These are the lyrics I turn to for console. When my own words lack poignancy. When I need to whine like a brat. A world without music would be like a world without fucking air. So here they are. Hand me down songs I have related to or loved for their originality or perception. At one time or another. Don’t jump to conclusions and presume they’re all obsessive-compulsive songs about exes. I’m just completely in love with the words. They say something about my past, present and future. [I’m a melancholic baby doll]
“I look at the world and I see that it’s turning..while my guitar gently weeps. For every mistake we must surely be learning, still my guitar gently weeps” – Clapton/ George Harrison
“Life is bigger / It’s bigger than you / And you are not me / The lengths that I will go to / The distance in your eyes / Oh no I’ve said too much / I set it up / That’s me in the corner / That’s me in the spotlight / Losing my religion / Trying to keep eye on you / Like a hurt, lost and blinded more / fool / Oh no I’ve said too much / I haven’t said enough / I thought that I heard you laughing? / I thought that I heard you sing? / I think I thought I saw you try / But that was just a dream / just a dream” –
Losing My Religion – REM
“Shine the headlight; straight into my eyes, like the road kill, I'm paralysed / You see through my disguise / At the drive-in, double feature, pull the lever, break the fever and say your last goodbyes / Since I was born I started to decay / Now nothing ever goes my way / One fluid gesture, like stepping back in time / Trapped in amber / petrified / and I’m still not satisfied / Airs and social graces, elocution so divine / I'll stick to my needle, and my favourite waste of time / both spineless and sublime” –
Teenage Angst - Placebo
“She’s taking her time making up the reasons / to justify all the hurt inside / guess she knows from the smiles and the look in their eyes / Everyone’s got a fear about the bitter one / They’re saying ‘Mama never loved her much and daddy never keeps in touch / That’s why she shies away from human affection’ / But somewhere in a private place / She packs her bags for outer space / And she’s waiting for the right kind of pilot to come / and she’ll say to him / I would fly up to the moon and back / if you’ll be / if you’ll be my baby / I’ve got a ticket to a world where we belong / so would you be my baby? / She can’t remember a time / when she felt needed / if love was red then she was colour blind / All her friends / Well they’ve been tried for treason / In crimes that were never defined / I’m saying “Love is like a barren place and reaching out for human faith is / is like a journey I just don’t have a map for” / So baby’s gonna take a dive and push the shift to overdrive / Send a signal that she’s hanging all her hopes on the stars”
To the Moon and Back – Savage Garden
“Green light / 7-11 / You stop in / For a pack of cigarettes / You don’t smoke / Don’t even want to / Hey now / Take your change / Dressed up like a car crash / Your wheels are turning but you’re upside down / You say when it hits you / You don’t mind / Because when he hurts you / You feel alive / Is that what it is? / Red light / Grey morning / You stumble out of a hole in the ground / A vampire or a victim? / It depends on who’s around / You used to stand to watch the adverts / You could lip synch to the talk shows / And if you look, you look through me / And when you talk, you talk at me / And when I touch you, you don't feel a thing / Three o'clock in the morning / It's quiet and there's no one around / Just the bang and the clatter / As an angel / Hits the ground” -
Stay (Faraway, so close) – U2
“I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour / But heaven knows I’m miserable now / I was looking for a job, and then I found a job / And heaven knows I’m miserable now / In my life why do I give valuable time to people who don’t care if I live or die? / Two lovers entwined passed me by / And heaven knows I’m miserable now / What she asked of me at the end of the day / Caligula would have blushed / “You’ve been in the house too long” / She said and naturally I fled / In my life why do I smile at people who I’d much rather kick in the eye?” –
Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now – The Smiths
“You never knew / well I never told you... / Everything I know about breaking hearts / I learned from you, it's true / I've never done it with the style and grace you have / But I've made long-term plans / Based on these mistakes / Broken down in bars and bathrooms /
All I did was what I had to / Don't believe me when I tell you / it's just what anyone would do / Take the time to talk about it / Think a lot and live without it / Don't believe me when I tell you / It's something unforgivable / Is this what you call TACT? / I swear you're as subtle as a brick in the small of my back / so let's end this call / And end this conversation / There's nothing worse... / I swear, you have no idea / The jealousy that became me thinking / That you always had it way too EASY” –
There’s No ‘I’ In Team – Taking Back Sunday
“We're trying to pass the runway, and watch the planes go flying by / The runway lights are the deepest blue, like the colour of your eyes / So, close them tight and kiss me one last time / If you could go anywhere right now / Where would you go? / And would you miss me when you get there? / There's no place that I would rather be / Please don't let me go falling from the sky / This "fasten seatbelt" sign just needs to go out / If only you could be, right here by my side / Home wouldn't seem so far from here” –
Takeoffs and Landings – The Ataris
“If I could I would shrink myself / And sink through your skin to your blood cells / And remove whatever makes you hurt / But I am too weak to be your cure / Is this the way a toy feels when its batteries run dry? / I am the watch you always wear but forget to wind / …/ The best part of what had happened must have been the part I missed” –
Guernica – Brand New
“It’s getting so lonely inside this bed / Don’t know if I should lick my wounds / and say woe is me instead / There’s an aching inside my head / It’s telling me ‘you’re better off alone’ / But after midnight / morning will come / and the day will see if you will get some / … / I live my life by the moon / If it’s half / lay low / If it’s harvest / Go slow / If it’s full / Then go” –
Turn off The Light – Nelly Furtardo
“’Shut the fuck up’ she said / I’m going fucking deaf / You’re always too loud / Everything’s too loud / Now that all my friends left / This place is fucking dead / I wanna move out / When can we move out? / This shit has got to stop / (I’ll run away, I’ll run away..) / Get the fuck up she said / Your life is meaningless / It’s going nowhere / You’re going nowhere / ‘You’re just a fuck up she said’ / I said I’ll live alone instead / She said you don’t care / I know I don’t care / … / I’m not going home / I’m never going to come back home / I got too fucked up and passed out on the bridge / I can’t forget you / I can’t forget you / …/ I’ll run away / I think it’s time that I should leave / I think it’s time that I should leave / I think it’s time that I should leave..” –
Shut Up – Blink 182 *ahem*
“We saw the western coast / I saw the hospital / Nurse the shoreline like a wound / We paint a lover's tryst / We're neither clear nor descript / We kept it safe and slow /The quiet things that no one ever knows / So keep the blood in your head / And keep your feet on the ground / Today's the day it gets tired / Today's the day we drop down / Give up my body in bed / All for an empty hotel / Wasting words on lowercases and capitals” –
All The Quiet Things No one Knows – Brand New
“So we walked through the waste where the road curved into the sea and the shattered seasons lay / and the bitter smell of burning was on you like a disease / In our cancer of passion you said / “Death is a midnight runner” / The sky had come crashing down like the news of an intimate suicide / We picked up the shards and formed them into shapes of stars that wore like an antique wedding dress / The echoes of the past broke the hearts of the unborn as the ferris wheel silently slowed to a stop / The few insects skittered away in hope of a better pastime / I kissed you at the apex of the maelstrom and asked if you would accompany me in a quick fall / But you made me realise that my ticket wasn’t good enough for two / I rode alone” –
This Time Imperfect - AFI
“You wouldn’t listen even if I told you / who the fuck am I to say? / You’re too busy with the lies they sold you / another cure to fix your day / Open wide for all the shit they feed you / While you watch the TV delectates / And blindly walk wherever they will lead you / While the edges slowly fray / Are you satisfied / I’ve given all I can and are you pacified? / Or do you want more from me?” –
Fray – Staind
“Does it make you indie? / Does it make you proud / To talk the world into a paper bag? / Spotty stain of “I’m okay, you’re NOT okay” / …/ “I’m in over my head, I need a pick me up!” / It’s easy to get high / When you’re standing on our backs man / Will anything ever be good enough for you? / The ride’s over / Did you enjoy yourself? / The ride’s over / Fairing well?! / .. / Not in my time / It isn’t fair to mention / But it awes the crowd / Your fictional, plastic alibis / Take another hit / Steal another line / D’ya ever meet a leech who was good at goodbyes?! / Hey when you were down, I always picked you up / Why didn’t I recognise that everything was never fine? / I’m kicking myself that I shared spit with you! / So fuck yourself and fuck this bleeding heart of mine” –
Leech - Incubus
“Come on / My star is fading / And I swerve out of control / If I / If I’d only waited / I’d not be stuck here in this hole / Come here / Oh my star is fading / And I see no chance of release / I know I’m dead on the surface / But I am screaming underneath / But time is on your side / It’s on your side now / Not pushing you down / and all around / No it’s no cause for concern” –
Amsterdam – Coldplay
“I can’t believe the news today / I can’t close my eyes / And make it go away / How long / How long must be sing this song? / How long? / Tonight we can be as one / Broken bottles under children’s feet / Bodies strewn across a dead end street / But I won’t heed the battle call / It puts my back up / Puts my back up against the wall / Sunday bloody Sunday / Sunday bloody Sunday / And the battles just begun / There’s many lost / But tell me who has won? / The trenches dug within our hearts / The mother’s / Children / Brother’s / Sister’s / Torn apart / And it’s true we are immune / When fact is fiction and TV reality / And today the millions cry / We eat and drink / While tomorrow they die” –
Sunday Bloody Sunday – U2
“I am a black rainbow and I’m an ape of God / I’ve got a face that’s made for violence and porn / And I’m a teen distortion / Survived abortion / A rebel from the waist down / I wanna thank you mum, I wanna thank you dad / For bringing this fucking world to a bitter end / I never really hated one true God / But to God all the people I hated / You say you want a revolution / The ape was a great big hit! / You say you want a revolution / And I say that you’re full of shit” –
Disposable Teens – Marilyn Manson
“Well the future's got me worried / Such awful thoughts / My head's a carousel of pictures / The spinning never stops / I just want someone to walk in front / And I'll follow the leader / Like when I fell under the weight of a schoolboy crush / Started carrying her books and doing lots of drugs / I almost forgot who I was / But I came to my senses / Now I'm trying to be assertive / I'm making plans / Gonna rise to the occasion / Meet all their demands / But all I do is just lay in bed / And hide under the covers / Yeah I know I should be brave / But I’m just too afraid of all this change / And it's too hard to focus through all this doubt / I keep making these to-do lists but nothing gets crossed out” –
Nothing Gets Crossed Out – Bright Eyes
“We have both been through hell and high tide / I think I can rely on you / And yet you start to recoil / Heavy words so lightly thrown / But still I’d jump in front of a flying bullet for you / So what difference does it make / So what difference does it make? / It makes none / But you have gone / And you must be looking very old tonight / The devil will find work for idle hands to do / I stole and I lied, and why? / Because you asked me to” –
What Difference Does It Make? – The Smiths
“My black backpack stuffed with broken dreams / Twenty bucks should get me through the week / Never said a word of discontentment / Thought it a thousand times but now / I'm leaving home / Here in the shadows / I'm safe, I'm free / I've nowhere else to go / but I cannot stay where I don't belong / Two months pass by and it's getting cold / I know I'm not lost I'm just alone / But I won't cry, I won't give up, I can't go back now / Waking up is knowing who you really are” -
Exodus – Evanescence
“Postcards on the floor / But this pen can't write loneliness no more / Waking up all alone / On the opposite side of the coast / I'm committed to insecurity and you / And love is overrated / It leaves you devastated / Heart ripped in two / Roadside state of mind / Boulevard of broken dreams washed out this time / … / The only things I know are / Road signs and rock songs and lonely hotel rooms / But still I need you here, what’s new? / It's 6am / Las Vegas doesn't look so cool / Once the sun comes up / I draw the blinds and I dream of you” –
Rock Shows and Road Signs – The Ataris
“In a little while / Surely you’ll be mine / In a little while I’ll be there / In a little while this hurt will hurt no more / I’ll be home / Love / When the night takes a deep breath / And the daylight has no air / If I crawl / If I come crawling home / Will you be there? / In a little while / I will blow my every breeze / Friday til Monday / with Sunday on my knees / That girl / That girl / She’s mine / Well I’ve known her since / Since she was a little girl / With Spanish eyes / When I saw her in the pram they pushed her by / My how you’ve grown / Well it’s been / it’s been a little while / Slow down my beating heart / Slowly / Slowly love” –
A Little While – U2/Joey Ramone
“I am the son / I am the heir / Of a shyness that is criminally vulgar / I am the son / I am the heir / Of nothing in particular / You shut your mouth / How can you say / I go about things the wrong way? / I am human and I need to be loved / Just like everybody else does / There’s a club if you like to go / You could meet somebody who really loves you / So you go and you stand on your own / And you leave on your own / And you go home / And you cry and you want to die.. / When you say it’s gonna happen now, well when exactly do you mean? / You see I’ve already waited too long and all my hope is gone..”
How Soon Is Now? – The Smiths
“I’m a notion in your bedroom / Make you feel / Make you wanna reassume / Now we know it all for sure / I’m a dance hall / Dirty break beat / Make the snow fall up from underneath your feet / Not alone / I’ll be there, tell me when you wanna go / I’m a meth lab / First rehab / Take it all off / And step inside the running cab / There’s a love that knows the way / I’m a rainbow / In your jail cell / All your memories of everything you’ve ever smelled / Not alone / I’ll be there, tell me when you wanna go / Sideways falling / More will be revealed my friend / Don’t forget me I can’t hide it / Come again, get reixnited” –
Don’t Forget Me – Red Hot Chili Peppers
“The time has come for colds and overcoats / We’re quiet on the ride / We’re all just waiting to get home / Another week away / My greatest fear / I need the smell of summer / I need its noises in my ears / …/ Every minute is a mile / I’ve never felt so hallow / I’m an old abandoned church with broken pews and empty aisles / My secrets for a buck / Watch me as a cut myself wide open on this stage as I am paid to spill my guts” –
I Will Play My Game Beneath The Spin Light – Brand New
“I spy with my little eye / Something beginning with / S / With candy striped legs the Spiderman comes / Softly through the shadow of the evening sun / Stealing past the windows of the blissfully dead / Looking for the victim / Shivering in bed /…/ And there’s nothing I can do / And I realise in fright / That the Spiderman is having me for dinner tonight / Quietly laughs / And shaking its head / Creeps closer now / Closer to the foot of the bed / And softer than shadow and quicker than flies / His arms all around me and his tongue in my eyes / .. / ‘Be quiet now my precious boy’ / Don’t struggle like that / Or I will only love you more / .. / And I feel like I’m being eaten by a thousand million shivering furry holes / And I know that in the morning I will wake up in the shivering cold.. / The Spiderman is always hungry..” –
Lullaby – The Cure
“All is quiet on New Year’s Day / A world in white gets underway / And I want to be with you / Be with you / Night and day / Nothing changes on New Year’s Day / Under a blood red sky / A crowd has gathered in black and white / Arms entwined / The chosen few / Newspapers say it’s true / It’s true / And we can break through / Though torn in two we can be one / I will begin again / I will begin again / Oh and maybe the time is right / Oh maybe tonight / I will be with you again / I will be with you again” –
New Year’s Day – U2
“I am doll eyes / doll mouth / doll legs / I am doll arms / big veins / dog bait / Yeah they really want you / they really want you / they really do.. I do too / I want to be the girl with the most cake / I love it so much it just turns to haze… / someday you will ache like I ache.. / Someday you will ache like I ache” –
Doll Parts – Hole
“But I guess that it comes / With the territory / An ominous landscape of / Never-ending calamity / I need you to hear / I need you to see / That I have had all I can take / And exploding / Seems like a definite possibility / To me / So pardon me while I burst / Into flames / I’ve had enough of the world / And it’s peoples mindless games / So pardon me while I burn and rise above the flame / Pardon me / Pardon me / I’ll never be the same” –
Pardon Me – Incubus
“You make me feel like a battle / That cannot end in peace / You make me feel like running / as if I’ve lost my nerve / You make me feel like crying / Tears I don’t deserve / Please bleed / So I know that you are real /.../ And let me stare into your soul / I was born and bled for you to hold /.../ Good lovers make great enemies” –
Please Bleed – Ben Harper
“See the stone set in your eyes / See the thorn twist in your side / I’ll wait for you / Sleight of hand and twist of fate / On a bed of nails he makes me wait / And I wait without you / With or without you / With or without you / Through the storm we reach the shore / You give it all but I want more / And I’m waiting for you / With or without you / I can’t live with or without you / And you give yourself away / And you give yourself away / My hands are tied, my body bruised / He’s got me with nothing to win / and nothing left to lose” –
With or Without You – U2
“I envy your demise, I hope it’s all you dreamed it would be / One bullet in this gun, not sure if it’s for you or me / I envy your demise / and all the guilt you hid away / All the lies that I have spun and all the times I’d wished you’d stay / Now, all that I’ll ever suffer, oh, all that I’ll ever be / oh, all that I’ll ever ruin / you can always cover it with make up” –
Poor Impulse Control – Jack off Jill
“I wish I was too dead to care as self-affliction fades / Stones to throw at my creator, masochists to which I cater / You don’t need to bother / I don’t need to be / I’ll keep slipping father but once I hold on I won’t let go til it bleeds / Wish I was too dead to care if indeed I cared at all / Never had a voice to protest, so you fed me shit to digest / I wish I had a reason, my flaws are open season / For this I gave up trying, one good time deserves my dying / You don’t need to bother / I don’t need to be / I’ll keep slipping father and once I hold on / I won’t let go til it bleeds” –
Bother – Stone Sour
“A little piece of you / The little peace in me / Will die / For this is not America / Blossom falls to bloom / This season / Promise not to stare / Too long / For this is not a miracle / There was a time / A storm that blew so pure / For this could be the biggest sky / And I could have / The faintest idea / Snowman melting / From the inside / Falcon spirals / To the ground / So bloody red / Tomorrows clouds” -
This is Not America – David Bowie
“All of the King’s horses and all of the King’s men / Couldn’t pull my heart back together again / All of the physicians and mathematicians too / Failed to stop my heart from breaking in two / …/ I had a premonition / A movie in my mind / Confirming my suspicions of what I would find / .. / Was a perfect day / In a perfect way / Something had to go / You left me high, you left me low / Now as I lie in pieces, and wait for your return / The sun upon my forehead, it burns baby burns baby burns / An eye on all my horses / You’ve slept with all my men / I’m never gonna get it together again / Still all I need is you / I just need you / Yeah you’ve got the glue so I’m gonna give my heart to you” –
The Humpty Dumpty Love Song - Travis
“Roses in the hospital / Stub cigarettes out on my arm / Roses in the hospital / Want to feel something of value / Roses in the hospital / Nothing really makes me happy / Roses in the hospital / Heroin is just too trendy / All I wanted was a home / Now we are so strung out we wanna own / Like a leaf in the autumn breeze / Like a flood in January / We don’t fucking want your love” –
Roses In The Hospital – Manic Street Preachers
“It’s been a long time since I was close to you / It’s been a long time since I was sad / It’s been a while since I really spent time with you / Wish I could take back the times that I had / The only thing that you ever really did for me was make me oh so miserable / and the hope that I never see your face again is anything but questionable / I hope this is goodbye / There was a time when I thought you were a friend to me / I think those times I was probably just drunk / and if they offered a test about being a good friend / I’d put money down that you’d surely flunk / The only things that you ever really took from me were my records to sell them for dope / Now all I have left is this heart in my chest and my happiness helping me cope / I hope this is goodbye” –
Jaked on Green Beers – Alkaline Trio
“Your mouth is like funeral / where words go to die / Your mouth is like a funeral / where kisses go to die / I’m not the girl that stopped and starred / I’m not the girl who lied / Your mouth is like a funeral / where kisses go to die” –
Clear Hearts, Grey Flowers – Jack off Jill
“My love he throws me like a rubber ball / he won’t catch me or break my fall / Baby’s got blue skies up ahead but in this old rain cloud / You know he wants a dry kind of love / I’m losing you / I’m losing you / ain’t love the sweetest thing? / I wanted to run but he made me crawl / I turned on fire / He turned me to straw / I know I’ve got black eyes and they burn so brightly for him / I guess it’s a black kind of love / Blue-eyed girl meets a blue-eyed boy, you can sew it up, but you still see the tear / Baby’s got blue skies up ahead but in this old rain cloud / oh it’s a stormy kind of love” –
Sweetest Thing (interpretation) – U2
“Truth - covered in security / I can't let you smother me / I'd like to, but it couldn't work / Trading off and taking turns / I don't regret a thing / And I've got this friend, you see / Who makes me feel / and I wanted more than I could steal / I'll arrest myself, I'll wear a shield / I'll go out of my way to prove I still / I still smell her on you / Don't - tell me what I wanna hear / Afraid of never knowing fear / Experience anything you need / I'll keep fighting jealousy / Until it's fucking gone” –
Lounge Act – Nirvana
“I can remember a place I used to go / Chrysanthemums of white / They seemed so beautiful / I can remember / I searched for the amaranth / I’d shut my eyes to see / Oh, how I smiled then / So near the cherished ones / I knew they would appear / Not a single one / Oh how I smiled then / Waited so patiently / I’d make a wish and bleed / While I waited I was wasted away / I can remember / dreamt them so vividly / Soft creatures draped in white / Light kisses gracing me / I can remember when I realized dreams were the only place to see them.. / Inside a crumbling effigy / And so dies all innocence” –
The Great Disappointment - AFI
"London calling to the faraway towns / Now that war is declared-and battle come down /
London calling to the underworld / Come out of the cupboard, all you boys and girls /
London calling, now don't look at us / All that phoney Beatle mania has bitten the dust / London calling, see we ain't got no swing / cept for the ring of that truncheon thing /The ice age is coming, the sun's zooming in / Engines stop running and the wheat's growing thin / A nuclear error, but i have no fear /London is drowning-and I live by the river" -
London Calling - The Clash
“I am so full of love / I am so full of hate / I am so full of these feelings / That turn me each and every way / So don’t you come and gather me at this haze / I sit at home and feel the sun’s daze / I should tell me not to be little everyday / I blow away remaining unfazed / When I feel there’s something crawling out of me / I’m just a cloud watching the moon rise” –
I’m a Cloud – Boy Hits Car
“I can feel the soil falling over my head / See, the sea wants to take me / The knife wants to slit me / Do you think you can help me? / Sad veiled bride, please be happy / Handsome groom, give her room / Loud, loutish lover, treat her kindly / (Though she needs you / More than she loves you) / And I know it's over - still I cling / I don't know where else I can go / Over and over and over and over / I know it's over / And it never really began / But in my heart it was so real / And you even spoke to me, and said: / "If you're so funny / Then why are you on your own tonight ? / And if you're so clever / Then why are you on your own tonight? / If you're so very entertaining / Then why are you on your own tonight? / If you're so very good-looking / Why do you sleep alone tonight? / I know ... / 'Cause tonight is just like any other night / That's why you're on your own tonight / With your triumphs and your charms / While they're in each other's arms..." / It's so easy to laugh / It's so easy to hate / It takes strength to be gentle and kind / Over, over, over, over” –
I Know It’s Over – The Smiths
“Going through the pages of my fantasies / Pushing all the mercy down, down, down / I wanna see you try to take a swing at me / I’m above you smiling at you / Drown / Drown / Drown / Why are you trying to make fun of me? / You think it's funny? / What the fuck do you think it's doing to me? / You take your turn lashing out at me / I want you crying when you're dirty in the front of me” –
Thoughtless – Korn
“I can’t remember anything / Can’t tell if this is true or dream / Deep down inside I feel to scream / This terrible silence stops me / Now that war is through with me / I’m waking up, I cannot see / That there is not much left of me / Nothing is real but pain now / Hold my breath as I wish for death / Oh please God, wake me / Back in the womb it’s much too real / In pumps life that I must feel / but can’t look forward to reveal / look to the time when I’ll live / Fed through the tube that sticks in me / Just like a wartime novelty / Tied to machines that make me be / Cut this life off from me” –
One – Metallica
“Let’s meet in the city where / the rivers cross, bridges there / Let’s float down into the stream / of Rich and Poor Pioneers / A kid from a western town / wants to be seen, and go out / Let’s borrow my parent’s car / Let’s stay out all night up there / and Burnside will be our street / Where the kids and the hookers meet / Diners and strip club junk / Bookstores and punk rock clubs / I’m as green as this blade / in the grass that bends / in the wind that blows / on the long weekends / where I cross the bridge / to the water fountains / and drink in the hope / that the city brings / Water, Building and Sin / Big Oregon city draws you in” -
Light Rail Coyote – Sleater-Kinney
“Delusional / I believed I could cure it all / For you dear / Coax or trick or drive or / Drag the demons from you / Make it right for you sleeping beauty / Truly thought I could magically heal you / You're far beyond a visible sign of your awakening / Failing Miserably to rescue” -
Sleeping Beauty – A Perfect Circle
"I know you never meant to do / everything you put me through / it's okay, I forgive you / just know that when you see me cringe sometimes / I’m trying to rid the poison from my mind" –
The Spill Canvas
“Fall, rise / and fall and rise / and / Lightning flashes across the sky / From east to west you do or die / Like a thief in the night / You see the world by candle light / Fall rise / and fall and rise / and / In an apartment on Times square / You can assemble them anywhere / Held to ransom / Hell to pay / A revolution every day / USSR / DDR / London / New York / Peking / It’s the puppets / It’s the puppets / Who pull the strings / Say goodbye / Say goodbye / It takes a second to say goodbye / Push the button and pull the plug / Say goodbye” –
Seconds – U2
“There’s something about the look in your eyes / Something I noticed when the light was just right / It reminded me twice that I was alive / And it reminded me that you’re so worth the fight / There’s something about the way you move / I see your mouth in slow motion when you sing / More subtle than something someone contrives / Your movements echo that I have seen the real thing”
Echo – Incubus
“Sweetness / Sweetness I was only joking when I said / I’d like to mash every tooth in your head / Sweetness / Sweetness I was only joking when I said / By rights you should be bludgeoned in your bed / And now I know how Joan of Arc felt / Now I know how Joan of Arc felt / As the flames rose to her roman nose and her Walkman started to melt / Bigmouth / Bigmouth, bigmouth strikes again / And I’ve got no right to take my place in the human race” –
Bigmouth Strikes Again – The Smiths
“I look at her in that paperdress... / I wonder why she won't burn / She's just a paper doll, that's all / Just a paperdoll / I dress her up, she knocks me down / They try her on for size / She fits nice, one size fits all / Now her soul is dead / Now her body's raw / You can't numb her pain / Watch the blood run down her face / But don't take notice / Watch the blood run down her arms / Please don't take notice / I know you have her soul / I see it in your eyes / She knows you have her soul / And she sees it in your eyes” –
Paperdoll – Kittie
“Raise high monolithic statues so fragile / As they fall, I am ever enthralled / Gaze, lie and smirk in time / Your arrogance will suit you well / Til’ fashion is dispelled / As waves of plastic fame go out of fashion, you’re going out forever unknown / These waves of plastic fame are drying up and I smile because you’re dying to become forever unknown / From above a rain of ashes descends / Anathema I will remain / Forever I will remain / From below, in my seclusion / Look up to the sky to see paper wings and watch them burn / Without habitation / You’ll never find a soul inside / No life / But nothing’s died / No lights but quite the show / (Just as long as no one ever knows all motion is pantomime)” –
Paper Airplanes (Makeshift Wings) - AFI
“Let me take your hand / I’m shaking like milk / Turning / Turning blue / All over the windows and the floors / Fires outside and the sky looks as perfect as cats / The two of us together again / But it’s just the same / A stupid game / But I don’t care if you don’t / And I don’t feel if you don’t / And I don’t want it if you don’t / And I won’t say it if you don’t say it first / You think you’re tired now but wait until three / laughing at the Christmas lights / You remember from December / All of this and back again / Another boy / Another name / Stay alive but stay the same / It’s just the same / A stupid game / … / You can’t even see now so you ask me the way..”
Let’s Go To Bed – The Cure
“I dig my toes into the sand / The ocean looks like a thousand diamonds strewn across a blue blanket / I lean against the wind / Pretend that I am weightless and in this moment I am happy / I wish you were here / I wish you were here / … / I lay my head onto the sand / The sky resembles a black-lit canopy with holes punched in it / I’m counting UFO’s / The world’s a roller coaster and I am not strapped in / Maybe I should hold with care / But my hands are busy in the air” –
I Wish You Were Here – Incubus
“You walked into my house last night / I couldn’t help but notice / A light that was long gone still burning strong / You were sitting / Your fingers like fuses / Your eyes were cinnamon / You said you’d stand for every known abuse / that was ever threatened / by any one but you / why should I know better by now when I’m old enough not to? / When every line speaks the language of love / It never held the meaning I was thinking of / And I've lost the line between right or wrong / you left the feeling that I just do not belong” –
Stolen Car – Beth Orton
“Pour my life into a paper cup / The ashtray’s full and I’m spilling my guts / she wanna know, am I still a slut / I’ve gotta take it on the other side / scarlet starlet and he’s in my bed / a candidate for my soul mate bled / push the trigger and pull the thread / I’ve gotta take it on the other side / how long / how long will I slide / separate my side / I don’t believe it’s bad / slit my throat, it’s all I ever” –
The Other Side – Red Hot Chili Peppers
“But no matter what I would do in an attempt to replace / All these pills that I take, trying to balance my brain / See the curious girl with that look on her face / So surprised she stares out from her display case”
When The Curious Girl Realizes She’s Under Glass – Bright Eyes
“You're too old to lose it, too young to choose it / And the clocks waits so patiently on your song / You walk past a cafe but you don't eat when you've lived too long / Oh, no, no, no, you're a rock 'n' roll suicide / Chev brakes are snarling as you stumble across the road / But the day breaks instead so you hurry home / Don't let the sun blast your shadow / Don't let the milk float ride your mind / You're so natural - religiously unkind” –
Rock ‘n’ Roll Suicide – David Bowie
“Culture sucks down words / Itemise loathing and feed yourself smiles / Organise your safe tribal war / Hurt maim kill and enslave the ghetto / Each day living out a lie / Life sold cheaply forever, ever, ever / Under neon loneliness motorcycle emptiness / Under neon loneliness motorcycle emptiness / Life lies a slow suicide / Orthodox dreams and symbolic myths / From feudal serf to spender / This wonderful world of purchase power / Just like lungs sucking on air / Survivals natural as sorrow, sorrow, sorrow” –
Motorcycle Emptiness – Manic Street Preachers
“Sucker love is heaven sent / you pucker up / our passion’s spent / My heart’s a tart / your body’s rent / My body’s broken / yours is bent / Carve your name into my arm / instead of stressed, I lie here charmed / ‘Cause there’s nothing else to do / Every me and every you / Like the naked leads the blind / I know I'm selfish, I'm unkind / Sucker love I always find / Someone to bruise and leave behind / All alone in space and time / There's nothing here but what here's mine / Something borrowed, something blue / Every me and every you” –
Every Me, Every You – Placebo
“He’s a twentieth century boy / with his hands on the rails / trying not to be sick again and holding on for tomorrow / London ice cracks on a seamless line / He’s hanging on for dear life / So we hold each other tightly and hold on for tomorrow / She’s a twentieth century girl, with her hands on the wheel / Trying not to make him sick again / Seeing what she can borrow / London’s so nice back in your seamless rhymes / But we’re lost on the west way” -
For Tomorrow – Blur
“The city’s alight / With lovers and lies / Bright blue eyes / The city is bright / Brighter than day tonight / Surrender / Surrender / Sadie said she couldn’t / Work out what it was all about / And so she let go / … / She got herself up on the 48th floor / Got to find out / Find out / What she’s living for / Surrender / Surrender / The city’s a fire / A passionate flame / That knows me by name / The city’s desire to take me for more and more / It’s in the street getting under my feet / It’s in the air / It’s everywhere I look for you / It’s in the things I do and say / If I want to live / I’ve got to die to myself / Someday”
Surrender – U2
“She eyes me like a Pisces when I’m weak / I’ve been locked inside your heart shaped box for weeks / I’ve been drawn into your magnet tar pit trap / I wish I could eat your cancer / when you turn back / Hey / wait / I’ve got a new complaint / Forever in debt to your priceless advice / Meat eating orchids forgive no one just yet / Cut myself on angel hair and baby’s breath / Broken hymen of your highness / I’m left black / Throw down your umbilical noose so I can climb right back” -
Heart Shaped Box – Nirvana
“You called to say you wanted out / Well, I can’t say I blame you now / Sometimes you’ve got to fold / before you’re found out / Well thanks for waiting this long to show yourself / Cause now that I can see you / I don’t think you’re worth a second glance / So much for all the promises you made, they served you well / and now you’re gone and they’re wasted on me / So much for your endearing sense of charm, it served you well / And now you’re gone and it’s wasted on me”
Rapid Hope Loss – Dashboard Confessional
“I want the hummingbirds and dancing bears and sweetest dreams of you / Look into the stars / Look into the moon / I’m pushing an elephant up the stairs / I’m tossing up punch lines that were never there / Over my shoulder a piano falls, crashing to the ground / I’m breaking through, I’m bending spoons / I’m keeping flowers in full bloom / I’m looking for answers from the great beyond” –
The Great Beyond – REM
“I’m not afraid of standing still / I’m just afraid of being bored / I’m not afraid of speaking my mind / I’m just afraid of being ignored / I’m not afraid of feeling / and I’m not afraid of trying / I’m just afraid of losing / and I am afraid of dying.. / I’m not afraid of being sick / I’m more afraid of being well / I’m not afraid of the gun in my hand / I’m just afraid it will hurt like / hurt like / hell / I’m not afraid of screaming / and I’m not afraid of crying / I’m just afraid of forgetting / and I am afraid of dying .. / I’m not afraid of looking ugly / I couldn’t care what they say / I’m not afraid of happy endings / I’m just afraid my life won’t work that way..”
Fear of Dying – Jack off Jill
“Another turning point / A fork stuck in the road / Time grabs you by the wrist / Directs you where to go / So make the best of this test and don’t ask why / it’s not a question / But a lesson learned in time / It’s something unpredictable but in the end it’s right / I hope you had the time of your life / So take the photographs and still frames in your mind / Hang it on a shelf of good health and good time / Tattoos of memories and dead skin on trial / For what it’s worth, it was worth all the while” -
Good Riddance – Greenday
“And we love to wear a badge / A uniform / And we love to fly a flag / But I won’t let others live in hell / As we divide against each other / And we fight amongst ourselves / Too set in our ways to try to rearrange / Too right to be wrong / In this rebel song / Let the bells ring out / Is there nothing left? / Is this honestly what you want?”
Like a Song – U2
“I see a home in a quiet place / I feel myself in a strong embrace / And I feel protection from the human race / It’s not parental / But it’s a fantasy / Not a reality / And it’s good for me that you have no idea / That I’m walking through the clouds when you’re looking at me / I’m feeling like a child, vulnerability / I am shaking like a leaf if you move beside me / And you’re all that I see / But it’s no good for me”
No Good For Me – The Corrs
"You were the one / when the storm rolled in / the sky was grey like your heart / with no colour at all / and I don't know you like this / you're as reckless as wind / and I could not predict / just the way this would end" –
Sleater-Kinney
“It'll come down and look you in the eye / The way you're gonna go with no place to die / The water breaks like turpentine / I sit dead in the sacrifice / You getta watch, you getta watch / now you getta watch me die / Bless my body and bless my soul / rip it in turpentine / who really knows where the ruby ride /
I see all the sick reflections in your ruby eyes / and I know all you devils by your Christian names / and I know all you bitches by your Christian names / I getta watch, I getta watch / now I getta watch you die / I cease to exist on the Christmas list / I cease to exist in your disease / I lie right down baby give it to me / I lie right down / Nowhere walking backwards” –
Turpentine – Hole
“Met my match today / Felt the blood rushing and mingling / a curious and enigmatic thing / Now spiders in my dreams / Synchronicity spins like a web when you were meant to be a meal! / I want you bad / I want you bad / I understand why they say “High school never ends” / I’ll never act my age / But as you can tell from the lines in my smile / That I have been around for a while / So insecurities.. / Are about as useful as trying to put the pin back in the grenade! / This isn’t coincidence / There’s no such thing..”
Smile Lines – Incubus
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