“...You need a man to go to hell with...”
- Tuesday Weld.
“...Words, as it is well known, are the great foes of reality...”
- Joseph Konrad
“... doch der Haifisch lebt im Wasser -
so die Tränen sieht man nicht..”
- The Crew of the Rammstein.
“ ... Then the Greek appears on the second floor
In his bare feet with a rope around his neck...”
- Bob Dylan.
“...Strange day’s have found us
And through their strange hours
We linger alone...
- The Doors.
“...Old man look at my life
I’m a lot like you were...”
- Neil Young.
“... Ahh, listen to them!...The children of the night. What sweet music they make! ...”
- Count Dracula.
“...In my heart, is a place called Swampland
Nine parts water, one part sand...”
- The Scientists.
“...Love, love will tear us apart...”
- Joy Division.
“...One more radar lover gone...”
- Golden Earing.
“...My mother and father said whiskey is a curse
But the fate of their baby is many times worse...”
- Buffy Saints Marie.
“... War, children, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away...”
- The Rolling Stones.
“...Mother?...Oh Mother! What have you done?!!...”
- Norman Bates.
“...She took me for all I was worth
May I remind you that ain’t much at all...”
- The Dropkick Murpheys.
“... I'll chop you down like an old dead tree
Dirty old town, Dirty old town...”
- The Pogues.
“...I hope you got your things together
I hope you are quite prepared to die
Look's like we're in for nasty weather
One eye is taken for an eye...”
- Creedence Clearwater Revival.
“...I got Garland Jeffreys on the car radio
You know I don’t need you...”
Cpt. Tek of The Birdman.
“...And the wind it cries ‘Mary’...”
- Jimi Hendrix.
“...There’s a killer on the road
His brain is squirmin’ like a toad...”
- Jim Morrison.
“...Goodbye Rosko, you sure were cookin’
But I turned up the heat when you weren’t lookin’...”
- The lads from the Black Sally.
“...The places she’s been, the horrors she’s seen
But no sailor speaks of what happens at sea...”
- The Lads from the Naval Band.
“... Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth;
whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul;
whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet...
I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can...”
~ Herman Melville, Moby Dick.
“...Wake up! Wake the fuck up!...”
- The lads from The Crisis.
“... I was not equipped to know how to care
And on the occasions I came up for air
I saw my life and wondered
What the hell I had been living...”
- Cpt. Nick of the Bad Seed.
“...If I could, baby I’d give you my world
But how can I? When you won’t take it from me
You can go your own way...”
- Fleetwood Mac.
“... Things ain’t what they used to be
This ain’t the Summer of Love...”
- Blue Oyster Cult.
“... Despair and Deception, Love's ugly little twins
Came a-knocking on my door, I let them in
Darling, you're the punishment for all of my former sins
I let love in...”
Cpt. Nick of the Bad Seed.
“...You have the mind
You have the heart
So let’s make this world shake...”
The lads From Crisis to Collapse
“...Well, now I tell you, I never seen good come ‘o goodness yet. Him that strikes first is my fancy; dead men don’t bite...”
- Israel Hands, Treasure Island.
“.. Ghost ships are sailing on empty seas
The light that was in the darkness
It does not shine on me...”
- The Saints.
“..I need everything the world owes me
I tell that to myself and I agree...”
- Alice Cooper.
“...All mushrooms are edible, but some mushrooms are only edible once...”
- Extract from the Bosun’s Scientific Journal.
“..They smelt of pubs and Wormwood Scrubs
And too many Right Wing meetings...”
- The Jam.
“...Gypsies, tramps and thieves
We’d hear it from the people of the town...”
- Cher.
“...Sometimes, dead is better...”
- Jud Crandall.
“...A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmare to the jeweled vision of a life started anew...”
Aberjhani, Stygian poet, philosopher and dog skinner.
"... When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth...”
- Sherlock Holmes.
“...Down, Down, Down
and the Devil he call my name...”
- Tom Waits.
“...and later that night
When the the lights went out of sight
Came the wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald...”
- Gorden Lightfoot.
“..Where is this fiendish brute of a hound that drove him to his death?...”
- Dr. Watson
“...I am a rock, I am an island...”
- Simon and Garfunkel.
“... Thus fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself...”
- Robinson Crusoe.
“...Every idiot who goes about with ‘Merry Christmas’ on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. He should...”
- Ebineza Scrooge.
“...She was screamin’ as she fell
But I never heard her hit...”
- The Violent Femmes
“...They had drums and guns
Drums and guns, har-oo, har-oo
The enemy never slew ya
Johnny I hardly knew ya...”
- The Dropkick Murpheys.
“...Gonna die when the sun comes up
We’ll drink until we drop
My blood’s 100 proof...”
- Gang Green
“...No more laughter, no more teddy bears
Two weeks later, no one cares...”
- The Lads from the Naval Band.
“...Well the earth died screamin’
As I lay dreamin’...”
-Tom Waits.