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There Is No Time

Lou Reed

New York

1989

This is no time for Celebration
this is no time for Shaking Heads
This is no time for Backslapping
this is no time for Marching Bands

This is

Hey You

Thin Lizzy

Chinatown

1980

home?
Go right back to where you come from
Don't get involved in this masquerade
This big city is going to eat you up
All the backslapping
Hey you,

the hell
My little girl just thinks I'm swell
No back-slapping daddy-o
Ran the caddy up to 9-0

Staying Fat

Bloc Party

Bloc Party [EP]

2004

rioting
There's no art in a broken head
All the kids are staying fat

And I'm air-kissing, back-slapping
Check the body for valuables
It's called

Morality Play in Three Acts

Chumbawamba

Uneasy Listening

1999

dripping wet, 
Playing sir politick-would-be. 
Backslapping, backsliding, 
Back to basic instincts, backfiring. 
By your own choice you're on a hiding

blowhards you
Need to seperate your facts from fiction
Practice your diction backslapping and spitting
A spat "you're past your best" that's past tense
Now

(eh...)
We got it all on tape (eh...)

Dead dream grandstanding
Networking, glad-handing
Backslapping, yeah-man-ing
Crash landing

That's how the game is

minds.
Infighting, backbiting, 
Shitslinging, bullshitting. 
Jawboning, pie-holing, 
Earmarking, piggybacking. 
Glad-handing, backslapping, 
Lip-flapping,

Sleep Now

Caroline LaVelle

Spirit

1995

falling
And your flesh touching god
To the chatter and backslapping of christ
Meeting the heroes of war
Sleep now, you do not hear the dry wind pray

a classy place
Very nice
le Mondrian

And them latino backslapping asskissing bell boys outside
Well, you can have anyone for a fiver and a smile in

Backslapping, backsliding,
back to basic instincts, backfiring.
By your own choice you're on a hiding to nothing,
I ask you which is more comforting?
The thought

the cruddy rest underneath 
the immaculate vest  

it's all about the seeming
it's not even real

I don't mind back-slapping friends
but in need, the one

I'm the type to grab a knife
And I'm stabbing you with it backwards
I'm backslapping wack ass non-rappers
Snatch the breath out of you faster than