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A Variation on Two
Jack Shite

(grateful thanks to Spud, 15-16 Puzzle, Soda, and Marcus Kellis for their collective lyrical contributions)

Well two’s company
Three’s a crowd
For me to beg
I ain’t too proud
Takes two to tango
Two for tea
A table for two
Just you and me

Well it’s two, two
Two mints in one
Two all beef patties
On a sesame seed bun
One is lonelier
Don’t be sad
Cause two out of three
It ain’t so bad

Well it’s two to one
If you’re making rice
Got two tickets
To paradise
They say two wrongs
Don’t make a right
But nothing compares
To you tonight

A variation
Variation
Variation in two

Happy 4th of July. make love, not war......

Jon Eric - A Variation on Two

You gave me quite a scare last night:
Came in late, asked me where I'd been.
I could ask you the same thing, dear.

Who's that odor on your shirt?
I'm not overjealoud, but it hurts
To be lied to when it's so clear...

There's only two ways to say hello
And two kinds of love.
There's only two words: the yes and no
And infinite variations thereof.

You made it out like it was my fault
That the storming sky should fall
And I wouldn't kiss you ass goodbye.

Catch an apple, rub it clean;
Get hit by an acorn, run and scream
We're all gonna die.

There's only two ways to say hello
And two kinds of love.
There's only two words: the yes and no
And infinite variations -
There's two ways to say hello
And two kinds of love.
There's only two words: the yes and no
And infinite variations thereof.

a variation on two
by the idiot kings

jaded by repitition
repetition holds me down
holds me to the ground
i can't move with you in my head
chewing on my heart
scraping against my teeth
crawling under my skin
i don't know what i saw in you
a portrait of an angel from a heaven untrue
i can't think of the right thing to say
when your teeth are in my neck
and your sweat's in my veins
you control my mind and color it the greyest of blues
and tell me what to think
what to say, what to do
we're not one anymore,
but we're hardly disconnected enough to be two
i can't believe just what i've become
a spineless shadow coming undone
i'm waiting for you to come back to me.

we're unclassifiable, at best,
me waiting this through and through
and you, parisitical,
making us into little more than a variation on two
you used to think along those lines
until the day that my arms became confines
i never believed in god
but now i believe in a devil
(after having been with her)
i still can't believe the things you did to me
and even worse, how i put up with your shit
but we've moved far beyond those days
cause i know you'll come back completely changed
i'm waiting for you to come back to me.

A Variation On Two - Roymond

when we saw you last night
we knew that something wasn't right
you were giving up the fight
and everybody knows it

there's nothing that's in your eyes
that says that you'd compromise
while most any move is wise
when you're standing in a tar pit

i know it seems unreal
look, we didn't make a deal
what is it with you two that you can't fake it?

we've taken the square of you
a variation of the two
but it never really adds up when you break it

knowing all too well
if there's no getting saved by a bell
and you feel you're going through hell
you just keep going

but don't make it hard on yourselves
just polish them and stock your shelves
but don't let your big heads swell
cause that's all that will be showing

look, it's not up to you
no matter what you do
it's not like you can suck up to the spectators

so next time you play this game
don't do it all the same
and you'll figure out what makes winners

A VARIATION ON TWO / King Arthur

Coming soon to a theatre near you,
In digital color and dolby sound
Chapter seven in the epic saga
You wrap your geeky little life around:

A variation on two
A better story than three
More action than four
More sex than the one we called Episode V
Way weirder than six
And we hope you won't wait
To spend all your money on seven
So we can afford to get started on eight -
It'll be great.

Big ads on the video channels,
Free previews on the internet,
Grand opening midnight Friday
Everyone who's seen it says it's the best yet.

A variation on two
More suspenseful than three
A little longer than four
Addresses some questions that were left unanswered in V
Same director as six
And we hope you won't wait
To spend all your money on seven
So we can afford to get rollin' on eight -
It'll be great.

The battles are bigger, the girls are cuter
We enhanced everything with a huge computer
The aliens are just outa this world,
Did I mention the beautiful girls?

(so more than just)
A variation on two
Less confusing than three
It's not as funny as four
But it's as bitingly witty as Episode V
You probably oughta rent six
So you're all up to date
Then spend the rest of your money on seven
So we can afford to get going on eight -
It's gonna be great.

here's my 'variation on two'. i like it less every time i listen to it. enh. live and learn, i guess.

variation on two
by feldspar

i'm a circle in a bottle full of concentric circles and i float but don't absorb the light
hundred thousand zombies with a hundred million dead stares but they never even put up a fight

and try as i might to understand
and cling as i will to its cold dead hand
and hope against hope it'll all undo
three is just a variation on two

i'm a fine girl but i'm fading i have problems just relating and i'm only here to pick up my check
happiness is fleeting least it doesn't bear repeating when there's no way for the world to connect

i think this is been a misunderstanding
don't stop the ride now the eagle is landing
i'll pray and i'll scream but there's not much to do
three is just a variation on two

A Variation on Two
by Blind Mime Ensemble

words and music by Bryan Baker

Like Frankenstein's gentle monster
Sipping tea and picking flowers
There's a beauty in you
I'm one part Abbott and Costello
Call me the lucky a fellow
Karloff's crying on cue

Ain't no sublime love story
Gonna come from me and you
We're just a crazy variation on two
Ain't no sublime love story
Gonna come from me and you
We're just a crazy variation on two

Or maybe Cage and Van Gogh
With blue paint and a piano
Then take a match and strike it
Filmed in 3D by Warhol
Sets and costumes by Uhaul
It may incite a riot

Ain't no sublime love story
Gonna come from me and you
We're just a crazy variation on two
Ain't no sublime love story
Gonna come from me and you
We're just a crazy variation on two

And maybe Dino DeLaurentis
And his cast of thousands to resent us
Could part the waters in two
Where we would journey to our climax
Wow every crowd at every iMax
With something totally new
And then my Gypsy and her Hunchback
With iris focused on his knapsack
Could slip away with the fools
Or fragile Adrianne and Rocky
With a handy milieu we could copy
It may be crazy but true

Ain't no sublime love story
Gonna come from me and you
We're just a crazy variation on two
Ain't no sublime love story
Gonna come from me and you
We're just a crazy variation on two

Ain't no sublime love story
Gonna come from me and you
We're just a crazy variation on two

by Swedish Masturbation Unit

smu presents variation on the two

I watched your walking - a stumbling flight
like you were always half-alight
mumbling incoherently

not knowing if not knowing's meant
redundant thought collide again
instead I'm simply parroting:

broken cages hold no sway, a broken record cannot play
and broken heels carry no sole
variation on the two appearing picturesque or shrewd
gruesome ravisher subdued

so long, darko penniless creep - so long
your wretched scrawlings are too deep
forgotten, language slinks from everything

I suppose that if you start to bore
it's only naivete now whored
pockets deep enough to fill this quarter

masking in a regal frame
pretend shackles the un-insane
tripping your deluxe GE land mine

I hear fashion there is quite hot
wicked queens love to debauch
even the dilettante fucks the mime

broken cages hold no sway, broken records cannot play
and broken heels carry no soul
variation on the two appearing picturesque or shrewd
gruesome ravisher subdued

posted by Jon Eric

Big Mistake - Variation on Two

If I were to paint you
the things that I would change.
Your two blues are too far apart;
your lips are misarranged.
I spend my daydreaming hours
reinventing your face
to perfect sculpted fantasy,
not one cell out of place.

(Chorus)
But still I love to look at you:
the variations on us two,
and I will constantly improve
the variations on us two.

We're staring at a ceiling
and I'm feeling your skin:
the texture and the blistering,
the little bumps therein.
I wish you were smoother,
smooth as plastic tape.
Your hair is like unprocessed silk -
it flares and lacerates.

(Chorus)

If I were to sculp myself,
I'd chink from granite rough
until an outline starts to form
and I have seen enough.
I insult for betterment -
critique forsofter lives,
so drop the chisels pencils, brushes,
instruments and knives.

(chorus x2)

by Balls to Monte

West 4th A Train
Everyday, the same terrain.
Pouring through the turnstiles,
Logging one more New York mile,
If I smile, then I must care.

A variation of two lives:
Choices make us what we are
Whether we stay near or travel far
It's alright, It's alright
A variation on two themes:
Genomes make us what we are
Whether we stay near or travel far
It's alright, It's alright

Who can mend my state of mind?
Baritone bluesman, singing in the tunnel can.
He and Jesus love the little children.
Crossing guard on Bleecker Street,
Sayin’ “What I’ve lost in my head,
I’ll make up with my feet”

Bagels-on-the-Square, Carmine Street,
I like my iced coffee light and sweet.
Bearded man with a baseball bat,
Hitting balls to a happy Lab,
Dodging cars, just having fun.

A variation of two lives:
Choices make us what we are,
Whether we stay near or travel far.
A variation on two themes:
It's alright, It's alright
Genomes make us what we are,
Whether we stay near or travel far
It's alright, It's alright

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