Lyric Day

Today I am having my brain washed. I have nothing to say. In sympathy with the Writer's Guild strike, I am featuring re-runs of song lyrics. Feel free to add anything unoriginal you can come up with.

Guess the artist, win thirty seconds of silence:

"Lots of old friends
with the same old answers
Open your eyes you might see
If our lives were that simple
We could live in the past
If the phone doesn't ring, it's me"

"Once I stood upon Olympus,
and the heavens opened wide
I beheld that flaming chariot
And I saw the sacred bride"

"My friends tell me you are a vulture
Say you're a sore and a cancer culture
But hey, you've got a little charm about you"

"Better bring your own redemption
when you come"

"I saw...ginmill...rainfall
What do you remember if at all?
Only pieces of the night"

"They're selling postcards of the hanging
They're painting the passports brown
The beauty parlor is filled with sailors
The circus is in town"

"The lunatics are in the hall
The paper holds their folded faces
to the floor
And everyday the paperboy brings more"

"You did your best
Life did the rest
Now you're forever blue"

"Semolina pilchard climbing up the Eiffel Tower
Elementary penguin singing Hare Krishna
Man you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allen Poe
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen
I am the walrus, goo goo goo joob goo goo goo joob
Goo goo goo joob goo goo goo joob
Goo gooooooooooo jooba jooba jooba jooba jooba jooba
Jooba jooba
Jooba jooba
Jooba jooba"