I don't think a thread like this can go without an entry from Karl Wallinger and Mike Scott
"We're setting sail to the place on the map from which no one has ever returned" from Ship OF Fools by World Party
And
"Seven o'clock in the morning and I'm riding the overnight train I've got ten tons of luggage but I left it behind when I came" from Somebody Might Wave Back by The Waterboys.
My, brother, knows, Karl Marx, he met him eating mushrooms in the peoples park, he said 'What do you think about my manifesto? 'I like a manifesto, put it to the test-o.'