Rows of lights in a circle of steel Where you place your bets on a great big wheel. Sights and sounds of the people goin' 'round; Everybody's in step with the season.
Everyone I've ever known has wished me well Anyway that's how it seems, it's hard to tell Maybe people only ask you how you're doing Because that's easier than letting on how little they could care
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Rows of lights in a circle of steel
Where you place your bets on a great big wheel.
Sights and sounds of the people goin' 'round;
Everybody's in step with the season.
--"Circle of Steel" by Gordon Lightfoot
Here is the church
Here is the steeple
Open the doors
And see all the people
Sunday School fingerplay
All the people stared as if we were both quite insane,
someday my name and hers are going to be the same
Bus Stop ~ The Hollies
Short people got no reason to live
Don't want no short people 'round me.
(Randy Newman)
All the lonely people, where do they all belong?
Eleanor Rigby ~ The Beatles
Rainy day people don't mind
If you cry a tear or two.
--"Rainy Day People," Gordon Lightfoot
And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon gods they'd made
Sounds of Silence
Simon and Garfunkel
Those people who surround you
Only want to make you weak enough to crawl.
--"From Me to You," Janis Ian
Come on people now
Smile on your brother
Everybody get together
Try and love one another right now
The Youngbloods
and the sign says, long-haired freaky people need not apply
Signs ~ Five Man Electrical Band
and later covered by Tesla
Listen, people, to what I say
I say everybody's got to have their day
Herman's Hermits
People, people who need people
Are the luckiest people
In the world
(Styne/Merrill, from "Funny Girl")
Listen people to a story that was written long ago
One Tin Soldier
Coven
We'd hear it from the people of the town,
They'd call us
"Gypsies, tramps, and thieves."
--"Gypsies, Tramps, and Thieves" sung by Cher
And the people all said,
"Sit down! Sit down. You're rocking the boat!"
from "Guys and Dolls"
Cherokee people! Cherokee pride!
So proud to live;
So proud to die.
--I think the group was called Lobo or something similar.
Down in the boondocks
Down in the boondocks
People put me down 'cause that's the side of town I was born in
"Down in the Boondocks"
Two sleepy people
By dawn's early light
Much too much in love to say good night
(Carmichael/Loesser)
Everyone I've ever known has wished me well
Anyway that's how it seems, it's hard to tell
Maybe people only ask you how you're doing
Because that's easier than letting on how little they could care
The Late Show
Jackson Browne
Don't throw bouquets at me
Don't please my folks too much
Don't laugh at my jokes too much
People will say we're in love
(Rodgers/Hammerstein, from "Oklahoma!")
People all over the world
Join hands
Start a love train
Love train
O'Jays
this is for all the lonely people, thinking that life has passed them by,
America
People are strange
When you're a stranger
Faces look ugly
When you're alone
The Doors
You know enough to know the way
six billion people
just one name...
---30 Seconds to Mars, "Edge of the Earth"
Of course: Depeche Mode/People are people
People are people
So why should it be
You and I should get
Along so awfully
We the People,
in order to form a more perfect union . . .
--"Preamble to the Constitution," Schoolhouse Rock
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace
Imagine
John Lennon
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