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Lyrics of your life 2009.

Kali, Queen of Kitteh

01:17 / 11.01.09

Sour, sour grapes make bitter wine
And you're no funny Valentine
You take such pleasure in revenge
A perfect settled score
But it just whets your appetite for more

Listen how my heart beats inside me
The story of a thousand better days
And I wish I could say, anything to wash away today
'Cause it won't matter when we're old
It won't matter when we're old
It matters now

Hopes worn down, you've got dreams rubbed thin
Threadbare, like the carpet that your mother dragged in
You break it now you own it,
Like original sin
But you cannot take it with you in the state you're in

Listen how my heart beats inside me
The story of a thousand better days
And I wish I could say anything to wash away today
'Cause it won't matter when we're old
I won't matter when we're old

It matters now, it mattered then
It matters how why or when
If at first you won't try
You've gotta try again

What price love, for how much pain
What a surprise, you pray for rain

Listen how my heart beats inside me
The story of a thousand better days
And I wish I could say anything to wash away today
'Cause it won't matter when we're old
It won't matter when we're old
It matters now

Jonatha Brooke

03:18 / 11.01.09

Whatever that Loeonard Cohen song was.

Kali, Queen of Kitteh

06:02 / 11.01.09

Oh, that one. I like it too.

12:01 / 12.01.09

Lie Lie Lie Lie Lie Lie Lie Lie Lie Lie Lie Lie
They say that we can't beat the rap
Just a couple of rats without a hope and both our heads inside a trap
You wash my hands, I'll scratch your back
Because we're so dirty and we need to find
I said, some kind of kindness

Maybe there just ain't no use in trying
Every one of us is born alone and someday soon we will be dying
But don't you ever pay no mind
Because when you lie with me I feel that I
I feel some kind of kindness
You know this is no way for us
Ragged and damned at the heel
And deep down you know
There's gotta be a better life for us
Than drifting like dust through an hourglass
Waiting for our blood to congeal
That's why we're singing...

Nobody looks you in the eye
Somebody's always got their fingers in somebody else's pie
We may be cheap, but we ain't free
And we're just fighting for the right to know
To know some kind of kindness

We may be deaf, but we ain't dumb
Two more pariahs of the road without a home and on the run
We may be damned, but we're not done
'Cause the time must surely come when we will find
Maybe some kind of kindness
Yeah, this is no place for us
Stuck like sick monkeys in a zoo
Yeah, life is short
And there's gotta be a better way for us
Than sleeping down under the overpass
Dreaming that our dreams have come true
That's why we're singing...
Lie Lie Lie Lie Lie Lie Lie Lie Lie Lie Lie Lie

Kali, Queen of Kitteh

02:39 / 14.01.09

Yes I know it was late
We were greeting the sun
Before long
And you live with someone
I live with somebody too
Leave it there
For safe keeping
One of the west village in plains
That was the custom
Come dawn

On the walls of the day
In the shade of the sun
We wrote down
Another vision of us
We were the challengers of
The unknown
"Be safe" you say
Whatever the mess you are you mind okay
That is the custom
On down

Na-na na-na na-na na-na na-na
Na-na na-na na-na na-na na-na...

Until I see you around
Until we clear the accounts
Leave it there
Leave it to us
We are the challengers of
The unknown

Oh-la, oh-la, oh-la, oh-la
Oh-la, oh-la, oh-la, oh-la

New Pornographers

Kali, Queen of Kitteh

02:48 / 30.01.09

I had a dream about a dog
I was walking
In an amusement park
With people all around me

We rode the roller coaster rides
And he was laughing as we
Jumped in the sky
And i saw that i looked just like him

It's a dog's life
I wanna lead a dog's life
Run in the woods, take a hole
It's interesting to me

He showed me all the various
Scented treasures on the ground
There was a little girl
She was scared of me, and i was scared of her

He led out a bark and she screamed
Dropped her chocolate ice cream
Suddenly this old man
Chased us, still we jumped the fence

It's a dog's life
I wanna lead a dog's life
Under the couch, chew a bone
It's interesting to me

We ran across the street and there
We missed a speeding car
Suddenly this old man
Grabbed him, from around the park

I hid behind a big trash can
Wondered what's become of him
I tried to sedate
But curriosity kills me

It's a dog's life
I wanna lead a dog's life
Under a couch, chew a bone
It's interesting to me

It's a dog's life
I wanna lead a dog's life
Run in the woods, take a hole
It's interesting to me

It's a dog's life, i wanna lead
It's a dog's life, i wanna be
It's a dog's life, i wanna lead

Nina Nastasia

11:55 / 30.01.09

I'm free now, to direct a movie
sing a song, write a book
About yours truly
How I'm so interesting, I'm so great
But I'm really just a fuckup,
It's such a waste
To burn down these walls around me
Flexing like a heartbeat,
We don't like to speak; don't talk to me
for about a week
I'm sorry it just hurts to explain
There's going on that makes my guts ache
inside
I've got guilt I've got fear I've got regret
I'm just a panic stricken waste, I'm such a Jerk
But I was honest, I swear
The last thing I wanna do
Honest, I swear, the last thing I want to do
is ever cause you pain.

Kali, Queen of Kitteh

06:27 / 09.02.09

On a rooftop in Brooklyn
One in the morning
Watching the lights flash
In Manhattan
I see five bridges
The empire state building
And you said something
That I've never forgotten

We lean against railings
Describing the colours
And the smells of our homelands
Acting like lovers
How did we get here?
To this point of living?
I held my breath
And you said something

And I am doing nothing wrong
Riding in your car
Your radio playing
We sing up to the eighth floor
A rooftop, in Manhattan
One in the morning
When you said something
That I've never forgotten
When you said something
That was really important

PJ Harvey

16:53 / 09.02.09

In your white lace and your wedding bells
You look the picture of contented new wealth
But from the on-looking fool who believed your lies
I wish this grave would open up and swallow me alive
For the bitterest pill is hard to swallow
The love I gave hangs in sad coloured, mocking shadows

When the wheel of fortune broke, you fell to me
Out of grey skies to change my misery
The vacant spot, your beating heart took its place
But now I watch smoke leave my lips and fill an empty room

For the bitterest pill is hard to swallow
The love I gave hangs in sad coloured, mocking shadows

The bitterest pill is mine to take
If I took it for a hundred years, I couldn't feel any more ill

The bitterest pill is mine to take
If I took it for a hundred years, I couldn't feel any more ill

Now autumn's breeze blows summer's leaves through my life
Twisted and broken dawn, no days with sunlight
The dying spark, you left your mark on me
The promise of your kiss, but with someone else

For the bitterest pill is mine to swallow
The love I gave hangs in sad coloured, mocking shadows

The bitterest pill is mine to take
If I took it for a hundred years, I couldn't feel anymore ill

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

17:25 / 09.02.09

Three shades of black is where I come from
Depression, misery and hellacious fun
No we're not the kind to turn our backs and run
Cuz three shades of black is where we come from
We are a certain breed and we don't like you
Some are junkies, some are freaks and others are everyday ghouls
No-one will ever know what we've been through
And we are proud in the light of the moon

Three shades of black
Three shades of black
We all like metal and whisky, livin' hard and chasin' down hell
We'll never give up on what we have cuz the darkness gives us our thrills

Three shades of black is where I come from
I was born into sacrifice when I was young
Three shades of black os what makes us strong
And we all wear it like a uniform of chosen ones

Three shades of black
Three shades of black
Three shades of black
We all like metal and whisky, livin' hard and chasin' down hell
We'll never give up on what we have cuz the darkness gives us our thrills
Cuz the darkness gives us our thrills

Three Shades Of Black, Hank Williams III

01:40 / 10.02.09

I've grown up here now
All of my life
But I dreamed
Someday I'd go
Where blue eyed girls
And red guitars and
Naked rivers flow
I'm not all I thought I'd be
I always stayed around
I've been as far as Mercy and Grand
Frozen to the ground
I can't stay here and I'm scared to leave
(Just kiss me once and then)
I'll go to hell
I might as well
Be whistlin' down the wind

Kali, Queen of Kitteh

01:36 / 25.02.09

This is a start
that I know I'll believe in
so I'm leavin' everything behind
Keeping the parts
that I know I'll be needing
and I breed to be a better kind
And I'm leavin' everyone behind

This is the age
when my past should be gone
but it's just stronger than the aims I have
Turning the pages
I used to hang on to
I was young and I have changed my mind
And I'm leaving everything behind

New beginning again
a bit closer
new beginning again
a little bit closer
New beginning again
a bit closer to the end

This is the time
it's a delicate line
to the beginning of what's yet to come
Lifetimes of changes
a strange generation
explanations never come in time
So I'm leavin' everything behind

The Cardigans

11:20 / 11.03.09

High,
21st of July,
You know the thought is all wrong,
but the feeling is right.
Say,
on the 19th of May,
turn it on close the door,
and then set to ignore.

Hey, where did you come from?
And why don’t you stay where you belong?
Think, everyone that you kiss,
do they cease2xist when you stop being missed?

You live
in someone else’s song.
Have you been there too long,
or not long enough?
Yes, what did you leave behind?
Another weekend expires,
with no definite signs.

Hey, where did you come from?
And why don’t you stay where you belong?
Think, everyone that you kiss,
do they cease2xist when you stop being missed?

04:02 / 04.04.09

This song
That song
The song
This song yr so bored with
My life
Yr life
This life
Our lives
Yr so bored with
Anything
Everything
Everywhere
Nowhere
Yr
Bored

I don't feel strange
I don't feel anything

Yeah
My town
Yr town
Any town
Any town yr so bored with
T.V.
Radio
Video
Audio
Bored

My life
Yr life
This life
Our lives
Yr
Bored

I don't feel strange
I don't feel anything

Don't know you
And I don't think I ever will
This product really sucks
We aren't ever sitting

07:00 / 06.04.09

One too many mornings, by Bob Dylan

Down the street the dogs are barkin'
And the day is a-gettin' dark.
As the night comes in a-fallin',
The dogs 'll lose their bark.
An' the silent night will shatter
From the sounds inside my mind,
For I'm one too many mornings
And a thousand miles behind.

From the crossroads of my doorstep,
My eyes they start to fade,
As I turn my head back to the room
Where my love and I have laid.
An' I gaze back to the street,
The sidewalk and the sign,
And I'm one too many mornings
An' a thousand miles behind.

It's a restless hungry feeling
That don't mean no one no good,
When ev'rything I'm a-sayin'
You can say it just as good.
You're right from your side,
I'm right from mine.
We're both just one too many mornings
An' a thousand miles behind.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

20:28 / 06.04.09

Apologies in advance for the bold and caps (yeah, I know, cruise control for cool- it just doesn't work in lower case).

I THINK THAT SOMEONE'S TRYING TO KILL ME
INFECTING MY BODY, DESTROYING MY MIND
NO MAN OF THE FLESH COULD EVER STOP ME
THIS FIGHT FOR THE FISH IS A FIGHT TO THE DEATH

WHITE WHALE
HOLY GRAIL
WHITE WHALE
HOLY GRAIL

WHAT REMORSELESS EMPEROR COMMANDS ME?
I NO LONGER GOVERN MYSELF
I AM COMPLETELY IMMERSED IN DARKNESS
AS I TURN MY BODY AWAY FROM THE SUN

WHITE WHALE
HOLY GRAIL
WHITE WHALE
HOLY GRAIL

SPLIT YOUR LUNGS WITH BLOOD AND THUNDER
WHEN YOU SEE THE WHITE WHALE
BREAK YOUR BACKS AND CRACK YOUR OARS, MEN
IF YOU WISH TO PREVAIL
THIS IVORY LEG IS WHAT PROPELS ME
HARPOONS THRUST IN THE SKY!!!
AIM DIRECTLY FOR HIS CROOKED BROW
AND LOOK HIM STRAIGHT IN THE EYE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Every day. Every fucking day. This is my life. FUCK YEAH SEAKING.