Things you learned from songs...

Me?:
You gotta be cruel to be kind.
The love you take is equal to the love you make.
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not after you.
A person can work up a mean, mean thirst after a hard day of nothin' much at all.

You don't tug on Superman's cape.
You don't spit into the wind.
You don't pull the mask off the ol' Lone Ranger.

And you sure as hell better not mess around with Jim.

I don't know how much I learned from songs but I sure love to sing along with echo & the bunnymen.

jesus rides beside me
but he never buys any smokes
and he ain't in no hurry to help with these ashtray floors, dirty clothes and filthy jokes, either

what looks large from a distance close up is never that big.
for every woman who made a fool of a man theres a woman who made a man of a fool.
some people are in charge of pens that shouldnt be in charge of brooms.
they have the nerve to rip off a mans life in a paragraph or two.
when you were young you learn to disappear to cover up your fear with punk rock n stuff.
im picking out a thermos for you not a ordinary thermos for you

Women never really faint
Villains always blink their eyes
Children are the only ones that blush
Life is just to die -- Lou Reed

The men at the factory
Are old and cunning
You don't owe them nothing
Boy, get running!
It's the best years of your life they want to steal -- The Clash

someday we'll look back at this and it will all seem funny
don't remind me of my failures, i have not forgotten them
hope i die before i get old

It's up to me not to heed the call up.

You can't get what you want til you know what you want.

He who fucks nuns will someday join the church.

[Sex] is a lot like playing the violin. You cannot start out and be Yehudi Menuin.

We can't go on together with suspicious minds.

I wear it well. Madam Onassis has nothing on me.

Got to pay your dues if you wanna sing the blues, and you know it don't come easy.

I gotta make plans for the plans I make
Gotta have friends for the friends I make
I gotta make plans for the friends I make
Gotta have friends for the plans I make

It's a movie, but I felt like sharing it anyway.

I AM A COP! KING KONG AIN'T GOT NUTHIN' ON ME!!!

-- Denzel Washington, Training Day

We can be heroes just for one day
The book I read was in your eyes
We are ugly but we have the music
All the young girls love Alice

Baby's on fire, better throw her in the water.

Now this is educational.

Take your mind back - I don't know when
Sometime when it always seemed
To be just us and them
Girls that wore pink
And boys that wore blue
Boys that always grew up better men
Than me and you

What's a man now - what's a man mean
Is he rough or is he rugged
Is he cultural and clean
Now it's all change - it's got to change more
'cause we think it's getting better
But nobody's really sure

And so it goes - go round again
But now and then we wonder who the real men are

See the nice boys - dancing in pairs
Golden earring golden tan
Blow-wave in the hair
Sure they're all straight - straight as a line
All the gays are macho
Can't you see their leather shine

You don't want to sound dumb - don't want to offend
So don't call me a faggot
Not unless you are a friend
Then if you're tall and handsome and strong
You can wear the uniform and I could play along

And so it goes - go round again
But now and then we wonder who the real men are

Time to get scared - time to change plan
Don't know how to treat a lady
Don't know how to be a man
Time to admit - what you call defeat
'cause there's women running past you now
And you just drag your feet

Man makes a gun - man goes to war
Man can kill and man can drink
And man can take a whore
Kill all the blacks - kill all the reds
And if there's war between the sexes
Then there'll be no people left

And so it goes - go round again
But now and then we wonder who the real men are

-- Joe Jackson