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I had a few things to talk about today, but none of them seem all that interesting anymore. But then I think, “if I’m not writing in my blog, I should be doing my math homework”. And so, blog it is.

We have to submit our quotes for the yearbook this week. And now is as good a time as any to start looking, non? Luckily, I’ve already got a handy page full of quotes I like.

Now, when picking yearbook quotes, there are a lot of things you need to consider. Of course, you can never go wrong with the ol’ “Go Rams Go!” or “I’ll treasure the memories”. But I mean, some people like to actually put something of meaning (and something they actually mean) beside their sad little face.

I’m most probably going to use some song lyrics as a quote. But the thing is, you have to be careful about whose song you pick. I am positive that there were people in the eighties who picked some Milli Vanili lyrics for their yearbook quote and then when they got their yearbook at the end of the year they became outcasts for liking such a lame band. I’m kinda lucky in that sense because my artists are already established and people will still know who they are in twenty years. But I mean, in grade eight, my quote was a Monkees quote, and they aren’t really my favourite band anymore.

However, now that I think about it, I couldn’t have picked anything other than a Monkees quote. Grade eight was the year of the Monkee, and — aside from the fact that I didn’t know any other bands — picking any other quote would be misrepresentative of that time in my life.

I’m most likely going to use a Who quote this year, preferably something from “Endless Wire”. I don’t know why I’m so obsessed with picking something from “Endless Wire”. It’s kind of like if I was actually able to get something autographed at one of their concerts, I’d want it to be my “Endless Wire” CD, because it’s just so indicative of now, I guess. And, besides whatever other meaning there is, it’s just plain awesome.

But you can’t go wrong with well-known songs either. Now, citing “The Who” in your quote, even if the people reading it don’t actually know the song, means that it’s automatically an awesome quote. Looking through past school yearbooks gives me no help, but I see that The Who are greatly underrepresented amidst the Rolling Stones and Clapton quotes. Actually, only one of each, and one of “Clapton is God”.

Anyway, here’s some lyrics from songs that I think would make good yearbook quotes.

The happy ones

Sing with me, sing for the year
Sing for the laughter, sing for the tears
- Aerosmith, “Dream On”

So many people have come and gone
Their faces fade as the years go by
- Boston, “More Than A Feeling”

I don’t know why you say goodbye
I say hello
- The Beatles, “Hello, Goodbye”

There are places I remember
All my life, though some have changed
Some forever not for better
Some have gone and some remain
- The Beatles, “In My Life”

You and I have memories
Longer that the road
That stretches out ahead
- The Beatles, “Two Of Us”

No matter what we get out of this
I know we’ll never forget
- Deep Purple, “Smoke On The Water”

Bell bottom blues
Don’t say goodbye
I’m sure we’re gonna meet again
- Derek & The Dominos, “Bell Bottom Blues”

The clock says it’s time to close now
I guess I’d better go now
I’d really like to stay here all night
- The Doors, “Soul Kitchen”

Good to be older
Would not exchange a single day or a year
- John Lennon, “Borrowed Time”

Dancing days are here again
- Led Zeppelin, “Dancing Days”

Leaves are falling all around
It’s time I was on my way
Thanks to you, I’m much obliged
For such a pleasant stay
- Led Zeppelin, “Ramble On”

If in the end we should go
Both our separate ways, I know
The lesson I’ve learned here is worth it all
- The Monkees, “Nine Times Blue”

When we started this band
All we needed, needed was a laugh
Years gone by, I’d say we’ve kicked some ass
- Motley Crue, “Kickstart My Heart”

We are the champions, my friends
- Queen, “We Are The Champions”

You know all things must pass
And only love will last
I’ll always love the memory
Of you and me
- Ringo Starr, “Never Without You”

You know you broke my heart when you went away
I said I’ll see you some other day
- The Who, “Please Please Please”

Bye bye, you better keep in touch
I think your ears hear a whole lot of music
And like me, you’ve heard a bit too much
- The Who, “Too Much Of Anything”

Feeling bitter? Wanting to get away?

Look at me now ’cause I’m just makin’ my way
Don’t try to push your luck, just get out of my way
- AC/DC, “Back In Black”

Out for summer, out ’til fall
We might not come back at all
- Alice Cooper, “School’s Out”

We gotta get out of this place
If it’s the last thing we ever do
We gotta get out of this place
There’s a better life for me and you
- The Animals, “We Gotta Get Out Of This Place”

I gotta find a new place where the kids are hip
- The Beach Boys, “I Get Around”

I used to get mad at my school
The teachers that taught me weren’t cool
You’re holding me down
Burning me ’round
Filling me up with your rules
- The Beatles, “Getting Better”

Out of college, money spent
See no future, pay no rent
All the money’s gone, nowhere to go
- The Beatles, “You Never Give Me Your Money”

Tomorrow’s getting harder, make no mistake
Luck ain’t even lucky, got to make your own breaks
- Bon Jovi, “It’s My Life”

I’ve been waiting so long
To be where I’m going
- Cream, “Sunshine Of Your Love”

It’s time to go home now
And I’ve got an aching head
- Eric Clapton, “Wonderful Tonight”

When they’ve tortured and scared you for twenty odd years
Then they expect you to pick a career
- John Lennon, “Working Class Hero”

Baby, you know I’m gonna leave you
I’ll leave you when the summertime
Leave you when the summer comes a-rollin’
- Led Zeppelin, “Babe I’m Gonna Leave You”

One of these days, and it won’t be long
You’ll look for me but, baby, I’ll be gone
- Led Zeppelin, “Your Time Is Gonna Come”

Goodbye to things that bore me
Joy is waiting for me
- Michael Nesmith, “Beyond The Blue Horizon”

My thoughts all seem to stray
To places far away
I need a change of scenery
- The Monkees, “Pleasant Valley Sunday”

The child is grown, the dream is gone
- Pink Floyd, “Comfortably Numb”

Goodbye everybody, I’ve got to go
Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth
- Queen, “Bohemian Rhapsody”

Just gotta get out
Just gotta get right outta here
- Queen, “Bohemian Rhapsody”

I hate the teachers and the principal
Don’t wanna be taught to be no fool
- Ramones, “Rock ‘N’ Roll High School”

It’s all over now
- The Rolling Stones, “It’s All Over Now”

It’s only teenage wasteland
- The Who, “Baba O’Riley”

I’m the school bully
The classroom cheat
The nastiest play friend
You ever could meet
- The Who, “Cousin Kevin”

I’m free, I’m free
And freedom tastes of reality
- The Who, “I’m Free”

I’m moving on to something better
There must be something better than this
- The Who, “One At A Time”

He’s crazy if he thinks we’re coming back again
- The Who, “Rael 1″

Goodbye all you punks
Stay young and stay high
- The Who, “They Are All In Love”

Deep and inspirational quotes

Life’s a journey, not a destination
And I just can’t tell just what tomorrow brings
- Aerosmith, “Amazing”

Dream until your dreams come true
- Aerosmith, “Dream On”

There’s nothing you can do that can’t be done
Nothing you can sing that can’t be sung
Nothing you can say, but you can learn how to play the game
It’s easy
- The Beatles, “All You Need Is Love”

And in the end
The love you make
Is equal to the love you take
- The Beatles, “The End”

You say you want a revolution
Well, you know
We all want to change the world
- The Beatles, “Revolution”

Tomorrow never knows
- The Beatles, “Tomorrow Never Knows”

Try to realize it’s all within yourself
No one else can make you change
And to see you’re really only very small
And life flows on within you and without you
- The Beatles, “Within You Without You”

The slow one now will later be fast
As the present now will later be past
The order is rapidly fadin’
And the first one now will later be last
For the times they are a-changin’
- Bob Dylan, “The Times They Are A-Changin’”

There’s a long road I’ve gotta stay in time with
I’ve got to keep on chasin’ that dream, though I may never find it
I’m always just behind it
- Boston, “Foreplay/Long Time”

Remember what we’ve said and done and felt about each other
Don’t let the past remind us of what we are not now
- Crosby, Stills & Nash, “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes”

Yesterday, today was tomorrow
And tomorrow, today will be yesterday
- George Harrison, “Ding Dong, Ding Dong”

Any time somebody needs you
Don’t let them down, although it grieves you
Someday you’ll need someone like they do
Looking for what you knew
- Led Zeppelin, “Friends”

Yes, there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run
There’s still time to change the road you’re on
- Led Zeppelin, “Stairway To Heaven”

It’s amazing how time can so softly change your ways
And make you look at things that can’t be seen
How the years that roll by can start you listening
Not just to what they say but what they mean
- The Monkees, “Carlisle Wheeling”

Don’t be angry
Don’t be sad
Don’t sit crying
Over good times you’ve had
- Stephen Stills, “Love The One You’re With”

We don’t know where we’re going
But the season’s right for knowing
- The Who, “Join Together”

I don’t know where I’m going
I don’t know what I need
But I’ll get to where I’m gonna end up
And that’s alright by me
- The Who, “Let’s See Action”

The life I love is makin’ music with my friends
And I can’t wait to get on the road again
- Willie Nelson, “On The Road Again”

The sad/sentimental ones

Don’t want to close my eyes
I don’t want to fall asleep
‘Cause I’d miss you, babe
And I don’t wanna miss a thing
- Aerosmith, “I Don’t Wanna Miss A Thing”

You’ll never know it hurt me so
How I hate to see you go
Don’t pass me by
Don’t make me cry
- The Beatles, “Don’t Pass Me By”

Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me
I’m not sleepy and there is no place I’m going to
- Bob Dylan, “Mr. Tambourine Man”

Now your pictures that you left behind
Are just memories of a different life
Some that made us laugh, some that made us cry
One that made you have to say goodbye
- Bon Jovi, “Always”

I don’t know where I’m going
Only God knows where I’ve been
I’m a devil on the run, a six gun lover, a candle in the wind
- Bon Jovi, “Blaze Of Glory”

It’s all the same, only the names will change
Every day it seems we’re wasting away
Another place where the faces are so cold
I’d drive all night just to get back home
- Bon Jovi, “Wanted, Dead Or Alive”

I can almost hear the echoes of the past
From the voices of the years gone by so fast
- Crosby & Nash, “Milky Way Tonight”

Don’t you cry
Baby, please don’t cry
I won’t need your picture until we say goodbye
- The Doors, “I Can’t See Your Face In My Mind”

This is the end, my only friend, the end
Of our elaborate plans, the end
- The Doors, “The End”

Nothin’ lasts forever
And we both know hearts can change
And it’s hard to hold a candle
In the cold November rain
- Guns N’ Roses, “November Rain”

The party’s over and the road is long
The party’s over and we’re movin’ on
- INXS, “Pretty Vegas”

Looking out at the road rushing under my wheels
Looking back at the years gone by like so many summer fields
- Jackson Browne, “Running On Empty”

Tomorrow just slipped away
Whatever happened to yesterday?
- John Entwistle, “Sleeping Man”

Even after all these years
I miss you when you’re not here
- John Lennon, “Dear Yoko”

The best years of my life gone by
Here I am alone and blue
- Led Zeppelin, “Heartbreaker”

Thinking how it used to be
Does she still remember times like these?
- Led Zeppelin, “Tangerine”

Little drops of rain whisper of the pain
Tears of loves lost in the days gone by
- Led Zeppelin, “Thank You”

Those schoolgirl days of telling tales and biting nails are gone
But in my mind, I know they will still live on and on
- Lulu, “To Sir With Love”

You must remember me
I’m the one who knew you when
I’m the one you call your friend
Feel free
Remember me
- The Moody Blues, “Remember Me (My Friend)”

We were young
It was fun
And we couldn’t lose
- Ringo Starr, “Never Without You”

The more we learn, the less we believe to be true
The more we prove, the more remains to be proved
- The Who, “Faith In Something Bigger”

I don’t mind, it’s the end of my song
I don’t mind, goodbye, so long
- The Who, “I Don’t Mind”

When you change with every new day
Still I’m gonna miss you
- The Rolling Stones, “Ruby Tuesday”

Aaaand some random ones

Then you decide to take a walk by the old school
Nothing has changed, it’s still the same
I’ve got nothing to say, but it’s okay
- The Beatles, “Good Morning, Good Morning”

It’s all too much for me to see
The love that’s shining all around you
The more I learn, the less I know
And what I do, it’s all too much
- The Beatles, “It’s All Too Much”

We’re Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
We hope you have enjoyed the show
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
We’re sorry but it’s time to go
- The Beatles, “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)”

I’m older now but still runnin’ against the wind
- Bob Seger, “Against The Wind”

It’s alright when people say
That those foolish kids can’t be ready
For the love that comes their way
- Buddy Holly, “Well… All Right”

I don’t know who I am
But life is for learning
- Crosby Stills Nash & Young, “Woodstock”

The future’s uncertain and the end is always near
- The Doors, “Roadhouse Blues”

Ba-de-ya, say, do you remember
Ba-de-ya, dancin’ in September?
- Earth Wind & Fire, “September”

We go together like ramma-lamma-lamma ka-dinga-da-dinga-dong
Remembered forever as shoo-bop sha-whadda-whadda yippidy-boom-de-boom
- Grease, “We Go Together”

Picture book
Of people with each other
To prove they love each other
A long time ago
- The Kinks, “Picture Book”

Don’t know where you’re goin’
Only know just where you’ve been
- Led Zeppelin, “Dazed And Confused”

If I leave here tomorrow
Would you still remember me?
For I must be traveling on now
There’s just too many places I’ve got to see
- Lynyrd Skynyrd, “Free Bird”

When I poured through the files
Taken off my mental shelf
I dusted off some memories of you
- The Monkees, “Carlisle Wheeling”

Well, she’s got a book that tells about everybody’s past
- The Monkees, “Sunny Girlfriend”

I was always here in the silence
But I was never under your eye
Gather up your love in some wiseness
For every memory shall always survive
- Pete Townshend, “I Am An Animal”

And then one day you find
Ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run
You missed the starting gun
- Pink Floyd, “Time”

And you run and you run to catch up with the sun, but it’s sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in a relative way, but you’re older
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death
- Pink Floyd, “Time”

The time is gone, the song is over
Thought I’d something more to say
- Pink Floyd, “Time”

Don’t you get embarrassed when you think about the way you were
Yesterday, the day before, when you were young with much to learn?
- The Who, “Cry If You Want”

Your out-of-tune piano, sentimental photographs
A million little memories, a million little laughs
- The Who, “Glow Girl”

Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
- The Who, “Won’t Get Fooled Again”

The change, it had to come
We knew it all along
- The Who, “Won’t Get Fooled Again”

And, personally, this hasn’t helped me at all. Great.