Songs in Which Singers or Souls Are Bought, Sold, Auctioned or Otherwise Certainly not Saved

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Examples:

Been bought and I've been sold
and I've forgot what I've been told
and now I need someone

--Teenage Fanclub, "Hang On"

Souls are up for auction

--Primal Scream, "Rocks"

Others? Apologies if we've done this.

felicity, Monday, 19 May 2008 18:54 (eighteen years ago)

Prefab Sprout - "We Let The Stars Go"

"if she came to buy him now
how cheaply he'd be sold"

henry s, Monday, 19 May 2008 19:03 (eighteen years ago)

Love, Listen to My Song

"They told me that you sold me..."

Tom D., Tuesday, 20 May 2008 08:50 (eighteen years ago)

"Joseph's brothers sold him down the river for a song"

- the mountain goats, "love, love, love"

kingkongvsgodzilla, Tuesday, 20 May 2008 10:03 (eighteen years ago)

"I owe my soul to the company store" - Sixteen Tons

Pancakes Hackman, Tuesday, 20 May 2008 14:06 (eighteen years ago)

I suppose Johnny gambled with his soul in "Devil Went Down to Georgia" by Charlie Daniels.

felicity, Monday, 2 June 2008 16:09 (eighteen years ago)

I don't have to sell my soul.
He's already in me.

Sparkle Motion, Monday, 2 June 2008 17:12 (eighteen years ago)

13th Floor Elevators, We Sell Soul

RabiesAngentleman, Monday, 2 June 2008 17:14 (eighteen years ago)

Swans, "Your Property"

dad a, Tuesday, 3 June 2008 16:08 (eighteen years ago)

songs mean a lot
when songs are bought
and so are you

Mr. Que, Tuesday, 3 June 2008 16:09 (eighteen years ago)

I don't know why nobody told you
how to unfold you love
I don't know how someone controlled you
they bought and sold you

The Beatles, "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"

St3ve Go1db3rg, Tuesday, 3 June 2008 16:20 (eighteen years ago)

"Coney Island Baby" by Lou Reed, I think, but I can't remember the exact lyric.

James Redd and the Blecchs, Tuesday, 3 June 2008 17:06 (eighteen years ago)

Big Star, "You Can't Have Me" ("not for free" = bidding begins at $0.01)

dad a, Tuesday, 3 June 2008 17:08 (eighteen years ago)

Wire, "Pink Flag"

dad a, Tuesday, 3 June 2008 18:51 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

Under the spreading chestnut tree
I sold you and you sold me—

-song in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four

felicity, Monday, 22 February 2010 06:49 (sixteen years ago)


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