hawk settin' on a limb, a
chubby old groundhog, croakin' bullfrog, free as the feelin' in the wind.
Home grown country girl gonna give me a whirl on a Tennessee Saturday night.
Lucky as a seven livin' in heaven with my Dixieland Delight.Dixieland Delight
__________________________________________ Alabama  Edit: Oh heck, one minute late; please play through on Maverick's tune. 
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Afternoon delight
Started out this morning feeling so polite
I always though a fish could not be caught who wouldn’t bite
But you’ve got some bait a waitin’ and I think I might try nibbling
a little afternoon delight.
-- Starland Vocal Band
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sheeeesh... ok, nows I gots tah splice three together...
Ok, taking the ‘man’ from Love lies bleeding, the ‘dollar’ from Dixieland Delight, and eta’s ‘fish’ can get us back to grand unified theory of song…
A man without a woman is like a ship without a sail,
A boat without a rudder or a fish without a tail,
A man without a woman is like a wreck upon the sand,
There's only one thing worse in the universe
That's a woman without a man.
A woman without a man.
You can throw a silver dollar down upon the ground,
And it will roll, because it's round.
A woman never knows what a good man she's got,
Until she turns him down,
So listen, my honey, listen to me
I want you to understand
That as a SILVER DOLLAR goes from hand to hand
A woman goes from man to man,
A woman goes from man to man.
Jack Palmer and Clarke van Ness, 1939
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No, it wasn't the Lovin' Spoonful, they did Nashville Cats. This was a real live spoof.
Edit: oops, this was a supposed to be a late-night PM.
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Quote:
No, it wasn't the Lovin' Spoonful, they did Nashville Cats. This was a real live spoof.
Was it Weird Al?
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If I had a boat
I'd go out on the ocean
And if I had a pony
I'd ride him on my boat
And we could all together
Go out on the ocean
Me upon my pony on my boat
If I Had A Boat~Lyle Lovett
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He makes it look so easy
He looks so clean
He moves like God's
Immaculate machine
He makes me thing about
All these extra moves I make
And all this herky-jerky motion
And the bag of tricks it takes
To get me through my working day
One-trick pony
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My starter won't start this mornin'
And I'm about to lose my mind
My starter won't start this mornin'
And I'm about to lose my mind
I wanna go and see my little baby
But my machine is all outa time.
I got water in my gas tank
and my battras all run down
I got water in my gas tank
and my battras all run down
If I don't see my little baby
I'm gonn' leave this lonesome town.
My starter won't start this mornin'
And my car won't do a thing
My starter won't start this mornin'
No my car won't even sing
(classic line)
I must begot some kind of bad disconnection
Somewhere in my piston ring..
My Starter Won't Start
________________________ Lightnin' Slim (1957 ?)
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[ingroup extension for wholegroup hugginess]My previous song was originally encountered in an earlier lifetime when hunting down the prime origins of the famous "fish on a bicycle" quotation - and the two names I used here are idents of two posters from waybackwhen, much missed but... suggested by the fish/bicycle/shanks' pony warp in my brain...[/hug]
We now return you to your scheduled programming.
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But you ran out of gas
Down the road a piece
Then the battery went dead
And now the cable won't reach...
It's your last chance
To check under the hood
Last chance
She ain't soundin' too good,
Your last chance
To trust the man with the star
You've found the last chance Texaco
The Last Chance Texaco~Rickie Lee Jones
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Last chance lost--
In the tyranny of a long good-bye
Last chance lost--
We talk of us with deadly earnest eyes
Last chance lost--
We talk of love in terms of sacrifice and compromise
Last chance -
Last chance lost
from Joni Mitchell's Last Chance Lost
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This is a man's world, this is a man's world
But it wouldn't be nothing, nothing without a woman or a girl
You see, man made the cars to take us over the road
Man made the trains to carry heavy loads
Man made electric light to take us out of the dark
Man made the boat for the water, like Noah made the ark
This is a man's, a man's, a man's world
But it wouldn't be nothing, nothing without a woman or a girl
Man thinks about a little baby girl and a baby boy
Man makes then happy 'cause man makes them toys
And after man has made everything, everything he can
You know man makes money to buy another man
This is a man's world
But it wouldn't be nothing, nothing, without a woman or a girl
He's lost in the wilderness
He's lost in bitterness
It's a Man's World
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The light keeps comin' on,
I got water in the fuel.
My brakes are gone,
I got a left front tire throwin' tread
by tomorrow morning I could be dead -
Maybe, baby , you been right all along.
Fred Eaglesmith
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"There must be some way out of here," said the joker to the thief,
"There's too much confusion, I can't get no relief.
Businessmen, they drink my wine, plowmen dig my earth,
None of them along the line know what any of it is worth."
"No reason to get excited," the thief, he kindly spoke,
"There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke.
But you and I, we've been through that, and this is not our fate,
So let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late."
All along the watchtower, princes kept the view
While all the women came and went, barefoot servants, too.
Outside in the distance a wildcat did growl,
Two riders were approaching, the wind began to howl.
Robert Zimmerman
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Row, row, row your boat
gently down the stream.
merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily,
life is but a dream.
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Flow gently, sweet Afton, among thy green braes,
Flow gently, I'll sing thee a song in thy praise;
My Mary's asleep by thy murmuring stream,
Flow gently, sweet Afton, disturb not her dream.
Flow Gently Sweet Afton~John McDermott
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Lyingclose to you feeling your heart beating And I'm wondering what you're dreaming Wondering if it's me you're seeing Then I kiss your eyes And thank God we're together I just want to stay with you in this moment forever Forever and ever Don't want to close my eyes I don't want to fall asleepCause I'd miss you baby And I don't want to miss a thing Cause even when I dream of you The sweetest dream will never do I 'd still miss you baby And I don't want to miss a thing Aerosmith's disgustingly earwormy I don't want to miss a thingwell you made me think of it, so why should I be the only one to suffer!? 
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You don't need to know my name or speak my language
You don't have to understand a word I say
You don't need to kiss my lips or be my lover
For our hearts to beat together when I play
Just get lost in the rhythm of my inner heart
Can't you hear it in the dark ?
My Inner Heart~Tom Robinson and Manu Katché
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Remember your name and address
and telephone number too
And if, someday, you lose your way
you'll kno-ow just what to do
Walk up to that kind policeman
the very first one you see
and simply say, "I've lost my way
I cannot find my street
But I know my name and address
and telephone number, too"
And he'll be kind
and help you find
the dear ones who wait for you.
--Songs of Safety, by the God Knows Who
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Driving down the interstate
Running thirty minutes late
Singing Margaritaville and minding my own
Some foreign car driver dude with a road rage attitude
Pulled up beside me talking on his cell phone
He started yelling at me like I did something wrong
He flipped me the bird an' then he was gone
Some beach
Somewhere
There's a big umbrella casting shade over a empty chair
Palm trees are growing and warm breezes blowing
I picture myself right there
On Some beach, somewhere
Some Beach~Blake Shelton
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Somewhere
There's a place for us,
Somewhere a place for us.
Peace and quiet and open air
Wait for us
Somewhere.
There's a time for us,
Some day a time for us,
Time together with time spare,
Time to learn, time to care,
Some day!
Somewhere.
We'll find a new way of living,
We'll find a way of forgiving
Somewhere . . .
There's a place for us,
A time and place for us.
Hold my hand and we're halfway there.
Hold my hand and I'll take you there
Somehow,
Some day,
Somewhere!
Music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim.
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If I could save time in a bottle
The first thing that I’d like to do
Is to save every day
Till eternity passes away
Just to spend them with you
If I could make days last forever
If words could make wishes come true
I’d save every day like a treasure and then,
Again, I would spend them with you
But there never seems to be enough time
To do the things you want to do
Once you find them
I’ve looked around enough to know
That you’re the one I want to go
Through time with
If I had a box just for wishes
And dreams that had never come true
The box would be empty
Except for the memory
Of how they were answered by you
But there never seems to be enough time
To do the things you want to do
Once you find them
I’ve looked around enough to know
That you’re the one I want to go
Through time with
Jim Croce
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So, so you think you can tell
Heaven from Hell,
Blue skies from pain.
Can you tell a green field
From a cold steel rail?
A smile from a veil?
Do you think you can tell?
And did they get you to trade
Your heros for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze?
Cold comfort for change?
And did you exchange
A walk on part in the war
For a lead role in a cage?
How I wish, how I wish you were here.
We're just two lost souls
Swimming in a fish bowl,
Year after year,
Running over the same old ground.
What have we found?
The same old fears.
Wish you were here.
Pink Floyd
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Looking out at the road rushing under my wheels
Looking back at the years gone by like so many summer fields
In sixty-five I was seventeen and running up one-o-one
I don't know where I'm running now, I'm just running on
running on - on empty
running on - running blind
running on - running into the sun
But I'm running behind
Gotta do what you can just to keep your love alive
Trying not to confuse it with what you do to survive
In sixty-nine I was twenty-one and I called the road my own
I don't know when that road turned onto the road I'm on
running on - running on empty
running on - running blind
running on - running into the sun
But I'm running behind
Everyone I know, everywhere I go
People need some reason to believe
I don't know about anyone but me
If it takes all night, that'll be all right
If I can get you to smile before I leave
Looking out at the road rushing under my wheels
I don't know how to tell you all just how crazy this life feels
I look around for the friends that I used to turn to to pull me through
Looking into their eyes I see them running too
running on - running on empty
running on - running blind
running on - running into the sun
But I'm running behind
Honey you really tempt me
You know the way you look so kind
I'd love to stick around but I'm running behind
You know I don't even know what I'm hoping to find
running into the sun but I'm running behind
RUNNING ON EMPTY - Jackson Browne
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(chorus)
She walks through the corn leadin’ down to the river
Her hair shone like gold in the hot mornin’ sun
She took all the love that a poor boy could give her
And left me to die like a fox on the run
Like a fox, like a fox, like a fox... on the run
Now everybody knows the reason for my fall
A woman tempted me down in paradise hall
This woman tempted me and she took me for a ride
Like a lonely fox, boys, I need a place to hide
Oh, we’ll drink a glass of wine, boys, to purify our soul
We’ll talk about the world and the friends we used to know
I see a string of girls who have put me on before
The game is nearly over and the hounds are at the door
(chorus)
She walks through the corn leadin’ down to the river
Her hair shone like gold in the hot mornin’ sun
She took all the love that a poor boy could give her
And left me to die like a fox on the run
Like a fox, like a fox, like a fox... on the run
Like A Fox
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I am just a poor boy and my story’s seldom told
I’ve squandered my resistance for a pocketful of mumbles, such are promises
All lies and jest, still the man hears what he wants to hear
And disregards the rest, hmmmm
~Paul Simon, The Boxer
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Tell me lies
Tell me sweet little lies
(Tell me lies, tell me, tell me lies)
Oh, no, no you can't disguise
(You can't disguise, no you can't disguise)
Tell me lies
Tell me sweet little lies
Little Lies~Fleetwood Mac
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Tell Me Why
Tell me why you cried, and why you lied to me
Tell me why you cried, and why you lied to me
Well I gave you everything I had
But you left me sittin' on my own
Did you have to treat me oh so bad?
All I do is hang my head and moan
Tell me why you cried, and why you lied to me
Tell me why you cried, and why you lied to me
-- Beach Boys
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Anthony, Anthony
Oh, he said he can't love me
But I think he can
Yes, I think he can
I told him that just before he ran
Just before he ran
Mmm, mmm
Mmm, mmm
And he's not lookin' back
He's not lookin' back
Cause he doesn't want anything I have
Or anything I am
Anthony, Anthony
Oh, he said he can't love me
Anthony
Anthony~Nickel Creek
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No spell has been broken. No words have been spoken.
No point anymore, if she can't love me.
No hope she would do so. No dream to pursue, so
I finally know that I shall always be
In this hopeless state, and condemned to wait:
Wait for death to set me free.
The Beast - Music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Tim Rice.
© 1994 Walt Disney Music Company
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Quote:
Tell Me Why
Tell me why you cried, and why you lied to me
Tell me why you cried, and why you lied to me
Well I gave you everything I had
But you left me sittin' on my own
Did you have to treat me oh so bad?
All I do is hang my head and moan
Tell me why you cried, and why you lied to me
Tell me why you cried, and why you lied to me
-- Beach Boys
Beach Boys?!
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