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Lyrics Of Your Life: New For 2007

  
  

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14:56 / 29.01.07
S.O.S., this is a global call
You better make a stand
You better make it now
Take back your rights from the IMF, World Bank and Monsanto

S.O.S., this is a global call
You better make a stand,
You better make it now
Corporatocracy leads to profits for killers
Just a bunch of killers!
profits for killers

When they wage war on you, you lay asleep
When they poison your food, you choose to drink
There's poison in the well.

Yeah,

(Stand Up, Resist.)
Monsanto are killers, k-k-k-k-killers
(Stand Up, Resist.)
Syngenta are killers, k-k-k-k-killers
(Stand Up, Resist.)
The World Bank are killers, k-k-k-k-killers
(Stand Up, Resist.)
The WTO are killers, k-k-k-k-killers
(Stand Up, Resist.)
 
 
Kali, Queen of Kitteh
18:52 / 29.01.07
Playing in the dirt
We find the seeds of doubt
Don't water them with your tears
Don't think about all the years
You'd rather be without

Eden lets me in
I find the seeds of love
And climb upon the highwire
I kiss and tell all my fears

Falling down the mountain
End up kissing dirt
Look a little closer
Sometimes it wouldn't hurt

Playing in the dirt
We find the seeds of fun
And we scream like alleycats
Tearing down what we attack
To prove that we are one

Cutting through the night
And we find the seeds of lust
And lose our minds on one intent
These passions never seem to end

Falling down the mountain
End up kissing dirt
Look a little closer
Sometimes it wouldn't hurt

You know it wouldn't hurt...hey!
Falling down the mountain
End up kissing dirt
Look a little closer
Sometimes it wouldn't hurt yeah
I said get up get up get up
Get up to the top, yeah
I'm falling down the mountain
End up kissing dirt, oh yeah
I'm falling, falling...aw yeah!

Cutting through the night
And we find the seeds of lust
And lose our minds on one intent
These passions never seem to end

Falling down the mountain
End up kissing dirt
Look a little closer
Sometimes it wouldn't hurt
 
 
Tom Paine's Bones
20:49 / 29.01.07
Caught in my shadow
Yeah I'm caught in my shadow

These streets used to look big
This town used to look like a city
These people used to talk to me

But now I'm caught in my shadow
Oh yeah I'm caught in my shadow

Offer me the bait and I'd take it
Offer me the cake and I'd bake it
Usually I'd try to fake it
But these days I'd rather face it
Offer me the bait and I'd take it
Offer me the cake and I'd bake it
Generally I'd try to fake it
But these days I'd rather face it

Caught in my shadow
Oh yeah I'm caught in my shadow

If it's not enough I gave my blood
My sweat my tears and all I said I would

Oh yeah I'm caught in my shadow
Yeah I'm caught in my shadow
Oh yeah I'm caught in my shadow
Leaves me behind
Yeah I'm caught in my shadow
Leaving me blind
 
 
Kali, Queen of Kitteh
14:51 / 30.01.07
Someone else likes the Wonderstuff??? Yay!
 
 
Quantum
15:09 / 30.01.07
Who doesn't?

"She's Golden but she's green
And all the things that i have seen
And all the items that i'm hoarding up the back stairs
Give 'em to me, give 'em now!
shut it up you silly cow
how could you say i'd even think that, how?

These words are not my own
they only come when i'm alone
She is loved and she is welcome in my home
These words are not my own
they only come when i'm alone
She is loved and she is welcome in my home

She's taken all my vitamins
Used up my lighter fuel
i'm sure she stole all of my pencil lead in school
Don't flap i'll give it back
But woman its not the lack of my possesions
That is making me feel cruel

(chorus)

And if she loves me
she'll say that she loves me
Lies will shine in her eyes
And if she loves me
she'll say that she loves me
Even lies will shine in her eyes"/i>
 
 
Kali, Queen of Kitteh
15:18 / 30.01.07
Believe me, I could ask twelve people I consider to be fairly knowledgable about music and ask them if they had heard of the Wonderstuff and I would just get a blank look.
 
 
Kali, Queen of Kitteh
15:27 / 30.01.07
In any case, this is the song I have for someone whom I absolutely without a doubt adore, whom it's becoming increasingly hard to live without.

Take it, Ryan Adams, you talented douchebag!

Trust is a weird thing
Make you crazy
Make you jealous
Make you wish you hadn't said a thing

And I guess I have been mean
But I'm only second guessing you
Cause you won't even let me through

And I want to be happy
And I only want you
If you think that I'm crazy
I'm just crazy 'bout you
Crazy 'bout you

And love is a wonderful thing
Make you wanna
Make you need to
Make you wish you hadn't said a thing

Baby I have been mean
But I'm only second guessing you
Cause you won't even let me through

And I want to be happy
And I only want you
If you think that I'm crazy
I'm just crazy 'bout you
Crazy 'bout you

Baby I want you
Honey I need you
I know you want to
I can feel you

And I want to be happy
And I only want you
If you think that I'm crazy
I'm just crazy 'bout you
Crazy 'bout you
 
 
Triplets
00:56 / 02.02.07
This is our last dance
This is ourselves
Under Pressure
 
 
Kali, Queen of Kitteh
17:12 / 02.02.07
When I'm walkin' under stars
I covet all the waning hours
All the lonely houses stand like monuments
To thieves

When I'm walkin' in the dark
I'm free to covet all I want
You've made it all so very dangerous
I can't stay away

When I'm walkin' under trees
I'm free to covet all I please
New moons in the alley
And it's madness calls to me

Tonight, tonight, tonight...

If I meet you in the night
You're free to covet all you like
Don't you try and stop me
I cling tightly...to this life

Neko Case
 
 
Kali, Queen of Kitteh
19:29 / 06.02.07
You say you wanna go there,
Ride then-
I did- and I loved it-
Say you don't wanna be here,
Leave then-
Time comes , to get gone
Say good morning to another set
Of creature
My dear, I'm gone-she said-

You wanna go for a ride?
I got sixteen hours to burn
And i'm gonna stay up all night-

Tell your mama fever come
Back again
Look what you started-
And break it eazy to your boyfriend
She said-
You wanna go for a ride?
I got thirteen hours to burn
And i'm gonna stay up all night

She said-she said
You wanna go for a ride?
I got no more money to burn
And i'm gonna stay up all night

Twilight Singers
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
00:22 / 16.02.07
it don't matter
when you turn
gonna survive
live and learn
I've been thinkin' 'bout you, baby
by the light of dawn
and in my blues
day and night
I've been missin' you
I've been thinkin' 'bout you, baby
come live with me

and either way
win or lose
when you're born into trouble
you live the blues
I've been thinkin' 'bout you, baby
see it almost makes me crazy

nothing's right
without you here
I'd give all that I have
just to have you near
I wrote you a letter
I tried to make it clear
you don't seem to think
that I'm sincere
I've been thinkin' 'bout you, baby
come live with me

plans and schemes
hopes and fears
dreams I've denied for all these years
I've been thinkin' 'bout you, baby
come live with me

nothing's right
without you here
I'd give all that I have
just to have you near
I wrote you a letter
I tried to make it clear
you don't seem to think
that I'm sincere
I've been thinkin' 'bout you, baby
come live with me
 
 
Jack Fear
01:50 / 16.02.07
(Christ, I love that song.)
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
07:49 / 16.02.07
(But which version? To the covers thread!)
 
 
Kali, Queen of Kitteh
16:21 / 16.02.07
I like the Mark Lanegan version. He performed it at the last Twilight Singers show.
 
 
Kali, Queen of Kitteh
16:39 / 16.02.07
It was crime at the time but the laws, we changed 'em, though the hero for hire's forever the same one
Introducing for the first time, Pharaoh on the microphone
Sing all hail, what'll be revealed today when we peer into the great unknown, from the line to the throne? Awakened to cheers after years on the faultline, we are shocked to be here in the face of the meantime
Pharaoh, all your methods have taught me is to separate my blood from bone
It will all fail, feeling what I feel today, when we peer into the great unknown, from the line to the throne
Form a line through here, form a line to the throne
Alone in the chain, it remains to be seen how, how well you can play when the pawn takes a queen now
Introducing for the first time, Pharaoh on the microphone
Sing all hail, what'll be revealed today when we peer into the great unknown, from the line to the throne? Form a line through here, form a line to the throne
It was crime at the time but the laws have changed, yeah


New Pornographers
 
 
Ticker
16:45 / 16.02.07
Sekasekasekaseka-system
Sekasekasekaseka-system
System
System system system system

The system is down

The system is down

The system is down
The system is down
The system is down
Down down down down

They're taking over!
They're taking over!
The system is taking over
The system is taking over
The system is taking over
A dance revolution!

Dance revolution!
The system is taking
The system is taking
The system is taking
Taking

Dancing robots
Dancing robots
Dancing robots

Robots
Dancing robots
Dancing robots
Robots
Robots
Taking system
FOOTBALL!

-Strong Bad

Ok, mostly I'm in the mood to dance.
  
 
Quantum
18:01 / 19.02.07
(To the tune of "Ridin'" by Chamillionaire and Krayzie Bone.)

I wanna roll with the gangstas
But so far they all think I'm too
White and nerdy

First in my class here at MIT
Got skills, I'm a champion at D&D
M.C. Escher, that's my favorite M.C.
Keep your 40, I'll just have an Earl Grey tea
My rims never spin, to the contrary
You'll find that they're quite stationary
All of my action figures are Cherry
Stephen Hawking's in my library

My MySpace page is all totally pimped out
Got people beggin' for my top eight spaces
Yo, I know pi to a thousand places
Ain't got no grills but I still wear braces
I order all of my sandwiches with mayonnaise
I'm a wiz at Minesweeper, I could play for days
Once you've see my sweet moves, you're gonna stay amazed
My fingers movin' so fast I'll set the place ablaze

There's no killer app I haven't run (run)
At Pascal, well I'm number one (one)
Do vector calculus just for fun
I ain't got a gat, but I got a soldering gun (what?)
Happy Days is my favorite theme song
I could sure kick your butt in a game of ping pong
I'll ace any trivia quiz you bring on
I'm fluent in JavaScript as well as Klingon

Here's the part I sing on...

You see me roll on my segway I know in my heart they think I'm
White and nerdy

I'd like to roll with the gangstas
Although it's apparent I'm too
White and nerdy

I been browsin', inspectin' X-Men comics
You know I collect 'em
The pens in my pocket, I must protect them
My ergonomic keyboard never leaves me bored
Shoppin' online for deals on some writable media
I edit Wikipedia
I memorized Holy Grail really well
I can recite it right now and have you R-O-T-F-L-O-L

I got a business doing websites (websites)
When my friends need some code, who do they call?
I do HTML for 'em all
Even made a homepage for my dog, yo
I got myself a fanny pack
They were havin' a sale down at The Gap
Spend my nights with a roll of bubble wrap
Pop, pop - hope no one sees me gettin' freaky

I'm nerdy in the extreme
whiter than sour cream
I was in AV club and glee club
And even the chess team
Only question I ever thought was hard
Was "Do I like Kirk or do I like Picard?"
Spend every weekend at the Renaissance Fair
Got my name on my underwear

They see me strollin', they're laughin'
And rollin' their eyes cause I'm so
White and nerdy

I wanna bowl with the gangstas
But oh well, it's obvious I'm
White and nerdy

Weird Al Yankovic
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
19:17 / 19.02.07
Almost as hilarious as Mad Magazine.
 
 
grant
19:31 / 19.02.07
You should see the video.
 
 
Shrug
23:50 / 19.02.07
Here's another speech you wish I'd swallow
Another cue for you to fold your ears
Another train of thought too hard to follow
 
 
Quantum
04:39 / 20.02.07
Almost as hilarious as Mad Magazine.

What, Flyboy, worry?
 
 
Kali, Queen of Kitteh
14:32 / 20.02.07
It looks a dream
And feels the same
I could conquer it
And still feel sane
The soft hills and shores
Beguiled and silent nights
The sun waits softly
We talk a lot
Too much to say
We're still too proud

It looks a dream
And feels the same
I could conquer it
And still feel sane

The people best
Are simple here
And thoughts escape me
No fear, no judge
No burning fear
Their eyes don't pierce
Slowly worked
Smoke ringed arms
It's too hot to mention
Slowly worked
Smoke ringed arms
Luck turned an ear

I shout to time that nothing stays
Nothing lasts and damn to change
Though then I read a book a line
Which says we sleep in blind sublime
Deaf and dumb in human lands
To break and free needs different hands
To pull us to a different space
Where things are wider, out of place

It looks a dream
And smells the same
I could conquer it
And still feel sane

It looks like a dream
And smells the same
I'd submit to it
And still feel sane
I'd submit to it
And still feel sane
I'd submit to it
And still feel sane
 
 
Matthew Fluxington
22:56 / 20.02.07
I maintain that chaos is the future
and beyond it is freedom
confusion is next
and next after that is the truth
 
 
Jack Fear
23:21 / 20.02.07
We will walk on a hill
Red hats and blue coats and everything still
Snow will cover until
We can't tell the sky from the ground
Where are the buildings, the old wounds of mine?
Did I ever once cry
Waiting for you to arrive

Where does the time go?
Where does the time go?

Friends have moved away
One tree has come down
Another one flowers and sways
Miri was lost for five days

From upstate at school one friend writes
Everything is changing while the day sky stays blue
Changing around him and me without you
Waiting for you to arrive

Where does the time go?

Balconies and flights of wooden stairs
Down to the water at low tide
I'll carry you and
we will walk in the light
Waiting for you to arrive

Where does the time go?
Where does the time go?
 
 
Kali, Queen of Kitteh
18:04 / 21.02.07
Here's someone now who's got the muscle
His steady hand could move a mountain
Expert in bed but come on now
There must be something missing
That golden one leads a double life
You'll find out

But I don't know where you go
Do you climb into space
To the world where you live
The world where you live
So here we lie against each other
These four walls can never hold us
We're looking for wide open spaces
High above the kitchen
And we're strangers here
On our way to some other place

But I don't know where you go
Do you climb into space
To the world where you live
The world where you live
The world where you live

When friends come round
You might remember and be sad
Behind their eyes is unfamiliar
Do you climb into space
To the world where you live
The world where you live

Crowded House
 
 
Tom Paine's Bones
13:31 / 23.02.07
I blame the government
For making me this way
Bitter and twisted and crap
Bored psychopathic
At the end of the day
I blame the government for that
Poor education, death on the roads
The writing that’s not on the wall
The war in The Balkans
The war in The Falklands
It’s not like The Waltons at all

I’m the judge and the jury
Prosecution and defence
I’m the wife, the friend
The twelve angry men
And I blame them

For the child that’s abandoned
The decline in standards
Cruelty to animals and yes,
There’s no enjoyment
In mass unemployment
Ulcers, starvation and death

Underachievers
Taken by the receivers
The school leavers left on the shelf
Robbery with violence
With torture and silence
Small print, the pop charts
And everything else

I’m the judge and the jury
Prosecution and defence
I’m the wife, the friend
The twelve angry men
And I blame them

If I had the wings of a sparrow
If I had the arse of a crow
I’d fly over Whitehall tomorrow
And **** on the bastards below
It’s ugly and crude and I’m sorry
I just want you to leave me alone
You’re selling us all down The Swannee
I’m tired and I want to go home

As we disappear into the distance
The sinking ship leaving the rats
For making me bitter and twisted
I blame the government for that
 
 
Jack Fear
16:11 / 24.02.07
Everybody’s always looking for Jack
In the fire and in the water
Everybody’s always looking for Jack
In the streets and on the corners

I always wanted to be like Jack
He’s as cool as they come
Yeah I wanted to be like Jack
Still for me
he’s the one

Some day
Some day

I hear the wind blow through the long grass
I hear laughter in the night
No revelations as the years pass
and disappear from sight

As I grow older I grow younger
And every day is like a dream
I wouldn’t go back for a moment
Except for maybe...
...seventeen

Some day
Some day

Everybody’s always looking for Jack
In the fire and in the water
Everybody’s always looking for Jack
In the streets and on the corners

Even Jack, he’s always looking for Jack
He’s always in another room
And when I spoke to the woman there
She said he left this afternoon

Some day
Some day

Some day
Some day
 
 
Kali, Queen of Kitteh
20:01 / 24.02.07
I am an American aquarium drinker
I assassin down the avenue
I'm hiding out in the big city blinking
What was I thinking when I let go of you

Let's forget about the tongue-tied lightning
Let's undress just like cross-eyed strangers
This is not a joke so please stop smiling
What was I thinking when I said it didn't hurt

I want to glide through those brown eyes dreaming
Take you from the inside, baby hold on tight
You were so right when you said I've been drinking
What was I thinking when we said good night

I want to hold you in the Bible-black predawn
You're quite a quiet, domino, bury me now
Take off your band-aid 'cause I don't believe in touchdowns
What was I thinking when we said hello

I always thought that if I held you tightly
You'd always love me like you did back then
Then I fell asleep in the city kept blinking
What was I thinking when I let you back in

I am trying to break your heart
I am trying to break your heart
But still I'd be lying if I said it wasn't easy
I am trying to break your heart

Disposable Dixie cup drinker
I assassin down the avenue
I've been hiding out in the big city blinking
What was I thinking when I let go of you

(Loves you)

I'm the man who loves you

Wilco
 
 
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22:24 / 02.03.07
Recruited by the NSA, my orders to talk smooth and straight
If heads of state try to say "No", I lovingly told them "Fuck you!"
The jackals lose when I cannot (get through)
There is a windfall of profit to (get to)
You better deal or we're gonna take you down

And it goes on and on and on and it goes on and on it goes
The iron fist for blood and empire, will make you move
And it goes on and on and on and it goes on and on it goes
The iron fist for blood and empire, will make you move
So dance with me

Arbenz, Mossadeq, Allende, Roldos, Torrijos, Aristide
Elected democratically, all snuffed out by the CIA
The truth will cause your heart to seize
Shed light on the true enemy

And it goes on and on and on and it goes on and on it goes
The iron fist for blood and empire
 
 
Disco is My Class War
12:03 / 05.03.07
"Crazy", Icehouse. I'm 12 and on school camp and the boy with long hair who lives in a train carriage has lent me his Walkman with this album in it. I sit on a fence with clunky late 80s headphone on, the synthesisers tinny in my ear, watching everyone play football on the wet grass. And I'm so full of first love for the boy with the hair, and so distant, special, in the way only a teen crush can be, full of the self-importance of being in my own skin. And these are the lyrics I sing to myself. Which makes everyone laugh at me. But I know I'm still special.

I've got a pocket
full of holes
head in the clouds
the king of fools
you've got a ribbon of rainbows
the sun in your eyes
burning through
could be I'm happy and sad
could be I'm losing my head
over you

well, you've gotta be crazy, baby
to want a guy like me
yeah, you've gotta be out of your mind
crazy

So if I'm dreaming
don't wake me tonight
if this is all wrong
I don't want it right
'cause you're the one sure thing
when I get lost in the game
once again
hey, I'm a lucky guy
without a reason and I
don't understand

well, you've gotta be crazy, baby
to want a guy like me
yeah, you've gotta be out of your mind
crazy

Well, there must be some kind of mistake
to give your heart away
yeah, you've gotta be out of your mind
crazy

I've got a pocket
full of holes
head in the clouds
the king of fools
you've got a ribbon of rainbows
the sun in your eyes
burning through
could be I'm happy and sad
could be I'm losing my head
over you

well, you've gotta be crazy, baby
to want a guy like me
yeah, you've gotta be out of your mind
crazy

Well, there must be some kind of mistake
to give your heart away
yeah, you've gotta be out of your mind
crazy

well, you've gotta be crazy, baby
to want a guy like me
yeah, you've gotta be out of your mind
crazy

Well, there must be some kind of mistake
to give your heart away
yeah, you've gotta be out of your mind
crazy

well you've gotta be crazy baby
to want a guy like me
yeah, you've gotta be crazy, baby.
 
 
electric monk
12:36 / 07.03.07
I got the will to drive myself sleepless
I got the will to drive myself sleepless
I got the will to drive myself sleep

less
 
 
Kali, Queen of Kitteh
18:47 / 08.03.07
you're pretty dreamy for a boy from
long island
you should come to see me on my
western horizon
seems as though our paths were never meant to meet
but i just look at you and know you're pretty sweet

i want to set a place for you at my table
we can sit forever watching reruns on cable
take you driving in my brother's beat up car
sharing a cigarette and wish upon a star together

so you say you like my shirt
(i like your shirt)
and you say you've got a lot just like them
(i've got a lot just like them)
and i hear you wrote a song about me
by definition, a crush must hurt
and they do
and they do
just like the one i have on you

i want to set a place for you at my table
we can sit forever watching reruns on cable
seems as though our paths were never meant to meet
but i just look at you and know you're pretty sweet

so you say you like my shirt
and you say you've got a lot just like them
and i hear you wrote a song about me
by definition, a crush must hurt
and they do
and they do
just like the one i have on you

you're pretty dreamy for a boy from
long island
you should come to see me on my
western horizon
take you driving in my brother's beat up car
sharing a cigarette and wish upon a star together
 
 
Quantum
19:01 / 08.03.07
You should think of a lesson
As a weapon of love
And teach your brother
Teach your sister
Think of a lesson as a weapon in love

There´s nothing you can do
But let time tick
Stay positive and show stiff lip
Nothing you can do
But let time tick
away

I need twice as much space
And half as many things
A well written verse that I can sing
Twice as much space
And a new set of strings

These are the ghosts I made myself
I made myself
These are the ghosts I made

(The Bees)
 
 
Matthew Fluxington
14:19 / 10.03.07
my my you busted me like a robocop
strike me with your riding crop
I'm forever going celibate
tomorrow but tonight
like success knows no shame

Oh no!! She's a rejecter
I must protect myself

there's the girl that left me bitter
I want to pay some other girl
to just walk up to her and hit her
but I can't I can't I can't!!!

my my this demon heart
of the master's hand crush me
why I don't understand
and I know you're not her
cause the girl of my dreams is probably God
still I want you
 
 
Matthew Fluxington
14:23 / 10.03.07
Hey Kali, nice to see someone rep for thatdog!
 
  

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