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i'm looking for songs with interesting lyrics about the city. have to write some paper for my literature class and have only three days left (because of laziness). so i need your help with this one and pop/rock lyrics aRE easily accessible. do you have any recommendations? the easiest option: i.e. songs about London/New York thanks

― p, Friday, 16 December 2005 16:14 (twenty years ago)

JEFFERSON STARSHIP.

― slow jamz and white guy indie acoustic shit (Chris V), Friday, 16 December 2005 16:17 (twenty years ago)

'swinging london town' - girls allowed
'london belongs to me' - st etienne

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Friday, 16 December 2005 16:18 (twenty years ago)

"Map of the City" - Royal Trux

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 16 December 2005 16:18 (twenty years ago)

She had a face like a cook I've seen
in the kitchen of the Angler Hotel
See her in the city virgin
She's friendly and you know her well


A thousand odd broken stallions
still very quick on their feet
(?)...all you can eat


We're drawing up the plans for the city
Filled with ten thousand crooked stairs
Some lead up to heaven
Some look through you like you're not even there


Could it be that I see you when I cut across the park
walking along with a hound
When I look at myself in the shower I wonder will she see what I see
Will she like what she has found


I rolled out from under the engine
and I saw her standing there
I knew right then I could love her forever
even when her breasts are rotted with cancer


I wonder where she went when she said go
A sailor has to masturbate until the ship lands
A lot of things happen out on the open sea
I'm gonna sail Arizona to Japan


I'm drawing up the plans for the city
Filled with ten thousand crooked stairs
Some lead up to heaven
Some look through you like you're not even there

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 16 December 2005 16:20 (twenty years ago)

easybeats - "friday on my mind"
"gonna have fun in the city, look at my girl she's so pretty"

― travis randy, Friday, 16 December 2005 16:23 (twenty years ago)

"Who cares for the city
The city ain't nothing
But a place to be shut in
And hide from the light of the world"
- Who Cares for the City, John Ylvisaker

― Rombald, Friday, 16 December 2005 16:28 (twenty years ago)

This is London, not Antarctica, so why don't the tubes run all night,
You are my Girlfriend, not Molly Ringwald, so why won't you stay here tonight,
This is sixth form poetry not Keats or Yeats, and now we find the part that we both hate.

We love the city because it lets us down, We love the city NOT the suburbs that surround.
We love all the dirty things, that lead us to think, that maybe true love could be found.
We love the city because its how we live, We love the city cause it never loves us back.
We love it all because sometimes, even though they're hard to find, it contains all the virtues we lack.

I am intrigued, not merely curious as to why it takes so long to change your mind.
I am competent, not merely adequate, its impossible for me to be unkind.
This is embarrassing, not merely awkward and I have ignored much greater feelings

We can hold those aspirations down with bad luck and half hearted frowns,
But fear alone will never bring us down, that can only happen in the small towns,

And if you don't love me now, if you don't love me now, if you don't love me, then you can't have me, you can't have me now.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Friday, 16 December 2005 16:43 (twenty years ago)

Livin' for the City (Stevie Wonder0

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 16 December 2005 16:47 (twenty years ago)

"In the city" by Joe Walsh from the soundtrack to The Warriors.

― ELLI$, Friday, 16 December 2005 17:13 (twenty years ago)

Lou Reed to thread

― We Buy a Hammer For Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 16 December 2005 17:18 (twenty years ago)

The first three Bruce Springsteen records.

― QuantumNoise (Justin Farrar), Friday, 16 December 2005 17:26 (twenty years ago)

Patrick Wolf - Lycanthropy
to thread
("Paris", "London")

― sibsi (sibsi), Friday, 16 December 2005 17:50 (twenty years ago)

L.A. Woman - Billy Idol

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 16 December 2005 18:43 (twenty years ago)

Jamaica nice
Jamaica nice
Jamaica nice
Jamaica nice

London cool
London cool
London cool
London cool

-- Yellowman "Jamaica Nice/Take Me Home"

― Confounded (Confounded), Friday, 16 December 2005 18:54 (twenty years ago)

"I Love Livin' in the City" by FEAR
"In the City" by the Jam
"London Traffic" by the Jam
"I Love New York" by the Pop-O-Pies

Taking Sides: "Back in the New York Groove" by Ace Frehley vs. "Native New Yorker" by Odyssey

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 16 December 2005 18:56 (twenty years ago)

haha madonna 'i love new york'

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 16 December 2005 19:12 (twenty years ago)

When you're alone and life is making you lonely you can always go... DOWNTOWN

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Friday, 16 December 2005 19:21 (twenty years ago)

LCD Soundsystem - "Yr City's a Sucker"

― A|ex P@reene (Pareene), Friday, 16 December 2005 19:24 (twenty years ago)

Spacemen 3 - "Big City."

― vartman (novaheat), Friday, 16 December 2005 19:30 (twenty years ago)

The City Let Me, by The Trouble With Sweeney

― someteenpartying (someteenpartying), Friday, 16 December 2005 20:10 (twenty years ago)

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under the Bridge.

...Oh, wait...you said GOOD lyrics...

― sweet earth flying (sweet earth flying), Friday, 16 December 2005 20:12 (twenty years ago)

PRINCE - UPTOWN !!!!

― sweet earth flying (sweet earth flying), Friday, 16 December 2005 20:13 (twenty years ago)

Electric Avenue

― detoxyDancer (sexyDancer), Friday, 16 December 2005 20:17 (twenty years ago)

organ - memorize the city

― pinder (pinder), Friday, 16 December 2005 21:33 (twenty years ago)

POX: King Crimson songs about madness/violence in New York City

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Friday, 16 December 2005 21:54 (twenty years ago)

"In the city" by Joe Walsh from the soundtrack to The Warriors.

That was laughably anti-climatic. 1979 was a helluva time.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 16 December 2005 22:21 (twenty years ago)

"Cities" by The Talking Heads

Think of London, a small city

It's dark, dark in the daytime
The people sleep, sleep in the daytime
If they want to, if they want to

I'm checking them out
I'm checking them out
I got it figured out
I got it figured out
There's good points and bad points
Find a city
Find myself a city to live in.

There are a lot of rich people in Birmingham
A lot of ghosts in a lot of houses
Look over there!...A dry ice factory
A good place to get some thinking done

Down el Paso way things get pretty spread out
People got no idea where in the world they are
They go up north and come back south
Still got no idea where in the world they are.
Did I forget to mention, to mention Memphis
Home of Elvis and the ancient greeks
Do I smell? I smell home cooking
It's only the river, it's only the river.

― Wilhelm, Friday, 16 December 2005 22:24 (twenty years ago)

Summer In The City - The Lovin' Spoonful

Lou Reed to thread
I'm Waiting For The Man - The Velvet Underground

― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 16 December 2005 22:29 (twenty years ago)

no sufjan, no credibility.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 16 December 2005 22:39 (twenty years ago)

POX: King Crimson songs about madness/violence in New York City

"Thela Hun Gingeet"


I remember hearing that "Indian Summer Sky" by U2 is about crime in NYC, but I can't for the life of me remember the lyrics, so that's quite possibly a steaming load of fish poop.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 16 December 2005 22:44 (twenty years ago)

"Hung Again," "Two at a Time" and several others by Brooklyn's Cop Shoot Cop

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 16 December 2005 22:44 (twenty years ago)

"Back in New York City" by Genesis,....although there's a lot of porcupine imagery in said tune, and I've never encountered a single porcupine in my 38 years of living in NYC, so it's quite possibly that Peter Gabriel was tripping off his gourd at the time of said tune's composition, and not really singing about NYC at all.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 16 December 2005 22:45 (twenty years ago)

"The Camer Eye" by Rush...about London and New York, actually.
"New York City" by the Cult
"Let's Get Rid of New York" by the Randoms
"Brooklyn Queens" by Third Bass
"The Brooklynites" by Soul Coughing
"Downtown" by Petula Clark
"East Side Beat" by the Toasters

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 16 December 2005 22:47 (twenty years ago)

"the city" dismemberment plan

― msp (mspa), Friday, 16 December 2005 23:15 (twenty years ago)

we're up and away from the bar fights and neon lights!

― erv (Abe Froman), Saturday, 17 December 2005 01:19 (twenty years ago)

sex pistols - new york

― outdoor_miner (outdoor_miner), Saturday, 17 December 2005 02:00 (twenty years ago)

Crazy For Jane, "Origami City"
http://www.crazyforjane.com/mp3/2_Origami_City.mp3

― sibsi (sibsi), Saturday, 17 December 2005 03:02 (twenty years ago)

"Get Off of My Cloud," Rolling Stones
"Love in the City," Turtles
You definitely need lots of rap.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Saturday, 17 December 2005 03:42 (twenty years ago)

Hefner, songs off the We Love the City album http://www.hefnet.com/city.htm
Chris TT, songs off London is sinking
http://www.christt.com/songs_london.htm

― jellybean (jellybean), Saturday, 17 December 2005 03:46 (twenty years ago)

Kraftwerk - Neon Lights

― sweet earth flying (sweet earth flying), Saturday, 17 December 2005 06:06 (twenty years ago)

you guys remember the song they play in ferris buellers day off when they first get into the city? CUZ YOU SHOULD

flowerpot men - beat city

BEAT CITY NOW NOW
BEAT BEAT
BEAT BEAT
BEAT CITY NOW NOW
WHOOO-OOO-OOOOO!

― buyabiznatch, Saturday, 17 December 2005 18:40 (twenty years ago)

Pet Shop Boys "New York City Boy"

― dar1a g (daria g), Saturday, 17 December 2005 18:47 (twenty years ago)

Jamie Lidell "The City"

― Jena (JenaP), Saturday, 17 December 2005 22:10 (twenty years ago)


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