Maybe I should just change my styleBut I feel alright when you smile
― dan selzer, Friday, 15 December 2023 14:36 (nine months ago) link
Counting the cost in money onlyStrikes me as funny don’t you know
― Mule, Tuesday, 19 December 2023 12:56 (nine months ago) link
Holidays and salad daysAnd days of moldy mayonnaise
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 19 December 2023 15:04 (nine months ago) link
(A bit of a cheat)
And in the endThe love you takeIs equal to the love you make
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 19 December 2023 15:08 (nine months ago) link
wait awhile eternityold mother nature's got nothin on me
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Thursday, 21 December 2023 18:43 (eight months ago) link
so many amazing lines in that song. I think my favorite couplet is the last one:
It's Christmas in prison, there'll be music tonight.I'll prob'ly get homesick. I love you. Goodnight.
― Lily Dale, Thursday, 21 December 2023 18:51 (eight months ago) link
yeah beautiful. he can deploy a word rhyming with itself like no other (not being sarcastic).
i also deeply love the image of
The search light in the big yard swings round with the gunAnd spotlights the snowflakes like the dust in the sun
and the chess game... they're all great
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Thursday, 21 December 2023 19:00 (eight months ago) link
The searchlight might be my favorite image in any song. just so instantly evocative and so beautiful.
― Lily Dale, Thursday, 21 December 2023 19:04 (eight months ago) link
And if you survive 'til 2005, i hope you're exceedingly thinFor if you are stout you will have to breathe out while the people around you breathe in
― Deflatormouse, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 20:50 (seven months ago) link
Many things on my mindWords in the way
― clemenza, Monday, 12 February 2024 16:14 (seven months ago) link
and that ain't no jokeyou can disappear in smoke
― reggie (qualmsley), Sunday, 18 February 2024 16:14 (seven months ago) link
it's like we're at a Ponzi scam-inar:-there's no escaping without a door prize-they're operating at significant loss
― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 13 March 2024 18:58 (six months ago) link
Oh, I never should have said the books that you readWere all I loved you for
― rendered nugatory (morrisp), Tuesday, 9 April 2024 04:17 (five months ago) link
I can dance like Sherlock HolmesI can sing like Sherlock HolmesBut I can't be Sherlock Holmes
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 18 April 2024 16:33 (five months ago) link
he took a ride on the new highwaya culvert down to the ducks and drakes
― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 18 April 2024 20:51 (five months ago) link
In the fragrance sweet of the evening airI could leave this world quite without a care
― he/him hoo-hah (map), Thursday, 18 April 2024 21:00 (five months ago) link
he'll wrap you up in his arms, tell you that you've been a good boyhe'll rekindle all the dreams it took you a lifetime to destroy
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 3 May 2024 20:26 (four months ago) link
If I had a nickel, if I had a dimeI'd put it in the toilet and I'd shit all the time
― I've left the box of soup near your shoes (Tom D.), Friday, 3 May 2024 21:02 (four months ago) link
I’ve been around the world and I didn’t pay my dues Yeah we knocked ‘em dead in Dallas (they didn’t know we were Jews)
― Are you addicted to struggling with your horse? (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 3 May 2024 21:44 (four months ago) link
And when you finish doing thatBring in the dog and put out the cat
― not the one who's tryin' to dub your anime (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 4 May 2024 01:19 (four months ago) link
in the hanging garden change the pastin a hanging garden wearing furs and masks
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 10 May 2024 21:12 (four months ago) link
telling this hasn't been mentioned
i'm stronger than you think
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 10 May 2024 21:21 (four months ago) link
Oh, my peer, your veneerIs wearing thin and crackingThe surface informs underneathUnderneath is lacking
i'm talking here to me alone
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 10 May 2024 21:25 (four months ago) link
your finest hour
take your instinct by the reins
better best, rearrange
what we want, and what we need
has been confused, been confused
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 10 May 2024 21:27 (four months ago) link
something something something when this is over/leap in my grave like the arms of a lover
if there's a heaven, I hope they're having fun/cause if there’s a hell, I'm gonna know everyone
― francisF, Wednesday, 29 May 2024 13:27 (three months ago) link
and if you want i'll fall out foreveri can't say no more -- baby, dance with me!
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 31 May 2024 21:33 (three months ago) link
It always comes on timeNot a second before the instantBut this year I think I'd rather be a relicThan part of the present
― Mule, Saturday, 1 June 2024 22:53 (three months ago) link
hey there’s nothing in my heartI’d rather be cool than be smart
― brimstead, Friday, 2 August 2024 23:00 (one month ago) link