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You look like a human being, but you don't have a mind of your own.

Put all the pervs in jail, bring back the birch and cat-o-nine tails.

Before you condemn me my friends, I suggest you look deep inside you. For good and evil exists in us all.

Life is so groovy when your record is hot.

When he feels the world is closing in, he turns his stereo way up high. He just spends his life, living in a rock and roll fantasy.

You're dumb, but don't give in.

Life means nothing to you, at least that's what they say. But it doesn't mean that you have the right to take life away.

The aristocrats and bureaucrats are dirty rats.

Dissatisfied with what I am, I want to be a better man.

Calling all citizens all over the world, this is Captain America calling.

Did ya ever think that we would pay the price for being lazy?

Well I'm not dumb, but I can't understand why she walked like a woman, but talked like a man.

It doesn't matter who you are, there are stars in every city, in every house, and on every street.

I don't wanna die in a nuclear war, I want to sail away to a distant shore, and make like an apeman.

The day we were born, we were all God's children.

The battles, the fights, the bruises, the bites. That's the way true love grows.

Paranoia, the destroyer.

Why stay with him, he uses you just like a human punching bag?

If I had to do my life over, I would change every single thing I have done.

There was a gas strike, oil strike, lorry strike, bread strike, got to be a Superman to survive.

How was I conceived? Was it love, was I meant, or was I just an accident?

The Christians to the lions sold out every night.

We're out of control on this loony balloon, barely missing the other planets and stars.

Yesterday love was such an easy game for you to play. But now let's face it, things are so much easier today. Let it be like yesterday.

Eagerly pursuing all the latest fads and trends cause he's a dedicated follower of fashion.

What are we living for? Two roomed apartment on the second floor?

Live life, see it through. Carry on, it's all you can do.

I think that songwriting changed when groups started spending more time in the studio.

Rudolf Valentino looks very much alive and he looks up ladies dresses as they sadly pass him by.

It's never too late to get a new design, and if you wanna compete you gotta visualize.

Plastic man got no brain, plastic man don't feel no pain.

Taken everything I've got, all I've got's this sunny afternoon.

There is more in this heaven and earth than what the scientist knows and is revealed in the x-ray.

Why bear malice? Just let it go. So what of pride? It will swallow you whole.

Oh, demon alcohol, sad memories I can't recall.

I looked in the mirror at my pigeon chest, I had to put my clothes on cause it made me depressed.

Arty farty, you'll never fool your Aunt, who knew you picked your nose and wet your pants.

If you weren't naggin', honey, you'd be so sweet.

She would be ready, but she would always make him wait.

Life had become a reproduction: it was not the real thing.

I got that idea from being in India. I always like the chanting.

If I told you God was black, what would you think of that?

I've written so many songs about Englishmen, I have to go elsewhere.

Jogging in the park is my excuse to look at all the girls.

He's better than the rest, and his arm sweat smells the best.

I'm sitting in a cage with my eye upon the clock.

Pity is easy, but it is difficult to care.

Drinking helps us to forget what we are, we leave the office and walk straight to the bar.

When he puts on that dress, he feels like a princess.

Comfort the weak and feel the poor. What on earth do we need government for?

I'm not cheap, you understand, I'm just a cut price person in a low budget land.

Surviving, that's my plan.

To the field we are scattered from the day we are born to grow wild and sleep rough til from the earth we are torn.

If after two weeks you still can't write your middle-eight, the best course of action is to see a psychiatrist

All you have to do is relax and feel your history, because it will never go away and there is no future without it.

People take pictures of the Summer, just in case someone thought they had missed it, and to proved that it really existed.

Here's hoping all the days ahead, won't be as bitter as the one's behind you. Be an optimist instead, and somehow happiness will find you.

Celluloid heroes never feel any pain.

Learn to be positive, it's your only chance.

Great American union rules with a fist, a smile, and a gun. Great American napalm lights up the sky like the sun.

Goods gone bad, but right is wrong, and I don't know which side I'm on lately.

A man has one, a cat has nine, and in between it's killing time.

The soul needs attention like the body needs to breath.

Hate builds up from the childhood when your world was a slum, but you haven't got the right to blow it to kingdom come.

Powerman don't need to fight, powerman don't need guns, powerman got money on his side.

Self destroyer, wreck your health, destroy friends, destroy yourself. The time device of self destruction, lies, confusion, start eruption.

Better close your window tight or I might come in for a bite, I'm a sleep walker.

Standing in the middle of nowhere, wondering how to begin. Lost between tomorrow and yesterday, between now and then.

I'd really like to change the world and save it from the mess it's in. I'm so weak, I'm so thin, I want to fly, but I can't even swim.

The big corporations and the big companies turned musicians into factory workers on an assembly line.

My dad taught me about music. He used to tap dance.

Take a look around, there are misfits everywhere.

I don't think England is that gray but India is like a long drone.

My girlfriend's packed her bags and moved out to another town, she couldn't stand the boredom when the video broke down.

Our repertoire consisted of rhythm and blues, sort of country rhythm and blues, Sonny Terry things.

On the surface I'm a mild mannered person, that's until you scratch the animal inside.

You make alterations, affecting your pose, a new house, a new car, a new job, a new nose.

We are the Draft Beer Preservation Society.

If New Orleans is allowed to die, a crucial part of the world's music heritage will disappear.

True love is really animal.

Life is only what you wonder. Day is light as your brightest dream.

The only time I feel at ease is swinging up and down in a coconut tree.

Yin and Yang control man's actions, and both extremes are a natural reaction.

I close my eyes and feel the universe within me.

A restless spirit who can't reach his goal, can't find a home until I've found my soul.

Cheap is small and not too steep, best of all cheap is cheap.

The King is dead, rock is done. You might be through, but I've just begun.

Come and love me, be my apeman girl, and we will be so happy in my apeman world.

The art school babe quotes William Blake as she rolls a joint, then I think that I'll score.

Money's the solution, curing all the ails of the nation. But what about the hearts of man?

Underneath that rude exterior, you've got a heart of gold.

Educate us with your media machine, tell me what to dream.

Tell the people what they want and decide what they need.

Accept your life and what it brings, I know tomorrow you find better things.

She can't see me staring at her cause I'm always wearing shades.

Silly boy, you got so much to live for, so much to aim for, so much to try for.

I call it suffering and pain, they call it entertainment.

Terrorist bombers on the left, fascist plots on the right.

The intellectual controls the spiritual, the animal respects the natural.

You say your image is new, but it looks well tested.