h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Girl I love you
Cherie I love you so
Girl I love you
I was a fool to let you go

Billy Idol - Cherie

I love Paris in the spring time
I love Paris in the fall
I love Paris in the summer when it sizzles
I love Paris in the winter when it drizzles

...why oh why do I love Paris
Because my love is here

Sous le ciel de Paris
S'envole une chanson
Hum Hum
Elle est née d'aujourd'hui
Dans le coeur d'un garcon
Sous le ciel de Paris
Marchent des amoureux
Hum Hum
Leur bonheur se construit
Sur un air fait pour eux

Edith Piaf

From Paris to Berlin,
and every disco I get in,
my heart is pumping for love,
pumping for love,

Infernal

They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom
For trying to change the system from within
I'm coming now, I'm coming to reward them:
First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin.
I'm guided by a signal in the heavens
I'm guided by this birthmark on my skin
I'm guided by the beauty of our weapons:
First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin.


[First We Take Manhattan: Leonard Cohen]

LadyC - Edith Piaf

Since everyone does seem to have been overtaken by ennui, I'll reply to myself

I'm bored with everything I touch and see,
I'm bored with exposes of L.S.D.
I'm bored with Frank Sinatra's new LP
And so I roar (shoo-be-do-be-do) I'm bored.


[Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band: I'm Bored]

Not ennui - been away

And yes - it was Piaf - one of my favourites of hers

Touch me in the morning
Then just walk way
We don't have tomorrow
but we had yesterday

(Hey!)
Wasn't it me who said that
Nothing good's gonna last forever?
And wasn't it me who said
Let's just be glad for the time together?
It must've been hard to tell me
That you've given all you had to give
I can understand you're feeling that way
Everybody's got their life to live

Diana Ross

Welcome back LadyC

Round
Like a circle in a spiral
Like a wheel within a wheel
Never ending or beginning
On an ever-spinning reel
Like a snowball down a mountain
Or a carnival balloon
Like a carousel that's turning
Running rings around the moon
Like a clock whose hands are sweeping
Past the minutes of its face
And the world is like an apple
Whirling silently in space
Like the circles that you find
In the windmills of your mind

[from The Thomas Crown Affair: Windmills of your Mind]

Lying in my bed,
I hear the clock tick,
And think of you.
Caught up in circles,
Confusion is nothing new.
Flashback, warm nights,
Almost left behind
Suitcases of memories,
Time after…

Eva Cassidy/Cindy Lauper

Try to remember the kind of September
When life was slow and oh so mellow
Try to remember the kind of September
When grass was green and grain was yellow
Try to remember the kind of September
When you were a tender and callow fellow
Try to remember and if you remember
Then follow

[from the musical: The Fantasticks]

Oh, its a long, long while
from May to December,
But the days grow short
when you reach September.

When the autumn weather
turns the leaves to flame
one hasn't got time
for the waiting game.

Again - loadsa people

If there were no rewards to reap,
No loving embrace to see me through
This tedious path I've chosen here,
I certainly would've walked away by now.
Gonna wait it out.

If there were no desire to heal
The damaged and broken met along
This tedious path I've chosen here
I certainly would've walked away by now.

And I still may ... (sigh) ... I still may.

From Tool's 'The Patient' on their album Lateralus.

Don't get me wrong
Try getting me right
Your face is o.k.
But your purse is too tight
I'm looking for pound notes loose change bad checks, anything...

Gimme some money


[Spinal Tap: Gimme Some Money]

Money's Too Tight To Mention

I been laid off from work my rent is due
My kids all need brand new shoes
So I went to the bank to see what they could do
They said: son look like bad luck got a hold on you

Money's too tight to mention
I can't get an unemployment extension
Money's too tight to mention

Simply Red

well, when we get our grocery bill
We feel like making our will
Tell me, how can a poor man stand such times and live ?

[Ry Cooder - How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times & Live ?]

Lord who made the lion and the lamb,
You decreed I should be what I am--
Would it spoil some vast, eternal plan,
If I were a wealthy man?

I’ll be loving you
Eternally
With a love that’s true
Eternally.
From the start within my heart it seems I’ve always known
The sun would shine when you were mine and mine alone.

From 'Limelight' Chaplin

I can't give you anything but love, Baby;
That's the only thing I've plenty of, Baby.

[Mills Brothers 1933]

Hit me baby one more time!