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'Please don't confront me with my failures
I had not forgotten them.'
-Jackson Brown, These Days (but the Nico version's the best)
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'I love my baby 'cos she does good sculptures.' - The Rezillos, (My baby does) Good Sculptures
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'You make me forget myself
I thought I was someone else,
Someone good.'
- Lou Reed, Perfect Day
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'You are simply a liar,
An animal who butts and steals
Until you become
A bigger creature's meal.'
- Jeffrey Lee Pierce (The Gun Club), Ghost on the Highway
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'Vous avez lu l'histoire de Jesse James
Comment il vécu, comment il est mort,
Ça vous a plait hein, vous en demandez encore
Et bien, ecoutez l'histoire de Bonnie and Clyde.'
- Serge Gainsbourge, Bonnie and Clyde
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'Fool of the Commonwealth drove down there,
Down turnpike;
Desperate for food desperate for respite.
The steak place
Cheap carpet lines the way
Aluminium tack door handles
Candelabra lions head
Via butchers display too.
The steak place
Via a carcass row
Things are brought forward and eaten,
I see the corners filled with hitmen,
To young lawyers they are whispering, in
The steak place'
- Mark E. Smith (The Fall) The Steak Place
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'Everybody asks your name,
they say we're all the same and it's
"nice one", "geezer"
That's as far as the conversation went
I lost my friends, I dance alone,
it's six o'clock I wanna go home
But it's "no way", "not today",
makes you wonder what it meant
And this hollow feeling grows
and grows and grows and grows
And you want to phone your mother
and say "Mother, I can never come home again
'Cause I seem to have left an important part of my brain
Somewhere in a field in Hampshire"'
- Jarvis Cocker, Sorted for Es and Whizz
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"I Sensed the wretched spectres of the drowned,
staring across...from some distant shore,
and in my sadness I drew closer,
to condole and...somewhat...to implore"
-Hades "Pluton" by Sopor Aeternus
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"It is not a human right
To stare not fight
While broken nations dream
Open up our eyes, so blind
That we might find
The Mercy for the need"
--Solution, Hillsong United--
"I see the scars of searches everywhere I go
From hearts to wars to literature to radio
There's a question like a shame no one will show
What do I live for?
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There is truth in little corners of our lives
There are hints of it in songs and children's eyes
It's familiar, like an ancient lullaby
What do I live for?
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We are more than dust
That means something
That means something
We are more than just
Blood and emotions
Inklings and notions
Atoms on oceans"
--Hosea's Wife, Brooke Fraser--
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'I can't go away with you
on a rock-climbing weekend.
What if something great is on TV
and it's never shown again?'
- Evan Dando (The Lemonheads), not sure which song.
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The movie ran through me
The glamour subdued me
The tabloid untied me
I'm empty please fill me
Mister anchor assure me
That Baghdad is burning
Your voice it is so soothing
That cunning mantra of killing
I need you my witness
To dress this up so bloodless
To numb me and purge me now
Of thoughts of blaming you
"Testify" by Rage Against the Machine.
Almost anything from rage is my favourite music.
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now.. i'm falling even more in love with you
letting go of all i've held onto
i'm standing here until you make me move
i'm hanging by a moment here with you
i'm living for the only thing i know
i'm running and not quite sure where to go
i don't know what i'm diving into
just hanging by a moment here with you
Lifehouse- hanging by a moment
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'Johnny's got a lot in his eyes and
Shirley's got a lot in her lips
Jake's got a monkeyshine all to his head
And Debra-Anne's got a tiger in her hips.
They can twist and turn;
They can move and burn;
They can throw themselves against the wall,
But they creep for what they need
And they explode to the call
And then they move
move
move
Sex beat.
Drop.'
- Jeffrey Lee Pierce (The Gun Club), Sex Beat
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Freewill by Rush
A planet of playthings,
We dance on the strings
Of powers we cannot perceive
"The stars aren't aligned,
Or the gods are malign..."
Blame is better to give than receive.
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i can't imagine a life without your love
and even forever don't seem like long enough
cause every time i breathe i take you in
and my heart beats again
baby i can't help it
keep me drawning in your love
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and every time i try to rise above
i am swept away by love....- backstreet boys- drawning
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After all, the children being born into
a time of searching for some glory
And the lie's still repeating through the years
Dulce et Decorum Est Pro Patria Mori
-Regina Spektor- Dulce et Decorum Est Pro Patria Mori
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Disarm you with a smile
And leave you like they left me here
To wither in denial
The bitterness of one who's left alone
Ooh, the years burn
Ooh, the years burn, burn, burn
Disarm by Smashing Pumpkins
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The early cars
Already are
Drawing deep breaths past my door
And last night's phrases
Sick with lack of basis
Are still writhing on my floor
Not about love - Fiona Apple
What you did to me made me see
myself somethin' awful
A voice once stentorian is now
again meek and muffled
Oh well - Fiona Apple
Time to take her home
Her dizzy head is conscience laden
Time to take a ride
It leaves today no conversation
Big empty - Stone temple pilots
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Time
by David Bowie
Time - He's waiting in the wings
He speaks of senseless things
His script is you and me, boy
Time - He flexes like a whore
Falls wanking to the floor
His trick is you and me, boy
Time - In Quaaludes and red wine
Demanding Billy Dolls
And other friends of mine
Take your time
The sniper in the brain, regurgitating drain
Incestuous and vain, and many other last names
I look at my watch it say 9:25 and I think "Oh God I'm still alive"
We should be on by now
We should be on by now
Lai, lai, lai, lai, lai, lai, lai, lai
Lai, lai, lai, lai, lai, lai, lai, lai
You - are not a victim
You - just scream with boredom
You - are not evicting time....
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The sickness of this world is destroying all the dreams
The fools are kings, tearing apart the soul
The race for complication communicate reaction
The lack of heart of men, I grow distant from the core
Borrow this body for a lifetime, earthly material
My soul unraveled out of mental
The shell returns to dust
I focus on the present concentrate on what I find
Accelerate the vision high beyond the curse of time
Bring light to my attention, the walls of vacuum fall
This force increases and tells me where to go
Follow, I enter my dimensions, awakened heart of life
Enforce my senses, I'm understanding
I find the will to live straight
I feel the change I see the vicious circle
Finally turned into a virtuous one
Having the whole world in my hands, filled
Timelessness
Out of the frame I feel so vast I'm all around myself
Imaginative interaction
But I keep struggling inside to hold this always
Forever there
Is it the fear to fall in space that keeps us from understanding
The only way to find the power is to look inside
Increase your fall on purpose and let this river flow
Now you hold this secret appeared out of the vacuum of space
Remain in what you are, the center of your life
You made it to this point no one can tell you how
You crawled and bled all the way but you were the only one
That was tearing your soul apart, you finally find yourself
vacuity- Gojira
