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Can you name the Literary Allusions in Song?

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LyricLiterary WorkMusical Artist
Heathcliff, it's me, it's Cathy. I've come home. I'm so cold. Let me in-a your window!Kate Bush
One pill makes you larger and one pill makes you smallJefferson Airplane
Soma is what they would take when hard times opened their eyesThe Strokes
The blind man sleeps in the doorway, his home. . . But I gave you allMumford and Sons
Don't ever tell anyone anything or else you'll wind up missing everybodyThe Ataris
And so it was that later, as the miller told his tale, that her face at first just ghostly, turned a whiter shade of paleProcol Harum
Ophelia drowned in the water, crushed by her own weightJewel
'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 herLed Zeppelin
LyricLiterary WorkMusical Artist
We came here on a plane just a bunch of little boys, dropped the boulder on his brain, you can never take it backGatsby's American Dream
It's no use. He sees her, he starts to shake and cough just like the old man in that book by NabokovThe Police
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 RadleyBruce Hornsby
Oh there ain't no love, no Montagues or CapuletsArctic Monkeys
I'm like Estella. I like to reel it in and then spit it outAlanis Morrisette
She made me promise not to cry, so here is a drink - I drink to theeHollerado
Oh, I've finally decided my future lies beyond the yellow brick roadElton John
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