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Lyric	Literary Work	Musical Artist
One pill makes you larger and one pill makes you small		Jefferson Airplane
And so it was that later, as the miller told his tale, that her face at first just ghostly, turned a whiter shade of pale		Procol Harum
Heathcliff, it's me, it's Cathy. I've come home. I'm so cold. Let me in-a your window!		Kate Bush
She made me promise not to cry, so here is a drink - I drink to thee		Hollerado
It's no use. He sees her, he starts to shake and cough just like the old man in that book by Nabokov		The Police
We came here on a plane just a bunch of little boys, dropped the boulder on his brain, you can never take it back		Gatsby's American Dream
The blind man sleeps in the doorway, his home. . . But I gave you all		Mumford and Sons
Don't ever tell anyone anything or else you'll wind up missing everybody		The Ataris

Lyric	Literary Work	Musical Artist
They say he's crazy, they say he's gone. We play our tricks, make up funny songs, sneaking around, feeling badly, sneaking up on Boo Radley		Bruce Hornsby
'Twas in the darkest depths of Mordor, I met a girl so fair but Gollum and the evil one crept up and slipped away with her		Led Zeppelin
Oh, I've finally decided my future lies beyond the yellow brick road		Elton John
Soma is what they would take when hard times opened their eyes		The Strokes
I'm like Estella. I like to reel it in and then spit it out		Alanis Morrisette
Oh there ain't no love, no Montagues or Capulets		Arctic Monkeys
Ophelia drowned in the water, crushed by her own weight		Jewel

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