From “Rock Star” in Every Lyric Tells A Story. What happens to a rock star When he gets too old to perform When his public has faded Like the strength his voice once had? What happens to a rock star When he’s treated like yesterday’s news And the only reviews that he gets are ones that are bad?
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Related Because', she said, 'your problems are not real problems. You're dating two beautiful girls at once.... CASSANDRA CLARE He froze, becoming stone still. As the hover climbed the hill to the palace, his shoulders sank, and... MARISSA MEYER The Wanderer What is she like? I was told— she is a melancholy soul. LANG LEAV What would you rather have?" "Cheeseburger and a small fry. Coke classic. Better yet, dope clas... L.F. BLAKE Rock-a-bye Baby In the tree top When the wind blows The cradle will rock. When... KRISTEN MCKEE And you know what happens when a ship gets too many rats on board? It sinks. That's what. DAVID WONG Is that shooting star just a happy accident or has the universe had it planned for a thousand years?... DEBRA ANASTASIA One true king knew when to step aside and give up the reins of power—to remove his crown and relin... VERA NAZARIAN The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.” “Elton John?” KAMI GARCIA This was a conversation I had with a so-called-fellow-trekkie the other day: ''So Picard ... MELANIE KAY TAYLOR Twinkle, twinkle little star How I wonder what you are! Up above the world so high Like ... JANE TAYLOR Once on a yellow piece of paper with green lines he wrote a poem And he called it "Chops"... STEPHEN CHBOSKY … I don't know what to say.' ‘That’s okay. Sometimes talking is like singing in a storm.�... ÉLISE TURCOTTE AESTHETICS OF INTEGRITY For every star in the sky Someone is holding his ground. KENNETH KOCH Were a star quenched on high, For ages would its light, Still travelling downward from the sky... ALEXANDER RUSSELL MAIN It is the mission of each true knight... His duty... nay, his privilege! To dream the im... JOE DARION A precious mouldering pleasure 't is To meet an antique book, In just the dress his centur... EMILY DICKINSON Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remov... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It has rained for five days running the world is a round puddle of sunless water... AUDRE LORDE Excerpt: Here are some thoughts from Charlene the Star: “I’ll bet that’s why Mama pu... DEANIE HUMPHRYS-DUNNE ...So when at times the mob is swayed To carry praise or blame too far, We may choose some... ROBERT FROST When the hearthfire turns to blue, what to do? what to do? run outside, run and hide ... PATRICK ROTHFUSS Behind him Kaldar nudged Urow's youngest son. "Bet you he lasts at least thirty seconds." "Um..... ILONA ANDREWS You look spectacluar, Cam.' She smoothes out his shirt and straightens his tie. 'You look like the s... NEAL SHUSTERMAN A Boat O beautiful was the werewolf in his evil forest. We took him t... RICHARD BRAUTIGAN LITTLE DOGS RHAPSODY IN THE NIGHT (PERCY THREE) He puts his cheek against mine ... MARY OLIVER He tried to measure his day by tallying the hours on his wrist. I wiped it off and called... KAMAND KOJOURI He is deaf, and keen to accept, any economical operation, that will correct his situation.... JASLEEN KAUR GUMBER ...what happens when you return and find nothing but a hollowed shell, shingles and f... KELLIE ELMORE Star light, Star bright First star I see tonight… I whispered your name to a star ... N'ZURI ZA AUSTIN Christmas garland and a rock?" he said, a smile in his voice. "Why not an ornament?" "Wol... PATRICIA BRIGGS Gus is the Cat at the Theatre Door. His name, as I ought to have told you before, Is reall... T.S. ELIOT When it happens and it hits hard, we decide certain things, and realize there's truth in all those d... DAVE MATTHES And he leans in, so carefully. Breathing and not breathing and hearts beating between us a... TAHEREH MAFI Every known thing used to be unknown And every rock could become a stone Someday nature w... MUNIA KHAN you are a horse running alone and he tries to tame you compares you to an impossible highw... WARSAN SHIRE When you are a rock star in front of 20,000 people, you receive instant gratification. A rock star o... GENE SIMMONS Star light, Star bright I wish upon the stars tonight… I whispered your name to a ... N'ZURI ZA AUSTIN It is strange to hear my words Read back to me. I don't think I wrote them To h... STASIA WARD KEHOE When death captures me,' the boy vowed, 'he will feel my fist on his face.' Personally, I... MARKUS ZUSAK You invented me. There is no such earthly being, Such an earthly being there could never be. ANNA AKHMATOVA I spent millons of years in the world of inorganic things as a star, as a rock... Then I di... RUMI His brow is seamed with line and scar; His cheek is red and dark as wine; The fires as of ... WALTER DE LA MARE Yes Yes when God created love he didn't help most when God created dogs He didn't h... CHARLES BUKOWSKI Jane Jameson." He grinned. "Like the porn star." I gaped at him. "What? No, Jane Ja... MOLLY HARPER Ask him why there are hypocrites in the world.' 'Because it is hard to bear the happiness of ot... VIKRAM CHANDRA It's classical mythology, Cohen," said the minstrel. "I thought everyone knew. He was chained to a r... TERRY PRATCHETT I have an iron lung, and the dog keeps me from getting too close to magnets. [...] I have ... JODI PICOULT THE OLD MAN IN THE CORNER The man in the corner Is dying with words He's crying... SUZY KASSEM Have you seen Frances?” He tilted his head to the right. “I believe she’s off rooti... JULIA QUINN What's the deal? Why can't he look into my eyes when I have words of appreciation lined u... TANYA GAMBHIR What had been became what was and a story only works when you know the ending. When the pe... ELIZABETH SCOTT You say that your fare told you that he was a detective?" "Yes, he did." "When did he say ... ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE A man -- I let the truth out -- Who's had almost every tooth out, Cannot sing as once he san... WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY All things by immortal power, Near and Far Hiddenly To each other linked are, That t... FRANCIS THOMPSON When twilight drops her curtain down And pins it with a star Remember that you have a friend LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY He stopped the flyers And by his rare example made the coward Turn terror into sport. As w... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE What are you looking at?" Jordan demanded finally, watching her. "A dragon." When ... JUDITH MCNAUGHT You have heard about the reindeer that pull old Santa's sled. But mostly I hate Rudolph and wi... MARK W. BOYER When along the pavement, Palpitating flames of life, People flicker around me, I forg... D.H. LAWRENCE Interesting how fashion is cyclical,” Jaccob said when she came out of the store with two black pl... ERIK SCOTT DE BIE Start by pulling him out of the fire and hoping that he will forget the smell. 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Past the mountains Behind a star. BYRD BAYLOR And then, just as Wilbur was settling down for his morning nap, he heard again the thin voice that h... E.B. WHITE England once there lived a big And wonderfully clever pig. To everybody it was plain ... ROALD DAHL Eyes and ears are two. Lungs and kidneys, too. I wonder then why we're born with one<... KAMAND KOJOURI Dear God, I was terribly lost When the galaxies crossed And the sun went dark. Dear G... OWL CITY Two of us in this room, Ace, two keycards," he said and my eyes went to him. When they did, he jerke... KRISTEN ASHLEY Harlem What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a ra... LANGSTON HUGHES You are real," she said to herself. "Aye." His voice was deep and resonant, a caress in h... J.R. WARD When the spent sun throws up its rays on cloud And goes down burning into the gulf below, ... ROBERT FROST Logical Tom begs emotional stupid dickhead Tom not to ask the question. 'Are you alone?' he ask... MELINA MARCHETTA Hunter woke suddenly. A noise. It was a noise unlike anything he’d ever heard before. Close! ... MICHAEL GRANT It is too late." The old man shook his head. "It is never too late or too soon. It is wh... MITCH ALBOM THERE was a man in our town, and he was wondrous rich; He gave away his millions to the colleges... FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Rockabye Baby, in the treetop Dont you know a treetop is no safe place to rock? And who ... SHEL SILVERSTEIN Rockabye Baby, in the treetop Dont you know a treetop is no safe place to rock? And w... SHEL SILVERSTEIN What does Éloa mean?” He narrowed his gaze, answered her literally. “It’s the name... SARAH MACLEAN The Lord builds up Jerusalem, And gathers nations to his Name: His mercy melts the stubborn so... ISAAC WATTS When the wind blows in your face, when you feel you are losing your head, when the going g... MALAK EL HALABI I was dead, then alive. Weeping, then laughing. The power of love came into me, JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI I saw the prince when I was in Os Alta,” said Ekaterina. “He’s not bad looking.” “Not... LEIGH BARDUGO Father! My father knows the proper way The nation should be run; He tells us childr... EDGAR A. GUEST
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MARK GATISS Defending birthright citizenship is about being on the right side of liberty. The 14th Amendment is ... MARK MCKINNON If I owned half of that dog, I would shoot my half. MARK TWAIN I believe we have to nip Ebola in the bud before it spreads through Africa and to other countries. MARK ZUCKERBERG Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends the other desce... MARK HOPKINS Launching a Broadway show is like no other endeavor. It's taxing because you're present - it... MARK HAMILL What? No one wants my bouquet! Somebody better pick it up! Somebody better pick up my bouquet! MARK MCKINNEY To me, all war is failure for humanity, though it often is a bounty for commerce. MARK EDWARDS What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed ... MARK TWAIN When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. B... MARK TWAIN When you have prayed for victory you have prayed for many unmentioned results which follow victorymu... MARK TWAIN The teacher reminded us that Romes liberties were not auctioned off in a day, but were bought slowly... MARK TWAIN By his father he is English, by his mother he is Americanto my mind the blend which makes the perfec... MARK TWAIN So I became a newspaperman. I hated to do it but I couldnt find honest employment. MARK TWAIN The people of those foreign countries are very, very ignorant. They looked curiously at the costumes... MARK TWAIN We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in itand stop there; lest w... MARK TWAIN The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large mattertis the diff... MARK TWAIN Say the report is exaggerated. MARK TWAIN A jay hasnt got any more principle than a Congressman. A jay will lie, a jay will steal, a jay will ... MARK TWAIN To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature Congressman. MARK TWAIN I think I can say, and say with pride, that we have some legislatures that bring higher prices than ... MARK TWAIN A myriad of men are born; they labor and sweat and struggle; ...they squabble and scold and fight; t... MARK TWAIN Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the st... MARK TWAIN Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born --a hundred mi... MARK TWAIN Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to... MARK TWAIN We never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead -- and not then ... MARK TWAIN Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. MARK TWAIN All say, How hard it is that we have to die -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people... 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