"I got a question, as serious as cancer
Who can keep the average dancer
Hyper as a heart attack, nobody smiling
Cuz you're expressing the rhyme that I'm styling"
- Rakim, I Ain't No Joke
"And here’s where your mother sleeps,
And here is the room where your brothers were born,
Indentions in the sheets,
Where their bodies once moved but don’t move any more.
And it’s so sad to see the world agree that they’d rather see their faces fill with flies,
All when I’d want to keep white roses in their eyes."
- Neutral Milk Hotel, Holland, 1945
"Morning came and then came noon,
dinner time a scalpel blade
lay beside my silver spoon.
Some girls wander by mistake
into the mess that scalpels make.
Are you the teachers of my heart?
We teach old hearts to break."
- Leonard Cohen, Teachers