Fav Lyrics #16

Games Without Frontiers –Peter Gabriel

Hans plays with Lotte, Lotte plays with Jane. Jane plays with Willie, Willie is happy again. Suki plays with Leo, Sasha plays with Brit. Adolph builds a bonfire and Rudolph plays with it…

Whistling tunes we hide in the dunes by the seaside.

If looks could kill they probably will in games without frontiers. In war without tears…

Dennis Mantin

Fav Lyrics #15

Tweeter and the Monkey Man-Traveling Wilbury’s

Tweeter and the Monkey Man were hard up for cash. They stayed up all night selling cocaine and hash.

To an undercover cop who had a sister named Jan. For reasons unexplained she loved the Monkey Man.

Tweeter was a boycott cause he went to Vietnam. Found out the hard way that nobody gives a damn.

Jan got married at 14 to a rackateer named Bill. She made secret calls to the Monkey Man from a mansion on a hill.

Dennis Mantin

Fav Lyrics #14

High Water-Bob Dylan

“Well George Lewis told the English man, the Italian and the Jew. Said, ‘You can’t open your minds boys, to every conceivable point of view.’

They got Charles Darwin out trapped on highway 5. The Judge says to the high sherif. ‘I want him back dead or alive… either one I don’t care. High water everywhere.

Dennis Mantin

Fav Lyrics #13

Closing Time-Leonard Cohen

My very close companion, gets me fumbling, gets me laughing, she’s 100, but she’s wearing something tight.

And I raise my glass to the awful truth, that you can’t reveal to the ears of youth. Except to say it isn’t worth a damn.

And the whole place goes crazy trice. It’s once for the devil and it’s once for Christ. But the boss don’t like these dizzy heights. We’re busted in the blinding lights…

It’s closing time.

Dennis Mantin

Fav Lyrics # 10

First We Take Manhattan-Leonard Cohen

“They sentenced me to 20 years of boredom. For trying to change the system from within. I’m coming now to reward them. First we take Manhattan. Then we take Berlin.

I don’t like your fashion business mister. I don’t like your drugs that keep you thin… I don’t like what happened to my sister. First we take Manhattan. Then we take Berlin.

Dennis Mantin

Favorite Lyrics #9

Lonesome Day Blue’s-Bob Dylan

“Last night the wind was whispering something, I was trying to make out what it was. I tell myself that something is coming. But it never does…

I’m going to spare the defeated. I’m going to speak to the crowd. I’m going to teach peace to the conquered. Oh I’m going to tame the proud.

Leaves are rustling in the woods, things are falling off of the shelves. You’re going to need my help sweetheart, you can’t make love all by yourself. “

Dennis Mantin