At 11:20 AM 7/9/2003 -0700, Larry O. Dean wrote:
>This reminds me of similar cribbage by Ric Ocasek on
>the Cars' "Double Life," from Candy O -- lines lifted
>straight out of poems by beatnik (and City Lights
>Books owner) Lawrence Ferlinghetti -- I noticed that
>when the album first came out, but never heard
>anything about it.

Happens all the damn time: you could make a dozen mixtapes out of songs
that have swiped lines out of novels.  For some reason, the two that come
to mind immediately are by Voice of the Beehive: "Sorrow Floats" is a
refrain in John Irving's THE HOTEL NEW HAMPSHIRE and "Monsters and Angels"
cops its chorus from Ann Beattie's PICTURING WILL.

S