January 2008
1 post
Day 195: (Happy New Year) Daft Punk
K: Rock, Robot Rock / Rock, Robot Rock / Rock, Robot Rock / Rock, Robot Rock / Rock, Robot Rock / Rock, Robot Rock / Rock, Robot Rock / Rock, Robot Rock / Rock, Robot Rock / Rock, Robot Rock [Daft Punk]
December 2007
15 posts
Day 186: Steve Martin
C: 11:00PM He gave his life for tourism / Golden idol! / He’s an Egyptian / They’re sellin’ you / Now, when I die / Don’t think I’m a nut / Don’t want no fancy funeral / Just one like ole King Tut (King Tut) [Steve Martin]
Day 183: Black Rob
K: Now I'm Doc Strange in the range like, whoa! (they don't know me) / Hundred miles an hour, switchin' lanes like, whoa! / Plus I'm gettin' brain from this chick like, whoa! [Black Rob]
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Day 182: Yeah Yeah Yeahs
K: 12:54PM Meow, meow meow meow meow meow mew meow meowww / Meow, meow meow meow meow meow mew meow meowww / meo-ow-owowowowowow / Meow, meow meow meow meow meow mew meow meowww! [Yeah Yeah Yeahs]
Day 177: An American Tail
K: 2:52AM Somewhere out there beneath the pale moonlight / Someone's thinking of me and loving me tonight / Somewhere out there someone's saying a prayer / That we'll find one another in that big somewhere out there [An American Tail]
Day 175: Gnarls Barkley
K: 1:27PM When was the last time you danced? / When was the last time you danced? / Well come rock with me, baby / Dance with me, darling / Step with me, sweetheart / The world is watching [Gnarls Barkley]
Day 174: Grateful Dead to C+C Music Factory
K: 5:12PM Truckin' / got my chips cashed in / keep truckin' / like the do-da man / together, more or less in line / Just keep on truckin' [Grateful Dead]
C: 7:31PM She had dumps like a truck, truck, truck / Thighs like what, what, what / Baby, move your butt, butt, butt / All night long / Let me see that tho-o-ong [Sisqó]
K: 8:51PM I like big butts and I cannot lie (, he said, ) / you other brothers can't deny (he continued, ) / that when a girl walks in with an itty bitty waist / and a round thing in your face / you get sprung (he hypothesized) [Sir Mix-a-lot]
C: 1:16AM Guys, grab a girl; don't wait, make her twirl / It's your world and I'm just a squirrel / Tryna get a nut to move your butt / To the dancefloor so, yo, what's up? [C+C Music Factory]
Day 172 - Berlin to Toni Braxton
C: Watching every motion / In this foolish lover's game / Haunted by the notion / Somewhere there's a love in flames / Turning and returning / To some secret place inside / Watching in slow motion / As you turn my way and say / Take my breath away / Take my breath away [Berlin]
K: If I never feel you in my arms again / If I never feel your tender kiss again / If I never hear I love you now and then / Will I never make love to you once again / Please understand if love ends / Then I promise you, I promise you / That, that I shall never breathe again [Toni Braxton]
Day 169: Vampire Weekend
K: 11:17PM Who gives a fuck about an oxford comma? / I've seen those English Dramas, too / They're cruel [Vampire Weekend]
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Day 168: The Richter Scales to Semisonic
K: 12:44PM Here comes another bubble / It's a monster rally all across the valley / First you need a buzzword / Then you need a second and a third / Pick at least two industries you'll revolutionize / Find yourself an engineer / Feed him pizza and a beer / Give him just a fraction of a fraction of the pie / Need a good domain name / Must be cheap, can't be lame / Something cool like flickr, meebo, wikiyou, mahalo, bebo / Telephone without the t / Digg with a triple g / Make your elevator pitch / Code it up and flip the switch [The Richter Scales]
C: 5:41AM Closing time / Time for you to go out, go out into the world / Closing time / Turn the lights up over every boy and every girl / Closing time / One last call for alcohol, so finish your whiskey or beer / Closing time / You don't have to go home but you can't stay here / I know who I want to take me home [Semisonic]
Day 167: Bob Marley to Willie Nelson
K: 4:04PM Then we would cook cornmeal porridge / of which I'll share with you / My fear is my only courage / so I've got to push on through / Oh, while I'm gone, / everything's gonna be alright / everything's gonna be alright / everything's gonna be alright / everything's gonna be alright / everything's gonna be alright / everything's gonna be alright / everything's gonna be alright / everything's gonna be alright [Bob Marley]
C: 10:31PM Hoggin’ up the road on my p-p-p-p-plower / Chug a lug a luggin’ 5 miles an hour / On my International Harvester / Three miles of cars layin’ on their horns / Fallin’ on deaf ears of corn / Lined up behind me like a big parade [Craig Morgan]
K: 2:41AM Frost the snowman was a jolly happy soul / With a corn pipe and a button nose / And two eyes made of coal [Willie Nelson]
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Day 166: Lali Puna to Flight of the Conchords
C: 7:06PM There was no reason to complain / It's all been candy cream / Neatly smooth and clean, forever [Lali Puna]
K: 11:51PM Your love is better than ice cream / Better than anything else that I've tried / And your love is better than ice cream / But everyone here knows how to cry [Sarah McLachlan]
C: 12:04AM You're the prince to my ballerina / You feed other people's parking meters / You encourage the eating of ice cream / You would somersault in sand with me / You talk to loners, you ask how's your week / You give love to all and give love to me [Zero 7]
K: 12:07AM I’m the pretty prince of parties / You’re a tasty piece of pastry / You’re so lighty flighty flakey / I go where the party takes me [Flight of the Conchords]
Day 165: James Taylor to The Proclaimers
C: 8:10AM Now the 1st of December was covered with snow / and so was the turnpike from Stockbridge to Boston / lord, the Berkshires seemed dream-like on account of that frosting / with ten miles behind me and ten thousand more to go [James Taylor]
K: But I would walk 500 miles / And I would walk 500 more / To be the man who walked 1,000 miles / To fall down at your door [The Proclaimers]
Day 164: Eric B. & Rakim to Lambchop
K: 6:25PM To bring you up to date, so we can elevate / It's no time to wait, or anticipate / 'Cause I'm never late, I'm gonna motivate / So I can let 'em brake, and set 'em straight [Eric B. & Rakim]
C: Lest, we forget the best part / Elevate, toward a higher art / Investigate, such stinking truth / Positive, in no need of proof / Do the shabby thing / With you / Separate the beef / From the stew [Lambchop}
November 2007
31 posts
Day 163: The Kooks to Pearl Jam
C: 9:51PM So won't you go far / Tell me you're a keeper / Not about to lie down for your cause / And you don't pull my strings / 'cause I'm a better man / movin' on to better things [The Kooks]
K: 4:16AM She lies and says she's in love with him / Can't find a better man / She dreams in colour, she dreams in red / Can't find a better man / Can't find a better man / Can't find a better man [Pearl Jam]
Day 162: Rooney to Soulstice
C: 7:46PM Make a move on me, baby / I can't be the one who's / always taking chances / See me down, / so you get down / No, you've got me all wrong / I just want to kiss your lips / and you kiss back [Rooney]
K: 9:11PM You don't have to be rich to be my girl / You don't have to be cool to rule my world / Ain't no particular sign I'm more compatible with / I just need you extra time and your / kiss [Prince]
C: 9:22PM (Because your kiss) your kiss / is on my list / (Because your kiss) your kiss / is on my list / Because your kiss is on my list / of the best things in life [Hall & Oates]
K: 9:26PM It's the way you love me / It's a feeling like this / It's centrifugal motion / It's perpetual bliss / It's that pivotal moment / It's impossible / This kiss, this kiss (unstoppable) / This kiss, this kiss [Faith Hill]
C: 9:33PM The reason, the reason / Leaving the darkness in the past / Now that I've found love to last / You're the reason / So beautiful and full of bliss / A little piece of happiness / You're the reason / You are the reason / The reason, the reason [Soulstice]
Day 161: Blue October to The Bangles
C: Well, I will keep calling you to see / if you're sleepin', are you dreamin'? / If you're dreamin', are you dreamin' of me? / I can't believe / you actually picked… me [Blue October]
K: Close your eyes, give me your hand, darling / Do you feel my heart beating, do you understand? / Do you feel the same, am I only dreaming / Or is this burning an eternal flame? [he Bangles]
Day 160: Röyksopp to U2
C: Timing your movements so accurately / Hearing you breathing so musically / Unity strengthening rapidly / Knowing you’ll always come back to me / You’re never too close / or far away; / perfect somewhere in between, / vintage machine [Röyksopp]
K: Faraway, so close / Up with the static and the radio / With satellite television / You can go anywhere / Miami, New Orleans / London, Belfast and Berlin [U2]
Day 159: James Taylor to Goo Goo Dolls
C: Somehow reading your name, it wasn't the same / As leaving the thing unsaid / How come I miss what I never knew? / And drag out the past just to paint it blue / And spend my days with a dream of you [James Taylor]
K: But if you could hide beside me / Maybe for a while / And I won't tell no one your name / And I won't tell em' your name [Goo Goo Dolls]
Day 158: Blake Shelton to Spirit of the West
C: Man, if I have one, I'll have thirteen / And they can't get me off the karaoke machine / The more I drink… the more I drink! / Yeah, the more I drink, the more I drink, the more I drink [Blake Shelton]
K: You'll have to excuse me, I'm not at my best / I've been gone for a week / I've been drunk since I left / And these so-called vacations / Will soon be my death / I'm so sick from the drink / I need home for a rest / Take me home [Spirit of the West]
Day 157: Alicia Keys to Baxter
K: 6:46PM I just want you close / where you can stay forever / you can be sure / that it will only get better / you and me together / through the days and nights / and I don't worry 'cause / everything's gonna be alright [Alicia Keys]
C: Seems that I need you, / seems that I do / Seems I could call you, / it seems that I could / And I am so much closer now / I will wait for the right way to tell you what I feel [Baxter]
Day 156: Happy Thanksgiving! Dido to Heather Nova
K: 4:26PM I want to thank you / for giving me the best day of my life / And oh, just to be with you / is giving me the best day of my life [Dido]
C: 12:47AM Some call it faith, some call it love / Some call it guidance from above / You are the reason we found ours / So thank you, stars / Thank you, stars [Katie Melua]
K: 1:34AM I wanna thank you very much / Thank you for lending me love / Now I'm levitating / 'Cause I feel like I've been waiting / For a lifetime / For your touch [Westlife]
C: 1:58AM Nothing's promised in this life / So I am thankful / That we're here tonight / Take my hand and let's look up / At the stars / We can make them ours [Heather Nova]
Day 155: The London Suede to The Buggles
C: 5:17PM She's the face on the radio / She's the body on the morning show / And she's there shaking it out on the scene / And she's the colour of a magazine / And she's in fashion / (ooh, ooh, oooh) / She's in fashion [Suede]
K: 8:33PM Video killed the radio star / Video killed the radio star / In my mind and in my car / We can't rewind; we've gone too far [The Buggles]
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Day 154: 5 months of Soup! Popium to Pet Shop Boys
C: 1:25AM Sooner or later, I'm gonna get through to you / I'm telling you, Baby, there's nothing in the world you can do / I've got time on my side; along for the ride / And everything is setting like the sun / And this moment has just begun / Sooner or later, gonna soothe you / Turn you on… [Popium]
K: Sooner or later / This happens to everyone / To everyone / You can live your life lonely / Heavy as stone / Live your life learning / And working alone / Say this is all you want / But I don't believe that's true / 'Cause when you least expect it / Waiting 'round the corner for you / Love comes quickly, whatever you do / You can't stop falling / Love comes quickly, whatever you do / You can't stop falling [Pet Shop Boys]
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Day 153: Nat King Cole to Maroon 5
K: 3:43PM Unforgettable, thats what you are / Unforgettable though near or far / Like a song of love that clings to me / How the thought of you does things to me / Never before has someone been more / Unforgettable in every way / And forever more, thats how you'll stay / Thats why, darling, it's incredible / That someone so unforgettable / Thinks that I am unforgettable, too [Nat King Cole]
C: 12:17AM Sunday morning, rain is falling / Steal some covers, share some skin / Clouds are shrouding us in moments unforgettable / You twist to fit the mold that I am in / But things just get so crazy, living life gets hard to do / And I would gladly hit the road get up and go if I knew / That someday it would bring me back to you / That someday it would bring me back to you [Maroon 5]
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Day 152: Bee Gees to Jon Anderson
K: 2:43AM Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk / I'm a womans man, no time to talk / Music loud and women warm, I've been kicked around / Since I was born / And now its all right, it's ok / And you may look the other way / We can try to understand / The new york times effect on man / Whether you're a brother or whether you're a mother / You're stayin' alive, stayin' alive / Feel the city breakin' and everybody shakin' / And we're stayin' alive, stayin' alive / Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin' alive, stayin' alive [Bee Gees]
C: They call it the cleansing / Of the loneliest soul / It's an honor just to be alive / From this love we'll never fall / Hurry home to your heart / Hurry home to the voice / There's a new point to living / And a freedom of choice [Jon Anderson]
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Day 151: Cyndi Lauper to Madonna
K: Well, I see them every night in tight blue jeans / In the pages of a blue boy magazine / Hey, I've been thinking of a new sensation / I'm picking up / good vibration / Oop, she bop / Do I wanna go out with a lion's roar / Huh, yea, I wanna go south n' get me some more / Hey, they say that a stitch in time saves nine / They say I better stop or I'll go blind / Oop, she bop, she bop [Cyndi Lauper]
C: Girls can wear jeans and… cut their hair short / wear shirts and boots / 'cause it's ok to be a boy / But for a boy to look like a girl is degrading / 'cause you think that _being_ a girl is degrading / But secretly, you'd love to know what it's like, wouldn't you? / What it feels like for a girl [Madonna]
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Day 150: Randy Rogers Band to Cliff Edwards
C 2: 49AM: I wish you'd make up my bed / So I can make up my mind / Try and sleep in it, instead / Maybe you'll rest sometime / I wish you would / I wish you could [Randy Rogers Band]
K 3: 46AM: When you wish upon a star / Makes no difference where you are / Anything your heart desires / Will come to you [Cliff Edwards]
Day 149: Orbital to INXS
C: 7:32PM "What were the skies like when you were young?" / "They ran on forever / They…when I—we lived in Arizona / and the skies always had little fluffy clouds in 'em / and uh, they were long and clear / and there were lots of stars at night / and uh, when it would rain, it would all turn… / It—they were beautiful; the most beautiful skies, as a matter of fact / uhm, the sunsets were purple and red and yellow and on fire / and the clouds would catch the colors everywhere…" [Orbital]
K: Now where did you find her / Among the neon lights / That haunt the streets outside / Stay with me / Beautiful girl (stay with me) / Beautiful girl (stay with me) [INXS]
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Day 148: Tom Milsom to Double You
K: 3:09PM Please please don't go, / Please, please please don't go / Circumflex underscore circumflex / I love you so / Please don't block me, / Please don't go offline / I wanna talk with you / all the time / BRB, OMG, LOL / ROFLMAO / BRB, OMG, LOL / ROFLMAO / We'll pour our hearts out on the screen / One line at a time / And I'll try to figure how to / Make you mine [Tom Milsom]
C: 9:20PM Please don't go / Please don't go / Please don't go / Babe, / I love you so / I want you to know / That I'm / gonna miss your love / the minute you walk out that door / Please don't go / Don't gooooo / Don't go away / Don't goooo / I'm begging you to stay / If you leave, / at least in my lifetime / I've had one dream to come true / I was blessed / to be loved / by someone as wonderful as you / Please don't go [Double You]
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Day 147: Stars to Vanessa Daou
K: 8:47PM We fell apart in the parties of the empty heart / We danced the junkies in the shadows of bad modern art / We clicked our heels and we wished we were home / One more tab and your silk hits the chrome / I am trying to say / What I want to say / Without having to say / "I love you" [Stars]
C: 6:42AM When you find a bend in the road, go straight / When the sign points one way, deviate / On the path to salvation, / the world is your creation / Saying 'yes' to you, saying 'yes' to me / Art is not what we think it is at all / It's not in gold frames on white walls / Music is not what we hear in polished halls / It's not faceless bands piped into malls / Deviance is not tailored suits or computer geeks / Pierced tongues or sex freaks / Love for hire under dirty sheets [Vanessa Daou]
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Day 146: Au Revoir Simone to Poison
C: 11:31PM And since we met, I simply cannot forget / You are on my mind / Yeah since the day we met / I think I haven't slept / More than an hour at a time / You make wanna measure stars in the backyard with a calculator and a ruler, baby / I found a letter that describes how the moonlight will lead me to the distant place that you will be [Au Revoir Simone]
K: Sometimes in my head / I can still see pictures of you / And I laugh to myself / When I think of all those crazy things that we used to do / Although miles come between us / Just between you and me / I wont forget you baby / (I wont forget you) [Poison]
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Day 145: The Supremes to Finley Quaye
K: Someday well be together / Say, say, say it again / Someday well be together / Oh, yeah, oh yeah / You're far away / From me my love / And just as sure my, my baby / As there are stars above / I wanna say, I wanna say, I wanna say / Someday we'll be together / Yes we will, yes we will [The Supremes]
C: Erotic, yeah / Supreme I Preme / This is the future, y'all / Side-stepper, yeah / Do you follow? / Met a little girl in London City, yeah / When I hear that she sing so pretty, yeah / I had to catch a plane / I had to be with her again / Stepping in New York City, now / Now I see when she dance so pretty, yeah / I got to be her friend / I got to hear her sing, yeah, yeah [Finley Quaye]
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Day 144: Avenue Q to Nightmare of You
K: The sun is shining / It's a lovely day / A perfect morning / For a kid to play / But you've got lots / Of bills to pay / What can you do? / Your work real hard / And the pay's real low / And ev'ry hour / Goes oh, so slow / And at the end of the day / There's no where to go / But home to Avenue Q! [Avenue Q]
C: In the grass at Union Square / I touched your face, pushed back your hair / And said, “The days go by… / They go by oh so slow.” / (Days go oh so slow) / And in a room, upon your bed / We tangled arms and crossed our legs / When you sleep alone / The days go oh so slow / But I’m yours if you want it / I can be yours to spend your life with / I can be yours; we’ll hide indoors / Petrified of the world [Nightmare of You]
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Day 143: Frank Sinatra to Frank Sinatra
K: Start spreading the news / I'm leaving today / I want to be a part of it / New York, New York / These vagabond shoes / Are longing to stray / And make a brand new start of it / New York, New York / I want to wake up in the city that never sleeps / To find I'm king of the hill / Top of the heap [Frank Sinatra]
C: It's autumn in New York / That brings the promise of new love / Autumn in New York / Is often mingled with pain /j Dreamers with empty hands / They sigh for exotic lands / It's autumn in New York / It's good to live it again / Lovers that bless the dark / On benches in Central Park / It's autumn in New York / It's good to live it again [Frank Sinatra]
Day 142: Rinoir to Milosh
K: 11:34AM I like the way you move me / I like the way you make me feel inside / I like the way you teach me / You make me feel so alive / I like the way you heat me up inside / I like the way you spark the fire / I could get lost in those big blue eyes / You make me feel so alive / So alive, so alive [Rinoir]
C: You make me feel so happy, so real / You, beautiful moment in my life, / a sweet wrinkle in time so let's stretch this thing out / Let's punch a hole in time, sitting in love / Two gay creatures content in our own little world / 'Cause silence seems so much better with you in it / Cold air seems so much warmer with you / Wanna kiss your mouth, that loving brush that colors my world / Mmm, I wanna know your taste, I wanna hear your sounds [Milosh]
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Day 141: The Muppet Show to Bette Midler
K: It's time to play the music / It's time to light the lights / It's time to meet the Muppets on the Muppet Show tonight / It's time to put on makeup / It's time to dress up right / It's time to raise the curtain on the Muppet Show tonight / Why do we always come here / I guess we'll never know / It's like a kind of torture / To have to watch the show
C: Now's your inning; stand the world on it's ear! / Set it spinning! That'll be just the beginning! / Curtain up! Light the lights! / You got nothing to hit but the heights! / You'll be swell, you'll be great. / I can tell, just you wait. / That lucky star I talk about is due! / Honey, everything's coming up roses for me and for you! [Bette Midler]
Day 140: The Cure to De-Phazz
K: "Show me how you do that (one) trick / The one that makes me scream," she said / "The one that makes me laugh," she said / And threw her arms around my neck, / "Show me how you do it / And I promise you I promise that / I'll run away with you / I'll run away with you" [The Cure]
C: When I was born, you were a sapling on the lawn / And as I grew, you developed, too / Strong limbs, that I liked to tease / Would billow in the breeze, intoxicating me / Oh, and in your shade, I was first laid / You stood, you swayed / I moved on, you stayed / As promises were made / (strong limbs) / I moved on, you stayed [De-Phazz]
Day 139: Katamari Damacy to Waldeck
C: 10:51PM I know you love me / I wanna wad you up into my life / Let’s roll up to be a single star in the sky / I hear you calling me / I wanna wad you up into my life / Let’s lump up to make a single star in the sky / To you, to you [Asuka Sakai (Katamari Damacy)]
K: 23:36 Look at the stars / Look how they shine for you / And everything you do / Yeah, they were all yellow / I came along / I wrote a song for you / And all the things you do / And it was called "Yellow" [Coldplay]
C: Yellow / Words upon the ground / Yellow birds / Take me to their song down / Singing / Floater, some / The wind you feel is real okay with me / Cobalt / The world of colour feeling / Tell you what / The land of near and dealing / Wants you [Waldeck]
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Day 138: Madonna to Prince
K: Silky smooth / Lips as sweet as candy, baby / Tight blue jeans / Skin that shows in patches / Strong inside but you don't know it / Good little girls they never show it / When you open up your mouth to speak / Could you be a little weak / Do you know what it feels like for a girl? / Do you know what it feels like in this world / For a girl? [Madonna]
C: How can I—get through days when I can't get through hours? / I can try—but when I do I see you and I'm devoured (oh, yes) / Who'd allow, who'd allow a face to be soft as a flower? (oh) / I could bow and feel proud in the light of this power / Could you be (Could you be) / the most beautiful girl in the world? [Prince]
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Day 137: Tears for Fears to Switchfoot
K: Welcome to your life / There's no turning back / Even while we sleep / We will find you acting on your best behavior / Turn your back on Mother Nature / Everybody wants to rule the world [Tears for Fears]
C: Don’t close your eyes / Don’t close your eyes / This is your life / Are you who you wanna be? / This is your life / Are you who you wanna be? / This is your life / Is it everything you dreamed that it would be / when the world was younger / and you had everything to lose? [Switchfoot]
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Day 136: Junior Senior to ABBA
C: 23:10 I know you wanna dance / So come on and take a chance / Take a second chance on me / 'Cause I know you wanna dance / Can I get get get to know-nuh know know ya better better, baby? / Can I get get get to know-nuh know know you better, baby? [Junior Senior]
K: 00:04 If you change your mind, I'm the first in line / Honey, I'm still free / Take a chance on me [ABBA]
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Day 135: Genesis to Neil Young
C: 4:41AM Hold on my heart / Throw me a lifeline / I'll keep a place for you / Somewhere deep inside / So hold on my heart / Please tell her to be patient / 'Cause there has never been a time / That I wanted something more [Genesis]
K: Hold on to your love / Hold on to your love / Though you may feel / Tired and blue / The things you say / The things you dream / You might do / Come true if you / Hold on to your love [Neil Young]
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Day 134: The Bee Gees to Wannadies
K: 2:08AM How deep is your love? / How deep is your love? / I really mean to learn / 'Cause we're living in a world of fools / Breakin’ us down / When they all should let us be / We belong to you and me [The Bee Gees]
C: I love you Sunday sun / The week's not yet begun / And everything is quiet / And it's always… / You and me always, and forever / You and me always, and forever [Wannadies]
October 2007
34 posts
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Day 133: Sheb Wooley to Pixies
K: Well I saw the thing coming out of the sky / It had one long horn and one big eye / I commenced to shakin' and I said oo-wee / It looks like a purple people eater to me / It was a one-eyed one-horned flying purple people eater / Sure looks good to me [Sheb Wooley]
C: The creature in the sky / got sucked in a hole / now there's a hole in the sky / and the ground's not cold / and if the ground's not cold / everything is gonna burn / We'll all take turns / I'll get mine, too / This monkey's gone to heaven [Pixies]