I bought her a brand new diamond ring
for all the world to see.
Then I passed the pawnshop window,
and it was starin' back at me.

I bought her a big apartment
on the fancy side of town.
Then I come home one night
and she had burned the darn thing down.

I bought her a great big shiny car
for everyone to see.
Then I come home one night
and she had drove it up a tree.

But my baby still loves me, in her own peculiar way.
I said my baby still loves me in her own
peculiar way.

"I made enough money to buy Miami, but I pissed it away so fast...never meant to last...never meant to last."

Jimmy Buffett

Any line at all from McArthur Park.

"I recall the yellow cotton dress, flowing like a wave on the ground around her knees. Birds like tender babies in her hands, and the old men playing checkers by the trees..."

"where even squares can have a ball"

or the one i wrote

it's beer and aspirin for breakfast
to make it over easy on the sunny side

[This message was edited by ebb on 16 February 2002 at 05:00 PM.]

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swing it til' the wheels fall off! :)

"each night I make the rounds of every spot in town , a lonely man with lonely time to kill"
"a jukebox playin' loud...a face among the crowd, so much like hers it makes my heart stand still"
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"Anger, he smiles, towering in shiny metallic purple armour
Queen Jealousy Envy waits behind him, her fiery green gown sneers at the grassy ground"

[This message was edited by Dave Van Allen on 01 March 2002 at 09:55 AM.]

'desperately hoping for a love you would die for, you play one more quarter, to hear a song you could cry for...'

'i know every line on your face could tell a story, but i've heard them all before and now they bore me...'

not to mention they sing 'selfishness in man' which is one of my favs......

and i like the lyrics to 'pick me up on your way down'

'you were mine for just a while, but now yer puttin on the style, and you've never once looked back, to that home accross the track...'

...I've found a new girlfriend
You may think she's trash
She ain't much to see
but she looks good to me
thru the bottom of a glass.

"And across from the bar, there's a pile of beer cans, been there 47 years,
Imagine all the heartaches and tears in 47 years of beer."

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Rick Richtmyer
Good News

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Broken down, in tiny pieces, love's not really worth the time. Just a nickel that I borrowed, for a dream that cost a dime.

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