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

 
  

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Regrettable Juvenilia
16:37 / 11.05.02
Losing the star without a sky
Losing the reasons why
Losing the calling you've been faking
And I'm not kidding

It's damned if you don't and it's damned if you do
Be true 'cause they'll lock you up in a sad sad zoo
Oh hidy hidy hidy what cha tryin to prove
By hidy hidy hiding you're not worth a thing

Sew your fortunes on a string
And hold them up to light
Blue smoke will take
A very violent flight
And you will be changed
And everything
And you will be in a very sad sad zoo

I once was lost, but now i'm found
Was blind, but now I see
How selfish of you to believe in the meaning of all the bad dreaming

Metal heart you're not hiding
Metal heart you're not worth a thing

Metal heart you're not hiding
Metal heart you're not worth a thing

- Cat Power, 'Metal Heart'
 
 
Solitaire Rose as Tom Servo
16:42 / 11.05.02
They say that heaven is like TV
A perfect little world
that doesn't really need you
And everything there
is made of light
And the days keep going by
Here they come Here they come
Here they come.

Well it was one of those days larger than life
When your friends came to dinner
and they stayed the night
And then they cleaned out the refrigerator -
They ate everything in sight
And then they stayed up in the living room
And they cried all night

Strange angels - singing just for me
Old stories - they're haunting me
This is nothing
like I thought it would be.

Well I was out in my four door
with the top down.
And I looked up and there they were:
Millions of tiny teardrops
just sort of hanging there
And I didn't know whether to laugh or cry
And I said to myself:
What next big sky?

Strange angels - singing just for me
Their spare change falls on top of me
Rain falling Falling all over me
All over me
Strange angels - singing just for me
Old Stories - they're haunting me
Big changes are coming
Here they come
Here they come.
 
 
Matthew Fluxington
12:42 / 20.05.02
Here comes your bedtime story:
Mum & Dad have sentenced you to life.
Don't think twice; it's the only reason I'm alive.
I feel alright as long as I don't forget to breathe.
Breathe in, breathe in, breathe out.
Look at all these buildings & houses: I love my life. I love my life. Hey now, slow down a minute.
Take my arms & fill them full of life.
Don't think twice. Does it ease the pain of being alive?
Or is it why - why you keep nodding out on me?
Breathe in, breathe in, breathe out.
Another day, another major disaster : I love my life. I love my life. You got a problem. I lost my keys when I stayed at your place.
On the floor of your living room,
you made the scene but it'll never get shown on TV.
So tonight prepare to kiss goodbye to my lovelife.
So get this right- I love my life; it's the only reason I'm alive. It's mine, all mine - as long as I don't forget to breathe.
Breathe in, breathe in, breathe out.
Corny I know, but you had better believe it: I love my life.
I love my life. I love my life. God, how I love my life.

That's right: you've got to fight to the death
for the right to live your life.
Alright: I'm gonna fight to the death 'til they give me back my life. That's right: you're in the land of the living
but there's so few signs of life.
Alright.
Breathe in. Breathe out. Breathe out.
 
 
Captain Zoom
20:25 / 27.05.02
I'll use a lock that has no key
Bind you with chains
That no one else can see

Let the water creep over your face
I'll send it in waves
Just to watch you perform the great escape

How long can you hold your breath?
While you hold mine, I'll come and wait
Just to watch you perform the great escape

I'll pull your arms tight behind your back
Use myself as weight
And wonder while you fade

How long can you hold your breath?
While you hold mine, I'll come and wait
Just to watch you perform the great escape


Moby - "The Great Escape"
 
 
Matthew Fluxington
23:12 / 28.05.02
Is that gash in your leg really why you have stopped?
Cause I've noticed all the others,
though they're gashed, they're still going.
Cause I feel like the real reason
that you're quitting is that
you're admitting
that you've lost all the will to battle on.

Will the fight for our sanity be the fight of our lives
now that we've lost all the reasons that we thought that we had?


Still the battle that we're in
rages on 'til the end.
With explosions
wounds are open,
sights and smells,
eyes and noses,
but the thought that went unspoken
was understanding that you're broken..

Still the last volunteer battles on, battles on, battles on...
 
 
Knight's Move
13:47 / 29.05.02
Noooooow, Sheriff Fatman started out in business as a granny farmer.
He was infamous for fifteen minutes, and he appeared on Panorama.
Then he somehow got himself onboard the Starship Enterprise allowance scheme,
with a Prince of Wales award for pushing valium
and amphetamines.

Moving up now to take the place behind Nicholas van Wotshisface
At 6 foot six and a hundred tons
The undisputed king of the slums
With more aliases than Klaus Barbie
The master butcher of Leigh on Sea
Just about to take the stage, the one and only: hold the front page!

Fatman's got something to sell
- To the capital's homeless
A Crossroads motel
- For the no fixed aboders
Where you can live life in style
- You can sleep in a closet
And if you flash him a smile
- He'll take your teeth as deposit.

There's bats in the belfry!
The windows are jammed!
The toilets aren't healthy!
He don't give a damn!
Just chuckles and smiles,
Laughs like a madman.
A born again ratman!
Here comes: Sheriff Fatman.
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Carter: The Unstoppable Sex Machine "Sheriff Fatman"
In honour of Nicholas Van Wotshisface currently looking at some hard time for hiring hitmen. Which will be nice for him. He can meet some of his ex-clients and chat about how much nicer prison is to stay in than his slums...
 
 
that
16:53 / 29.05.02

Trust - The Cure

There is no-one left in the world
That I can hold onto
There is really no-one left at all
There is only you
And if you leave me now
You leave all that we were
Undone
There is really no-one left
You are the only one

And still the hardest part for you
To put your trust in me
I love you more than I can say
Why won't you just believe?
 
 
that
16:57 / 29.05.02
When It's Cold I'd Like To Die - Moby

Where were you when I was lonesome?
Locked away with freezing cold
Someone flying only stolen
I can't tell this light so old

I don't want to swim the ocean
I don't want to fight the tide
I don't want to swim forever
When it's cold I'd like to die

What was that my sweet sweet nothing?
I can't hear you through the fog
If I holler let me go
If I falter let me know

I don't want to swim forever
I don't want to fight the tide
I don't want to swim the ocean
When it's cold I'd like to die

I don't want to swim the ocean
I don't want to fight the tide
 
 
that
17:00 / 29.05.02
Fade Into You - Mazzy Star

I want to hold the hand inside you
I want to take a breath that's true
I look to you and I see nothing
I look to you to see the truth
You live your life
You go in shadows
You'll come apart and you'll go black
Some kind of night into your darkness
Colors your eyes with what's not there.
Fade into you
Strange you never knew
Fade into you
I think it's strange you never knew
A stranger's light comes on slowly
A stranger's heart without a home
You put your hands into your head
And then smiles cover your heart
Fade into you
Strange you never knew
Fade into you
I think it's strange you never knew
I think it's strange you never knew
 
 
that
17:07 / 29.05.02
Last one, honest...

Garden - Pearl Jam

She don't wander in here. Don't wander in here. She, she don't wander in here. Don't wander in here.

The direction of the eye. So misleading.
The defection of the soul. Nauseously quick.
I don't question our existence.
I just question our modern needs.

She don't wander in here. Don't wander in here. She, she don't wander in here.

I will walk with my hands bound. I will walk with my face blood.
I will walk with my shadow flag into your garden. Garden of stone. Yeah.

After all is done and we're still alone. I won't be taken.
Yet I'll go with my hands bound. I will walk with my face blood.
I will walk with my shadow flag into your garden. Garden of stone. Yeah.

I don't show. I don't share. I don't need, yeah, what you have to give. Yeah.

Ooh, I will walk with my hands bound. I will walk with my face blood.
I will walk with my shadow flag into your garden, garden. Oh.
I will walk with my hands bound. I will walk into your garden. Garden of stone.

I don't know. I don't care. I don't need, yeah, for me to live. Yeah, yeah.
Uh huh huh. (x8)
 
 
Matthew Fluxington
18:42 / 29.05.02
I just need to know,
how am I to know what you want me to feel -
counterfeit or real?

I'm not the one you wanted
not the thing you keep

it's not real
you don't need to tell me
that it's not real
 
 
that
18:43 / 29.05.02
What is that, Flux?
 
 
Matthew Fluxington
18:51 / 29.05.02
Sleater-Kinney "The Hot Rock".

It has more lyrics than that, but I pared it down to the ones that I wanted. The rest are here. There's two singers on that song, and the vocals overlap, one telling an allegorical story about stealing diamonds - what I quoted was the first-person emotional half of the song.
 
 
that
19:48 / 29.05.02
Thank you...
 
 
Matthew Fluxington
23:25 / 29.05.02
It's been a bloody stupid day
My baby called me up to say
Don't call me love, don't call me
It's not all she said

I truly love her but I know
I'm bad for her, I'm bad and so
At least she may forgive me for my honesty

My friend came back from being abroad
He was rich and I was overawed
His ship came in
I'm standing on the harbour wall

Another friend, the one I love
Turns to me "Have you seen enough?"
"Let's hang about
There's nothing like a sunset"

It's been a bloody stupid day
Don't leave the light on baby
My baby called me up to say
Don't leave the light on baby
I'll see you sometime maybe
Don't leave the light on baby
It finally dawned on me tonight
Best to go down without a fight
I know you will forgive me for my honesty
 
 
Shortfatdyke
06:55 / 31.05.02
re-discovered this one recently and it made me cry:

take the toys from the boys
(made a bomb out of cotton)
take their hands off the guns
(made a bomb out of coffee)
take their fingers off the triggers
(made a bomb out of sugar)
WE MADE A BOMB

take the toys from the boys
(we gotta make a living)
take their hands off the guns
(we gotta make a killing)
take their fingers off the buttons
(we gotta get promotion, made a bomb)
WE MADE A BOMB

take the toys from the boys
(made a bullet out of rubber)
take their eyes off the dials
(made a cannon out of water)
take their minds off the money
(we've gotta make a killing, made a bomb)
WE MADE A BOMB

we made a bomb out of cotton
we made a bomb out of coffee
we made a bomb out of sugar
we made a bullet out of rubber
we made a bomb out of music
made a hit, made a fool out of you
WE MADE A BOMB.

'take the toys from the boys' - poison girls
 
 
Knight's Move
22:54 / 01.06.02
Two lovers kissing 'gainst the screen of midnight.
Two lovers missing the tranquility of solitude.
 
 
Saint Keggers
02:36 / 02.06.02
Tourists all got lots to say,
money to burn and hell to pay,
Take the flesh throw the bones away,
Should have been born a dog,
should have been born a dog.

Tonight Im staying undrground,
I gotta markers out all over town.
For all I care they can burn this dump down.
Should have been born a dog,
should have been born a dog.

I've been dancing in the rain,
casting shadows, leaving stains.
Your in the doorway yelling my name
Should have been born a dog,
should have been born a dog.

Church is locked, the tithe is in.
There's no one around to hear my sin
Hell, no one cares how bad you've been.
Should have been born a dog,
should have been born a dog.

One day we'll sing the blues,
They'll paint your name across the moon.
Hell dont the days creep up on you
Should have been born a dog,
should have been born a dog.

(Born A Dog. Kevin Quain and The Mad Bastards)
 
 
moriarty
02:50 / 02.06.02
The morning glow quietly envelops the land.
A daybreak no different than always
In the repetitions continuing into the beyond,
We are living in the now.
We head toward today's wind that we can't see
Forever want to protect that smile.

WANNA TAKE YOU BABY TAKE ME HIGHER
Embracing love, now.
GONNA TIGA! TAKE ME TAKE ME HIGHER
Embracing courage, powerfully.
WANNA TAKE YOU BABY TAKE ME HIGHER
We'll certainly be able to reach our destination.
GONNA TIGA! TAKE ME TAKE ME HIGHER

Believing in the hot beat...
Seeking a tomorrow without arguments,
Anyone is waiting hopefully
We'll continue to do what we can
It's good to become gentle, I'd like to not die out.

WANNA TAKE YOU BABY TAKE ME HIGHER
Everything has started to move.
GONNA TIGA! TAKE ME TAKE ME HIGHER
Cutting open new paths.
WANNA TAKE YOU BABY TAKE ME HIGHER
We can't be standing still
GONNA TIGA! TAKE ME TAKE ME HIGHER
Believeing in the shining eyes...
WANNA TAKE YOU BABY TAKE ME HIGHER
GONNA TIGA! TAKE ME TAKE ME HIGHER

Someday, our voices will undoubtedly reach,
Changing even the world, surpassing the ages...
 
 
Rage
07:04 / 02.06.02
she took me off my guard with disappointment
I got sucked inside of her apartment
she's got dried-up flowers, flaky skin
a beaded necklace and a bottle of gin

she's a nightmare hippy girl
with her skinny fingers fondlin' my world
she's a whimsical, tragical beauty
self-conscious and a little bit moody

it's a new age let-down in my face
she's so spaced out and there ain't no space
she's got marijuana on the bathroom tile
I'm caught in a vortex, she's changin' my style

she's a nightmare hippy girl
with her skinny fingers fondlin' my world
she's a whimsical, tragical beauty
uptight and a little bit snooty

oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh

she's a magical, sparklin' tease
she's a rainbow chokin'' the breeze
yo, she's bustin' out onto the scene
with nightmare bogus poetry
she's a melted avocado on the shelf
she's the science of herself
she's spazzing out on a cosmic level
and she's meditating with the devil
she's cooking salad for breakfast
she's got tofu the size of Texas
she's a witness to her own glory
she's a never-ending story
she's a frolicking depression
she's a self-inflicted obsession
she's got a thousand lonely husbands
she's playin' footsie in another dimension
she's a goddess milking her time for all that it's worth

Nitemare Hippy Girl - Beck
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
10:01 / 02.06.02
i would so love to be able to say that Zodiac Mindwarp's "I'm Christ in shades, I'm the napalm god- your lipstick flickers round my lightning rod" was in any way relevant to my life, but no.

I guess I'll just get hung again tonight
Cos it's the best way that I know to turn off the lights
I'll get reacquainted with the floor
It's like a joke you've heard before
Except that you were laughing the other night

I don't know why I try- another day, another lie
It's like sticking needles in your eye

You get that sinking feeling when you're sunk
You pack your worries up inside a metal trunk
I guess I just need some time to think
I swear that I'd give up the drink
If I could find a better way to get drunk



Cop Shoot Cop. (Apologies for the misery- terrible hangover).
 
 
Matthew Fluxington
21:42 / 02.06.02
yeah, I found nowhere
it got to know me
I sleep all day
spent the money
I haven't felt my legs
since the summer
and I don't call my friends
forgot their numbers

I'm VIP 223
I've had my chances
and they had me
I stay up nights
watch tv
I'm country sad
I'm a ballad man

I'm on the comeback road
yeah, I'm a blizzard
and in my motor home
sweat on my pillow all night

I'm VIP 223
I've had my chances
and they had me
I stay up nights
watch tv
I'm country sad
I'm a ballad man

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holy man tiptoes his way through the Ganges
the sound of magic music in his ears
video'd by a busload of tourists
shiney shell suits on while they drink lemonade

well, I've got a funny feeling which I've bought mail-order
from a man in a teepee in California
he said he once was a great game show performer
but then he blew all his chances away
he blew it all away

so take me home!
don't leave me alone!
I'm not that good, but I'm not that bad
I'm no psycho killer, hooligan guerilla
I dream to riot, oh you should try it
I'll eat parole, get a gold card soul
my joy of life is on a roll
and we'll all be the same in the end
cos then yr on yr own

well we all go happy day-glo in the disco
the sound of magic music in our brains
someone stumbles to the bathroom with the horrors
says "Lord, give me time for I've jumped into space
I'm in outer space!"

so take me home!
don't leave me alone!
I'm not that good, but I'm not that bad
I'm no psycho killer, hooligan guerilla
I dream to riot, oh you should try it
I'll eat parole, get a gold card soul
my joy of life is on a roll
and we'll all be the same in the end
cos then yr on yr own
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
19:46 / 03.06.02
It’s the children that I feel for
Yes the children make me feel more
More than the liqour, more than the art
More than the Beach Boys records
It’s the drink that gives us heartache
It’s the charity we won’t take
We feel so empty and our late twenties should be better times

It’s the love and the truth and the hope and the faith
That will destroy us in the end
It’s the look in the eyes of those one night stands that gives us the will to pretend
It’s the feeling of fucking the people that we’re loving that spurs us onto endless sleepless nights
And love will destroy us in the end

There’s not a thing that I can save from all those wasted, wasted days
And theres no faith that will ever save me from being faithful
And the damn phone never rings
And I would give up everything
For a little wine, some conversation
And just for being healthy

- Hefner - 'Love Will Destroy Us In The End'
 
 
The Apple-Picker
20:27 / 03.06.02
Once I had all, had everything
the real princess, the ruling queen.
I walked with arrogance, with vanity
but I made sure my heart
they wouldn't see.

One day I woke up it was gone
the castle kingdom all were lost.
Now I have nothing left,
nowhere to go.
And my heart that's full of doubt
is all I've left to show.

She is living in exile.

I'll walk 3,000 lonely miles.
I'll start a new life on my own.
Don't know what I'm waiting for,
but when it comes.
You know that I'll be ready
a new woman.

I know my head is my worst enemy
Swallowed too much of it and started to believe
I know my heart is my worst enemy
Swallowed too much of it and started to believe
 
 
Shortfatdyke
20:35 / 03.06.02
life is good
and i feel great
'cos mother said i was
a great mistake

novocaine for the soul
you better give me something
to fill the hole
before i splutter out....

- the eels
 
 
Matthew Fluxington
18:40 / 06.06.02
When I look in the mirror
I can't believe what I see
Tell me, who's that funky dude
Starin' back at me?

Broken, beaten down
Can't even get around
without an old-man cane
I fall and hit the ground

Shivering in the cold
I'm bitter and alone

Excuse the bitchin'
I shouldn't complain
I should have no feeling
'Cuz feeling is pain

As everything I need is denied me
And everything I want is taken away from me
But who do I got to blame?
Nobody but me

I don't wanna be an old man anymore
It's been a year or two since I was out on the floor
Shakin' booty, makin' sweet love all the night
It's time I got back to the good life

It's time I got back, it's time I got back
and I don't even know how I got off the track
I wanna go back, yeah!

Screw this crap, I've had it!
I ain't no Mr. Cool
I'm a pig, I'm a dog
So 'scuse me if I drool

I ain't gonna hurt nobody
Ain't gonna cause a scene
I just need to admit that I want sugar in my tea
Hear me? Hear me?
I want sugar in my tea!

I don't wanna be an old man anymore
It's been a year or two since I was out on the floor
Shakin' booty, makin' sweet love all the night
It's time I got back to the good life

It's time I got back, it's time I got back
and I don't even know how I got off the track
I wanna go back, yeah!
 
 
that
19:04 / 06.06.02
From 'Noose' by Tripping Daisy

and all at once the noose is you
it's hard to move when the noose is you
when all along the noose is you
there's no more noose looking for you!
 
 
Bear
08:29 / 07.06.02
All around me are familiar faces
Worn out places, worn out faces
Bright and early for their daily races
Going nowhere, going nowhere
And their tears are filling up their glasses
No expression, no expression
Hide my head I want to drown my sorrow
No tommorow, no tommorow
And I find it kind of funny
I find it kind of sad
The dreams in which I'm dying
Are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you
'Cos I find it hard to take
When people run in circles
It's a very, very
Mad World
Children waiting for the day they feel good
Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday
Made to feel the way that every child should
Sit and listen, sit and listen
Went to school and I was very nervous
No one knew me, no one knew me
Hello teacher tell me what's my lesson
Look right through me, look right through me

(Donnie Darko stlye - happy stuff)
 
 
Matthew Fluxington
18:04 / 12.06.02


none of us know where we're trying to get to
what sort of life?
what we're trying to build
now we tone-soul merge ideas of song forms and freedom!
seasons out of life, nothing is out of reach
L.A. is more confusing, now, than anywhere I've ever been to
I'm from New York City.
breathe it out, and let it in

where are you now, when yr broken eyes are closed?
head in a cloudy dream of green and sailboats
borrowed and never returned:
emotions, books, outlooks on life.

hello 2015!

hello 2015!

hello 2015!
 
 
suds
08:16 / 14.06.02
i'm so proud to know you.

lizzy, i'll write, i'll sing, telegraph, telegram,
telephone, tellin' you, i'll be home soon. dienu.

we will wake when kitty licks
and in the morn work takes her to maine
dressed and out the door by six
tomorrow is the first time liz cant board my plane.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
08:25 / 14.06.02
And if I die before my parents die...
 
 
Sax
08:36 / 14.06.02
I never promised the earth or a rose garden
Never said I'd be Flash to your Dale Arden
The National Lottery never gave a lot to me
Still I think you deserve it all

You're mad for it but calmer suits ya
I'd like a night in with the karma sutra
I can't afford to take you and your friends to Cream
Still I think we could have a ball

- 99p World, Choppersquad.
 
 
suds
17:00 / 15.06.02
Nine years old and climbing out the house
Through a song played on piano
By my neighbors Les and Ray

I put my head up against the wall
To be closer to the music that they played

You were my oxygen
The thing that made me think I could escape
This is a thank you song for Les and Ray

You were my batteries
The thing that made me think I could escape
Here's a song for Les and
Here's a song for Les and Ray
 
 
Matthew Fluxington
18:13 / 15.06.02
We know this and that
the romantic soul for us
in the lost hierarchy of land and landowners
and down will go back up forevermore!
I must try to believe this
 
 
Axel Lambert
18:41 / 15.06.02
Your signal failed
But I know you're contagious

(Adult.)
 
  

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