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Yer So Bad

Yer So Bad
Tom Petty
(YouTube)

My sister got lucky, married a yuppie
Took him for all he was worth
Now shes a swinger dating a singer
I can decide which is worse

But not me, baby
I’ve got you to save me
Aw, yer so bad
Best thing Ive ever had
In a world gone mad
Yer so bad
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DARE

Here’s another song that’s wormed its way into my head thanks to Pandora

DARE
Gorillaz
(Youtube)

It’s coming up
It’s coming up
It’s coming up
It’s coming up
It’s coming up
It’s coming up
It’s coming up
It’s DARE

It’s DARE

You’ve got to press it on you
You just think it
That’s what you do, baby
Hold it down, DARE

Jump with them all and move it
Jump back and forth
And feel like you were there yourself
Work it out
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9-9

This seemed appropriate today.

9-9
R.E.M.

Steady repetition is a compulsion mutually reenforced.
Now what does that mean?
Is there a just contradiction?
Nothing much.
Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep.
If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord, hesitate.

Had to punch
Right on target
Twisting tongues
Gotta stripe down his back
all nine yards down her back

Give me a cup of time,
Give me a couple of pointers,
Turn to lies and conversation fear
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Perfect Circle

This is one of my all-time favorite R.E.M. songs.

Perfect Circle
R.E.M.
(Youtube video)

Put your hair back, we get to leave
Eleven gallows on your sleeve
Shallow figure, winner’s paid
Eleven shadows way out of place
Standing too soon, shoulders high in the room
Standing too soon, shoulders high in the room
Standing too soon, shoulders high in the room
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September Morn

September Morn
Neil Diamond

Stay for just a while
Stay, and let me look at you
It’s been so long, I hardly knew you
Standing in the door
Stay with me a while
I only wanna talk to you
We’ve traveled halfway ’round the world
To find ourselves again

September morn
We danced until the night became a brand new day
Two lovers playing scenes from some romantic play
September morning still can make me feel that way
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Secret Separation

Secret Separation
The Fixx

We are passengers in time
Lost in motion, locked together
Day and night, by trick of light
But I must take another journey
We must meet with other names

You touched my heart so deeply
You rescued me now free me
Don’t watch me cry just see me go
I’ll take away the strongest feelings
You will ever know

There will be no more isolation
In our secret separation
You touched my heart so deeply, you rescued me
Now free me
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Fourth Friday Downtown Jams in Raleigh

I was trying to finish up work here when I noticed the near-constant stream of traffic outside my office window had come to a halt. In its place are a number of tents, tables, and chairs.

Off to New Raleigh for the answer: today is the first of a downtown music event called the Fourth Friday Downtown Jams.

Sez New Raleigh:

If you’re trying to have a post-work week beverage in the street while checking out some early evening music–then definitely step over to Hargett Street on Friday, July 25th. This blues jam block party will be the first in a new monthly Fourth Friday event featuring Jazz, Blues, Reggae, and Afrobeat jams in downtown Raleigh

If I wasn’t playing Barney Fife tonight I might want to go. There doesn’t seem to be any website showing who’s organizing this (Raleigh Times is my guess) and the New Raleigh site is borked at the moment (note to New Raleigh: check out Apache), but take my word for it: this looks like it’ll be fun.

Walk Away

To paraphrase Bono, this song is f’in brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.
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Walk Away
Franz Ferdinand

I swapped my innocence for pride
Crushed the end within my stride
Said I’m strong now I know that I’m a leaver
I love the sound of you walking away, you walking away
Mascara bleeds a blackened tear, oh
And I am cold, yes, I’m cold
But not as cold as you are
I love the sound of you walking away, you walking away
I love the sound of you walking away, walking away, hey hey

Why don’t you walk away?
Why don’t you walk away?
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