Abi--"Mack the Knife" was written by Kurt Weill for his show "The Threepenny Opera"
Here's my entry:
For now I'm seeing love Like none I've ever known A love as pure as breath As permanent as death Implacable as stone A love that like a knife Has cut into a life I wanted left alone
(Stephen Sondheim, "I Wish I Could Forget You", from "Passion")
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On the sidewalk,
Sunday morning,
Lies a body,
Oozing life.
Someone's sneaking,
Round the corner,
Is that someone Mack the Knife?
Mack The Knife - Louis Armstrong (Frank Sinatra did it too I think, and there are other versions - not sure who wrote it)
But when he threatened your life with a switchblade knife
What a guy
Makes you cry
Und I did
"Eddie's Teddy" from "Rocky Horror"
Sometimes it's like someone took a knife baby edgy and dull
And cut a six inch valley through the middle of my soul
I'm on Fire
Bruce Springsteen
I got to get to rockin', get my hat off the rack,
I got to boogie-woogie like a knife in the back
"Sea Cruise"
Frankie Ford
I felt the knife in my hand
And she laughed no more
Delilah - Tom Jones
Clutching forks and knives
To eat their bacon
(8 words exactly of "Piggies," by The Beatles)
And then he ran into my knife
He ran into my knife ten times
"Cell Block Tango"
from Chicago
Now we're glowing like the metal on the edge of a knife
"Paradise by the Dashboard Light," Meat Loaf
And I just can't see no humor
About your way of life
And I think I can do more for you
With this here fork and knife
Eat The Rich ~ Aerosmith
Our love is like knife that cuts both ways.
Cuts Both Ways - Gloria Estefan
With a perfect understanding of the finer things in life,
A quite alarming knack of knowing when to twist the knife
Ahhh-ahhh, Selfish Jean.
"Selfish Jean"
Travis
Abi--"Mack the Knife" was written by Kurt Weill for his show "The Threepenny Opera"
Here's my entry:
For now I'm seeing love
Like none I've ever known
A love as pure as breath
As permanent as death
Implacable as stone
A love that like a knife
Has cut into a life
I wanted left alone
(Stephen Sondheim, "I Wish I Could Forget You", from "Passion")
He took his knife and he cut her down
And in her bosom these words he found
"Railroad Boy," traditional ballad
I met her on the mountain
And there I took her life
Met her on the mountain,
Stabbed her with my knife.
"Tom Dooley", Kingston Trio
There was a barber and his wife.
And he was beautiful.
A proper artist with a knife,
but they transported him for life.
And he was beautiful.
(Stephen Sondheim, from "Sweeney Todd")
Now it cuts like a knife,
but it feels so right.
Bryan Adams
'Cause Clifton Clowers has a pretty young daughter
He's mighty handy with a gun and a knife
"Wolverton Mountain" (that might not be the guy's name)
"Only God can say 'forgive'. His Son too received the knife.
But we go on we have to live. With this cross we call our lives.
Can I forgive him? No, I cannot.
The trembling flowers they bring, fear in the roots and the stem.
What happened to me they know could happen to them."
Paul Simon, "Can I Forgive Him?" (from THE CAPEMAN)
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