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Summer Teeth

Wilco

Summerteeth

1999

Like a cloud his fingers explode
On the typewriter ribbon, the shadow grows
His hearts in a bowl behind the bank
And every evening when he get

him to go fly away
But the magic still whispered through typewriter ribbons
Beckoning softly, "Come out to play"

Now it's Tree and me singing out come

Poor Fractured Atlas

Elvis Costello

Costello & Nieve

1996

Of the ribbon in his little typewriter

Poor fractured Atlas
Threw himself across the mattress
Waving his withering pencil as if it were a pirate's cutlass

Poor Fractured Atlas

Elvis Costello

Extreme Honey: The Very Best of Warner Brothers Years

1997

younger
But back at his desk in the city we find
Our trembling punch-drunken fighter
Who can't find the strength now to punish the length
Of the ribbon in

Typewriter Torment

Procol Harum

Procol's Ninth

1975

Typewriter fever I'm worn to a stub
I've dumped my thesaurus and pulled out the plug
I'm rending my ribbon and bending my spool
Don't bother rewinding: I'm

to its spool and heard a heartbeat

I changed its ribbon and said thanks for the knowledge you've given
It said there's a soft typewriter tapping the lives

on her typewriter with ease
The phrases seem to fly to her like birds between the trees

She writes of dreams, summer lust, new love in the spring
It's