The Lyric Chain

[Kiyoodle the Gambrinous]

Oh the yellow rose of Texas is the only girl I love
Her eyes are even bluer than Texas skies above
Her heart's as big as Texas and wherever I may go
I'll remember her forever because I love her so

There are so many roses that bloom along the way
But my heart's in Amarillo and that's where it will stay
With the yellow rose of Texas so I'd better get there fast
'Cause I know I was her first love and I want to be her last

Elvis Presley - The Yellow Rose of Texas

[Vita Curator]

Artist: DHT
Album: Listen To Your Heart
Title: Listen To Your Heart

I know there's something in the wake of your smile.
I get a notion from the look in your eyes, yea.
You've built a love but that love falls apart.
Your little piece of heaven turns too dark.

Listen to your heart
when he's calling for you.
Listen to your heart
there's nothing else you can do.
I don't know where you're going
and I don't know why,
but listen to your heart
before you tell him goodbye.

[beagle]

...And always look on the bright side of life...
Always look on the right side of life...
(Come on guys, cheer up!)
Always look on the bright side of life...
Always look on the bright side of life...
(Worse things happen at sea, you know.)
Always look on the bright side of life...
(I mean - what have you got to lose?)
(You know, you come from nothing - you're going back to nothing.
What have you lost? Nothing!)
Always look on the right side of life...
(Incidentally, this record's on sale in the foyer. Some of us have got to live too you know).


Monty Python - Always Look...

[Sibling Lambicus the Toluous]

Jojo was a man who thought he was a loner
But he knew it wouldn't last.
Jojo left his home in Tucson, Arizona
For some California grass.

Get back, get back.
Get back to where you once belonged
Get back, get back.
Get back to where you once belonged.
Get back Jojo. Go home
Get back, get back.
Back to where you once belonged
Get back, get back.
Back to where you once belonged.
Get back Jo.

- Get Back, the Beatles

[Aphos]

On the day I went away
Was all I had to say
I want to come again and stay
Smile, and that will mean I may
'Cause I've seen blue skies
Through the tears in my eyes
And I realize I'm going home

Everywhere, it's been the same
Like I'm outside in the rain
To try and find a game
Cards for sorrow
Cards for pain
'Cause I've seen blue skies
Through the tears in my eyes
And I realize I'm going home

I'm going home
I'm going home
I'm going home

The Rocky Horror Picture Show - Im Going Home

[Sibling Lambicus the Toluous]

Blue skies
Smiling at me
Nothing but blue skies
Do I see

Bluebirds
Singing a song
Nothing but bluebirds
All day long

Never saw the sun shining so bright
Never saw things going so right
Noticing the days hurrying by
When you're in love, my how they fly

Blue days
All of them gone
Nothing but blue skies
From now on

- Blue Skies, Irving Berlin

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

Where in the hell can you go far from the things that you know
Far from the sprawl of concrete that keeps crawling its way about 1,000 miles a day?
Take one last look behind, commit this to memory and mind.
Don't miss this wasteland, this terrible place.
When you leave keep your heart off your sleeve.

Motherland cradle me, close my eyes, lullaby me to sleep.
Keep me safe, lie with me, stay beside me don't go.
Don't you go.
Oh, my five & dime queen tell me what have you seen?
The lust and the avarice, the bottomless, cavernous greed, is that what you see?

Artist: Natalie Merchant
Album: Motherland
Song: Motherland

[Vita Curator]

Artist: Soundtracks
Album: The Phantom of the Opera Movie 
Title: Phantom Of The Opera 

in sleep he sang to me
in dreams he came
that voice which calls to me
and speaks my name
and do i dream again?
for now i find
the phantom fo the opera is there
inside my mind

sing once again with me
our strange duet
my power over you
grows stronger yet
and though you turn from me
to glance behind
the phantom fo the opera is there
insdie your mind

[Sibling Lambicus the Toluous]

Just about a year ago, I set out on the road,
Seekin' my fame and fortune, lookin' for a pot of gold.
Things got bad and things got worse; I guess you know the tune.
Oh Lord, stuck in Lodi again.

Rode in on the greyhound, I'll be walkin' out if I go.
I was just passin' through, must be seven months or more.
Ran out of time and money, looks like they took my friends.
Oh Lord, stuck in Lodi again.

The man from the magazine said I was on my way.
Somewhere I lost connections, ran out of songs to play.
I came into town a one night stand; looks like my plans fell through
Oh Lord, stuck in Lodi again.

If I only had a dollar for every song I've sung
Ev'ry time I've had to play while people sat there drunk.
You know, I'd catch the next train back to where i live.
Oh Lord, stuck in Lodi again.
Oh Lord, stuck in Lodi again.

- Lodi, Creedence Clearwater Revival

[NeferKa the Bodhipasta]

The ding dong daddy had a sensual soul
Lonely women flocked to him & he loved them all
The train went in the tunnel in the dark he proposed
The bonds of matrimony in the sweetest prose
The ladies got together & decided they'd been had
This ain't Salt Lake & you ain't Don Juan man
We've got to give you credit was we
Happy for a time
But you're the ding dong daddy of the d car line


Cherry Poppin' Daddies, "Ding Dong Daddy of the D-Car Line"

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

Alanis Morisette
Album:  Jagged Little Pill
Song: Hand in my pocket

I'm broke but I'm happy
I'm poor but I'm kind
I'm short but I'm healthy, yeah
I'm high but I'm grounded
I'm sane but I'm overwhelmed
I'm lost but I'm hopeful baby
What it all comes down to
Is that everything's gonna be fine fine fine
I've got one hand in my pocket
And the other one is giving a high five
I feel drunk but I'm sober
I'm young and I'm underpaid
I'm tired but I'm working, yeah
I care but I'm restless
I'm here but I'm really gone
I'm wrong and I'm sorry baby

[Kiyoodle the Gambrinous]

I was gonna clean my room until I got high
I gonna get up and find the broom but then I got high
my room is still messed up and I know why
- cause I got high [repeat 3X]

I was gonna go to class before I got high
I coulda cheated and I coulda passed but I got high
I am taking it next semester and I know why
- cause I got high [repeat 3X]

I was gonna go to work but then I got high
I just got a new promotion but I got high
now I'm selling dope and I know why
- cause I got high [repeat 3X]

Afroman - Because I Got High

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

4th of July
by Aimee Mann


Today's the fourth of July
Another June has gone by
And when they light up our town I just think
What a waste of gunpowder and sky

I'm certain I am alone
In harboring thoughts of our home
It's one of my faults that I can't quell my past
I ought to have gotten it gone
I ought to have gotten it...

Oh, baby, I wonder if when you are older
Someday
You'll wake up
And say, 'My God, I should have told her
What would it take
But, now here I am and the world's gotten colder
And she's got the river down which I sold her'

So that's today's memory lane
With all the pathos and pain
Another chapter in a book where the chapters are endless
And they're always the same
A verse, and a verse, and refrain

Oh, baby, I wonder if when you are older
Someday
You'll wake up
And say, 'My God, I should have told her
What would it take
But, now here I am and the world's gotten colder
And she's got the river down which I sold her
And she's got the river down which I sold her...'

[beagle]

Remember, remember the fifth of November,
the gunpowder, treason and plot,
I see of no reason why gunpowder treason
should ever be forgot.
Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes,
'twas his intent
to blow up the King and the Parliament.
Three score barrels of powder below,
Poor old England to overthrow:
By God's providence he was catch'd
With a dark lantern and burning match.
Holloa boys, holloa boys, make the bells ring.
Holloa boys, holloa boys, God save the King!
Hip hip hoorah!

Traditional - Remember, Remember the Fifth of November

[Vita Curator]

"Burning Bridges"
Pink Floyd

Bridges burning gladly,
Merging with the shadows,
Flickering between the lines.
Stolen moments floating softly on the air,
Born on wings of fire and climbing higher.
Ancient bonds are breaking,
Moving on and changing sides.
Dreaming of a new day,
Cast aside the other way.
Magic visions stirring,
Kindled by and burning flames rise in her eyes.
The door stands ajar,
The wall that once were high.
Beyond the gilded cage,
Beyond the reach of ties.
The moment is at hand.
She breaks the golden band.