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Lyrics of your life 2008

  
  

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HCE
21:14 / 28.07.08
What’s up directors? Grab your knives!
It’s time to take all all of the lives
Of the people who cannot see
The somnolent genius of Tarkovsky
 
 
Disco is My Class War
10:04 / 31.07.08
The room is cold and has been like this for several months
If I close my eyes I can visualise everything in it right down
Right down to the broken handle on the third drawer down of the dressing table
And the world outside this room has also assumed a familiar shape
The same events stuffed in a slightly different order each day
Just like a modern shopping centre
And it's so cold
Yeah it's so cold
 
 
Kali, Queen of Kitteh
03:22 / 03.08.08
They always catch me when I fall, this band:

The lights were low but I was lower
The radio was playing somewhere else
The room was full of surface tension
I was only thinking ‘bout myself
No baby I
No baby I
No baby I don’t want to see you hurt
You got them tears they fall like pearls
Blame it on gravity, yeah
Blame it on being a girl
The room was full of undertakers
Movers and martini shakers gone
The reaper left at 7:30
Took off in a taxi with a blonde
The difference between us
Is way down on the inside
It’s very tricky business
No baby I
No baby I
No baby I don’t want to see you hurt
You got them tears
They fall like pearls
Blame it on gravity, yeah
Blame it on being a girl
Blame it on gravity, yeah
Blame it on being a girl
Here’s a toast to no good Friday
I was bound to do it my way wrong
Strum it on a telecaster
Sing it like a train disaster song
The difference between us
Is way down on the inside
And it’s very tricky business
No baby I
No baby I
No baby I don’t want to see you hurt
You got them tears they fall like pearls
Blame it on gravity, yeah
Blame it on being a girl
Blame it on gravity, yeah
Blame it on being a girl
 
 
Kali, Queen of Kitteh
03:54 / 03.08.08
And this same band sang this to me when I turned 27 at their show at Atlanta's Roxy. I'm singing in my head, but that's how adoration goes:

I think Rhett is right. This song was more me than he ever intended before he met me all those years ago. He wrote beforehand.

well you can tell it to the radio
tell it to the television
they are not listening
they are only machines
i could sit around all day worrying and wishing
i was one of them
so you can tell it to me
talking to you girl is like long division, yeah

i've been trying to find you
may i remind you, i'm under oath now
i've been trying to see you
cuz i can see you, want the truth now
i've been trying to tell you
that i can tell you are
a singular girl
you got the teeth of the hydra upon you
singular girl, singular girl

well you can blame it on the moonlight
blame it on plate tectonics
you thought i wasn't listening but i was
talk about attraction
talk about electronics
well you are the reason
you are because
talking to you girl is like long division, yeah

i've been trying to find you
may i remind you, i'm under oath now
i've been trying to see you
cuz i can see you, want the truth now
i've been trying to tell you
that i can tell you are
a singular girl
you got the teeth of the hydra upon you
singular girl, singular girl

talking to you girl is like long division, yeah
i've been trying to find you
may i remind you, i'm under oath now
i've been trying to see you
cuz i can see you, want the truth now
i've been trying to tell you
that i can tell you are
a singular girl
you got the teeth of the hydra upon you
singular girl, singular girl
singular girl
you got the teeth of the hydra upon you
singular girl, singular girl
 
 
HCE
14:53 / 06.08.08
Dressed smart like a London bloke
Before he speak his suit bespoke
 
 
electric monk
12:53 / 21.08.08
Just because I'm losing
Doesn't mean I'm lost
Doesn't mean I'll stop
Doesn't mean I will cross

Just because I'm hurting
Doesn't I'm hurt
Doesn't mean I didn't get
What I deserve
No better and no worse

I just got lost
Every river that I tried to cross
And every door I ever tried was locked
Oh, and I'm
Just waiting till the shine wears off
Oh, and I'm
Just waiting till the shine wears off

You might be a big fish
in a little pond
Doesn't mean you've won
Cuz along may come
A bigger one

And you'll get lost
Every river that you try to cross
Every gun you ever held went off
Oh and I'm
Just waiting till the firing stops
Oh and I'm
Just waiting till the shine wears off

Oh and I'm
Just waiting till the shine wears off
Oh and I'm
Just waiting till the shine wears off
 
 
dark horse
13:50 / 21.08.08
Freezin', rests his head on a pillow made of concrete, again
Oh, Feelin' maybe he'll see a little better, set a days, ooh yeah
Oh, hand out, faces that he sees time again ain't that familiar, oh yeah
Oh, dark grin, he can't help, when he's happy looks insane, oh yeah
Even flow, thoughts arrive like butterflies
Oh, he don't know, so he chases them away
Someday yet, he'll begin his life again
Life again, life again...
Kneelin', looking through the paper though he doesn't know to read, ooh yeah
Oh, prayin', now to something that has never showed him anything
Oh, feelin', understands the weather of the winters on its way
Oh, ceilings, few and far between all the legal halls of shame, yeah
Even flow, thoughts arrive like butterflies
Oh, he don't know, so he chases them away
Someday yet, he'll begin his life again
Whispering hands, gently lead him away
Him away, him away...
Yeah!
Woo...ah yeah...fuck it up...
Even flow, thoughts arrive like butterflies
Oh, he don't know, so he chases them away
Someday yet, he'll begin his life again, yeah
Oh, whispering hands, gently lead him away
Him away, him away...
Yeah!
Woo...uh huh...yeah, yeah, mommy, mommy...
 
 
Eek! A Freek!
15:40 / 21.08.08
Buk, Buk, Buk, Buk of Earl
Buk, Buk, Buk of Earl
Buk, Buk, Buk of Earl

Buk, Buk, Buk of Earl
Buk, Buk, Buk of Earl
Buk, Buk, Buk of Earl
Buk, Buk, Buk of Earl

As I walk through this world
Nothing can stop the Buk of Earl
And you, you are my girl
And no one can hurt you, oh no
Yes, I'm gonna love you
Come on let me hold you darlin'
'Cause I'm the Buk of Earl

And when I hold you
You will be my Buchess, Buchess of Earl
We'll walk through my Bukdom
And the paradise we will share

Yes, oh, I
I'm gonna love you
Nothing can stop me now
'Cause I'm the Buk of Earl

Buk, Buk, Buk of Earl
Buk, Buk, Buk of Earl
Buk, Buk, Buk of Earl

I'm gonna love you
Nothing can stop me now
'Cause I'm the Buk of Earl


I am so sorry. That's not an excuse, but I am... The song is now lodged in my head and I have to let it out.

Buk: Not quite sure what that means but I agree. I would love to hear some alternatives. If someone held a gun to your head and demanded a better set of lyrics than these what would you come up with?
 
 
imaginary mice
07:03 / 22.08.08
And people have the nerve to tell me that they’re lonely
People have the nerve to tell me that they’re lonely
People have the nerve to tell me that they’re lonely
You’re not lonely
I am, baby
 
 
Tsuga
01:05 / 23.08.08
This has been in my head for a couple of days now, maybe this will purge it:

Boy, boy, crazy boy.
Get cool, boy!
Got a rocket in your pocket,
Keep coolly cool, boy!
Don't get hot,
'Cause, man, you got
Some high times ahead.
Take it slow and Daddy-o,
You can live it up and die in bed!
Boy, boy, crazy boy.
Stay loose, boy!
Breeze it, buzz it, easy does it.
Turn off the juice, boy!
Go, man, go.
But not like a yo-yo
Schoolboy
Just play it cool, boy,
Real cool!
 
 
Disco is My Class War
09:48 / 02.09.08
I am thinking it's a sign
that the freckles in our eyes are mirror images
and when we kiss they're perfectly aligned
And I have to speculate
that God himself did make
us into corresponding shapes
like puzzle pieces from the clay

true, it may seem like a stretch
but its thoughts like this that catch
my troubled head when you're away
when I am missing you to death
when you are out there on the road
for several weeks of shows
and when you scan the radio
I hope this song will guide you home

They will see us waving from such great heights,
"come down now", they'll say
but everything looks perfect from far away,
"come down now", but we'll stay...

I tried my best to leave
this all on your machine
but the persistent beat it sounded thin
upon listening
and that frankly will not fly
you will hear the shrillest highs
and lowest lows with the windows down
when this is guiding you home

They will see us waving from such great heights,
"come down now", they'll say
but everything looks perfect from far away
"come down now", but we'll stay...
 
 
GogMickGog
10:02 / 02.09.08
Not so much lyrics as that peculiar 'cuck-a-cuck-a' dance GOB does in Arrested Development, hand claps and all.

Hmm.
 
 
Triplets
16:05 / 05.09.08
Always stays the same, nothing ever changes,
English summer rain seems to last for ages.
Always stays the same, nothing ever changes,
English summer rain seems to last for ages.
 
 
Eek! A Freek!
16:15 / 05.09.08
I said mama, he's crazy and he scares me
But I want him by my side
Though he's wild and he's bad
And sometimes just plain mad
I need him to keep me satisfied

I said papa, don't cry cause its alright
And I see you in some of his ways
Though he might not give me the life that you wanted
I'll love him the rest of my days

Misguided angel hangin over me
Heart like a gabriel, pure and white as ivory
Soul like a lucifer, black and cold like a piece of lead
Misguided angel, love you till I'm dead

I said brother, you speak to me of passion
You said never to settle for nothing less
Well, it's in the way he walks,
It's in the way he talks
His smile, his anger and his kisses

I said sister, don't you understand?
He's all I ever wanted in a man
I'm tired of sittin around the t.v. every night
Hoping I'll find a mister right

Misguided angel hangin over me
Heart like a gabriel, pure and white as ivory
Soul like a lucifer
Black and cold like a piece of lead
Misguided angel, love you till I'm dead

He says baby, don't listen to what they say
There comes a time when you have to break away
He says baby there are things we all cling to all our life
It's time to let them go and become my wife

Misguided angel hangin over me
Heart like a gabriel, pure and white as ivory
Soul like a lucifer
Black and cold like a piece of lead
Misguided angel, love you till I'm dead
 
 
Eek! A Freek!
12:02 / 15.09.08
Come gather around me. Space travelers surround me.
Hark now to the ballad of Rocket Robin Hood.
I may well confound you, astound you, spellbound you,
with heroes and villains, the bad and the good.
Watch now as our rockets race here from afar.
For now, with our Robin, we live on a star.

Three. Two. One. Blast off!
Band of brothers, marching together.
Heads held high in all kinds of weather.
With fiery blasts, our roaring rockets rise,
beyond the Earth, beyond the skies!
At the side of Robin, take your stand,
with the gallant leader of our band.
Send a joyous shout throughout the land!
For Rocket Robin Hood!
 
 
Mistoffelees
21:37 / 21.09.08
I've got my own moral compass to steer by
A guiding star beats a spirit in the sky
And all the preaching voices -
Empty vessels ring so loud
As they move among the crowd
Fools and thieves are well disguised
In the temple and market place (...)

Like the willows in the wind
Or the cliffs along the ocean
I will quietly resist

I don't have faith in faith
I don't believe in belief
You can call me faithless
I still cling to hope
And I believe in love
And that's faith enough for me

I've got my own spirit level for balance
To tell if my choice is leaning up or down
And all the shouting voices
Try to throw me off my course
Some by sermon, some by force
Fools and thieves are dangerous
In the temple and market place

Like a forest bows to winter
Beneath the deep white silence
I will quietly resist (...)
 
 
Shrug
01:27 / 22.09.08
I am lying in my bed
Watching spider eat the fly
I say: "How is that is breakfast TV for you"
A little later I'm sitting by the window looking out
The red army is really blowing up the street

I'm too stale to eat breakfast
So I smell my fingertips
A cup of coffee won't do for me

How days creep by in the greying sky
How days creep by and they never even try
How days creep by in the greying sky
How days creep by

Guess it's time for a walk
Just to read some license plates
What is autumn doing creeping up to me
Going on the tube to scream when the train arrives
Rubbing cress on my skin, God it smells so nice
All the same I'd think I'll go on rolling up the hill
If I'm lucky you won't see me

How days creep by in the greying sky
How days creep by come and ask me why
How days creep by in the greying sky
How days creep by

Did you know that tuna fish
Float up to the surface
Belly to the moonlight just to cool down their heart down
'Cause it helps them just to think about the hurtful things
I guess it's just one wait to get them some sedation

How days creep by - In the greying sky
How days creep by - And they definitely die
How days creep by - In the greying sky
How days creep by

How days creep by - And they definitely die
How days creep by come and ask me why
How days creep by
How days creep by
How days creep by
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
20:09 / 03.10.08
y'all better vote for barack o'drama
a black president and shit
oh this shit fucked up out here
ain't no work, ain't no jobs
we still got bills though
best believe
but through it all... what they want homie?

they want that young shit
that dumb shit... that where you from shit
that ride around your hood all day with your gun shit
all i got to my name is two bricks and one felony
"you going back to jail!" that's what my conscience keep on telling me
i really ain't buying all this bullshit they selling me
when the government throwing more curves than the letter C
i said the letter C i guess that's for correctional
they try to box me in, sit me still like a vegetable

god damn another trap i think Bush is trying to punish us
send a little message out to each and every one of us
real g shit, well that's really unheard of
when you get more time for selling dope than murder
in this crazy world

this world keeps spinning yeah my rims still spinning
even though the money slow we still spending
in this crazy world
as this world keep turning yeah my blunt's still burning
same thing different day still burning
in this crazy world
and this dope's still selling and these n____s still telling
will you make it through the day? it's no telling
in this crazy world (yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah)
in this crazy world

when i was fourteen i turned nothing to a quarter mill
probably why i never give a fuck about a record deal
and i ain't never tried the shit imagine how that white feel
but that don't even matter though, trying to pay the light bill
light bill, phone bill plus my granny nerve bills
feel like i should be taking off imagine how my nerves feel
i want a new bently and my aunty need a kidney
and if i let her pass her children never will forgive me

god damn another trap i think Bush is trying to punish us
send a little message out to each and every one of us
real g shit, well that's really unheard of
when you get more time for selling dope than murder
in this crazy world

this world keeps spinning yeah my rims still spinning
even though the money slow we still spending
in this crazy world
as this world keep turning yeah my blunt's still burning
same thing different day it's still burning
in this crazy world
said this dope's still selling and these n____s still telling
will you make it through the day? it's no telling
in this crazy world (yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah)
in this crazy world

i ain't a x box so why you n____s trying to play with me
i really be the streets so what you n____s got to say to me
cant be much cant be much (why?) cuz i ain't listening
i just left the hood and i'll be damned if they ain't feeling 'im
want to see me fall off guess that just the way it be
old school triple beam i'm using that the way it be
and plus i got a driver that get them things from a to b
soon as you get your money right they hit you with conspiracy

this world keeps spinning yeah my rims still spinning
even though the money slow we still spending
in this crazy world
as this world keep turning yeah my blunt's still burning
same thing different day it's still burning
in this crazy world
said this dope's still selling and these n____s still telling
will you make it through the day? it's no telling
in this crazy world (yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah)
in this crazy world

that's what i said
i said yeah
we can't even pay our bills around this motherfucker
you steady building condos and shit
you know? damn!
there goes another, they just built another one, ahaha
y'all don't see it though, i see it!
for real! it's still fucked up out here, it's the recession
ain't nothin' movin', nothin'
in this crazy world
 
 
Kali, Queen of Kitteh
01:33 / 28.10.08
I Google you
late at night when I don’t know what to do
I find photos
you’ve forgotten
you were in
put up by your friends

I Google you
when the day is done and everything is through
I read your journal
that you kept
that month in France
I’ve watched you dance

And I’m pleased your name is practically unique
it’s only you and
a would-be PhD in Chesapeake
who writes papers on
the structure of the sun
I’ve read each one

I know that I
should let you fade
but there’s that box
and there’s your name
somehow it never makes the pain
grow less or fade or disappear
I think that I should save my soul and
I should crawl back in my hole
But it’s too easy just to fold
and type your name again
I fear
I google you
Whenever I’m alone and feeling blue
And each scrap of information
That I gather
says you’ve got somebody new
And it really shouldn’t matter
ought to blow up my computer
but instead….
I google you
 
 
Kali, Queen of Kitteh
22:58 / 07.11.08
I was born to laugh
I learned to laugh through my tears
I was born to love
I'm gonna learn to love without fear

Pour me a glass of wine
Talk deep into the night
Who knows what we'll find

Intuition, deja vu
The Holy Ghost haunting you
Whatever you got
I don't mind

Put your elbows on the table
I'll listen long as I am able
There's nowhere I'd rather be

Secret fears, the supernatural
Thank God for this new laughter
Thank God the joke's on me

We've seen the landfill rainbow
We've seen the junkyard of love
Baby it's no place for you and me

I was born to laugh
I learned to laugh through my tears
I was born to love
I'm gonna learn to love without fear

Over the Rhine
 
 
Kali, Queen of Kitteh
03:18 / 08.11.08
So I'm drive up the freeway,

finally on the road and on my way.

I'm going 90, 95

and as the city lights fade, I start to feel more alive

and he's sleeping sound in the passenger seat

so I ride the center line, avoid the bumps

and I let him be.



This woman on the radio is singing about her long lost love

and how she makes it on her own.

My mind begins to wonder

I wonder if I'll ever find a place that I can call home

and I want to talk about the future now

but he's sleeping sound

so I ride the line and I let him be



and I don't know where this long road ends

can't remember when we crossed that line between lovers and friends

I need some consolation

just give me a conversation

tell me that we took the right turn



the sun is going down over sleepy country towns

and he stirs and looks around

and I start to say something but it comes out as nothing

and he just smiles and goes back down

and the world outside begins to blur

all these things left unsaid make my stomach churn

and I wonder if I'll ever have the nerve



but I ride the line, and I let him be

Julie Moffitt
 
 
Pingle!Pop
14:32 / 10.11.08
A song on the radio
Makes you shiver
And want to curl into a ball
Makes you want to be
Seventeen
And forget the future’s shrinking

Life was so open then
Now it’s closing in
Life was wide open then
Now it’s closing in
One by one
We’ve watched our dreams
Disappearing

Two girls against the world
Summer nights warm and long
Sleeping all day
So many songs
The shadow cast by long ago
Puts a lump within your throat
A girl whose favourite thing is snow
Snow and being alone

The ocean between us can’t
Take away the past
The ocean between us won’t
Take away the past
There’s a place all we shared
Shines unimpaired

Time flies
Swift as an arrow
The dagger of never trodden paths
Photographs they break my heart
Ambushed by the thought-”I don’t recognize her”
I miss you! I miss her!

Life was so open then
Now it’s closing in
Life was wide open then
Now it’s closing in
One by one
We’ve watched our dreams
Disappearing

But the ocean between us can’t
Take away the past
The ocean between us won’t
Take away the past
There’s a place all we shared
Shines unimpaired

*Sniffs*
 
 
Panic
16:14 / 16.11.08
Put your big toe in the milk of human kindness
Have you ever seen the like of this mankind?
If a boy or girl is cute, we simply shoot to starry heights
Any maybe, any might

But always so capricious, in the face of wonder we're suspicious
And though we came from frogs and fishes
Our taste is far from fine
Put your big toe in the milk of human kindness

Put your big toe in the milk of human kindness
Have you ever seen the like of this mankind?
You take the Himalayas, you'll take Manhattan's finest mountain top
He wouldn't change his whiskey sour for any bitter crop

But always so contrary, from Father Christmas to the Virgin Mary
And though the moments of belief
Fly by before you find if you'd just unhand your mind
Put your big toe in the milk of human kindness

But always so contrary, from Father Christmas to the Virgin Mary
And though the moments of belief
Fly by before you find if you'd just unhand your mind
Put your big toe in the milk of human kindness
 
 
Kali, Queen of Kitteh
06:08 / 16.12.08
I was on your porch, the smoke sank into my skin so i came inside to be with you and we talked all night, about everything
We could imagine cause come the morning ill be gone and as our eyes start to close i turn to you and i let you know that i
Love you well my dad was sick and my mom she cared for him her love it nursed him back to life and me i ran, i couldnt even
Look at him for fear id have to say goodbye and as i start to leave he grabs me by the shoulder and he tells me whats


left
To lose, youve done enough and if you fail well then you fail but not to us cause these last three years, i know theyve been
Hard but now its time to get out of the desert and into the sun even if its alone so now here i sit, in a hotel off of
Sunset my thoughts bounce off of sams guitar and thats the way its been, ever since we were kids but now, now weve got
Something to prove and i, i can see there eyes but tell me something, can they see mine cause whats left to lose, ive done
Enough and if i fail well then i fail but i gave it a shot and these last three years, i know theyve been hard but now its
Time to get out of the desert and into the sun even if its alone i was on your porch last nite, the smoke it sank into my
Skin/

The Format.
(I've no idea who they really are but I heard this song and love it)
 
 
Pingle!Pop
14:23 / 16.12.08
Pure as vodka. Pure as snow.
She kisses like it's a terrorist act.
"Everything's about ghosts, you know,"
She said, then dressed, then packed.
 
 
Liger Null
00:58 / 25.12.08
Look at me, look at me
hands in the air like it's good to be
ALIVE
and I'm a famous rapper
even when the paths're all crookedy
I can show you how to do-si-do
I can show you how to scratch a record
I can take apart the remote control
And I can almost put it back together
I can tie a knot in a cherry stem
I can tell you about Leif Ericson
I know all the words to "De Colores"
And "I'm Proud to be an American"
Me and my friend saw a platypus
Me and my friend made a comic book
And guess how long it took
I can do anything that I want cuz, look:

I can keep rhythm with no metronome
No metronome
No metronome

I can see your face on the telephone
On the telephone
On the telephone

Look at me
Look at me
Just called to say that it's good to be
ALIVE
In such a small world
All curled up with a book to read
 
 
iamus
04:06 / 30.12.08
Lost my left hand!
Cannot play guitar!
What can I do?

Dissatisfaction, oh!

Please fix my hand!
Cannot drink beer!
Help yourself!

Dissatisfaction, oh!
Woah-oh! Woah-oh-oh! Woah-oh!

Oh dear me! What the hell gives?


Shizuka, Shizuka, Shizuka is...
Shizuka, Shizuka, Shizuka is...
Shizuka, Shizuka, Shizuka is MACHINE DOCTOR!


Thank you for helping me!
I can play guitar now!
But something's wrong!
What shall I do?

Woah-oh! Woah-oh-oh! Woah-oh!

Oh no, it's happened again!


Shizuka, Shizuka, Shizuka is...
Shizuka, Shizuka, Shizuka is...
Shizuka, Shizuka, Shizuka is MACHINE DOCTOR!

Shizuka, Shizuka, Shizuka is...
Shizuka, Shizuka, Shizuka is...
Shizuka, Shizuka, Shizuka is MACHINE DOCTOR!



Shizuka, Shizuka, Shizuka is...
Shizuka, Shizuka, Shizuka is...
Shizuka, Shizuka, Shizuka is MACHINE DOCTOR!

Shizuka, Shizuka, Shizuka is...
Shizuka, Shizuka, Shizuka is...
Shizuka, Shizuka, Shizuka is MACHINE DOCTOR!



KINDNESS DOCTOR!

SHE WORKS FAST TICK-TOCK!
 
  

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