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* That girl with a white flag in the last verse of "Hero of War" by [[
* The narrator of [[
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''I walked through [[Wretched Hive|Bedford-Stuy]] alone''
''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!'' }}
* The victim in Mark Dinning's "Teen Angel", the [[Glurge]]-worthy granddaddy of all [[Teenage Death Songs]]:
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''The car was stalled''
''Upon the railroad tracks''
''I pulled you out''
''And we were safe''
''But [[What an Idiot!|you went running back.]]'' }}
** And what was so damn important that she was willing to throw herself ''back'' into the path of an oncoming train?
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''Clutched in your fingers tight...'' }}
* 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...
* ''Amateur Rebels'' [[Filk Song]] by Leslie Fish (see the lyrics [http://www.prometheus-music.com/eli/filk/amateur.html here]) argues that the cast of ''[[Blake's 7]]'' didn't approach seriously enough a pastime which inherently involves large number of people trying to shoot at them.
{{quote|The question is not: "Where did we go wrong?"
The question is how we lasted this long. }}
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