Quotes and lyrical snippets…

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You guys know how it goes:

The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the
Inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men
Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will
shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness
for he is truly his brother’s keeper and the finder of lost children
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious
Anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers
And you will know
My name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee

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njerry wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

So then who’s talking to Jerry?

You know that weird rabbit-looking guy from Donnie Darko?

Him.

Harvey? Ah, he’s no bother.

Don’t let him talk you into a game of Snakes ‘n’ Ladders and you’ll be grand.

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njerry

There are places I remember…

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JRCarter

What have I become, now that I’ve betrayed
Everyone I’ve ever loved, I pushed them all away
And I have been a slave to the Judas in my mind
Is there something left for me to save
In the wreckage of my life, my life

I’m becom-, I’m becom-, I’m becoming
I’m becom-, I’m becom-, I’m becoming
Judas in, Judas in my mind
I’m becom-, I’m becom-, I’m becoming
I’m becom-, I’m becom-, I’m becoming
Judas in, Judas in my mind
Judas in my mind

It’s all because of you
I’m feeling sad and blue

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JRCarter

I left my wallet in El Segundo…

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JRCarter

If I were king of the forest, not queen, not duke, not prince,
My regal robes of the forest would be satin, not cotton, not chintz.
I’d command each thing, be it fish or fowl
With a woof, and a woof, and a royal growl (woof).
As I’d click my heel, all the trees would kneel
And the mountains bow, and the wolves kowtow!
And the sparrow would take wing
If I — if I — were king.

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JRCarter, DavidM

And the sky is black and still now

On the hill where the angels sing

Ain’t it funny how an old broken bottle

Looks just like a diamond ring

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njerry

A man we passed just tried to stare me down
And when I looked at you
You looked at the ground
I don’t know who he is but I think that you do
Dad-gum-it! Who is he, and what is he to you?

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njerry

Five days out on an infinite sea, they prayed for calm on an ocean free
But the surface of the water was indicating some disturbance.

The raft was hurled by an unseen source, two hundred feet with frightening force
And a dark mass rising showed to be a giant porpoise.

Rising out of the angry sea, towered the creatures’ enemy
And so the two sea monsters closed for battle.

Crocodile teeth, lizard’s head, bloodshot eye stained ocean red
Moving close to their raft’s side, the three men prayed as one and cried
“Save me, save me, save me, save me”.

I did it thirty five minutes ago…

Al-x wrote:

I did it thirty five minutes ago…

Leave a window open next time.

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Bruce

You raise the blade
You make the change
You rearrange me ’till I’m sane
You lock the door
And throw away the key
And there’s someone in my head, but it’s not me

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njerry

It’s cold outside

There’s no kind of atmosphere

I’m all alone

More or less

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DavidM, Rocket

Fun fun fun in the sun sun sun

You are my sunshine, my smeg-y sunshine

You make me happy when skies are smegged

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Rocket, Todd

Born under a bad sign
Been down since I begin to crawl
If it wasn’t for bad luck
You know I wouldn’t have no luck at all

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njerry, Todd

Landslide bought it down

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JRCarter

Zoom zoom zoom and a boom boom

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JRCarter

Our house
in the middle of our street.

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JRCarter

And in the end
the love you take
is equal to the love you make

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JRCarter, Todd, Rocket, Dave, Al-x

And I know, I know, I know, I know
I know, I know, I know, I know
I know, I know, I know, I know
I know, I know, I know, I know
I know, I know, I know, I know
I know, I know, I know, I know
I know, I know
Hey, I ought to leave the young thing alone
But ain’t no sunshine when she’s gone

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Rocket, njerry, Dave, Al-x

Al-x wrote:

Our house in the middle of our street.

 

I remember way back then when everything was true and when
We would have such a good time, such a fine time
Such a  happy time

And I remember how we’d play, simple waste the day away
Then we’d say nothing would come between us
Two dreamers

Dreamer, you know you are a dreamer
Well can you put your hands in your head, oh no!
I said dreamer, you’re nothing but a dreamer
Well can you put your hands in your head, oh no!
I said “far out, what a day, a year, a life it is!”
You know, well you know, you had it comin’ to you
Now, there’s not a lot I can do

O blah di O blah da
life goes on

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JRCarter, Todd

La dee da dee

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JRCarter

Don’t push me, ’cause I’m close to the edge
I’m trying not to lose my head
Ah-huh-huh-huh-huh
It’s like a jungle sometimes
It makes me wonder how I keep from going under

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Dave, njerry, Al-x

Health insurance rip off lying FDA big bankers buying
Fake computer crashes dying
Cloning while they’re multiplying
Fashion shoots with Beck and Hanson
Courtney Love, and Marilyn Manson
You’re all fakes
Run to your mansions
Come around
We’ll kick your ass in

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Rocket, JRCarter, Todd

You can dispense with the pleasantries Commander.
I am here to put you back on schedule

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JRCarter, Dave

No Biff! You leave her alone!

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JRCarter

Look around
Leaves are brown
And the sky is a hazy shade of winter

That’s some cold shit, throwing my man Leroy out the window. Just picked my man up and threw him out the Goddamn window.

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Todd

He said “Whatcha gonna be when you grow up?”

Jesus said “God”

Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way

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Todd

The time is gone, the song is over,
Thought I’d something more to say.

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DavidM

As I get older, I find that Time means more and more to me. I don’t think I understood it at all when I was 20, which was probably when I first heard it. Or even when I was 30 (which is how old Roger Waters was when he wrote it).

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Rocket

That’s the way that the world goes ’round

You’re up one day, the next you’re down

It’s a happy enchilada, you think you’re gonna drown

That’s the way that the world goes ’round

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njerry

Whether or not we realize it yet, we’re all gonna miss John Prine.

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Todd

Ya’ know that old trees just grow stronger
And old rivers grow wilder ev’ry day
Old people just grow lonesome
Waiting for someone to say, “Hello in there, hello”

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I used to sleep at the foot of old glory

And awake in the dawn’s early light

But much to my surprise when I opened my eyes

I was a victim of the great compromise

njerry wrote:

Whether or not we realize it yet, we’re all gonna miss John Prine.

It’s not fair. He was a Steinbeck storyteller.

“The cuckoo clock has died of shock and the windows feel no pane.”

He was gloriously funny and sad and true all at the same time.

I miss my stolen guitar.

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njerry

[Rocket]

When I woke up this morning, things were lookin’ bad
Seem like total silence was the only friend I had
Bowl of oatmeal tried to stare me down… and won
And it was twelve o’clock before I realized
That I was havin’ no fun
But fortunately I have the key to escape reality
And you may see me tonight with an illegal smile
It don’t cost very much, but it lasts a long while
Won’t you please tell the man I didn’t kill anyone
No I’m just tryin’ to have me some fun

this is a perfect song for my current situation. I feel like there have been days recently when I have lost a staring contest with my breakfast. My Condolences to everyone mourning his loss but it reminded of this song and made me smile

• This reply was modified 4 years, 9 months ago by Rocket.

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njerry, Todd

Sending out an SOS

‘Cause one is the loneliest number that you’ll ever do
One is the loneliest number, whoa-oh, worse than two

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JRCarter

Contrary to rumor, gigolos get lonely too
All my lovers need stimulation
But honey, babe, I think that I need you

I was working part time in a five-and-dime
My boss was Mr. McGee
He told me several times that he didn’t like my kind
‘Cause I was a bit too leisurely
Seems that I was busy doing something close to nothing
But different than the day before
That’s when I saw her, ooh, I saw her
She walked in through the out door, out door
She wore a…

Raspberry beret
The kind you find in a second hand store
Raspberry beret
And if it was warm she wouldn’t wear much more
Raspberry beret
I think I love her

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Todd, njerry

But if you could just see the beauty,
These things I could never describe,
These pleasures a wayward distraction,
This is my one lucky prize.

Isolation, isolation, isolation, isolation, isolation.

I made it through the wilderness

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JRCarter, njerry

Al-x wrote:

I made it through the wilderness

…touched for the very first time?

Bow wow wow
Yipee yo Yipee yay

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JRCarter

And I still find it so hard
To say what I need to say
But I’m quite sure that you’ll tell me
Just how I should feel today

Now I stand here waiting…

Spending all my nights, all my money going out on the town
Doing anything just to get you off of my mind
But when the morning comes, I’m right back where I started again
And trying to forget you is just a waste of time

Yeah

(Sunrise) There’s a new sun a-risin’
(In your eyes) I can see a new horizon
(Realize) That will keep me realizin’
You’re the biggest part of me

(Stay the night) Need your lovin’ here beside me
(Shine the light) Need you close enough to guide me
(For all my life) I’ve been hopin’ you would find me
You’re the biggest part of me

A B C

easy as

1 2 3

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JRCarter, Todd

I never meant to cause you any sorrow…

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JRCarter, njerry

“You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words.
And yet I am one of the lucky ones.
People are suffering. People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing.
We are in the beginning of mass extinction,
and all you can do is talk about money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth.
How dare you!”

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Rocket, DavidM

8675309

So when you call up that shrink in Beverly Hills
You know the one, Dr. Everything’ll-Be-Alright
Instead of asking him how much of your time is left
Ask him how much of your mind, baby

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JRCarter

Al-x wrote:

8675309

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DavidM, Bruce, Todd

How can you just leave me standing?
Alone in a world that’s so cold (so cold)
Maybe I’m just too demanding
Maybe I’m just like my father, too bold
Maybe you’re just like my mother
She’s never satisfied (she’s never satisfied)
Why do we scream at each other?
This is what it sounds like
When doves cry

Now there you go again
you say
you want your freedom

Obsession

You forests, like cathedrals, are my dread:
You roar like organs. Our curst hearts, like cells
Where death forever rattles on the bed,
Echo your de Profundis as it swells.

My spirit hates you, Ocean! sees, and loathes
Its tumults in your own. Of men defeated
The bitter laugh, that’s full of sobs and oaths,
Is in your own tremendously repeated.

How you would please me, Night! without your stars
Which speak a foreign dialect, that jars
On one who seeks the void, the black, the bare.

Yet even your darkest shade a canvas forms
Whereon my eye must multiply in swarms
Familiar looks of shapes no longer there.

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Christian

Which of us has the widest range of quotes?

What does that even mean? I speak three languages fluently, so I can probably quote more things than you based on that, since you’d probably massacre any Swedish and Norwegian quote. But no, jokes aside: What does that even mean?

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DavidM

What does God need with a starship?

USS Enterprise, shakedown crew’s report. I think this new ship was put together by monkeys. Oh, she’s got a fine engine, but half the doors won’t open, and guess whose job it is to make it right.

Rocket wrote:

So when you call up that shrink in Beverly Hills
You know the one, Dr. Everything’ll-Be-Alright
Instead of asking him how much of your time is left
Ask him how much of your mind, baby

So when the elevator tries to bring you down, go crazy; punch a higher floor.

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JRCarter

Saturday night and you’re still hangin’ around
Tired of living in your one horse town
You’d like to find a little hole in the ground
For awhile

So you go to the village in your tie dyed jeans
And you stare at the junkies and the closet queens
It’s like some pornographic magazine
And you smile

Captain Jack will get you high tonight
And take you to your special island
Captain Jack will get you by tonight
Just a little push, and you’ll be smilin’

Oh yeah

Your sister’s gone out, she’s on a date
You just sit at home and masturbate
Your phone is gonna ring soon
But you just can’t wait
For that call

So you stand on the corner in your New English clothes
And you look so polished from your hair down to your toes
Ah but still your fingers gonna pick your nose
After all

Captain Jack will get you high tonight
And take you to your special island
Captain Jack will get you by tonight
Just a little push, and you’ll be smilin’

So you decide to take a holiday
You got your tape deck and your brand new Chevrolet
Ah, there ain’t no place to go anyway
What for

So you got everything, ah, but nothing’s cool
They just found your father in the swimming pool
And you guess you won’t be going back to school
Anymore

Captain Jack will get you high tonight
And take you to your special island
Captain Jack will get you by tonight
Just a little push, and you’ll be smilin’

So you play your albums, and you smoke your pot
And you meet your girlfriend in the parking lot
Oh but still you’re aching for the things you haven’t got
What went wrong

And if you can’t understand why your world is so dead
Why you’ve got to keep in style and feed your head
Well you’re 21 and still your mother makes your bed
And that’s too long

Captain Jack will get you high tonight
And take you to your special island
Captain Jack will get you by tonight
Just a little push, and you’ll be smilin’

Captain Jack will get you high tonight
And take you to your special island
Captain Jack will get you by tonight
Just a little push, and you’ll be smilin’

Al-x wrote:

Which of us has the widest range of quotes?

I do not have a wide range of quotes. Was never good at remembering one-liners, even though I have come across a fair lot of clever ones.

Al-x wrote:

Which of us has the widest range of quotes?

Well I’ve known some pretty shady estate agents.

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Todd, Bruce

Christian wrote:

I do not have a wide range of quotes.

Based on the story below, one of my favorite things to say now is “I’m so happy I sprained my tail!” You’re welcome to use it, Christian.

https://nypost.com/2020/03/23/dog-sprains-tail-from-too-much-wagging-during-owners-coronavirus-quarantine/

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Christian, DavidM

Anonymous wrote:

But no, jokes aside: What does that even mean?

If it’s a competition, then obviously the winner will be the person who can quote the most King Crimson lyrics without googling.

Ready…

Go!

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Christian

Perhaps I should clarify…

We have quoted from Shakespeare, poets, hip hop, rock, pop,
movies, tV, plays… We haven’t quoted from Plato or Socrates yet.

The more diverse in range the better…

Al-x wrote:

We haven’t quoted from Plato or Socrates yet.

All we are is dust in the wind, dude.

Dave wrote:

All we are is dust in the wind, dude.

Dust.

Wind.

Dude.

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Dave

Every rose has its thorn.

You might be a king

or a little street sweeper

but sooner or later

you dance with the reaper

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Dave

Good job I’m neither king nor street sweeper

I’m a man of means by no means.

Don’t ever try to judge me dude / You don’t know what the fuck I’ve been through / But I know something about you / You went to Cranbrook – that’s a private school / What’s the matter, dog? / You’re embarrassed? / This guy’s a gangster? / His real name is Clarence / Now Clarence lives at home wit both parents / And Clarence parents have a real good marriage…

Like they came from nowhere with their bad intentions
They grew up in this place, we made them who they are
I can see they’re so scared, could use some attention
This house can be a maze without a guiding star

This is the song that never ends,
yes it goes on and on my friend.
Some people started singing it,
not knowing what it was,
and they’ll continue singing it forever just because…
This is the song that never ends,
yes it goes on and on my friend.
Some people started singing it,
not knowing what it was,
and they’ll continue singing it forever just because…

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JRCarter

You can run on for a long time
Run on for a long time
Run on for a long time
Sooner or later God’ll cut you down
Sooner or later God’ll cut you down

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Rocket, njerry

In brightest day
In blackest night

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JRCarter

When I was just a baby
My Mama told me, “Son
Always be a good boy
Don’t ever play with guns, ”
But I shot a man in Reno
Just to watch him die
When I hear that whistle blowin’
I hang my head and cry

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Todd

It’s only been a week
The rush of being home in rapid fading
The failing to recall
What I was missing all that time in England

Has sent me aimlessly
On foot or by the help of transportation
To knock on windows where
My friend no longer live, I had forgotten

And everywhere I go
There’s always something to remind me
Of another place in time
Where love that travelled far had found me

We stayed outside till two
Waiting for the light to come back
We didn’t talk I knew
Until you asked what I was thinking

Brave men tell the truth
A wise man’s tools are analogies and puzzles
A woman holds her tongue
Knowing silence will speak for her

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Christian

The reasons…
The reasons that we’re here

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JRCarter

Roxanne
Put on the red light

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JRCarter

Every breath you take and every move you make
Every bond you break, every step you take, I’ll be watching you
Every single day and every word you say
Every game you play, every night you stay, I’ll be watching you

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JRCarter

Many miles away
Something crawls from the slime
At the bottom of a dark Scottish lake

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njerry

Do you think you’re better off alone?

Despite all my rage, I am still just a rat in a cage

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Christian, Todd, Al-x

The battle for the mind of North America will be fought in the video arena — the videodrome. The television screen is the retina of the mind’s eye. Therefore the television screen is part of the physical structure of the brain. Therefore whatever appears on the television screen emerges as raw experience for those who watch it. Therefore television is reality, and reality is less than television.

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Todd

A desire is never simply the desire for a certain thing. It’s always also a desire for desire itself; a desire to continue to desire. Perhaps the ultimate quarrel of a desire is to be fully filled in, met, so that I desire no longer. The ultimate melancholy experience is the experience of the loss of desire itself.

There is no such thing as perfection, there are only standards. And after you have set a standard you learn that it was not high enough. You want to surpass it.

Christian wrote:

The battle for the mind of North America will be fought in the video arena — the videodrome. The television screen is the retina of the mind’s eye. Therefore the television screen is part of the physical structure of the brain. Therefore whatever appears on the television screen emerges as raw experience for those who watch it. Therefore television is reality, and reality is less than television.

Death to Videodrome! Long live the New Flesh!

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Christian

If I can’t dance, you can keep your revolution.

If you didn’t come to party, don’t bother knocking on my door

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Al-x

Don’t worry
Be happy

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JRCarter

Life is getting a bit monotonous so this quote is stuck in my mind.

Pinky: What are we going to do tomorrow night? 

Brain: The same thing we do every night, Pinky – try to take over the world! .

the same thing every day. the same thing every night, its so frustrating.

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njerry, DavidM, JRCarter

Ding, dinka, dong in tuff sülwesternatta
al boreal neon et terrans glace;
antiko anno kojas quasi kass…
ding rekviem sür akva et rabatta.

Ding in novella et dong wæck senilo
in tremulant annal-moment primær.
Ding wæck la bluff ex tellus’ landamær,
et dong in pravda pro noj instabilo.

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