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Old 12-07-2003, 22:54
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What are your favourite lyrics and if you can think of a reason why do you like them?

Here are a few for starters:

Radiohead - Paranoid Android
"When I am King you will be first against the wall"

The image that power corrupts.

Coldplay - A Rush Of Blood To The Head
"Im going to buy this place and start a fire, stand here till I fill all your hearts desires"

The entire song is kind of sinister

Sheryl Crow - All I Wanna Do

I love the entire song you could almost be in the bar at noon on Tuesday!
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Old 12-07-2003, 23:28
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Alice Cooper's Poison:

I wanna love you
But I better not touch
I wanna hold you
But my senses tell me to stop
I wanna kiss you
But I want it too much and ......

I wanna hurt you
Just to hear you screaming my name



Coldplay's Yellow:

Your skin
Oh yeah your skin and bones
Turn into something beautiful
But you
You know I love you so



The whole of Eric Clapton's Tears In Heaven



The whole of Evanescence's Bring me to Life, but especially:

How can you see into my eyes like open doors
Leading you down into my core
Where I've become so numb
Without a soul my spirit's sleeping somewhere cold
Until you find me there and lead it back home



The whole of Evanescence's My Immortal



The whole of Savage Garden's Affirmation



Shakira's Underneath Your Clothes:

Underneath your clothes
Theres an endless story
There's the man I chose
Thats my territory

This song means a lot to me at the moment
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Old 13-07-2003, 00:03
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Sick Of It All - Blown Away

Fear Gripped Around You
Fear Is fixed Inside You
Fear Suffer In Sclienc

Fear Used Against You
Fear It's A Lie That They Feed You
Fear Is only A Word
You Can Only Save Yourself



Death By Stereo - No Shirts No Shoes No Salvation

Take Advantage Of All Your Parents Money
Open You Eyes Because You Think It's Kind Of Funny



Transplants -Diamonds And Guns

Its A Wicked World That We Live In
Its Cruel
Never Forget


Rancid - Roots Radicals

Give Em The Boot, The Roots, Radicals
Give Em The Boot, You Know I'm A Radical
Give Em The Boot, The Roots, The Regae On My Stereo


Sex Pistols - God Save The Queen

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!


Bouncing Souls - Born Free

People Are Greedy, It's Almost Funny
How Many Ways Can They Win Back Their Money?


Anti-Flag - Die For The Goverment

You Gotta Die, Gotta Die ,Gotta Die For Your Goverment
Die For Your country Thats Shit!



So many more but not enough room!
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Old 13-07-2003, 00:30
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MuDvAyNe

Silenced

Is it a possibility,
That we're all just equal?
Slap the power down
(Abusing)
Oh doesn't it p!ss you off,
To be beaten at your own game?
You lead us with false morals
And shelter reality!
(No more)
We're not buying your product but you sell it to us preaching silence!

Insult me in my home
Where you were never invited

World So Cold

When passion's lost
And all the trust is gone
Way too far
For way too long
Children crying
Cast out and neglected
Only in a world so cold
Only in a world this cold
Hold the hand of your best friend
Look into their eyes
Then watch them drift away
Some might say
We've done the wrong things
For way too long
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Old 13-07-2003, 20:10
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''How can you lie there and think of England when you don't even know who's in the team?''

'Greetings To The New Brunette' by Billy Bragg.

Just pure class!
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Old 14-07-2003, 12:40
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A very political song. But the lyrics are based on a true story and are quite emotive.

Its by a folk singer called 'Harvey Andrews' and was first released in the early seventies.

'The Soldier'

In a station in the city, a British soldier stood
Talking to the people there, if the people would
Some just stared in hatred, and others turned in pain
and the lonely British soldier wished he was back home again

Come join the British Army! said the posters in his town
See the world and have your fun, come serve before the Crown
The jobs were hard to come by and he could not face the dole
So he took his country's shilling and enlisted on the roll

For there was-no fear of fighting, the Empire long was lost
Just ten years in the Army getting paid for being bossed
Then leave a man experienced, a man who's made the grade
A medal and a pension, some memories and a trade

Then came the call for Ireland as the call had come before
Another bloody chapter in an endless civil war
The priests they stood on both sides, the priests they stood behind
Another fight in Jesus' name, the blind against the blind

The soldier stood between them, between the whistling stones
And then the broken bottles that led to broken bones
The petrol bombs that burnt his hands, the nails that pierced his skin
And wished that he had stayed at home surrounded by his kin

The station filled with people, the soldier soon was bored
But better in the station, than where the people war'ed
The room filled up with mothers, with daughters and with sons
Who stared with itchy fingers at the soldier and his gun

A yell of fear, a screech of brakes, the shattering of glass
The window of the station broke to let the package pass
A scream came from the mothers as they ran towards the door
Dragging children crying from the bomb upon the floor

The soldier stood and could not move, his gun he could not use
He knew the bomb had seconds and not minutes on the fuse
He could not run and pick it up, and throw it in the street
There were far too many people there, too many running feet

Take cover! yelled the soldier, Take cover for your lives
And the Irishmen threw down their young and stood before their wives
They turned towards the soldier, their eyes alive with fear
For God's sake save our children or they'll end their short lives here

The soldier moved towards the bomb his stomach like a stone
Why was this his battle? God? why was he alone?
He lay down on the package and he murmured one farewell
To those at home in England, to those he loved so well

He saw the sights of summer, felt the wind upon his brow
The young girls in the city parks, how precious were they now
The soaring of the swallow the beauty of the swan
The music of the turning world, so soon would it be gone

A muffled soft explosion and the room began to quake
The soldier blown across the floor, his blood a crimson lake
There was no time to cry or shout, there was no time to moan
And they turned their children's faces from the blood and from the bones

The crowd outside soon gathered and the ambulances came
To carry off the body of a pawn lost in the game
And the crowd they clapped and cheered and they sang their rebel song
One soldier less to interfere where he did not belong

And will the children growing up learn at their mothers' knees
The story of the soldier who bought their liberty
Who used his youthful body as a means towards an end
Who gave his life to those, who called him 'murderer' not 'friend'

Harvey Andrews (Vocals and Acoustic Guitar)
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Old 14-07-2003, 12:41
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another lyric I love is from the Jams 'going underground'.

'The people want what the people get

A nice twist, and applies to Big Brother 4 I believe!!
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Old 14-07-2003, 13:09
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East 17 -deep



Turn the lights low
And put some music on
Let our bodies sing
Swing 2 the soft song
I feel ya heat
It's turning me on
I wanna feel ya all night long so
Come close, as close as U can
I surrender you're so tender and tanned
I wanna toss, I wanna tumble
Feel and fumble, I wanna do it
Till my belly rumbles
So lay back and
Close your eyes and
While I fiddle U can fantasize
Yeah
While I fiddle U can fantasize

*Deep baby deep deep down
Like sleep sugar, so rest upon my chest

What ya body wants
I got dis
Whatcha need indeed
I'm gonna rock this
I dream U scream and tighten ya hold
I tiggle in the middle as we giggle
In I go, oh, deep and down deeper
Like an ocean
As I push I blow ya emotions
You explode, like dynamite
U got the fuse but to ya fuse I got the light
Together we swing
Shh!, I hear our souls sing
A symphony, a lovers harmony
Yeah,
Can U hear the harmony?

Repeat *

I'm gonna kiss ya from ya head 2 ya toes and then
I'm gonna lick ya where you'd love me to go, yeah!
Oil ya skin within hold ya tight
Yeah, I butter the toast
If U lick the knife
And take a shower
Maybe bubble the bath
I'll wash yours, U wash mine
Yeah, we'll have a good laugh
I'll be the sponge, the sponge
The sponge that wets U down
Then I'll be the towel upon
Your naked body, wrapped around
And then as our game comes 2 an end
We'll start again
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
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Old 14-07-2003, 13:27
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Originally posted by Esterhaus
''How can you lie there and think of England when you don't even know who's in the team?''

'Greetings To The New Brunette' by Billy Bragg.

Just pure class!
Yes Billy Bragg is a brillant song writer

A New England

"I saw some shooting stars last night,
I wished on them but they were only satellites,
Its wrong to wish on space hardware!"
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Old 14-07-2003, 13:38
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Originally posted by Michael2
A very political song. But the lyrics are based on a true story and are quite emotive.

Its by a folk singer called 'Harvey Andrews' and was first released in the early seventies.

'The Soldier'
Wow what great lyrics. It works well as a poem too. Ive never heard of the song or singer before but its really moving
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Old 14-07-2003, 13:48
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Nick Cave, The Ship Song

We'd talk about it all night long
We' define our moral ground
But when I crawl into your arms
It all comes tumbling down

Come sail your ships around me
And burn your bridges down
We make a little history, baby
Every time you come around
Come loose your dogs upon me
And let your hair hang down
You are a little mystery to me
Every time I call around

Your face is fallen sad now
For you know the time is right
When I must remove your wings
And you, you must try to fly

The Smiths, A Rush And A Push

She said, "There's too much caffine in you blood stream
And a lack of real spice in your life"

The Smiths, Stech Out And Wait

Two icy cold hands conducting the way
It's the eskimo blood in my veins

Whipping Boy, When We Were Young

When we were young nobody died
And nobody got older
The toughest kid on the street
Could always be bought over

The Pixies, Where Is My Mind

With your feet on the air and your head on the ground
Try this trick and spin it............................................Yeah!
Your head'll colapse and when there's nothing in it
You'll ask yourself
Where is my mind?
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Old 14-07-2003, 14:55
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Originally posted by Everything Goes
Wow what great lyrics. It works well as a poem too. Ive never heard of the song or singer before but its really moving
I saw him supporting 'Focus' on a tour in the early seventies. 1973 I think. I'd never heard of him before that, but loved that song. He sings it with so much feeling as well. He did some other great songs as well.
He still does concerts theses days, hes getting on a bit, but still delivers

http://www.harveyandrews.com/
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Old 14-07-2003, 17:33
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I like the lyrics from NOFX's album (The War Against Errorism)

"I never thought about the universe, it made me feel so small,
I never thought about the problems on this planet at all,
Global warming and radioactive sites,
The imperialistic wrongs and animal rights, NO!"

Quite political but shows what we are doing to the world I suppose, thi song has a good riff to it aswell.
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Old 14-07-2003, 17:47
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All the words to Something Inside So Strong

The higher you build your barriers
The taller I become
The further you take my rights away
The faster I will run
You can deny me, you can decide
To turn your face away
No matter 'cause there's

Something inside so strong
I know that I can make it
Though you're doing me wrong, so wrong
You thought that my pride was gone, oh no
There's something inside so strong
Oh oh-oh-oh-oh-oh, something inside so strong

The more you refuse to hear my voice (ooh-weh ooh-weh ooh-weh ooh-weh)
The louder I will sing
You hide behind walls of Jericho (ooh-weh ooh-weh ooh-weh ooh-weh)
Your lies will come tumbling
Deny my place in time, you squander wealth that's mine
My light will shine so brightly it will blind you
Because there's

Something inside so strong
I know that I can make it
Though you're doing me wrong, so wrong
You thought that my pride was gone, oh no
There's something inside so strong
Oh oh-oh-oh-oh-oh, something inside so strong

Brothers and sisters, when they insist we're just not good enough
Well we know better, just look him in his eyes and say
We're gonna do it anyway, we're gonna do it anyway
We're gonna do it anyway, we're gonna do it anyway
Because there's

Something inside so strong
I know that I can make it
Though you're doing me wrong, so wrong
You thought that my pride was gone, oh no, oh no
There's something inside so strong

Something inside so strong
I know that I can make it
Though you're doing me wrong, so wrong
You thought that my pride was gone, oh no, oh no
There's something inside so strong
Oh oh-oh-oh-oh-oh, something inside so strong
(Oh oh oh) oh oh-oh-oh-oh-oh, something inside so strong
Oh oh-oh-oh-oh, something inside so strong
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Old 14-07-2003, 19:11
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I used to like Something Inside So Strong, and the lyrics are undeniably powerful. But now it just makes me think of car adverts
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Old 14-07-2003, 19:18
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[quote][i]Originally posted by Everything Goes
Yes Billy Bragg is a brillant song writer

A New England

"I saw some shooting stars last night,
I wished on them but they were only satellites,
Its wrong to wish on space hardware!" /QUOTE]

LOL. Great stuff It always made me laugh whenever I heard Kirsty Maccoll's take on that song as it was always going to be a thankless task for her - turning Billy's ''I'm just looking for another girl'' line into ''are you looking for another girl?'' never quite fitted in with the original theme of the song somehow
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Old 14-07-2003, 19:42
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Boxcar Racer - I Feel So:

"Sometimes,
I wish I was brave
I wish I was stronger
I wish I could feel no pain

I wish I was young
I wish I was shy
I wish I was honest
I wish I was you not I

Cause I feel so mad
I feel so angry
Feel so callused
So lost
Confused again..."


Boxcar Racer - There Is:

"...The days have come and gone
Our lives when but so fast"

"Do you care if I don't know what to say
Would you sleep tonight or will you think of me
Will I shake this off
Pretend it's all okay
That there's someone out there who feels just like me
There is..."


Blink 182 - Adam's Song:

"I'm too depressed to go on
You'll be sorry when I'm gone...

I never conquered, rarely came
16 just held such better days
Days when I stll felt alive...

I can't wait till I get home
To pass the time in my room alone."


Blink 182 - What Went Wrong:

"I'm sick of always hearing
All those sad songs on the radio
All day it is there to remind
An over-sensitive guy,
That he's lost and alone..."
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Old 14-07-2003, 20:18
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There are loads of lyrics that I love.

The Smiths -
and if a double-decker bus
crashes into us
to die by your side
such a heavenly way to die
and if a ten ton truck
kills the both of us
to die by your side
the pleasure and the privilege is mine.

I don't want to talk about it -
can tell by your eyes that you've probably been crying forever,
and the stars in the sky don't mean nothing to you, they're a mirror.
I don't want to talk about it, how you broke my heart.
If I stay here just a little bit longer,
If I stay here, won't you listen to my heart, my heart?
If I stand all alone, will the shadow hide the color of my heart;
blue for the tears, black for the night's fears.
The star in the sky don't mean nothing to you, they're a mirror.
I don't want to talk about it, how you broke my heart.
If I stay here just a little bit longer,
if I stay here, won't you listen to my heart, my heart?

I want you, by Elvis Costello
h my baby baby I love you more than I can tell
I don't think I can live without you
And I know that I never will
Oh my baby baby I want you so it scares me to death
I can't say anymore than "I love you"
Everything else is a waste of breath
I want you
You've had your fun you don't get well no more
I want you
Your fingernails go dragging down the wall
Be careful darling you might fall
I want you
I woke up and one of us was crying
I want you
You said "Young man I do beleive you're dying"
I want you
If you need a second opinion as you seem to do these days
You can look in my eyes and you can count the ways
I want you
Did you mean to tell me but seem to forget
I want you
Since when were you so generous and inarticulate
I want you
It's the stupid details that my heart is breaking for
It's the way your shoulders shake and what they're shaking for
I want you
it's knowing that he knows you now after only guessing
It's the thought of him undressing you or you undressing
I want you
He tossed some tatty compliment your way
I want you
And you were fool enough to love it when he said
"I want you"
I want you
The truth can't hurt you it's just like the dark
It scares you witless
But in time you see things clear and stark
I want you
Go on and hurt me then we'll let it drop
I want you
I'm afraid I won't know where to stop
I want you
I'm not ashamed to say I cried for you
I want you
I want to know the things you did that we do too
I want you
I want to hear he pleases you more than I do
I want you
I might as well be useless for all it means to you
I want you
Did you call his name out as he held you down
I want you
Oh no my darling not with that clown
I want you
You've had your fun you don't get well no more
I want you
No-one who wants you could want you more
I want you
Every night when I go off to bed and when I wake up
I want you
I want you
I'm going to say it again 'til I instill it
I know I'm going to feel this way until you kill it
I want you
I want you

Cheerful soul aren't I!!!!
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Old 14-07-2003, 23:22
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LOL!

I love a good miserable lyric myself.

(Still, that's what happens when you grow up listening to The Smiths I suppose

BTW, 'There IS A Light...' - what a top choice.
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Old 15-07-2003, 15:11
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S Club 7- Bring It All Back

Imagination is the key, cos you are your own destiny

S Club 7- You're My Number One

What is love, Cause baby I don't know
I got a funny feeling in my heart
If this is love, it feels like butterflies
So tell me baby is this how it starts

S Club 7- Two In A Million

Its a crazy world where everythin's changin'
One minute you're up and the next thing you're breakin'
When I lose my way and the skies they get heavy
It'll be okay the moment you're with me

S Club 7- Love Aint Gonna Wait For You

When your heartbeat's taking over
And there's nowhere you can go
And the love that you discovered
Is finally taking hold


S Club 7- Say Goodbye

In a year from now
Maybe we'll see each other
Standing on the same street corner, no regerts


Sometimes goodbye, though it hurts in you heart
is the only way for destiny
Sometimes goodbye, though it hurts is the only way now
for you and me
Though its the hardest thing to say
I'll miss your love in every way
So say goodbye
But don't you cry
'Coz true love never dies



Avil Lavigne- Anything But Ordinary

Sometimes I get so weird
I even freak myself out
I laugh myself to sleep
It's my lullaby

Avril Lavigne- Things I'll Never Say

I'm tugging at my hair
I'm pulling at my clothes
I'm trying to keep my cool
I know it shows
I'm staring at my feet
My cheeks are turning red
I'm searching for the words inside my head

Avril Lavigne- My World

Can't help it if I space in a daze,
My eyes tune out the other way,
I may switch off and go in a daydream,
In this head my thoughts are deep,
Sometimes I can't even speak,
Would someone be and not pretend
I'm off again in my World

Pink- Dont Let Me Get Me

Don't let me get me
I'm my own worst enemy
It's bad when you annoy yourself

Bon Jovi- Livin' On A Prayer

Hold on to what we´ve got
it doesn´t make a difference
If we make it or not
We´ve got each other and that´s a lot

Bon Jovi- It's My Life

It's my life
And It's now or never
I ain't gonna live forever

Girls Aloud- Life Got Cold

My life got cold
It happened many years ago


And long ago I lost my soul to some forgotten dream
But how was I supposed to know it wasn't what it seemed

Vanessa Carlton- Thousand Miles

If I could fall into the sky,
Do you think time
would pass me by?

Vanessa Carlton- Ordinary Day

Take my hand, Live while you can.
Don't you feel your dreams are right in the palm of your hand?

Michelle Branch- Everywhere

Cause you're everywhere to me
And when I close my eyes
It's you I see
You're everything I know
That makes me believe
I'm not alone

Eminem- Haylie's Song

Sometimes it feels like the world's on my shoulders
Everyone's leaning on me

Eminem- Sing For The Moment

They say music can alter moods and talk to you,
well can it load a gun up for you , and cock it too?
Well if it can, then the next time you assault a dude,
just tell the judge it was my fault and I'll get sued




I have loads more but i cant remember them
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Old 15-07-2003, 22:32
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There a loads of great lyrics in Marillion/Fish songs, but here are three of my favourites:

From their anti-Nazi 1987 song "White Russian":
The more I see, the more I hear, the more I find fewer answers
I close my mind, I shout it out, but you know it's getting harder
To calm down, to reason out, to come to terms with what it's all about
I'm uptight, can't sleep at night, I can't pretend everything's alright
My ideals, my sanity, it seems that they're deserting me
But to stand up and fight I know we have six million reasons

The heralds of the holocaust
The silence never louder than now, how quickly we forgot our vows
This resurrection we can't allow
Are we sitting on a barbed wire fence?
You can shut your eyes, you can hide it away, it's gonna come back another day

From their 1987 song "The Last Straw":
We live our lives in private shells
Ignore our senses and fool ourselves
To thinking that out there there's someone else cares
Someone to answer all our prayers

From Fish's anti-domestic violence song "Family Business":
When I see you at the supermarket, sunglasses in the shade
Averting your eyes from those staring questions, how were those bruises made?
The children clutch tight to your legs, they've got so much they want to say
But Daddy's sitting home, drunk again so they bite their lips and pray
'Cause Daddy don't like people prying, poking in his family affairs
And if anyone asks from the social, well, you fell down the stairs

It's family business, keep it in the family business
Can you tell me how long it remains family business?
It's nobody's business, this family business
But tell me how long it should stay family business
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Old 16-07-2003, 21:08
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a pizza hut, a pizza hut,
a kentucy fried chicken and a pizza hut do it for me all the time
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Old 16-07-2003, 21:17
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a pizza hut, a pizza hut,
a kentucy fried chicken and a pizza hut do it for me all the time
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Old 16-07-2003, 21:21
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The greatest lyrics to a song ever: REM - Its The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine).
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Old 16-07-2003, 21:31
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Everybody Hurts is the best that REM did.
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