[Spoken] "This is a song about innocence lost"
Oh girl, I don't know all the reasons why
I found the answer looking in your eye
I go out walking all day long
Take away this lonely man, soon he will be gone
Cause I'll tell you everything about living free
Yes, I can see you girl
Can you see me?
You don't need to know what I do all day
It's as much as I know
Watch it waste away
Cause I'll tell you everything about livin' free
Yes, I can see you girl
Can you see me?
Go and see the sorcerer, look into the ball
You may find the answer written on the wall
Look at what's inside her
Can you see the answer?
Put her on a mansion on top of the hill
Please don't make her do the things against her will
I found something special
I don't know why
Looking into her pretty little eye
Cause I'll tell you everything about being free
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Death Cab for Cutie - 405
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I took the 405 and drilled a stake down into your center,
And stated that it's never ever been better than this.
I hung my favorite shirt on the floorbaord,
wrinkled up from pulling pushing and tasting, tasting.
You keep twisting the truth
that keeps me thrown askew.
Misguided by the 405 'cause it lead me to an alcoholic summer.
I missed the exit to your parents' house hours ago.
Red wine and the cigarettes...
hide your bad habits underneath the patio, patio, patio, patio.
You keep twisting the truth
that keeps me thrown askew. Read more!
And stated that it's never ever been better than this.
I hung my favorite shirt on the floorbaord,
wrinkled up from pulling pushing and tasting, tasting.
You keep twisting the truth
that keeps me thrown askew.
Misguided by the 405 'cause it lead me to an alcoholic summer.
I missed the exit to your parents' house hours ago.
Red wine and the cigarettes...
hide your bad habits underneath the patio, patio, patio, patio.
You keep twisting the truth
that keeps me thrown askew. Read more!
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Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Saves the Day - Ups and Downs
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And I'm gonna get to
The bottom of this
Gonna peel back my skin
And look at myself shaking and shivering
And I'll get the rope, from in the house
Survey the scene, finding two of the tallest trees
And I'm tying myself up, above the cool earth
To dangle in the twilight (whoah)
And I'm gonna get to
The bottom of this
Gonna peel back my skin
And look at myself shaking and shivering
And as my skin collects in a pile on the ground
I'll radiate heat, and turn off my head
And just pretend that I don't exist
Then, I'll see clearly to the end
Of the ropes that I've been hanging from (whoa, oh, oh)
As they loosen from the trees, I plummet to the ground
Be impaled and turned around (turning right around)
Finally free from the ups and downs
And I'm gonna get to
The bottom of this
Gonna peel back my skin
And look at myself shaking and shivering
And I'm gonna get to
The bottom of this
Gonna peel back my skin
And look at myself shaking and shivering Read more!
The bottom of this
Gonna peel back my skin
And look at myself shaking and shivering
And I'll get the rope, from in the house
Survey the scene, finding two of the tallest trees
And I'm tying myself up, above the cool earth
To dangle in the twilight (whoah)
And I'm gonna get to
The bottom of this
Gonna peel back my skin
And look at myself shaking and shivering
And as my skin collects in a pile on the ground
I'll radiate heat, and turn off my head
And just pretend that I don't exist
Then, I'll see clearly to the end
Of the ropes that I've been hanging from (whoa, oh, oh)
As they loosen from the trees, I plummet to the ground
Be impaled and turned around (turning right around)
Finally free from the ups and downs
And I'm gonna get to
The bottom of this
Gonna peel back my skin
And look at myself shaking and shivering
And I'm gonna get to
The bottom of this
Gonna peel back my skin
And look at myself shaking and shivering Read more!
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Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Pulp - Common People
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She came from Greece she had a thirst for knowledge,
she studied sculpture at Saint Martin's College,
that's where I,
caught her eye.
She told me that her Dad was loaded,
I said "In that case I'll have a rum and coca-cola."
She said "Fine."
and in thirty seconds time she said,
"I want to live like common people,
I want to do whatever common people do,
I want to sleep with common people,
I want to sleep with common people,
like you."
Well what else could I do -
I said "I'll see what I can do."
I took her to a supermarket,
I don't know why but I had to start it somewhere,
so it started there.
I said pretend you've got no money,
she just laughed and said,
"Oh you're so funny."
I said "yeah?
Well I can't see anyone else smiling in here.
Are you sure you want to live like common people,
you want to see whatever common people see,
you want to sleep with common people,
you want to sleep with common people,
like me."
But she didn't understand,
she just smiled and held my hand.
Rent a flat above a shop,
cut your hair and get a job.
Smoke some fags and play some pool,
pretend you never went to school.
But still you'll never get it right,
cos when you're laid in bed at night,
watching roaches climb the wall,
if you call your Dad he could stop it all.
You'll never live like common people,
you'll never do what common people do,
you'll never fail like common people,
you'll never watch your life slide out of view,
and dance and drink and screw,
because there's nothing else to do.
Sing along with the common people,
sing along and it might just get you through,
laugh along with the common people,
laugh along even though they're laughing at you,
and the stupid things that you do.
Because you think that poor is cool.
I want to live with common people,
I want to live with common people etc... Read more!
she studied sculpture at Saint Martin's College,
that's where I,
caught her eye.
She told me that her Dad was loaded,
I said "In that case I'll have a rum and coca-cola."
She said "Fine."
and in thirty seconds time she said,
"I want to live like common people,
I want to do whatever common people do,
I want to sleep with common people,
I want to sleep with common people,
like you."
Well what else could I do -
I said "I'll see what I can do."
I took her to a supermarket,
I don't know why but I had to start it somewhere,
so it started there.
I said pretend you've got no money,
she just laughed and said,
"Oh you're so funny."
I said "yeah?
Well I can't see anyone else smiling in here.
Are you sure you want to live like common people,
you want to see whatever common people see,
you want to sleep with common people,
you want to sleep with common people,
like me."
But she didn't understand,
she just smiled and held my hand.
Rent a flat above a shop,
cut your hair and get a job.
Smoke some fags and play some pool,
pretend you never went to school.
But still you'll never get it right,
cos when you're laid in bed at night,
watching roaches climb the wall,
if you call your Dad he could stop it all.
You'll never live like common people,
you'll never do what common people do,
you'll never fail like common people,
you'll never watch your life slide out of view,
and dance and drink and screw,
because there's nothing else to do.
Sing along with the common people,
sing along and it might just get you through,
laugh along with the common people,
laugh along even though they're laughing at you,
and the stupid things that you do.
Because you think that poor is cool.
I want to live with common people,
I want to live with common people etc... Read more!
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Thursday, June 11, 2009
Harvey Danger - The Same As Being In Love
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When you base your whole identity
On reaction against somebody
It’s the same as being in…
I tend to forget when I drink
I’m doing it again I think
A hand to hold; an ego to flatter
Cause you were the wine skin, I was the bladder
Time passes, events fall away
I don’t think they’ll hurry - hurry up
I’m blacking out, high on the vapor
Cos I was the typo, you were the Liquid Paper
Talk it over, talk it, overtalk it
The answer’s still the same
It’s discontent; humiliation
Cause you were the theme and I was the variation
TRY TO TAKE A LESS DRAMATIC COURSE OF ACTION
This attraction; introspection
Diction, Oo predilection
It’s breaking my heart again, breaking my heart again Read more!
On reaction against somebody
It’s the same as being in…
I tend to forget when I drink
I’m doing it again I think
A hand to hold; an ego to flatter
Cause you were the wine skin, I was the bladder
Time passes, events fall away
I don’t think they’ll hurry - hurry up
I’m blacking out, high on the vapor
Cos I was the typo, you were the Liquid Paper
Talk it over, talk it, overtalk it
The answer’s still the same
It’s discontent; humiliation
Cause you were the theme and I was the variation
TRY TO TAKE A LESS DRAMATIC COURSE OF ACTION
This attraction; introspection
Diction, Oo predilection
It’s breaking my heart again, breaking my heart again Read more!
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Thursday, June 4, 2009
Final Fantasy - The Butcher
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The new song I'm obsessed with. Its playing on my blog right now - enjoy it. Be patient with it. It only gets better.
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oomsday, the end of the century
In accord with prophecy
Are all your fears and fires and family
Written within the Book of Butchery?
My appetite is endless
The people defenseless
This land is big, this land is bigger
But never as big as the mouth of a singer-oh.
Every morning I listen to confessional
Couldn't give a shit 'bout the bulk of it
Still I keep it professional
Then, as penance, I tell 'em to proselytize
Say: the sun is red, say that I am red
Say: all your bases belong to us
And of doomsday, the end of the century
In accord with prophecy
Put all your fears, your fires, your family
Into the mouth of Final Fantasy
All the bishops will kneel at their alters and sing
And remove their coils, their rings, their jewels
And lay them all down in sacrifice
What of things? What thing? What is this thing?
I've a temper as shiny as any bling!
And all this attention will gain you no favour in paradise
The crack
Where is the crack?
When did I
Crack?
Then I'll stand alone on a planet with
Nothing left to remember it
I'll try, I'll try, I'll try to prevent it
I'll try, I'll try, but I'll never stop it, no
Muzzle me, muzzle muzzle me
Bind my will and break of me
You try, you try, you try to prevent it
You'll try, you'll try, but you'll never stop it, no Read more!
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oomsday, the end of the century
In accord with prophecy
Are all your fears and fires and family
Written within the Book of Butchery?
My appetite is endless
The people defenseless
This land is big, this land is bigger
But never as big as the mouth of a singer-oh.
Every morning I listen to confessional
Couldn't give a shit 'bout the bulk of it
Still I keep it professional
Then, as penance, I tell 'em to proselytize
Say: the sun is red, say that I am red
Say: all your bases belong to us
And of doomsday, the end of the century
In accord with prophecy
Put all your fears, your fires, your family
Into the mouth of Final Fantasy
All the bishops will kneel at their alters and sing
And remove their coils, their rings, their jewels
And lay them all down in sacrifice
What of things? What thing? What is this thing?
I've a temper as shiny as any bling!
And all this attention will gain you no favour in paradise
The crack
Where is the crack?
When did I
Crack?
Then I'll stand alone on a planet with
Nothing left to remember it
I'll try, I'll try, I'll try to prevent it
I'll try, I'll try, but I'll never stop it, no
Muzzle me, muzzle muzzle me
Bind my will and break of me
You try, you try, you try to prevent it
You'll try, you'll try, but you'll never stop it, no Read more!
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Thursday, May 7, 2009
Bright Eyes - Loose Leaves
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This is my favorite song ... of ALL TIME. Read the lyrics, and its playing (as we speak) on my playlist. Give it a listen, you'll love it.
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The story is in the soil
Loose leaves cover the ground
There are volumes in the forest no one reads out loud
If I could take them down off of that mountain shelf...
we used to climb but no one tries to go up that far now, yeah
We're all too busy working,
entertaining ourselves,
40 hours, television and prescription pills
Well, I take two a day to make my brain behave
It never does but who is to say, at least my doctor gets paid.
So that's fine, yeah come by, we'll take the afternoon off
We can kiss and undress or if you want just talk
Because I have got nothing real, just empty space to fill
And you are my girl, I like your style, just imagine all the time we could kill....
And time's not poison but once you drink it all you'll die
So lets just sip it real slow, yeah, we can nurse it all night
Try to believe that once its gone they will pour another round
and come back to life
We'll come right back!
Well, it's all moving faster now, yeah, and that's what they say
And though some days still take forever I can't disagree
Because it seems to me that I wake up and sleep,
look in the mirror have no idea what happened in between!
But I remember counting days down until the year could be done
So I could scatter all my notebooks on the prep school lawn
And disappear again into a summer's bliss
of staying out and sleeping in and getting drunk with my friends
And that's gone and I know that it won't ever come back
I accept
I won't cling to what I had in the past but life's a slippery slope
Regret is the steepest hill
Hope for the best
Plan for the worst
and maybe wind up somewhere in the middle
And I'm not saying that I know what I want
But I know what I don't,
don't want to rot in my room and never know
what could have been,
believe what everyone else tells me is true!
They will say 'true'
(yeah, they say its true!)
yeah they say 'true'
(they say, yeah they say, they say
yeah they say 'true')
(That's what they say
that's it) Read more!
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The story is in the soil
Loose leaves cover the ground
There are volumes in the forest no one reads out loud
If I could take them down off of that mountain shelf...
we used to climb but no one tries to go up that far now, yeah
We're all too busy working,
entertaining ourselves,
40 hours, television and prescription pills
Well, I take two a day to make my brain behave
It never does but who is to say, at least my doctor gets paid.
So that's fine, yeah come by, we'll take the afternoon off
We can kiss and undress or if you want just talk
Because I have got nothing real, just empty space to fill
And you are my girl, I like your style, just imagine all the time we could kill....
And time's not poison but once you drink it all you'll die
So lets just sip it real slow, yeah, we can nurse it all night
Try to believe that once its gone they will pour another round
and come back to life
We'll come right back!
Well, it's all moving faster now, yeah, and that's what they say
And though some days still take forever I can't disagree
Because it seems to me that I wake up and sleep,
look in the mirror have no idea what happened in between!
But I remember counting days down until the year could be done
So I could scatter all my notebooks on the prep school lawn
And disappear again into a summer's bliss
of staying out and sleeping in and getting drunk with my friends
And that's gone and I know that it won't ever come back
I accept
I won't cling to what I had in the past but life's a slippery slope
Regret is the steepest hill
Hope for the best
Plan for the worst
and maybe wind up somewhere in the middle
And I'm not saying that I know what I want
But I know what I don't,
don't want to rot in my room and never know
what could have been,
believe what everyone else tells me is true!
They will say 'true'
(yeah, they say its true!)
yeah they say 'true'
(they say, yeah they say, they say
yeah they say 'true')
(That's what they say
that's it) Read more!
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Thursday, April 30, 2009
Frankmusik - In Step
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I love this song. I love love love this song. Maybe I just love Frankmusik? Anyway, its on my playlist right now. Listen to it, and enjoy.
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Never took a scene check
Never were a reject
Honey lookin perfect
Now you aren't so in step
in step
in step
in step
You had your photograph, in a magazine
Such a pretty boy, only nineteen
But now your twenty-three and it's all gone now
you ain't all that, you wanna be somehow
Maybe it was only a dream!
You just thought you could be anything that you wanted to be
Sadly, it all went wrong so
Never took a scene check
Never were a reject
Honey lookin perfect
Now you aren't so in step
in step
in step
in step
Still just go to the same old clubs
But the new kids have got one above
Music tastes change like the wind
You're doin now what's already been
And you still think that you're so it
Cause you know so and so, and you made a hit
But you can't hear it being played
Cause you my friend have had your day
Never took a scene check
Never were a reject
Honey lookin perfect
Now you aren't so in step
in step
in step
in step Read more!
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Never took a scene check
Never were a reject
Honey lookin perfect
Now you aren't so in step
in step
in step
in step
You had your photograph, in a magazine
Such a pretty boy, only nineteen
But now your twenty-three and it's all gone now
you ain't all that, you wanna be somehow
Maybe it was only a dream!
You just thought you could be anything that you wanted to be
Sadly, it all went wrong so
Never took a scene check
Never were a reject
Honey lookin perfect
Now you aren't so in step
in step
in step
in step
Still just go to the same old clubs
But the new kids have got one above
Music tastes change like the wind
You're doin now what's already been
And you still think that you're so it
Cause you know so and so, and you made a hit
But you can't hear it being played
Cause you my friend have had your day
Never took a scene check
Never were a reject
Honey lookin perfect
Now you aren't so in step
in step
in step
in step Read more!
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Friday, April 24, 2009
Voxtrot - Kid Gloves
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On my first "album" under my rap name, Diamond Jule$, I did a cover of this song. The lyrics are awesome - check it out.
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Listen to the sounds, they're ringing out around you
These are the cries of the dying breed
Politics of hate you'd never get around to
Blood over brains that we never need
I saw you in the back, studied and relaxed
Fixed in the pose like a silent stone
Serenity intact, it's the feeling that I lack
Life in the floors of a stable home
I can trace you on paper like a sketch of a smell
You're a breath to the runner in contest
In close to the nerve, but you rest so far away
And I have to give it up someday
Every time I close my eyes, I see you in front of me
Pretending in a love like this
I have no choice but to put you in back of me
Don't cover my footsteps
Dead weight all right, I know you're no good for me
Dead weight all right, I know you're no righteous leader
You're dead weight all right, that's fine
You get your hands off me
You have to touch me with kid gloves
You have to touch me with kid gloves
Buy me to the wind, you talk me out of standstill
I never felt so alive at once
Finger to the quick, yes I can feel your hand still
Pressed to the drain of the common months
Cheer me up, cheer me, up I'm a miserable fuck
Cheer me up, cheer me, up I'm a tireless bore
Cheer me up, cheer me, I'm invisibly stuck all in myself
Yes I'm a vanity whore
Because it's race and it's power at the center of life
We are blind to the people who need us
But you're the kind of person who could understand that fault
And I hope to measure you someday
Every time I close my eyes, I see you in front of me
Pretending in a love like this
I have no choice but to put you in back of me
Don't cover my footsteps
Dead weight all right, I know you're no good for me
Dead weight all right, I know you're no righteous leader
Dead weight all right, that's fine
You get your hands off me
You have to touch me with kid gloves
You have to touch me with kid gloves
Cheer me up, cheer me, up I'm a miserable fuck
Cheer me up, cheer me, up I'm a tireless bore
Cheer me up, cheer me, I'm invisibly stuck all in myself
Yes I'm a vanity whore
When you compromise yourself like that
It's dedication
So even on friendship (?)
Dead weight all right, I know you're no good for me
Dead weight all right, I know you're no righteous leader
Dead weight all right, that's fine, you get your hands off me
You have to touch me with kid gloves
You have to touch me with kid gloves Read more!
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Listen to the sounds, they're ringing out around you
These are the cries of the dying breed
Politics of hate you'd never get around to
Blood over brains that we never need
I saw you in the back, studied and relaxed
Fixed in the pose like a silent stone
Serenity intact, it's the feeling that I lack
Life in the floors of a stable home
I can trace you on paper like a sketch of a smell
You're a breath to the runner in contest
In close to the nerve, but you rest so far away
And I have to give it up someday
Every time I close my eyes, I see you in front of me
Pretending in a love like this
I have no choice but to put you in back of me
Don't cover my footsteps
Dead weight all right, I know you're no good for me
Dead weight all right, I know you're no righteous leader
You're dead weight all right, that's fine
You get your hands off me
You have to touch me with kid gloves
You have to touch me with kid gloves
Buy me to the wind, you talk me out of standstill
I never felt so alive at once
Finger to the quick, yes I can feel your hand still
Pressed to the drain of the common months
Cheer me up, cheer me, up I'm a miserable fuck
Cheer me up, cheer me, up I'm a tireless bore
Cheer me up, cheer me, I'm invisibly stuck all in myself
Yes I'm a vanity whore
Because it's race and it's power at the center of life
We are blind to the people who need us
But you're the kind of person who could understand that fault
And I hope to measure you someday
Every time I close my eyes, I see you in front of me
Pretending in a love like this
I have no choice but to put you in back of me
Don't cover my footsteps
Dead weight all right, I know you're no good for me
Dead weight all right, I know you're no righteous leader
Dead weight all right, that's fine
You get your hands off me
You have to touch me with kid gloves
You have to touch me with kid gloves
Cheer me up, cheer me, up I'm a miserable fuck
Cheer me up, cheer me, up I'm a tireless bore
Cheer me up, cheer me, I'm invisibly stuck all in myself
Yes I'm a vanity whore
When you compromise yourself like that
It's dedication
So even on friendship (?)
Dead weight all right, I know you're no good for me
Dead weight all right, I know you're no righteous leader
Dead weight all right, that's fine, you get your hands off me
You have to touch me with kid gloves
You have to touch me with kid gloves Read more!
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Monday, April 20, 2009
Owen - In the Morning, Before Work
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This song is amazing - mostly because it reminds me of myself. Isn't that why we all like music - it makes us feel good, or we can relate to it? In this case, I super duper relate to this song, to the extent that its scary. Read the lyrics ... let me know what you think!
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I eat with these crooked teeth
Tomato soup and grilled cheese
But you already know that because you used to dine with me
Do you remember?
I listen to my same old cd's
New order & Morissey
But you already know that because you used to ride with me
I thought i'd be singing a different tune by now
But this song about you keeps coming out
I sleep in these dirty sheets
A blanket between my boney knees
But you already know that because you used to crawl in bed with me in the morning before work
Put your hands on my back
Kiss the back of my neck
I thought i'd be singing a different tune by now
But this song about you keeps coming out
I hoped to be singing to someone new by now
But the songs about you Read more!
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I eat with these crooked teeth
Tomato soup and grilled cheese
But you already know that because you used to dine with me
Do you remember?
I listen to my same old cd's
New order & Morissey
But you already know that because you used to ride with me
I thought i'd be singing a different tune by now
But this song about you keeps coming out
I sleep in these dirty sheets
A blanket between my boney knees
But you already know that because you used to crawl in bed with me in the morning before work
Put your hands on my back
Kiss the back of my neck
I thought i'd be singing a different tune by now
But this song about you keeps coming out
I hoped to be singing to someone new by now
But the songs about you Read more!
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Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Mstrkrft featuring John Legend - "Heartbreaker"
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Remember when I caught your eye
you gave me rainbows and butterflies
we did enjoy our happiness?
when our love was over
I was such a mess
I smiled at you
and you smiled back
that's when I knew
there's no turning back
you said you loved me
and I did too
now though it's over
I still love you
you're in my mind
you're in my heart
I wish I knew right from the start
all my friends said you break my heart
A heartbreaker right from the start
I tried to fight it
I tried so hard
and every day
I pray to God
that you and me were meant to be
but you had another
you had a lover
And now is gone
I don't know why
I feel like crying
just want to die
I can't look at you
and you know why
no, I tried so hard
to catch your eye
you're in my mind
you're in my heart
I wish I knew right from the start
all my friends said you break my heart
A heartbreaker right from the start
you're in my mind
you're in my heart
I wish I knew right from the start
all my friends said you break my heart
A heartbreaker right from the start Read more!
you gave me rainbows and butterflies
we did enjoy our happiness?
when our love was over
I was such a mess
I smiled at you
and you smiled back
that's when I knew
there's no turning back
you said you loved me
and I did too
now though it's over
I still love you
you're in my mind
you're in my heart
I wish I knew right from the start
all my friends said you break my heart
A heartbreaker right from the start
I tried to fight it
I tried so hard
and every day
I pray to God
that you and me were meant to be
but you had another
you had a lover
And now is gone
I don't know why
I feel like crying
just want to die
I can't look at you
and you know why
no, I tried so hard
to catch your eye
you're in my mind
you're in my heart
I wish I knew right from the start
all my friends said you break my heart
A heartbreaker right from the start
you're in my mind
you're in my heart
I wish I knew right from the start
all my friends said you break my heart
A heartbreaker right from the start Read more!
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Wednesday, March 25, 2009
The Smiths - Stretch Out and Wait
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In talking to a lot of my friends, I realize that there is tons of anxiety and fear going around right now. People want change, they want results for their actions, and they want to see them now. I am no different, although I try not to mix my feelings and contrast myself with my friends too often. Everyone's situation is unique, even if the themes and the basic structure is the same. In any case, I think the lyrics to this next song, which has gotten me out of some rough funks, is appropriate. Enjoy!
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On the high-rise estate
What's at the back of your mind ?
Oh, on a three-day debate
On a high-rise estate
What's at the back of your mind ?
Two icy-cold hands conducting the way
It's the Eskimo blood in my veins
Amid concrete and clay
And general decay
Nature must still find a way
So ignore all the codes of the day
Let your juvenile influences sway
This way and that way
This way, that way
God, how sex implores you
To let yourself lose yourself
Stretch out and wait
Stretch out and wait
Let your puny body, lie down, lie down
As we lie, you say
As we lie, you say
Stretch out and ...
Stretch out and wait
Stretch out and wait
Let your puny body lie down, lie down
As we lie, you say :
Will the world end in the night time ?
(I really don't know)
Or will the world end in the day time ?
(I really don't know)
And is there any point ever having children ?
Oh, I don't know
What I do know is we're Here and it's Now
So ... stretch out and wait
Stretch out and wait
There is no debate, no debate, no debate
How can you consciously contemplate
When there's no debate, no debate ?
Stretch out and wait
Stretch out and wait
Stretch out and wait
Wait
Wait
Wait
Wait
Oh ... Read more!
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On the high-rise estate
What's at the back of your mind ?
Oh, on a three-day debate
On a high-rise estate
What's at the back of your mind ?
Two icy-cold hands conducting the way
It's the Eskimo blood in my veins
Amid concrete and clay
And general decay
Nature must still find a way
So ignore all the codes of the day
Let your juvenile influences sway
This way and that way
This way, that way
God, how sex implores you
To let yourself lose yourself
Stretch out and wait
Stretch out and wait
Let your puny body, lie down, lie down
As we lie, you say
As we lie, you say
Stretch out and ...
Stretch out and wait
Stretch out and wait
Let your puny body lie down, lie down
As we lie, you say :
Will the world end in the night time ?
(I really don't know)
Or will the world end in the day time ?
(I really don't know)
And is there any point ever having children ?
Oh, I don't know
What I do know is we're Here and it's Now
So ... stretch out and wait
Stretch out and wait
There is no debate, no debate, no debate
How can you consciously contemplate
When there's no debate, no debate ?
Stretch out and wait
Stretch out and wait
Stretch out and wait
Wait
Wait
Wait
Wait
Oh ... Read more!
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Monday, March 9, 2009
Charlotte Gainsbourg - The Songs that We Sing
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I saw somebody who
reminded me of you
before you got afraid
I wish that you could've stayed that way
I saw a little girl
I stopped and smiled at her
she screamed and ran away
it happens to me more and more these days
and these songs that you sing
do they mean anything
to the people you're singing them to
people like you
I saw a photograph
a woman in a bath
of hundred dollar bills
if the cold doesn't kill her, money will
I read a magazine
that said by seventeen
your life was at an end
I'm dead and I'm perfectly content
and these songs that I sing
do they mean anything
to the people I'm singing them to
people like you
and these songs that we sing
do they mean anything
to the people we're singing them to
tonight they do Read more!
reminded me of you
before you got afraid
I wish that you could've stayed that way
I saw a little girl
I stopped and smiled at her
she screamed and ran away
it happens to me more and more these days
and these songs that you sing
do they mean anything
to the people you're singing them to
people like you
I saw a photograph
a woman in a bath
of hundred dollar bills
if the cold doesn't kill her, money will
I read a magazine
that said by seventeen
your life was at an end
I'm dead and I'm perfectly content
and these songs that I sing
do they mean anything
to the people I'm singing them to
people like you
and these songs that we sing
do they mean anything
to the people we're singing them to
tonight they do Read more!
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Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Pulp - "Common People"
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She came from Greece she had a thirst for knowledge,
she studied sculpture at Saint Martin's College,
that's where I,
caught her eye.
She told me that her Dad was loaded,
I said "In that case I'll have a rum and coca-cola."
She said "Fine."
and in thirty seconds time she said,
"I want to live like common people,
I want to do whatever common people do,
I want to sleep with common people,
I want to sleep with common people,
like you."
Well what else could I do -
I said "I'll see what I can do."
I took her to a supermarket,
I don't know why but I had to start it somewhere,
so it started there.
I said pretend you've got no money,
she just laughed and said,
"Oh you're so funny."
I said "yeah?
Well I can't see anyone else smiling in here.
Are you sure you want to live like common people,
you want to see whatever common people see,
you want to sleep with common people,
you want to sleep with common people,
like me."
But she didn't understand,
she just smiled and held my hand.
Rent a flat above a shop,
cut your hair and get a job.
Smoke some fags and play some pool,
pretend you never went to school.
But still you'll never get it right,
cos when you're laid in bed at night,
watching roaches climb the wall,
if you call your Dad he could stop it all.
You'll never live like common people,
you'll never do what common people do,
you'll never fail like common people,
you'll never watch your life slide out of view,
and dance and drink and screw,
because there's nothing else to do.
Sing along with the common people,
sing along and it might just get you through,
laugh along with the common people,
laugh along even though they're laughing at you,
and the stupid things that you do.
Because you think that poor is cool. Read more!
she studied sculpture at Saint Martin's College,
that's where I,
caught her eye.
She told me that her Dad was loaded,
I said "In that case I'll have a rum and coca-cola."
She said "Fine."
and in thirty seconds time she said,
"I want to live like common people,
I want to do whatever common people do,
I want to sleep with common people,
I want to sleep with common people,
like you."
Well what else could I do -
I said "I'll see what I can do."
I took her to a supermarket,
I don't know why but I had to start it somewhere,
so it started there.
I said pretend you've got no money,
she just laughed and said,
"Oh you're so funny."
I said "yeah?
Well I can't see anyone else smiling in here.
Are you sure you want to live like common people,
you want to see whatever common people see,
you want to sleep with common people,
you want to sleep with common people,
like me."
But she didn't understand,
she just smiled and held my hand.
Rent a flat above a shop,
cut your hair and get a job.
Smoke some fags and play some pool,
pretend you never went to school.
But still you'll never get it right,
cos when you're laid in bed at night,
watching roaches climb the wall,
if you call your Dad he could stop it all.
You'll never live like common people,
you'll never do what common people do,
you'll never fail like common people,
you'll never watch your life slide out of view,
and dance and drink and screw,
because there's nothing else to do.
Sing along with the common people,
sing along and it might just get you through,
laugh along with the common people,
laugh along even though they're laughing at you,
and the stupid things that you do.
Because you think that poor is cool. Read more!
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Monday, February 9, 2009
Junior Boys - Count Souvenirs
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A pair of shoes
Some old reviews
That you kicked behind the door
A calling card
Is torn apart
And it's wasted on the floor
Some city scene
You're like a preteen
Chasing all the latest news
We're back at home
We fix old radios
Wiping off the dusty tunes
So
Please, please don't touch
Please, please don't touch
I keep it warm
At thirty-four
Like the way it was before
Your favorite shirt
A little dirt
Builds inside the bedroom drawer
'Cause all the paint
And the stains
All the papers and the fumes
They're all of you
They stay alive
And inside the things we knew
So
Please, please don't touch
Please, please don't touch
Empty stalls and shopping malls
That we'll never see again
Hotel lobbies like painful hobbies
That linger on
Time compares us, you feel embarrassed
Like you drive your parent's car
On another road, in another road
Kept in a jar Read more!
Some old reviews
That you kicked behind the door
A calling card
Is torn apart
And it's wasted on the floor
Some city scene
You're like a preteen
Chasing all the latest news
We're back at home
We fix old radios
Wiping off the dusty tunes
So
Please, please don't touch
Please, please don't touch
I keep it warm
At thirty-four
Like the way it was before
Your favorite shirt
A little dirt
Builds inside the bedroom drawer
'Cause all the paint
And the stains
All the papers and the fumes
They're all of you
They stay alive
And inside the things we knew
So
Please, please don't touch
Please, please don't touch
Empty stalls and shopping malls
That we'll never see again
Hotel lobbies like painful hobbies
That linger on
Time compares us, you feel embarrassed
Like you drive your parent's car
On another road, in another road
Kept in a jar Read more!
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Wednesday, February 4, 2009
The Decemberists - The Engine Driver
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One of my favorite songs ... with great lyrics. Enjoy!
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I'm an engine driver
On a long run, on a long run
Would I were beside her
She's a long one, such a long one
And if you don't love me let me go
And if you don't love me let me go
I'm a county lineman
On the high line, on the high line
So will be my grandson
There are powerlines in our bloodlines
And if you don't love me let me go
And if you don't love me let me go
And I am a writer, writer of fictions
I am the heart that you call home
And I've written pages upon pages
Trying to rid you from my bones
My bones
My bones
I'm a money lender
I have fortunes upon fortunes
Take my hand for tender
I am tortured, ever tortured
And if you don't love me let me go
And if you don't love me let me go
And I am a writer, writer of fictions
I am the heart that you call home
And I've written pages upon pages
Trying to rid you from my bones
I am a writer, I am all that you have hoped on
And I've written pages upon pages
Trying to rid you from my bones
My bones
My bones
(And if you don't love me let me go)
And if you don't love me let me go
(And if you don't love me let me go)
And if you don't love me let me go Read more!
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I'm an engine driver
On a long run, on a long run
Would I were beside her
She's a long one, such a long one
And if you don't love me let me go
And if you don't love me let me go
I'm a county lineman
On the high line, on the high line
So will be my grandson
There are powerlines in our bloodlines
And if you don't love me let me go
And if you don't love me let me go
And I am a writer, writer of fictions
I am the heart that you call home
And I've written pages upon pages
Trying to rid you from my bones
My bones
My bones
I'm a money lender
I have fortunes upon fortunes
Take my hand for tender
I am tortured, ever tortured
And if you don't love me let me go
And if you don't love me let me go
And I am a writer, writer of fictions
I am the heart that you call home
And I've written pages upon pages
Trying to rid you from my bones
I am a writer, I am all that you have hoped on
And I've written pages upon pages
Trying to rid you from my bones
My bones
My bones
(And if you don't love me let me go)
And if you don't love me let me go
(And if you don't love me let me go)
And if you don't love me let me go Read more!
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Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Bright Eyes - Loose Leaves
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The story is in the soil
Loose leaves cover the ground
There are volumes in the forest no one reads out loud
If I could take them down off of that mountain shelf...
we used to climb but no one tries to go up that far now.
Yeah, we're all too busy working, entertaining ourselves
40 hours, television and prescription pills
Well, I take two a day to make my brain behave
It never does but who is to say,
at least my doctor gets paid!
So that's fine, yeah come by, we will take the afternoon off
We can kiss and undress or if you want just talk
Because I have got nothing real,
just empty space to fill
And you are my girl, I like your style,
just imagine all the time we could kill!
And time's not poison but once you drink it all you'll die
So lets just sip it real slow, yeah, we can nurse it all night
Try to believe that once its gone they will pour another round
and come back to life....
We'll come right back
Well, it's all moving faster now, yeah, and that's what they said
And though some days still take forever I can't disagree
Because it seems to me that I wake up and sleep,
look in the mirror have no idea what happened in between
But I remember counting days down until the year could be done
So I could scatter all my notebooks on the prep school lawn
And disappear again into a summer's bliss
of staying out and sleeping in and getting drunk with my friends.
Now that's gone and I know that it won't ever come back
I accept
I won't cling to what I had in the past
but life's a slippery slope
Regret is the steepest hill
Hope for the best
Plan for the worst
and maybe wind up somewhere in the middle!
And I'm not saying that I know what I want
But I know what I don't, don't want to rot in my room
and never know what could have been,
believe what everyone else tells me is true.
They will say 'true'
(yeah, they say its true!)
yeah they say 'true'
(they say, yeah they say, they say
yeah they say 'true')
(That's what they say
that's it) Read more!
Loose leaves cover the ground
There are volumes in the forest no one reads out loud
If I could take them down off of that mountain shelf...
we used to climb but no one tries to go up that far now.
Yeah, we're all too busy working, entertaining ourselves
40 hours, television and prescription pills
Well, I take two a day to make my brain behave
It never does but who is to say,
at least my doctor gets paid!
So that's fine, yeah come by, we will take the afternoon off
We can kiss and undress or if you want just talk
Because I have got nothing real,
just empty space to fill
And you are my girl, I like your style,
just imagine all the time we could kill!
And time's not poison but once you drink it all you'll die
So lets just sip it real slow, yeah, we can nurse it all night
Try to believe that once its gone they will pour another round
and come back to life....
We'll come right back
Well, it's all moving faster now, yeah, and that's what they said
And though some days still take forever I can't disagree
Because it seems to me that I wake up and sleep,
look in the mirror have no idea what happened in between
But I remember counting days down until the year could be done
So I could scatter all my notebooks on the prep school lawn
And disappear again into a summer's bliss
of staying out and sleeping in and getting drunk with my friends.
Now that's gone and I know that it won't ever come back
I accept
I won't cling to what I had in the past
but life's a slippery slope
Regret is the steepest hill
Hope for the best
Plan for the worst
and maybe wind up somewhere in the middle!
And I'm not saying that I know what I want
But I know what I don't, don't want to rot in my room
and never know what could have been,
believe what everyone else tells me is true.
They will say 'true'
(yeah, they say its true!)
yeah they say 'true'
(they say, yeah they say, they say
yeah they say 'true')
(That's what they say
that's it) Read more!
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Thursday, January 15, 2009
Iron and Wine - Cinder and Smoke
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Give me your hand
The dog in the garden row is covered in mud
And dragging your mother’s clothes
Cinder and smoke
The snake in the basement
Found the juniper shade
The farmhouse is burning down
Give me your hand
And take what you will tonight, I'll give it as fast
And high as the flame will rise
Cinder and smoke
Some whispers around the trees
The juniper bends
As if you were listening
Give me your hand
Your mother is drunk as all the firemen shake
A photo from father’s arms
Cinder and smoke
You’ll ask me to pray for rain
With ash in your mouth
You’ll ask it to burn again Read more!
The dog in the garden row is covered in mud
And dragging your mother’s clothes
Cinder and smoke
The snake in the basement
Found the juniper shade
The farmhouse is burning down
Give me your hand
And take what you will tonight, I'll give it as fast
And high as the flame will rise
Cinder and smoke
Some whispers around the trees
The juniper bends
As if you were listening
Give me your hand
Your mother is drunk as all the firemen shake
A photo from father’s arms
Cinder and smoke
You’ll ask me to pray for rain
With ash in your mouth
You’ll ask it to burn again Read more!
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Friday, January 9, 2009
The National - "Daughters of the SoHo Riots"
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I have your good clothes in the car
So cut your hair so no one knows
I have your dreams and your teeth marks
And all my fingernails are painted
I'm here to take you now
You were right about the end
It didn't make a difference
Everything I can remember
I remember wrong
How can anybody know
How they got to be this way
You must have known I'd do this someday
Break my arms around the one I love
And be forgiven by the time my lover comes
Break my arms around my love
Break my arms around the one I love
And be forgiven by the time my lover comes
Break my arms around my love
I don't have any questions
I don't think it's gonna rain
You were right about the end
It didn't make a difference
I'm here to take you now
Out among the missing sons and daughters of the SoHo riots
Out among the missing sons and daughters of the SoHo riots
I'm here to take you now
How can anybody know
how they got to be this way
You must have known I'd do this someday
Break my arms around the one I love
And be forgiven by the time my lover comes
Break my arms around my love
Break my arms around the one I love
And be forgiven by the time my lover comes
Break my arms around my love
Break my arms around the one I love Read more!
So cut your hair so no one knows
I have your dreams and your teeth marks
And all my fingernails are painted
I'm here to take you now
You were right about the end
It didn't make a difference
Everything I can remember
I remember wrong
How can anybody know
How they got to be this way
You must have known I'd do this someday
Break my arms around the one I love
And be forgiven by the time my lover comes
Break my arms around my love
Break my arms around the one I love
And be forgiven by the time my lover comes
Break my arms around my love
I don't have any questions
I don't think it's gonna rain
You were right about the end
It didn't make a difference
I'm here to take you now
Out among the missing sons and daughters of the SoHo riots
Out among the missing sons and daughters of the SoHo riots
I'm here to take you now
How can anybody know
how they got to be this way
You must have known I'd do this someday
Break my arms around the one I love
And be forgiven by the time my lover comes
Break my arms around my love
Break my arms around the one I love
And be forgiven by the time my lover comes
Break my arms around my love
Break my arms around the one I love Read more!
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Saturday, January 3, 2009
Owen - Breaking Away
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Well just between you and me
I don't know what I'm doing here.
In your room, close to you
- full of shit and free beer.
My brother, the bartender
I tip him well and I drink for free.
He takes good care of me.
He takes care of me
any way I'm here.
On my bicycle,
I'm too tired to ride home.
If its okay with you, can I take off these shoes
and stay the night?
Well just between you and me
This thing between you and me
might not be anything worth singing about.
Or it might be just what I need
someone to take my mind off of things
At the end of a long day.
Someone to take my pants off me
At the end of a long night.
Either way we're here.
We're two bicycles
ridden too tired to know
which one of us two
was dumb enough to choose
the other as a lover? Read more!
I don't know what I'm doing here.
In your room, close to you
- full of shit and free beer.
My brother, the bartender
I tip him well and I drink for free.
He takes good care of me.
He takes care of me
any way I'm here.
On my bicycle,
I'm too tired to ride home.
If its okay with you, can I take off these shoes
and stay the night?
Well just between you and me
This thing between you and me
might not be anything worth singing about.
Or it might be just what I need
someone to take my mind off of things
At the end of a long day.
Someone to take my pants off me
At the end of a long night.
Either way we're here.
We're two bicycles
ridden too tired to know
which one of us two
was dumb enough to choose
the other as a lover? Read more!
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