BE: Streetlight People & Pop Sops

[Joe Allonby]

What goes on and on and on?
Shadows are searching in the night?
Streetlights are living just to find emotion?
Emotion is hiding somewhere in the night?
Some are born to sing the blues? Are they exempt from winning and losing?

Garbage.



On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 6:50 PM, Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com> wrote:
> Seriously. These are the lyrics. Utter nonsense.
>
>
> Just a small town girl
> Livin' in a lonely world
> She took the midnight train
> Goin' anywhere
> Just a city boy
> Born and raised in South Detroit
> He took the midnight train
> Goin' anywhere
>
> A singer in a smokey room
> A smell of wine and cheap perfume
> For a smile they can share the night
> It goes on and on and on and on
>
> Strangers waiting
> Up and down the boulevard
> Their shadows searching
> In the night
> Streetlights, people
> Livin' just to find emotion
> Hidin', somewhere in the night
>
> Workin' hard to get my fill
> Everybody wants a thrill
> Payin' anything to roll the dice
> Just one more time
> Some will win
> Some will lose
> Some were born to sing the blues
> Oh, the movie never ends
> It goes on and on and on and on
>
> Strangers waiting
> Up and down the boulevard
> Their shadows searching
> In the night
> Streetlights, people
> Livin' just to find emotion
> Hidin', somewhere in the night
>
> [Instrumental Interlude]
>
> Don't stop believin'
> Hold on to the feelin'
> Streetlights, people
> Don't stop believin'
> Hold on
> Streetlights, people
>
> On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 6:46 PM, Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com> wrote:
>> They say Windsor Ontario is quite nice.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 6:06 PM,  <eburns at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Not to mention that the Map is not the Territory; "South Detroit" is not really a place at all, and may in fact be in Canada, let alone a place where a city boy could be born and raised.
>>>
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>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: "Rev'd Seventy-Six" <revd.76 at gmail.com>
>>> Sender: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org
>>> Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2013 13:25:50
>>> To: Joe Allonby<joeallonby at gmail.com>
>>> Cc: John Bailey<sundayjb at gmail.com>; Joseph S. Barrera III<joe at barrera.org>; pynchon-l at waste.org<pynchon-l at waste.org>
>>> Subject: Re: BE: Streetlight People & Pop Sops
>>>
>>> You're telling me? I owe Casey Kasem major earwigs for pushing it on
>>> my parents' generation, and the situation has hardly changed with
>>> mine. College kids not yet numbed between their auditory orifices by a
>>> ceaseless poison slurry of Jimmy Buffet, Fleetwood Mac, Phish, and
>>> 32-minute "covers" of Fire On The goddamn Mountain still belly-stagger
>>> blearily up to the digital juke every night, ten min to last call, in
>>> the hopes of inciting one last singalong, never mind the flinty gaze
>>> of the bartender as she jams a rag in the neck of a bottle bacardi and
>>> fingers her Bic.
>>>
>>> --
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