Caiiin't seem to sleep yet and have been listening to some music.. thought I'd post some lyrics:
Short snippets:
"I'm ok
I feel good
I can breathe
fill my soul
I'm ok
feeling good
why do I
swim in blood?" - Fluorescences by Stereolab
"Giving into love and sharing my time
letting someone into my misery
I told it all step by step
how I landed on the island
and how i swam across the sea
and it crosses my mind
that I may wake to a knife in me" - Medicine Bottle by Red House Painters
"We know who you are
I read your palm while you
were sleeping
and I read through your diary
and the secrets you've been keeping
we were already aware of
and now for dinner and maybe
tomorrow we'll have a drink" - CUNT Hill by Red House Painters (this was the first song I heard by them ...fell in love with the lyrics.. there are other good bits, too)
"Your boy is like a memory,
with some sense of touch and a melody.
Your girl, she's a renegade,
a hurricane that keeps you there, safe..." - Look Up by Stars
"Give me some chemicals
I want to run into.." - Run Into Flowers by M83 (I find the whole thing very sexy as it's repeated over and over.. hah. hopefully this is correct; I went by ear since there are none I can find online.. really, this is the only song with lyrics on that album really... beyond mumbled stuff in America and the beginner clip...)
"I've been alone since '89" - cause = time by Broken Social Scene (there are other good bits, but since I'm not playing it right now and I cannot find *one* lyric page online that has this song, this'll do... one bad thing about liking slightly obscure music.. hah)
Two full lyrics:
Seal this envelope with a heart that's been
beaten black--beaten blue
beaten all over again
don't leave out a single thing
send it off with wings
an anecdote to ease the pain that you feel
every time that you smile at the mirror
I wont need anymore memories
for the next 50 years
I could still write you love songs
I wont need anymore photographs
to remember the color of the clothes you wore that night
Hopefully this won't sound as bad
as I'm sure that it is
all results will be lifeless and lead to an excuse
to never try again,
to never try at all
staring up at the ground
because oh how we tried
and oh how you lied
but how could that be true
I wont need anymore memories
for the next 50 years I could still write you love songs
I wont need anymore photographs
to remember the color that your eyes changed with the color of your hair
my heart is gone
my heart is grey - The Color That Your Eyes Changed With The Color of Your Hair by Carissa's Wierd (one of my all time fav. songs by them... before I even knew what they were mumbling, I'd still yell the last two lines)
Let's go out and dance, darling
Our last of days
And grace the game with a blindfold on
The cheaters came to play
And outside the soft-handed boys
Screaming cars and all their speed
Music, math, a hero beggin change
His sword across his knees
And how he prays to find a man to blame
For every sleepless night he spends
And for every well that he warned me of
But wound up falling in
And then for the kids beneath the balcony
Who disregard the rain
To make sure the king won't grant
The dead man one more day
Let's go out and see darling
What shines tonight
And temper your dream about the dying hoss
With traffic, noise, and light
And somewhere the soft-handed boys,
Bleeding hearts, and worker bees
Give to the holy mother begging change
Christ across her knees
And oh how she prays to find a man to blame
For every loveless night she waits
And for every gun that she frowned upon
But still some fucker made
And then for the kid beneath the balcony
Behind the garbage can
Who waits for the king to come
And hold his sweating hand - Beneath the Balcony by Iron & Wine (this is a recent good one for me...)
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I'm sure I could come up with more, but I'm finally getting a bit tired... maybe I'll type up more at another time.
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