• Contemporary Realities

    Song Quote Artist Song Title
    1895 From seed to tree I grew so tall, through wind and rain I could not fall. But now my branches suffer and my leaves don't offer poetry to men of song. The Beach Boys, A Day In The Life Of A Tree
    1896 Give me your hungry, your tired, your poor, that's what the Statue of Bigotry says. Your poor huddled masses, let's just club them to death, and get it over with. Lou Reed, Dirty Boulevard
    1897 Give us this day our daily discount merchandise. Billy Joel, No Man's Land
    1898 God bless little children while they're still too young to hate. Tom T. Hall, Old Dogs, Children, And Watermelon Wine
    1899 Got thirteen channels of shit on the TV to choose from. Pink Floyd, Nobody Home
    1900 Gotta be more than grabbing nines to buck tin in, gotta be more than just to lust women, gotta be more than platinum Rolexes. Puff Daddy, Best Friend
    1901 Gotta follow the footsteps of the homies in the hood, and where's the role model? MC Eiht, Str8 Up Menace
    1902 Gotta get myself a million, gonna turn that into a billion. Nelly, The Dem Wrappas
    1903 Grandma carries a can of mace and she'll stick a .45 in your face. Salt-N-Pepper, Heaven Or Hell
    1904 Grandpa, everything is changing fast. We call it progress, but I just don't know. The Judds, Grandpa
    1905 Greed is the six sense. Limbomaniacs, Pavlov's Frothing Dogs
    1906 Handing out joints to the kids in school, giving out pictures and porn and pills. Fugs, Dirty Old Man
    1907 Hard times come, hard times go, in between you hope and pray the scars don't show. Styx, Why Me?
    1908 Has the world changed or have I changed? Some nine year old tough who peddles drugs. The Smiths, The Queen Is Dead
    1909 Hate's the only thing we have in common. The Kinks, Hatred
    1910 Have no time to look around, just run around, run around and think why? Chicago, Does Anybody Know What Time It Is
    1911 He asked me if my mother wore stiletto heels and rubber, and I realized that this poor soul was more confused than me. Alan Parson Project, Sects Therapy
    1912 He blew his mind out in a car, he didn't notice that the lights had changed. A crowd of people stood and stared. The Beatles, A Day In The Life
    1913 He smiled to the world, but his heart fell below his pain. Guster, Fall In Two
    1914 He wants to do you in cause the color of your skin. Frank Zappa, Trouble Everyday