Michael Webster - "The German's Song".

Viewed one way, this is not so much a love-song as a whisper, something murmured to a lover as they slumber. They lay beside you, warmly, and you lay beside them, warmly; and as they listen to dreaming's kalimba you too whisper dreams, gently, by the curl of their ear.

Viewed another way, it's the nightmare that comes creeping on starlight.

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The Clientele - "George Says He Has Lost His Way In This World".

The main thing this song is trying to say is that, well, George says he has lost his way in this world. The Clientele draw attention to this fact by repeating it over and over, by singing it over an instantly insistent guitar riff, by making the final "ba-da-ba" chorus (and accompanying guitar solo) feel so eminently genius that you'd think it had to be cooked up in a Brill Building penthouse, a Motown throne-room, some place where only songwriting PhDs can lay their pen. [buy]