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“ A bunch of lonesome and very quarrelsome heroes / were smoking out along the open... ”
“ Now the courtroom is quiet, but who will confess. / Is it true you betrayed us? The answer is... ”
“ The ponies run, the girls are young, / The odds are there to... ”
“ The ponies run, the girls are young, / The odds are there to... ”
“ I loved you for a long, long time / I know this love is real / It don't matter how it all went... ”
“ Suddenly the night has grown colder. / The god of love preparing to... ”
“ (Oh friends, .. don't matter if you're a man or a woman. If you're in... ”
“ The birds they sang / at the break of day / Start again / I heard them say / Don't dwell on... ”
“ Say a prayer for the cowboy / His mare's run away / And he'll walk til he finds... ”
“ Are you back in my life to stay / Or is it just for today / Oh that you're gonna need... ”
“ Like a bird on the wire, / like a drunk in a midnight choir / I have tried in my way to be... ”
“ O Crown of Light, O Darkened One, / I never thought we’d meet. / You kiss my lips, and then it’s... ”
“ By the rivers dark / I wandered on. / I lived my life / in Babylon. / And I did forget / My holy... ”
“ I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel, / you were talking so brave and so... ”
“ Ah we're drinking and we're dancing / and the band is really... ”
“ Maybe I'm still hurting / I can't turn the other cheek / But you know that I still love... ”
“ Dance me to your beauty / with a burning violin / Dance me through the... ”
“ Ah the man she wanted all her life was hanging by a... ”
“ It's coming through a hole in the air, / from those nights in Tiananmen... ”
“ I was born in a beauty salon / My father was a dresser of... ”
“ Four o'clock in the afternoon / and I didn't feel like very... ”
“ Everybody knows that the dice are loaded / Everybody rolls with their fingers... ”
“ It's four in the morning, the end of December / I'm writing you now just to see if you're... ”
“ Field Commander Cohen, he was our most important spy. / Wounded in the line of... ”
“ I touched you once too often / Now I don't know who I am / My fingerprints were... ”
“ They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom / For trying to change the system from... ”
“ Now I've heard there was a secret chord / That David played, and it pleased the... ”
“ Baby, I've been here before. / I know this room, I've walked this floor... ”
“ I greet you from the other side / Of sorrow and despair / With a love so vast and... ”
“ Here is your crown / And your seal and rings; / And here is your love / For all... ”
“ I loved you in the morning, our kisses deep and... ”
“ Do you remember all of those pledges / That we pledged in the passionate... ”
“ Your father's gone a-hunting / He's deep in the forest so wild / And he cannot take his wife with... ”
“ I came so far for beauty / I left so much behind / My patience and my family / My masterpiece... ”
“ I stumbled out of bed / I got ready for the struggle / I smoked a cigarette / And I tightened up my... ”
“ I left a woman waiting / I met her sometime later / She said, I see your eyes are... ”
“ I tried to leave you, I don't deny / I closed the book on us, at least a hundred... ”
“ If you want a lover / I'll do anything you ask me to / And if you want another kind of... ”
“ If it be your will / That I speak no more / And my voice be still / As it was... ”
“ I saw you this morning. / You were moving so fast. / Can’t seem to loosen my grip / On the... ”
“ I needed you, I knew I was in danger / of losing what I used to think was... ”
“ You were the promise at dawn, / I was the morning after. / You were Jesus Christ my... ”
“ Can you tell me why the bells are ringing? / Nothing's happened in a million... ”
“ Now the flames they followed Joan of Arc / as she came riding through the... ”
“ I came by myself to a very crowded place; / I was looking for someone who had lines in her... ”
“ The rain falls down on last year's man, / that's a jew's harp on the... ”
“ Alas, my love, you did me wrong, / to cast me out discourteously, / for I have loved you so... ”
“ She stands before you naked / you can see it, you can taste... ”
“ You thought that it could never happen / to all the people that you... ”
“ The light came through the window, / Straight from the sun above, / And so inside my little... ”
“ I asked my father, / I said, "Father change my name." / The one I'm using now it's covered... ”
“ I believe that you heard your master sing / when I was sick in... ”
“ Frankie Lane, he was singing Jezebel / I pinned an Iron Cross to my... ”
“ I lit a thin green candle, to make you jealous of me. / But the room just filled up with... ”
“ All summer long she touched me / She gathered in my soul / From many a thorn, from many... ”
“ The walls of this hotel are paper-thin / Last night I heard you making love to... ”
“ It seems so long ago, / Nancy was alone, / looking ate the Late Late... ”
“ (Let's sing another song, boys, this one has grown old and... ”
“ Come over to the window, my little darling, / I'd like to try to read your... ”
“ The stories of the street are mine,the Spanish voices... ”
“ The door it opened slowly, / my father he came in, / I was nine years... ”
“ It's true that all the men you knew were dealers / who said they were through with... ”
“ Suzanne takes you down to her place near the river / You can hear the boats go... ”
“ Many men have loved the bells / you fastened to the rein, / and everyone who wanted... ”
“ Now in Vienna there's ten pretty women / There's a shoulder where Death comes to... ”
“ I met a woman long ago / her hair the black that black can go, / Are you a teacher of the... ”
“ I fought against the bottle, / But I had to do it drunk – / Took my diamond to the pawnshop... ”
“ I came upon a butcher, / he was slaughtering a lamb, / I accused him there / with his tortured... ”
“ Now the Captain called me to his bed / He fumbled for my hand / "Take these silver bars," he... ”
“ Give me back my broken night / my mirrored room, my secret life / it's lonely... ”
“ One by one, the guests arrive / The guests are coming through / The open-hearted... ”
“ Don’t really know who sent me / To raise my voice and say: / May the lights in The Land of... ”
“ How many times did you call me / And I knew it was late / I left everybody / But I never went... ”
“ I went down to the place / Where I knew she lay waiting / Under the marble and the... ”
“ I finally broke into the prison, / I found my place in the... ”
“ When they poured across the border / I was cautioned to surrender, / this I could not... ”
“ I've never seen your eyes so wide / I've never seen your appetite quite this... ”
“ Now the Swan it floated on the English river / Ah the Rose of High Romance it opened... ”
“ Why do you stand by the window / Abandoned to beauty and pride / The thorn of the night in your... ”
“ There is a war between the rich and poor, / a war between the man and the... ”
“ Well my friends are gone and my hair is grey / I ache in the places where I used to... ”
“ As the mist leaves no scar / On the dark green hill / So my body leaves no scar / On you and never... ”
“ Un Canadien Errant (A wandering Canadian,) / Banni de ses foyers, (banned from his... ”
“ From bitter searching of the heart, / Quickened with passion and with... ”
“ Baby, I've been waiting, / I've been waiting night and day. / I didn't see the... ”
“ And who by fire, who by water, / who in the sunshine, who in the night... ”
“ Why don't you try to do without him? / Why don't you try to live... ”
“ Trav'ling lady, stay awhile / until the night is over. / I'm just a station on your... ”
“ I said I’d be your lover. / You laughed at what I said. / I lost my job... ”
“ I cannot follow you, my love, / you cannot follow me. / I am the distance you put... ”