"A child is born in the world tonight underneath the full moonlight. And on the nightway a fire starts, diesel engines & broken hearts. The girls wanna dance and the boys wanna fight"
― Styx The World Tonight
"A flight of fancy on a windswept field, standing alone my senses reeled. A fatal attraction holding me fast, how can I escape this irresistible grasp? Can't keep my eyes from the circling sky. Tongue-tied and twisted Just an earth-bound misfit: I."
― Pink Floyd Learning to Fly
"A Lerxst in Wonderland"
― Rush, title of one of the sections of the instrumental La Villa Strangiato
"A momentary lapse of reason that binds a life for life"
― Pink Floyd Learning To Fly
"A pleasant face man steps up to greet you"
― Rush Twilight Zone
"A soul in tension that's learning to fly; condition grounded but determined to try; can't keep my eyes from the circling skies. Tongue-tied and twisted . . . just an earth-bound misfit: I"
― Pink Floyd Learning To Fly
"A thousand misty riders climb up, higher once upon a time; wandering and dreaming, the words have different meaning"
― Pink Floyd
"A world of indifference. Heads and hearts too full. Careless of the consequence of constant push and pull."
― Rush Kid Gloves
"Ægyptian kings they sing of Gods, and pyramids of stone, but they left the deserts clean, and they left the deserts golden . . . shining as a beacon, for those that need a road (I do) into the day and thru the night we go, and find our way home"
― Jefferson Starship When the Earth Moves Again off of Bark(1971)
"All around that dull grey world from Moscow to Berlin, people storm the barricades, walls go tumbling in. The counter-revolution. People smiling through their tears. Who can give them back their lives, and all those wasted years? All those precious wasted years. Who will pay?"
― Rush Heresy
"All because I felt it, . . . I believe it. There are things I've never seen . . . that I believe. So I'm gonna place my face right in the triangle door, till I can move right on through . . . instead of just standing here . . . looking at the floor. If it rains again tonight, I can think light years ahead, or I can put myself back a thousand years ago; as if I'd always been here before or as if I am still to be born I'm a slow loser, but I'm a fast learner that much I know . . . Anyone can Go."
― Grace Slick Hyperdrive off of Dragonfly
"All that is now, All that is gone, All that's to come, and everything under the Sun is in tune . . . but the Sun is eclipsed by the moon"
― Pink Floyd
"And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage?"
― Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here
"And eleven long-haired friends of Jesus in a chartreuse microbus."
― from the lyrics to Convoy by C. W. McCall
"And fairy stories held me high on clouds of sunlight floating by."
― Pink Floyd Matilda Mother on Pipers at the Gates of Dawn
"And I can feel one of my turns coming on. I feel cold as a razor blade, tight as a tourniquet, dry as a funeral drum."
― Pink Floyd One Of My Turns
"And if you hear, if you hear . . . the singing silver wind . . . . . . *Fly* . . . , sailing, sailing human bird . . . fly into me. Look up - the roof is gone. And the long hand moves right, on right on by the hour. Look up the roof is gone. Look up again the roof is gone."
― Grace Slick Theme from the Movie: Manhole off of Manhole
"And the men who hold high places must be the ones who start. To mold a new reality . . . closer to the heart."
― Rush Closer To The Heart
"And the world screams, 'Kiss me, Son of God!'"
― They Might Be Giants
"And there was a lady she rolled around the town in China. And there was a lady she rolled and rolled. And she killed a war and she made the warlord rise in time. She sat him down, took him down, and she laid him out for just one more round. Drunk in a beautiful garden . . . Celebration. Here comes the Khan. Storm the palace. Look for Alice. Rising Oriental girl . . . diving back for just one more pearl"
― Grace Slick Sketches of China off of Baron von Tollbooth and the Chrome Nun
"As I move through seven levels . . . As I move upon the slate . . . As I declare to you . . . The number of my moves . . . . . . As I speculate the Eighth. Seeking love without exception . . . A light upon the swarm . . . Seeking love without exception . . . safe . . . smooth . . . warm . . . "
― Patti Smith in Seven Ways of Going on Wave
"At twenty, . . . man, . . . you've had it! . . . If you know what I mean, and you start aging very fast, the day you reach thirteen, . . . and so before these golden days, these Lolita days, are through, I'm gonna get myself some hoochy pants and here's what I m gonna do . . . "
― Somebody performed by Susan Watson and the Harlots in the play Celebration
"Baby I'm up for anything, I don't know where to draw the line!"
― Mick Jagger in *Star, Star* or more accurately, StarFucker off the 1973 Goat's Head Soup album
"Because he was human, because he had goodness, because he was moral, they called him insane. Delusions of grandeur, visions of splendor, a manic depressive, he walks in the rain."
― Rush Cinderella Man
"Call out the instigators, because there's something in the air. We've got to get together sooner or later, because the revolution's here, and you know it's right. And you know that it's right."
― Thunderclap Newman in Something In The Air
"Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail? A smile from a veil? Do you think you can tell? And did they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts? Hot ashes for trees? Hot air for a cool breeze? Cold comfort for change?"
― Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here
"Caught in the camera eye, I have no heart to lie. I can't pretend a stranger is a long-awaited friend. All the world's indeed a stage. And we are merely players: Performers and portrayers, each another's audience outside the gilded cage."
― Rush, Limelight
"Cause there's no wind left in my soul and I've grown old"
― Pink Floyd Wots...uh the Deal - Obscured by Clouds
"Change the strings and notes slide, change the bridge and strings shift down, shift the notes and bridge sings . . . Fire eating people . . . Magickal toys of the Sun . . . Energy dies without body warm . . . Icicles ruin your gun."
― Grace Slick and Jefferson Airplane Eskimo Blue Day
"Chemical change . . . you've shot the warning . . . amber light. Wake me warm, let me see you . . moving everything over. Smiling in my room, you know . . . you'll be inside . . . of my mind . . . soon."
― Grace Slick Rejoyce off of After Bathing at Baxter's
"Childhood's end, Childhood's end, Childhood's end . . . Oh, there are children being born, who will amaze you with their minds. (The Day is Near . .) Leave them be, help them grow, and watch them fly. You will see things in these years, that will ease all your fears, help you build a bridge to the sky. We are not alone. We are not alone. And the sky, tastes like a ship tonight. We are not alone."
― Jefferson Airplane in Song To The Sun
"Come inside, come inside, . . . the show's about to start. Guaranteed to blow your head apart. Rest assured you'll get your money's worth. The greatest show in Heaven, Hell or Earth. You've got to see the show, it's a dynamo. You've got to see the show, it's rock and roll, rock and roll."
― Emerson, Lake and Palmer Karn Evil 9 (1st Impression Pt. 2)
"Do what you wanna, do what you will; Just don't mess up your neighbor's thrill. And when you pay the bill, kindly leave a little tip, to help the next poor sucker on his one-way trip."
― Frank Zappa, You Are What You Is
Drove from Paris to the Amsterdam Hilton, Talking in our beds for a week. The newspapers said, "Say what you doing in bed?" I said, "We're only trying to get us some peace". Christ you know it ain't easy, You know how hard it can be. The way things are going They're going to crucify me."
― John Lennon, The Ballad Of John And Yoko
"Earth mother your children are here, high and feeling dandy. . . . Your children are at your side now, don't worry anymore. Your children are your salvation. They see your life as their own. We recognize no nation, . . . we just dance around your throne."
― Paul Kantner and Grace Slick Earth Mother off of Sunfighter
"Esther stopped seeing Jesus, and started seeing lot's of other men"
― Dory Previn Esther's First Communion
"Every Fish that swims up stream, now that's a catch. But the full mouth, never wants to stop cookin'. The map may be flat and the globe may be patched, but the long line, keeps right on hookin' . . . Circle in a Ring of Fire, . . . where do you go, on a night that is clear and warm, oh . . . Where do you Go?"
― Grace Slick Hyperdrive off of Dragonfly
"From Nashville came a dark horse riding up, He was James K. Polk, Napoleon of the Stump"
― James K. Polk by They Might Be Giants
"He said, 'Ooh eeh, ooh ahh ahh, ting tang, whallawhalla bing bang . . ."
― Witch Doctor Ross Bagdaserian Jr., David Seville
"He's stronger by talk . . . than by sight. But by sight he'll know you. . . . You buy him a ride . . . he'll know you. Somebody's bound to lead you. Sooner or later you're bound to go"
― Grace Slick Sketches of China off of Baron von Tollbooth and the Chrome Nun
"Hey, let's get serious . . . God knows what he's doin' He wrote this book here An' the book says: He made us all to be just like Him," So . . . If we're dumb . . . Then God is dumb . . . (An' maybe even a little ugly on the side)"
― Frank Zappa Dumb all over, You are What You Is, 1981
"High on a Threshold yearning to Sing, down with the Dancers having one last fling; here's to the moment when you said hello, come on my spirit, are you ready? let's go! kiss to kiss, breath to breath, my soul surrenders, astonished to death. Night of wonder for us to keep, set our sails, channel [out] deep; capture the Rapture, two hearts meet, combined, entwined in a single beat . . . "
― Patti Smith in Frederick on Wave
"I am made from the dust of the stars, and the ocean flows in my veins. Here I hide in the heart of the city like a stranger coming out of the rain."
― Rush Presto
"I clutch the wire fence until my fingers bleed, a wound that will not heal ― a heart that cannot feel ― Hoping that the horror will recede. Hoping that tomorrow, we'll all be freed . . . sickness to insanity . . . prayer to profanity"
― Rush Red Sector A off of Grace Under Pressure
"I haven't fucked much with the past, but I've fucked plenty with the future. Over the skin of silk are scars from the splinters of stations and walls I've caressed. A stage is like each bolt of wood, like a log of Helen, is my pleasure. I would measure the success of a night by the way by the way by the amount of piss and seed I could exude over the columns that nestled the P.A. Some nights I'd surprise everybody by skipping off with a skirt of green net sewed over with flat metallic circles which dazzled and flashed. The lights were violet and white. I had an ornamental veil, but I couldn't bear to use it. When my hair was cropped, my head craved covering, but now my hair itself is a veil, and the scalp inside is a scalp of a crazy and sleepy Comanche lies beneath this netting of the skin. I wake up. I am lying peacefully I am lying peacefully and my knees are open to the sun. I desire him, and he is absolutely ready to seize me. In heart I am a moslem; in heart I am an American; in heart I am moslem, in heart I'm an American artist, and I have no guilt. I seek pleasure. I seek the nerves under your skin. The narrow archway; the layers; the scroll of ancient lettuce. We worship the flaw, the belly, the belly, the mole on the belly of an exquisite whore. He spared the child and spoiled the rod. I have not sold myself to god."
― Patti Smith Babalogue
"I knew he was different in his sexuality, I went to his parties as a straight minority, it never seemed a threat to my masculinity, he only introduced me to a wider reality."
― Rush Nobody's Hero
"I know it's easier to walk away than look it in the eye, but I had given all that I could take, and now I've only habits left to break. Tonight I'll still be lying here, surrounded in all the light "
― Dream Theater, Surrounded
"I love myself . . . I want you to love me . . . when I feel down I want you above me. I search myself . . . I want you to find me. I forget myself . . . I want you to remind me. I don't want anybody else. When I think about you I touch myself"
― Divinyls I Touch Myself
"I made it through the wilderness, somehow I made it through, . . . didn't know how lost I was, until I found you I was beat . . . incomplete . . . I'd been had, I was sad and blue, but you made me feel, yeah, you made me feel shiny and new. Like a virgin touched for the very first time, . . . "
― Madonna Like A Virgin written by Billy Steinberg and Tom Kelly
"I never thought there were corners in time, till I was told to stand in one. I've heard Circles are moving right through Corners, and they don't even know they've been around and around, and around before . . . Ringing, ringing against each other on a singing chain. Like a flying magnet, Hyperdrive has never seen any reason to remain the same . . ."
― Grace Slick Hyperdrive off of Dragonfly
"I never thought there were corners in time, till I was told to stand in one. One straight line . . head on into the other, maybe standing in a corner looks like where it's got to come. But I'll pretend one wall is the past and one is the future, and I'll stand here like the present looking for a good place to run . . ."
― Grace Slick Hyperdrive off of Dragonfly
"I see in her new face, a clear beginning; It all comes in so fast it all comes in. She knows who she is without looking, she says it out happy when the feeling is there. She's an whole new person who says just what she feels. She's a fat faced Goddess of nowhere. I hope she sees some things that will make her time happy . . . It all comes in so fast . . . it all comes in."
― Grace Slick China off of Sunfighter
"I wanna dance with Harry Dean, drive through Texas in a black limousine, I wanna piece of heaven before I die, I wanna pair of pink high heels, Catch a ride on a ferris wheel, but what I really want I just can't buy"
― Deborah Harry I Want That Man
"I wanna move like what's his name, I'll keep the money, . . . you can have the fame. Everything that's yours will soon be mine. Yeah, I wanna be the Queen of the USA, You can send me roses every other day; But what I really want I just can't buy. Here comes the Twenty-First century, it's gonna be much better for a girl like me."
― Deborah Harry I Want That Man
"I was born left-handed but the nuns where i went to school they said it wasn't right so they broke me of it and now i'm right-handed just like i'm supposed to be and now i'm fine . . . i'm just fine . . . really . . . really"
― Dory Previn's Left Hand Lost
"If Arsenic Fails, Try Algebra"
― album title by Pop Unknown
"If he wants to leave and follow the sound of the wind . . . he's going to sing as it blows. Let him go. He'll make the long faces smile, he'll turn the dead air into sound. He'll come back on the Circle. He's not gone, he's just going around . . . "
― Grace Slick Theme from the Movie: Manhole off of Manhole
"If you care to see the future, look into the eyes of your young dancing children, . . . don't be afraid of our ways"
― Jefferson Starship When the Earth Moves Again off of Bark(1971)
"If you don't mind heat in your river, and Fork tongue talking from me; Swim like an eel, fantastic snake, take my love when it's free."
― Grace Slick and Jefferson Airplane Eskimo Blue Day
"If you've only lived on earth . . . you've never seen the sun . . . or the promise of a thousand other suns that glow beyond here"
― Jefferson Starship When the Earth Moves Again off of Bark(1971)
"I'm an impressionable child in a tumultuous world, and they say I'm at a difficult stage!"
― Meatloaf Everything Louder Than Everything Else Lyrics by Jim Steinman
"I'm lying here in bed, swear my skin is inside out, just another Sunday morning, seen my diary on the newsstand, seems we've lost the truth to quicksand, it's a shame no one is praying 'Cause these voices in my head keep sayin . . . 'Love, just don't stare. Reveal the Word when you're supposed to'."
― Dream Theater, Voices
"I'm so tired of living . . . too weary to cry. Too stuborn to give in . . . curl up and die. This whole situation has, I must confess, all the tell-tale signs of another fine mess."
― Skyclad Another Fine Mess
"I'm the man on the outside looking in . . . Waiting on the first step . . . Show where the key is kept . . . Point me down the right line because it's time to let me in from the cold, turn my lead into gold"
― Pink Floyd Wots . . . Uh, The Deal
"In an out an in an out an in an out an in an out an in an out an in . . ."
― The Who from Mama's Got A Squeeze-Box
"In with the ashes or up with the smoke from the fire with wings up in heaven or here, lying in bed. Palm of her hand to my head now and forever curled in my heart and the heart of the world."
― Dream Theater, Wait For Sleep
"It has always been rock and so it is and so it shall be . . . Within the context of neo-rock we must open up our eyes and seize and rend the veil of smoke which man calls order. Pollution is a necessary result of the inability of man to reform and transform waste. The transformation of waste, the transformation of waste, the transformation of waste. The transformation of waste is perhaps the oldest pre-occupation of man. man being the chosen alloy, he must be reconnected-via shit, at all cost. inherent with(in) us is the dream of the task of the alchemist to create from the clay of man. and to re-create from excretion of man pure and then soft and then solid gold . . . "
― Patti Smith in 25th Floor on Easter
"It is none of the government's business, . . . who comes to . . . or goes from my body"
― Grace Slick
"It was an itsy, bitsy, teenie, weenie, yellow polka-dot bikini, That she wore for the first time today"
― lyrics by Paul Vance & Lee Pockriss, sung by Brian Hyland Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie, Yellow Polka Dot Bikini
"Lifting shadows off a Dream once broken, She can turn a drop of water Into an ocean. And she listens openly, He pours his soul into the water reflecting the mystery, She carries him away and the winds die slowly"
― Dream Theater, Lifting Shadows Off A Dream
"Listen: the North wind sounds like freezing horns Sailing through the East wind - and the East wind Has winding unwinding strings South wind sounds like skin on drums, Skin on skin but the West wind, Ah, the West wind echoes like metal wings, like a weathervane whining through the night, iron wheel turns in front of the sun, four pronged metal cuts the sky. Man must fly! Man must fly!"
― Grace Slick Theme from the Movie: Manhole off of Manhole
"Living on a lighted stage approaches the unreal, For those who think and feel . . . In touch with some reality beyond the gilded cage."
― Rush, Limelight
"Lock up the streets and houses, because there's something in the air. We've got to get together sooner or later, because the revolutions here, and you know it's right. And you know that it's right."
― Thunderclap Newman in Something In The Air
"Morning comes too early and nighttime falls too late, and sometimes all I want to do is wait. The shadow I've been hiding in has fled from me today"
― Dream Theater, Surrounded
"My counterpart, my foolish heart. A man must learn to rule his tender part. A warming trend, a gentle friend, a man must build a fortress to defend. A secret face, a touch of grace, a man must learn to give a little space. A peaceful state, a submissive trait, A man must learn to gently dominate."
― Rush Animate
"My right hand fills the china teacups, and needlepoints with old maid aunts. My right hand clings to rosary beads, and waters dying plants. But it's never painted a picture, nor has it run for president. My left hand might have done these things if its roots had not been bent, . . . . a sculptor, a poet, it might have been; instead of a useless thing to decorate with bangles and bracelets, and my mother's wedding ring. . . . Something . . . it might have accomplished or nothing, . . . but now i'll never know . . . oh . . . my lost . . . my left . . . my natural hand . . . my god . . . I miss you so . . . "
― Dory Previn's Left Hand Lost
Mystery with a thousand faces, and every one of them right. Like a calling, She holds my eyes in the light."
― Michael Franano with Baker's Pink in Julianna
"Now frontiers shift like desert sands; while nations wash their bloodied hands . . . of loyalty, . . . of history, in shades of gray"
― Pink Floyd A Great Day For Freedom
"Now - on to lyrics, this is soooo subjective, most people can spot completely pants lyrics (eg. "I don't wanna live without your love, I was born to make you happy"), but when the lyrics have feeling, power and emotion (eg. "always and forever you and me, that's the way our life should be"), it's more down to personal taste."
― David Ware
"On the wings of the night as the daytime is stirring, where the speechless unite in a silent accord"
― Pink Floyd Delicate Sound Of Thunder
"Once he was strong and filled with visions, with life ahead he set his aims, then things went wrong . . . Now his ambitions have turned to smiles, conserved in frames"
― Pain Of Salvation, Entropia
"On soft grey mornings widows cry, the wise men share a joke; I run to grasp divining signs, to satisfy the hoax. The yellow jester does not play, but gently pulls the strings, and smiles as the puppets dance, in the court of the Crimson King."
― King Crimson The Court of the Crimson King
"Once I believed that when Love came to me, it would come with rockets, bells and poetry; but with me and you it just started quietly, and grew."
― Mama Cass from the Mommas & the Poppas in It's Getting Better
"One sound, one single sound, one kiss, one single kiss . . . A face outside the window pane, however did it come to this? A man who ran, a child who cried, a girl who heard, a voice that lied."
― Pink Floyd Yet Another Movie
"Philosophers and ploughmen, each must know his part. To sow a new mentality . . . closer to the heart"
― Rush Closer To The Heart
"Pigeon-toed under-growed flyin' purple people eater, one-eyed one-horned it was a people eater"
― Sheb Wooley The Purple People Eater
"Polarize me, Sensitize me, Criticize me, Civilize me, Compensate me, Animate me, Complicate me, Elevate me; Goddess in my garden, Sister in my soul, Angel in my armor, Actress in my role; Daughter of a demon lover, Empress of the hidden face, Priestess of the Pagan Mother, Ancient Queen of inner space"
― Rush Animate
"Rend the veil and we shall sail. The nail, the grail: That's all behind me. In deed, in creed, the curve of our speed. And we believe that we will raise the sky. We got to fly over the land, over the sea. Fate unwinds and if we die, souls arise. God, do not seize me please, till victory. . . . "
― Patti Smith in Till Victory on Easter
"Screaming in language that no man understands, of the rights that we won with our own bleeding hands, when we threw down the bosses, and tore down the walls of the prison they told us would outlast us all!"
― excerpt from lyrics to in Marat/Sade or The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum at Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade covered by Judy Collins
"She lay in the shadow of the wave; hazy were the visions of her playing; sunlight on her eyes, but moonshine made her cry every time."
― Pink Floyd Green is the Colour
"She's on time again and then I catch her by the eye, then I stop and have to thinkWhat a funny thing to do 'cause I'm feeling very pink."
― Pink Floyd Apples and Oranges
Sign of the swine and the swarm. When a king is a whore who comply and conform. Miles outside of the eye of the storm, with a siphon to lure and a prize and award, while avoiding the vile and bizarre that is violence and war. True blue triumph is more like wait, let it snake up outta the centerfold. Let it break the walls of Jericho. ready? go. Sat where the old cardboard city folks swap tails with heads like every other penny throw."
― Aesop Rock in None Shall Pass
"Sin without deceivers, A God with no believers, I could sail by on the Winds of Silence and maybe they won't notice"
― Dream Theater, The Silent Man
"Snow called water going violent Damn the end of the stream Too much cold in one place breaks That's why you might know what I mean Consider how small you are Compared to your scream The human dream Doesn't mean shit to a tree"
― Grace Slick and Jefferson Airplane Eskimo Blue Day
"Snow cuts loose from the frozen Until it joins with the African sea Moving it changes it's cold and it's name The reason I come and go is the same"
― Grace Slick and Jefferson Airplane Eskimo Blue Day
"Somebody aimed you when you were very young; But nobody ever fired. Now you just sit there . . . inside the gun . . . Bullet . . . you're getting old and tired"
― Grace Slick Across the Board
Sometimes it's easy to believe it . . . Sound may be the warmest thing he's found. He just starts playing, then he says to me: 'Ready your body for love, there is no gravity here'. Look up . . . the roof is gone; and the long hand moves right on by the hour. Look up . . . the roof is gone!"
― Grace Slick Theme from the Movie: Manhole off of Manhole
"Soon the Gypsy Queen in a glaze of vaseline will perform on guillotine, what a scene, what a scene; Next upon the stand will you please extend a hand to Alexander's Ragtime Band, Dixieland, Dixieland"
― Emerson, Lake and Palmer Karn Evil 9 (1st Impression Part 2)
"Spilling out of the steel glass . . . Humanity gone from the cage . . . A million pounds gone from your heavy mass . . . all the years gone from your age. Hydroponic gardens and forests, glistening with lakes in the Jupiter starlite. Room for babies and Byzantine dancing astronauts of renown; the magician and the pantechnicon, take along the farmer and the physician. We gotta get out and down. Back into the future. Beyond our own time again. Reachin' for tomorrow. It's so fine ― Starshine"
― Jefferson Starship Starship off of Blows Against the Empire
"Steven won't give his arm to save goat's on mother's farm; War's good business . . . so give your son, and I'd rather have my country die for me."
― Grace Slick Rejoyce off of After Bathing at Baxter's
"Swimming in a primitive sea, you and I, we must dive below the surface. A world of red neon and ultramarine, shining bridges on the ocean floor reaching to the alien shore"
― Rush Alien Shore
"Television man is crazy, says we're juvenile delinquent wrecks. Oh man, I need T.V.? When I got T. Rex?"
― Mott the Hoople All the Young Dudes written by David Bowie
"The blacksmith and the artist reflect it in their art. They forge their creativity . . . closer to the heart"
― Rush Closer To The Heart
"The Grand Vizier's Garden Party"
― title of a three movement instrumental work on Pink Floyd's Ummagumma
"The land is green and you make it grow, and you gotta let go you know . . . . . . Or else you stay . . . Mankind gone from the cage . . . All the years gone from your age. . . . At first I was irridescent . . . Then I became transparent . . . Finally I was absent . . . "
― Jefferson Starship Starship off of Blows Against the Empire
"The Left Hand is, we always say, the demon devil's side. The left hand does the dirty work, the shameful things you hide. Judas kissed the left cheek of christ, it's satan's special mark. There were no left-footed animals allowed on Noah's ark. Left-handed people are impure, they go against the grain. Left-handed children play with themselves and drive themselves insane. . . . . . I was born left-handed, but the nuns where I went to school, they said it wasn't right, so they broke me of it . . . and now I'm right-handed, just like I'm supposed to be . . . and now I'm fine . . . I'm just fine . . . really . . . really, . . . "
― Dory Previn's Left Hand Lost
"The moral of this story girls, is don't stay out too late . . . unless you take your shoes off . . . outside the garden gate. If ma don't hear you comin in, she can't sing out to pa. And you won't have to worry, cause he can't lay down the law!"
― Arthur Godfrey in his Slap Her Down Again, Pa
"The righteous rise with burning eyes of hatred and ill-will. Madmen fed on fear and lies to beat and burn and kill. They say there are strangers who threaten us, our immigrants and infidels. They say there is strangeness to danger us in our theatres and bookstore shelves. That those who know what's best for us must rise and save us from ourselves."
― Rush Witch Hunt
"There are those who think that life has nothing left to chance, a host of holy horrors to direct our aimless dance. A planet of playthings, we dance on the strings of powers we cannot perceive. The stars aren't aligned, or the gods are malign . . . Blame is better to give than receive."
― Rush in Free Will
"There is no pain . . . you are receding . . . A distant ship, smoke on the horizon. You are only coming through in waves. Your lips move but I can't hear what you're saying."
― Pink Floyd Comfortably Numb
"There was a ragged band that followed in our footsteps, Running before time took our dreams away."
― Pink Floyd High Hopes
"There's an unceasing wind that blows through this night. There's dust in my eyes, that blinds my sight. And silence that speaks so much louder that words, of promises broken . . . "
― Pink Floyd Sorrow
"Two feet below the surface I can still make out your wavy face."
― Nine Inch Nails I Do Not Want This
"Voices discussing me 'Others steal your thoughts they're not confined within your mind'. Thought disorder, Dream control, now they read my mind on the radio."
― Dream Theater, Voices
"Water my roots the natural thing. Natural spring to the sea. Sulphur springs make my body float, Like a ship made of logs from a tree. Redwoods talk to me Say it plain . . . The human name . . . Doesn't mean shit to a tree"
― Grace Slick and Jefferson Airplane Eskimo Blue Day
"We are all Outlaws in the eyes of Amerika! In order to survive we steal cheat lie forge fuck hide and deal. We are obscene lawless hideous dangerous dirty violent . . . and young"
― Jefferson Airplane Volunteers
"We can dance if we want to, we can leave your friends behind; 'Cause your friends don't dance and if they don't dance, well they're no friends of mine. I say, we can go where we want to, a place where they will never find. And we can act like we come from out of this world, leave the real one far behind."
― Men with Hats in Safety Dance
"We gotta get out and down, back into the future, beyond our own time again, reachin' for tomorrow, it's so fine . . . Starshine . . . The melting acid fever, streaking through my mind, makes it, ah, so difficult to see you, and, ah, so easy to touch you, and melt with you, feel with you, make Love for you, at you, around you . . . I Love You."
― Jefferson Starship Starship off of Blows Against the Empire
"We were doubly blessed . . . we were barely seventeen, and we were barely dressed"
― Meatloaf Paradise by the Dashboard Lights
"Well I snatched fer the blade o my Claymore cut and thrust and I fell doon before him round his feet. Aye! A roar he cried frae the bottom of his heart that I would nay fall but as dead, dead as 'a can be by his feet; de ya ken? . . . And the wind cried back . . . . . Thank You."
― Pink Floyd Several Species of Small Furry Animals
"Well pa and ma were so darn sore they woke me up one night. There was an awful cussin' and ma said pa was right. They was awaitin' sister Bess, who never kept her word. The sun came up as Bess came in, and this is what I heard: 'Slap her down again, pa, Slap her down again, make her tell us more, pa, tell us where she's been. We don't want our neighbors talkin' 'bout our kin, so Slap her down again, pa, Slap her down again'."
― Arthur Godfrey in his Slap Her Down Again, Pa
"What if you were starving to death and the only food you had was me? ― what would you say to the cannibal question? Would your answer be perfectly free? Your mama told you never to eat your friends with your fingers and hands, but I say you ought to eat what you will ― shove it in your mouth any way that your can. . . . You think that I will come to your mouth, . . . looking for a home. But I'll get stuck sideways, in your throat . . . like a good old chicken bone."
― Grace Slick Silver Spoon off of Sunfighter
"When she made her first communion, Esther made the perfect union; in her dress of white and wispy veil. Esther's parents said to please us, you got to go an marry Jesus. And her father took her to the alter rail. When she made her first communion Esther made the perfect union; and that night she thought of him in bed. She decided, . . . if he sees us, we ought to get a look at Jesus. And she began to see the one she wed . . . "
― Dory Previn in Esther's First Communion off of the Live at Carnegie Hall album
"When she made her first communion Esther made the perfect union; but she never saw his little face again. Yeah her mother said: 'don't tease us', so instead of seeing Jesus, she began to see a lot of other men. What she saw was quite a collection, older men and young ones too; cousins, friends, and even a brother; one at a time and quite a few. She began to see a gay uncle who resembled Billy Graham. She began to see perfect strangers, she didn't even know by name . . . "
― Dory Previn in Esther's First Communion off of the Live at Carnegie Hall album
"You are standing on my bed! (Thank you, it is beautiful) You are standing on my bed! (Thank you, it is beautiful) . . . My bed is the crossroads of a thousand private lives . . . (Be Careful, Be Careful, the Moon is Full of tears . . .)"
― You are Standing on My Bed. written by James Rado, pseudonym of James Radomski, & Gerome Ragni, for Hair Galt MacDermot
"You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice. If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice. You can choose from phantom fears and kindness that can kill; I will choose a path that's clear; . . . I will choose freewill."
― Rush in Free Will
"You can cool it you can heat it cause baby I don't need it take your TV tube and eat it and all that phony stuff on sports and all those unconfirmed reports you know I watched that rotten box until my head begin to hurt from checkin out the way those newsmen say they get the dirt before the guys on channel so and so and further they assert that any show they'll interrupt to bring the news when it comes up they say if the place blows up they will be the first to tell cause the guys they got downtown are workin hard and doing swell and if anybody gets the news before it hits the street they say that no one gets it faster their coverage can't be beat and if another woman driver gets machined gunned from her seat they'll send some joker with a brownie and you'll see it all complete . . . "
― Frank Zappa Trouble Comin Everyday
"You reached for the secret too soon, you cried for the moon. (Shine on you crazy diamond) Threatened by shadows at night, and exposed in the light. (Shine on you crazy diamond) Well, you wore out your welcome . . . with random precision, rode on the steel breeze. Come on you raver, you seer of visions, come on you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine!"
― Pink Floyd Shine On You Crazy Diamond
"You were the kind of girl who would never leave me blue . . . unless it was a handsome man, and that I could understand . . . cause I'd probably dig him too."
― Keith Sykes in You Were Goin Crazy
"You're the one who makes me come running; You're the sun who makes me shine; When you're around I'm always laughing; I want to make you mine; I close my eyes and see you before me."
― Divinyls I Touch Myself
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