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

 
  

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Matthew Fluxington
12:37 / 13.08.02
I can't see anything at all, all I see is me
that's clear enough, and that's what's important: to see me
my eyes can focus, my brain is talking, it looks pretty good to me
my head's on straight, my girlfriend's beautiful,
it looks pretty good to me
sometimes I speak, tonight there's nothing to say
sometimes we freak, and laugh all day

hold these pages up to the light,
see the jackknife inside of the dream
a railroad runs through the record stores at night
coming in for the deep freeze

Mary - a simple word, are you there in the country?
yr eyes so full, yr head so tight, can't you hear me?
remember our talk, that day on the phone?
said I was the door, and you were the station
with shattered glass, and miles between us
we still flew away in the conversation
my cup is full, and a I feel okay
the world is dull, but not today

she thinks she's a goddess
she says she talks to the spirits
I wonder if she can talk to herself?
if she can bear to hear it

this is Eric's trip
we've all come to watch him slip
he's slipping all the way to Texas
can you dig it?

I see with a glass eye, the pavement view
a shadow forming, across fields rushing, through me to you
we tored down the world, and put up four walls, I breathe in the myth
I'm over the city, fucking the future
I'm high and inside yr kiss
we can't see clear, but what we see is alright
we make up what we can't hear, and then we sing all night
skattered pages and shattered lgiths, a jackknife and a dream
there's something moving over there on the right
like nothing I've ever seen
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
11:16 / 14.08.02
Wise words from the departing...
Eat your greens. Especially broccoli.
Be careful to say thank you
For the things you never had

The death of your mother
The death of your father
Is something you've prepared for
All your life
All their life

By working the soil
We cultivate the sky
And re-embrace the vegetable kingdom

Wise words from the departing
Wear sensible shoes
Eat your greens.
Especially broccoli.

Be careful to say thank you
Especially for the things you never had

The death of the mother
The death of the father
Is something you prepare for
All their life
All your life

By working the soil
We cultivate the sky
And re-enter the vegetable kingdom
Of our own heaven

By working the soil
We cultivate good manners
That is to say please and thank you
Especially for broccoli.

"Broccoli"- Coil.
 
 
Shortfatdyke
11:29 / 14.08.02
Let's move to the country,
my travels are over,
my travels are through.
Let's move to the country,
just me and you.

Smog
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
09:51 / 16.08.02
How many lies do I have to tell before you believe me?
And how many times do you have to beat me before I learn how to play?
And where are the authorities
When you need somebody blown away?

How many arrows do I have to suffer before I'm a martyr?
Is it true that you have to do good before someone will pay for a look at your bones?
You've got to be kidding me!
Does this mean I'll never be a saint?

With my pocket full of platitudes
And my dusty crown of thorns
Yeah, it's used but barely worn

And I have crawled broken and desparate
Through the dumpsters of the Lord
Through the dumpsters of the Lord

And once I was an ugly sea
I wrestled in my sleep
And hurled my threats and curses at the sky
I pounded on the stubborn shore
Because it can never be a symphony
If nobody cries, nobody cries, nobody cries

Nobody cries

And how many bodies and how many boxes before it's all over?
And how many tears do I have to cry before they wash me away?
Heads I do: it's a comedy
Tails I don't: and I see another day

With my pockets full of platitudes
And my dusty crown of thorns
Yeah, it's used but barely worn

And I have crawled broken and desparate
Through the dumpsters of the Lord
Through the dumpsters of the Lord

Once I was a rusted ship
Forsaken on the rocks
A tangle of green ligament and bone
I wrangled with the sullen sea
But it can never be a tragedy
If nobody dies, nobody dies, nobody dies

Nobody dies, nobody dies.

(Firewater).
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
10:46 / 16.08.02
The waves keep on crashing on me for some reason
But your love keeps on coming like a thunderbolt
So come here a little closer
'Cause I wanna see you, baby, real close up
(Get over here... Get over here!)

You got me feeling hella good
So let's just keep on dancing
You hold me like you should
So I'm gonna keep on dancing

A performance deserving of standing ovations
And who would have thought it'd be the two of us
So don't wake me if I'm dreaming
'Cause I'm in the mood come on and give it up

You got me feeling hella good
So let's just keep on dancing
You hold me like you should
So I'm gonna keep on dancing
You got me feeling hella good
So let's just keep on dancing
You hold me like you should
So I'm gonna keep on dancing

Ooh yeah yeah
Ooh yeah yeah
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
10:58 / 16.08.02
Who disco? Who techno?
Who hip-hop/Who bebop?
Who's been playing records in his bedroom?

And who rocks out? Who's spaced out?
Who brings you? Who sings you?
Who's still working on his masterpiece?

The great intoxication
The mental generation
Sound effects and laughter
Stupid everafter
Hoping it was cranked up loud enough for you to hear

He's drunk and he's insistent
Shy but he's persistent
Boisterous and jumpy
Disorganised and funky
Every day he wonders
What the hell she sees in me?

Who saves you, who craves you,
Who heart-breaks, who love makes
Look into the eyeball of your boyfriend

Who drives you, capsize you,
Who shakes you, who wakes you,
Who's still working on his masterpiece?

("The great Intoxication"- David Byrne).
 
 
Matthew Fluxington
12:56 / 20.08.02
your eyes
like crashing jets
fixed in stained glass
but not religious

you should pay rent
in my mind
say like the French say
"bon soir regret a demand"

white witness paid to commission
the state of Virginia for 27 prisons
while in Bethesda, an office flaming
youth group singing
firemen marching in

Lockheed, Lockheed, Martin Marietta
Lockheed, Lockheed, Martin Marietta
Lockheed, Lockheed, Martin Marietta
Lockheed, Lockheed, Martin Marietta

do you like me?

do you like me?

do you like me?

do you like me? I guess.

end of the lesson, time for a question
end of the lesson, time for one more question
I've got a question
I've got a question
I've got a question
I've got a question
do you like me?
do you like me?
do you like me?
do you like me?
 
 
Shortfatdyke
13:14 / 20.08.02
You dream of revolution, with violence as your tool
You dream of liberation, and when the people rule
Well ain't it people rule right now, what difference would it be?
Just another set of bigots with their rifle sights on me.

I don't want your revolution
I want Anarchy and Peace

Crass Bloody Revolutions


Blow it up, burn it down, kick it 'til it breaks

The Apostles
 
 
Matthew Fluxington
15:17 / 20.08.02
Flies are buzzing round my head
Vultures circling the dead
Picking up every last crumb
The big fish eat the little ones
The big fish eat the little ones
Not my problem, give me some

You can try the best you can
If you try the best you can
The best you can is good enough
If you try the best you can
If you try the best you can
The best you can is good enough

This one's optimistic
This one went to market
This one just came out of the swamp
This one dropped a payload
Fodder for the animals
Living on animal farm

If you try the best you can
If you try the best you can
The best you can is good enough
If you try the best you can
If you try the best you can
The best you can is good enough

I'd really like to help you, man
I'd really like to help you, man
Nervous messed up marionettes
Floating around on a prison ship

If you try the best you can
If you try the best you can
The best you can is good enough
If you can try the best you can
If you try the best you can
Dinosaurs roaming the Earth
Dinosaurs roaming the Earth
Dinosaurs roaming the Earth
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
15:28 / 20.08.02
don't say the word
if you don't want it done
don't tell me your name
if you don't want it sung
don't come any closer
that's good enough
don't go away
i can't stand the thought

it's too warm
inside your hands
it's too hard
it's too good
it's just that when you touched me
i could not stand up
i fell into
i fell down

why can't you tell me
is it worth a fight
do i sound crazy
well i just might

ha, turn it on, turn it on, on, you can turn it on, turn it into this song
turn it on, turn it on, now baby, you can turn it on, turn it into this song...

- Sleater-Kinney, 'Turn It On' (had to ad-lib the ad-libbed bits)
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
00:18 / 27.08.02
Both of these are from Bone Machine by Tom Waits. Both of them are pretty appropriate, I guess.

Whistle Down the Wind

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

The bus at the corner
The clock's on the wall
Broken windmill
There's no wind at all
I've yelled and I cursed
If i stay here I'll rust
I'm stuck like a shipwreck
Out here in the dust


Sky is red
And the world's on fire
And the corn is taller than me
The dog is tied
To a wagon of rain
And the road is as wet as the sea
And sometimes the music from a dance
Will carry across the plains
And the places that I'm dreaming of
Do they dream only of me?

There are places where they never sleep
And the circus never ends
So I will take the Marley Bone Coach
And whistle down the wind

And, for the other side,

Goin' Out West

Well I'm goin' out west
Where the wind blows tall
'Cause Tony Franciosa
Used to date my ma
They got some money out there
And they're giving it away
I'm gonna do what I want
And I'm gonna get paid
Do what I want
And I'm gonna get paid

Little brown sausages
Lying in the sand
I ain't no extra, baby
I'm a leading man
Well my parole officer
Is gonna be proud of me
With my Olds 88
And the devil on a leash
My Olds 88
And the devil on a leash

(chorus)
Well I know karate - Voodoo too
I'm gonna make myself available to you
I don't need no make up
I got real scars
I got hair on my chest *bam bam bam bam*
I look good without a shirt

Well I don't lose my composure
In a high speed chase
Well my friends think I'm ugly
I got a masculine face
I got some dragstrip courage
I can really drive a bed
I'm gonna change my name
To Hannibal or maybe
Just Rex
Change my name to Hannibal
Or maybe just Rex

(chorus)

I'm gonna drive all night
And get some speed
I'm gonna wait for the sun
To shine down on me
I cut a hole in my roof
In the shape of a heart

And I'm goin' out west
Where they appreciate me
Goin' out west
Where they appreciate me
Goin' out west

I'm leaning more towards the first at the moment, though.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
19:22 / 27.08.02
Did you feel the breeze?
My love
Summer's kiss is over, baby
Over
Do you know the words?
Sing along with me
And put on your rose fur coat, baby
It's 1973

My love, this dream I have each night
I stare into a blinding light
Alone, I stare

Demons, be gone
Away from me
And come on down to the corner
I got something i want you to see
The burning sun
Too hot for shade
Come lay down in the cool grass
With me, baby let's watch that
Summer fade

My love, this dream I have each night
I stare into a blinding light
Alone, I stare
So sweet
This dream is not a dream
I wake with it
Inside of me
Alone, I swear

- The Afghan Whigs, 'Summer's Kiss'. How needlessly angsty.
 
 
suds
20:24 / 27.08.02
dont need you to say were cute
dont need u to say we're alright
dont need yr atti-fucking-tude boys
dont need yr dick to suck
we dont need you, us girls dont need you
 
 
schwantz
21:18 / 27.08.02
He wishes that he had a rich girlfriend who'd let him crash her car
he wishes that he had a million friends sitting with him here at the bar

yeah he remembers what mama said
"True love will find you in the end"

She wishes that she had married a man of handsome substance
wishes that she had filled her living room with laughter and romance

and she remembers what papa said
"True love will find you in the end"

He wishes that he had the strength to push himself from the ledge
he wishes that he was anywhere else besides crying here at his desk

But it's a little too late for you to cry
Why did you listen? They were just lies



She wishes that she could be pretty for just one moment
she wishes that she could stop shaking and has another cigarette

the sky opens up, the waves roll by
why did you listen, they were just lies

Well I wish you well my brothers-in-arms and sisters in aimlessness
I wish for the day when I can say that it was all worth it

yeah why can't you forget what the liars have said
true love will never find you in the end
 
 
Matthew Fluxington
18:27 / 29.08.02
I was hell - sarcastic silver swell
the day it rained, tough spun, hard won
no ocean flower aquarium
that man - give a hand, honey-dip flim-flam
hey hey! hey hey!
that cat can walk like a big bad man

store front window, I reflect
just last week I was merely head
tip the scale - I was hell
picked me up, then I fell
who's this stranger, crow bar spine?
dot dot dot...and I feel fine
let it rain! rain! rain!
bring my happy back again

let it rain! rain! rain!
save me from myself again
wash away my ugly sins
opposing thumb, dorsal fin
that monkey died for my grin
bring my happy back again
let it rain! rain! rain!
bring my happy back again
 
 
Loomis
13:31 / 30.08.02
Piccadilly Palare

Off the rails I was and
Off the rails
I was happy to stay
GET OUT OF MY WAY
On the rack I was
Easy meat, and a reasonably good buy
A reasonably good buy

The Piccadilly palare
Was just silly slang
Between me and the boys in my gang
"So Bona to Vada. OH YOU
Your lovely eek and
Your lovely riah"


We plied an ancient trade
Where we threw all life's
Instructions away
Exchanging lies and digs (my way)
Cause in a belted coat
Oh, I secretly knew
That I hadn't a clue


(No, no. No, no, no. You can't get there that way. Follow me...)


The Piccadilly palare
Was just silly slang
Between me and the boys in my gang
Exchanging palare
You wouldn't understand
Good sons like you
NEVER DO.


So why do you smile
When you think about Earl's Court ?
But you cry when you think of all
The battles you've fought (and lost) ?
It may all end tomorrow
Or it could go on forever
In which case I'm doomed
It could go on forever
In which case I'm doomed

(Moz - of course)
 
 
Matthew Fluxington
14:08 / 30.08.02
I fell asleep and read just about every paragraph.

Read the scene where gravity is pulling me around
Peel back the mountains peel back the sky
Stomp gravity into the floor
It's a Man Ray kind of sky
Let me show you what I can do with it
Time and distance are out of place here

Step up, step up, step up the sky is open-armed
When the light is mine, I felt gravity pull

Somewhere near the end it said
"You can't do this", I said "I can too"
Shift sway rivers shift, oceans fall and mountains drift
It's a Man Ray kind of sky
Let me show you what I can do with it

Step up, step up, step up the sky is open-armed
When the light is mine, I felt gravity pull onto my eyes,
holding my head straight (looking down).
This is the easiest task I've ever had to do...

I fell asleep and read just about every paragraph

Read the scene where gravity is pulling me around
Shift the swaying river's shift
Oceans fall and mountains drift
It's a Man Ray kind of sky
Let me show you what I can do with it
Time and distance are out of place here

Step up, step up, step up the sky is open-armed
When the light is mine, I felt gravity pull onto my eyes,
holding my head straight (looking down).
This is the easiest task I've ever had to do...

Reason had harnessed the tame
Holding the sky in their arms
Gravity pulls me down
 
 
suds
14:06 / 04.09.02
I gave you everything
I hope you give it back to me
I told you everything
I hope you'll never tell on me

The pee girl gets the belt
Your milk makes me mind
Your milk is so sour
Baby, I can only cry
You have all the power
Baby, I can only cry
You have all the power

I've got a blister from touching everyone I see
The abyss opened up
It took everything from me
 
 
deja_vroom
14:11 / 04.09.02
The yellow walls are lined with portraits
And I've got my new red fetching leather jacket
All these poses such beautiful poses
Makes any boy feel like picking up roses

There's never been such grave a matter
As comparing our new brand name black sunglasses
All these poses such beautiful poses
Makes any boy feel as pretty as princes

The green autumnal parks conducting
All the city streets a wondrous chorus singing
All these poses oh how can you blame me
Life is a game and true love is a trophy

And you said
Watch my head about it
Baby you said watch my head about it
My head about it
Oh no oh no oh no
Oh no oh no no kidding

Reclined amongst these packs of reasons
For to smokes the days away into the evenings
All these poses of classical torture
Ruined my mind like a snake in the orchard
I did go from wanting to be someone now
I'm drunk and wearing flip-flops on Fifth Avenue

Once you've fallen from classical virtue
Won't have a soul for to wake up and hold you

In the green autumnal parks conducting
All the city streets a wondrous chorus
Singing all these poses now no longer boyish
Made me a man ah but who cares what that it

And you said watch my head about it
Baby you said watch my head about it
My head about it
Oh no oh no oh no
Oh no oh no well you said
Watch my head about it
Baby you said watch my head about it
My head about it
Oh no oh no oh no
Oh no oh no no kidding
Rufus Wainwright - Poses
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
06:17 / 09.09.02
crooked spin can't come to rest
I'm damaged bad at best
she'll decide what she wants
I'll probably be the last to know
no one says until it shows and you see how it is
they want you or they don't
say yes

Elliott Smith, "Say Yes". I've got to stop listening to that goddamned record. It's doing me no good.
 
 
The Strobe
08:50 / 09.09.02
I've had the album on constantly for some weeks - i'm back in a shouty guitar phase. And at the moment, all that's spinning in my head are these two songs.

a praise chorus
are you going to live your life wondering
standing in the back, looking around?
are you goign to waste your time thinking
how you've grown up
how you've missed out?

th-th-th-th-things are never going to tbe the way you want
where's it going to get you acting serious?
th-th-th-th-things are never going to tbe the way you want
even at twenty five you've got to start some time

i'm on my feet
i'm on the floor
i'm good to go
all i need is just to hear a song i know
i want to always feel like part of this was mine
i want to fall in love tonight

are you going to live your life standing in the back lookgin around?
are eyou going to waste your time?
got to make a move or you'll miss out

s-s-s-s-s-someone's going to ask you what it's all about
stick around nostalgia wont let you down
s-s-s-s-s-someone's going to ask you what it's all about
what are you going to have to say for yourself?

i'm on my feet
i'm on the floor i'm good to go
all i need is just to hear a song i know
i want to always feel like part of this was mine
i want to fall in love tonight

(crimson
and clover
over
and over...)

(our house in the middle of the street
why did we ever we meet?
started my rock and roll fantasy
don't don't
don't start
why did we ever part?
kick start my rock and roll heart)


i'm on my feet
i'm on the floor i'm good to go
so come on davey, sing me something that i know
i want to always feel like part of this was mine
i want to fall in love tonight
here
tonight


if you don't, don't
what's wrong baby
don't they treat you like they should?
did you take them for it
or every penny that you could?
we once walked out on the beach and once i almost touched your hand
o how i dreamed to finally say such things
then only to pretend

don't you known i'm thinking
driving 405 past midngiht
you know i miss you
ninth and ash on a tuesday night
i would wrtie to you from museum mile
toast to you:
your whisper
your smile
up the stairs at the wheatherford
a ghost each place i hide

if you don't don't know why d'you say so?
would you mean this please if it happens?
if you don't know why would you say so?
won't you get your story straight?
if you don't know honey would you just say so
because i need this now more than i ever did
if you don't, well honey then you don't

i left you waiting
at the least could we be friends?
should have never started
ain't that the way it always ends?
on my life i'll try today
there's so much i've felt i should say but
even if your heart would listen i doubt i could explain

if you don't don't know why d'you say so?
would you mean this please if it happens?
if you don't know why would you say so?
won't you get your story straight?
if you don't know honey would you just say so
because i need this now more than i ever did
if you don't, well honey then you don't
if you don't, well honey then you don't

so here we are now
a sip of wine
a sip of water
someday maybe
maybe someday we'll be smarter
i'm sorry that i'm such a mess
i drank all my money could get
took everything that we had and then i never loved you back

if you don't don't know why d'you say so?
would you mean this please if it happens?
if you don't know why would you say so?
won't you get your story straight?
if you don't know honey would you just say so
because i need this now more than i ever did
if you don't know,
well honey,
then you don't.
 
 
Mazarine
00:14 / 10.09.02
When you've had enough
when you've got it bad enough
and you can't let go

when it comes to blows
and you start to overflow
but you can't get home

it's a subtle kind of cruel
it taps my spine
here I'm drawing a line
I'm asking you please

don't you wanna be
happy with me?
don't you wanna be
happy with me?
I'm afraid if you don't come around soon
I'll turn sadder than you ever were
I know the loneliness is worse
you've gotta try...

December's all alone
and he's calling me on the phone
but he sounds so cold...

he says he loves me so
but how would I ever know?
certain words grow old

it's a vicious kind of catch
it sides me blind
now I'm out of my mind
I wanna scream

don't you wanna be
happy with me?
don't you wanna be
happy with me?
I'm afraid if you don't come around soon
I'll turn sadder than you ever were
the loneliness is worse
you've gotta try...

love liked me long ago
it had a way of making everyone the same
but how the angels
(how the angels)
must laugh inside
(singing with me now)
with me screaming with you
and needing you this way
(needing you this way)

oh, why don't you wanna be
happy with me?
don't you wanna be
happy with me?
I'm afraid if you don't come around soon
I'll turn sadder than you ever were
I know the loneliness is worse
you've gotta try...
to stay mine
all the way
don't you wanna be
happy with me?
don't you wanna be
happy with me?
I'm afraid if you don't come around soon
I'll turn sadder than you ever were
it's got a way of making everyone the same
it's got a way of making everyone the same
it's got a way of making everyone the same
it's got a way of making everyone the same

(Veruca Salt)
 
 
Tryphena Absent
01:25 / 10.09.02
So many fantastic colors; I feel in a wonderland.
Many fantastic colors makes me feel so good.
 
 
suds
15:52 / 10.09.02
i am getting so hot
i'm gonna take my clothes off
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
16:24 / 10.09.02
"Next Thursday you're invited to watch Rising Tide's live coverage of a gala tribute in salute to Ronald Reagan! Host Haley Barbour joins special guest Lady Margaret Thatcher in celebrating the former President's 83rd birthday. Ticket's are 1000 dollars a place - but you can see the event free, on GOP TV!"

Images of perfection, suntan and napalm
Grenada - Haiti - Poland - Nicaragua
Who shall we choose for our morality
I'm thinking right now of Hollywood tragedy

Big mac: smack: phoenix r: please smile y'all
Cuba, Mexico can't cauterize our discipline
Your idols speak so much of the abyss
Yet your morals only run as deep as the surface

Cool - groovy - morning - fine (If white)
Tipper Gore was a friend of mine (America)
I love a free country (told the truth)
The stars and stripes and an apple for mommy (for one day)


Conservative say: there ain't no black in the Union Jack
Democrat say: there ain't enough white in the Stars and Stripes


Compton - Harlem - a pimp fucked a priest
The white man has just found a new moral saviour
Vital stats - how white was their skin
Unimportant - just another inner-city drive-by thing

Morning - fine - serve your first coffee of the day
Real privilege, it will take your problems all away
Number one - the best - no excuse from me
I am here to serve the moral majority

Cool - groovy - morning - fine (If white)
Tipper Gore was a friend of mine (America)
I love a free country (told the truth)
The stars and stripes and an apple for mommy (for one day)

Zapruder the first to masturbate
The world's first taste of crucified grace
And we say: there's not enough black in the Union Jack
And we say: there's too much white in the Stars and Stri-i-i-iiipes

Fuck the Brady bill
Fuck the Brady bill
If God made man they say
Sam Colt made him equal
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
08:37 / 14.09.02
The time I like is the rush hour, cos I like the rush
The pushing of the people - I like it all so much
Such a mass of motion - do not know where it goes
I move with the movement and ... I have the touch

I'm waiting for ignition, I'm looking for a spark
Any chance collision and I light up in the dark
There you stand before me, all that fur and all that hair
Oh, do I dare ... I have the touch

Wanting contact
I'm wanting contact
I'm wanting contact with you
Shake those hands, shake those hands
Give me the thing I understand
Shake those hands, shake those hands
Shake those hands, shake those hands

Any social occasion, it's hello, how do you do
All those introductions, I never miss my cue
So before a question, so before a doubt
My hand moves out and ... I have the touch

Wanting contact
I'm wanting contact
I'm wanting contact with you
Shake those hands, shake those hands
Give me the thing I understand
Shake those hands, shake those hands

Pull my chin, stroke my hair, scratch my nose, hug my knees
Try drink, food, cigarette, tension will not ease
I tap my fingers, fold my arms, breathe in deep, cross my legs
Shrug my shoulders, stretch my back - but nothing seems to please


I need contact
I need contact
Nothing seems to please
I need contact

-Peter Gabriel, "I Have The Touch". Ah, the joy of finding tapes you haven't heard for *years*.
 
 
Matthew Fluxington
14:04 / 14.09.02
I have a lover
a lover like no other
she's got soul, soul, soul
sweet soul
and she teaches me how to sing
she shows me colors when there's none to see
gives me hope when I can't believe
that for the first time I feel love
 
 
Shortfatdyke
15:47 / 14.09.02
They were hiding behind hay bales,
they were planting in the full moon
They had given all they had for something new
But the light of day was on them,
they could see the thrashers coming
And the water shone like diamonds in the dew

And I was just getting up, hit the road before it's light
Trying to catch an hour on the sun
When I saw those thrashers rollin' by,
looking more than two lanes wide
I was feeling like my day had just begun

Where the eagle glides ascending there's an ancient river bending
Down the timeless gorge of changes where sleeplessness awaits
I searched out my companions, they were lost in crystal canyons
When the aimless blade of science slashed the pearly gates
It was then that I knew I'd had enough, burned my credit cards for fuel
Headed out to where the pavement turns to sand
With a one-way ticket to the land of truth and my suitcase in my hand
How I lost my friends I still don't understand

They had the best selection, they were poisoned with protection
There was nothing that they needed, they had nothing left to find
They were lost in rock formations, or became park bench mutations
On the sidewalks and in the stations they were waiting, waiting
So I got bored and left them there, they were just dead weight to me
It's better on the road without that load
Brought back the time when I was eight or nine
I was watching my mama's tv, it was that great Grand Canyon episode
Where the vulture glides descending on an asphalt highway bending
Through libraries and museums, galaxies and stars
Down the windy halls of friendship to the rose clipped by the bullwhip
The motel of lost companions waits with heated pool and bar

But me I'm not stopping there, got my own row left to hoe
Just another line in the field of time
When the thrashers come and I'm stuck in the sun like dinosaurs in shrines
Then I'll know the time has come to give what's mine.


Neil Young
 
 
Elijah, Freelance Rabbi
00:33 / 15.09.02
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
 
 
suds
15:06 / 17.09.02
this is to the men who fucked up, stomped on and then spat at my thursday (september 12th):

well i guess you're the judge
i guess you're the king of the forever beauty pagent i'm always in
my heart beats blue, beats red, beats mad
is this the only power that you really wanna have?
count from one to nine, how high do i rate?
i guess feeling good was my first mistake
on guard!
 
 
Matthew Fluxington
17:17 / 17.09.02
Sometimes
I like to sit around
and just contemplating sitting round
I could stay in bed, like my momma said
Don't just do something, sit around instead

Sometimes
If I may say myself
I'm not bad at life, I'm not good as well
And though life goes on, I can plainly see
Just what is it for, if its not for me?

Sometimes
Though its a big surprise
I made compromise the thing I most desire
I can say with pride, hold my head up high
That I had a great Idea but nevermind.

Oh, babe...
I'm going nowhere, nowhere is where I wanna be
And I'm good for nothing
Nothing is good enough for me
Anything, anything can come to anybody
Everything, everything can come to someone, sometime.

Sometimes
Opportunity passes right by me, didn't even slow,
I can't breathe and think and I need a drink,
All this common sense made a fool of me.

Sometimes
I like to sit around
and just contemplating sitting round
I can stay in bed like my momma said
Don't just do something, sit around instead

Sometimes
I get to fly so high
That the sun burns my wings, but I will fly
Just a little too far, cause thats where you are
And I won't bring you down, believe in me

Sometimes
I get me all confused, and the resons why are confusing too
I could be with you, try to sort it out
If I tell the truth, I like to lie about

Sometimes
Though its a big surprise
I made compromise the thing I most desire
I can say with pride, hold my head up high
That I had a great idea but nevermind.

Sometimes
I like to sit around
and just contemplating sitting round
Although life goes on, I can plainly see
All this common sense made a fool of me
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
22:56 / 17.09.02
Had a scratch only you could itch
Underneath the Glebe Point Bridge
And now every boy in a knitted vest
Has got some precedent
So we took a personality pill
And something red to swill
And now every fire has gone out
in every heart that wanted to kill
Let's call it a day
Every thought that once had a sound
We'll have to hide 'til no one is around
'cause there ain't no room in the city today
For explanations that you just can't say
Found out what shame can mean
In purple sneakers and grey jeans
And every walked to a school that once made sense
Sure felt like an accident
Let's call it a day

For every trouble you found
There's a drink to lose it and drown
But do you need somebody, to feel somebody?

Every day that once had a sound
We'll have to hide 'til no one is in town
I don't hate I just feel better
When no one else is around
So we'll take a personality pill
And something red to swill
And now every fire has gone out
in every heart that wanted to kill
Let's call it a day

For every trouble you found
There's a drink to lose it and drown
But do you need somebody, to feel somebody?

You can shave a million ways
To make damn sure that the twelve in you stays
But do you need somebody, to feel somebody?
-"Purple Sneakers", You Am I.

Damn. This was THE song while I was at uni. Now, only bits of it.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
17:11 / 22.09.02
Melancholy (and pissed) as ever, I give you:



I watched you in your tragic beauty
Walk beneath my window
Eyes aimed high, but unfocused...
You never noticed me
You always wore the same dress
Always bore the same expression:
"It's a loveless world, so what's the point of looking? Let it be."

I considered throwing roses
Thought I'd maybe wave a flag
Had to try and force some small connection-
But there's a snag-

It's my confession that I watch you
In my tragic isolation
In my fear
That's the way it's been for years
That's the way it will always be...



(I Love You In Your Tragic Beauty- the Legendary Pink Dots)
 
 
that
17:19 / 22.09.02
Dead Can Dance 'Don't Fade Away'

Don't fade away
My brown-eyed girl
Come walk with me
I'll fill your heart with joy
And we'll dance through our isolation
Seeking solace in the wisdom we bestow
Turning thoughts to the here and everafter
Consuming fears in our fiery halos

Say what you mean
Mean what you say
I've heard that innocence
Has led us all astray

But don't let them make you and break you
The world is filled with their broken empty
dreams
Silence is their only virtue
Locked away inside their silent screams

But for now
Let us dance away
This starry night
Filled with the glow of fiery stars
And with the dawn
Our sun will rise
Bringing a symphony of bird cries

Don't bring me down now
Let me stay here for awhile
You know life's too short
Let me bathe here in your smile
I'm transcending
The fall from the garden

Goodnight
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
17:29 / 22.09.02
Fifteen stories high
The black curtains drawn
And the sun is just a brat that spits and goes away
The TV chatters
There's a pile of letters lying on the mat
Reminders and bills
They smell of cats

Three starving cats
Who chase each others' shadows
And curl up on him overnight
They're scratching him, they're biting him
But he lost the will to fight
And he lost the will to move
Simply lost the will to move

It's been a month
Will be another
Till they're busting down the door
And carry him away
And lock him in
A padded box
Some fifteen stories high
Where the sun is just a brat who spits then goes away

Oh the more it changes
The more it stays the same...


(Legendary Pink Dots again. Sorry.)
 
  

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