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01 Sep 2010, 2:25 am

'I met her outside the IGA - true love works in funny ways....'

The Scavengers/The marching Girls - True Love

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01 Sep 2010, 2:30 am

First stanza to the J-rock song Howling by Abingdon Boys School (and my latest ringtone):

The night sky full of cries
Hearts filled with lies
The contract, is it worth the price?
A soul pledged to the darkness
Now I've lost it, I know I can kill
The truth exists beyond the Gate!

(This whole intro paragraph is a reference to the anime Darker than Black, of which Howling is the first opening theme.)

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01 Sep 2010, 3:42 am

Never really thought about it so it takes some effort to compare.

Hinder's "Get Stoned" comes to my mind but technically it's the second line not part of the first. Cold always could open a song well and Remedy starts with "I don't love how you love". Going a bit darker Lamb of God always comes in heavy with stuff like "Pray for blood" in the song "Walk With Me In Hell", "Somewhere between an excuse and a lie" in "Pathetic", and "Blank stares from broken men" in "What I've Become".

Yeah...no definite answer today.

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01 Sep 2010, 5:02 am

my daddy left home when i was three, an' he didn't leave much for ma and me- just this ol' guitar and an empty bottle of booze."

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01 Sep 2010, 5:33 am

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"Will someone please radio for help, cause I think I'm alergic to myself."

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"It's like a pencil with erasers at both ends..."

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01 Sep 2010, 5:34 am

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01 Sep 2010, 6:53 am

"He blew into town like a paper sack, in a stolen car with a shotgun in the back." -Kirsty MacColl, Can't Stop Killing You

"I've seen you in my face as I've aged - you beautiful f**k up, so casually brave." - WIFS, Brother of the Mayor of Bridgewater

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01 Sep 2010, 8:10 am

"I am the son and the heir of a shyness that is criminally vulgar." - How Soon Is Now?, The Smiths

"Look at me. Who Am I Supposed to be?" - Look At Me, John Lennon

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01 Sep 2010, 11:22 am

"Sometimes, I can't help but feeling that I'm living a life of illusion" - Joe Walsh - Life of Illusion

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01 Sep 2010, 11:34 am

This is the sound of my brain.

Then I said, "This is the sound of my brain on Don Henley." (Don Henley Must Die! ~ Mojo Nixen)

Yo, Cory man

Sup?

I saw ELVIS the other day!

Git outta hear man! (Elvis is Dead ~ Living Colour)

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01 Sep 2010, 1:18 pm

"I'M THE SCATMAN"

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01 Sep 2010, 3:57 pm

Dalton_Man321 wrote:

"I'M THE SCATMAN"

Long time no hear!

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01 Sep 2010, 5:15 pm

Oh i adore first lines. i couldnt pick

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03 Sep 2010, 5:36 am

Alkaline Trio~ Radio :arrow:
"Shaking like a dog shittin' razorblade"

Bif Naked~ The Peacock Song :arrow:
"My mind's an ashtray full of ashes"

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03 Sep 2010, 11:10 pm

Impossible - too many genres, moods, even languages. In its own field, who could top "Mairzy doats and dozy doats and liddle lamzy divey"? But in any other field, well!...

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04 Sep 2010, 12:12 am

Philologos wrote:

Impossible - too many genres, moods, even languages. In its own field, who could top "Mairzy doats and dozy doats and liddle lamzy divey"? But in any other field, well!...

believe it or not, that ditty was written by highly literate people FOR highly literate people.

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