I'm like Cartman with Styx's "Sail Away."
There are three songs that, if I start singing them, I MUST sing the ENTIRE song, and not just one or two lines or one verse:
Mars Volta - The Widow
He's got fasting black lungs
Made of clove-splintered shards
They're the kind that will talk
Through a wheezing of coughs
And I hear him every night
In every pore
And every time he just makes me warm
Freeze without an answer
Free from all the shame
Must I hide
'Cause I'll never, never sleep again
Look at how they flock to him
From an isle of open sores
He knows that the taste is such
Such to die for
And I see him every night
On every street
The scales that do slither deliver me from
Freeze without an answer
Free from all the shame
Then I'll hide
And I'll never, never sleep again
Ah, yeah
Said I'm
Said I'm
Said I'm
Said I'm bloodshot for sure
Pale runs the ghost
Said I'm
Said I'm
Said I'm swollen on the shore
Swollen on the shore
And every night
In every pore
The scales that do slither deliver me from
Freeze without an answer
Free from all the shame
Then I'll hide
And I'll never, never sleep again
Freeze without an answer
Free from all the shame
Then I'll die
And I'll never, never sleep again.
Fields of Athenry (Irish folk song) (I sing the Dropkick Murphys version)
By a lonely prison wall
I heard a young girl calling
"Michael, they have taken you away
For you stole Trevelian's (sp?) corn
So the young might see the morn
Now a prison ship lies waiting in the bay."
Low lie the fields of Athenry
Where once we watched the small, free birds fly
Our love was on the wing
We had dreams and songs to sing
It's so lonely 'round the fields of Athenry
By a lonely prison wall
I heard a young man calling,
"Nothing matters, Mary, when you're free
Against the famine and the crown
I rebelled, they cut me down
Now you must raise our child with dignity."
(chorus)
By a lonely harbor wall
She watched the last star falling
As the prison ship sailed out against the sky
But she'll wait and hope and pray
For her love in Botany Bay
It's so lonely 'round the fields of Athenry
(chorus, twice)
Gary Jules - Mad World (Tears for Fears cover)
All around me are familiar faces
Worn out places, worn out faces
Bright and early for the daily races
Going nowhere, going nowhere
The tears are filling up their glasses
No expression, no expression
Hang my head, I want to drown my sorrow
No tomorrow, no tomorrow
And I find it kind of funny
I find it kind of sad
The dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had
And I find it hard to tell you
I find it hard to take
When people run in circles it's a very very
Mad world
Mad world
Children waiting for the day they feel good
Happy birthday, happy birthday
Made to feel the way that every child should
Sit and listen, sit and listen
Went to school and I was very nervous
No one knew me, no one knew me
Hello, teacher, tell me what's my lesson
Look right through me, look right through me
And I find it kind of funny
I find it kind of sad
The dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you
I find it hard to take
When people run in circles it's a very very
Mad world
Mad world
Enlarging your world
Yeah. Once I've sung the first line of any of those songs, I can't stop until the song is finished.
Mars Volta - The Widow
He's got fasting black lungs
Made of clove-splintered shards
They're the kind that will talk
Through a wheezing of coughs
And I hear him every night
In every pore
And every time he just makes me warm
Freeze without an answer
Free from all the shame
Must I hide
'Cause I'll never, never sleep again
Look at how they flock to him
From an isle of open sores
He knows that the taste is such
Such to die for
And I see him every night
On every street
The scales that do slither deliver me from
Freeze without an answer
Free from all the shame
Then I'll hide
And I'll never, never sleep again
Ah, yeah
Said I'm
Said I'm
Said I'm
Said I'm bloodshot for sure
Pale runs the ghost
Said I'm
Said I'm
Said I'm swollen on the shore
Swollen on the shore
And every night
In every pore
The scales that do slither deliver me from
Freeze without an answer
Free from all the shame
Then I'll hide
And I'll never, never sleep again
Freeze without an answer
Free from all the shame
Then I'll die
And I'll never, never sleep again.
Fields of Athenry (Irish folk song) (I sing the Dropkick Murphys version)
By a lonely prison wall
I heard a young girl calling
"Michael, they have taken you away
For you stole Trevelian's (sp?) corn
So the young might see the morn
Now a prison ship lies waiting in the bay."
Low lie the fields of Athenry
Where once we watched the small, free birds fly
Our love was on the wing
We had dreams and songs to sing
It's so lonely 'round the fields of Athenry
By a lonely prison wall
I heard a young man calling,
"Nothing matters, Mary, when you're free
Against the famine and the crown
I rebelled, they cut me down
Now you must raise our child with dignity."
(chorus)
By a lonely harbor wall
She watched the last star falling
As the prison ship sailed out against the sky
But she'll wait and hope and pray
For her love in Botany Bay
It's so lonely 'round the fields of Athenry
(chorus, twice)
Gary Jules - Mad World (Tears for Fears cover)
All around me are familiar faces
Worn out places, worn out faces
Bright and early for the daily races
Going nowhere, going nowhere
The tears are filling up their glasses
No expression, no expression
Hang my head, I want to drown my sorrow
No tomorrow, no tomorrow
And I find it kind of funny
I find it kind of sad
The dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had
And I find it hard to tell you
I find it hard to take
When people run in circles it's a very very
Mad world
Mad world
Children waiting for the day they feel good
Happy birthday, happy birthday
Made to feel the way that every child should
Sit and listen, sit and listen
Went to school and I was very nervous
No one knew me, no one knew me
Hello, teacher, tell me what's my lesson
Look right through me, look right through me
And I find it kind of funny
I find it kind of sad
The dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you
I find it hard to take
When people run in circles it's a very very
Mad world
Mad world
Enlarging your world
Yeah. Once I've sung the first line of any of those songs, I can't stop until the song is finished.