Too Dumb to Live/Music

"I've been stranded in the combat zone I walked through Bedford-Stuy alone
 * That girl with a white flag in the last verse of "Hero of War" by Rise Against. So, you're in the middle of a war, and a soldier carrying a BFG is asking you to stop. What do you do? Why, keep walking! Of course she got shot, white flag or no white flag.
 * The narrator of Billy Joel's "You May Be Right" is self-admittedly Too Dumb to Live:

Even rode my motorcycle in the rain

And you told me not to drive

But I made it home alive

So you said that only proves that I'm insane!"

"That fateful night The car was stalled Upon the railroad tracks I pulled you out And we were safe But you went running back."
 * The victim in Mark Dinning's "Teen Angel", the Glurge-worthy granddaddy of all Teenage Death Songs:

"They said they found my high school ring Clutched in your fingers tight..."
 * And what was so damn important that she was willing to throw herself back into the path of an oncoming train?


 * Reinhard Mey (German songwriter and singer) had a song Die Legende vom Pfeifer (there's even an English version called The Whistler) about a gunman who always whistles before he shoots. Someone convinces him to go to the sheriff and tell him who he is and that he'd like the bounty that was offered for himself. He gets sentenced to die, and hung - or they try to, but the branch keeps breaking until the movie director decides to call it a day and continue shooting the final scene the next day...