Ten of Top 100 Song Lines and Lyrics Part IV

Ten of Top 100 Song Lines and Lyrics Part IV by Roxanne McDonald

Everybody knows that the dice are loaded/Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed/Everybody knows that the war is over/Everybody knows that the good guys lost/Everybody knows the fight is fixed/the poor stay poor and the rich get rich/That’s how it goes/Everybody knows that the boat is sinking/Everybody knows that the captain lied/Everybody’s got this broken feeling/Like their Momma or there dog just died/Everybody’s hands are in their pockets/Everybody wants a box of chocolates/and a long stem rose/ Everybody knows. “Everybody Knows” Leonard Cohen; The Essential Leonard Cohen

31. Nice girls not one with a defect, cellophane shrink- wrapped, so correct./Red dogs under illegal legs./She looks so good that he gets down and begs. “Watching the Detectives”; Elvis Costello; The Very Best of Elvis Costello

32. And the seasons they go round and round/And the painted ponies go up and down/Were captive on the carousel of time/We cant return we can only look behind from where we came/And go round and round and round in the circle game.
“The Circle Game;” Tom Rush; The Circle Game

33. I’m in love with a woman who don’t even appeal to me.
“Things Have Changed;” Bob Dylan; Time Out of Mind

34. Here comes ol’ flat top/He come groovin’ up slowly/He’s got Joo Joo eyeball/He one holy roller/He got hair down to his knees/Got to be a joker he just do what he please…./He wear no shoeshine/He’s got toe jam football/He’s got monkey finger/He shoot Coca-Cola/He say “I know you, you know me”/One thing I can tell you is you got to be free…./Come together, right now, over me.
“Come Together”; The Beatles; Abbey Road

35. Tell me what it takes to let you go/Tell me how the pain’s supposed to go/Tell me how it is that you can sleep in the night/Without thinking you lost everything that was good in your life to the toss of the dice?
“What it Takes;” Aerosmith; Get a Grip

36. Sometimes I wish to God I didn’t know now/The things I didn’t know then.
“Something to Believe In;” Poison; Flesh & Blood

37. And I go to this here party, and I just get bored/Until I look out the window, see a sweet young thing/Humpin’ on the parking meter, leanin’ on the parking meter/Oh, she looks so good, oh, she looks so fine/And I got this crazy feeling and then I’m gonna ah-ah make her mine/Ooh, I’ll put my spell on her/Here she comes/Walkin’ down the street/Here she comes/Comin’ through my door/Here she comes/Crawlin’ up my stair/Here she comes/Waltzin’ through the hall/In a pretty red dress/And oh, she looks so good, oh, she looks so fine/And I got this crazy feeling that I’m gonna ah-ah make her mine.
“Gloria”; Patti Smith; Horses

38. There’s not even breathin’ room between pleasure and pain. “Crying”; Aerosmith; Get a Grip

39. well i knew that snake was my own sweet dad from a worn out picture that my mother’d had/and i knew that scar on his check and is evil eye/he was big and bent and grey and old and i looked at him and my blood ran cold/and i said my name is sue how do u do/now your gonna die/well i hit him hard right between the eyes/and he went down, but to my surprise, he came up with a knife and cut off a piece of my ear/but i busted a chair right a across his teeth and we crashed through the wall and into the street/
kicking and a gouging in the mud and the blood and the beer. “Boy Named Sue;” Johnny Cash; This is Johnny Cash

40. They call me mellow yellow, quite rightly. “Mellow Yellow;” Donovan; Sunshine Superman/Love is Hot, Truth is Molten

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