to feel younger
But back at his desk in the city we find
Our trembling punch-drunken fighter
Who can't find the strength now to punish the length »
Poor Fractured Atlas
All This Useless Beauty
by Elvis Costello
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Cold city like the eyes in the subway station
It's ten stories to my desk in the smoggy sky
But after five, I'm headed home to heaven »
Small Town Girl
It's a Crazy World
by Steve Wariner
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The panorama of the city is wrong
In fact the city seems to be gone!
Burning rubber and smoke in my eyes
There's a flat burning junkheap
For »
Stop the World
Clash on Broadway
by The Clash
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Our cities seem to function quite the same:
Sweeping ghettos under one big rug makes them easier to contain,
So the upper-middle class can sleep »
Rio de San Atlanta, Manitoba
Less Talk, More Rock
by Propagandhi
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office with your girls
And desk and leather chair
Thought that time was on your side
But now it's time the avenger
Nobody's permanent »
Time the Avenger
Learning to Crawl
by Pretenders
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with your girls
And desk and leather chair
Thought that time was on your side
But now it's time the avenger
Nobody's permanent
Everything's »
Time the Avenger [Re-Mastered for 'Pirate Radio']
Pirate Radio [Bonus Tracks & Interactive Booklet]
by Pretenders
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With a pay check in his hand
The heat was rising off the city streets
And it scorched his careless hand
As he headed down his lonely streets
In his »
Broken Man
Rock Therapy
by Stray Cats
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Alice works the desk at the East Bay Hotel
In Grand Marais, Minnisota
I came in one night, She said "I loved your show"
We sat and talked »
Alice
Defying Gravity
by Cheryl Wheeler
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Eric's room gets too small one night
(he) takes his whole apartment outside
down at his desk he sits and writes
under a streetlight
one »
One Starry Night
Eyewitness
by Shades Apart
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With the smell of hot desk
And the glitter of your step
He was right, he's the upcoming guru of the city
No one told the city councillors
I know, »
I Know Where the Summer Goes
This Is Just a Modern Rock Song
by Belle & Sebastian
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learned about the world around us
At our desks and at dinner time
Reminded of the starving children
We cleaned our plates with guilty minds »
Stones in the Road
Play Me Backwards
by Joan Baez
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Let's talk about the mayor...
sometimes he's just smiling, waving
But inside this is what he's thinking:
"I roam the city once in a while
But how'd »
Walk & Chew Gum
Powerpuff Girls: Heroes & Villains [Japan]
by Optiganally Yours
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Collections of books and documents
Arise and parade around my cluttered desk
Re-working the math and measurements
Until I'm convinced these plans are »
Designer Skyline
Of June
by Owl City
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The northern lights
And the Southern Comfort
And it don't even matter if your veins are punctured
All the crackheads, the critics, the cities
And all my »
Bawitdaba
Devil Without a Cause
by Kid Rock
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asleep
Right away
"are we...are we done?"
A desk to organize
A product to advertise
A market to monopolize
Movie stars you idolize
News »
Ize of the World
First Impressions of Earth
by The Strokes
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Looking at her phone desk tappin her feet
The kind of girl your mama likes to meet
A Sunday school dress buttoned up tight
When the weekend comes »
She Likes to Get Out of Town
Hillbilly Deluxe
by Brooks & Dunn
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are thick on the ground
Somebody goes to close my window
Keep the noise of the city down
Get a dose of integrity
Every week, in every home
She »
Ita
East
by Cold Chisel
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And I'm proud of you both, in so many different ways
If I get murdered in the city
Go read the letter in my desk
Don't worry with all my belongings »
Murder In The City
Live, Vol. 3
by The Avett Brothers
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Last time in Paris was a little strange,
Had time to myself,
Headed out to see the city sights.
Met a little thing on the Champs-Elysee's, »
Last Time in Paris
Sign of the Times: The Best of Queensrÿche [2 CD]
by Queensrÿche
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I left Garden city Kansas with a ticket and a yen to see New York
I typed eighty words a minute so your corporation let me go to work
I fetch paper »
Mr. Walker It's All Over
Stand by Your Man
by Billie Jo Spears
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And the cellars, and the smoke is a ????
Got one eye on Minneapolis P.T. they both racin'
3 for 50 is the supply and demand, and the
Twin Cities' American heartland, »
Room with a View
Shadows on the Sun
by Brother Ali
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I've got a long, long list of things,
That no one needs to see.
desk drawers filled with picture frames.
Postcards tucked in underneath.
We »
Good Things
Back to Me
by Kathleen Edwards
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Mad scientist sits at his desk
Tries to decide which building should face east and which west
Allergic to the hive, the hive is giving him hives »
Ant Architect
Anaesthetic
by Milemarker
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left Garden city Kansas with a ticket
And a yen to see New York
I typed eighty words a minute
So your corporation let me go to work
I fetch »
Mr. Walker, It's All Over
Blanket on the Ground
by Billie Jo Spears
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vers les hauts terre
Vers les hauts terre
the raven flies down to the writer's desk
Landing on his shoulder, pecking at his neck
Veins popping out, »
Nom de Plume
Garden Ruin
by Calexico
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