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Best Opening Lyrics: No. 6

"Why do birds suddenly appear every time you are near?"
--The Carpenters' 'Close to You'

Penned by Burt Bacharach's wordsmith Hal David, this line is still the envy of Hallmark scribes.
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Starpunkat 8-06-2007

And then the birds take a shit on your head. Yeccch!

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guyat 8-06-2007

because the birds were vultures waiting for her skinny ass to die.

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mrswentz1994at 7-08-2009

You're an idiot.
Please go away?


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bblood1000at 7-08-2009

Ok, maybe they were sparrows going to use her skinny ass as a twig for a nest.

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observerat 8-07-2007

Starpunk and guy are certainly clever young lads, aren't they? School starts in a few weeks.

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lover of love songsat 8-07-2007

this is a great love song, keep your nasty opinions to yourself

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brianat 8-07-2007

i have to comment...Karen Carpenter was, is and ALWAYS will be THE VOICE. She could sing tears into your eyes...You disagree...you got know taste!!!!!!

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brianat 8-07-2007

woops...NO taste...She was a national treasure...sad that she could see it. The Carpenters Christmas album...the best...Merry Christmas Darling...Not Christmas without it in your CD player!!!!!

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Jim0in0spaceat 8-07-2007

yeah man, i dont even like the carpenters, but that was just mean(i'm referring to guy's comment in particular)

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Johnat 8-07-2007

bubble gum pop crap!

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Steveat 8-07-2007

Probably wouldn't have been caught dead listening to her on my trnsistor radio when she was alive -- she was considered way to geeky. But man could she sing, and what a voice too bad she had to leave us so soon.

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The Truthat 8-07-2007

Yuck! sticky, syrupy, clinging. Anyone who thinks like this is dangerously unstable, probably a stalker.

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Tamaraat 8-09-2007

Best ref to this line ever is in Veronica Mars, when V says to Sheriff Lamb: "How much of an ass-kiss would I be if I admit it's to be close to you? Seriously. Why DO birds suddenly appear every time you're near?"

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Mikeat 8-12-2007

Any song that Marge and Homer Simpson played at their wedding can't be all bad...

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Deborahat 8-17-2007

maybe the birds were roast chickens and turkeys
taunting her to eat

sorry its really not that funny
its sad her illness
I am not a fan but a fellow human being
with a warped sense of humor

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Michelleat 8-17-2007

Ok why would anyone even joke about her illness? That's just plain rude! I don't care if you don't like her music, that's your own loss! Don't mock someone who is now gone from this world in such a way! Anyone who jokes like that don't deserve to be called a human. Just pigs.

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madukezat 8-21-2007

I love this song it has been performed by so many but this version is my most loved. She had a very calming voice.

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Ryanat 8-28-2007

Thats so horrible to say about one of the very few positive influences in this world. They sung of love and happiness. They were good people. Unlike all of those who discourage them. Its bad enough talking about someone that way when they're alive but when they are dead!? So some respect! damn!

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SHAWNat 9-24-2007

It's REALLY obvious that a lot of young people don't have enough CHORES to do on their "off" time . . . to the point that they are allowed to waste so much time on the computer! You have no concept of the type of music that we had access to. Not much of a choice. SHOW SOME RESPECT! But, I WOULD NOT listen to the CRAP you listen to either!

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Meganat 9-30-2007

That guys hair reminds me of a cocoanut!lol

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