re: What’s a verse from a song you enjoy

We've got a different kind of murder out here
The man on my TV said
A random kind of feeling starts to fill the air
And we're left here to count the dead
The next channel over
Some ladies were talking
From the Committee of Oh My God
A woman stood up
Started screaming about Satan
The audience roared with applause
And a pollyanna shouted
A pollyanna cried
A pollyanna leapt up
With that sorrow in her eyes

-David Baerwald

Maybe I'm just Cassandra fleeting
Twentieth century icon bleeding
Willing to risk salvation
To escape from isolation
I'm witness to redemption
Heard you speak but never listened
Can you rid me of my secrets?
Deliver us from Darkness?


Now the rain it comes, the rain it blurs the grey line
The grey line, the Greyhound home
You are so vicious
Hurt me, I can take it
Cause it's all in the heat of the moment
It's all in the pain

Look at that lady dancin' 'round with no clothes
She'll give you all her body, that's if you got the dough
She'll let you see most everything, but there's one thing that she'll never show

And that's a little bit of real emotion
A little bit of true emotion
In case a little bit of emotion gives her away..

Hey! Alabama!
Hey! Alabama!
Hey! Alabama!
We just beat the hell out of you!
Rammer Jammer
Yellow Hammer
GO TO HELL ALABAMA!

1,2,3,4

Ramones

Some will sell their dreams for small desires
Or lose the race to rats
Get caught in ticking traps
And start to dream of somewhere
To relax their restless flight
Somewhere out of a memory
Of lighted streets on quiet nights

Rush - Subdivisions

Its not like I made myself a list of new and different ways,
To murder your heart.
I'm just a painting that's still wet.
If you touch me Ill be smeared, you'll be stained,
Stained for the rest of your life.

Make a hole with a gun, perpendicular
To the name of this town in a desktop globe
Exit wound in a foreign nation
Showing the home of the one this was written for
My apartment looks upside down from there
Water spirals the wrong way out the sink
And her voice is a backwards record
It’s like a whirlpool and it never ends
Ana Ng and I are getting old,
And we’ve still never walked in the glow of each other’s majestic presence
Listen Ana, hear my words,
They’re the ones that you’d think I would say, if there was a me for you

-“Ana Ng”, They Might Be Giants

Just like the way that you ran to wine
When they let the new milk turn
Jesus, a friend in the better times,
Let your mother’s Bible burn
Freedom, a feeling you suffered through,
And the dog drank from your cup
Frozen, the river that baptized you,
And the horse died standing up

-“Southern Anthem”, Iron and Wine

In our days we will live
Like our ghosts will live
Pitching glass at cornfield crows,
And folding clothes
Like stubborn boys across the way
We’ll keep everything
Grandma’s gun, and the black bear claw
That took her dog
And when Sister Lowry says, “Amen,”
We won’t hear anything
The ten-car train will take that word
That fledgling bird
And the fallen house across the way
It’ll keep everything
The baby’s breath, our bravery wasted
And our shame
And we’ll undress beside the ashes of the fire
Both our tender bellies wound with baling wire
All the more a pair of underwater pearls
Than the oak tree and its resurrection fern

-“Resurrection Fern”, Iron and Wine

Jesus the Mexican boy
Born in a truck on the Fourth of July
I fell in love with his sister unrepentantly
Fearing he wouldn’t approve, we made a lie that was feeble at best
Boarded a train bound for Vegas, and married secretly
He never wanted nothing I remember
Maybe a broken bottle if I had two
Hanging behind his holy, even temper
Hiding the more unholy things I do
Jesus the Mexican boy
Wearing a long desert trip on his tie
Lo and behold, he was standing under the “Welcome” sign
Naked, the Judas in me
Fell by the tracks, but he lifted me high
Kissing my hand like a brother, and never asking why

-“Jesus the Mexican Boy”, Iron and Wine

Not my favorite by any means, but I enjoy this one more each time I hear it:


Now Rocky Raccoon, he fell back in his room
Only to find Gideon's Bible
Gideon checked out, and he left it, no doubt
To help with good Rocky's revival