A penny for my thoughts, oh no I'll sell them for a dollar
They're worth so much more after I'm a goner
And maybe then you'll hear the words I been singin'
Funny when you're dead how people start listenin'
The Band Perry
It's a pretty good crowd for a Saturday
And the manager gives me a smile
'Cause he knows that it's me they've been comin' to see
To forget about life for a while
And the piano, it sounds like a carnival
And the microphone smells like a beer
And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar
And say, "Man, what the hell are
you doin'
here?"
Billy Joel
"But, orderly to end where I begun,
Our wills and fates do so contrary run
That our devices still are overthrown;
Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own"
The Player King, Hamlet Act III, Scene II
"It was a time when hate was just a legend and war was never known. And the people worked together, they built things stone by stone. They carried them miles across the land, so many died along the way. But what they built there with their bare hands, our machines can't do to this very day."
Neil Young, "Cortez the Killer"
He was working through college on my grandpa's farm
I was thirsting for for knowledge and he had a car
I was caught somewhere between a woman and a child
When one restless summer we found love growing wild
On the banks of the river on a well beaten path
Funny how those memories they last
Like strawberry wine and seventeen
The hot July moon saw everything
My first taste of love oh bittersweet
Green on the vine
Like strawberry wine
I still remember when thirty was old
My biggest fear was September when he had to go
A few cards and letters and one long distance call
We drifted away like the leaves in the fall
But year after year I come back to this place
Just to remember the taste
Of strawberry wine and seventeen
The hot July moon saw everything
My first taste of love oh bittersweet
Green on the vine
Like strawberry wine
The fields have grown over now
Years since they've seen a plow
There's nothing time hasn't touched
Is it really him or the loss of my innocence
I've been missing so much
Like strawberry wine and seventeen
The hot July moon saw everything
My first taste of love oh bittersweet
Green on the vine
Like strawberry wine
Deanna Carter
I've got big, big plans
And they've got to mean something more than just once
I just don't know, I don't know
I don't know, I don't know
I don't know, I don't know
I just don't know what I want
Starting Line
"Though nothing's ever broken if your house is made of stone, you must know deep inside you it can never truly be a home."
Streetlight Manifesto
"What if tomorrow was a gift and you has eternity to think about what you did with it?"
Tim McGraw
"Man is born into this world crying. He cries and he cries. Once he has cries enough, he dies."
Akira Kurosawa's
Ran
"He appreciates me for who I am."
"What's the point of being appreciated if no one is naked?!"
27 Dresses
"Art is a lie that tells the truth."
Orson Welles
"There's a hole in daddy's arm where all the money goes,
Jesus Christ died for nothin' I suppose.
Little pitchers have big ears,
Don't stop to count the years,
Sweet songs never last too long on broken radios."
"There's flies in the kitchen, I can hear 'em there buzzing
And I ain't done nothing, since I woke up today
How the hell can a person, go to work in the morning
And come home in the evening, and have nothing to say?"
John Prine
"He died drunk one mornin'
Alone in the land he fought to save
Two inches of water in a lonely ditch
Was a grave for Ira Hayes
Call him drunken Ira Hayes
He won't answer anymore
Not the whiskey drinkin' Indian
Nor the Marine that went to war
Yeah, call him drunken Ira Hayes
But his land is just as dry
And his ghost is lyin' thirsty
In the ditch where Ira died"
Johnny Cash and Pete LaFarge
"And you could have it all
My empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you hurt"
Johnny Cash and Trent Reznor
I take my card and I stand in line
To make a buck I work overtime
"Dear Sir" letters keep coming in the mail
I work my back till it's racked with pain
The boss can't even recall my name
I show up late and I'm docked
It never fails
I feel like just another
Spoke in a great big wheel
Like a tiny blade of grass
In a great big field
To workers I'm just another drone
To Ma Bell I'm just another phone
I'm just another statistic on a sheet
To teachers I'm just another child
To IRS I'm just another file
I'm just another consensus on the street
Gonna cruise out of this city
Head down to the sea
Gonna shout out at the ocean
HEY IT'S ME!
And I feel like a number
Feel like a number
Feel like a stranger
A stranger in this land
I feel like a number
I'm not a number
I'm not a number
Dammit I'm a man
I said I'm a man
Bob Seger
"People sometimes overrate what the find unexpected."
Ramsey Campbell
I showed you kindness, a stool, and a tab
Then you poured me my pain in a dirty glass
You weren't the first to court me mister you won't be the last
Oh, I'm sure I wasn't honey, I know all about your past
Well, all that glitters isn't gold
I know you've heard that story told.
And I'm a pauper in a naked disguise
A millionaire through a business man's eyes.
Oh friend of mine
Don't be denied.
When the winter rains come pourin' down
On that new home of mine,
Will you think of me and wonder if I'm fine?
Will your restless heart come back to mine
On a journey thru the past.
Will I still be in your eyes and on your mind?
Now I'm going back to Canada
On a journey thru the past
And I won't be back till February comes
I will stay with you if you'll stay with me,
Said the fiddler to the drum,
And we'll keep good time on a journey thru the past.
When the winter rains come pourin' down
On that new home of mine,
Will I still be in your eyes and on your mind?
Will I still be in your eyes and on your mind?
Neil Young
"When the big man was killed, you must have wounded it. Its blood was on the leaf."
"If it bleeds, we can kill it."
Predator
"She stood there on the gallows, she didn't even blink."
Bob Dylan
"Twenty years now, where'd they go? Twenty years, I don't know."
Bob Seger
"All you need is love. Love is all you need."
John Lennon
"Only the birds and the beasts live in solitude."
Hidetora
"Men prefer sorrow over joy... suffering over peace!"
Tango
"I am lost..."
"Such is the human condition."
Hidetora and Kyoami
Akira Kurosawa's
Ran
"Nothing will come of nothing: speak again."
King Lear
"I don't like work-no man does-but I like what is in work-the chance to find yourself. Your own reality-for yourself, not for others-what no other man can ever know."
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
"If I had to choose between pain and nothing, I would choose pain."
William Faulkner
"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it."
Edith Wharton
"Hell is other people."
Jean-Paul Sartre
"Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian."
"Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death."
"The drama's done. Why then here does any one step forth? Because one did survive the wreck..."
"To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be who have tried it."
"A whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard."
Herman Melville, Moby Dick
"When you're in a fight, hit first and hit hard."
- Unknown
I've always heard it as "shoot fast and shoot first."
"You can't have the spoils of a [jerk] without being a [jerk]."
Liz Phair
Now every April I sit on my porch
And I watch the parade pass before me
I see my old comrades, how proudly they march
Renewing their dreams of past glories
I see the old men all tired, stiff and worn
Those weary old heroes of a forgotten war
And the young people ask "What are they marching for?"
And I ask myself the same question
And the band plays Waltzing Matilda
And the old men still answer the call
But year after year, their numbers get fewer
Someday, no one will march there at all
Eric Bogle
That was just too devastating a song for me not to quote. It moved me just about to tears, and I'd love to post the whole thing.
"We were sittin' up there on your momma's roof, talkin' 'bout everything under the moon. With the smell of honeysuckle and your perfume, and all I could think about was my next move. Oh, but you were so shy, so was I, maybe that's why it was so hard to believe when you smiled and said to me 'So are you gonna kiss me or not? Are we gonna do this or what? I think you know I like you a lot, but you're about to miss your shot, are you gonna kiss me or not?'"
Thomson Square
"So take me to the airport and put me on a plane, because I've got no expectations, to pass through here again."
The Rolling Stones, "No Expectations"
Beggar's Banquet
"When there're no colors left but black and white in the end they'll all turn gray."
Flogging Molly
The sun shining down on these green fields of France
The warm wind blows gently and the red poppies dance
The trenches have vanished long under the plow
No gas, no barbed wire, no guns firing now
But here in this graveyard that's still no mans land
The countless white crosses in mute witness stand
To man's blind indifference to his fellow man
And a whole generation were butchered and damned
And I can't help but wonder oh Willy McBride
Do all those who lie here know why they died
Did you really believe them when they told you the cause
Did you really believe that this war would end wars
Well the suffering, the sorrow, the glory, the shame
The killing and dying it was all done in vain
Oh Willy McBride it all happened again
And again, and again, and again, and again
Eric Bogle
"Corrected mistakes in a world full of hate never changes anything."
The Dropkick Murphys
"Did you ever see a robin weep
When leaves began to die?
That means he's lost the will to live
I'm so lonesome I could cry"
Hank Williams
"So go and bow your head and weep
For your world won't change while you sleep
Yeah, go and bow your head and weep
For the summer that was lost, now is gone"
Flogging Molly
"Tear our pleasures with rough strife
Thorough the iron gates of life.
Thus, though we cannot make our sun
Stand still, yet we will make him run."
Andrew Marvell
"This snake cannot be tortured
This snake cannon be tied
This snake cannot be tortured
Or hung or crucified
It came down through the ages
It belongs to you and me
So pass it on and pass it on
'Till all mankind is free"
Shane MacGowan & The Popes
