Alphabet Town - Lyrics - Elliott Smith - Elliott Smith

Title: Alphabet Town
Album: Elliott Smith
Artist: Elliott Smith
Composer(s): Elliott Smith

Lyric:
Alphabet city is haunted, Constantina feels right at home
She probably won't say, "You're wrong"
You're already wrong, you're already wrong
And you threw up whatever she shot down

Said, "Show me around this alphabet town"
Said, "Show me around"

There's a name you keep repeating, you got nothing better to do
You're with someone who'll hear you say it and just nod by
Her hand on your arm, her hand on your arm, she put her hand on your arm
Told you her name, you can't pronounce it

I'll show you around this alphabet town
I'll show you around this alphabet town

I know what you are, I just don't mind
I won't say you're wrong, I know what you want
And it's what I want, so let's go out
I'm ready to go out

I'll show you around this alphabet town
I'll show you around this alphabet town

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Avenue C - Lyrics - Barry Manilow

Title: Avenue C
Artist: Barry Manilow
Composer(s): Buck Clayton, Dave Lambert, Jon Hendricks

Lyric:
N.Y. I dig
What about it?
N.Y. is big
People tout it
I flip my wig
What about?
'Bout a street I dig

One day I was walkin' an'
Finally came upon a series of alphabet streets
A B C and D, but I went for C
The most of the hard-to-forget streets
It's really and truly the dilly of all m'pet streets

Hey, hey, hey everybody now
Come go walkin' with me now
Walk up Avenue C now
Chicks all lookin' so pretty
They don't give me no pity
Avenue C is the grooviest in the city

I never dug an avenue more enjoyable to me
C Avenue is groovy
Yes it was groovy as it could be
Walk with me down Avenue C
Man I really hope to say
Come on baby, while we ramble
Walk beside me while we ramble
You dig it too I feel you do
What a scenic hike
It's a walk that you're bound to like
Y'got A on the one side
B on the other
C in the middle
Baby

The reason that you're feelin' so down, babe
Is 'cause you live in Stuyvesant Town, babe
I dug you down in Hamilton Fish, babe
And realized that you were my dish, babe
Walkin' home and you can walk with me
Walkin' hand in hand on Avenue C, oh babe
And while we're walkin' we can do some talkin'
While the people dig us wonderin'
What we're puttin' down
While we, happy as we can be, glide on
Takin' life in stride up to Murphy Park
There beside the river

Well our feet got rhythm
(Pure pedal syncopation)
'N when we walk with 'em
(Demandin' admiration)
Well our step is snappy
(Dig people step aside now)
Because we're so happy
(We're takin' life in stride now)
Avenue C your vibrations
Are followin' me, oh yes

Everybody busily lookin'
(Yes yes)
Me and baby steadily cookin'
(Yes yes)
Start at one end talkin' and movin'
(Yes yes)
To the other wiggin' and groovin'
So come
You should
And view
I would
This Ave
You could
Venue
It's good
(Walk on)
C Avenue, see it my way
(Talk on)
No better view on a highway
Big town you don't know 'till you see it
(Walk on)
I never saw such a wonderful sight

You're gonna love it break
I'm hip, you'll flip
When you dig it you'll stop and linger
You'll pop your top
What a pleasure and what a swinger
Go dig it cop that view
It's bound to thrill you
(Come on, come on, go go)
Go dig it cop that view it's bound to thrill you
(Come on, come on, now, go go)
Go dig it cop that view it's bound to thrill you
Go dig it cop that view it's bound to thrill you

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Academia - Lyrics - Some People Have Real Problems - Sia

Title: Academia
Album: Some People Have Real Problems
Artist: Sia
Composer(s): Sia Furler, Daniel De Mussende Carey

Lyric:
You can be my alphabet and I will be your calculator
And together we'll work out on the escalator
I will time you as you run up the down
And you'll measure my footsteps as I blow through this town

The mean of our heights is divided by the nights
Which is times'd by the daggers and the route of all our fights
The pass of your poem just to swathe me in your knowing
And the beauty of the word is that you don't have to show it

Oh academia, you can pick me up
Soothe me with your words when I need your love

I am a dash and you are a dot
When will you see that I am all that you've got?
I'm a binary code that you cracked long ago
But to you I'm just a novel that you wish you'd never wrote

I'm greater than X and lesser than Y, so why is it
That I still can't catch your eye?
You're a cryptic crossword, a song I've never heard
While I sit here drawing circles I'm afraid of being hurt

Oh academia, you can pick me up
Soothe me with your words when I need your love

You're a difficult equation with a knack for heart evasion
Will you listen to my proof or will you add another page on?
It appears to me the graph has come and stolen all the laughs
It appears to me the pen is over analyzed again

And if I am a number, I'm infinity plus one
And if you are five words, you are afraid to be the one
And if you are a number, you're infinity plus one
And if I am four words then I am needing of your love

Oh academia, you can pick me up
Soothe me with your words when I need your love

Oh academia, academia, academia
Oh academia, academia, academia

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Desolation Row - Lyrics - Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan

Title: Desolation Row
Album: Highway 61 Revisited
Artist: Bob Dylan
Composer(s): Bob Dylan

Lyric:
They?re selling postcards of the hanging
They?re painting the passports brown
The beauty parlor is filled with sailors
The circus is in town

Here comes the blind commissioner
They?ve got him in a trance
One hand is tied to the tight-rope walker
The other is in his pants

And the riot squad they?re restless
They need somewhere to go
As lady and I look out tonight
From desolation row

Cinderella, she seems so easy
It takes one to know one, she smiles
And puts her hands into her back pockets
Bette Davis style

And in comes Romeo, he?s moaning
"You belong to me I believe"
And someone turns and says to him
"My friend you'd better leave"

And the only sound that?s left
After the ambulances go
Is Cinderella sweeping up
On desolation row

Now the moon is almost hidden
The stars they're just pretending to hide
The fortunetelling lady
Has even taken all her things inside

All except for Cain and Abel
And the hunchback of Notre Dame
Everyone is makin' love
Or else expecting rain

And the good Samaritan, he?s dressing
He?s getting ready for the show
He?s going to the carnival tonight
On desolation row

Ophelia, she?s ?neath the window
For her I feel so afraid
On her twenty-second birthday
She already is an old maid

Now to her, death is quite romantic
She wears an iron vest
Her profession is her religion
Her sin is her lifelessness

And though her eyes are fixed upon
Noah?s great rainbow
She spends her time peeking
Into desolation row

Einstein, disguised as Robin Hood
With his memories in a trunk
Passed this way an hour ago
With his friend, some jealous monk

Now he looked so immaculately frightful
As he bummed his cigarette
Then he went off sniffing drainpipes
And reciting the alphabet

You would not think to look at him
But he was famous long ago
For playing the electric violin
On desolation row

Dr. Filth, he keeps his world
Locked inside of his leather cup
But all his sexless patients
They?re trying to blow it up

Now his nurse, some local loser
She?s in charge of the cyanide hole
She also keeps the cards that read
"Have mercy on his soul"

They all play on the penny whistle
You can hear them blow
If you lean your head out far enough
From desolation row

Across the street they?ve nailed the curtains
They?re getting ready for the feast
The phantom of the opera
In a perfect image of a priest

They?re spoon feeding Casanova
To get him to feel more assured
Then they?ll kill him with self-confidence
After poisoning him with words

And the phantom shouts to skinny girls
"Get outta here if you don?t know
Casanova he's just being punished for going
To desolation row"

Now at midnight all the agents
And the superhuman crew
Come out and round up everyone
That knows more than they do

Then they bring them to the factory
Where the heart attack machine
Is strapped across their shoulders
And then the kerosene

Is brought down from the castles
By insurance men who go
Check to see that no one is escaping
To desolation row

Praise be to Nero?s Neptune
The Titanic sails at dawn
And everybody?s shouting
"Which side are you on?"

And Ezra Pound and T.S. Elliott
Fighting in the captain?s tower
While Calypso's singers laugh at them
And fishermen hold flowers

Between the windows of the sea
Where lovely mermaids flow
And nobody has to think too much
About desolation row

Yes, I received your letter yesterday
About the time the door knob broke
When you asked me how I was doing
Was that some kind of joke?

All these people that you mention
Yes, I know them, they?re quite lame
I had to rearrange their faces
And give them all another name

Right now I cannot read too well
Don?t send me no more letters, no
Not unless you mail them
From desolation row

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