On That Note: Buy and Sell

[Cupped]

Pink Floyd,

Welcome to the Machine


You bought a guitar to punish your ma,
And you didn't like school, and you know you're nobody's fool,
So welcome to the machine.







Have a Cigar

We're just knocked out. We heard about the sell out.
You gotta get an album out,
You owe it to the people. We're so happy we can hardly count.




Eclipse

And all that you give
And all that you deal
And all that you buy
Beg, borrow or steal

 

[cyclones500]

“Sell the kids for food.”

 

[cyclones500]

“But in your dreams, you can buy expensive cars … ”

 

[diaclone]

"Can't Get nex to you"

"And I can buy anything money can buy"

Al Green and the Temptations

 

[pourcyne]

It took a lot of money to start my heart, to peg my leg and to buy my eye.
The newspapers call me the state of the art, and the children, when they see me, cry.
I thought it would be nice just to visit my grave, see what kind of tombstone I might have.
I saw my wife and my daughter and it seemed so strange,
both of them dead and gone from extreme old age.
See here, when I die make sure I'm gone, don't leave 'em nothing to work on.
You can raise your arm, you can wiggle your hand, not unlike myself,
and you can wave goodbye to the frozen man.



about William James McPhee

The Frozen Man

The Frozen Man The image of the hypothetical “William James McPhee,” who in the song by James Taylor, “Frozen Man,” went overboard with shipmates amidst the tangle of riggin…

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[viking63]

It's gone and won
Hurry and buy
All has been tried
Hurry and buy

 

[bluestarcyclone]

Make it count
When I'm the one who's selling you out
'Cause it feels like stealing hearts
Calling your name from the crowd

 

[cyclones500]

“You know you’re doing better on your own, so don’t buy in.”

 

[cyclones500]

“And I find it hard to sleep, cuz I sold myself so cheap.”

 

[cyclones500]

“We hold these truths and they're not to sell.”

 

[BCClone]

And daddy bought a case of 90 proof

 

[cyclones500]

“You like the frosting / You just bought the cake.”

 

[cyclones500]

“Where you gonna go sell all of your goods today?”

 

[cyclones500]

“I can’t be bought or sold” // “My love is too much to hold, it can’t be sold”

 

[viking63]

Following up on 500's The Replacements entries here's a couple more:

Jesus rides beside me, he never buys any smokes.



I bought a headache

 

[viking63]

I'm friends with the president
I'm friends with the pope
We're all making a fortune
Selling Daddy's dope

 

[viking63]

 

[viking63]

I'm selling all my midnight, still broke and living on the ground

 

[viking63]

Short skirts
And skinny legs
Selling bibles
And real estate

 

[AlaCyclone]

She's been playin' in a room on the strip for ten years in Vegas
Every night she looks in the mirror and she only ages
She's been readin' about Nashville and all the records that everybody's buyin'
Says, "I'm a simple girl myself, grew up on Long Island"