"Met a girl crazy for me. Met a boy cute as can be"

"Ah, can't you see me standin' here. I got my back against the record machine. I ain't the worst that you've seen. Ah, can't you see what I mean?"

"And we danced like a wave on the ocean, romanced. We were liars in love and we danced, swept away for a moment by chance"

"If there's something weird and it don't look good, who you gonna call?"

"Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality"

"As I turn up the collar on my favorite winter coat, this wind is blowing my mind"

"Clock strikes upon the hour and the sun begins to fade. Still enough time to figure out how to chase my blues away

"My heart is like an open highway. Like Frankie said, I did it my way"

"Thank you for blessin' me with a mind to rhyme and two hype feet. It feels good, when you know you're down. A super dope homeboy from the Oaktown"

"But lately something's changed. It ain't hard to define. Jessie's got himself a girl and I want to make her mine"

"And them good ole boys were drinking whiskey and rye, singin' this'll be the day that I die, this'll be the day that I die"

"Dark in the city, night is a wire. Steam in the subway, earth is afire" … "In touch with the ground, I'm on the hunt, I'm after you"