ones that nobody's done yet (I knew several of those)
Nobody likes their job, and nobody got enough sleep.
--that's Ani, but I don't recall which song.
Fifty thou a year will buy a lot of beer.
--Timbuk 3 "The Future's So Bright I Gotta Wear Shades"
Birds, snakes and aeroplanes. And Lenny Bruce
--REM, "It's the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)"
Shot a man in Reno just to watch him die.
--that'd be Johnny Cash, but the title escapes me at the moment
And so many more that I just can't quite name at the moment, but I know I know.
Also, because I must...
"I took one, one, one 'cause you left me and two, two, two for my family and three, three, three for my heartache and four, four, four for my headache and five, five, five for my lonely and six, six, six for my sorrow and seven, seven for n-n-no tomorrow and eight, eight, I forget what eight was for but nine, nine, nine for a lost god and ten, ten, ten, ten for everything everything everything everything."
So, if it's Violent Femmes "Kiss Off" that you were going for in the first place, you were a number off in your quote. (And yes, I do know that by heart. I've seen them live a time or six or so.)
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Date: 2002-05-20 02:10 pm (UTC)Nobody likes their job, and nobody got enough sleep.
--that's Ani, but I don't recall which song.
Fifty thou a year will buy a lot of beer.
--Timbuk 3 "The Future's So Bright I Gotta Wear Shades"
Birds, snakes and aeroplanes. And Lenny Bruce
--REM, "It's the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)"
Shot a man in Reno just to watch him die.
--that'd be Johnny Cash, but the title escapes me at the moment
And so many more that I just can't quite name at the moment, but I know I know.
Also, because I must...
"I took one, one, one 'cause you left me
and two, two, two for my family and
three, three, three for my heartache and
four, four, four for my headache and
five, five, five for my lonely and
six, six, six for my sorrow and
seven, seven for n-n-no tomorrow and
eight, eight, I forget what eight was for but
nine, nine, nine for a lost god and
ten, ten, ten, ten for everything everything everything everything."
So, if it's Violent Femmes "Kiss Off" that you were going for in the first place, you were a number off in your quote. (And yes, I do know that by heart. I've seen them live a time or six or so.)