Song lyrics that kick your ass (yes, you specifically)

robcore · Post by **robcore** » 4/4/2003, 4:03 am

Near Fantastica by Matthew Good

The pink pills are for your sanity
we are buried in the earth because we can't beat gravity
you are still here and so made to figure
you are an important part of the computer

born of the sea, blink
the sea is dead
falls out of me these sockets in my head
everyone's a captain baby, ship of fools
drowning while they're telling you it's been alright.

dream the dream of your atrition
the nameless name of your condition
it will be needing you a little while longer
you are an important part of the computer

after this mission it will let you go
help you to forget everything that you know
in a world of captains baby, ship of fools
don't you know they're lying when they're telling you it's been alright?

superboots · Post by **superboots** » 4/4/2003, 10:59 am

I watched you taking off- Bright Eyes

meaning is sometimes hard to spot
it begins with the flickering of cigarettes
in the darkness of a dorm room
somewhere in the suffocated mid-west

and if this is real then i was mistaken
and if there is truth then why can't we find it?

beauty comes to those who have been waiting for something
bigger than themselves

this is the sound of the hopeless kids
as they scream from the basements of the houses of their parents
and this is the sound of the hopeless ones
as they stare down at their books
and realize they have been lied to

but if this is real then i was mistaken
and the vision fades as quickly as it came

consistency like that which i have craved
is that people change so unexpectedly
and realization finds you in a drunken airport
some planes depart and others never arrived

so with this in mind i don't plan on waiting
if its time to leave and break these old ties
without something else this vision is fading
but until its gone the pain will make us try

but this is the hope
i have been searching for
as the wings catch the sunlight
of this cold Nebraska skyline

this is the dream i am dying in
i will wake to find tomorrow
be content without perfection

but if this is real then i was mistaken
and if the vision is gone then i was not aware

I eat, sleep and breathe this song. :nod:

nelison · Post by **nelison** » 4/4/2003, 11:30 am

Greenwheel - Dim Halo

Imagine no daylight only the moon as your guide
When ours is to darkness what forgotten sun is too bright
Eyes wide open now taking it all in stride
I can see your eyes when the stars hang low
Like a crown the moon wears a dim halo
And to all my regret I fair thee well
You came around to slowly as I fell
My screams can only echo off the walls
I see nothing left to break my fall
To bear the slings and arrows, my chances narrow
Just roll with the punches now, bruises can heal
Soften the blow cause I don’t want to feel anymore
Just cancel out this fear

Greenheel - The End

Is anyone else awake
Deaf ears on these words must fall
Dodging friendly fire
Marksmanship inspires
The end that is never the end
There’s no difference between foe or friend
Blanks in the chamber, they’ll have you believe
Faces so sober, trusting souls deceived
Mouth less children, still promises they feed
Bullets softer now, still we bleed
The megaphone speaks still pulses race and scream
Things will be quiet soon

superboots · Post by **superboots** » 4/4/2003, 11:39 am

Belle and Sebastian - Expectations

Monday morning wake up knowing that you've got to go to school
Tell your mum what to expect, she says it's right out of the blue
Do you went to work in Debenham's, because that's what they expect
Start in Lingerie, and Doris is your supervisor

And the head said that you always were a queer one from the start
For careers you say you went to be remembered for your art
Your obsessions get you known throughout the school for being strange
Making life-size models of the Velvet Underground in clay

In the queue for lunch they take the piss, you've got no appetite
And the rumour is you never go with boys and you are tight
So they jab you with a fork, you drop the tray and go berserk
While your cleaning up the mess the teacher's looking up your skirt

You've been used, you're confused
Write a song, I'll sing along
Are you calm? Settle down
Soon you will know that you are sane
You're on top of the world again

Monday morning wake up knowing that you've got to go to school
Mum said she had little choice when she was young, so why should you?
Do you went to work in C&A, 'cause that's what they expect
Move to Ladieswear and take a feel off Joe the Storeman

Tell Veronica the secrets of the boy you never kissed
She's got everything to gain 'cause she's a fat girl with a lisp
She sticks up for you when you get aggravation from the snobs
'Cause you can't afford a blazer and you're always wearing clogs

At the interval you lock yourself away inside a room
Heed of English gets you, asks you, "What the Hell do you think you're doing?"
"Do you think you're better then the other kids? Well get outside."
You've got permission, but you've got to make the bastard think he's right

committed · Post by **committed** » 4/4/2003, 11:44 am

alkaline trio - san francisco

Choking on the thought of leaving
Drinking to keep from sobbing
4pm, 4 dollar pints - SFO - the time and price

With all my happiness aborted
The PA painfully starts boarding
I sink deep, 30 thousand feet
Into my window seat, electric chair
And I was drinking you goodbye
A heart floats in the bay
From sour home Chicago
I hear it beating far away
There's no telling what I'll do
If I don't return to you

Hopeful thoughts of soon returning
can't put out my stomach burning
Plastic wings and plastic smiles
Unsalted peanuts stretch my miles

Choking on the thought of leaving
Drinking to keep from heaving
5pm, 5 dollar pints - Hellbound Airlines - time and price
And I was drinking you goodbye
A heart floats in the bay
From sour home Chicago
I hear it beating far away
There's no telling what I'll do
If I don't return to you

I was drinking you goodbye
A heart floats in the bay
From sour home Chicago
I hear it beating far away
There's no telling what I'll do
If I don't return to you

alkaline trio - southern rock

I can't believe my heart's still pounding
I can't believe how close I came
And meanwhile heaven's falling
The fallen angels flown away
And that'll be me someday
With stolen wings and evil ways
Straight south with the keys to the pearly gates

Hard to believe my heart stopped pounding
Hard to believe I played this game
My worst nightmares became real
I got so scared that I forgot my name
And that'll be me someday
With stolen wings and evil ways
Straight south with the keys to the pearly gates

xoNoDoubt69 · Post by **xoNoDoubt69** » 4/4/2003, 1:30 pm

Robbie Williams-Come Undone

So unimpressed but so in awe
Such a saint but such a whore
So self aware so full of shit
So indecisive so adamant
I'm contemplating thinking about thinking
It's overrated just get another drink and
Watch me come undone

They're selling razor blades and mirrors in the street
I pray that when I'm coming down you'll be asleep
If I ever hurt you your revenge will be so sweet
Because I'm scum, and I'm your son,
I come undone

So rock and roll, so corporate suit
So damn ugly, so damn cute
So well-trained, so animal
So need your love, so fuck you all
I'm not scared of dying
I just don't want to
If I´d stop lying I'd just disappoint you
I come undone

So write another ballad
Mix it on a Wednesday
Sell it on a Thursday
Buy a yacht by Saturday
It's a love song
A love song
Do another interview
Sing a bunch of lies
Tell about celebrities that I despise
And sing love songs
We sing love songs
So sincere

I Don't Believe-Greenwheel

I don't believe in anything she says to me
I don't believe that she cares for me
Is it me that she loves or is it someone else
I've got to know before I leave
Is it the warmth in her touch or the sweetness that's in her kiss
My heart is telling me never let go of this
Is it the look in her eyes or the brightness that's in her smile
I'd walk the world for her
She couldn't walk me a mile
As the days go by and the time slips away
It happened all so fast I couldn't make her stay
All the memories she left
They rest in my head
Sometimes I feel I'd be better off dead

Chantal Kreviazuk-Turn the page
I'm out here on my own
Please pick up the phone
I'm hiding from the morning
Inside the dead of night
You left without a warning
You left me here behind
And I'm deep inside my soul
But I can't find my way back home
I'm hiding from the moment
That's never far behind
Hiding from the moment
That makes everything alright
I run, run away from
But can't turn the page
I knew it all along
You never try to change
I run, run away from
But can't turn the page
I knew it all along
You never try to change
Now I'm floating endlessly
Unpacking all my dreams
Funny how we hurry
To hold the hands of time
Funny how we worry
We cant control this life.
I run, run away from
But can't turn the page
I knew it all along
You never try to change
I run, run away from
But can't turn the page
I knew it all along
You never try to change.

Post by **al_** » 4/4/2003, 3:45 pm

I wanna rock your body
Dance with me
I wanna rock your body
I wanna rock your body
I wanna rock your body
Dance with me
I wanna rock your body
shake that ass
I wanna rock your body
do that thing you do when you do it
do it
do me
I wanna rock your body
I wanna rock your body
yeah yeah yeah
Are you feeling me
Lets do something
Lets make a bet
cos I gotta have you naked by the end of this song

Axtech · Post by **Axtech** » 4/4/2003, 3:50 pm

*Sniff* That is the most meaningfull song I've ever heard. Brings a tear to my eye.

starvingeyes · Post by **starvingeyes** » 4/4/2003, 4:20 pm

blinded - third eye blind

Just an old friend coming over
Now to visit you and
That's what I've become
I let myself in
Though I know I'm not supposed to but
I never know when I'm done
And I see you fogging up the mirror
Vapor around your body glistens in the shower
And I wanna stay right here
And go down on you for an hour
Or stay and let the day just fade away
In a wild dedication
Take the moment of hope
And let it run
Never look back
At all the damage we have done now
To each other
To each other
To each other

But when I see you
It's like I'm staring down the sun
And I'm blinded
There's nothing left to do
But still I see you

I never believe that things that happen for a reason and
They never go as planned
I wanted to thank you for a vision that was lost that you returned
But you pass what you understand
Now her appetite is blown
Little else is known
'cept she's a little angry
Grabs a towel, looks away
And heat fades with the day
And I fall down on what to say
Oh something clean, let me be clever
Hey oh well, whatever
But that's not what I mean
Where we've been has left us burnt still
I wont turn now from a fight
You know I'll never win

So when I see you
You know all the things I've done
But I'm blinded
Like I'm staring down the sun
When I see you
When I see you
When I see you
It's like I'm staring down the sun
Yeah!

(Hey! I'm Blinded!)
(Hey! I'm Blinded!)

Time it passes and it tells us what we're left with
We become the things we do
Me, I'm a fool spent from defiance, yeah you got me but
I didn't give up on you
But the rest is not a t-shirt or a swan song, no
Heat is born again and
It's not easy being me
When I can't promise I will mend
Or bend when you believe
That we are fixed now from our birth
And I've just fallen back to earth
Still you know I'll try again
Cause I believe that we are lucky
We are golden
We have stolen manners in the days when we were one

So when I see you
In spite of all that we've become
I'm still blinded
But I'm still staring down the sun
When I see you
When I see you
When I see you
When I see you
Oh yeah
I'm still staring down the sun
Oh yeah
I'm still staring down the sun
Oh yeah
I'm still staring down the sun
I'm blinded ('eah!)

When I see you

mosaik · Post by **mosaik** » 4/4/2003, 4:22 pm

Sitter - "Sober"

I think I’m listening
Or could it be I’ve missed it this time?
I’ve got this checklist made;
A basketful of reasons in my mind.
And I wonder why this magic rings of tragedy.
In the face of all I’ve treasured this choice I’m measured by.

It really seems so far-fetched
All this distance rushing in close.
Chapters, sagas, enemies
My life in a nutshell,
But what I miss the most
Is an open ear to listen – a conscience glistening bright.
Take a breath and hold it sober and let those demons go.
Well I just might

Take a look around and see what I can see
This journey wide open – what’s it gonna be?
Where every jubilation sound can
Be my melody.

This winding road I wander
Cannot see the me I’m striving
To taste that hunger I know is real.
Resurrect that buried vision
To sightless memories.
Trap the disarray, put it back another way and

Take a look around and see what I can see
This journey wide open – what’s it gonna be?
Where every jubilation sound can
Be my melody.

happening fish · Post by **happening fish** » 4/4/2003, 4:41 pm

turning japanese i think i'm turning japanese i really think so... DAMMIT KIMMY!

But seriously folks,

A Romantic Place (She Said We're On Our Way Down) - Martin Tielli

the wind drew thinly from the west
looking for the thunder
jet trails across the northern sky
then slowly shear apart

shaking in the morning dew
you ever really fall apart?
i explained it per-erfectly to you
and still you walked away
i love everybody here

the ghosts rose slowly from the basement hall
looking for the thunder
faces of the dead slowly drink to life
lift your glasses high

thirty hearty cheers
a thundering of tears
fight and love and see the pain
before it disappears
i love everybody here

one shot of sun still glistens in the lacquer
slices thin the tightened throat of laughter
a wave of cold rose spineward through the joker
from her hand, the floor, the glass
would shatter

and fall into the intersteer
the place that is not here
she bundles up her a.d.i.d.a.s.
and opens up her hair

she opens up her hair
with her hands
motioning towards us all
she's looking sort of
back and forth

slow down
we're on our way down

see the lonely man out on the waves
steering away from the land
and know that he dreams of more innocent times
wishing he had a far simpler mind

and over and over i
told her i told her
i told her to see me with clear eyes
not blue eyes

one by one the ghosts they rise
unseen they pass right through us all
and leave

slow down
we're on our way down

happening fish · Post by **happening fish** » 4/4/2003, 4:44 pm

i love this.

From The Reel - Martin Tielli

Gone
The stream will wash the blood
Away
And the children will go back
And play
At killing again, in the clear shallows

And the stream flows down
And it pools in clay
Nothing ever seems to go
Away
But it has
Forever
Forever

Now that your attention's perfectly divided
We begin to oscillate in the middle
Of this structureless oasis
Where there's no such thing as love
There is no such thing as hate
My head's still spinning from the reel

happening fish · Post by **happening fish** » 4/4/2003, 5:13 pm

The famed "triple post"

Ana Ng - They Might Be Giants

make a hole with a gun perpendicular
to the name of this town in a desktop globe
exit wound in a foreign nation
showing the home of the one this was written for

my apartment looks upside down from there
water spirals the wrong way out the sink
and her voice is a backwards record
it's like a whirlpool and it never ends

Ana Ng and I are getting old
and we still haven't walked in the glow
of each other's majestic presence
listen Ana hear my words
they're the words you would think I would say
if there was a me for you

all alone at the 64 world fair
80 dolls yelling "smile girl, after all"
who was at the Dupont Pavilion?
why was the bench still warm, who had been there?

or the time when the storm tangled up the wire
to the horn on the pole at the bus depot
and in back at the edge of hearing
these are the words that the voice was repeating

Ana Ng and I are getting old
and we still haven't walked in the glow
of each other's majestic presence
listen Ana hear my words
they're the words you would think I would say
if there was a me for you

when i was driving once I
saw this painted on a bridge:
"I don't want the world
I just want your half"

they don't need me here and I know you're there
where the world goes by like the humid hair
and it sticks like a broken record
everything sticks like a broken record
everything sticks until it goes away
and the truth is we don't know anything

Ana Ng and I are getting old
and we still haven't walked in the glow
of each other's majestic presence
listen Ana hear my words
they're the words you would think I would say
if there was a me for you

sandsleeper · Post by **sandsleeper** » 4/4/2003, 5:15 pm

happeninfish wrote:turning japanese i think i'm turning japanese i really think so... DAMMIT KIMMY!

*points and laughs* :lol:

happening fish · Post by **happening fish** » 4/4/2003, 5:53 pm

*turns Japanese*

Penguin Josh · Post by **Penguin Josh** » 4/4/2003, 6:46 pm

Mathew Good Band - Hello Time Bomb

I found me a reason
So check me tomorrow
We'll see if I'm leaking
Push and push and push till it hurts
My devil's on rollerskates
Down at the roller rink
Picking up chicks for me
Ones that push and push and push till it hurts
Push and push till it hurts

Dirty enough I got me a love
And it's so bad, it's so bad
Dirty enough I got me a love
And it's so bad, it's so bad

Life's for the living
So check me tomorrow
We'll see if I'm kidding
Push and push and push till it hurts
Did it on Ritalin
I got me some good grades
Now I work me the night shift
Where I pull and pull and pull till it hurts
Pull and pull till it hurts

Dirty enough I got me a love
And it's so bad, it's so bad
Dirty enough I got me a love
And it's so bad, it's so bad

Hello time bomb, I'm ready to go off

If life's for the livid
Check me tomorrow
We'll see if I'm emperor
My devil's on sugared smacks
Down at the radio shack
We're turning shit into solid gold, solid gold

Dirty enough I got me a love
And it's so bad, it's so bad
Dirty it enough I got me a love
And it's so bad, it's so bad

Hello time bomb, I'm ready to go off
Hello time bomb, I'm ready to go off.

Axtech · Post by **Axtech** » 4/4/2003, 6:50 pm

Thief. You know how it goes.

Axtech · Post by **Axtech** » 4/5/2003, 4:20 pm

Imagine - John Lennon

Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today...

Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace...

You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one

Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world...

You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one

lora · Post by **lora** » 4/5/2003, 4:51 pm

matthew good - avalanche

One foot in front of the other
One foot in front of the other
Days like these you’ve got to find it in some other way
It’s all or nothing baby

Avalanche, start inside of me
Avalanche, down through the trees
Avalanche, start inside of me
Avalanche, hell down through the trees

Every pass it goes adrift
Every ball loose
Can't tackle can't shoot

If everyone’s a casualty
Then take your time there ain’t no trouble
If the weather’s fine and we’re feeling crazy
There’s always drinks and dancing in the rubble
I’m spinning and you’re spinning
The world’s spinning and we’re laughing
And I’m charming, the devil’s charming
And we’re ruined but we’re still building
And I’m selling and you’re counting
And world’s stopping but we keep going
And we’re ruthless and we’re cunning
And I’m heir to it all

Days like these you’ve got to find it in some other way
It’s all or nothing baby

Avalanche, start inside of me
Avalanche, down through the trees
Avalanche, start inside of me
Avalanche, hell down through the trees

This key is to your kingdom
This key is to your heart
Neither one is a doorway
But both of them a part
So one foot in front of the other

lora · Post by **lora** » 4/5/2003, 4:54 pm

jeff buckley - lover, you should've come over

Looking out the door i see the rain fall upon the funeral mourners
Parading in a wake of sad relations as their shoes fill up with water
And maybe i'm too young to keep good love from going wrong
But tonight you're on my mind so you never know

When i'm broken down and hungry for your love with no way to feed it
Where are you tonight, child you know how much i need it
Too young to hold on and too old to just break free and run

Sometimes a man gets carried away, when he feels like he should be having his fun
And much too blind to see the damage he's done
Sometimes a man must awake to find that really, he has no-one

So i'll wait for you... and i'll burn
Will I ever see your sweet return
Oh will I ever learn

Oh lover, you should've come over
'Cause it's not too late

Lonely is the room, the bed is made, the open window lets the rain in
Burning in the corner is the only one who dreams he had you with him
My body turns and yearns for a sleep that will never come

It's never over, my kingdom for a kiss upon her shoulder
It's never over, all my riches for her smiles when i slept so soft against her
It's never over, all my blood for the sweetness of her laughter
It's never over, she's the tear that hangs inside my soul forever

Well maybe i'm just too young
To keep good love from going wrong

Oh... lover, you should've come over
'Cause it's not too late

Well I feel too young to hold on
And i'm much too old to break free and run
Too deaf, dumb, and blind to see the damage i've done
Sweet lover, you should've come over
Oh, love well i'm waiting for you

Lover, you should've come over
'Cause it's not too late

***

there, i'm done for a little while.