gibingus

institutionalized is an excellent inclusion, yawhateva.

here are a few for the mix, so hard to choose:

some come to laugh their past away, some come to make it just one more day/
whichever way your pleasure tends, if you plant ice, you're gonna harvest wind.
-Grateful Dead, "Franklin's Tower", music and lyrics by Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter, and Bill Kreutzman.
(when one of the greatest beat poets is your lyricist, you end up with some pretty profound shit)


I go down to Speaker's Corner I'm thunderstruck
they got free speech, tourists, police in trucks
two men say they're Jesus one of them must be wrong
there's a protest singer singing a protest song - he says
'they wanna have a war to keep us on our knees
they wanna have a war to keep their factories
they wanna have a war to stop us buying Japanese
they wanna have a war to stop Industrial Disease
they're pointing out the enemy to keep you deaf and blind
they wanna sap your energy incarcerate your mind
they give you Rule Brittania, gassy beer, page three
two weeks in Espana and Sunday striptease'
meanwhile the first Jesus says 'I'd cure it soon
abolish monday mornings and friday afternoons'
the other one's on a hunger strike he's dying by degrees
how come Jesus gets Industrial Disease?
-Dire Straits, "Industrial Disease", music and lyrics by Mark Knopfler (so many great lyrics in their songs... so many)


I was born a rebel
Down in Dixie on a Sunday morning
Yeah with one foot in the grave
And one foot on the pedal
I was born a rebel
Tom Petty and the Hearbreakers, "Rebel", music and lyrics by Tom Petty.

Let me live 'neath your spell
You do that voodoo that you do so well

"You do Something to me," music and lyrics by Cole Porter

Although she may not the girl some men think of
As handsome to my heart
She carries the key

Won't you tell her please to put on some speed
Follow my lead, oh how I need
Someone to watch over me
-"Someone to watch over me", music and lyrics by George and Ira Gershwin

Ah get born, keep warm
Short pants, romance, learn to dance
Get dressed, get blessed
Try to be a success
Please her, please him, buy gifts
Don't steal, don't lift
Twenty years of schoolin'
And they put you on the day shift
Look out kid
They keep it all hid
Better jump down a manhole
Light yourself a candle
Don't wear sandals
Try to avoid the scandals
Don't wanna be a bum
You better chew gum
The pump don't work
'Cause the vandals took the handles
-"Subterranean Homesick Blues" by Bob Dylan (how do you choose just one?)

Some folks are born made to wave the flag,
Ooh, they're red, white and blue.
And when the band plays "Hail to the chief",
Ooh, they point the cannon at you, Lord,
It ain't me, it ain't me, I ain't no senator's son, son.
It ain't me, it ain't me; I ain't no fortunate one, no,
- CCR, "Fortunate Son," music and lyrics by John Fogarty
(and that it is used as a soundtrack in patriotic themed advertising continually astounds me)

When men on the chessboard
Get up and tell you where to go
And you've just had some kind of mushroom
And your mind is moving low
Go ask Alice
I think she'll know
-"White Rabbit" -Jefferson Airplane

I went down to the chelsea drugstore
To get your prescription filled
I was standing in line with mr. jimmy
And man, did he look pretty ill
We decided that we would have a soda
My favorite flavor, cherry red
I sung my song to mr. jimmy
Yeah, and he said one word to me, and that was "dead"
Rolling Stones, "You Can't Always Get What You Want"

School girl sadie with the classy kinda sassy
Little skirt climbing way up her knees
There was three young ladies in the school gym locker
When I noticed they was lookin’ at me
-Aerosmith, "Walk This Way"

I watch the ripples change their size
But never leave the stream
Of warm impermanence
So the days float through my eyes
But stil the days seem the same
And these children that you spit on
As they try to change their worlds
Are immune to your consultations
They’re quite aware of what they’re going through
-"Changes" David Bowie

And I will break for now with what I consider to be the all time greatest song lyric:

Wop bop a loo bop a lop bam boom!
-Tutti Fruitti, Richard Penniman

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