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You leave me breathless
You take my breath away

SPK - Breathless

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Wednesday, 4 June 2003 12:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Not 'Live and let die'.

If this ever-changing world
In which we're living...

Just in case that canard starts quacking. Pity that some of the misheard ones are the best. Thinking of misheard ones, and pity,

They call me Mr Pitiful
That's my name now
They call me Mr. Pitiful
That's how I got my name

--except it's "fame", not "name". Shame.

― Alan Connor Junior, Wednesday, 4 June 2003 13:11 (twenty-three years ago)

How about "The future looks bright ahead" from "Don't Be Cruel"?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 4 June 2003 13:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Lots of Ocean/Sea examples... e.g. ..went down to the ocean/ went down to the sea.

― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 4 June 2003 13:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Only time will tell if we stand the test of time.

― JesseFox (JesseFox), Wednesday, 4 June 2003 14:10 (twenty-three years ago)

"I'm not aware of too many things, but I know what I know, if you know what I mean." -- Edie Brickell

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 4 June 2003 14:31 (twenty-three years ago)

There's a moon in the sky
It's called the moon

― Mike Taylor (mjt), Wednesday, 4 June 2003 14:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Everybody's rappin like it's a commercial/Actin' like life is a big commercial"

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 4 June 2003 14:43 (twenty-three years ago)

ned: not as tautological as you might think, apparenty certain (japanese?) thought-systems conceptually locate the notion of 'the future' as *behind* oneself, obscured, while the past is open, revealed -> ahead.

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Wednesday, 4 June 2003 14:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Elvis, Zen Master

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 4 June 2003 15:01 (twenty-three years ago)

"She wasn't well, she was getting sick"

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 4 June 2003 17:39 (twenty-three years ago)

"If you won't tell me what not to do
I won't tell you what not to say". [Bragg]

(maybe not tautological, but very confusing)

― David A. (Davant), Wednesday, 4 June 2003 18:03 (twenty-three years ago)

"Got My Mind Set On You" owns this thread

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 4 June 2003 18:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Ooo, I'm really taken with this notion of walking backward through life, seeing only the past, trying to rig up mirrors to deduce where we're going. Unfortunately I don't think it can rescue that lyric, cause in that metaphor the future would be "behind" you but it would still be "ahead" -- i.e., where you're going.

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 4 June 2003 19:08 (twenty-three years ago)

A hip
hop
a hip it to the hop it
and a hip hip hop and you don't stop
I said a bang bang boogie 'cause up jumps the boogie
to the rhythm of the boogie, the beat.

― Millar (Millar), Wednesday, 4 June 2003 19:52 (twenty-three years ago)

"today is only yesterday's tomorrow"

- Uriah Heep, "Circle of Hands"

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Wednesday, 4 June 2003 19:56 (twenty-three years ago)

"Today is different,
Today is not the same"
This Sesame Street minute was brought to you by Peter Gabriel ("Family Snapshot")

― Ernest P. (ernestp), Wednesday, 4 June 2003 20:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Repeating a sentiment isn't tautology.

― ara, Wednesday, 4 June 2003 20:20 (twenty-three years ago)

"It's like that/And that's the way it is"

-Run DMC

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Wednesday, 4 June 2003 21:49 (twenty-three years ago)

What I choose is my choice
--Smashing Pumpkins

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Wednesday, 4 June 2003 22:56 (twenty-three years ago)

All of my sins are attempts to fill the void
All of my voids, they are filled with sin

-Manic Street Preachers, "My Little Empire"

― Simon H., Thursday, 5 June 2003 01:48 (twenty-three years ago)

"The next thing I say to you will be true: The last thing I said was false." -Devo

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 5 June 2003 02:35 (twenty-three years ago)

That's not a tautology--that's a paradox!

― s1utsky (slutsky), Thursday, 5 June 2003 02:45 (twenty-three years ago)

That Smashing Pumpkins one is a beauty.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Thursday, 5 June 2003 02:48 (twenty-three years ago)

three weeks pass...
"And satisfy our wanderlust to roam"

- Rush, "Making Memories"

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 22:01 (twenty-two years ago)

"Everything is everything"

― Ess, Wednesday, 2 July 2003 12:35 (twenty-two years ago)

"I was blind and I couldn't see"

New Order, Guilty Partner.

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 12:41 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...
"And I was crying again, drawn through with a sword, simultaneously, at the same time."

-Throwing Muses, "America (She Can't Say No)"

― Ian Moraine (Eastern Mantra), Sunday, 21 November 2004 12:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I feel a hunger
It's a hunger

-Eddie Money, "Take Me Home Tonight"

― Paul Eater (eater), Sunday, 21 November 2004 20:29 (twenty-one years ago)

"With my mind on my money and my money on my mind"
-Dre/Snoop, "Nuthin' But a G Thang"

― mike a, Sunday, 21 November 2004 20:31 (twenty-one years ago)

"The next thing I say to you will be true: The last thing I said was false."

It's not a paradox, it's a fallacy. In paradoxes the contradiction is only apparent, not real.

― daavid (daavid), Sunday, 21 November 2004 22:20 (twenty-one years ago)

In honor of the holidays:

"Night time is the right time to rock the whole night through"

Damn right it is.

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 03:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Hurting:

The night time is the right time
To rock the night AWAY

(It has to rhyme with "sleigh")

― John Schapiro (Vornado), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 14:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I am he as you are he as you are we and we are all together.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 15:05 (twenty-one years ago)

"you are what you is"

― echoinggrove (echoinggrove), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 15:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Front row seat!
In free!
No pay!

-Run DMC

― LSTD (answer) (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 15:30 (twenty-one years ago)

"Hurting:
The night time is the right time
To rock the night AWAY

(It has to rhyme with "sleigh") "

Oh yeah good point. I'm a Jew. I heard it in a store the other day and was too lazy to check the lyrics when I got home.

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 18:34 (twenty-one years ago)

"The heat was hot" (America)
"It's called France/That's where it's located" (Frank Zappa)

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 18:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Mr. Morton is the subject of my sentence.
And what the predicate says, he does.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 20:51 (twenty-one years ago)

This is a weeping song: a song in which to weep

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

It's tautological insofar as the second line defines the first in a circular fashion.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 21:09 (twenty-one years ago)


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