Geez, what started out as a small response turned into a whole afternoon project! I must admit, Jack, this certainly has triggered something I me, and I thank-you for the opportunity to express it. So I’ve quite a list here, and I’ve included the lyrics for those not familiar with the songs. Most of the songs likely apply to your situation more or less directly, while a few will depend on the degree of intimacy in the relationship—use yer own discretion, ‘natch! I’ve also broken it up into categories, starting with:
Heavy, Aggressive & Strong
Revenge by nomenasno from Sex Mad / You Kill Me.
you've spread your wings and learned to fly
you've tried and tried and now you've succeeded
well, that's too bad, that's too bad, that's too bad
I’m alive, that's too bad, that's too bad
open your eyes, revenge, open your eyes
revenge, open wide
you've fooled them once, you've fooled them twice
they think you're nice but no, you're just clever
that's too bad, that's too bad, that's too bad
my friend, that's too bad, that's too bad
this is the end, revenge, you die, you die
revenge,
you want to know why? you want to know why?
you die? you die? you want to know why?
you want to know why? you die! you die!
that's too bad, that's too bad, that's too bad, I’m alive
that's too bad, that's too bad, I will survive
and the band played some good'ole
rock'n'roll
what I want most in the whole wide world
is a girl just a girl one who will keep me
from losing my mind one who will keep me
from losing my mind and she'll be the best
girl in the whole wide world she'll be the
best girl in the whole wide world
revenge you die! you die! you die!
revenge.
Joyful Reunion by nomeansno from 0 + 2 = 1.
I don’t buy your explanations
Your short sighted expectations
Stop complaining, I don’t care
I told you the way it had to be
I will fuck with you
If you try to fuck with me
So don’t try it
Look at this face, I’m the one you love
The white light of truth from heaven above
An angel of shit, fucker
It’s no road to ruin
Not a final solution
Just the grand execution
Of our Joyful Reunion
You squeezed the world in the palm of your hand
But when it lay in pieces
Did you give a damn?
Why should you?
Don’t play dumb and don’t ask why
With a blink of my eye you are cut and dried
And hung up –bye, bye
It was here, where did it go
I don’t know, I don’t know
Anything any more
In this ball of confusion
Through these painful convolutions
There’s no clear-cut solution
Just a Joyful Reunion
What are you trying to escape
Your name calls me
Your mirror is my gate
Smash, through the looking glass, fucker
I am your hated enemy
The friend that makes you start again
Just when you thought it was finally the end
Hit me hard, tear me apart
To rise again is my special art
You can’t kill me
With all the things that cut me down
Shake, brake, mutilate – grind me into the ground
I’ll grow up again with first rain, just the same
We will raze the institutions
Make all new resolutions
Rebuild constitution
For that Joyful Reunion
All Lies by nomeansno from Wrong.
Lies are the words I use
When you look up hopefully
All of the things that we feel
Are a trick, a fantasy
What is the end?
Is it love I pretend?
It’s calling, It’s calling
And I’m falling, I’m falling
And she said pray to me, pray to me
All the love you see, it comes from me
She said pray to me, pray to me
All the love you see, it comes from me
She said I see, I see, I see, I see
She said pray to me, pray to me
Pray to me, pray to me, but it was
All lies, a pack of lies, it was all lies
Why don’t you fuck of and die
It was all lies a pack of lies
It was all lies, all lies
Lies are the light and hope
In your eyes as they shine on me
Tie up my hands with your chains
They are bound to set me free
I’m singing, I’m singing
And o that I’m clinging
The word that I say
Only drag me away
And I say pray to me, pray to me
All the love I see comes from me
I say pray to me, pray to me
All the love I see belongs to me
I said I see, I see, I see, I see
I said pray to me, pray to me
Pray to me, pray to me, but it was
All lies...
Lies are the hopes and the chains
That have dragged me here to you
All the hopes and these chains
I will gladly share with you
It’s raining, it’s pouring
The old man is snoring
It’s raining it’s pouring
And I’m falling, I’m falling
And she said pray to me, pray to me
All the love you see, it comes from me
He say pray to me, pray to me
All the love I see belongs to me
He said I see, I see, I see, I see
He say pray to me, pray to me
Pray to me, pray to me, but it was
All lies..
Real Love by nomeansno from 0 + 2 = 1
Real love is scary
You try to hide when it looks for you
You never know what it will do
Not real love
Not real love
Real love is a long stone bed, he said his face a mask of indifference
And it don't care about me or you
Not real love
Not real love
Real love on a sunny day is a crow on a telephone pole with something to say
And you feel like someone has just walked on your grave
That's real love That's real love
The glory of love The glory of love
That precious rain that falls from above
First a gentle murmur that calls from the heart
And then a great wind that will blow you apart
That's real love
That's real love
Like a ghost it will pass right through you
A spirit that lives on when you are through
And there is nothing that you can do
The wind in the trees
The smell of wet leaves
The rumble of a passing truck
A streak of blood
Please forgive me for what I’ve done to you
And lord forgive me for what I m going to do
In the name of...
Real love is scary
You try to hide when it looks for you
You never know what it will do
And it don't care about me or you
And there is nothing you can do about real love anyway,
That's what I heard a crow say but who cares what a crow say anyway?
Especially about something, something, something so strictly personal (real love)
Can you feel it? Can you feel it?
That wind on your face
You can get down on your knees and pray
But nothing that you do or say will make it go away (real love)
It's like thunder,
Like lightning the way
You love me the way you love me
The way you love me it's frightening
Step On Chameleon by Drive Like Jehu from their self-titled album.
You wanna’ fist, you wanna’ ride,
go to school so you can hide,
step on the bus be rewarded,
get off last & yer retarded,
last off, last in line,
chameleon doin' fine,
second hand will tick,
pancake batter gettin' thick,
cut my finger on a butter knife,
watch the blood flow down just like
the blood I see on yer hands.
Bloody foot print swollen tongue,
scaly skidmark better run,
bitter swallow get you numb.
What is gold? Silverbullets.
Do You Compute by Drive Like Jehu from Yank Crime.
Do you compute?
I think you do
don't need it proven
don't wanna’ listen
don't need a tour of the pieces I’m missing
as if you were put here to straighten us out
and everything you said was being written down
you weren't and it isn't and nobody's listening,
and nobody gives a fuck what you go do with your life
ff = 66 by Jawbox from For Your own Special Sweetheart.
(he invites this dark he lives by instinct with fears that are not fears but prickles of ecstasy)
this code is cracked
I don’t expect whatever I spat out to stick
awash in the signs, sick from the lack
spliced in spliced in
second-hand words and screen for skin
forcing out sounds facing outside
again
reified and refined blurring every line
just want a way not to be what gets sold to me
ff = 66
explains
you’re sick spins on the axis of promises and
lick lack luck reveals all tricks
reified and refined blurring ever line
just want a way not to be what gets sold to me
(repeat)
ff = 66 ff = 66 six
six feet deep in the irony
you’ll see the light it’s getting bigger.
Pound by Arcwelder from Xerxes.
with Bill Graber and (Scott Macdonald)
Take down
And now take along
What you can't now
And sorens eyes
Good for value prize
Where's your head now
40 times
Maybe 50 times
Where's your heart now
Compromise
If you can find the time
Where's your pride now
(When I walk out the door it'll be a sunny day
And the breeze floating by blowing worries away
From my mind
I feel fine)
[in the following Bill and (Scott) are singing at the same time]
Come around (All of the fear and the paranoia)
Maybe half a pound (All of the stress is unhealthy for ya’)
Where's the sky now (All of the pain and the aggravation)
(All of the grind and the desperation)
Cut it down til (If you want heat you should start a fire)
you feel proud (If you want hope you should fuel desire)
Where's your thoughts now (If you want help you should try to find it)
(Forget the pride that you leave behind it)
Hit it and quit (All of the fear and the paranoia)
While we still can (All of the stress is unhealthy for ya’)
And we'll end pound (All of the pain and the aggravation)
(All of the grind and the desperation)
Hit it and quit it (If you want heat you should start a fire)
While we still can (If you want hope you should fuel desire)
And we'll end pound (If you want help you should try to find it)
(Forget the pride that you leave behind it)
Noisy, Aggressive, & Strong
Short Trades by TAR from Jackson.
Do the same things all the time
Always end up talking but there’s no good things
Say the same things all the time
Always end up talking but there’s no good things
There’s nothing done right
Do the same things all the time
Always end up talking but there’s no good things
You say the same things all the time
Always end up talking but there’s no good time
And There’s nothing done right
It’s not real big it won’t do any harm
Can you believe what’s goin’ on?
It’s not real big it won’t do any harm
It’s not real big it won’t do any harm
Always end up talking but there’s no good time
There’s nothing done right
It’s not real big it won’t do any harm
Can you believe what’s goin’ on?
It’s not real big it won’t do any harm
Can you believe what’s goin’ on?
It’s not real big and it won’t do any harm
Favor by Arcwelder from Jacket Made in Canada.
Gonna’ do myself a favor quit while I'm behind
It seems like all this hanging on will only mess up my mind
And I don't have many options at least none that I can find
It always seems so hard to take when what you're weaving unwinds
Gonna’ do myself a favor quit while I'm ahead
Take some time to lick my wounds and write some music instead
Take it out of me and purify what's left here in my soul
Funny how what seems so free can take a very big toll
Gonna’ do myself a favor write it off as lost
What I have to show from this does not keep up with the cost
Gonna’ look around and think about the next step I should take
Pull it back together the best decision I'll make
Slack Motherfucker by Superchunk from their self-titled album.
You haven't moved from that spot all night since you asked for a light
you little smoke stack
You've wasted my time
I'd like to see you try and give it back
I'm working
But I'm not working for you!
Slack Motherfucker!
Relax, sit down
I'll kick that stool right out from under you
Well, then, I see you sitting outside
Well, I can do the same thing too
I'm working
But I'm not working for you!
No!
Slack Motherfucker!
I'm working
But I'm not working for you!
Slack Motherfucker
You Motherfucker!!
Aneurysm by Nirvana from Incesticide.
Come on over and do the twist
Overdo it and have a fit
Love you so much it makes me sick
Come on over and do the twist
Beat me outta me (Beat it, beat it) [repeat several times]
Come on over and do the twist
Over-do it and have a fit
Love you so much it makes me sick
Come on over and shoot the shit
She keeps it pumpin' straight to my heart [repeat several times]
Heart-shaped Box by Nirvana from In Utero.
She eyes me like a Pisces when I am weak
I've been locked inside your Heart-Shaped box four whole weeks
I've been drawn into your magnet tar pit trap
I wish I could eat your cancer when you turn black
Hey Wait I've got a new complaint
Forever in debt to your priceless advice
Hey Wait I've got a new complaint
Forever in debt to your priceless advice
Hey Wait I've got a new complaint
Forever in debt to your priceless advice
Your advice
Meat-eating orchids forgive no one just yet
Cut myself on angel's 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
Hey Wait I've got a new complaint
Forever in debt to your priceless advice
Hey Wait I've got a new complaint
Forever in debt to your priceless advice
Hey Wait I've got a new complaint
Forever in debt to your priceless advice
Your advice
She eyes me like a Pisces when I am weak
I've been locked inside your Heart-Shaped box four whole weeks
I've been drawn into your magnet tar pit trap
I wish I could eat your cancer when you turn black
Hey Wait I've got a new complaint
Forever in debt to your priceless advice
Hey Wait I've got a new complaint
Forever in debt to your priceless advice
Hey Wait I've got a new complaint
Forever in debt to your priceless advice
Your advice
Your advice
Your advice
The Others
Yeah, It's beautiful here too by Superchunk from here’s where the strings come in.
Cracked a hole in the glass bottom boat
Now the things we killed are beginning to float
To the top of the mosquito lake
And all this scenery looks fake
yeah, yeah - Yeah, it's beautiful here too
yeah, yeah - Why am I telling you?
yeah, yeah - Yeah, it's beautiful here too
yeah, yeah - Why am I telling you?
Last year last night
I'm tired let's fight
[repeat]
Yeah, this ticket looks good for a while
I'm always fucking up the four minute mile
Though it's selfish and mean at the end of the day
I'll take you back any old way
yeah, yeah - Yeah, it's beautiful here too
yeah, yeah - Why am I telling you?
yeah, yeah - Yeah, it's beautiful here too
yeah, yeah - Why am I telling you?
Last year last night
I'm tired let's fight
[repeat]
precision auto by Superchunk from On the Mouth.
have you got a minute?
can you fit me into it?
have you got a minute?
have you got a year?
have you got a year?
have you lost your sight?
have you lost your strength
just to prove your might?
do not pass me just to slow down
I can move right through you
do not pass me just to slow down
I have precision auto
I see you way too slow
I see you in slow motion
you've got muscles--use them
do not hand me a chapter
do not hand me a story
I will only lose them
do not pass me just to slow down
I can move right through you
do not pass me just to slow down
I have precision auto
And Now by Arcwelder from Entropy.
So I stay to myself and how's this door been opened
And all these superstitions won't help now
And now is the time 'cause now I've been forgotten (It's the sadness of the year)
And now I try to fix this hole in the sky
The road to here was paved with the best intentions (In the browness and the sear)
Like the hope to understand it most of all
And now you wanna’ help
'Cause now you've got yourself
And now you know what's best
'Cause now you blame the rest
And now and now I know
And now and now I know
And now and now I know
And now and now AND NOW
This came to me here 'cause I'm weary from the surface (It's the silence of the year)
The rarest common untold from the sun
The simplest thought through a fog that's near and truest (In the silence for the fear)
And a miracle darkest hope comes from this none
And now you wanna’ help
'Cause now you've got yourself
And now you know what's best
'Cause now you blame the rest
And now I see the less of everything
And the dream is over
And now I've learned its got the best of me
And the dream is over NOW
too soon (So stay to myself now)
to see for less (So stay to myself now)
to go And now (So stay to myself now)
I know And now And now
Vengeance by Arcwelder from Entropy.
And she's been fishing for compliments
Makes her cast over the water
She is still weak but growing stronger
Like a web you don't attend to
And it's always good to see you
But don't use me for your vengeance
Her heart's been peeled like a grape
She's looking for someone to cling to
And if I throw her out a life line
Will I be sucked into the whirlpool
And it's always good to see you
But don't use me for your vengeance
One never knows
She let her guard down
I could say too much
The day you don't look twice is the day the train comes by
He just pretends he doesn't see her
She sees too much to pretend
Her disappointment his indifference
Is something she can keep forever
And it's always good to see you
Just don't use me for your vengeance
What You Want It To Be by Sugar from File Under Easy Listening.
All the stories you read
Don’t know what to believe
And everything that you see
Don’t you see what you need
It’s what you want to believe
As you lie in the weeds
The lies get amplified
It’s what you’re saying to me
It’s what you want to be
Take a look at my face
Don’t you know I can see
You don’t know what you want
I don’t know what you need
It may be simple, but me
I don’t have to deceive you
I don’t have the time to
But what you’re saying to me
Is what you want it to be
You’ve been talking in rhymes
You don’t know what you mean
I can see through it all
Through the web that you weave
So shit—I think I’ve almost made a tape there. I apologize for the length, but once I started I simply couldn’t stop that ball from rollin’! Again, thanks for the opportunity and try not to make any decisions that you will regret in the long term. All the best,
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