Lyricists Pillows

I love New York, too. To paraphrase the song, "If I can make an ass of myself there, I can make an as of myself anywhere." I (heart) NY.

'Uh, Jake, I believe that should be 'and the skies are not cloudy all day,' not 'and we pour ourselves more Chardonnary.''

Rejected Titles For The Canadian National Anthem.

Senta jumps into the sea

'As I walk through the halls, I see teachers teaching and students learning and I say to myself, 'what wonderful school, what a wonderful world.''

'The next piece contains sex, violence, and Homeric epithets.'

Jeff Tweedy caricature.

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Fuzz - Fuzzy writes a song with a positive message.

"I always thought love made the world go round."

"Those are the lyrics? How embarrassing—I've been singing it wrong this whole time."

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

Nick Cave

Olden Day Battle of the Bands (Bard vs Sonnet).

Tragedy! When the feeling's gone and you can't go on.

'Cole Porter has the lyrics checked'

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

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

"Yes, 'the lion sleeps tonight', I know the tune, but it means it's had a good feed during the day, which is not really a good thing..."

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

"Well, we've for the melody down now, but I'm still not sure about the part where it goes, '...and they call the wind Dorcas Schnickelbaum.'"

'My resume,...in rap form!'

"Great moments in songwriting" "What if she had a little lamb?" "Maybe it follows her to school?" "Wouldn't that make the children laugh?" "Exactly."

Vasiliy Lebedev-Kumach

"How come they remember every word of any pop song but not a single line of poetry?"

'This one writes some fine lyrics, and the other one has composed some beautiful music, but they just done't seem to hit it off as collaborators.'

'This next one I wrote myself. It's about pain, misery and heartbreak, until I finally wised up and dumped him.'

'Moon, June...'

"Moon….June Croon….Loon… …Tycoon"

"Yeah, most people are surprised when they learn I'm actually a lyricist."

Noel Coward

"I don't do spells. I'm a wizard at deciphering rap lyrics."

'I know.. Let's write a song all about the evils of material wealth. After all, that last one netted us a bloody fortune!'

Class Reunion. Back in school, Ernie was the world's biggest Beatle fan! For the reunion, he's written songs about some of our classmates. There's a cheesemaker

'The country just may not be ready for patriotic rap.'