Pet Shop Boys, “West End Girls”
“Sometimes you’re better off dead, there’s a gun in your hand and it’s pointing at your head / You think you’re mad, too unstable, kicking in chairs and knocking down tables in a restaurant, in a West End town / Call the police there’s a madman around.” – Dominic Utton
The Faces, “Stay With Me”
“In the mornin’, don’t say you love me / Cos I’ll only kick you out of the door.” – D.U.
Liz Phair, “Divorce Song”
“And when I asked for a separate room / It was late at night, and we’d been driving since noon.” - Andrew Barker
The Beatles, “I Saw Her Standing There”
“Well, she was just seventeen / You know what I mean / And the way she looked / Was way beyond compare / So how could I dance with another / When I saw her standing there.” – Amy Hughes
Trashcan Sinatras, “Obscurity Knocks”
“Always at the foot of the photograph / That's me there, snug as a thug / In a mugshot pose, a foul-mouthed rogue / Owner of this corner and not much more.” - Will Harris
Willie Nelson, “Sad Songs and Waltzes”
“I'm writing a song all about you / A true song as real as my tears / But you've no need to fear it / 'Cause no one will hear it / 'Cause sad songs and waltzes / Aren't selling this year.” - W.H.
Lamb of God, “Omerta”
“Whoever appeals to the law against his fellow man is either a fool or a coward / Whoever cannot take care of himself without that law is both / For a wounded man shall say to his assailant, ‘If I live I will kill you, if I die you are forgiven.’ / Such is the rule of honor.” – Noah Zucker
Arlo Guthrie, “Alice’s Restaurant Masacree”
“This song is called Alice's Restaurant / And it's about Alice and the restaurant / But Alice's Restaurant is not the name of the restaurant / That's just the name of the song / And that's why I called the song Alice's Restaurant.” - A.H.
Notorious B.I.G., “Warning”
“Who the f**k is this? / Paging me at 5:46 / In the mornin’ / Crack of dawn, and / Now I’m yawnin’ / Wipe the cold out my eye / See who’s this paging me, and why.” - A.B.
Uncle Tupelo, “Gun”
“Falling out the window. Tripping on a wrinkle in the rug / Falling out of love, dear. It hurt much worse when you gave up.” - N.Z.
Public Enemy, “Fight the Power”
“Nineteen eighty-nine! The number! Another summer! Get down, sound of the funky drummer!” – D.U.
Talking Heads, “Crosseyed and Painless”
“Lost my shape / Trying to act casual.” - A.B.
Buffalo Springfield, “For What It’s Worth”
“There’s something happening here / What it is ain’t exactly clear / There’s a man with a gun over there / Telling me I got to beware.” - A.H.
The Smiths, “I Know It’s Over”
“Oh, Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head / And as I climb into an empty bed / Oh, well, enough said.” - W.H.
Little Richard, “Tutti Frutti”
“A wop bop a loop bop, a lop bom bom!” - D.U.
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