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

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Matthew Fluxington

00:06 / 31.01.02

cats killing dogs, pigs eating rats
every mouth will eat you up
the king bug laughs

Belly of the heart Belly full of bats
the chromosomes seem not to want the fetus...

they beat you up
they make you leave
sticking needles in your knees
knowing God will be pleased
should make it easy

snakes eating frogs, toads eating gnats
when the space ship beams you up boy,
get drunk fast

rubber bullet barn, titty suckin calf-
goats and roosters
bees and bugs
amoebas!!!

they blow you up, make it breathe
make it feel like a disease
and though its hard to believe,
it makes it easy

00:14 / 31.01.02

THere was an old lady who swallowed a fly....

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

08:02 / 31.01.02

Well I've got nothing to look at
And I've got no pain to deny
And I've got nobody to bleed for
And I've got no sun to pull down from the sky

But I'm saved
I'm saved
I don't know why
But I'm saved

When sunlight falls on your shoulder
You look like a creature from heaven
You're holy when you open your eyes
And look up inside that sheltering sky
You're an angel, I'll never betray you
But I'll always be a lonely child

But I'm saved
I'm saved
I don't understand it
But I'm saved

If mercy were to hold me closely
And hide me in her place of no shame
The angels would throw down the water
They cried from one hundred million eyes
And I have a feeling that's growing
Somewhere behind my sleepless eyes

yeah I'm saved
I'm saved
I don't deserve it
But I'm saved

(SAVED- Swans.)

(Don't get me wrong- I ain't no Xtian, nor am I ecstatically in love. I just LOVE that song right now, and it plays constantly in my head.)

[ 31-01-2002: Message edited by: Moominstoat ]

Matthew Fluxington

09:22 / 01.02.02

well yr greed for tokens and stamps
underneath the fake oil burning lamps
in the city we forgot to name
the concourse' is a four wheel shame
and the courthouse is double breast
I'd like to check out your public (bodily) protest
So why you complaining? ta!

for those who sleep with electric guitars
range roving with the cinema stars
and I wouldn't want to shake their hand
cause they're in such a high protein land
because there's forty different shades of black
so many fortresses and ways to attack
so why you complaining? ta!

13:25 / 01.02.02

Im jealous and a little proud
I want to kiss and kill you tooooooo

Matthew Fluxington

13:36 / 01.02.02

I believe in harmony
I believe in Christmas Eve
free for all your happiness
and no one's living on their wits

one so kind and one so wise
one so kind throughout your life

fill yourself with dreams
fill yourself with dreams
come fill yourself with dreams

I believed in destiny
I believed to trust was free
free for all the happiness
and no one's living with regret

one so kind and one so wise
one so kind throughout your life

fill yourself with dreams
fill yourself with dreams
come fill yourself with dreams

oh, now you know
no, never told
now you can be bold

and I believed in solitude
I believed to love is true
free for all your happiness
and no one's living on their wits

one so kind and one so wise
one so kind throughout your life

fill yourself with dreams
fill yourself with dreams
come fill yourself with dreams

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"Harmony" Clinic

[ 01-02-2002: Message edited by: Flux = Sleeps w/ Electric Guitars ]

13:37 / 01.02.02

I'm reasonable man.
Get off my case.

--Radiohead, Packt Like Sardines in a Crushed Tin Box

Elijah, Freelance Rabbi

14:47 / 01.02.02

In your dream you see me clear
I have no restraint, no fear
Powerless I watched from faces I'd assumed.
My purpose set. My will defined.
Caress the air.
Embrace the skies.
Escape the sorrow and restraint of mortal cities.

Give me time I will be clear.
Given time you'll understand
What posesses me to right what you have suffered.
I'm in this mood because of scorn.
I'm in a mood for total war.
To the darkened skies once more and ever onward.

So many years I stood among the thoughts
and tears of those I served.
Among my own I was alone through my own doing.
All the years I walked unknown
behind the faces I assumed.
Powerless to clear your mind of what you'd suffered.

They fall again.
They fall again.

Give me time I will be clear.
Given time you'll understand
What posesses me to right what you have suffered.
I'm in this mood because of scorn.
I'm in a mood for total war.
To the darkened skies once more and ever onward.
There is no faith in which to hide.
Even truth is filled with lies.
Doubting angels fall to walk among the living.
I'm in this mood because of scorn.
I'm in a mood for total war.
To the darkened skies once more and ever onward.

I'd only come here seeking peace.
I'd only come here seeking me.

It seems I came to leave.

VNV Nation---Dark Angel

Matthew Fluxington

20:04 / 03.02.02

3 chords, yeah they're yrs,
we stole them from yr bottom drawer.
16 strings or something,
yeah, don't listen, 'cause we stole everything.

Yeah, it's true, we got it from you,
don't worry man, there's nothing new.

Stay outside, stay outside -
there's nothing in here that you would call alive.

With yr own little shoes
on yr own little feet,
you'll never win or lose
on yr own little street,
when yr suckin' on yr thumb
and it's all goin' numb
and yr looking in the mirror
and yr looking so dumb

well don't expect my invitation to come,
in yr own little can
where you cut out the noise

yr too busy spittin' out mouthwash,
too busy spittin' out yr own voice

You keep saying, "I've got a car outside,"
well it that's true child, go take a ride!

("Last Train To Cool" by Nation Of Ulysses)

[ 03-02-2002: Message edited by: Flux = Fauxhemian ]

10:42 / 04.02.02

everything i do is judged
and they mostly get it wrong
but oh well
cause the bathroom mirror has not budged
and the woman who lives there can tell
the truth from the stuff that they say
and she looks me in the eye
and says would you prefer the easy way
no, well o.k. then
don't cry

(ani difranco)

The One Eyed King

11:13 / 04.02.02

For each a road
For everyman a religion
Find everybody and rule
For everything and rumble
Forget everything and remember
For everything a reason
Forgive everybody and remember

For each a road
For everyman a religion
Face everybody and rule
For everything and rumble
Forget everything and remember
For everything a reason

- Ian Brown
A slightly interesting song. However it does loose it's touch somewhat when you've heard it on repeat for many hours.

00:13 / 05.02.02

My mind's on rewind and quicksand. (what?)
I was up all night doing nothing. (last night? again?)
Do you wanna stay in bed all day (yeah!)
Do you remember feeling any other way (no!)
Do you wanna stay in bed all day (yeah!)
Do you remember feeling any other way (no!)
I must've been sleeping when you called
I'm not feeling well at all
I got this thing that's been going round
called please pretend I'm out of town
okay?...
Hey look I'm really sorry
I couldn't make it to your party
I know it looks like I'm gonna cry
Got a to-do list behind my eyes...

and

You hide inside, so not okay
What if you remember more today?
The phone rings but there's too much to say
You tell them to go when you wish they'd stay
You gotta keep on......
Disporportionate reactions just won't fade
Every dude you see puts you in a rage
Or stupid shit keeps making you cry
Your friends are worried you won't tell them why...

both Le Tigre. And yeah, suitably embarrassed to be quoting angsty Kathleen Hanna lyrics in this thread...

The Return Of Rothkoid

13:28 / 06.02.02

... Have you been half asleep? And have you heard voices?
I've heard them calling my name.
... Is this the sweet sound that calls the young sailors?
The voice might be one and the same
I've heard it too many times to ignore it
It's something that I'm s'posed to be...
Someday we'll find it, the rainbow connection,
The lovers, the dreamers, and me.

14:50 / 06.02.02

"Each Day I walk along this lonely street
Trying to find, find a future
New pair of shoes are on my feet
Cos' fashion is my only culture

Nothing ever change, oh no
Nothing ever change

People say to me just be yourself
It makes no sense to follow fashion
How could I be anybody else
I don't try, I've got no reason

Nothing ever change, oh no
Nothing ever change

I'm just living in a life without meaning
I walk and walk, do nothing
I'm just living in a life without feeling
I talk and talk, say nothing

Nothing ever change, oh no
Nothing ever change

I walk along this same old lonely street
Still trying to find, find a reason
Policeman comes and smacks me in the teeth
I don't complain, it's not my function"

--
The Specials, "Do Nothing"

13:17 / 08.02.02

for you, my sweet friends.

These mist covered mountains
Are a home now for me
But my home is the lowlands
And always will be
Some day you'll return to
Your valleys and your farms
And you'll no longer burn
To be brothers in arms

Through these fields of destruction
Baptisms of fire
I've witnessed your suffering
As the battles raged higher
And though they did hurt me so bad
In the fear and alarm
You did not desert me
My brothers in arms

There's so many different worlds
So many different suns
And we have just one world
But we live in different ones

Now the sun's gone to hell
And the moon's riding high
Let me bid you farewell
Every man has to die
But it's written in the starlight
And every line on your palm
We're fools to make war
On our brothers in arms

Dire Straits, "Brothers In Arms"
(not in any way meant to be gender-specific)
(but you all knew that, didn't you?)

13:58 / 08.02.02

if I'd listened everything that they said to me, I wouldn't be here!
and if I took the time to bleed from all the tiny little arrows shot my way,
I wouldn't be here!
the ones who don't do anything are always the ones who try to put you down
and you could spend your entire life walking around
in the nowhere land of self doubt

'coz when you start to doubt yourself the real world will eat you alive!
it's time, it's time to align your body with your mind, it's hero time
it's time, it's time to align your body with your mind, it's hero time
'coz when you start to doubt yourself the real world will eat you alive!
and you know it's true!
I'm talking to you: hero time starts right now! Yeah, hero time, yeah,
time to shine, hey, hero time!

if ya think you've got 100 years to mess around: you're wrong!
this time it's real, y o u r t i m e i s n o w . . . it's hero time!
Yeah, hero time,hey, time to shine, yeah, hero time, yeah!

hard times are gettin' harder, the liars are acting strong
you better get a grip on yourself or you won't be around too long
it's hero time, hey, time to shine, yeah, hero time, yeah, hero time, yeah!
it's hero time, it's hero time, time to shine, shine, shine, shine, shine!
oh yeah! (X3)

no such thing as spare time, no such thing as free time
no such thing as down time
all you got is life time... go! 'coz it's hero time, 'coz it's time to
shine
'coz it's time to go, go, go! yeah, hou!

when you're gone, you're so gone (X2) you've got it now, it's time to go
hero time starts right now! yeah, aha..! ...change it!

I got grace in times of friction, I got truth in times of fiction
I've got no time for the hype... suicide!? I'm not that type...
I got no time for drug addiction, no time for smoke and booze
too strong for a shortened life span, I've got no time to lose!
It's time to shine, yeah, it's hero time, yeah, it's hero time, yeah,
yeah!

when you start to doubt yourself the real world will eat you alive! yeah!
you could spend your entire walking around, coward: or you can get up!
get up, get up, get up, get up! it's time to shine! yeah...

Rollins Band- Shine

Matthew Fluxington

17:14 / 08.02.02

i hate to see your broken face
this world would give you anything
as long as you will want to
as long as you will want to
i hate your state of hopelessness
and that vain articulateness
your loser type wreck wanna be
not a pretty sight really
in another world it'd be funny
i hate to see your broken face
a lazy life of fatal waste
of fashionable cynicism
the poison they want you to drink
oh no man that's too easy
oh no man that's too easy
we weren't talking bout happiness
apply your leading potential
to be useful to this planet
the world would give you anything
as long as you will want to
as long as you will want to
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you and me are moulded by things
well beyond our acknowlegment
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who knows does not speak,
who speaks does not know,
keep the mouth closed,
rounding the sharpness
untie the tangles,
to be vacuous,
to be infinite,
leap into the void
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If there's been a way to build it
there'll be a way to destroy it
things are not all that out of control
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Though this world's
essentially an absurd place to be living in
it doesn't call for total withdrawal

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"The Noise of Carpet", "Anonymous Collective", "Metronomic Underground", "Crest", and "French Disko" by Stereolab.

18:36 / 08.02.02

Someday, some morning sometime, sometime
I'd like to hold your hand in mine,
Someday, some morning, sometime

04:59 / 10.02.02

All this day long I linger here and on in through the night
My greeds, desires, my cravings, hopes, my dreams inside me fight

Regrettable Juvenilia

08:30 / 10.02.02

Well I heard there was a secret chord
That David played and it pleased the Lord
But you don't really care for music, do ya?
Well it goes like this: the fourth, the fifth,
The minor fall and the major lift
The baffled king composing Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Well your faith was strong but you needed proof
You saw her bathing on the roof
Her beauty and the moonlight overthrough ya
And she tied you to her kitchen chair
And she broke your throne and she cut your hair
And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Well, baby I've been here before
I've seen this room and I've walked this floor
Y'know I used to live alone before I knew ya
And I've seen your flag on the marble arch
And love is not a victory march
It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Well there was a time when you let me know
What's really going on below
But now you never show that to me, do ya?
But remember when I moved in you
And the holy dove was moving too
And every breath we drew was Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah

And maybe there is a God above
But all I've ever learned from love
Was how to shoot somebody who outdrew ya
And it's not a cry that you hear at night
It's not somebody who's seen the light
It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah

- 'Hallelujah', Leonard Cohen by way of Jeff Buckley

Matthew Fluxington

15:15 / 10.02.02

When you saw me, on that first day
said I’d blossom under your care
Wrap me up tight inside your wing
Is it safe now, is it safe to breathe?
I force my eyes open, and now who has changed?
You look different, so different today

Holding your eyes in the hardest stare
running around like you wanted me there
Lookin’ at me like I’m the hottest in town
then turnin’ your back when you’re movin’ around
I ain’t gonna listen to you no more
breakin’ outta this place throwin’ open the door
Use me up just to fan the flame
but you’ll be sorry as I’m walkin’ away

I’m the one who decides who I am
I’m the one who will shed this old skin
I force my eyes open, and now who has changed?
I feel different, so different today

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If you want it and you're going out of your mind
If you want me in your bed we better do it on the sly, and you know why...

One Song for you
We wrote a little tune
it takes off for you
Hold on, hold on it's coming soon

I know for you it don't make sense
I don't make sense
Nothing comes true
because the doors were locked for you

Piled up for you
the notes I wrote on hollow walls
Let me come through
Pass through the things that we went through

Have memory of the things we said
take memory of the things we left
drop little boy crumbs I can follow back
when I get lost becoming a man

It's a lie. it's the truth
You need it more
than I do
I want it all for you
but I can't live for you

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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
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If you want me it's changing
If you want everything's changing
If you want the sky would open up
If you want your eyes could open up

I'm a mess
I'm the worst
But the best
that you've heard

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"Burn, Don't Freeze", "One Song For You", "Hot Rock", "Start Together" by Sleater-Kinney.

[ 10-02-2002: Message edited by: Flux = Rad ]

15:25 / 10.02.02

I don't want this anger burning in me
But it's something from which it's so hard to be free
And none of the tears that we cry in sorrow or rage
Can make any difference or turn back the page

Dave Gilmour - "Murder"

Red wine and sleeping pills
Help me get back into your arms
Cheap sex and sad films
Help me get back where I belong
I think you're crazy
Maybe

Radiohead - "Motion Picture Soundtrack"

Matthew Fluxington

17:15 / 10.02.02

I am trying to break your heart
Used to be lying when i said it wasn't easy
I am trying to break your heart

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how can I convince you that it's me I don't like,
and not be so indifferent to the look in yr eyes?
when I've always been distant and I've always took lies for love.

I'm bound by these choices, so hard to move
I'm bound by the feeling, so easy to fake
none of this is real enough to take me from you

10:22 / 11.02.02

flux posted the lyrics to burn don't freeze! he doesn't know this, but it's my favourite sk song, like, ever. hee hee, flux ist rad.

"how fucking romantic all the stars are out twinkling twinkling twinkling
and fluttering about what a tacky sunset what a vulgar moon
play another charming rodgers and hart tune how fucking romantic
must we really waltz drag another cliche howling from the vaults
love you, obviously, like you really care, even though you treat me
like a dancing bear toss your bear a goldfish as it cycles by
don't forget to feed your bear or it'll die"
(the mfs)

13:13 / 13.02.02

I wonder if my rope's still hanging from the tree
By the standing pool where you drank me
And filled me full of thirsty love
And the memory of water?

I wonder if a king still fishes there
His back towards the burned-out air
His laughing catches singing loud
The memory of water

Your taste is blood and ecstasy
But I must drink you all alone
You're freckled like a speckled egg
A dove, but this bird has flown
O stay with me sweet memory
O stay with me

I wonder if my rope's still hanging from the tree
By the standing pool where you drank me
As pain flows through me like champagne
Of the memory of water

Marillion - The Memory of Water

13:19 / 13.02.02

This love
This inconvenient, blind, blood-diamond
This puzzle
I don't understand
That knows no faith
And tries and fails
And tries again
Stares at the sea
The night's dark deep
For one last time
And bleeds
And bleeds
And dies for you
And lies
And is to blame
And is ashamed
And is not the same
And is true
And is true

Marillion - This Strange Engine

13:54 / 13.02.02

my beautiful friend
i will pay attention don't say this is the end
i find it hard to describe you
to point and discover you
could i tell you once again

oh, my beautiful friend
let me sleep and i'll feed you when you're hungry
forever live inside of me
thru the holes in the pockets of my clothes
high, as high as an angel
i will stand there beside you
love is all we need

oh my beautiful friend

i swear i adore you
ain't a woman deep enough
i don't know how we made it this far dear – without losing at least an ear
i could leave us, i could leave us a painting
our lives are ever changing

i couldn't and i wouldn't want to change you
don't you know it i can save you
i will do all of this on my very own
my beautiful friend.

Matthew Fluxington

13:20 / 14.02.02

for R.M., on this Valentine's Day, in the same sarcastic, miserable pissy tone as the song itself is sung:

Oh so fortunate you
And so pitiful me
I sent you letter bombs
And you sent 'em back to me
What I thought was a hen
Turned out to be chicken
You're fucking movie stars?
Well I'm fucking congressmen

I'm feeling mostly sick
I'm sleeping mostly days
My nose it starts to run
My ears they start to bleed
To you, my sweet girlfriend
the beginning is the end

beginning is the end,
beginning is the end,
beginning is the end,
the beginning is the end

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["The Beginning" by Imperial Teen]

[ 14-02-2002: Message edited by: Flux = Rad ]

14:37 / 14.02.02

I saw no wrong in you
and you saw none in me

09:00 / 15.02.02

How I wish
How I wish you were here
We're just two lost souls
Swimming in a fish bowl
Year after year
Running over the same old ground
About how we found
The same old fears
I wish you were here.

Zoom.

09:11 / 15.02.02

Wicked Zoom, wicked, I've just put that on in your honour. Have a cigar baby.

14:37 / 16.02.02

Call me a deserter, it's true I walked away
travelling by starlight, hiding out by day
dogs and demarcations kept me on the run
I got a little blinded, staring at the sun

Walking round in circles, holding up the sky
falling among thieves, laughing till I cry
voices red with anger burning in my ears
this is bedlam calling, roaring down the years

No safe house in Birmingham, I found no peace in Skye
the green fields of Derry just another lie
wrap the barbed wire round me, say I don't belong
kick me till I couldn't move then tell me to move on

But when these walls fall down
and when this world turns round
between your heartbeats
your hammer heartbeats
you'll hear what the deserter says:
and when these walls fall down
and when this world turns round
everybody is in the middle
nobody on the edge

Spider spins his heart out, fox goes home alone
wisdom lies in wait for me, a snake beneath a stone
shelter is in silence or any stony place
I will not share your pity, your laws or your disgrace.

Oysterband - "The Deserter"

Zoom.

Matthew Fluxington

14:51 / 16.02.02

The first time,
Was the worst time.
The second time,
Was worse than the first.
The last time was a great crime
On all things, great and small,
But this time is gonna be the best.
It's gonna take the other ones off my chest.

It was just in a rut,
To fall into a rut.
To fall into a plan greater than mankind.
All the others hate it,
All the others set you up.
Can't you smell the satisfaction on thier breath?

It's too bad that your music doesn't matter,
Your music doesn't matter in a favorite dress.
Sure it wins a blue one.
Stick it on a runner-up.
That's the way to let the loser melt your...

All the others hate it,
All the others set you up.
Can't you smell the satisfaction on their breath?

All the others hate it,
All the others set it up.
Can't you smell the satisfaction on their breath?

Sure it wins a blue one.
Stick it on the runner-up.
Pick the way to let the loser melt your mouth.

It's too bad that your music doesn't matter.
I can smell the satisfaction on your breath.

18:05 / 18.02.02

Drive the road to your surrender
Time comes around... out of my hands
Small boats on the beach at the dead of night
Come and go before first light
Leave me running in the wheel
King of the world
How do you feel?
What is there to feel?

So how do we now come to be
Afraid of sunlight?
Tell me girl why you and me
Scared of sunlight?

Been in pain for so long
I can't even say what hurts anymore
I will leave you alone
I will deny
I will leave you to bleed
I will leave you with your life

So how do we now come to be
Afraid of sunlight?
Tell me girl why you and me
Scared of sunlight?

All your spirit rack abuses
Come to haunt you back by day
All your Byzantine excuses
Given time, given you away

Don't be surprised when daylight comes
To find that memory prick your thumbs
You'll tell them where we run to hide
I'm already dead
It's a matter of time

So how do we now come to be
Afraid of sunlight
How do we now come to be
Afraid of sunlight

Day-Glo Jesus on the dash
Chalk marks on the road ahead
Friendly fire in hostile waters
Keep the faith
Don't lose your head

So how do we now come to be?

Marillion - "Afraid of Sunlight"

18:52 / 18.02.02

we tried to make the worst of a bad situation

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