Lyrical Reader Gifts

Harp Book

Rejected Titles For The Canadian National Anthem.

"If you could be any Bob Dylan you wanted to, which Bob Dylan would you be?"

'Never mind singing it in rap... a simple 'I do' will suffice.'

Senta jumps into the sea

"This next song is just a song. Try not to read anything into it."

"In my next album 'Gettin' Back', I refute all the strong beliefs expressed in 'Gettin' There', my previous album."

Jeff Tweedy caricature.

Bashful in Nashville

"This next one's called 'Song for Me'."

George Martin

Karaoke night.

Jerry Lordan

'My love is like a red red rose...'

Musical genres

'Bront?saurus.'

'I changed my status from LLC to LL Cool C.'

"Hey, Dad, I've been working on a song for our family band!"

By the year 2500, 1 in 10 academics will devote their entire career to divining the meaning of the word 'sussudio'.

"As Tom gets nostalgic to Don McLean's 'American Pie,' baby Charles utters his first words... Too long."

"I'm stuck for the 'June-moon' rhyme in Serbo-Croatian."

Jane Austen

'Horace spends his spare time being a rock critic.'

I'm a songbird. He's my lyricist.

We never roam anymore.

"I'll be broadminded up in heaven, but here on earth you're still a whore..."

"Wait, so his first whole sentence was 'I don't want to work, I just want to bang on the drum all day'?!"

Nick Cave

'Cole Porter has the lyrics checked'

Band alternating between whiney and angry songs.

"I feel that what would really give your next album a major boost would be some kind of well-publicized personal problem."

Keyboard player

"Well of course you're depressed... You're a country and western singer."

Poetry Reading. Physics Lecture. Which'll it be -- rhyme or reason?

Christine McVie