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2004: The Lyrics O Yr Life!

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Matthew Fluxington

17:01 / 01.01.04

I can't sing it strong enough
because that kind of strength I just don't have
if you watch the light change,
don't hold them hanging (change now...)

you think it's easy, but you're wrong
I am not one-half of the problem
Zurich is stained, and it's not my fault
just hold me back or let me run

So what does it mean, a mistake or two?
if it's the kind of mistake no one can trace
to the fountain where we sold it
and held them hanging (change now...)

you think it's easy, but you're wrong
I am not one-half of the problem
Zurich is stained, and it's not my fault
just hold me back or let me run

you think it's easy, but you're wrong
I am not one-half of the problem
Zurich is stained, and it's not my fault
just hold me back or let me run

uncle retrospective

17:13 / 01.01.04

Lets start the year with a hail and kill.

Build a fire a thousand miles away
To light my long way home
I ride a comet
My trail is long to stay
Silence is a heavy stone
I fight the world and take all they can give
There are times my heart hangs low
Born to walk against the wind
Born to hear my name
No matter where I stand I’m alone

Stand and fight
Live by your heart
Always one more try
I’m not afraid to die
Stand and fight
Say what you feel
Born with a heart of steel

Burn the bridge behind you
Leave no retreat
There’s only one way home
Those who laugh and crowd the path
And cut each other’s throats
Will fall like melting snow
They’ll watch us rise with fire in our eyes
They’ll bow their heads
Their hearts will hang low
Then we’ll laugh and they will kneel
And know this heart of steel was
Too hard to break
Too hard to hold

Stand and fight
Live by your heart
Always one more try
I’m not afraid to die
Stand and fight
Say what you feel
Born with a heart of steel

Heart of Steel.
Manowar

Suedey! SHOT FOR MEAT!

20:23 / 01.01.04

Ice baby,
I saw your girlfriend and she was
eating her fingers like they're just another meal
but she waits there
in the levee wash she's
mixin' cocktails with a plastic-tipped cigar

My eyes stick to all the shiny robes
you wear on the protein delta strip
in abandoned house but i will wait there
i'll be waiting forever...
i'm waiting (waiting 8x)...(oh)

Minerals, ice deposit daily, drop off
the first shiny robe
i've got a lot of things i want to sell, but
not here, babe-- you took them all

every time i sit around i find i'm shot
every time i sit around i find i'm shot
every time i turn around i find
every time i sit around i find
every time (6x)...
you're my... summer babe
summer babe

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wish I could change the way that you feel
standing with him you feel more real
looking so sweet with all your might
trusted in him to put it night (?)

holding his hand like a brand new kite
blue eyes sparkle, open, alright
wish I could see, the girl who'd fight
playing and laughing and trying to show it

running and falling and dying to know it
staring you down with her gaze hold it
wish I could free you but I can't don't blow it

angel, gonna show it
lord
the devil, go on hold it
angel, gonna show it
lord
blow it

becuz of you, becuz of you, becuz of you, becuz of you
becuz of you, becuz of you, becuz of you, becuz of you
becuz of you, becuz of you, becuz of you, becuz of you
becuz of you, becuz of you, becuz of you, becuz of you

wish I could free you, but I can't, don't blow it
wish I could free you, but I can't, don't know it

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... and two fat feet, got sneaky cheeks...

(Somebody doesn't have the sleeve, and the internet has failed me! Help me, somebody!)

21:23 / 01.01.04

(for Suedehead, from the sleeve, but I think these are slightly different than what she actually sings)

Slip me out of my northern noose
my easter egg
my western wheel
and a southern snake
I've got a busted breast and a jiggly thigh
a rumpled roast and a ragged eye
a floppy neck and two fat feet
sneaky cheeks chewing greasy gums
You got a wing in your snaggle tooth
and you can't knock it back with no 80 proof
You got a wing in your snaggle tooth
and you can't knock it back with no 80 proof

Suedey! SHOT FOR MEAT!

21:45 / 01.01.04

Thanks Todd, and Matthew for helping me out there!

The Return Of Rothkoid

22:52 / 01.01.04

There’s no escape for you except in someone else
Although you’ve already disappeared within yourself
The invisible man who’s always changing clothes
It’s all about taking the easy way out for you, I suppose

Scrambled Password Bogus Email

14:41 / 04.01.04

Thw world is just a great big onion

19:41 / 04.01.04

You kin say Zurich is stained but only if you'll let it be...
Turnin' clocks back wantonly is takin life away fae ye...

Flat Velocity Curve by Prolapse.

Regrettable Juvenilia

09:04 / 09.01.04

Don't dance her down, boys
Don't dance her down
Don't dance her down, boys
Her man's in town

I played cards in England
I threw dice in Spain
I'm going back to England
To play cards again

Don't dance her down, boys
Don't dance her down
Don't dance her down, boys
Her man's in town

My mom told me
A long time ago
To quit all my rowdy ways
And drink no no more

- The Fiery Furnaces, 'Don't Dance Her Down'

09:09 / 09.01.04

Well you’ve cracked the sky, scrapers fill the air.
But will you keep on building higher
’til there’s no more room up there?
Will you make us laugh, will you make us cry?
Will you tell us when to live, will you tell us when to die?

13:25 / 09.01.04

sometimes i get a little drunk
and i go home with some crazy punks
but don't judge me by what i do
cos baby, you know you wanna hit it too.

(with thanks to flyboy)

13:38 / 09.01.04

Snooker loopy nuts are we
Him and them and us and me
There's no end to what we can do
With a load of balls and a snooker cue

Pot! The red and! Screw back!
On the yellowgreenbrownbluepinkandblack!
Snooker loopy nuts are we
We're all snooker... loo-pee!

Matthew Fluxington

14:08 / 09.01.04

check out this groove and you're walkin' on air
going into a new dimension, yeah
so put your vibes on my beat
and we'll lay it down like that
slap the hi-hat in, put the fairlight on the track

Ooh! and we can go
crazy like that
feelin' like that
movin' like that
drop it like that
rockin' the track
I'm lookin for that new sensation!

Woo hoo!
I think we're on to somethin'
your taste, it mirrors mine
so high, I'm in the moment
let's make this demo right
I might just lose it
when we make sweet music

doesn't it bend the waves
that's in the air
got samples and scratches
let's do it, right here
cos every heartbeat babe
is the soundtrack to your life
and every man out there must be sent
to get me high

and we can go
crazy like that
feelin' like that
movin' like that
drop it like that
rockin' the track
I'm lookin for that new sensation

Woo hoo!
I think we're on to somethin'
your taste it mirrors mine
so high, I'm in the moment
let's make this demo right
I might just lose it
woo hoo
when we make sweet music

16:14 / 09.01.04

When I die put that bottle in my hand
All these years on earth, and was my only friend
When you dig a hole and gonna bury me
Put that bottle of Jim Beam to rest beside me

All my life I've been living on the run
Hanging out in bars and hotel rooms annoying everyone
Living on the road running from coast to coast
Spending many nights in jail, like a gunman at his post

When I die, you don't have to cry
You don't have to feel no feelings inside

Never cared or had no feelings for no one
The only one I cared for was the one who made me cum
Live my life like a loner on the trail
Some of the nights in jail, I couldn't afford no bail

No one to call, no one to see me through
So I bought a gun one day and I came running after you
Living on the road, playing scumfuc rock 'n' roll
I'm on the road and I haven't got no home

Never lived nowhere long enough to call home
I'm just an outlaw scumfuc, playing my rock 'n' roll

Never had nothing that could keep me satisfied
'Cept my booze and my drugs and that woman by my side
She was no woman, but she's good enough for me
She's got that cunt between her legs and that's all I need

So when I die put that bottle by my side
Bury me with ol' Jim Beam and I'll be on my hell ride
When I die, when I die
Down to Hell is my final destination

When I die put that bottle by my side
It's the only friend I had in life and it kept me satisfied
Living on the run you'll never take me out alive
I bought a gun, I'm leaving now

Bye-bye, bye-bye

Regrettable Juvenilia

20:41 / 10.01.04

Bye, bye, butterfly
I get a little out of control
You mind your mama -
Else she gonna swallow you whole

Infect me, protect me
She gonna resurrect me, I know
Cuz baby I'm livin' from dime to dime
If down is up, I think I'll be doin' alright, tonite

- The Twilight Singers, 'Papillon'

01:51 / 13.01.04

You called me last night on the telephone
And I was glad to hear from you 'cause I was all alone
You said, "It's snowing, it's snowing! God, I hate this weather."
Now I walk through blizzards just to get us back together

We met in the springtime at a rock-and-roll show
It was on the Bowery when it was time to go
We kissed on the subway in the middle of the night
I held your hand, you held mine, it was the best night of my life.

'Cause everyone's your friend in New York City
And everything looks beautiful when you're young and pretty
The streets are paved with diamonds and there's just so much to see
But the best thing about New York City is you and me

Statue of Liberty, Staten Island Ferry, Co-op City, Katz's and Tiffany's
Central Park, Brooklyn Bridge, The Empire State where Dylan lived
Coney Island and Times Square, Rockefeller Center
Wish I was there

You wrote me a letter just the other day
Said, "Springtime is coming soon so why don't you come to stay."
I packed my stuff, got on the bus, I can't believe it's true
I'm three days from New York City and I'm three days from you

'Cause everyone's my friend in New York City
And everything looks beautiful when you're young and pretty
The streets are paved with diamonds and there's just so much to see
But the best thing about New York City is you and me.

- They Might Be Giants "New York City"

In Manhattan's desert twilight
In the death of afternoon
We stepped hand in hand down Broadway
Like the first men on the moon
And 'the Blackbird' broke the silence
As you whistled it so sweet
And in Brendan Behan's footsteps I staggered up and down the street

- The Pogues 'Thousands are Sailing'

02:42 / 13.01.04

Also in the They Might Be Giants vein.

"Dead"

I returned a bag of groceries
Accidently taken off the shelf
Before the expiration date
I came back as a bag of groceries
Accidently taken off the shelf
Before the date stamped on myself

Did a large procession wave their
Torches as my head fell in the basket,
And was everybody dancing on the casket?

Now it's over I'm dead and I haven't done anything that I want
Or, I'm still alive and there's nothing I want to do

I will never say the word
"Procrastinate" again; I'll never
See myself in the mirror with my eyes closed
I didn't apologize for
When I was eight and I made my younger brother
Have to be my personal slave

Did a large procession wave their
Torches as my head fell in the basket,
And was everybody dancing on the casket?

Now it's over I'm dead and I haven't done anything that I want
Or, I'm still alive and there's nothing I want to do

So I won't
sit at home
anymore
and you won't
see my head in
the window
and I won't
be around
ever anymore
and I'll be up there on the wall at the store

I returned a bag of groceries
Accidently taken off the shelf
Before the expiration date
I came back as a bag of groceries
Accidently taken off the shelf
Before the date stamped on myself

Did a large procession wave their
Torches as my head fell in the basket,
And was everybody dancing on the casket?

Now it's over I'm dead and I haven't done anything that I want
Or, I'm still alive and there's nothing I want to do

Now it's over I'm dead and I haven't done anything that I want
Or, I'm still alive and there's nothing I want to do

06:21 / 13.01.04

Since then it's been a book you read in reverse
So you understand less as the pages turn
Or a movie so crass and awkwardly cast
Even I could be the star

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Now that summer is gone, there's another to come
You can't stop years drifting by even if you want to try
Though time may help you forget all that has happened before
Honey it's too late to regret
What is gone will be no more

Tomorrow is my turn
When my luck is returning
All these years I'e been learning to save fingers from burning
Tomorrow is my turn
No more doubts no more fears
Tomorrow is my turn to receive without giving
Make life worth living
Now it's my life I'm living
And my only concern
For tomorrow is my turn

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In ref. to above post - "Dead" really is a great song...

11:47 / 13.01.04

We keep our heads above the water
We know that, someday, we will fly away
With all the wonder of birds
With all the wonder of birds

We keep our voices as guarded secrets
Wait for awhile
And we will surely sing
With all the wonder of birds
With all the wonder of birds

We make a sky where we may be
We build a home with windows to fly through
Windows to fly through

We learn to dance with broomstick partners
Grace will be ours
When we will grow our wings
With all the wonder of birds
With all the wonder of birds

The Innocence Mission sings about hope. Some days it's all that keeps me going.

17:37 / 13.01.04

behold the power of cheese

Listen here, try me out,
Can you understand a word that I say ?
Life will never turn out the way you want it.
Working hard like a slave, cause you chose to take the honest way
Why does the wind always blow cold and always the wrong way ?
You got to keep your head high and try to be strong
They will try to steal everything you own.
It goes on and on
On and on
On and on
On and on
Grab the bull by the horns
Try to make something out of your life
You're the only one that can make it happen
The fire in your eyes is slowly fading out
You can not give up your dreams
You got to go
On and on and on
On and on
Giving up is easy
Just to throw away your life,
if you want to take control you can't
give in without a fight.

on and on.

18:35 / 13.01.04

I'm too sexy for Milan,
New York
And Japan.

19:18 / 13.01.04

Does it hurt?

Everything...
i'm invisible...
an eraser of love...
why dont you call me i feel like flying in two...
i'm invisible...
an eraser of love...
why dont you call me i feel like flying in two...
an eraser of love...

i don't dream. (ice cream.) i scream so much.
you know what i mean. this electric stream.
and my tears in league with the wires and energy and my machine.
this is my beautiful dream.
i'm hurting no one. hurting no one...
i want to give you everything.
i want to give you energy. i want to give a good thing.
i want to give you everything. everything...
in one final scream of love who could climb this high she looks beautiful
like a child i feel tears. and i want to scream.
you know what i mean cause this is hurting no one. an erazor of love.

hurt. the necessary feeling.

why dont you call me i feel like flying in two...
an erazor of love

And also (blame Flyboy he brought them up, not when they were kids or that you know just the band) -

So, so you think you can tell
Heaven from Hell,
Blue skies from pain.
Can you tell a green field
From a cold steel rail?
A smile from a veil?
Do you think you can tell?

And did they get you to trade
Your heros for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze?
Cold comfort for change?
And did you exchange
A walk on part in the war
For a lead role in a cage?

How I wish, how I wish you were here.
We're just two lost souls
Swimming in a fish bowl,
Year after year,
Running over the same old ground.
What have we found?
The same old fears.
Wish you were here.

19:59 / 13.01.04

Dig me out
Dig me in
Outta this mess baby, outta my head
Whaddya want? - whaddya know?
One to get started, three till we go
Dig me out
Dig me in
Outta this mess baby, outta my head
Dig me out
Dig me in
Outta my body, outta my skin

Ya got me... for now
I'm here... for now

Whaddya want?
Whaddya know?
Do ya get nervous makin me go?
Get into your sores, get into my things
Do ya get nervous watchin me bleed?
Dig me out
Dig me in
Outta this mess baby, outta my head
Dig me out
Dig me in
Outta my body, outta my skin

I wear your rings and sores
In me... in me it shows

I have your hands your holes
In me... in me it shows
Oh god let me in
There's nowhere else to go
Oh god let me in
And let me go

Dig me out
Dig me in
Outta this mess baby, outta my head
Dig me out
Dig me in
Outta my body, outta my skin

('Dig Me Out' - Sleater-Kinney)

Regrettable Juvenilia

21:51 / 13.01.04

Oh, once you get involved,
Everyone will look this way so
You must maintain your charm,
Same time maintain your halo...

18:44 / 14.01.04

Here I sit alone with a bullet in my gun
On it is the name of everyone
I hate you, I wanna kill you one by one
Worthless human flesh that I kill
I'm the untamed animal

Do I feel compassion? No!
Do I feel love? No!
No I feel compassion? No!
Do I feel love? No!

The act of killing you will be my high
Every life I steal, I multiply
Fuck off bastard, fuck off bitch
They'll find you full of maggots rotting in a ditch

Waiting with my mind, the things I hate the most
People pass me by, I see nothing but a ghost
Now it's time to cast the shadow of a doubt
I'm here for bloody murder, I'm here to wipe you out

Do I feel compassion? No!
Do I feel love? No!
No I feel compassion? No!
Do I feel love? No!

The taste of blood takes me further
The taste of blood takes me further
Do I feel compassion? No!
Do I feel love? No!
No I feel compassion? No!
Do I feel love? No!

Fuck off, we murder
Fuck off, we murder
Fuck off, we murder
Fuck off, we murder
Fuck off, we murder
Fuck off, we murder
Fuck off, we murder
Fuck off, we murder

Matthew Fluxington

18:10 / 16.01.04

before you go
and what you say
will never keep
the tides away
cut a window
through a wall
hello hello
hello hello?
hello? hello hello hello?

if madness comes,
so much the better
touche

a wicked week
a logic creep
I need water
and a seat
a cup of snow
a snowflake kid
heat is coming
off the grid

if madness comes,
so much the better
touche

explosive laugh
I cannot dodge your draft
because the air is like
perfume from Vikings

hanging with
the Brown/Rice clique
Tennyson and politics
sgjdljfladjflajdlfajsd;klfjadf

if madness comes,
so much the better
touche

grass grows warped
shade of your county court
I know you want that spawn
just to your liking

19:27 / 18.01.04

Right now?...

Theres a little girl I know
You might know her too
She looks so good
She looks so cute
Standin' next to you
And I don't know what to do
I want your girlfriend to be my
I want your girlfriend to be my girlfriend
She's so fuckin' cute
I wish that she was mine
She's so fuckin' cute
I'm gonna lose my mind
I don't know what to do
I don't know what to do
maybe I could kill you
I want your girlfriend to be my girlfriend
cause shes so cute I dont know what to do
maybe she could love me too
I want your girlfriend to be my girlfriend

Reel Big Fish on too many beers, where everybody's beautiful, but came with someone else... *sigh*

10:24 / 19.01.04

july fourth, raging fortune
dream about the witch trials
send in the romance of people with their dreadlocks
tied like windshields in the night
keep it when you want to belong...
i keep my head on for pretty jades
i keep my head up for ships and shades
i keep my head up for bitchy braids
i keep my head up for guilty ray...

my..god..i can't believe i am still going

my..god..i can't believe i am still going

allez! allez! allez! allez! allez! allez! allez! allez!...

19:28 / 19.01.04

I taught you how to Cyclops Rock
And then you go and turn around and break my heart
And waste my cyclops time and mess up my cyclops mind

I'm sick like Chuckie was sick, my defeated heart keeps beating on
I won't die, like Chuckie won't die, but I'm not here to socialize
Gotta find a new place to hang out, because I'm tired of living in hell

I'm a mess since you cut me out but Chuckie's arm keeps me company
I'm a fright with my tombstone smile
All the children run away from me
Gotta find new friends to hang with because you're all afraid of me

I taught you how to Cyclops Rock
And then you go and turn around and break my heart
And waste my cyclops time and mess up my cyclops mind

It was sweet like lead paint is sweet but the after effects left me paralyzed
I just stare with my one glass eye hoping you won't be back again
There's a whole new generation waiting to be wrecked by you

I taught you how to Cyclops Rock
And then you go and turn around and break my heart
And waste my cyclops time and mess up my cyclops mind

I taught you how to Cyclops Rock
And then you go and turn around and break my heart
And waste my cyclops time and mess up my cyclops mind

[More TMBG, going out to "the youth" (a specific group of youth, none of whom hang out here). I'd say they know who they are, but they have no idea.]

20:40 / 19.01.04

"new york city" is a CUB song thankyouverymuch.

02:48 / 20.01.04

really? I'll have to download that... Apologies to Cub...

13:23 / 20.01.04

If there’s anything that you want,
If there’s anything I can do,
Just call on me and I’ll send it along
With love from me to you.

I’ve got everything that you want,
Like a heart that is oh, so true.
Just call on me and I’ll send it along
With love from me to you.

I got arms that long to hold you
And keep you by my side.
I got lips that long to kiss you
And keep you satisfied, oooh!

If there’s anything that you want,
If there’s anything I can do,
Just call on me and I’ll send it along
With love from me to you.
From me, to you.
Just call on me and I’ll send it along
With love from me to you.

I got arms that long to hold you
And keep you by my side.
I got lips that long to kiss you
And keep you satisfied, oooh!

(BIG FINISH)

If there’s anything that you want,
If there’s anything I can do,
Just call on me and I’ll send it along
With love from me to you.
To you, to you, to you!!!!!

Matthew Fluxington

23:09 / 26.01.04

the first time,
was the worst time

the second time,
was worse than the first

the last time was a great crime
on all things, great and small

but this time is gonna be the best
it’s gonna take the other ones off my chest

it was just in a rut,
to fall into a rut
to fall into a plan greater than mankind

all the others hate it,
all the others set you up
can’t you smell the satisfaction on their breath?

it’s too bad that your music doesn’t matter
your music doesn’t matter in a favorite dress
sure, it wins a blue one
stick it on a runner-up
that’s the way to let the loser melt your...

06:45 / 27.01.04

I was shoppin in a thrift store
Just the other week
Not because I'm thrifty
But because I'm cheap

-"Step Inside This Hat"

17:23 / 27.01.04

Seeing in your eyes
Words can never say the way
Told me in your eyes
Final in a fade
Never no more hope away
Final in a fade
Seeing in your eyes
Seeing in your eyes
Never really know
Never realize
Silence in your eyes
Silence in your eyes
Never really know
Til its gone away
Never realize
The silence in your eyes
Seen it in your eyes
Seen it in your eyes
Never no more hope away
Final in a fade
Watch her slowly die
Saw it in her eyes
Choking on a bed
Flowers rotting dead
seen it in her eyes
Ending in a day
Silence was a way
Seeing in yoru eyes
Seeing in your eyes
Seeing in your eyes
I'm seeing through my eyes
Words cannot express
Words cannot express
Words cannot exp......

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