- “And tell me why, / why won’t you love me for who I am where I am?” / He said, “'Cause that’s not the way the world is, baby. / This is how I love you, baby . . ." - Hearts and Bones
- And I could say, "Oo oo oo," / And everybody here would know what I was talking about. / I mean, everybody here would know exactly what I was talking about . . . - Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes
- And I dreamed I was dying. / I dreamed that my soul rose unexpectedly, / and, looking back down at me, / smiled reassuringly. - American Tune
- And I see losing love is like a window in your heart: / everybody sees you’re blown apart. / Everybody sees the wind blow . . ." - Graceland
- Every generation throws a hero up the pop charts. - The Boy in the Bubble
- Everybody loves the sound of a train in the distance. / Everybody thinks it’s true. - Train in the Distance
- Four in the morning, / crapped out, yawning, / longing my life away. / I'll never worry. / Why should I? / It's all gonna fade." - Still Crazy After All These Years
- I don’t know a soul who’s not been battered. / I don’t have a friend who feels at ease. / I don’t know a dream that’s not been shattered, / or driven to its knees . . . - American Tune
- I know a man,/ he came from my hometown. / He wore his passion for his woman like a thorny crown. / He said, “Dolores, I live in fear. / My love for you’s so overpowering I’m afraid that I will disappear. - Slip Slidin' Away
- If you leap awake in the mirror of a bad dream, / and for a fraction of a second, you can’t remember where you are, / just open your window and follow your memory upstream / to the meadow in the mountain where we counted every falling star . . . - Father and Daughter
- If you took all the girls I knew when I was single / and brought them all together for one night, /I know they’d never match my sweet imagination . . . - Kodachrome
- I was walking down the street / When I thought I heard this voice say, “Say, ain’t we walking down the same street together / On the very same day?” / I said, “Hey, Senorita, that’s astute,” / I said, Why don’t we get together and call ourselves an institute?” - Gumboots
- Negotiations and love songs / are often mistaken for one and the same. - Train in the Distance
- Some people never say the words “I love you.” / It’s not their style / to be so bold. / Some people never say those words “I love you,” / but, like a child, they’re longing to be told. - Something So Right
- Sonny sits by the window and thinks to himself / how it’s strange that some rooms are like cages. / Sonny’s yearbook from high school is down from the shelf, / and he idly thumbs through the pages. / Some have died. / Some have fled from themselves, / or struggled from here to get there . . . - The Obvious Child
- There is a girl in New York City / who calls herself the human trampoline, /and sometimes when I’m falling, flying / or tumbling in turmoil, I say, / "Whoa, so this is what she means." - Graceland
- There’s too many people on the bus from the airport, / too many holes in the crust of the earth. / The planet groans / every time it registers another birth. - Born at the Right Time
- You don’t need to waste your time / worryin’ about the marketplace. / Try to help the human race, / struggling to survive its harshest night. - Father and Daughter
may 18 2012 ∞
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