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Lyrics for The Music Jam, SYTAR 2019 Old Man Neil Young Old man look at my life I'm a lot like you were Old man look at my life I'm a lot like you were Old man look at my life Twenty four and there's so much more Live alone in a paradise That makes me think of two Love lost, such a cost Give me things that don't get lost Like a coin that won't get tossed Rolling home to you Old man take a look at my life I'm a lot like you I need someone to love me The whole day through Ah, one look in my eyes And you can tell that's true Lullabies, look in your eyes Run around the same old town Doesn't mean that much to me To mean that much to you I've been first and last Look at how the time goes past But I'm all alone at last Rolling home to you Old man take a look at my life I'm a lot like you I need someone to love me The whole day through Ah, one look in my eyes And you can tell that's true Old man look at my life I'm a lot like you were Old man look at my life I'm a lot like you were Ticket to Ride The Beatles I think I'm gonna be sad I think it's today, yeah The girl that's driving me mad Is going away She's got a ticket to ride She's got a ticket to ride She's got a ticket to ride But she don't care She said that living with me Is bringing her down yeah For she would never be free When I was around She's got a ticket to ride She's got a ticket to ride She's got a ticket to ride But she don't care I don't know why she's ridin' so high She ought to think twice She ought to do right by me Before she gets to saying goodbye She ought to think twice, She ought to do right by me I think I'm gonna be sad I think it's today yeah The girl that's driving me mad Is going away, yeah She's got a ticket to ride She's got a ticket to ride She's got a ticket to ride But she don't care I don't know why she's ridin' so high She ought to think twice She ought to do right by me Before she gets to saying goodbye She ought to think twice, She ought to do right by me She said that living with me Is bringing her down, yeah For she would never be free When I was around Ah, she's got a ticket to ride She's got a ticket to ride She's got a ticket to ride But she don't care My baby don't care, my baby don't care My baby don't care, my baby don't care My baby don't care, my baby don't care Wasted on the Way Crosby, Stills & Nash Look around me, I can see my life before me Running rings around the way it used to be I am older now I have more than what I wanted But I wish that I had started long before I did And there's so much time to make up everywhere you turn Time we have wasted on the way So much water moving underneath the bridge Let the water come and carry us away Oh when you were young did you question all the answers Did you envy all the dancers who had all the nerve? Look round you know, you must go for what you wanted Look at all my friends who did and got what they deserved So much time to make up everywhere you turn Time we have wasted on the way So much water moving underneath the bridge Let the water come and carry us away So much love to make up everywhere you turn Love we have wasted on the way So much water moving underneath the bridge Let the water come and carry us away Let the water come and carry us away Yer So Bad, Tom Petty My sister got lucky, married a yuppie Took him for all he was worth Now she's a swinger dating a singer I can't decide which is worse [Chorus] But not me baby, I've got you to save me Oh, yer so bad, best thing I ever had In a world gone mad, yer so bad [Verse 2] My sister's ex-husband can't get no lovin' Walks around dog-faced and hurt Now he's got nothin', head in the oven I can't decide which is worse [Chorus] But not me baby, I've got you to save me Oh, yer so bad, best thing I ever had In a world gone mad, yer so bad [Chorus] Oh, but not me baby, I've got you to save me Oh, yer so bad, best thing I ever had In a world gone mad, yer so bad [Chorus] Oh, yer so bad, best thing I ever had In a world gone mad, yer so bad Bad Moon Rising Creedence Clearwater Revival I see a bad moon a-rising I see trouble on the way I see earthquakes and lightnin' I see bad times today Don't go 'round tonight It's bound to take your life There's a bad moon on the rise I hear hurricanes a-blowing I know the end is coming soon I fear rivers over flowing I hear the voice of rage and ruin Don't go 'round tonight It's bound to take your life There's a bad moon on the rise I hope you got your things together I hope you are quite prepared to die Look's like we're in for nasty weather One eye is taken for an eye Oh don't go 'round tonight It's bound to take your life There's a bad moon on the rise There's a bad moon on the rise Have You Ever Seen the Rain Creedence Clearwater Revival Someone told me long ago There's a calm before the storm I know it's been comin' for some time When it's over so they say It'll rain a sunny day I know shinin' down like water I want to know Have you ever seen the rain? I want to know Have you ever seen the rain Comin' down on a sunny day? Yesterday and days before Sun is cold and rain is hard I know been that way for all my time 'Til forever, on it goes Through the circle, fast and slow, I know it can't stop, I wonder I want to know Have you ever seen the rain? I want to know Have you ever seen the rain Comin' down on a sunny day? Yeah I want to know Have you ever seen the rain? I want to know Have you ever seen the rain Comin' down on a sunny day? Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) The Beatles I once had a girl Or should I say she once had me She showed me her room Isn't it good Norwegian wood? She asked me to stay And she told me to sit anywhere So I looked around And I noticed there wasn't a chair I sat on a rug biding my time Drinking her wine We talked until two and then she said "It's time for bed" She told me she worked In the morning and started to laugh I told her I didn't And crawled off to sleep in the bath And when I awoke I was alone This bird had flown So I lit a fire Isn't it good Norwegian wood? Closer to Fine Indigo Girls I'm tryin' to tell you somethin' 'bout my life Maybe give me insight between black and white And the best thing you've ever done for me Is to help me take my life less seriously It's only life after all, yeah Well darkness has a hunger that's insatiable And lightness has a call that's hard to hear I wrap my fear around me like a blanket I sailed my ship of safety 'til I sank it I'm crawling on your shores And I went to the doctor, I went to the mountains I looked to the children, I drank from the fountains There's more than one answer to these questions Pointing me in a crooked line And the less I seek my source for some definitive The closer I am to fine, yeah The closer I am to fine, yeah And I went to see the doctor of philosophy With a poster of Rasputin and a beard down to his knee He never did marry or see a B-Grade movie He graded my performance, he said he could see through me I spent four years prostrate to the higher mind Got my paper and I was free I went to the doctor, I went to the mountains I looked to the children, I drank from the fountains There's more than one answer to these questions Pointing me in a crooked line And the less I seek my source for some definitive The closer I am to fine, yeah The closer I am to fine, yeah I stopped by the bar at three A.M.
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