Artist	Song
Tom Waits	Broken Bicycles
Bessie Smith	Need A Little Sugar In My Bowl
Jonathan Richman	My Love is a Flower (Just Beginning to Bloom)
Joan Baez	I'm a Rambler, I'm a Gambler
Neil Young	Harvest Moon
Joanna Newsom	En Gallop
Rivers Cuomo	I Can't Live, if Living is Without You
Bob Dylan	Up to Me
Violent Femmes	Sweet Misery Blues
Cowboy Junkies	Sweet Jane
Beatles	Long, Long, Long
Magnetic Fields	All My Little Words
Regina Spektor	The Flowers
Bright Eyes	If Winter Ends
Joan Baez	Diamonds and Rust
Elliott Smith	Satellite
Mountain Goats	Orange Ball of Hate
Camera Obscura	Happy New Year
Calvin Johnson	I'm a Lightnin' Rod for Jesus
Robert Johnson	Love In Vain
Daniel Johnston	Hate Song
Modest Mouse	Think Long

Comment:

Well I'll be damned
Here comes your ghost again
But that's not unusual
It's just that the moon is full
And you happened to call
And here I sit
Hand on the telephone
Hearing a voice I'd known
A couple of light years ago
Heading straight for a fall

As I remember your eyes
Were bluer than robin's eggs
My poetry was lousy you said
Where are you calling from?
A booth in the midwest
Ten years ago
I bought you some cufflinks
You brought me something
We both know what memories can bring
They bring diamonds and rust

Well you burst on the scene
Already a legend
The unwashed phenomenon
The original vagabond
You strayed into my arms
And there you stayed
Temporarily lost at sea
The Madonna was yours for free
Yes the girl on the half-shell
Would keep you unharmed

Now I see you standing
With brown leaves falling around
And snow in your hair
Now you're smiling out the window
Of that crummy hotel
Over Washington Square
Our breath comes out white clouds
Mingles and hangs in the air
Speaking strictly for me
We both could have died then and there

Now you're telling me
You're not nostalgic
Then give me another word for it
You who are so good with words
And at keeping things vague
Because I need some of that vagueness now
It's all come back too clearly
Yes I loved you dearly
And if you're offering me diamonds and rust
I've already paid

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