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The All-New, All-Different LYRICS O YR LIFE!

 
  

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The Return Of Rothkoid
20:02 / 18.02.02
Oh, better far to live and die
Under the brave black flag I fly,
Than play a sanctimonious part
With a pirate head and a pirate heart.
Away to the cheating world go you,
Where pirates all are well-to-do;
But I'll be true to the song I sing,
And live and die a Pirate King.
For I am a Pirate King!
And it is, it is a glorious thing
To be a Pirate King!
For I am a Pirate King!
You are - hurrah for the Pirate King!
And it is, it is a glorious thing
To be a Pirate King...
 
 
Matthew Fluxington
09:35 / 19.02.02
side to side,
with the tired smile cut into your face,
you let me down for the second time straight
---------------------------------------------
people in the know
are just people in the know
bless them on their sins, and all go home
---------------------------------------------
I don't remember lying
I don't remember a line
I don't remember word
but I don't care
I care
I really don't care
 
 
bitchiekittie
10:10 / 19.02.02
never a more perfect bit appeared at a more appropriate time in my life:

it wouldn't have worked out any way
so now it's just another lonely day
further along we just may
but for now it's just another lonely day

wish there was something
I could say or do
I can resist anything
but temptation from you
but I'd rather walk alone
than chase you around
I'd rather fall myself
than let you drag me down

it wouldn't have worked out any way
and now it's just another lonely day
further along we just may
but for now it's just another lonely day

yesterday seems like a life ago
cause the one I love
today I hardly know
you I held so close in my heart oh dear
grow further from me
with every fallen tear

it wouldn't have worked out any way
so now it's just another lonely day
further along we just may
but for now it's just another lonely day
 
 
Captain Zoom
10:28 / 21.02.02
Don't you ever wonder if this will to win is a weakness?
Don't you ever wonder...


Marillion - "Number One"

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nikon driver
13:29 / 21.02.02
HEY! ... i've been trying to meet you

the pixies: hey!
damn, i love that song.
 
 
Captain Zoom
15:20 / 21.02.02
You could be my unintended choice
to live my life extended
you could be the one i'll always love

you could be the one who listens
to my deepest inquisitions
you could be the one i'll always love

i'll be there as soon as i can
but i'm busy mending broken
pieces of the life i had before

first there was the one who challenged
all my dreams and all my balance
she could never be as good as you

you could be my unintended choice
to live my life extended
you should be the one i'll always love

i'll be there as soon as i can
but i'm busy mending broken
pieces of the life i had before

i'll be there as soon as i can
but i'm busy mending broken
pieces of the life i had before

before you

Muse - "Unintended"

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Margin Walker
16:12 / 21.02.02
"When you're back in your old neighborhood
The cigarettes taste so good
But you're so misunderstood
You're so misunderstood

There's something there that you can't find
Honest when you're tellin' a lie
You hurt her but you don't know why
You love her but you don't know why

Short on long term goals
There's a party there that we oughtta go to
Do you still love rock and roll?
Do you still love rock and roll?

It's only a quarter to three
Reflecting off your C.D.
You're looking at a picture of me
You're staring at a picture of me

Take the guitar player for a ride
He ain't never been satisfied
He thinks he owes some kind of debt
Be years before he gets over it

There's a fortune inside your head
All you touch turns to lead
You think you might just crawl back in bed
The fortune inside your head

You know you're just a mama's boy
Positively unemployed
So misunderstood
So misunderstood

I know you gotta God shaped hole
Leanin' out your buffalo soul
So misunderstood
So misunderstood
So misunderstood
So misunderstood

I'd like to thank you all for nothin'
I'd like to thank you all for nothin' at all
I'd like to thank you all for nothin'
Nothin' nothin' nothin' nothin' nothin' at all
Nothin' nothin' nothin' nothin' at all"


Wilco--"Misunderstood"
 
 
Matthew Fluxington
20:46 / 24.02.02
embrace the senile genius
watch him reinvent the wheel
I don't need yr summary acts
to give in to the narrative age

old to begin, I will set you back
old to begin, I will set you back
set you back, set ya...

you get to feeling like a fixture
set in 1966
time came that we drifted apart
drifted apart, and found an unidentical twin

old to begin, I will set you back
old to begin, I will set you back
set you back, set you back far!

searching for latent cause
blame it on menapause
or perhaps stress and strain
credit cards, lumbar pain

but I've seen yr double-dare
it's everything extraordinaire
I know the things you do
are gonna come back
 
 
suds
13:49 / 25.02.02
(flux, you are ace!)

this song just describes something i'm going through right now with someone so well:

you got your new clothes and your new friends to match
and too many dishes and a boyfriend, what a catch
ladies doing nothing, that's your claim to fame
oh yeah, uh huh, now you're all the same
i wish i still had something better to do
than to cry about my clothes and my new hairdo
no one saying nothing, just stand in line
to what do we owe these fabulous times?
gimme gimme gimme more things! more things!
does it really make you happy, is that really what you mean?
"the Boy Is Mine" oh oh oh oh oh
do you wanna own someone, do you wanna own something?
at least all the guys know if they fuck with me
that I'll fuck them up indefinitely
i don't know who you think you're trying to impress
but when you try too hard you get much less
yr saying there's a fight, but there's no contest
you can say you're better, but you know i'm the best
tell me tell me tell me one thing! one thing!
it's my scene and things, do you know what i mean?
"the boy is mine" oh oh oh oh oh
do you wanna own someone, do you wanna own something?
i know that all you try to do is put me down
but no one really cares about your hanging around
yr acting fucken stupid, we can all see that
but i ain't telling no one, 'cause a fact is a fact
i'm glad i could provide you with something to do
like someone new to hate, well i hate you too
gimme gimme gimme more things! more thing!
does it really make you happy, is it really what you mean?

(bratmobile)
 
 
Captain Zoom
19:39 / 25.02.02
Schism

I know the pieces fit cuz I watched them fall away
Mildewed and smoldering. Fundamental differing.
Pure intention juxtaposed will set two lovers souls in motion
Disintegrating as it goes testing our communication
The light that fueled our fire then has burned a hole between us so
We cannot see to reach an end crippling our communication.

I know the pieces fit cuz I watched them tumble down
No fault, none to blame it doesn't mean I don't desire to
Point the finger, blame the other, watch the temple topple over.
To bring the pieces back together, rediscover communication

The poetry that comes from the squaring off between,
And the circling is worth it.
Finding beauty in the dissonance.

There was a time that the pieces fit, but I watched them fall away.
Mildewed and smoldering, strangled by our coveting
I've done the math enough to know the dangers of our second guessing
Doomed to crumble unless we grow, and strengthen our communication.

Cold silence has a tendency to atrophy any
Sense of compassion
Between supposed lovers/brothers

Tool - "Schism"

When the wind blows
and there's a chill in the air
I hope that someone is taking care of you
I'm alright, yeah, I'm really okay
Just so you know I'm always there for you

Help me now, I'm going down
And I don't know if I'll be okay
I'll be around, I'll be in town
If you need a place to stay.

Ween - "Birthday Boy"

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Matthew Fluxington
18:06 / 28.02.02
I want you to have everything
I want you to wake up in the morning
and listen to robins sing
I want you to lay down in the evening
and not worry about a gol'darned thing

since you told me that you love me
I believe that it's true
and I want you to know,
I want you to know
there ain't nothin' too good for you

I'm gonna show you what love is
I don't believe that you know
gotta see you happy
anywhere that you go

since you told me that you love me
I believe that it's true
and I want you to know,
I want you to know
there ain't nothin' too good for you

let's talk about love
it's a funny thing
if you ain't got it
you can't deny it
you gotta use it
you can't refuse it
and when you get it
you gotta keep it

I'm talking about love
it's alright
and I want you to know,
I want you to know
there ain't nothin' too good for you

that's why I want you to have everything
there ain't nothin'
there ain't nothin'
there ain't nothin'
there ain't nothin' too good for you
 
 
Darryl Strawberry
18:12 / 28.02.02
Everybody
Rock your body
Everybody
Rock your body right
Backstreet's back alright

Oh my god we're back again
Brothers sisters everybody sing
Gonna bring the flavour
Show you how
Gotta question for you
Better answer now

Am I original? Yeah
Am I the only one? Yeah
Am I sexual? Yeah
Am I everything you need
You better rock your body now

Chorus
Everybody yeah
Rock you body yeah
Everybody
Rock your body right
Backstreet's back alright

Now throw you're hands up in the air
And wave 'em around like you just don't care
If you wanna party let me hear you yell
Cuz we've got it goin' on again

Am I original? Yeah
Am I the only one? Yeah
Am I sexual? Yeah
Am I everything you need
You better rock your body now

Chorus

So everybody everywhere
Don't be afraid don't have no fear
I'm gonna tell the world
Make you understand
As long as there'll be music
We'll be comin' back again
 
 
Matthew Fluxington
01:20 / 01.03.02
Cheer up, honey, I hope you can
There is something wrong with me
My mind is filled with silvery stars
Honey kisses, clouds of fog
Sugars shrugging off
Cheer up, honey, I hope you can
There is something wrong with me
My mind is filled with radio cures
Electronic surgical words
Picking apples for the kings and queens of things I've never seen
Oh, distance has no way of making love understandable
Cheer up, honey, I hope you can
There is something wrong with me
My mind is filled with silvery star
Honey kisses, clouds of fog
Picking apples for the kings and queens of things I've never seen
Oh, distance has no way of making love understandable
Oh, distance has no way of making love understandable
Oh, distance has the way of making love understandable
Oh, distance has the way of making love understandable
Cheer up, honey, I hope you can

(for Jenny)
 
 
Captain Zoom
16:49 / 01.03.02
guide me now for I can't see
a reason for the suffering and the long misery
what if every living soul could be upright and strong
well then I do imagine

there will be
sorrow
yeah there will be
sorrow
and there will be
sorrow no more

when all soldiers lay their weapons down
or when all kings and all queens relinquish their crowns
or when the only true messiah rescues us from ourselves
it's easy to imagine

there will be
sorrow
yeah there will be
sorrow
and there will be
sorrow no more.

"Sorrow" - Bad Religion

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Cherry Bomb
14:09 / 02.03.02
This would be known as my "tribute to George Michael," inspired by the "Sexual Freak" song which put all of these in my head at some point throughout the afternoon.

"Bang bang!
You're dead
Couldn't we just make love instead?"


(from Hard Day)

"Hey you're just too funky for me
I gotta get inside of you
And I'll show you heaven
if you let me...
I watch you sinking all of that cheap red wine
I watch you drinking and I take my time..."

(from Too Funky off the Red Hot and Dance CD - rawwwr!!)

"I think there's something you should know,
I think it's time I stopped the show
There's something deep inside of me
There's someone else I got to be
Take back your picture in a frame
Take back your singing in the rain
I just hope you understand
Sometimes the clothes
Do not make the maaaaaaan..."


(From "Freedom," maybe my favorite George Michael song, in particular "Freedom 90")

[i]
"I'm never gonna dance again
guilty feet have got no rythm.
Though it's easy to pretend,
I know you're not a fool
Shoulda known better than to cheat a friend,
The wasted chance that I'd still give her
So I'm never gonna dance again
The way I dance with you....
(O-ho)[i]"

Viva la George!
 
 
The Apple-Picker
04:02 / 03.03.02
"Oo ah oo ah oo oo Kitty
Tell us about the boy from New York City
Oo ah oo ah come on Kitty
Tell us about the boy from New York City"


He he he hehe.
 
 
pantone 292
14:53 / 03.03.02
[thread-rot]
just to say thanx to fly and haus for singing the praises of The Magnetic Fields herein and hereabouts, i've been utterly poleaxed this w/end with foodpoisoning and finally got around to listening to 69 love songs in their entirety many times over, am totally knocked out by 'em, especially Papa was a rodeo....
[/thread-rot]
 
 
Matthew Fluxington
16:04 / 03.03.02
hey...
do you need a reason?
is there a separate season
from which to come out of the spring
I wait all summer long
and then the winter's long
and then it's longer then, after

I don't need a timekeeper,
I don't need an interlocuter
baby, yr looking a little cuter
day by day

and if you need a trademark for yr sound
you better look around
treat it like a window, not a door
there's more

hold me off, but run

maybe I could be a squirt
loosen up yr magic dirt
waiting for the ancillary coming of age
maybe I could squirt along
squirt along, squirt along

so what'cha want to do?

yr so easily fooled,
she got to marry me
she got to marry
you've got to marry me
yeah, you've got to marry me
grow up and marry me
sweet sisters of Columbus and Dayton

hey, just some some respect
I might be enough to cover you up
and hold you down
mix you up and run you around
look at me,won't you might see that the color is red
blurring in yr eyes and yr head
listen underwater, when yr down
won't come up to see the beach

that's whole

copper tones and second homes
everybody needs a home
it takes centuries to build
and seconds to fall
and I waited so patiently for you to fall
but you never, ever fall

--------------
do you want to know where it stands right now?
do you really care what, when, why, or how?
I came to crave your spastic touch
the honest way you move is too much

[ 04-03-2002: Message edited by: Flux = Expert Textpert ]
 
 
Matthew Fluxington
00:05 / 05.03.02
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'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 go back
and the kids in the court are all covered in dirt
caught tresspassing under the moon
my father came in from wherever he'd been
and kicked my shit all over the room
all over the room
all over the room

the room is dark and heavy
with what I want to say
I'm seeing murals in your 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 mantel
and time in the candle
in the end, the boy razes himself...
 
 
The Monkey
02:23 / 05.03.02
[for Ann, a girl I loved because of her unconscious resemblance to David Bowie]

Cold fire.
You've got everything but cold fire
You will be my rest and peace child
I moved up to take a place near you

So tired
It's the sky that makes you feel tried
It's a trick that makes you see wide
It can all but break your heart in pieces

Staying back in your memory
Are the movies in the past
How you moved is all it takes
To sing a song of when I loved
The Prettiest Star
One day
Though it might as well be someday
You and I will rise up all the way
All because of what you are
The Prettiest Star

[repeat last verse]
 
 
The Monkey
02:37 / 05.03.02
[more cogent to my own situation au courant...Tom Waits, "Emotional Weather forecast"]

...things are tough all over
when the thunder storms start
increasing over the southeast
and south central portions
of my apartment, i get upset
and a line of thunderstorms was
developing in the early morning
ahead of a slow moving coldfront
cold blooded
with tornado watches issued shortly
before noon Sunday, for the areas
including, the western regions of my
ability to deal rationally with my
disconcerted precarious emotional
situation: it's cold out there.
colder than a ticket-taker's smile
at the Ivar Theater, on a Saturday night
flash flood watches covered the
southern portion of my diposition
there was no severe weather well
into the afternoon, except for a lone gust of
wind in the bedroom
a high pressure zone, covering the eastern
portion of a small suburban community
with a 103 and milibar high pressure zone
and a weak pressure ridge extending from
my eyes down to my cheeks cause since
you left me baby
and put the vice grips on my mental health
well, the extended outlook for an
indefinite period of time - until you
come back to me baby - is high tonight,
low tomorrow, and precipitation is expected.


[ 05-03-2002: Message edited by: [monkeys of thoth] ]
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
13:10 / 05.03.02
Sebastian you're in a mess
You had a dream, they called you king
Of all the hipsters, is it true?
Or are you still the queen?

Like getting blood out of a stone
The city left you all alone
You came to dance, but there's no poignancy
When they all leave you standing alone

The wider issues of the day
Just pass you by, you'll have to pay
For looking at the floor
When people talk to you

You wrote a book about yourself
The people left it on the shelf
You'll write another one
Now you've got a story that's worth talking about

Are you happy with yourself?
Are you talking to yourself?
Are you happy with yourself?
Put the book back on the shelf

I know the company you keep
You're on the sofa hidden deep
While on the telly Sid James speaks
To you like God

You're always looking for a sign
But boy you blow it every time
You hear a voice begin to speak
You ignore it and go softly to sleep

- Belle & Sebastian, 'Put The Book Back On The Shelf'
 
 
bitchiekittie
13:19 / 06.03.02
come back from san francisco
it cant be all that pretty
when all of new york city misses you
should pretty boys in discos
distract you from your novel
remember Im awful in love with you
you need me like the wind needs the trees to blow in
like the moon needs poetry
you need me
come back from san francisco
and kiss me, Ive quit smoking
I miss doing the wild thing with you
will you stay, I dont think so
but all I do is worry
pack bags, call cabs and hurry home to me...
 
 
suds
16:05 / 06.03.02
oh bitchiekittie, i love love love that song.
 
 
pointless and uncalled for
16:15 / 06.03.02
you step on up and spit platitudes
back and forth across the latitudes
bad attitude......... son
when you're set to face the linear one.

[ 06-03-2002: Message edited by: H ]
 
 
bitchiekittie
16:41 / 06.03.02
(me, too suds. it always makes me think of one person...who in a few short months will finally be coming home to me!)
 
 
Matthew Fluxington
20:24 / 06.03.02
oh, I do believe
in all the things you see
what comes is better
than what came before
and you better
come, come,
come, come to me
you bettter run, run, run
run, run to me
come to me
 
 
lolita nation
09:31 / 07.03.02
all i ate was spearmint candy
trying to change the flavor of the days
and chasing inundation-only childish ways
but oh this time the sugar was dazzling
saying for once you might just join the game
and don't insist on always seeming less the same
with the smile, and of the clique
princess, in this context you're a freak
but you must see
in your crassest hour the charm still works on me

and will you take on our age's dream?
we love you, carol and alison
oh will you take us
'cause it's still green land
and it still works as planned
and 'cause the glory is at hand
right at hand

these evenings turn out to be such a crapshoot
don't be such a reason not to leave
'cause i smoke and kiss the same in all realities
and when they ask who's giving the rides
i feel as if i promised i'd look out
for all the lonely souls who still go home without
when the shoulder upstairs gets cold
if he had his way we'd all be old
and he's got nerve
asking this lolita nation to bow and serve..
 
 
Haus about we all give each other a big lovely huggle?
09:51 / 07.03.02
And you, you look like Heaven,
An angel sent from a dream,
Seven hundred and seventy seven times lovelier
Than anyone I've ever seen.
 
 
ephemerat
09:51 / 07.03.02
Due to it being used on the ad for the new series of Teachers (bleugh):

We all know you're soft
Because we've all seen you dancing
We all know you're hard
Because we've all seen you drinking
From noon until noon again
You're the boy with the filthy laugh
The boy with the Arab strap


Belle and Sebastian (again)

[ 07-03-2002: Message edited by: ephemerat ]
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
09:51 / 07.03.02
Flux, was it the Cat Power or Lou Reed version of 'I Found A Reason' you had in mind? The former is one of the most painfully lovely things I've ever heard... That and 'Come Back From San Francisco' in a row would be... Wow.

Today:

Build for me your tightest ship
Make the oars run swift and fast
Send me out your strongest crew
Make their hearts and minds steadfast
Bless me with Athena
There's no meaner, she's the best
For when we hit the roughest seas
We'll need all we can get

You say "sink or swim"
What a cruel cruel phrase
I'd rather fly
Don't want to get caught in this endless race

The first beast that will appear
Will entice us with money and fame
If you listen long enough
You'll forget there's anything else
Tie me to the mast
Of this ship and of this band
Tie me to the greater things
The people that I love

You can walk the plank
Do the dead mans float
Never let them see
Your heart is pounding full of hope

Let the last storm hit us
Let it strike at the hardest part
Turn us all to mutiny
Turn this boat upside down
I am not the captain
I am just another fan
Sailing off the edge of truth
Into the end of you

Eye of the storm, what a cruel cruel myth
There's no bigger spotlight
Than shown on the ones brave enough to live

- Sleater-Kinney, 'The End Of You'

Raaarrrggghh!
 
 
Captain Zoom
10:52 / 07.03.02
And the moment of clarity
Faded like charity does
Sometimes
I opened one eye
And I put out my hand just to touch your soft hair
To make sure in the darkness that you were still there
And I have to admit
I was just a little afraid, oh yeah
But then.....
I had a little bit of luck
You were awake
I couldn't take another moment alone.

5:11 AM (The Moment of Clarity) - Roger Waters
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
12:10 / 07.03.02
Ugh - someone got Waters on the thread.

Sorry, sorry, musn't grumble or insult other people's choices...

(But really. WATERS.)

[ 07-03-2002: Message edited by: Flyboy ]
 
 
Eloi Tsabaoth
12:19 / 07.03.02
For Flyboy-
"I ain't gonna work
For no soul sucking jerk
I'm gonna take it all back
And I ain't saying jack."
Beck.

[ 07-03-2002: Message edited by: The New Flesh ]
 
 
Captain Zoom
12:23 / 07.03.02
Ooooh, Flyboy. You shouldn't have said anything.

For the first time today
I held her naked body next to mine
In this hotel overlooking the Rhine
I made her mine
Ooh babe...ooh babe
Come with me and stay with me
Please stay with me

4:39 AM (For the First Time Today, p.2) - Roger Waters.

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