Querying the Hivemind: Songs about Songs

[robkelk]

Perhaps foolishly, I volunteered over on the SJGames Forums' In Nomine board to put together a net.book about the Archangel of Song. Fans of the line will know that these books always have appropriate quotes in them, to break up the monotony of page after page of rules. I'm thinking that, since the subject is Song, in this case "quotes" means "lyrics". "Music" is a different Angel, so I can't just grab lyrics willy-nilly - they have to be at least arguably about songs (not "a song", but songs in general), in much the same way that Doug's songs have to be "about" the powers they grant him.

I do have a few lyrics - mostly the obvious ones - but I need more. Any suggestions?

Here's what I've got so far. If I think a lyric may be obscure, I've provided the performer and title:

• “Sad songs say so much”
  
• “take a sad song and make it better”
  
• “You’re so vain, you probably think this song is about you”
  
• “I write the songs that make the whole world sing”
  
• “Killing me softly with his song”
  
• “The song never dies, just the singer”
  
• “And even though it all went wrong, I’ll stand before the Lord of Song with nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah” (Leonard Cohen, “Hallelujah”)
  
• “We can play a Stones song, sitting on a fence and it’ll sound pretty good, ’til I forget how it ends.” (Yo La Tengo, “Big Day Coming”)
  
• “I like short songs.” (The Dead Kennedys, “Short Songs” - the entire song!)
  
• “Tough times demand tough talk demand tough hearts demand tough songs” (Rush, “Force Ten”)
  

--
Rob Kelk
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them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012