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Refers to Elvis or is about Elvis....

Mine has to be:

Porcelain Monkey by Warren Zevon


(Written by, Warren Zevon and Jorge Calderon)

He was an accident waiting to happen
Most accidents happen at home
Maybe he should've gone out more often
Maybe he should've answered the phone

Hip-shakin' shoutin' in gold lame'
That's how he earned his regal sobriquet
Then he threw it all away
For a porcelain monkey

He threw it away for a porcelain monkey
Gave it all up for a figurine
He traded it in for a night in Las Vegas
And his face on velveteen

From a shotgun shack singing Pentecostal hymns
Through the wrought iron gates to the TV room
He had a little world, it was smaller than your hand
It's a rockabilly ride from the glitter to the gloom

Left behind by the latest trends
Eating fried chicken with his regicidal friends
That's how the story ends
With a porcelain monkey

He threw it away for a porcelain monkey
Gave it all up for a figurine
He traded it in for a night in Las Vegas
And his face on velveteen

Hip-shakin' shoutin' in gold lame'
That's how he earned his regal sobriquet
Then he threw it all away
For a porcelain monkey

He threw it away for a porcelain monkey
Gave it all up for a figurine
He traded it in for a night in Las Vegas
And his face on velveteen
 

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Human Radio - Me & Elvis



Me and Elvis used to have a good time
We'd cash in all our coke bottles to buy a quart wine
Me and Elvis we'd ride out to the park
Smoke his daddy's cigarettes and come home after dark
Me and Elvis used really rock n roll
We liked to crank up our guitars n then we'd really lose control
Me and Elvis we'd ride our motorbikes
We used to always skip school, we did just what we liked

(Chorus)
Me and Elvis
Elvis and I (2x)

Me and Elvis we were cool with the chicks
We had a smooth delivery n we knew how to get our kicks
Me and Elvis never worried bout the cops
He flashed that badge he got from nixon every time that we got stopped
Me and Elvis used to play pinball all day
N the machines would never tilt, no one ever had to pay
Me and Elvis liked our leather jackets black
N we'd ride up and down the river in a brand new cadillac

(Chorus)

Sweating in the memphis sun
Elvis kept us in the shade
N when the crowd got much too thick
Elvis put up barricades
N when the colonel gave him lemons
Elvis served up lemonade
N when the time came for departure
Elvis had his dues full paid

Me and Elvis really tried to disappear
We took his jet down to Las Vegas n we stayed a coupla years
Me and Elvis watched TV till it got late
N we would never change the channel, we'd use Elvis'.38
Me and Elvis never meant to sing the blues
But avalanches never go in the direction that you choose
Me and Elvis finally made our sacrifice
N now his pictures on my mantle sitting next to Jesus Christ


YouTube - Human Radio - Me & Elvis
 
Mine happens to be one of my all time favorites songs as well:

Elvis - Sister Hazel (you can hear the song in my music player on my myspace page)


I'll go away
I'll go on my wordless way
Don't say anything
Say nothing, just leave me.

I've been merely, an actor
In your painful play.
But I feel too much to stay.
Just cast me out.

You can have the dishes
You can have the jacked up car.
And take the book on meditation
I'll just take home what I brought,

My, big painted velvet Elvis...

Well take it away
Take it all away
Don't leave anything
Leave nothing, except me

'cause I've been sadly misinformed
I thought it mattered a little more than this
I wish I was a thousand miles away...

You can have the dishes
You can have the jacked up car.
And take the book on meditation
I'll just take home what I brought,

My, big painted velvet Elvis...

Well I'm frozen here
Caged in silence
It's better that I
Regret these words
Than to stand aside
And watch your tragic
Storyline unfold...
Just let me go

You can have the dishes
You can have the jacked up car.
And take the book on meditation
I'll just take home what I brought,

My, big painted velvet Elvis...


Well you took my heart
And you took my soul
And you used me,
I've had plenty of that.
It gets harder and harder
And farther and farther
From what I need for me.
 
YouTube - Nickelback - Rockstar



NICKELBACK LYRICS

"Rockstar"

I'm through with standing in line
To clubs we'll never get in
It's like the bottom of the ninth
And I'm never gonna win
This life hasn't turned out
Quite the way I want it to be

(Tell me what you want)

I want a brand new house
On an episode of Cribs
And a bathroom I can play baseball in
And a king size tub big enough
For ten plus me

(So what you need?)

I'll need a credit card that's got no limit
And a big black jet with a bedroom in it
Gonna join the mile high club
At thirty-seven thousand feet

(Been there, done that)

I want a new tour bus full of old guitars
My own star on Hollywood Boulevard
Somewhere between Cher and
James Dean is fine for me

(So how you gonna do it?)

I'm gonna trade this life for fortune and fame
I'd even cut my hair and change my name

[Chorus:]
'Cause we all just wanna be big rockstars
And live in hilltop houses driving fifteen cars
The girls come easy and the drugs come cheap
We'll all stay skinny 'cause we just won't eat
And we'll hang out in the coolest bars
In the VIP with the movie stars
Every good gold digger's
Gonna wind up there
Every Playboy bunny
With her bleach blond hair

Hey hey I wanna be a rockstar
Hey hey I wanna be a rockstar

I wanna be great like Elvis without the tassels
Hire eight body guards that love to beat up *******s
Sign a couple autographs
So I can eat my meals for free
(I'll have the quesadilla, ha, ha)
I'm gonna dress my ass
With the latest fashion
Get a front door key to the Playboy mansion
Gonna date a centerfold that loves to
Blow my money for me
(So how you gonna do it?)
I'm gonna trade this life for fortune and fame
I'd even cut my hair and change my name

[Chorus]

And we'll hide out in the private rooms
With the latest dictionary and today's who's who
They'll get you anything with that evil smile
Everybody's got a drug dealer on speed dial, well

Hey hey I wanna be a rockstar

I'm gonna sing those songs
That offend the censors
Gonna pop my pills from a pez dispenser

I'll get washed-up singers writing all my songs
lip sync 'em every night so I don't get 'em wrong

[Chorus]

And we'll hide out in the private rooms
With the latest dictionary and today's who's who
They'll get you anything with that evil smile
Everybody's got a drug dealer on speed dial

Hey hey I wanna be a rockstar
Hey hey I wanna be a rockstar
 
"Round Here" - Counting Crows :


Step out the front door like a ghost
Into the fog where no one notices
The contrast of white on white.
And in between the moon and you
The angels get a better view
Of the crumbling difference between wrong and right.
I walk in the air between the rain
Through myself and back again
Where? I don't know
Maria says she's dying
Through the door I hear her crying
Why? I don't know
Round here we always stand up straight
Round here something radiates
Maria came from Nashville with a suitcase in her hand
She said she'd like to meet a boy who looks like Elvis
And she walks along the edge of where the ocean meets the land
Just like she's walking on a wire in the circus
She parks her car outside of my house
Takes her clothes off
Says she's close to understanding Jesus
She knows she's more than just a little misunderstood
She has trouble acting normal when she's nervous
Round here we're carving out our names
Round here we all look the same
Round here we talk just like lions
But we sacrifice like lambs
Round here she's slipping through my hands
Sleeping children better run like the wind
out of the lightning dream
Mama's little baby better get herself in
out of the lightning
She says "it's only in my head"
She says "Shhhhh I know it's only in my head"
But the girl on the car in the parking lot
Says "Man you should try to take a shot
Can't you see my walls are crumbling?"
Then she looks up at the building
Says she's thinking of jumping
She says she's tired of life
She must be tired of something
Round here she's always on my mind
Round here hey man got lots of time
Round here we're never sent to bed early
and nobody makes us wait
Round here we stay up very, very, very, very late
I can't see nothing.. nothing round here
Will you catch if I'm falling
Will you catch me if I'm falling
Will you catch me cause I'm falling down on you
I said I'm under the gun around here
I'm innocent I'm under the gun around here
And I can't see nothing
Nothing round here
 
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