my eyes
I'll drift away.
Cast up on a plateau
With only one memory
A single syllable
Oh lie low lie low. »
On Some Faraway Beach
Here Come the Warm Jets
by Brian Eno
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Of arguments that end with no conclusion
Can't we make the point clear
Maybe what we need here are
Chorus:
One syllable words
Faith, hope and love »
One-Syllable Words
This Much I Understand
by Carolyn Arends
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This city's made of lights
[Random syllables sung off melody]
(Shut that fool up)
(Shut up)
Neon lights
Shimmering neon lights
And at the fall »
Neon Lights
The Man-Machine
by Kraftwerk
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three syllables sung as "ah-ah-ah" by backups>
Give me your sunny smile
Make living worth »
Unless
Heartaches by the Number [Bear Family 15454]
by Guy Mitchell
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A thought people state-
Contradicting this false speech
Sticks and stones made of syllables
These words will grow against you »
Sticks and Stones
Sewn Mouth Secrets
by Soilent Green
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I've got this syllable sickness
Called the six-second blues
No doubt quixotic talk has been subsumed
Send down one last time
That last send »
Send Down
Novelty
by Jawbox
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Prairie now isn`t that a pretty word
Rolls off the tongue like a setting sun
You should have heard what I heard
A shriek a syllable a sleight »
Prairie Dog
Sounds of the Satellites
by Laika
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But still, there is so much to say
In words with one syllable
I love you »
Breathless
Against Perfection
by Adorable
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For every comma and every quote,
Of every word of every sentence that I wrote,
From my mouth do these words spew,
Every single syllable for you,
As I »
A Literary Love Song
Sofa King Cool
by Diesel Boy
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never be contentment for me
Unless your heart is mine
Give me your sunny smile
»
Unless
The Very Best of Eddie Fisher [Taragon]
by Hugo Winterhalter & His Orchestra
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feeling fine
She was talking with syllable lisp
And everybody she knew was gonna get the twist
And they all went down and did the porqupine »
Lounge (Closing Time)
Lonesome Crowded West
by Modest Mouse
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And cover your tracks
Time will tell, the past laughs last
Syllables will try and judge you
Will pierce the anecdote
Now I know
Your plea is a case »
Red Alibi
Wiretap Scars
by Sparta
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yout the popular beliefs
About the leaders of the time,
So glisten with my syllables and
Ponder the thought,
Maybe they should have
Had »
Hilikus
Fungus Amongus
by Incubus
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every second step in boots on snow,
Complete you name in accents I can't place,
That stumble where the syllables combine,
Take depositions from »
Manifest
Live at the Burton Cummings Theatre
by The Weakerthans
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formless blameless nameless
Stray syllables were gurgling
From her throat one at a time
Face hidden from my view
I let myself imagine she was you »
Marduk T-Shirt Men's Room Incident
Heretic Pride
by The Mountain Goats
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Oh, all the words I should not know
Those doctors wrote on me
Swell up and from their syllable
Won't let me get to sleep
The sun will start later »
Hymn of the Medical Oddity
Reunion Tour
by The Weakerthans
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ever noises
Decode me into their non-communication
A soundtrack to my failure, one syllable, one vowel
A stagnant of endings. Un-time unbound. »
Dehumanization
Catch Thirty-Three
by Meshuggah
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Their hearts were hoping but a random pattern's what they got.
The syllables, they sound like words.
So what you felt is what you heard.
But »
Optimism Is for Stupid Idiots
Variations
by Paulson
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These broken arms won't hold you down
These ruptured lungs won't make a sound
These syllables won't bring you back,
Won't stitch the holes, no bones »
Fog
Wintersleep
by Wintersleep
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she's scared of big city life, I don't know
Maybe she's had a difficult life
Oh c'mon baby just a word
Just a syllable or two
Take your pick, say »
Let's Get Funky
The Best of Sparks: Music That You Can Dance To
by Sparks
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to me
Let me sum it up in just two syllables
Water water
You are the earth beneath my feet
You are the wind that's blowing me (into your arms)
You »
Water
Against All Odds
by Take Five
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to be clever,
And it don't matter if you put a couple extra syllables into a line.
It sounds more ethnic if it ain't good English
And it don't even »
The Folk Song Army
That Was the Year That Was
by Tom Lehrer
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I turn a stone I'll find you there
Into reflected light I'll stare
You blind me with flash bulbs
And puzzle me with syllables
Back to sleep »
Antistar
100th Window
by Massive Attack
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wait 'til I find some
I need some syllables do you
Know where to get them from?
When I am in my house alone
My speeches take a week
But from my lips »
Speak
Speak
by The Roches
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law for indecision
Hide and seek
We lost our syllables
Chemically the retina sees too much
Tisk tisk
Safety resides in these two limbs of mine
Can you »
Foxhole
Ethos
by A Voice Like Rhetoric
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