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Lyrics Of Your Life: New For 2007

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01:00 / 09.05.07

Which is by way of saying; not to indulge in all this hard-edged self-analysis, Stoat.

I think you're a cool guy, and you can trust me on this, because I made ... certain arrangements, a bit earlier on, with the dark gods that live under the sea, and I consequently know everything ,about everything.

01:17 / 09.05.07

Another The The:

its the first day of spring with clean air in the wind
and everything's just like it should be
the roads are jammed up with lorries and cars
and I'm standing in the street with my hand upon my heart
this is the place that i used to know
but it's been wiped away and put up for show
I'm all alone in the middle of the crowd
I open my mouth and scream a silent shout

(chorus)
I jumped out of bed, had my first cigarette,
it made my body feel sick but helped my mind relax
the cranes are moving on the skyline
and the water is dripping from the kitchen tap
these times they are a changin'
but I'm being left behind
everybody's running, trying to cach up with their lives

the hypocrites on the television screens
are trying to disguise what they really mean
they say things are getting better when we know they're getting worse
while they're buying bigger guns from a shrinking purse
the stink and sweat and the flesh and bones
have been replaced and are being sold
not for melting down for pills and soap but as
draught stoppers to keep out the cold

(chorus)

I remember getting this as a pull-out 45 from some magazine, and wearing it out, putting it on all kinds of mixed tapes.

Kiltartan Cross

14:46 / 09.05.07

There's no end to the love you can give,
When you change your point of view to underfoot; very good,
You may be flat, but you're breathing.

Delilah, Dolls

So I guess the fortune teller's right,
I should have seen just what was there,
And not some holy light.
But you crawled beneath my veins and now,
I don't care,
I have no luck,
I don't miss it all that much,
There's just so many things,
That I can't touch, I'm torn.

Torn, Ednaswap

05:30 / 16.05.07

I've been so close to no way out
I don't lock the door no more
I've been so close to no way out
I don't lock the door no more
No

Lost my mind about a million times
Still ain't sure what I'm looking for
Must've lost my mind at least a million times
Still ain't sure what I'm looking for
No

I ain't looking for the easy way
And I'm not looking to lose my self
I ain't looking for the easy way
And I'm not looking to lose my self
No

I'm looking for something
No one seems to have
I'm looking, looking, yeah
For something no one seems to have
I keep looking everywhere
No one I know has
I keep looking, yeah
No one, no one has
No one, no one has
I keep looking anyway
No one, no one has

Mudhoney - No One Has

Regrettable Juvenilia

08:09 / 16.05.07

I've liked you for a thousand years
A thousand years
I've liked you for a thousand years
A thousand years

Matthew Fluxington

13:47 / 10.06.07

Life is so strange
When you don't know
How can you tell
Where you're going to
You can't be sure
Of any situation
Something can change
Then you won't know

You ask yourself
Where do we go from here
This seems so altered here
Just as far beyond as I can see
I still don't know what this all means to me

I have nowhere to go
I don't know what to do
And I don't even know the time of day
I guess it doesn't matter anyway

Life is so strange
Destination unknown
When you don't know
Your destination
Something can change
It's unknown
Then you won't know
Destination unknown

Life is so strange
Destination unknown
When you don't know
Your destination
Something can change
It's unknown
Then you won't know
Destination unknown

When will my time come
Has it all been said and done
I know I'll leave when it's my time to go
Till then I carry on with what I know

Life is so strange
Destination unknown
When you don't know
Your destination
Something can change
It's unknown
Then you won't know
Destination unknown

Life is so strange
Destination unknown
When you don't know
Your destination
Something can change
It's unknown
Then you won't know
Destination unknown

Life is so strange

Kiltartan Cross

14:17 / 10.06.07

"I'm heading north, I'm heading home doing 125,
Close my eyes and count to ten - ha! I'm still alive."

NMA, 125mph

Tom Paine's Bones

14:21 / 10.06.07

She has gone away
But it's ok
Tomorrow is another day

I was a fool
But now it's cool
She sends me postcards every day

But for me the hardest part is knowing
That she's never ever read my poems

I was her clown
I made her smile
She clapped her hands and I fell down

But she is still my friend
And that won't end
I phone her every other day

But for me the hardest part is knowing
That she's never ever read my poems

I took a word or two from Byron
A line or two form Keats
A smattering of Shelley and put my name underneath
She'll never know

I'm sending them today
I don't know what she'll say
She'll probably laugh and throw them all away

But I didn't like them anyway

12:24 / 14.06.07

Dedicated to someone I used to spend a lot of time with :

RFG (title abbreviated because it'll probably wind someone up.) - The Melvins

The eyes are burning,
she's sick of me,
and doesn't need me.

So what's the story?
I can't deny,
they fashion nowhere.

I couldn't be bothered,
and suddenly,
this psycho's injury,
he's rank and bloody,
I can't believe,
and now it's over.

Wild!
nothing new.
Annoyed!
nothing new.
So you think you're wild,
but you're nothing new.
And now you're rude,
nothing new.
And not so wild,
but it's something new.
And now you're older,
nothing.

What!?
Nothing new.
Annoyed!
Nothing new.
What about it, old friend?
But now you're leaving,
and you're worried,
nothing new.
Don't even worry,
everything is good.

Good!

Good!

Good!

ONLY NICE THINGS

10:39 / 15.06.07

I know that the pain is immense,
But personally I blame the parents.
There's a fire out on the wing,
And I was hoping that you'd ring.

Matthew Fluxington

12:11 / 16.06.07

I took a plane, I took a train
(ah, who cares, you always end up in the city!)
I said to Carl "look up for once,
see just how the sun sets in the sky"
I said to John "do you think the girls here
ever wonder how they got so pretty?
well, I do!"

look out upon the myriad harbor!

all the boys with their homemade microphones
have very interesting sounds
all the girls fall into ruin, dropping out of school
breaking daddy's heart
just to hang around
I walked into the local record store and asked for an American music anthology, it sounds fun
they taught my skirt to be stuck on the walls at PS1

I took a plane, I took a train
(ah, who cares, you always end up in the city!)
stranded at Bleeker and Broadway,
looking for something to do
someone somewhere asked me
"Is there anything in particular I can help you with?"
all I ever wanted help with was you!

look out upon the myriad harbor!

16:53 / 16.06.07

Onde andavas tu? Em que história te escondi?
Onde andavas tu, quando precisei de ti?
Onde andavas tu? Em que história te deixei?
Sei que "era uma vez" e mais, te juro, não sei.

17:42 / 16.06.07

I sing about disease
I sing about the lurgy
I sing about unease
I sing about the clergy

09:24 / 17.06.07

A Vast And Filthy Prison - The Melvins

Take care of my princess
Take her 'cause we live alone
If you weren't so simple
I would never come alone
Raise your hand to Heaven
Now raise the one that's half alive
You said you'd give a fortune
If you could have it every night
The world is full of evil
Now which of those are one of you?
Where is my one true angel,
With her golden wings so open?

Some would call it Heaven
You would call it bravery
I would call it neither
I would call it thievery

Mysterious Transfer Student

21:31 / 20.06.07

Damn The Long Blondes, and damn Allecto Regina of this parish for clueing me in about how fucking great they are. How dare they?

For why, go here.

22:32 / 20.06.07

Wish I knew what you were looking for
Might have known what you would find

"Under the Milky Way" - The Church

*

Yeah, you’re upset
So am I, so am I
I sometimes forget just how seldom you cry
And thus how much I hate it when you do

Yeah, you’re a mess, more or less
So am I
I sometimes forget there are stars in the sky
— So nonchalant, though thoroughly thought through

Say you’re OK
And I’ll say “so am I”
And we’ll call it a day
So goodnight, so goodbye
It’s dark enough to disappear into

What sorry sights we sometimes are
These sameshit nights under stayaway stars
These sameshit nights in the saddest bars
The city lights and the stayaway stars

"Stayaway Stars" - The Lucksmiths

Kali, Queen of Kitteh

18:05 / 21.06.07

Let me tear down into your heart
Let me take a seat and stay awhile
Let me tear down into your heart
Ah, fun and games.

Let me steal a glimpse from your eyes
Let me pin it up and stare awhile
Let me steal a glimpse from your eyes
Ah, fun and games.

Let me have a half of your whole
Let me keep it for myself awhile
Let me have a half of your whole
Ah, fun and games.

Let me take the words from your mouth
Let me swallow them and speak awhile
Let me take the words from your mouth
Ah, fun and games.

Didn't I offer less than I lost?
Didn't I mean to find it all?
Look, don't let me size it up.
Hey, right.

"Fun & Games", The Connells

Matthew Fluxington

11:23 / 22.06.07

I used to think it black while at my country seat
Now I'm peaking in so many ways
the gloom is in retreat
Yes the dark epoch is over I've found my efeblum
Then passed Ernst's mausoleum defended by a rook
Who shot a look so virulent it pierced me like a hook
The palaver of solipsists exploding in my skull

Yeah, and we both despise all of the academic swine
who made the author of "Discus Ulysses" benign

So what if Wednesday finds us
wearing rabies parachutes
Foaming like the melodies of sea foam fairy flutes
The atmosphere is viscous we're sticking to the brine

Yeah, and we both despise all of the academic swine
who made the author of "Discus Ulysses" benign

When the lanterns fill with finches
so begins the brawl
Cause their brains are like porcupines
and mine's a paper ball
When the lanterns fill with finches
so begins the brawl
Cause their brains are like porcupines
and mine's a paper ball
I know they don't understand they don't get us at all
Their moss mangles polyanthus
and mine's a paper ball

20:41 / 02.07.07

I will forgive but I won't forget
And I hope you know you've lost my respect

You better watch out
If you don't know whats going on around you
You better think twice
Before you fly off the handle and lose it
You better join us
Before you get lost in the shuffle
You gotta rise against
The demons that are gonna try and hold you down

Does it run in your blood, to betray the ones you love?
Does it run in your blood, to betray the ones you love?
The ones you love, the ones you love, the ones you love

Cause I'm not a pawn for you to play in your fucking game
I've got dignity and a dream that I want to achieve
Under pressure, you crumbled and you let me down
I'm not deaf and all I hear are your empty promises

Does it run in your blood, to betray the ones you love?
Does it run in your blood, to betray the ones you love?
The ones you love, the ones you love, the ones you love

Yes it runs in your blood, to betray the ones you love
Yes it runs in your blood, to betray the ones you love

Papa Roach - Blood

Tom Paine's Bones

14:45 / 03.07.07

I'm walking through these pastures
I'm picking up sweet fruit
I'm shaking hands with people
That previously I'd shoot
But nothing will dissuade me
Nothing will dilute
I want to execute
I want to execute

And you tend to meet a lot of scum en route
It doesn't mean you've joined the other side
And because I still wear shorts and my smile is oh so cute
It doesn't mean I'll run away and hide

To a world where the leaders finally confess
(I think the answer's yes, I think the answer's yes)
To the burning of the Stock Exchange and bombing of the press
(I think the answer's yes, I think the answer's yes)

I think the answer's yes, yes, yes, I think the answer's yes

I'm walking through these corridors
Where crime meets pantomime
They're laughing and they're drinking
On the swill of overtime
And no-one seems to know about
The death-wish that they've signed
Ah, life's unkind
Ah, life's unkind

And they see me as a potential new recruit
They rub their hands, slap their backs and smile
But I still wear suspenders underneath my business suit
So needn't worry about me for a while

So to a world without hunger, where royalty face death
(I think the answer's yes, I think the answer's yes)
To the breaking down of barriers of North, South,
East and West
(I think the answer's yes, I think the answer's yes)

I think the answer's yes, yes, yes, I think the answer's yes
I think the answer's yes, yes, yes, I think the answer's yes

And no-one seems to know about
The death-wish that they've signed
Ah, life's unkind
Ah, life's unkind
Life's unkind, life's unkind
From poor old U2 to poor old Simple Minds
No amnesty for murderers of poor old working class
Rope or gas, rope or gas, rope or gas
No amnesty for murderers of poor old working class
Rope or gas, rope or gas

Matthew Fluxington

14:13 / 04.07.07

Sherri, you smell different
get up early in the bed
for you, morning comes so easy
spells have been cast and the urge has been lost
snipers posted bills as they should have
our midnight vacation
back on the planet now
I'm beginning to see just how
echelon your dreams and they'll come true
type slowly

one of us is a cigar stand
and one of us is a lovely blue incandescent guillotine
the edge of creation is blurred and blushed
not a lot of room to grow inside this leather terrarium
people of the bay
it is excruciatingly gray
face the front when he comes for you
type slowly

cherish your memorized weakness
fashion from a manifesto?
lady I am no Futurist, and my only critic: I
trolls in the glen are consorting again
the liberals say they don't exist
but I know that they do
reinforced your literal ass
hit it on the first or second pass
frozen images respected few
type slowly

Matthew Fluxington

01:33 / 05.07.07

Wherever you go
Wherever you land
I’ll say what this means to me
I’ll do what I can

The fundamental problem
We all need to face
This is important
But I know you’re not listening
Oh I know you’re not listening

If this was still new to me
I wouldn’t understand

But this is what love is for
To be out of place
Gorgeous and alone
Face to face
With no larger problems
That need to be erased
Nothing more important than to know
Someone’s listening
Now I know
You’ll be listening

Kali, Queen of Kitteh

01:52 / 05.07.07

I KNOW this is a shit song. But hearing it upon a certain moment, it stupidly encapsulates what I feel.

I had no choice but to hear you
You stated your case time and again
I thought about it

You treat me like I'm a princess
I'm not used to liking that
You ask how my day was

You've already won me over in spite of me
And don't be alarmed if I fall head over feet
Don't be surprised if I love you for all that you are
I couldn't help it
It's all your fault

Your love is thick and it swallowed me whole
You're so much braver than I gave you credit for
That's not lip service

You've already won me over in spite of me
And don't be alarmed if I fall head over feet
Don't be surprised if I love you for all that you are
I couldn't help it
It's all your fault

You are the bearer of unconditional things
You held your breath and the door for me
Thanks for your patience

You're the best listener that I've ever met
You're my best friend
Best friend with benefits
What took me so long

I've never felt this healthy before
I've never wanted something rational
I am aware now
I am aware now

You've already won me over in spite of me
And don't be alarmed if I fall head over feet
Don't be surprised if I love you for all that you are
I couldn't help it
It's all your fault

08:53 / 05.07.07

You know in Spaced when they are happy they play S'il Vous Plait' by Fantastic Plastic Machine? You know the one, 'doo-doo-doo, do-do do-do doo-doo-doo' that one?
Lyrics of my life = lots of doo-doo-doos and the occasional "S'il vous plait".
*headers football and hugs you*

23:13 / 11.07.07

I've got the world on a string
Sitting on a rainbow
Got the string around my finger
What a world, what a life - I'm in love

14:21 / 15.07.07

Hero - All American Rejects

As you’re on your way back home,
Something catch your eyes untold.
Fear of darkness lingers here,
You tremble as you get the fear.

Now you're on the corner stone,
Fearing you’d be left alone.
Who will lose, who will prevail?
Who will tell the final tale?

There it goes again,
There it goes again.

Do you know, what it takes to be a hero?
When you lost a piece of love, a piece of you.
Do you have, what it takes to beat the fear that's
in your heart? To grow up strong, and undo wrong.
To grow up strong, and undo wrong.
(What it takes to be a hero.)

You're walking down that well worn road.
Some things changed but who would know.
The smiles you get a poisoned well.
The colour you once knew is killed.

And as you realize what's wrong,
The dirt under you're feet is gone,
The enemy looks in your eyes,
Now is time to make it right.

You better make it right.

Do you know what it takes to be a hero?
When you lost a piece of love, a piece of you.
Do you have what it takes to beat the fear that's
in your heart? To grow up strong, and undo wrong.
To grow up strong, and undo wrong!

(What it takes to be a hero)
(To grow up strong)
(And undo wrong)

My son has being playing this song over and over. So, I have him to thank for this...and Lego. It is part of the Bionicle Music Videos online.

14:58 / 17.07.07

"The rich get richer and the poor get poorer,
Suffering in the land."

Jimmy Cliff

Matthew Fluxington

23:15 / 17.07.07

I see you gracefully swimming with the country club women
in the Greenwood South Side Society Pool
I love your amethyst eyes and your Protestant thighs
you're a shimmering socialite jewel
from the carbon dioxide riding academy
to the Children's Crusade marching through the downtown
well I think I'd die, see, if you just said hi to me
when something breaks it makes a beautiful sound

sometimes I feel like I'm watching the world
and the world isn't watching me back
but when I see you I know I'm in it too
the waves come in and the waves roll back
and the kids in the corner all covered with dirt
caught trespassing under the moon
my father came in from wherever he'd been
and kicked my shit all over my room

The room is dark and heavy with what I want to say
I see murals in the radio static and on your blue blue jeans
What would you say if I asked you to run away?
It's been done so many times I hardly know what it means

I took these blue arrangements and threw them in the sea
when older waves from older caves brought them back to me
I took these blue arrangements and stored them on a shelf
with horns on the mantle and time in a candle
in the end a boy raises himself

13:44 / 18.07.07

fire on the mountain
and it rages inside of your soul
the fire inside the belly of the beast
well it thunderizes your soul

Kali, Queen of Kitteh

13:51 / 18.07.07

seems like you were in a glass hotel
seems like, seems like
seems like there was someone else as well
seems like, it seems

seems like you were in your glass hotel
seems like, seems like
it seems like everything was going well
it seems like a dream

well the radio was playing
in the darkness of the hall
there was someone standing with you
who just wasn't there at all
and you were laughing

well the telephone was ringing
in a corridor of blue
a geranium came out of it
reminded me of you
and i was crying

seems like you were in a glass hotel
seems like, it seems like
seems like there was someone else as well
it seems like, it seems

well there's nothing in the future
and there's nothing in the past
there is only this one moment
and you've got to make it last
and you were laughing in a glass hotel

Kali, Queen of Kitteh

18:18 / 19.07.07

i am the girl you know, can't look you in the eye

i am the girl you know, so sick i cannot try

i am the one you want, can't look you in the eye

i am the girl, you know i lie, and lie and lie

i'm miss world, somebody kill me, kill me pills

no one cares, my friends, my friend

i'm miss world, watch me break and watch me burn

no one is listening, my friend, yeah

now i've made my bed, i'll lie in it

i've made my bed, i'll die in it

i've made my bed, i'll lie in it

i've made my bed, i'll die in it

cute girls watch when i eat ether

suck me under, maybe forever, my friends, yeah

now i've made my bed, i'll lie in it

i've made my bed, i'll die in it

i've made my bed, i'll die in it

i've made my bed, i'll cry in it

i've made my bed, i'll lie in it

i've made my bed, i'll cry in it

i've made my bed, i'll die in it

i've made my bed, i'll die in it, my friend

i am the girl you know, can't look you in the eye

18:42 / 19.07.07

I was born in the dirt
I never had no home
And the places I've lived
You don't wanna know
But if you wanna hear evil
Come a little bit close

I was a snake-eyed boy
And at the age of five
I made love to the howl of the wolves
w/a dark haired girl
So if you wanna hear evil
Come a little bit close

She whispered in my ear
Little boy you the one
Set the world to rights
Make it tremble in fear
Do it one more time
Cause you the one you're the one

She said the path you walk
Gonn' be hard one to tread
Cause the night is your only love
Lots of girls gonn' be hurt
Said it's part of your fate
Cause you're the one you're the one

And now I know my place
In this life I ride
And I know the things I feel
A burning deep inside
So if you want to meet evil
I'm the one I'm the one

Danzig, I'm the One

Matthew Fluxington

12:19 / 23.07.07

Buckets of rain
Buckets of tears
Got all them buckets comin' out of my ears.
Buckets of moonbeams in my hand,
I got all the love, honey baby,
You can stand.

I been meek
And hard like an oak
I seen pretty people disappear like smoke.
Friends will arrive, friends will disappear,
If you want me, honey baby,
I'll be here.

Like your smile
And your fingertips
Like the way that you move your lips.
I like the cool way you look at me,
Everything about you is bringing me
Misery.

Little red wagon
Little red bike
I ain't no monkey but I know what I like.
I like the way you love me strong and slow,
I'm takin' you with me, honey baby,
When I go.

Life is sad
Life is a bust
All ya can do is do what you must.
You do what you must do and ya do it well,
I'll do it for you, honey baby,
Can't you tell?

Kali, Queen of Kitteh

02:48 / 25.07.07

Nothing unusual, nothing strange
Close to nothing at all
The same old scenario, the same old rain
And there's no explosions here
Then something unusual, something strange
Comes from nothing at all
I saw a spaceship fly by your window
Did you see it disappear?

Amie come sit on my wall
And read me the story of O
And tell it like you still believe
That the end of the century
Brings a change for you and me
Nothing unusual, nothing's changed
Just a little older that's all
You know when you've found it,
There's something I've learned
'Cause you feel it when they take it away

Something unusual, something strange
Comes from nothing at all
But I'm not a miracle
And you're not a saint
Just another soldier
On the road to nowhere

Amie come sit on my wall
And read me the story of O
And tell it like you still believe
That the end of the century
Brings a change for you and me

And Amie come sit on my wall
And read me the story of O
And tell it like you still believe
That the end of the century
Brings a change for you and me

10:19 / 25.07.07

Take me through the centuries to supersonic years
Electrifying enemy is drowning in his tears
All I have to give you is a love that never dies
The symptom of the universe is written in your eyes
Yeah

Mother mooch is calling me back to her silver womb
Father of creation takes me from my stolen tomb
Seventh night the unicorn is waiting in the skies
A symptom of the universe, a love that never dies
Yeah

Black Sabbath - Symptom of the Universe

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