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I could make a dress, a robe fit for a prince
I could clothe a continent, but I can't sew a stitch
I can paint my face and stand very very still
it's not very practical, but it still pays the bills
I can't change my name, but I could be your type
I can dance and win at games like backgammon and life
I used to be the smart one, sharp as a tack
funny but how skipping years ahead has held me back
I used to be the bright one, top in my class
funny what they give you when you just learn how to ask

I can write a song, but I can't sing in key
I can play piano, but I never learned to read
I can't trap a mouse, but I can pet a cat
No, I'm really serious, I'm really very good at that
I can't fix a car, but I can fix a flat
I could fix a lot of things, but I'd rather not get into that
I used to be the bright one, smart as a whip
funny how you slip so far when teachers don't keep track of it
I used to be the tight one, the perfect fit
funny how those compliments can make you feel so full of it

I can shuffle, cut and deal, but I can't draw a hand
I can't draw a lot of things, I hope you understand
I'm not exceptionally shy, but I've never had a man
that I could look straight in the eye and tell my secret plans
I can take a vow and I can wear a ring
and I can make you promises, but they won't mean a thing
can't you just do it for me, I'd pay you well
fuck, I'll pay you anything if you could end this...
can't you just fix it for me, it's gone berserk
oh fuck, I'll give you anything if you could make the damn thing work
can't you just fix it for me, I'll pay you well
oh fuck, I'll pay you anything if you could end this hell

hello, I love you, won't you tell me your name
hello, I'm good for nothing, will you love me just the same?

The Dresden Dolls, "The Perfect Fit"

"Shelter Me" - Project 86

Shelter me
With mercury vials
Escape is the machine to
Shelter me
With media tablets
We’ll turn today into a Dream
More doses
More screens
More vials to

Shelter me
With sweet escape
I'm looking for a place to run to
To hide inside

Silence me
Prescribe me your cancer
If I will disappear
You’ll
Silence me
I'll welcome the virus
If you can promise this-
Dream
More doses
More screens
More vials to Shelter me

Don’t bother me with details
Don’t bore me with what’s real
Distraction is all I need
All I need all I need to shelter me

Things Like This Help Me - Starflyer 59

Come out in clothes you like
And tell me of all of the bands you fight
And if you look around
You stay up late when you fix all the sounds

Come out and pick a night
A night when you lose your life
Because I look around
I'll stay up late when you fix all the sounds

These are good times
Things like this help me
Through all of the long long nights
These are good times
Things like this help me

Come out in clothes you like
And tell me of all of the bands you fight
And if you look around
You stay up late when you fix all the sounds

These are good times
Things like this help me
Through all of the long long nights
These are good times
Things like this help me

Soundgarden - Rusty Cage

You wired me awake
And hit me with a hand of broken nails
You tied my lead and pulled my chain
To watch my blood begin to boil

But I'm gonna break
I'm gonna break my
I'm gonna break my rusty cage and run

Too cold to start a fire
I'm burning diesel burning dinosaur bones
I'll take the river down to still water
And ride a pack of dogs

I'm gonna break
I'm gonna break my
I'm gonna break my rusty cage and run

Hits like a Phillips head
Into my brain
It's gonna be too dark
To sleep again
Cutting my teeth on bars
And rusty chains, I'm gonna break my
Rusty cage and run

When the forest burns
Along the road
Like God's eyes
In my headlights
When the dogs are looking
For their bones
And it's raining icepicks
On your steel shore

I'm gonna break
I'm gonna break my
I'm gonna break my rusty cage and run

Cracky wrote:Things Like This Help Me - Starflyer 59

Come out in clothes you like
And tell me of all of the bands you fight
And if you look around
You stay up late when you fix all the sounds

Come out and pick a night
A night when you lose your life
Because I look around
I'll stay up late when you fix all the sounds

These are good times
Things like this help me
Through all of the long long nights
These are good times
Things like this help me

Come out in clothes you like
And tell me of all of the bands you fight
And if you look around
You stay up late when you fix all the sounds

These are good times
Things like this help me
Through all of the long long nights
These are good times
Things like this help me

BOOPEEDOOPEEDOOP! RING RING RING RING BANANPHONE!

Lando wrote:BOOPEEDOOPEEDOOP! RING RING RING RING BANANPHONE!

the lawrence arms- alert the audience!

Passive, Aggressive, Confessing, Repressive
Structurally uncertain, transparent, transgressive
i've stumbled into something and i don't know what it is.
All I-beams, bolts and plaster, corners painted in piss.
Mistakes are the brakes that i'm cutting on me.
Fast down the hill, impossibly free.
Faster and faster, i'm burning the gears.
My tears are streaming back into my ears.

My enemies i knew too well, they bickered amongst themselves.
I have a rule, that i love to break.
It ends in tears, cursing and shakes.

I'm a clown and i'm choking on blood, teeth and toungue.
Fuck the spectators, fuck the "he was so young"
Fuck forced sympathy through lifeless glass eyes,
Povichian voyeurs drinking my cries.
Fuck faced trilobites waiting to die.
I can't stand the humor, and i can't stand the lies.

Dar Williams - After All

Go ahead, push your luck, find out how much love the world can hold
once upon a time, I had control
and reined my soul in tight

Well, the whole truth is like the story of a wave unfurled
but I held the evil of the world
so I stopped the tide, froze it up from inside

And it felt like a winter machine that you go through and then
you catch your breath and winter starts again
and everyone else is springbound

And when I chose to live there was no joy, it's just a line I crossed
it wasn't worth the pain my death would cost
so I was not lost or found

And if I was to sleep, I knew my family had more truth to tell
so I travelled down a whispering well
to know myself through them

Growing up, my mom had a room full of books and hid away in there
her father raging down a spiral stair
till he found someone, most days his son

And sometimes I think my father too was a refugee
I know they tried to keep their pain from me
they could not see what it was for

But now I'm sleeping fine; sometimes the truth is like a second chance
I am the daughter of a great romance
and they are the children of the war

Well, the sun rose with so many colors it nearly broke my heart
it worked me over like a work of art
and I was a part of all that

So go ahead, push your luck, say what it is you gotta say to me
we will push on into that mystery
and it'll push right back
and there are worse things than that

'Cause for every price and every penance that I could think of
it's better to have fallen in love
than never to have fallen at all

'Cause when you live in a world it gets into who you thought you'd be
and now I laugh at how the world changed me
I think life chose me after all.

from the best nirvana song ever:

my heart is broke, but i have some glue
help me inhale and mend it with you
we'll float around and hang out on clouds
then we'll come down, and have a hangover.

very good song. i just heard it 10 minutes ago

Muse - Time is running out

I think I'm drowning
Asphyxiated
I wanna break this spell
That you've created

You're something beautiful
A contradiction
I wanna play the game
I want the friction

You will be the death of me

^

Matt Good - Omissions of the Omen:

Wait for me if I don't show up
Take from me this hypocrite's cup
And somewhere around the world
Someone would love to have
my first world problems
Kill the moon, turn out the sun
Lock your door and load your gun
Free at last, yeah the time has come
To choose

Man makes God so God can make man
Man makes the devil so that he can understand
Why it is that everyday
Everything always turns out this way
You and me we were never here
You and me we were not that clear
You and me we died a long, long time ago

Don't think just come along
I do believe that it won't be long
And everything's open all night and all day anyway
Build me a ship of wood and steel
Bring me a net and a fishing reel
Sail me to the place where I can find my brother
Sleeping sound
Wait for me if I don't show up
Take from me this hypocrite's cup
And kill the moon, turn out the sun
Omissions of the omen

Flying, slowly
I'm flying
I'm flying
I'm flying
I'm flying through the wind

The organ-basement band song


If I pay you five dollars, will you try to make my band?
If I pay you ten, would you make me well instead?
I love your »baby, baby« harmonies.
You really brighten up my basement suite.


We should go down to the mall,
look at people, judge them all.
Judge them, before they judge us,
and leave there feeling bad.


We could sit and pick our hands.
I think you're a genious
and when you make your hangnails bleed,
you deserve a Ph. D.


If I pay you five dollars, will you try to make my band?
If I pay you ten, would you make me well instead?
I love your »honey, honey« harmonies.
You really brighten up my basement suite.


We should put that record on,
the one you found when you were gone.
The one that has those sad, sad songs,
that makes you sing out loud.


We could start a basement band;
guitar our hooks caught in your hand.
We'll travel through the west side nights
and go down the main street lights.


If I pay you five dollars, will you try to make my band?
If I pay you ten will you make me well instead?
Baby, I love your »I love you« harmonies.
You really brighten up my basement suite, suite.


Nirvana-Blandest
You're my favorite
Of my saviours
You're my favorite
Who knows
Yes you're my favorite
Of my favors
You're my razor
Oh no

Hey!

And the situation wasn't quite
As intense as I thought
I need you around
To remind me what not to become

Calm, calm, calm

Metallica-The Unforgiven

New blood joins this earth
and quikly he's subdued
through constant pain disgrace
the young boy learns their rules

with time the child draws in
this whipping boy done wrong
deprived of all his thoughts
the young man struggles on and on he's known
a vow unto his own
that never from this day
his will they'll take away

what I've felt
what I've known
never shined through in what I've shown
never be
never see
won't see what might have been

what I've felt
what I've known
never shined through in what I've shown
never free
never me
so I dub the unforgiven

they dedicate their lives
to running all of his
he tries to please them all
this bitter man he is
throughout his life the same
he's battled constantly
this fight he cannot win
a tired man they see no longer cares
the old man then prepares
to die regretfully
that old man here is me

what I've felt
what I've known
never shined through in what I've shown
never be
never see
won't see what might have been

what I've felt
what I've known
never shined through in what I've shown
never free
never me
so I dub the unforgiven

you labeled me
I'll label you
so I dub thee unforgiven

God James is a good lyricist.


Oh, and for me... *points at her sig*

Some will take it on the chin
I will meditate and know other lifetimes while the sum
Of almost every sorry will always find a way
Home and the way I long to love long and matter... live long in you
It doesn’t matter

~ i mother earth, 'choke'

We sent out the s.o.s. call,
it was a quarter past four in the morning,
when the storm broke our second anchor line.
Four months at sea,
four months of calm seas,
to be pounded in the Shallows off the tip of Montauk point.

They're called rogues.
They travel fast and alone,
one-hundred-foot faces of God's good ocean gone wrong
What they call love is a risk,
'cause you'll always get hit out of nowhere
by some wave and end up on your own.

A hole in the hull defied the crew's attempts
to bail us out.
It flooded the engine and radio
and half-buried bow.

Your tongue is a rudder.
It steers the whole ship,
sends your words past your lips,
or keeps them safe behind your teeth.
Bbut the wrong words will strand you,
come off-course while you sleep,
sweep your boat out to sea
or dashed to bits on the reef.

The vessel groans,
the ocean pressures its frame.
To the port i see the lighthouse
through the sleet and the rain.
And i wish for one more day
to give my love and repay debts,
but the morning finds our bodies washed up
thirty miles west.

They say that the captain stays fast with the ship
through still and storm.
Bbut this ain't the Dakota
the water's cold.
(so cold.)
Won't have to fight for long.

(This is the end.)
This story's old,
but it goes on and on until we disappear.
(this is the calm.)
Calm me and let me taste
the salt you breathed while you were underneath.
(we are the resin)
I am the one
who haunts your dreams of mountains sunk below the sea.
(after the storm.)
I spoke the words
but never gave a thought to what they all could mean.
(rest here with thee,)
i know that this is what you want.
(washed up on the beach.)
A funeral keeps both of us apart.
You know that you are not alone.
I need you like water in my lungs.
This is the end.

Brand New - Play Crack The Sky