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

  
  

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The Return Of Rothkoid
21:52 / 15.06.02
Sing your life
any fool can think of words that rhyme
many others do
why don't you?
do you want to?
Sing your life
just walk right up to the microphone
and name
all the things that you love
all the things that you loathe
sing your life
all the things that you love
all the things that you loathe
oh sing your life
oh sing your life
Others sang your life
but now's your chance to shine
and have the pleasure of
saying what you mean
the rare pleasure of
meaning what you sing
oh, make no mistake, my friend
all of this will end
so sing it now
all the things you love
all the things you loathe
oh sing your life
all the things that you love
all the things that you loathe
oh sing your
oh sing your
Don't leave it all unsaid
somewhere in the wasteland of your head
and make no mistake, my friend
your pointless life will end
but before you go
can you look at the truth?
You have a lovely singing voice
a lovely singing voice
and all of those
who sing on key
they stole the notion
from you and me

Morrissey: "Sing Your Life".
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
00:48 / 16.06.02
And if tomorrow ever comes we'll buy ourselves new boots and coats!
We'll set things straight will all our friends.
(And I'm still waiting).
And if tomorrow ever comes we'll send a cheque to the old man;
We'll have the time to make amends.
(And I'm still waiting).

And if tomorrow ever comes we'll learn to like to be deceived;
We'll watch ourselves on video.
(And I'm still waiting).
And if tomorrow ever comes we'll curse the day we were conceived;
We'll wish that we had never known.
(And I'm still waiting).

No shoulder, no shoulder, no shoulder to cry on.

We'll know how small we really are.
We'll be amazed we've come this far.
We'll rip the blinders from our eyes and truly see.
They'll resurrect the crucifix atop a church of blackened sticks.
We'll hope that we deserve to die unholy.

And if tomorrow ever comes, maybe we'll get an explanation.

I'm living in the shadow of your glorious youth.
You played in the sunshine and dabbled in truth.
Now what have you given me to remember you by
But hazy excuses and a handful of lies?

And if tomorrow ever comes they'll make us sorry we were young
But we'll be satisfied and fed.
(And I'm still waiting.)
And if tomorrow ever comes they'll make us speak with just one tongue;
We'll think of things we should have said.
(And I'm still waiting.)

No shoulder, no shoulder, no shoulder to cry on.

We'll set ablaze the ship of fools.
We'll drive the vermin from our schools.
We'll drag them screaming to the dark and smoky street.
The crutch of vanity will crack beneath the burden on your back
As you are forced to torch the temples of conceit.
And if tomorrow ever comes...
Maybe we'll get an explanation.

Everything was easier when you had your time.
You've taken my innocence and now you want my prime.
Don't look so disappointed at my distrust
Because you've taken everything
Except my disgust.

And if tomorrow ever comes...
 
 
Matthew Fluxington
16:52 / 17.06.02
these are the words, but not the truth
god bless them all when they speak to you

but that's all right on an empty page
sing out when there's no other way

come drift the town where secrets lie
where friends and neighbors keep drifting by

but that's all right, yr here to say
sing out tonight - the empty page

I always thought I'd see yr name in flashing light
you did it all for free, girl
and freely ripped the night
yr free to fight...

these are the words, but not the truth
god bless them all when they speak to you

but that's all right on an empty page
sing out when there's no other way

do you remember the time when you were new in town?
you smashed yr head in the mirror, baby
and kissed the frozen ground
yr ripped up sound...
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
00:04 / 19.06.02
Let me lay it on the line:
I got a little freakiness inside,
And you know that a girl has got to do with it.

I don't care what they say,
I ain't about to pay nobody's way
Cuz it's all about the dog in me.

I wanna freak in the morning, freak in the evening
Just like me
I need a roughneck sister who can satisfy me
If you are that kind of girl
Cuz I'm that kind of boy
I got a freak secret, everybody sing
Cuz we don't give a damn about a thing...

- Adina Howard via Sugababes via me...
 
 
Matthew Fluxington
21:21 / 23.06.02
I was so tired of being upset
Always wanting something I never could get
Life's an illusion love is a dream
But I don't know what it is

Everybody's happy nowadays
Everybody's happy nowadays

I was so tired of being upset
Always wanting something I never could get
Life's an illusion love is a dream
But I don't know what it is 'cos

Everybody's happy nowadays
Everybody's happy nowadays

Life's an illusion love is the dream
But I don't know what it is
Everyone's saying things to me
But I know it's okay okay

Everybody's happy nowadays
Everybody's happy nowadays

Everybody's happy nowadays
Everybody's happy nowadays

Life's an illusion love is a dream
Life's an illusion love is the dream
Life's the illusion love is a dream
Life's the illusion love is the dream

Everybody's happy nowadays
Everybody's happy nowadays
Todays are good

Bet you are tired of being upset
Always wanting something you never can get
Life's no illusion love's not a dream
Now I know just what it is

Everybody's happy nowadays
Everybody's happy nowadays
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
00:31 / 24.06.02
She put the scar on the side of his face
When he disappeared for three days
They say that they are in love
He took her cocaine while she was asleep
Friends say he gave half away
They say that they are in love

Run away, run away
Run away before it's too late
There is danger but they will not see
If they're blind, then it's blind that they'd rather be

This town's destroyed more than one friend of mine
Funny, they never leave
They say that they are in love
Some say it's rotten, some say it's wrong
Some say it's hard to believe
And some say that they are in love

Move away, move away
Move away before it's too late
And the lion sleeps with the lamb
Only love lets me forget who I really am

This land is small, it's cold and it's damp
There's no place that I'd rather be
I know that I am in love
Ethnic divisions, screaming demands
A little bit like you and me
I guess that we are in love

Stay away, stay away
Stay away, you might end up like me
It's the pain that keeps us alive
But that beauty is all that we need to survive
That damn beauty is all that we need to survive

"They Are In Love"- David Byrne
 
 
Matthew Fluxington
12:28 / 24.06.02
Karma police
arrest this man,
he talks in maths,
he buzzes like a fridge,
he's like a detuned radio.

Karma police
arrest this boy,
his Horshach hairdo
is making me feel ill
and we have crashed his party.

This is what you get,
this is what you get,
this is what you get,
when you mess with us.

Karma police
I've given all I can,
it's not enough,
I've given all I can
but we're still on the payroll.

This is what you get,
this is what you get,
this is what you get,
when you mess with us.

For a minute there
I lost myself, I lost myself.
Phew, for a minute there,
I lost myself, I lost myself.

For a minute there
I lost myself, I lost myself.
Phew, for a minute there,
I lost myself, I lost myself.
 
 
suds
15:28 / 24.06.02
Girl, you really got me goin'
You got me so I don't know what I'm doin'
Yeah, you really got me now
You got me so I can't sleep at night

Yeah, you really got me now
You got me so I don't know what I'm doin', now
Oh yeah, you really got me now
You got me so I can't sleep at night

You Really Got Me
You Really Got Me
You Really Got Me

See, don't ever set me free
I always wanna be by your side
Girl, you really got me now
You got me so I can't sleep at night

Yeah, you really got me now
You got me so I don't know what I'm doin', now
Oh yeah, you really got me now
You got me so I can't sleep at night

You Really Got Me
You Really Got Me
You Really Got Me
Oh no...


See, don't ever set me free
I always wanna be by your side
Girl, you really got me now
You got me so I can't sleep at night
 
 
Matthew Fluxington
03:04 / 25.06.02
child
don't you know
that I'm not gonna let you go
child
don't you know
that I'm not gonna let you

styles
come and go
but I'm not gonna let you go
styles
they come and go
but I'm not gonna let you...

---

woke up to people so tall to you
I can't
so I won't
stand up
chuck
break up
look for the splinters
you might see where they come and go down
sweet Jenny
I won't let you fall down
sweet Jenny
I won't let you fall down
here
now

ah, goddamn the guts and the gore
nobody's crying
cos there's no one to score
come up, sweet Jenny
I won't let you fall
what you got to lose?
what you got to prove?
who you gonna screw?
down
here
now

here
now
I am
here
now
I am
here
now

your life is selected to come
waiting for another generation
fight this generation
fight this generation
fight this generation
fight this generation
fight this generation
fight this generation
fight this generation...
 
 
RiffRaff
20:57 / 25.06.02
I was truckin' down the freeway just the other night
Flashin' on my dashboard was my oil light
dammit

So I pulled my truck off the freeway
But all the bars were closed
So I pulled into a gas station
Smellin' like a Texas rose

And that's when I seen 'im
Sittin' in some kind of booth, like a Fotomat
Sittin' there like a goddamn magpie on a telephone wire

I said, "I need four quarts of oil for that truck over there."
He just sat there for a while... and stared
Yep

So I says, "Buddy, I need some oil for my truck, that ain't no lie,"
And he says somethin' like "No go diggie die!"

I said, "What?! What country you from?"
He says somethin' like "Abu dabbi dum."
"Ain't no country I know!"

I says, "I'm from Texas, now gimme some oil!"
He says somethin' like "No oil amidnie!"
I said, "Some of my indian friends speak better english than that!
Yep!"

And he says "No go diggie die" again!
I said "Don't be givin' me none of that 'no go diggie die' shit!
Forget the oil; I need some gas."
So I pumped five bucks into my truck,
Thinkin' about kickin' his ass in
Yep

Then I went up to the window and slipped him a five
and he said "Six dollars" and some goddamn Arab jive!
And that's when I told him,
"Mr. Egyptian, you're a goddamn liar!"

Yep!


("Mr. Egyptian", The Jon Waynes)

--Riff
 
 
paw
23:54 / 25.06.02
On Raglan road on an autumn day I met her first and
knew
That her dark hair would weave a snare that i might
one day rue;
I saw the danger, yet i walked along the enchanted way,
And i said, let grief be a fallen leaf at the dawning of
the day

On Grafton Street in November we tripped lightly along
the ledge
Of a deep ravine where can be seen the worth of
passion pledge,
The Queen of hearts still making tarts and i not making
hay-
O I loved too much and by such by such is happiness
thrown away.

I gave her gifts of the mind I gave her the secret sign
that's known
To the artists who have known the true gods of sound
and stone
And word and tint i did not stint for i gave her poems
to say
With her own name there and her own dark hair like
clouds over fields of May

On a quiet street where old ghosts meet i see her walking
now
Away from me so hurriedly my reason must allow
That i had wooed not as i should a creature made of
clay-
When the angel woos the clay he'd lose his wings at the
dawn of day

On Raglan Road. Words by Patrick Kavanagh
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
21:09 / 30.06.02
Amplifiers and old guitars
And country music sung in bars
And when she sings the revolution's near

Beauty holds the microphone
And watches as we stumble home
And she can see the revolution now

Dirt and fish and trees and houses
Smoke and hands up women's blouses
Not like I expected it would be
Bubbles poppin' every size
It's analysed and criticised
And Beauty knows that it is almost here

Beauty goes to her address
She shuts the door and climbs the steps
And when she sleeps the revolution grows

Beauty rests on mattress springs
Wearing just her underthings
And when she wakes the revolution's here

And when she wakes the revolution's here...

The Revolution... by David Byrne
 
 
suds
14:44 / 01.07.02
I'm on the second floor with a lock on my door
I'm looking at a picture of your face
The last time I looked you were looking really good
But somehow pictures fade

Then we're on the phone and we're all alone
But that just ain't good enough
I go around the world to see your face
'Cause this just ain't good enough

So I'm just kicking it
I'm counting the days
I hardly can wait
For us to hang out
I'm really missing it
In so many ways
I anticipate us making out


Sip my morning tea but you're not next to me
Here goes another day
I'm driving in my car
I wonder how you are
When our favorite music plays

And there are flowers above to my surprise
But that just ain't good enough
And I got the note
It gave me hope
But that just ain't good enough

So I'm just kicking it
I'm counting the days
I hardly can wait
For us to hang out
I'm really missing it in so many ways
I anticipate us making out
 
 
Random?
16:21 / 01.07.02
Dull, dull, dull...
Every single tyke is a null.
School stunts your growth and children warp your mind,
I’ll forgive the slaughter in the name of malign.
Moan, moan, moan...
Clarity is shocking the unknown.
There’s a disappointed ghost in your hotel.
Do you understand the better part of how we dwell?
Entropy is soothing me with a eulogy for destiny.
The rest of the sticky, tricky wicked are awake.
Would you die for entertainment’s sake?
Detail the derail, forgive the mess. Delusion equals happiness.
The rest of the sticky, tricky wicked are awake.
Would you die for entertainment’s sake?
Amputate your face discover the (Perception).
Six senses over the shadowy (Perception).
Sigh, sigh, sigh...
An over rusted lullaby.
Remember that the times will fail to praise as we suffer through another boring batch of
amaze.
Scream, scream, scream...
Praise the heinous forces of extreme.
The illusions of indecency won’t hamper our delight as we separate another prosecuting
parasite.
I’m so perfect in my necromance.
Undo the buckle and remove your pants.
Annoy you into showing me what you have there, then retain the memory, and claim that I
don’t care.
You’re mowing the lawn so numbly in your sleep, I’m pissing on a nun’s vagina as we
speak.
Laughing at an ugly untalented stranger, while your station is the comfiest source of your
danger.


P.T. Grimm --- "Delusion = Happiness"
 
 
Grey Area
17:07 / 01.07.02
Danger, in every corner
I have become pure water
I can identify
I close my eyes
I wear my sword at my side
I wear my sword at my side

Cleanse me
Deep in the fire
I have become pure water
I wear my sword at my side
I wear my sword at my side
I have become pure water
I have become pure water

Leftfield - Swords
 
 
Matthew Fluxington
03:50 / 02.07.02
I found my soldier girl
she's so far away
she makes my head spin around
 
 
Kassad
06:59 / 02.07.02
Mystery Train
Three Way Plane
Expressway to your skull

Sonic Youth / The Crucifixion of Sean Penn

Nous Survolons des Villes
des autoroutes en friche
diagonales perdues
et des droites au hasard
des femmes sans visage
à l'atterissage
soyons désinvoltes
n'ayons l'air de rien

para la queja mexica
este sueno de america
celebremos la aluna
de siempre, ahorita

et les branleurs trainent
dans la rue
et ils envoient ça aux étoiles
perdues
encore combien à attendre
combien à attendre
combien à attendre
encore combien à attendre
Tostaky

le fond du continent
l'or du nouveau monde
pyramide jetables
hommes d'affaires impeccables
quand la pluie de sagesse
pourrit sur les trottoirs
notre mêre la terre
étonne moi

para la quaja mexica...

pendre les fantomes
Cortez
et pourrir à l'ombre
Cortez
de l'amérique vendue
à des girophares crûs
pour des nouveaux faisceaux
pour des nouveaux soleils
pour des nouveaux rayons
pour des nouveaux soleils

aqui para nosotros
aqui para nosotros etc
Tostaky

bien reçu
tous les messages
ils disent qu'ils ont compris
qu'il n'y a plus le choix
que l'esprit qui souffle
guidera leur pas
qu'arrivent les derniers temps où
nous pourrons parler
alors soyons désonvoltes
n'ayons l'air de rien
soyons désinvoltes
n'ayons l'air de rien

Noir Desir / Tostaky
 
 
Matthew Fluxington
19:54 / 04.07.02
we'll have lots of bail,
tons of trail mix,
cause we're setting out to sail,
courageously
you and me
we'll have lots of love,
the both of us,
and none of the above-the-waist activity
you and me
i'm gonna see you in the morning,
i'm gonna see you when you're uptight,
i'm gonna see you when you're boring
i'm gonna see you ever night
we'll have wedding dreams
and baby seats,
and family gatherings, eternally
you and me
we'll have visits small,
long distance calls,
and meetings in bathroom stalls in fantasy
you and me
 
 
The Apple-Picker
12:25 / 05.07.02
What is that song, Flux?
 
 
paw
18:07 / 05.07.02
one love
one soul
time pass
river roll
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
14:25 / 09.07.02
There's gonna be some trouble
a whole house will need re-building
and everyone I love in the house
will recline on an analyst's couch quite
soon
your Father cracks a joke
and in the usual way
empties the room
tell all the friends
(I don't have too many
just some rain-coated lovers' brothers)
Dallow, Spicer, Pinkie, Cubitt
rush to danger
wind up nowhere
Patric Doonan - raised to wait
TIRED again - TRIED again, and
now my heart is full
now my heart is full
and I just can't explain
SO I WON'T EVEN TRY TO
Dallow, Spicer, Pinkie, Cubitt
every jammy Stressford poet
loafing oafs in all-night chemists
loafing oafs in all-night chemists
underact - express depression
ah, but Bunnie I loved you
I was tired again
I tried again, and
now my heart is full
now my heart is full
and I just can't explain
SO I WON'T EVEN TRY TO

-Morrissey - "Now My Heart Is Full"
 
 
starletletter
06:02 / 10.07.02
At last I am free
I can hardly see in front of me
I can hardly see in front of meeeeeeee!


-chic
 
 
Shortfatdyke
11:05 / 10.07.02
god has gone wrong again -
he's taken my money and run....

blythe power
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
14:15 / 13.07.02
Bagpuss, dear Bagpuss, old fat furry cat-puss
Wake up and see this thing that I bring
Wake up, be bright, be golden and light
Oh Bagpuss oh hear what I sing.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
21:19 / 13.07.02
We're out here on the borders with our favourite few possessions
Traded stories whispered round the fire
As shadows in the searchlights, mugshots in the files
Waiting in the camps behind the wire
Kick the door until it opens, what you have you cannot hold
We are young, forever hungry, you are fat and growing old
And every day you try to build a higher wall

We pick the leaves of coca, we stack the crates of cola
We wait upon the tables where you dine
And learn from you not to accept the little that we're given
To take the piece of silver when we can
Now clutching at these papers in another office line
We're staring from the darkness up at windows filled with light
And every day you try to build a higher wall

In my town we used to pray to idols sent from far away
From out beyond the dusty days, we heard your voices call
And in your town the streets are cleaned
The order stands, the sirens scream
You talk of peace, vacation dreams- and reinforce the wall

Now in the queues at immigration, in the border zone
We are your bastard children, all coming home
And every day you try to build a higher wall
Every day you try to build a higher wall
But your money cannot stop us
And your violence cannot stop us
No you will never stop us with your higher wall.

(Higher Wall- New Model Army.)
 
 
Spatula Clarke
01:35 / 16.07.02
As the fuckawful Faithless once put it, "I can't get no sleep."
 
 
Saint Keggers
02:42 / 16.07.02
Volare!!!
 
 
Matthew Fluxington
03:45 / 16.07.02
There's something in the air there
makes you go insane
brings you back to me
It's been so long
all that I have to do
is live along
It's coming coming down
over me
Do you want to see
the explosions in my eye
Do you want to see
the reflection of
how we used to be
Beauty lies
in the eyes of anothers dreams
Beauty lies
lost in anothers dream
it's coming coming down
over me
Do you want to see
the explosions in my eye
Do you want to see
the reflection of
how it used to be

hey baby
hey sweetheart
hey fox come here
hey beautiful
 
 
Spatula Clarke
01:25 / 17.07.02
I believe that it was a Mr Malkmus, crooner with a popular beat combo known as Pavement, who once implored, "I need to sleep, why won't you let me?"
 
 
Matthew Fluxington
19:51 / 28.07.02
for JB:

If you’re tired of the big so so
Get yourself into some self control
Play the game by putting on the brakes
Slow down and make less mistakes

Nobody lingers like your hands on my heart
Nobody figures like you figured me out
I would be lying if I didn't say to you:
"No one comes close, don't worry you got it!"

The way I feel when you call my name
Makes me go crazy to sane
The way I feel when you’re close to me
Finally not drifting out to sea

Nobody lingers like your hands on my heart
Nobody figures like you figured me out
I would be lying if I didn't say to you:
"No one comes close, don't worry you got it!"

Come on now I wish you would
I’m the one who makes you feel good
Never mind those things they say
They don’t know it but I’m here to stay

Nobody lingers like your hands on my heart
Nobody figures like you figured me out
I would be lying if I didn't say to you:
"No one comes close, don't worry you got it!"


("Oh!", Sleater-Kinney)
 
 
that
15:02 / 31.07.02
'River guard' by Smog

When I take the prisoners swimming
They have the time of their lives
I love to watch them floating
On their backs
Unburdened and relaxed

I sit in the tall grass and look the other way
And when I haul them in they always say
Our sentences will not be served
We are constantly on trial
It's a way to be free

Most nights I go for a drive
To to the highest place I can find
Stand there on a cliff with gooseflesh
Watching the wind rip the leaves from the trees
Death defying
Every breath
Death defying

Soon we'll all be back in the yard
Behind the wall
Living hard
Dreaming of cool rivers and tall grass

We are constantly on trial
It's a way to be free

We are constantly on trial
It's a way to be free
 
 
paw
15:43 / 05.08.02
do you realise
everyone you know will die?
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
09:57 / 07.08.02
Or maybe maybe it's the things we said,
The words we heard and the music we play,
Maybe it's our sweetness,
Oh maybe maybe it's the times we've had,
The lazy days and the crazes and the fads,
Maybe it's our cheapness,
But we're trash, you and me,
We're the litter on the breeze,
We're the lovers on the streets,
Just trash, me and you,
It's in everything we do,
It's in everything we do.

Thanks, Suede.

Gee, guess who's feeling maudlin today? Fuh.

*wilt. dye hair*
 
 
paw
23:30 / 07.08.02
and in the end
the love you take
is equal to the love you make

Abbey road- Beatles
 
 
suds
12:48 / 09.08.02
it's got the right to sit on that face,
well it was put here for me because i am great,
i've got the right to sit on that face,
everybody look at me and my wonderful place.


(pavement...of course)
 
  

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