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us3rnotfound

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Operator, oh could you help me place this call
You see the number on the matchbook is old and faded
She?s livin? in l.a.
With my best old ex-friend ray
A guy she said she knew well and sometimes hated

Isn?t that the way they say it goes
But let?s forget all that
And give me the number if you can find it
So I can call just to tell them I?m fine and to show
I?ve overcome the blow
I?ve learned to take it well
I only wish my words could just convince myself
But that?s not the way it feels

Operator, oh could you help me place this call
?cause I can?t read the number that you just gave me
There?s something in my eye?s
You know it happens every time
I think about the love that i thought would save me

Isn?t that the way they say it goes
But let?s forget all that
And give me the number if you can find it
So I can call just to tell them I?m fine and to show
I?ve overcome the blow
I?ve learned to take it well
I only wish my words could just convince myself
That it just wasn?t real
But that?s not the way it feels

Operato,r oh let?s forget about this call
There?s no one there I really wanted to talk you
Thank you for your time
Oh you?ve been so much more than kind
And you can keep the dime

Isn?t that the way they say it goes
But let?s forget all that
And give me the number if you can find it
So I can call just to tell them I?m fine and to show
I?ve overcome the blow
I?ve learned to take it well
I only wish my words could just convince myself
That it just wasn?t real
But that?s not the way it feels
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morkinva

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you have to wonder what kinda stuff these guys like croce, holly, hendrix woulda come up with if they had lived longer
 
alkemyst

alkemyst

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Originally posted by: morkinva
you have to wonder what kinda stuff these guys like croce, holly, hendrix woulda come up with if they had lived longer
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and the reason why they came up with what they did.

better to burn out, then to fade a way is more than a cliche.

I have lived a fun life...a little boring now...sort of in a quandry of what to do...grow up or revert.

scars and stories.
 
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Lounatik

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I was 8 years old and just discovering how great AM radio was, when I heard that he had died. I wept a great deal that day.


Peace

Lounatik
 
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ScottMac

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Harry Chapin did the "bananas" song (about a truck overturning with 30,000 (?) pounds ..... of bananas).

Chapin is dead too ....

Scott
 
Toastedlightly

Toastedlightly

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Originally posted by: ScottMac
Harry Chapin did the "bananas" song (about a truck overturning with 30,000 (?) pounds ..... of bananas).

Chapin is dead too ....

Scott
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All this talk of dead people!
 
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Ulfwald

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f I could save Time in a bottle
The first thing that I'd like to do
Is to save every day
Til Eternity passes away
Just to spend them with you

If I could make days last forever
If words could make wishes come true
I'd save every day like a treasure and then,
Again, I would spend them with you

CHORUS:
But there never seems to be enough time
To do the things you want to do
Once you find them
I've looked around enough to know
That you're the one I want to go
Through time with

If I had a box just for wishes
And dreams that had never come true
The box would be empty
Except for the memory
Of how they were answered by you
 
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Rogue

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Most definitely one of the best of all time. His songs have such deep meaning compared to most music today.
 
skyking

skyking

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I did some googling. That song in the OP was released after his death. That really sucks.
 
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Ulfwald

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Photographs and memories
Christmas cards you sent to me
All that I have are these
To remember you

Memories that come at night
Take me to another time
Back to a happier day
When I called you mine

But we sure had a good time
When we started way back when
Morning walks and bedroom talks
Oh, how I loved you then

Summer skies and lullabies
Nights we could't say goodbye
And a lot of things that we knew
Not a dream survived

Photographs and memories
All the love you gave to me
Somehow it just can't be true
It's all I've left of you

But we sure had a good time
When we started way back when
Morning walks and bedroom talks
Oh, how I loved you then
 
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Ulfwald

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I guess that it was bound to happen
Was just a matter of time
Now I've come to my decision
And its a-one of the painful kind
'Cause now it seems that you wanted a martyr
Just a regular guy wouldn't do
But baby I can't hang upon no lover's cross for you

You really gotta hand it to ya
'Cause girl you really tried
But for ev'ry time that we spent laughin'
There were two times that I cried
And you were tryin' to make me your martyr
And that's the one thing I just couldn't do
'Cause baby I can't hang upon no lover's cross for you

'Cause tables are meant for turnin'
And people are bound to change
And bridges are meant for burnin'
When the people and mem'ries they join aren't the same

Still I hope that you can find another
Who can take what I could not
He'll have to be a super guy
Or maybe a super god
'Cause I never was much of a martyr before
And I ain't 'bout to start nothin' new
And baby I can't hang upon no lover's cross for you

'Cause tables are meant for turnin'
And people are bound to change
And bridges are meant for burnin'
When the people and mem'ries they join aren't the same

But I hope that you can find another
Who can take what I could not
He'll have to be a super guy
Or maybe a super god
'Cause I never was much of a martyr before
And I ain't 'bout to start nothin' new
And baby I can't hang upon no lover's cross for you
 
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morkinva

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better to burn out, then to fade a way is more than a cliche.
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Well 2 of the 3 I mentioned died in plane accidents, I don't think that qualifies as burning out. :music:

 
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chrisms

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Operator, can you help me, help me if you please.
Give me the right area code and the number that I need.
My rider left upon the midnight flyer,
Singin? like a summer breeze.

I think she?s somewhere down south, down about baton rouge,
But I just can?t remember no number, a number I can use.
Directory don?t have it, central done forgot it,
I?ve gotta find a number to use.

Trying to check out her number, trying to run down her line.
Operator said that?s priv?ledged information,
And it ain?t no business of mine.
It?s floodin? down in texas, poles are out in utah,
Gotta find a private line.

She could be hangin? ?round the steel mill,
Working in a house of blue lights.
Riding a getaway bus out of portland, talking to the night.
I don?t know where she?s going, I don?t care where she?s been,
Long as she?s doin? it right. long as she?s doin? it right
 
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chuckywang

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Originally posted by: morkinva
better to burn out, then to fade a way is more than a cliche.
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Well 2 of the 3 I mentioned died in plane accidents, I don't think that qualifies as burning out. :music:
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:music:

Don't be sad.
Cause 2 out of 3 ain't bad.

:music:
 
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chuckywang

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Jan 12, 2004
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Well, I know it?s kind of late
I hope I didn?t wake you
But what I got to say can?t wait
I know you?d understand
?cause every time I tried to tell you
The words just came out wrong
So I?ll have to say I love you in a song

Yeah, I know it?s kind of strange
But every time I?m near you
I just run out of things to say
I know you?d understand
?cause every time I tried to tell you
The words just came out wrong
So I?ll have to say I love you in a song

?cause every time the time was right
All the words just came out wrong
So I?ll have to say I love you in a song

Yeah, I know it?s kind of late
I hope I didn?t wake you
But there?s something that I just got to say
I know you?d understand
?cause every time I tried to tell you
The words just came out wrong
So I?ll have to say I love you in a song

:music:
 
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