Game #160: A Peculiar Little Lyrics Game
Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2016 8:27 am
Game #160: A Peculiar Little Lyrics Game
Identify the 96 songs in the clues below. (Most are from the pop charts, but we make several excursions elsewhere.) Then, match them into 50 pairs according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself. Four songs will be used twice, each in two different capacities.
The Tangredi may reveal itself fairly early on -- if you see it IMMEDIATELY, say so but don't blow the gaffe too soon - but the matches should still be fun. They don’t follow a rigid formula, and some will be more obvious than others. I’ll be interested to see how far you can get without resorting to research.
1. Showin' how funky and strong is your fight,
It doesn't matter who's wrong or right.
2. And our lives are forever changed,
We will never be the same,
The more you change, the less you feel.
Believe, believe in me, believe
That life can change, that you're not stuck in vain.
3. The guys come to race her from all around,
But she'll give ’em a length, then she'll shut ’em down.
4. When you try your best but you don't succeed,
When you get what you want but not what you need,
When you feel so tired but you can't sleep,
Stuck in reverse.
5. One that won't make my mouth too dry
Or make my eyes too red.
6. He takes me deep-sea fishing in a submarine,
We go to drive-in movies in a limousine,
He's got a whirly-birdy and a 12-foot yacht,
Ah, but that’s not all he's got!
7. I was like, good gracious a*s bodacious
Flirtatious, tryin’ to show faces
Lookin’ for the right time to shoot my steam (you know)
Lookin’ for the right time to flash them keys.
8. Keeping my eyes open
I cannot afford to sleep,
Giving away promises
I know that I can't keep,
Nothing fills the blackness
That has seeped into my chest.
I need you in my blood,
I am forsaking all the rest.
9. Don't be a drag, just be a queen
Whether you're broke or evergreen.
You're black, white, beige, chola descent,
You're Lebanese, you're orient.
10. When I became of age, my mother called me to her side.
She said, "Son, you're growing up now, pretty soon you'll take a bride.”
11. Mama told me when I was young,
“Come sit beside me, my only son
And listen closely to what I say.
And if you do this
It will help you some sunny day.”
12. You see the signs, but you can't read,
You're runnin' at a different speed,
Your heart beats in double time,
Another kiss and you'll be mine.
13. I'll try every trick in the book
With every step that you take,
Everywhere that you look
Just look and you'll find
I'll be waiting in line, I'll be waiting in line.
14. A lonely mother gazing out of her window,
Staring at a son that she just can't touch.
If at any time he's in a jam, she'll be by his side,
But he doesn't realize he hurts her so much.
15. I shoulda learned to play the guitar,
I shoulda learned to play them drums.
Look at that mama, she got it stickin' in the camera.
Man, we could have some fun!
16. I'm not expecting to grow flowers in a desert,
But I can live and breathe and see the sun in wintertime.
17. Gotta find a woman!
Gotta find a woman!
Gotta find a woman!
Gotta find a woman!
18. I'm worse at what I do best,
And for this gift I feel blessed.
Our little group has always been
And always will until the end.
19. Look at the way
We gotta hide what we're doing,
'Cause what would they say
If they ever knew?
20. Zappin' it to ya,
The pressure's everywhere,
Goin' right through ya,
The fever's in the air!
21. Ok, now he was close,
Tried to domesticate you,
But you're an animal.
Baby, it's in your nature.
Just let me liberate you,
You don't need no papers,
That man is not your maker.
22. We can go when we want to,
The night is young and so am I,
And we can dress real neat from our hats to our feet
And surprise 'em with the victory cry.
23. You're just a natural born beehive
Filled with honey to the top.
Well, I ain't greedy, baby,
All I want is all you got.
24. I have stood here before inside the pouring rain
With the world turning circles, running 'round my brain.
25. So hard with my girls not around me,
It's definitely not a Nashville party,
'Cause all I see are stilettos.
I guess I never got the memo.
26. Chills run up and down my spine,
Aladdin's lamp is mine,
The dream I dreamed was not denied me.
27. Well, we drank champagne and danced all night
Under electric candlelight.
She picked me up and sat me on her knee
And said, “Dear boy, won't you come home with me?”
28. Picket lines and picket signs
Don't punish me with brutality.
29. But every song's like gold teeth, grey goose, trippin' in the bathroom,
Blood stains, ball gowns, trashin' the hotel room.
30. Well now, home entertainment was my baby's wish
So I hopped into town for a satellite dish,
I tied it to the top of my Japanese car,
I came home and I pointed it out into the stars.
31. Arriba y arriba
Y arriba y arriba, por ti sere,
Por ti sere,
Por ti sere.
32. Standing here helpless,
Where do I go?
If you leave me alone
Where do I turn now?
If it don't work out,
As for as I can see,
This isn't the way
That you said it would be.
33. I've been to London, I've been to Paris,
Even way out there to Tokyo,
Back home down in Georgia, to New Orleans,
But you always steal the show.
34. I went walking the other day
Everything was going fine
I met a little boy named Billy Joe
And then I almost lost my mind.
35. 'Cause when you say you will, it always means you won't.
You're givin' me the chills, baby, please, baby don't.
36. Telegram force and ready,
I knew this was a big mistake.
There's a fine line drawing my senses together
And I think it's about to break.
37. He smiled, so I got up and asked for his name.
“But that don't matter,” he said, “'cause it's all the same.”
38. You're so fine and you're mine.
Make me strong, yeah, you make me bold.
Oh, your love thawed out,
Yeah, your love thawed out
What was scared and cold.
39. Our steward hath provided this
In honour of the King of Bliss;
Which on this day to be served is
In Reginensi atrio.
40. I recall the yellow cotton dress
Foaming like a wave
On the ground beneath your knees,
The birds like tender babies in your hands
And the old men playing Chinese checkers by the trees.
41. And this time I know it's for real,
The feelings that I feel.
I know if I put my mind to it,
I know that I really can do it.
42. Neither one will give in,
So we gaze at our eight by ten
Thinking 'bout the things that might have been.
It's a dirty rotten shame.
43. Hold it now and watch the hoodwink
As I make you stop, think,
You'll think you're looking at Aquaman.
I summon fish to the dish, although I like the Chalet Swiss,
I like the sushi
'Cause it's never touched a frying pan.
44. Tonight's the night when I go to all the parties down my street.
I wash my hair and I kid myself I look real smooth.
Look over there (where?)
There, here comes Jeanie with her new boyfriend.
They say that looks don't count for much, if so, there goes your proof.
45. Police think they can see me lean,
I'm tint so it ain't easy to be seen.
When you see me ride by they can see the glean
And my shine on the deck and the TV screen.
46. And it's all your fault
I screen my phone calls,
No matter who calls
I gotta screen my phone calls.
47. I spell out all the hurtin' words
And turn my head when I speak,
'Cause I can't spell away this hurt
That's drippin' down my cheek.
48. If you are confused, check with the sun,
Carry a compass to help you along.
Your feet are going to be on the ground,
Your head is there to move you around.
49. Tell me why
Ain't nothin' but a heartache,
Tell me why
Ain't nothin' but a mistake.
50. I looked at the skies,
Running my hands over my eyes
And I fell out of bed,
Hurting my head from things that I'd said.
51. They got an apartment with deep pile carpet
And a couple of paintings from Sears,
A big waterbed that they bought with the bread
They had saved for a couple of years.
52. Well, maybe I'm the f**got America.
I'm not a part of a redneck agenda.
Now everybody do the propaganda
And sing along to the age of paranoia.
53. Sometimes late when things are real
And people share the gift of gab between themselves,
Some are quick to take the bait
And catch the perfect prize that waits among the shelves.
54. All at once it happened,
The prettiest in the world.
I said, “A-won't you come over and a-talk to me
And be my girl?”
55. I try to understand because I'm people, too,
And playing games is part of human nature.
My heart's in overdrive,
It's great to be alive.
56. I got a girl who's always late
Anytime we have a date,
But I love her,
Yes, I love her.
57. Gonna let it rock,
Let it roll,
Let the Bible Belt come
And save my soul.
58. Lucky me, swimmin' in my ability,
Dancin' down on life with agility.
Come and drink it up from my fertility,
Blessed with a bucket of lucky mobility.
59. Beware of pretty faces that you find,
A pretty face can hide an evil mind.
60. Death ain't nothing but a heartbeat away,
I'm living life, do or die, what can I say?
I'm 23 now, but will I live to see 24?
The way things are going, I don't know.
61. We cannot live together,
We cannot live apart.
That's the situation,
I've known it from the start.
62. Did your lady friend
Leave the nest again?
That is very sad,
Make me feel so bad.
63. Seven o'clock in the morning
And the rays from the sun wakes me.
I'm stretchin' and yawnin'
In a bed that don't belong to me.
64. And what I'd like for you to say
Is you'll come home to me each day.
65. Steve walks warily down the street
With the brim pulled way down low.
Ain't no sound but the sound of his feet,
Machine guns ready to go.
66. Hey, she gives me love and I feel alright now!
Everybody! You got me tossin', turnin' in the middle of the night
And I feel alright,
I say yeah (yeah), yeah (yeah), yeah (yeah), yeah (yeah), yeah (yeah).
67. But when he finally came back
His hair had turned from black into bright white.
He said that it was from when
The car had smashed so hard.
68. You in the moonlight
With your sleepy eyes,
Could you ever love a man like me?
And you were right
When I walked into your house,
I knew I'd never want to leave.
69. Smokestack, fatback, many miles of railroad track.
All night radio, keep on runnin' through your rock 'n' roll soul.
All night diners, keep you 'wake on black coffee and a hard roll.
70. She spent her twenties between the sheets,
Life limped along at sub-sonic speeds.
71. You're so consumed with how much you get
You waste your time with hate and regret.
You're broken
When your heart's not open.
72. When the drinks finally hit her
She said, “I'm no quitter,
But I finally quit livin' on dreams.
I'm hungry for laughter
And here ever after
I'm after whatever the other life brings.”
73. Never gonna stop, give it up, such a dirty mind,
I always get it up for the touch of the younger kind.
74. On the low from the Jake in the Taurus,
Tryin to get my hands on some Grants like Horace.
Yeah, livin the raw deal, three course meals,
Spaghetti, fettucini, and veal.
75. My friends ask what do I see in you,
But it goes deeper than the eye can view.
You have a pleasin' personality
And that's an ever lovin' rare quality.
Now show me a girl, a girl that's fine,
And I'll choose the one with true lovin' every time.
76. A sun-kissed miss said, "Don't be late!"
That's why I can hardly wait.
Open up that golden gate.
77. I can't get any rest,
People say I'm obsessed.
Everything you say is lies,
But to me that's no surprise.
What I had for you was true.
Things go wrong, they always do.
78. I guess I’ve learned
To question is to grow,
That you still have faith
Is all I need to know.
I’ve learned to love
Myself in spite of me,
And I’ve learned to
Walk on the road I believe.
79. He's nervous, but on the surface he looks calm and ready to drop bombs,
But he keeps on forgetting what he wrote down,
The whole crowd goes so loud
He opens his mouth, but the words won't come out.
80. I would have given you all of my heart
But there's someone who's torn it apart
And she's taken just all that I had
But if you want I'll try to love again.
81. Here come bad news talking this and that, yeah,
Well, give me all you got, and don't hold it back, yeah.
Well, I should probably warn you I'll be just fine, yeah,
No offense to you, don't waste your time.
82. It'll only cost you fifty cents to see
What life has done to those like you and me.
83. I like my bands in business suits, I watch them on TV.
I'm working out most every day and watching what I eat.
84. Don't be cute,
Don't be funny now,
It's later than you think.
Oh, what's the use?
Save your money now,
It's hanging on the brink.
85. So when you're in doubt,
In need of someone,
Baby, call my line,
Call me anytime
I'll be there for you, you, you.
86. I've never seen you looking so lovely as you did tonight,
I've never seen you shine so bright,
I've never seen so many men ask you if you wanted to dance,
They're looking for a little romance,
Given half a chance.
87. Shoppin' at the mall
Looking for some gear to buy,
I saw this girl, she cool rocked my world
And I had to adjust my fly.
88. Some kinda druid dudes lifting the veil,
Doing the mind guerrilla.
Some call it magic. the search for the grail.
89. I'm all out of hope,
One more bad dream could bring a fall.
When I'm far from home
Don't call me on the phone
To tell me you’re alone.
90. It was a night like this forty million years ago,
I lit a cigarette, picked up a monkey skull to go.
The sun was spitting fire, the sky was blue as ice
I felt a little tired, so I watched Miami Vice.
91. Your talk is cheap,
You're not a man,
You're throwin' stones
To hide your hands.
92. First thing's first, I'm the realest (realest)
Drop this and let the whole world feel it (let them feel it)
And I'm still in the Murda Bizness
I could hold you down, like I'm givin' lessons in physics (right, right).
93. One child grows up to be
Somebody that just loves to learn,
And another child grows up to be
Somebody you'd just love to burn.
94. You say it's all in my head
And the things I think just don't make sense.
So where you been then? Don't go all coy,
Don't turn it 'round on me like it's my fault.
See, I can see that look in your eyes,
The one that shoots me each and every time.
95. Now Paul is a real estate novelist
Who never had time for a wife,
And he's talking with Davy, who's still in the Navy
And probably will be for life.
96. I was a lonely teenage broncin' buck
With a pink carnation and a pickup truck.
Identify the 96 songs in the clues below. (Most are from the pop charts, but we make several excursions elsewhere.) Then, match them into 50 pairs according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself. Four songs will be used twice, each in two different capacities.
The Tangredi may reveal itself fairly early on -- if you see it IMMEDIATELY, say so but don't blow the gaffe too soon - but the matches should still be fun. They don’t follow a rigid formula, and some will be more obvious than others. I’ll be interested to see how far you can get without resorting to research.
1. Showin' how funky and strong is your fight,
It doesn't matter who's wrong or right.
2. And our lives are forever changed,
We will never be the same,
The more you change, the less you feel.
Believe, believe in me, believe
That life can change, that you're not stuck in vain.
3. The guys come to race her from all around,
But she'll give ’em a length, then she'll shut ’em down.
4. When you try your best but you don't succeed,
When you get what you want but not what you need,
When you feel so tired but you can't sleep,
Stuck in reverse.
5. One that won't make my mouth too dry
Or make my eyes too red.
6. He takes me deep-sea fishing in a submarine,
We go to drive-in movies in a limousine,
He's got a whirly-birdy and a 12-foot yacht,
Ah, but that’s not all he's got!
7. I was like, good gracious a*s bodacious
Flirtatious, tryin’ to show faces
Lookin’ for the right time to shoot my steam (you know)
Lookin’ for the right time to flash them keys.
8. Keeping my eyes open
I cannot afford to sleep,
Giving away promises
I know that I can't keep,
Nothing fills the blackness
That has seeped into my chest.
I need you in my blood,
I am forsaking all the rest.
9. Don't be a drag, just be a queen
Whether you're broke or evergreen.
You're black, white, beige, chola descent,
You're Lebanese, you're orient.
10. When I became of age, my mother called me to her side.
She said, "Son, you're growing up now, pretty soon you'll take a bride.”
11. Mama told me when I was young,
“Come sit beside me, my only son
And listen closely to what I say.
And if you do this
It will help you some sunny day.”
12. You see the signs, but you can't read,
You're runnin' at a different speed,
Your heart beats in double time,
Another kiss and you'll be mine.
13. I'll try every trick in the book
With every step that you take,
Everywhere that you look
Just look and you'll find
I'll be waiting in line, I'll be waiting in line.
14. A lonely mother gazing out of her window,
Staring at a son that she just can't touch.
If at any time he's in a jam, she'll be by his side,
But he doesn't realize he hurts her so much.
15. I shoulda learned to play the guitar,
I shoulda learned to play them drums.
Look at that mama, she got it stickin' in the camera.
Man, we could have some fun!
16. I'm not expecting to grow flowers in a desert,
But I can live and breathe and see the sun in wintertime.
17. Gotta find a woman!
Gotta find a woman!
Gotta find a woman!
Gotta find a woman!
18. I'm worse at what I do best,
And for this gift I feel blessed.
Our little group has always been
And always will until the end.
19. Look at the way
We gotta hide what we're doing,
'Cause what would they say
If they ever knew?
20. Zappin' it to ya,
The pressure's everywhere,
Goin' right through ya,
The fever's in the air!
21. Ok, now he was close,
Tried to domesticate you,
But you're an animal.
Baby, it's in your nature.
Just let me liberate you,
You don't need no papers,
That man is not your maker.
22. We can go when we want to,
The night is young and so am I,
And we can dress real neat from our hats to our feet
And surprise 'em with the victory cry.
23. You're just a natural born beehive
Filled with honey to the top.
Well, I ain't greedy, baby,
All I want is all you got.
24. I have stood here before inside the pouring rain
With the world turning circles, running 'round my brain.
25. So hard with my girls not around me,
It's definitely not a Nashville party,
'Cause all I see are stilettos.
I guess I never got the memo.
26. Chills run up and down my spine,
Aladdin's lamp is mine,
The dream I dreamed was not denied me.
27. Well, we drank champagne and danced all night
Under electric candlelight.
She picked me up and sat me on her knee
And said, “Dear boy, won't you come home with me?”
28. Picket lines and picket signs
Don't punish me with brutality.
29. But every song's like gold teeth, grey goose, trippin' in the bathroom,
Blood stains, ball gowns, trashin' the hotel room.
30. Well now, home entertainment was my baby's wish
So I hopped into town for a satellite dish,
I tied it to the top of my Japanese car,
I came home and I pointed it out into the stars.
31. Arriba y arriba
Y arriba y arriba, por ti sere,
Por ti sere,
Por ti sere.
32. Standing here helpless,
Where do I go?
If you leave me alone
Where do I turn now?
If it don't work out,
As for as I can see,
This isn't the way
That you said it would be.
33. I've been to London, I've been to Paris,
Even way out there to Tokyo,
Back home down in Georgia, to New Orleans,
But you always steal the show.
34. I went walking the other day
Everything was going fine
I met a little boy named Billy Joe
And then I almost lost my mind.
35. 'Cause when you say you will, it always means you won't.
You're givin' me the chills, baby, please, baby don't.
36. Telegram force and ready,
I knew this was a big mistake.
There's a fine line drawing my senses together
And I think it's about to break.
37. He smiled, so I got up and asked for his name.
“But that don't matter,” he said, “'cause it's all the same.”
38. You're so fine and you're mine.
Make me strong, yeah, you make me bold.
Oh, your love thawed out,
Yeah, your love thawed out
What was scared and cold.
39. Our steward hath provided this
In honour of the King of Bliss;
Which on this day to be served is
In Reginensi atrio.
40. I recall the yellow cotton dress
Foaming like a wave
On the ground beneath your knees,
The birds like tender babies in your hands
And the old men playing Chinese checkers by the trees.
41. And this time I know it's for real,
The feelings that I feel.
I know if I put my mind to it,
I know that I really can do it.
42. Neither one will give in,
So we gaze at our eight by ten
Thinking 'bout the things that might have been.
It's a dirty rotten shame.
43. Hold it now and watch the hoodwink
As I make you stop, think,
You'll think you're looking at Aquaman.
I summon fish to the dish, although I like the Chalet Swiss,
I like the sushi
'Cause it's never touched a frying pan.
44. Tonight's the night when I go to all the parties down my street.
I wash my hair and I kid myself I look real smooth.
Look over there (where?)
There, here comes Jeanie with her new boyfriend.
They say that looks don't count for much, if so, there goes your proof.
45. Police think they can see me lean,
I'm tint so it ain't easy to be seen.
When you see me ride by they can see the glean
And my shine on the deck and the TV screen.
46. And it's all your fault
I screen my phone calls,
No matter who calls
I gotta screen my phone calls.
47. I spell out all the hurtin' words
And turn my head when I speak,
'Cause I can't spell away this hurt
That's drippin' down my cheek.
48. If you are confused, check with the sun,
Carry a compass to help you along.
Your feet are going to be on the ground,
Your head is there to move you around.
49. Tell me why
Ain't nothin' but a heartache,
Tell me why
Ain't nothin' but a mistake.
50. I looked at the skies,
Running my hands over my eyes
And I fell out of bed,
Hurting my head from things that I'd said.
51. They got an apartment with deep pile carpet
And a couple of paintings from Sears,
A big waterbed that they bought with the bread
They had saved for a couple of years.
52. Well, maybe I'm the f**got America.
I'm not a part of a redneck agenda.
Now everybody do the propaganda
And sing along to the age of paranoia.
53. Sometimes late when things are real
And people share the gift of gab between themselves,
Some are quick to take the bait
And catch the perfect prize that waits among the shelves.
54. All at once it happened,
The prettiest in the world.
I said, “A-won't you come over and a-talk to me
And be my girl?”
55. I try to understand because I'm people, too,
And playing games is part of human nature.
My heart's in overdrive,
It's great to be alive.
56. I got a girl who's always late
Anytime we have a date,
But I love her,
Yes, I love her.
57. Gonna let it rock,
Let it roll,
Let the Bible Belt come
And save my soul.
58. Lucky me, swimmin' in my ability,
Dancin' down on life with agility.
Come and drink it up from my fertility,
Blessed with a bucket of lucky mobility.
59. Beware of pretty faces that you find,
A pretty face can hide an evil mind.
60. Death ain't nothing but a heartbeat away,
I'm living life, do or die, what can I say?
I'm 23 now, but will I live to see 24?
The way things are going, I don't know.
61. We cannot live together,
We cannot live apart.
That's the situation,
I've known it from the start.
62. Did your lady friend
Leave the nest again?
That is very sad,
Make me feel so bad.
63. Seven o'clock in the morning
And the rays from the sun wakes me.
I'm stretchin' and yawnin'
In a bed that don't belong to me.
64. And what I'd like for you to say
Is you'll come home to me each day.
65. Steve walks warily down the street
With the brim pulled way down low.
Ain't no sound but the sound of his feet,
Machine guns ready to go.
66. Hey, she gives me love and I feel alright now!
Everybody! You got me tossin', turnin' in the middle of the night
And I feel alright,
I say yeah (yeah), yeah (yeah), yeah (yeah), yeah (yeah), yeah (yeah).
67. But when he finally came back
His hair had turned from black into bright white.
He said that it was from when
The car had smashed so hard.
68. You in the moonlight
With your sleepy eyes,
Could you ever love a man like me?
And you were right
When I walked into your house,
I knew I'd never want to leave.
69. Smokestack, fatback, many miles of railroad track.
All night radio, keep on runnin' through your rock 'n' roll soul.
All night diners, keep you 'wake on black coffee and a hard roll.
70. She spent her twenties between the sheets,
Life limped along at sub-sonic speeds.
71. You're so consumed with how much you get
You waste your time with hate and regret.
You're broken
When your heart's not open.
72. When the drinks finally hit her
She said, “I'm no quitter,
But I finally quit livin' on dreams.
I'm hungry for laughter
And here ever after
I'm after whatever the other life brings.”
73. Never gonna stop, give it up, such a dirty mind,
I always get it up for the touch of the younger kind.
74. On the low from the Jake in the Taurus,
Tryin to get my hands on some Grants like Horace.
Yeah, livin the raw deal, three course meals,
Spaghetti, fettucini, and veal.
75. My friends ask what do I see in you,
But it goes deeper than the eye can view.
You have a pleasin' personality
And that's an ever lovin' rare quality.
Now show me a girl, a girl that's fine,
And I'll choose the one with true lovin' every time.
76. A sun-kissed miss said, "Don't be late!"
That's why I can hardly wait.
Open up that golden gate.
77. I can't get any rest,
People say I'm obsessed.
Everything you say is lies,
But to me that's no surprise.
What I had for you was true.
Things go wrong, they always do.
78. I guess I’ve learned
To question is to grow,
That you still have faith
Is all I need to know.
I’ve learned to love
Myself in spite of me,
And I’ve learned to
Walk on the road I believe.
79. He's nervous, but on the surface he looks calm and ready to drop bombs,
But he keeps on forgetting what he wrote down,
The whole crowd goes so loud
He opens his mouth, but the words won't come out.
80. I would have given you all of my heart
But there's someone who's torn it apart
And she's taken just all that I had
But if you want I'll try to love again.
81. Here come bad news talking this and that, yeah,
Well, give me all you got, and don't hold it back, yeah.
Well, I should probably warn you I'll be just fine, yeah,
No offense to you, don't waste your time.
82. It'll only cost you fifty cents to see
What life has done to those like you and me.
83. I like my bands in business suits, I watch them on TV.
I'm working out most every day and watching what I eat.
84. Don't be cute,
Don't be funny now,
It's later than you think.
Oh, what's the use?
Save your money now,
It's hanging on the brink.
85. So when you're in doubt,
In need of someone,
Baby, call my line,
Call me anytime
I'll be there for you, you, you.
86. I've never seen you looking so lovely as you did tonight,
I've never seen you shine so bright,
I've never seen so many men ask you if you wanted to dance,
They're looking for a little romance,
Given half a chance.
87. Shoppin' at the mall
Looking for some gear to buy,
I saw this girl, she cool rocked my world
And I had to adjust my fly.
88. Some kinda druid dudes lifting the veil,
Doing the mind guerrilla.
Some call it magic. the search for the grail.
89. I'm all out of hope,
One more bad dream could bring a fall.
When I'm far from home
Don't call me on the phone
To tell me you’re alone.
90. It was a night like this forty million years ago,
I lit a cigarette, picked up a monkey skull to go.
The sun was spitting fire, the sky was blue as ice
I felt a little tired, so I watched Miami Vice.
91. Your talk is cheap,
You're not a man,
You're throwin' stones
To hide your hands.
92. First thing's first, I'm the realest (realest)
Drop this and let the whole world feel it (let them feel it)
And I'm still in the Murda Bizness
I could hold you down, like I'm givin' lessons in physics (right, right).
93. One child grows up to be
Somebody that just loves to learn,
And another child grows up to be
Somebody you'd just love to burn.
94. You say it's all in my head
And the things I think just don't make sense.
So where you been then? Don't go all coy,
Don't turn it 'round on me like it's my fault.
See, I can see that look in your eyes,
The one that shoots me each and every time.
95. Now Paul is a real estate novelist
Who never had time for a wife,
And he's talking with Davy, who's still in the Navy
And probably will be for life.
96. I was a lonely teenage broncin' buck
With a pink carnation and a pickup truck.
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