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[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1443006158' post='2871318']
I just love the tension created by that opening drone. The words are 'spoken' in almost a monotone. They mean nothing and they mean everything.

And, yes, I am.
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Just out of curiosity, did you write that from memory?

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[quote name='ahpook' timestamp='1443294078' post='2873691']
"We like to party
We like, we like to party
We like to party
We like, we like to party
We like to party
We like, we like to party
We like to party"
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"No no
No no no no
No no no no
No no there's no limits."

My god, it's poetry.

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Just remembered this one


[font="'Bookman Old Style"][color="#3d3d3d"]All my lazy teenage boasts are now high precision ghosts[/color][/font]
[font="'Bookman Old Style"][color="#3d3d3d"]And they're coming round the track to haunt me[/color][/font]

Although for the pedants among you it's not technically the first line.

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I was down at the New Amsterdam, staring at this yellow haired girl - Counting Crows, Mr Jones

And your hands are really shaking something awful as you light your twenty-seventh cigarette - Joan Osborn, Crazy Baby

Psychic spies from China try to steal your mind's elation - Red Hot Chili Peppers, Californication

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[size=4][font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif][color=#000000]Love I get so lost, sometimes[/color]
[color=#000000]Days pass and this emptiness fills my heart[/color]
[color=#000000]When I want to run away[/color]
[color=#000000]I drive off in my car[/color]
[color=#000000]But whichever way I go[/color]
[color=#000000]I come back to the place you are[/color][/font][/size]

[size=4][font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif][color=#000000]In Your Eyes - Peter [/color][color="#000000"]Gabriel [/color][/font][/size]

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