The Lyrics

[jmarx20102012]

When You're Smiling And Astride Me - Father John Misty


There's no need to fear me
Darling, I love you as you are when you're alone
I'll never try to change you
As if I could, and if I were to, what's the part that I'd miss most?
When you're smiling and astride me
I can hardly believe I've found you and I'm terrified by that
I've got nothing to hide from you
Kissing my brother in my dreams or finding God knows in my jeans
You see me as I am, it's true
Aimless, fake drifter, and the horny man child mama's boy to boot
That's how you live free
Truly see and be seen

 

[rae121452]

"The Future"-Leonard Cohen

Give me back my broken night
my mirrored room, my secret life
it's lonely here,
there's no one left to torture
Give me absolute control
over every living soul
And lie beside me, baby,
that's an order!
Give me crack and anal sex
Take the only tree that's left
and stuff it up the hole
in your culture
Give me back the Berlin wall
give me Stalin and St Paul
I've seen the future, brother:
it is murder.

Things are going to slide, slide in all directions
Won't be nothing
Nothing you can measure anymore
The blizzard, the blizzard of the world
has crossed the threshold
and it has overturned
the order of the soul
When they said REPENT REPENT
I wonder what they meant
When they said REPENT REPENT
I wonder what they meant
When they said REPENT REPENT
I wonder what they meant

You don't know me from the wind
you never will, you never did
I'm the little jew
who wrote the Bible
I've seen the nations rise and fall
I've heard their stories, heard them all
but love's the only engine of survival
Your servant here, he has been told
to say it clear, to say it cold:
It's over, it ain't going
any further
And now the wheels of heaven stop
you feel the devil's riding crop
Get ready for the future:
it is murder

Things are going to slide ...

There'll be the breaking of the ancient
western code
Your private life will suddenly explode
There'll be phantoms
There'll be fires on the road
and the white man dancing
You'll see a woman
hanging upside down
her features covered by her fallen gown
and all the lousy little poets
coming round
tryin' to sound like Charlie Manson
and the white man dancin'

Give me back the Berlin wall
Give me Stalin and St Paul
Give me Christ
or give me Hiroshima
Destroy another fetus now
We don't like children anyhow
I've seen the future, baby:
it is murder

Things are going to slide ...

When they said REPENT REPENT ...

 

[rae121452]

Sympathy for the Devil-Rolling Stones

Please allow me to introduce myself: I'm a man of wealth and taste
I've been around for a long, long year; stole many man's soul and faith
I was 'round when Jesus Christ had his moment of doubt and pain
Made damn sure that Pilate washed his hands and sealed his fate

Pleased to meet you -- hope you guess my name
But what's puzzling you is the nature of my game

Stuck around St. Petersburg when I saw it was a time for a change
Killed the czar and his ministers; Anastasia screamed in vain
I rode a tank, held a general's rank, when the blitzkrieg raged and the bodies stank

Pleased to meet you -- hope you guess my name, oh yeah
Ah, what's puzzling you is the nature of my game, oh yeah

I watched with glee while your kings and queens
Fought for ten decades for the gods they made
I shouted out "Who killed the Kennedys?"
When after all, it was you and me
Let me please introduce myself: I'm a man of wealth and taste
And I laid traps for troubadours who get killed before they reach Bombay

Pleased to meet you -- hope you guess my name, oh yeah
But what's puzzling you is the nature of my game, oh yeah
Get down, baby

Pleased to meet you -- hope you guessed my name, oh yeah
But what's confusing you is just the nature of my game

Just as every cop is a criminal
And all the sinners saints
As heads is tails, just call me Lucifer
'Cause I'm in need of some restraint
So if you meet me, have some courtesy
Have some sympathy and some taste
Use all your well-learned politesse
Or I'll lay your soul to waste
Mmm, yeah

Pleased to meet you -- hope you guessed my name, mmm, yeah
But what's puzzling you is the nature of my game
Mmm, mean it, get down

Tell me baby, what's my name?
Tell me honey, can 'ya guess my name?
Tell me baby, what's my name?
I tell you one time, you're to blame

What's my name?
Tell me baby, what's my name?
Tell me sweetie, what's my name?

Written by:


Mick Jagger and Keith Richards

 

[jmarx20102012]

King’s Crossing - Elliott Smith

The big problem is the main attraction
Dominoes are falling in a chain reaction
The scraping subject ruled by fear told me
Whiskey works better than beer

The judge is on vinyl, decisions are final
And nobody gets a reprieve
And every wave is tidal - if you hang around
You're going to get wet

I can't prepare for death any more than I already have
All you can do now is watch the shells
The game looks easy that's why it sells
Frustrated fireworks inside your head

Are going to stand and deliver talk instead
The method acting that pays my bills
Keeps the fat man feeding in beverly hills
I got a heavy metal mouth that hurls obscenity

And I get my check from the trash treasury
'Cause I took my own insides out
It don't matter 'cause I had no sex life
All I want to do now is inject my ex wife

I've seen the movie and I know what happens
It's a Christmas time
And the needles on the tree
A skinny Santa is bringing something to me

His voice is overwhelming, but his speech is slurred
And I only understand every other word
"Open your parachute and grab your gun
Falling down like an omen, a setting sun

Read the part and we turn out fine
It's a hell of a role if you can keep it alive
But I don't care if I fuck up
I'm going on a date with a rich white lady

Ain't life great?
Give me one good reason not to do it
This is a place where time reverses
Dead men talk to all the pretty nurses

Instruments shine on a silver tray
Don't let me be carried away
Don't let me be carried away
Don't let me be carried away

 

[jmarx20102012]

Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit - Anxiety

Anxiety
How do you always get the best of me?
I'm out here living in a fantasy
I can't enjoy a goddamn thing
Anxiety
Why am I never where I am supposed to be?
Even with my lover sleeping close to me
I'm wide awake and I'm in pain

Watching the sunrise slash through the blinds
Dust in the room hovers over mine
Lying here in silence
Wife and child still sleeping deep enough to dream
And oh, I'm a lucky man today
But so afraid that time will take it all from me

Anxiety
How do you always get the best of me?
I'm out here living in a fantasy
I can't enjoy a goddamn thing
Anxiety
Why am I never where I am supposed to be?
Even with my lover sleeping close to me
I'm wide awake and I'm in pain

It's the weight of the world
But it's nothing at all
Light as a prayer, and then I feel myself fall
You got to give me a minute
Because I'm way down in it
And I can't breathe so I can't speak
I want to be strong and steady, always ready
Now, I feel so small, I feel so weak

Anxiety
How do you always get the best of me?
I'm out here living in a fantasy
I can't enjoy a goddamn thing
Anxiety
Why am I never where I am supposed to be?
Even with my lover sleeping close to me
I'm wide awake and I'm in a pain

A crowded room is a burning battlefield
If I don't move, I'll come undone
My heart beats harder, a hammer striking steel
Will I walk now or be a "Wait and Run"?

Anxiety
How do you always get the best of me?
I'm out here living in a fantasy
I can't enjoy a goddamn thing
Anxiety
Why am I never where I am supposed to be?
Even with my lover sleeping close to me
I'm wide awake and I'm in pain
I'm wide awake and I'm in pain
I'm wide awake and I’m in pain

 

[jmarx20102012]

Young Love - Sun Kil Moon

On cold November days don't like to stray too far
Or even leave my bed, or put down my guitar
Or leave my master bedroom with it's view
Overlooking the mountains
On dark December days, I think of all my friends
From Washington to Maine, New York to Sweden
And how we've all grown closer with years
Or how we've grown apart
Icicles fall from my roof, burning stove, piles of firewood
Will we meet again in Cold Brook Park
In Cold Brook Park
On January days I walk into the town
Once or twice a day some peace out here I've found
My clothes are wet with rain and mountain mist
Oh how I love the quiet
When February rains I've gone another year
Chasing perfect poems and trying them in your ear
But I'm losing the will to chase them anymore
Across those lonesome oceans
Running deer stops at a fence, sniffing at the flowering iris
Will we meet again in Cold Brook Park
Cold Brook Park
Ghosts inhabit my mountain home
They don't frighten me, I sleep here alone
I shut out my friends, shut off the phone and
Late in the night I hear the echoes of young love
I walk downtown, saw her again
There on the corner, laughing with friends
The cool mountain air pinched her pink skin
And I walked on, aching with memories of young love
Youth walk by hand in hand
And there on the porch sits an old man
His back is tight, his splintered hands
And plain in his eyes, he envies the beauty of young love

 

[jmarx20102012]

Natural Child - B$G P$MP$N

Everybody Wanna Have A Badass Bitch
Everybody Wanna Be The Fuckin’ Rich
Have Enough Money Just To Stay On Top
Busting Out My Pockets, Make It Never Stop
I Can Make It Rain, Make It Thunder Too
Everywhere I Go

Everybody Love Me When I’m Out At Night
Drop $20 Grand, See My Name In Ice
You Know Who I Am, You Don’t Have To Ask
I Don’t Love You Baby, I Just Love That Ass
I Can Make You Famous For A Minute or Two
Take A Ride With Me I’m Stoned

Ya’ll Know Me I’m Just Having Fun
Bitches Lining Up Just To Shoot My Gun
Everybody Wanna See Me Shoot My Gun
I Don’t Cum ‘Til I Wanna Cum
World Keeps Turning Underneath The Sun
And I’m Still Sittin’ Here Stoned

 

[jmarx20102012]

Katowice or Cologne - Mark Kozelek & Desertshore

Walkin' down west 33rd street
To Macy's past Jack Dempsey's
Past the neon lights in Madison Square
I need a heavier coat to wear
Where are you off to, where are you goin'?
went off to Germany and then to Poland
Myslowice or Katowice
oh baby can I get a kiss?
another taste of your sweetness,
another night in your heavenliness
another look at you wearing nothing
but that bracelet on your skinny wrist
I fell asleep and I had a dream
it was summer on the beach St. Augustine

and the water was warm and blue
I was playing in a small room
I met a brunette in a pretty dress
went to her AC'ed apartment
she smoked a joint and she drank absinthe
and laid there like a slab of cement

And I left and we lost touch
Shit I can't say I really missed her much
and when I left we fell out of touch
and I doubt she ever thought of me much

I woke up and I didn't wanna go
looked out the window at the blinding white snow
but I still got my taxi though
said goodbye, shut off my phone
I waited for an hour at the terminal
writing notes in my moleskin journal
after all these years I still panic
when I cross the goddamn Atlantic

squeezed into seat 33b
sippin' Starbucks gunpowder tea
try to remember some of my tunings
all of them C-G-C-F-G-C
well it's all I ever really need
to get from point A to point Z
to get from alesund to leaning tree
and in the worst shape I can always sing

Jetlagged as fuck in Beijing
after a sleepless all night fling
with the stomach flu in Ireland
with strep throat in Newfoundland
I just need a decent guitar tone
and a 58 microphone
a pretty girl in the front row
I don't need a drink, I don't need no blow
to get through a two hour show
in Katowice or Cologne

oh when I get home
gonna sleep til the cows come home
and take a little trip you know
out to Anchorage or Juneau
maybe Oaxaca, Mexico
oh fuck I really don't know
what I'm gonna do when I'm home
I might just stay in San Francisco
take a weekend in Pescadero
dig up some abalone
go fishin' for some cabazone
go fishin for some sandsharks
go fishin' till it gets dark
go pickin' some artichokes
then run a hot bath and soak
then run a hot bath and soak

 

[AlotLikePsyche]

I’m on Fire by Bruce Springsteen

Hey little girl is your daddy home
Did he go away and leave you all alone
I got a bad desire
I'm on fire
Tell me now baby is he good to you
Can he do to you the things that I do
I can take you higher
I'm on fire
Sometimes it's like someone took a knife baby
Edgy and dull and cut a six-inch valley
Through the middle of my skull
At night I wake up with the sheets soaking wet
And a freight train running through the
Middle of my head
Only you can cool my desire
I'm on fire

 

[jmarx20102012]

Say Yes - Elliott Smith

I'm in love with the world through the eyes of a girl
Who's still around the morning after
We broke up a month ago and I grew up I didn't know
I'd be around the morning after

It's always been wait and see
A happy day and then you pay
And feel like shit the morning after
But now I feel changed around and instead falling down
I'm standing up the morning after

Situations get fucked up and turned around sooner or later

And I could be another fool or an exception to the rule
You tell me the morning after

Crooked spin can't come to rest
I'm damaged bad at best
She'll decide what she wants

I'll probably be the last to know
No one says until it shows, see how it is
They want you or they don't
Say yes

 

[Radiohead]

Suede - Down


All the people in your life say you're down
And the strangers in the night say you're down
And the loonies on the right say you're down and you're down
And the ambulances sigh that you're down
And the traffic speeding by says you're down
And the people in your mind say you're down and you're down

Hey you chase the day away
Hey you draw the blinds and blow your mind away

And there's a sadness in your style
And there's a blankness in your smile
And the people in the park say you're down
And the strangers in the dark say you're down
And the pissheads in the bars say you're down
And the audiences cry that you're down
And the ambulances sigh that you're down
And the boyfriends in your life say you're down and you're down

Hey you chase the day away
Hey you draw the blinds and blow your mind away

And there's a sadness in your style
And there's a blankness in your smile
Hey you chase the day away
Hey you draw the blinds and blow your mind away
And there's a sadness in your style
And there's a madness in your smile

 

[Radiohead]

Children Collide - Loveless

When your time has come and gone, when your final race is won
When the flowers kiss the trees, when the king is on his knees
When your eyes don't speak the truth and denial is your muse
When your life follows a plan, inconvenience is banned

You're loveless, it's okay you've planned it well
You will be happy to know that I've moved on as well
You're loveless, it's okay you've planned it well
You will be happy to know that I've moved on as well

When a lion has it's teeth and the sword rest in its sheath
When the liar plays the fool and the fool makes every rule

You're loveless, it's okay you've planned it well
You will be happy to know that I've moved on as well
You're loveless, it's okay you've planned it well
It's seamless, [..]

On your own with every one, know a place to call the sun
There's a feeling in your bones, you just might end up alone
When you're just so self assured, now you're rotting at the core
When your challenged by the truth, find some friends who'll lie to you

You're loveless, it's okay you,ve planned it well
I only dreamed now of times [...]
You're loveless, it's okay you've planned it well
It's seamless, [...]

 

[Downundergirl79]

Stay Downtown ~ Cole Swindell



When I feel my phone buzzing, ain't even gotta look down
I know it's you that's calling, a couple drinks in by now
So I say, "Hello," you say, "Hey, babe"
Say you're 'bout to catch a cab over to my place
"See you in five," but, baby, this time

Stay downtown
Keep moving your heels on the floor
Let the bartender pour you up another round
Tip the cover band, find another hand
To dance and call him your rebound
Another late night love, another last call crush
With the neon shining down
Girl, this time around, stay downtown

Ain't gonna lie, if you knock on my door
I'm gonna let you walk in
Let you leave drunk lipstick marks like tattoos on my skin
But you know in the morning
We're gonna regret everything we did
So why even start what ain't good for our parts

Stay downtown
Keep moving your heels on the floor
Let the bartender pour you up another round
Tip the cover band, find another hand
To dance and call him your rebound
Another late night love, another last call crush
With the neon shining down
Girl, this time around, stay downtown

Keep sipping your drink, keep spinning the room
Keep chasing the night like you always do
Keep letting gate good times play
Don't let me get in your way

Stay downtown
Keep moving your heels on the floor
Let the bartender pour you up another round
Tip the cover band, find another hand
To dance and call him your rebound
Another late night love, another last call crush
With the neon shining down
Girl, this time around, stay downtown
Stay downtown
Yeah, this time around, baby, stay downtown

 

[Downundergirl79]

Get to you ~ Michael Ray


Somebody had to hurt you bad
For you to give up like that
Somebody had to break your heart in two
But that ain't me and you
So tell me why, tell me why, tell me why
You can't look me in the eye
What am I supposed to do?
When you say we're through
Why do you?

Run away, run away from love
What the hell are you so scared of?
You walk away when you've had enough
Of trying, of trying
Girl there's always gonna be some pain
A little sunshine, a little rain
It doesn't mean it ain't worth it babe
I'm trying, I'm trying to get to you
To you

One day you're gonna love again
Mess up and let somebody in
To every part of your whole world
You think it's unthinkable girl
But somebody's gonna break those walls
Somebody's gonna watch you fall
Gonna give it your all and I hope that I'm around
When you finally find out why you

Run away, run away from love
What the hell are you so scared of?
You walk away when you've had enough
Of trying, of trying
Girl there's always gonna be some pain
A little sunshine, a little rain
It doesn't mean it ain't worth it babe
I'm trying, I'm trying to get to you
To you

So tell me why, tell me why, tell me why
You can't look me in the eye
What am I supposed to do?
When you say we're through
Why do you?

Run away, run away from love
What the hell are you so scared of?
You walk away when you've had enough
Of trying, of trying
Girl there's always gonna be some pain
A little sunshine, a little rain
It doesn't mean it ain't worth it babe
I'm trying, I'm trying to get to you
To you

Somebody had to hurt you bad
For you to give up like that
Somebody had to break your heart in two
But that ain't me and you

 

[jmarx20102012]

Pray For Newton - Sun Kil Moon

I was a Junior in high school when I turned the TV on.
James Huberty went to a restaurant, shot everyone up with a machine gun.
It was from my hometown.
We talked about it til the sun went down.
Then everybody got up and stretched and yawned and then our lives went on.

And I just left Safeway, when I walked through my doorway.
When a guy took a bullet to an island and shot up a bunch of little kids up in Norway.
Called a few of my friends round here, but no one much really cared.
But I did, because I've got a lot of friends there.

I just arrived in Seoul, by way of Beijing.
I had an hour to myself in my hotel when I turned on the TV.
It was quite a thriller, CNN was recording the bat man killer.
His eyes were glazed like he was from Mars.
Yesterday he was no one, today he was a star.

I was down in New Orleans, at the model o.
Enjoying some time all to myself when I turned the TV on.
There were shootings in a Portland mall.
It was everyday America and that's all.
It was just another one walked down Royal Street,
The rest of the world was out having fun.

December fourteenth, another killing went down.
I got a letter from a fan he said Mark say a prayer for Newtown.
I ain't one to pray, but I'm one to sing and play for women and
Children and moms and dads and brothers and sisters and uncles and aunts.

December twenty-fifth, and I was just laying down.
I picked up a pen, I wrote a letter to the guy in Newtown.
I said I'm sorry bout the killings, and the teachers who lost their lives.
I felt it coming on, I felt it in my bones and I don't know why.

So when Christmas comes and you're out running around.
Take a moment to pause and think of the kids who died in Newtown.
They went so young, who gave their lives.
To make us stop and think and try to get it right.
Were so young, a cloud so dark over them.
And they left home, gave their mom and dad a kiss and a hug.

So when your birthday comes and you're feeling pretty good,
Baking cakes and opening gifts and stuffing your mouth with food.
Check it off for the children who lost their lives.
Think of their families and how they mourn and cry.

When you're gonna get married and you're out shopping around,
Take a moment to think about the families that lost so much in Newtin

 

[Captainnumnuts]

No more ~ LL Cool J

We need to have a conversation

I made you, why would I play you?
Trade home, base four, California angel
Swinging a fast bitch, foul out, betray you
When I won't even wanna hit it in a day or two
Straight home I'd run, well, that's debatable
I can't front, I hit a slump all players do
But tough times are minor to a major dude
We all lose sometimes, I call it paying dues
Now you're searching all the clubs for what's available
A year ago, my slot was unassailable
My feast is a famine without you to cater to
If these walls could talk, what would they say to you?


Don't understand what we gonna do
But it's like you don't know me
And I don't know you, no more
Not no more!
And it's like damn, how the hell we get here?
No idea, but we're not what we were before
Could it be that I don't love you and you don't love me no more?
That girl don't live here not no more!
Baby, baby,
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, that girl no more!

The dining room has an empty chair
The mirrored staircase has an empty stair
House full of company, but no one's here
We singing cheers while we holding back tears
To keep up appearances in front of our peers
We play holiday card tricks every year
Blackjack, poker, make the joker disappear
The ace can't breathe when it's tension in the air
Three clubs in one night, but nobody cares
Cause it's still not a full house without a pair
You tipped your hand, but the text wasn't clear
You're dealing from the bottom queen of hearts, play fair!

Don't understand what we gonna do
But it's like you don't know me
And I don't know you, no more
Not no more!
And it's like damn, how the hell we get here?
No idea, but we're not what we were before
Could it be that I don't love you and you don't love me no more?
That girl don't live here not no more!
Baby, baby,
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, that girl no more!

Slip in the door, you hold my hopes so
All I hear is love don't live here anymore
We can tear the house down or build some scaffold
We're sitting on a fence, so where you wanna go?
You're the architect of your life, it's your show
You create the blueprint and how the rooms flow
Before you burn the house down, think, take it slow
Even arsonists need a shelter, let me know

Don't understand what we gonna do
But it's like you don't know me
And I don't know you, no more
Not no more!
And it's like damn, how the hell we get here?
No idea, but we're not what we were before
Could it be that I don't love you and you don't love me no more?
That girl don't live here not no more!
Baby, baby,
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, that girl no more!

I was listening to this song the other day. It's been around for years, I think. Odd, I don't usually like this type. But it's stuck inside my head and I've replayed it several times remembering every single word. And I dance to the rythem.

 

[jmarx20102012]

Void - Red House Painters

Find another corner of the house
When you need to get away
Her guitar leans against the couch
Sometimes I pick it up and play
Loosen and stretch it's ancient strings
Until it sounds the way I feel
Brush my thumb against it soft
Give it life or give it pause

When you look up in my eyes
I'm looking down in yours
All looks good up in the sky
Down to your wooly carpet floor
And I know that I have picked
The most perfect sunflower yet
Even on a sketchy day
Just outside her Show-Me State

When all it's colours turn and dry
Will you live or will you die?
When all it's poets fall away
Will you go or will you stay?

Fill the void in me now
Making love to me girl
Red light cruising the night
Red light getting me home

Driving down the freeway in your truck
I watched the river flowing up
Headlights cutting through the night
Hear them pass this place in time
And I know that I have slept
In the warmest bedroom yet
Even on the coldest day
Here inside her Show-Me State

A verse of hope
There on that reel
Lets you know the way I feel
Wrap my fists up in your hair
Feel me cruise up in the air

Fill the void in me now
Making love to me girl
Red light cruising the night
Red light getting me home

Fill the void in me now
Making love to me girl
Red lights float in the night
Red lights getting me home

Fill the void in me now
Smile down on me girl
Red light cruising the night
Red lights getting me home
Fill the void in me now
Making love to me girl
Red lights float in the night
Red light getting me home

Pull the weight of me now
Wrapped around me so good
Red light cruising the night
Red lights getting me home

Pull the weight off me now
Wrapped around me so good
Red light cruising the night
Red light getting me home

Fill the void in me now
Making love to me girl
Red lights cruising the night
Red lights getting me home

 

[With_David_Bowie]

Veruca Salt - With David Bowie

Will It ever come like it did for you, like id did for you
I kind of heard you singing and I never knew no I never knew
My heart skips around when I hear the sound
I'm never alone cause you're following me home
I'm falling in love my walkman and me with David Bowie
With teenage medication flowing through my veins I can face the strain
It's causing a sensation that I can explain Yeah I can explain
My heart skips around when I hear the sound
I'm never alone cause you're following me home
I'm falling in love my walkman and me with David Bowie
You want me to sing I can I can
You want me to play I can I can
You want to be in a band I can
I'll never be anything more than I was today, than I was today
Will it ever come like it did for you, like it did for you
I kind of heard you singing and I never knew, no I never knew
My heart skips around when I hear the sound
I'm never alone cause you're following me home
I'm falling in love my best friend and me with David Bowie
Him and me in a tree i-n-g

 

[RocketLauncher]

Redlight King

"Old Man"

He didn’t have much
A pair of hard working hands
Everything that I needed
I got it from the old man
With a nine second dream
He drove the Redlight Bandit
And the grease on his hands
Was the way he commanded
And the life he demanded
It kept us all in a struggle
When he ruled with his fist
It kept us all out of trouble
Even though he would leave
He wore his heart on his sleeve
And by the way that he walked
He taught me how to believe

Old man look at my life
Take a look, take a look
Old man look at my life
cause I’m a lot like you
Old man, old man take a look at my life
Take a look, take a look
Old man, old man take a look at my life
cause I’m a lot like you

Growin’ up at the track
He had a reason for being fast
His heart felt like breaking
He’d look right up at the ceiling and
Start again, never breathe a word of his loss
Cause it’s not about winning
It’s the rivers you cross
And the pain that you feel
Could be the fuel that you use
And if you’re in need of direction
Be it the path that you choose
My old man is a legend
He cast a shadow so great
I think of how he is watchin’
With every move that I make

Old man look at my life
Take a look, take a look
Old man look at my life
cause I’m a lot like you
Old man, old man take a look at my life
Take a look, take a look
Old man, old man take a look at my life
cause I’m a lot like you

Now there’s no slowin’ down
There’s only settin’ the pace
No more dreams to be stolen
Just the right ones to chase
You’ve been through the worst
Now you know who to trust
Leave them something behind
Before the ashes and dust

Old man look at my life
Old man look at my life
Old man, old man take a look at my life
cause I’m a lot like you
Old man, old man take a look at my life
cause I’m a lot like you
Old man, old man take a look at my life
Take a look, take a look
Old man, old man take a look at my life
cause I’m a lot like you
Old man, old man take a look at my life
Take a look, take a look
Old man, old man take a look at my life
cause I’m a lot like you

 

[Ebonyfairyqueen]

Hotel California - Eagles

On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair
Warm smell of colitas, rising up through the air
Up ahead in the distance, I saw a shimmering light
My head grew heavy and my sight grew dim
I had to stop for the night.
There she stood in the doorway;
I heard the mission bell
And I was thinking to myself
'This could be heaven or this could be Hell'
Then she lit up a candle and she showed me the way
There were voices down the corridor,
I thought I heard them say

Welcome to the Hotel California
Such a lovely place (such a lovely place)
Such a lovely face.
Plenty of room at the Hotel California
Any time of year (any time of year) you can find it here

Her mind is Tiffany-twisted, she got the Mercedes bends
She got a lot of pretty, pretty boys, that she calls friends
How they dance in the courtyard, sweet summer sweat
Some dance to remember, some dance to forget
So I called up the Captain,
'Please bring me my wine'
He said, 'we haven't had that spirit here since nineteen sixty-nine'
And still those voices are calling from far away,
Wake you up in the middle of the night
Just to hear them say"

Welcome to the Hotel California
Such a lovely place (such a lovely place)
Such a lovely face.
They livin' it up at the Hotel California
What a nice surprise (what a nice surprise), bring your alibis

Mirrors on the ceiling,
The pink champagne on ice
And she said, 'we are all just prisoners here, of our own device'
And in the master's chambers,
They gathered for the feast
They stab it with their steely knives,
But they just can't kill the beast
Last thing I remember, I was
Running for the door
I had to find the passage back to the place I was before
'Relax' said the night man,
'We are programmed to receive.
You can check out any time you like,
But you can never leave!

 

[BeautifulTrauma]

TWENTY ØNE PILØTS - "Car Radio"

I ponder of something great
My lungs will fill and then deflate
They fill with fire, exhale desire
I know it's dire my time today

I have these thoughts, so often I ought
To replace that slot with what I once bought
'Cause somebody stole my car radio
And now I just sit in silence

Sometimes quiet is violent
I find it hard to hide it
My pride is no longer inside
It's on my sleeve
My skin will scream reminding me of
Who I killed inside my dream
I hate this car that I'm driving
There's no hiding for me
I'm forced to deal with what I feel
There is no distraction to mask what is real
I could pull the steering wheel

I have these thoughts, so often I ought
To replace that slot with what I once bought
'Cause somebody stole my car radio
And now I just sit in silence

I ponder of something terrifying
'Cause this time there's no sound to hide behind
I find over the course of our human existence
One thing consists of consistence
And it's that we're all battling fear
Oh dear, I don't know if we know why we're here
Oh my, too deep, please stop thinking
I liked it better when my car had sound
There are things we can do

But from the things that work there are only two
And from the two that we choose to do
Peace will win and fear will lose
It is faith and there's sleep
We need to pick one please because
Faith is to be awake
And to be awake is for us to think
And for us to think is to be alive
And I will try with every rhyme
To come across like I am dying
To let you know you need to try to think

I have these thoughts, so often I ought
To replace that slot with what I once bought
'Cause somebody stole my car radio
And now I just sit in silence

And now I just sit in silence
And now I just sit
And now I just sit in silence
And now I just sit in silence
And now I just sit in silence
And now I just sit

I ponder of something great
My lungs will fill and then deflate
They fill with fire, exhale desire
I know it's dire my time today

I have these thoughts, so often I ought
To replace that slot with what I once bought
'Cause somebody stole my car radio
And now I just sit in silence

 

[BeautifulTrauma]

The Head and the Heart -- "Down in the Valley"

I wish I was a slave to an age-old trade
Like ridin' around on railcars and workin' long days

Lord have mercy on my rough and rowdy ways
Lord have mercy on my rough and rowdy ways

Call it one drink too many
Call it pride of a man
But it don't make no difference if you sit or you stand

Cause they both end in trouble and start with a grin
Yeah they both end in trouble and start with a grin

We do it over and over and over again
We do it over and over and over again

Oh-oh, Oh-oh, Oh-oh-oh-oh, Oh-oh

Oh-oh, Oh-oh, Oh-oh-oh-oh, Oh-oh

Oh-oh, Oh-oh, Oh-oh-oh-oh, Oh-oh

I know there's California, Oklahoma
And all of the places I ain't ever been to but
Down in the valley with
Whiskey rivers
These are the places you will find me hidin'
These are the places I will always go
These are the places I will always go

I am on my way
I am on my way
I am on my way back to where I started

Oh-oh, Oh-oh, Oh-oh-oh-oh, Oh-oh

Oh-oh, Oh-oh, Oh-oh-oh-oh, Oh-oh

One more for the stars and the eyes of the walls
I saw your face, I heard you callin' out

I saw your face in the crowd and you came out
Just like the sun and the moon and the stars at night

There was a sign on the door and it reads to me
Just like the sun and the moon and the stars at night

Oh-oh, Oh-oh, Oh-oh-oh-oh, Oh-oh

Oh-oh, Oh-oh, Oh-oh-oh-oh, Oh-oh

I am on my way
I am on my way
I am on my way back to where I started

California, Oklahoma
And all of the places I ain't ever been to but
Down in the valley with
Whiskey rivers
These are the places you will find me hidin'
These are the places I will always go
These are the places I will always go

 

[jmarx20102012]

House Cat - Mark Kozelek with Ben Boye and Jim White

One two three four, boom boom boom boom
I'm hanging out in Cleveland in a cozy living room
A panel on the news channel is seething
They're giving that redhead a beating
Going on about "Trump this" and "Trump that"
Fuck all that, don't mean nothing to me
I'm a big ol' fat lazy house cat
Slippin' around the house on my fuzzy paws
I sleep while you humans argue about building walls
And Donald's tweets and Russian hackers
When you're a cat, you get to sleep all day and say "fuck all that"
I'm a house cat so I get to say "fuck all you" and "fuck all that"
I'm a house cat so I get to say "fuck all you" and "fuck all that"
Aw what, now a dam broke in Oroville
Aw fuck, this shit is horrible
Remember that BP gulf coast oil spill?

Gushing gushing gushing gushing gushing gushing gushing
Bubble bubble bubble bubble bubble bubble bubble
Polluting polluting polluting polluting polluting polluting polluting
Dead birds, dead fish, dead plants, and thick black water

People go "Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump
Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump"
I eat my dry food and I go "Crunch crunch crunch
Crunch crunch crunch crunch crunch"
And I jump on the bed, when I jump off my paws go
"Thump thump thump thump thump"
When I find a spot to sit in the sun sun sun sun sun sun
I dream about birds and a feline across the street I'm crushing on
Did that human being just say "Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck that Trump"?
Did that human being just say "Put him in prison and give him the bitch bunk"?
Did that human being just say "Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck that Trump"?
What comes out of human beings' mouths
Is the same thing that comes out of my cat butt
My voice goes "Meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow"
I don't care about your human being bullshit issues
Just give me my cat chow
If you ever want my love, you want me to nap in your lap
Then you better turn off that obnoxious talking to the television crap

You used to be a really sweet cat pat
Now you're always pointing fingers
Saying some asshole did this and some asshole did that
I'm an old house cat and I'm wiser than you
Trump's gonna build a wall like I'm gonna fly to the moon
And Cleveland will still be here in 2032
And there will still be demand for dry and wet Purina cat food
And your phone will be archaic and you'll still be getting fooled
Into buying the latest gizmos like you always do

I'm a cat and I'm easy, just give me a treat or two
And I'll be real real nice to you
That's good for me and all
I'll find that spot in the sun and I'll stretch my paws and I'll roll over
You give me a nice scratch and a nice little belly rub
And you get on your stomach and I'll get on
And I'll give you a nice shoulder rub
I'm a lot of use to you, it's good to have me around
You gaze into my eyes and your blood pressure goes down
And I'm here for you when your friends can't be found
I'm here for you on Valentine's Day
Keeping your wife company while you're out of town
I lay beside you when you are down
I make you giggle when you are frowning
You go to work, and you give me my water and my dry food
And the mailman comes by knocking like he always does, boom boom boom boom
I could care less what he has to deliver
It's never for me, it doesn't fit my job description
I'm a cat, not your secretary mister mister
I don't care about the United States' relations with Moscow
Meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow
I don't know why you humans even stick around, you're always complaining
And you kiss your boss' ass until your nose turns brown
Why don't you just jump into the ocean at the same time and drown?
All you do is stare at your computer and watch cat videos on YouTube

And if it's Christmas time and you ain't got no lovin'
Snuggle up next to my fluff fluff fluffin'
And if it's your birthday and you ain't got no lovin'
There's lots of fluff fluff fluff fluff fluffin'
And if it's Friday night and you ain't got no lovin'
Just squeeze me, I'm soft as a muff muff muff muff muffin
If it's Saturday night and you ain't got no lovin'
Just squeeze me, I'm full of stuffin’

 

[thør]

On a dark desert highway

 

[raindancer]

the lonely/ Christina Perri

Two am, where do I begin
Crying off my face again
The silent sound of loneliness
Wants to follow me to bed
I'm a ghost of a girl
That I want to be most
I'm the shell of a girl
That I used to know well
Dancing slowly in an empty room
Can the lonely take the place of you
I sing myself a quiet lullaby
Let you go and let the lonely in
To take my heart again
Too afraid, to go inside
For the pain of one more loveless night
For the loneliness will stay with me
And hold me till I fall asleep
I'm a ghost of a girl
That I want to be most
I'm the shell of a girl
That I used to know well
Dancing slowly in an empty room
Can the lonely take the place of you
I sing myself a quiet lullaby
Let you go and let the lonely in
To take my heart again
Broken pieces of
A barely breathing story
Where there once was love
Now there's only me
And the lonely
Dancing slowly in an empty room
Can the lonely take the place of you
I sing myself a quiet lullaby
Let you go and let the lonely in
To take my heart again