| lyrics of the week january 26 - february 1 |
[01 Feb 2007|11:36pm] |
We like the music with the vocals mixed low
We speak of songs as if no one else knows
So unoriginal, our M.O.
Until something better happens
Until we find another way
Hey, your soul has no crossover potential
Is that the brain you want to own?
In the clubhouse, with our doors closed
Convoluted scene, yeah I think I know exactly what you mean
Someday I'll find out what this hope's for
Find distance between my happiness and this bull**** dream
So apropos, hey that's our story how it goes
Hope we don't spend life on our knees
Begging do something with us please
Your average woe has no punk rock credentials
Your voice is not your own
So you better find you some friends
And try to make this feel like home You better laugh with your friends
Or else you're gonna go it alone
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| lyrics of the week january 19 - january 25 |
[26 Jan 2007|10:36pm] |
I am finding out that maybe I was wrong
That I've fallen down and I can't do this alone
Stay with me, this is what I need, please?
Sing us a song and we'll sing it back to you
We could sing our own but what would it be without you?
I am nothing now and it's been so long
Since I've heard the sound, the sound of my only hope
This time I will be listening.
Sing us a song and we'll sing it back to you
We could sing our own but what would it be without you?
This heart, it beats, beats for only you
This heart, it beats, beats for only you
This heart, it beats, beats for only you
My heart is your's
This heart, it beats, beats for only you
My heart is your's
(My heart, it beats for you)
This heart, it beats, beats for only you
(It beats, beats for only you. My heart is your's)
My heart, my heart is your's
(Please don't go now, Please don't fade away)
My heart, my heart is your's
(Please don't go now, Please don't fade away)
My heart is your's
My heart is your's
(Please don't go now, Please don't fade away)
My heart is your's
My heart is...
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| lyrics of the week january 12 - january 18 |
[19 Jan 2007|09:38am] |
Well, I stand up next to a mountain
And I chop it down with the edge of my hand
Yeah
Well, I stand up next to a mountain
And I chop it down with the edge of my hand
Well, I pick up all the pieces and make an island
Might even raise a little sand
Yeah
Cause Im a voodoo child
Lord knows Im a voodoo child baby
I want to say one more last thing
I didnt mean to take up all your sweet time
Ill give it right back to ya one of these days
Hahaha
I said I didnt mean to take up all your sweet time
Ill give it right back one of these days
Oh yeah
If I dont meet you no more in this world then uh
Ill meet ya on the next one
And dont be late
Dont be late
Cause Im a voodoo child voodoo child
Lord knows Im a voodoo child
Hey hey hey
Im a voodoo child baby
I dont take no for an answer
Question no
Yeah
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| lyrics of the week january 5 - january 11 |
[19 Jan 2007|09:35am] |
t's a shoreline
it's high speed
its a cruel world
and it's time
and you want to get away
oh where to go to
when you want to get it out
oh how to get through
if you want to get it all
you can own what you choose
and you want to live a lie
and love what you lose
it's a shoreline
it's high speed
its a cruel world
and it's time
And you're walking away
And you try to get through
but youve got another life
from the lies they told you
and you try to do it right,
and they all will see you
if you try to steal the beat ohh
the beat will steal you
its coming
its coming in hard
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| lyrics of the week december 29 - january 4 |
[19 Jan 2007|09:34am] |
so this is the new year.
and i don't feel any different.
the clanking of crystal
explosions off in the distance (in the distance).
so this is the new year
and I have no resolutions
for self assigned penance
for problems with easy solutions
so everybody put your best suit or dress on
let's make believe that we are wealthy for just this once
lighting firecrackers off on the front lawn
as thirty dialogues bleed into one
i wish the world was flat like the old days
then i could travel just by folding a map
no more airplanes, or speedtrains, or freeways
there'd be no distance that can hold us back.
there'd be no distance that could hold us back (x2)
so this is the new year (x4)
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| lyrics of the week december 22 - december 28 |
[19 Jan 2007|09:33am] |
When you came jumpin' down the stairs
Screamin' bloody awful
You woke up God & everyone
Screamin' bloody awful
So we took you to the doctor
He said yeah it's a bad one
& there's such a shame about it
'Cause she's so pretty
& then the earth sarted shakin'
& yeah it was crazy
& heaven & hell came crashing down
& then the earth sarted shakin'
& yeah it was crazy
& heaven & hell came crashing down
It was beautiful & terrible
So beautiful & terrible
The phone call
You never expect
Did somebody get it yet
It's a sound you never forget
Because the earth starts shakin'
& yeah it's crazy
Heaven & hell come crashing down
& then the earth starts shakin
& yeah it's so crazy
Heaven & hell come crashing
They come crashing
It's so beautiful & terrible
So beautiful & terrible
It was something of an end
Of a lovely & a wild thing
So beautiful in the morning
You're beautiful
So beautiful
You're beautiful in the morning
& I can't seem to get it through your head
No matter what I do
I can't seem to get it through your head
That I always love you
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| lyrics of the week december 15 - december 21 |
[24 Dec 2006|07:07pm] |
I was choking on a cornflake
You said “Have some toast
instead”
I was sleeping maybe three hours
You said
“You should get to bed”
I was waiting at the church door
For the minister to show
I was looking at the new year
You said “Walk before you crawl”
I was feeling like
a loser
You said “Hey, you’ve still got me”
I was
feeling pretty lonely
You said “You wanted to be free”
I was looking for a good time
You said “Let the good
times start”
With a quiver of your eyelid
You took on
someone else’s part
Maybe I’m a little greedy
You said “Think before you speak”
Sometimes I’m a little
seedy
You said “Everyone is weak”
Now I feel a little
better
Is there something I can do?
But I never heard
the answer
I never had a clue
But what about
me
I don’t really see
How things will improve
If
all you want is to stay loose
There’s a little echo
calling
Like a miner trapped inside
If I tell her of
this moment
She will in me doubts confide
And she’s on
me like a blanket
Like a stalk of wilting grass
I’m
not sure about her motives
I’m not sure about her past
But my faith is like a bullet
My belief is like a
bolt
The only thing that lets me sleep at night
A
little carriage of the soul
If it starts a little
bleaker
Then the year may yet be gold
Happiness is not
for keeping
Happiness is not my goal
But what
about me
I don’t really see
How things will improve
If all you want is to stay loose
But what about them
You play mother hen
To a gaggle of gangling youth
All you want is to stay loose
I was living through
the seconds
My composure was a mess
I was miles from
tenderness
It was dark outside, the day it was lying in
pieces
Everything is flat and dreary
I couldn’t care
what’s in the news
Television is the blues
Television
is hysterical laughter of people
And I know it could
be me
I’m always asking for more
I keep running round
in circles
I keep looking for a doorway
I’m going to
need two lives
To follow the paths I’ve been taking
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| lyrics of the week december 8 - december 14 |
[24 Dec 2006|07:04pm] |
I want you, you, you
All I want is you, you, you
All I want is you
Give you the stars above, Sun on the brightest day
Give you all my love, if you would only say
I want you, you, you
All I want is you, you, you
All I want is you
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| lyrics of the week december 1 - december 7 |
[09 Dec 2006|04:56pm] |
How about tomorrow
How about we share the day
How about tonight
At some safe place
How come it happened
How come i couldn't see
How come i'm not to you
What i could be
Say you're not a dream
Tell me you're my victory
The rain is fighting with my windows
Wants to get in
If i could heal you
If i could promise you
Everything will be fine
You know i would
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| lyrics of the week november 24 - november 30 |
[02 Dec 2006|02:20pm] |
Jesus Christ, that's a pretty face
The kind you'd find on someone I could save
If they don't put me away
Well, it'll be a miracle
Do you believe you're missing out
That everything good is happening somewhere else?
But with nobody in your bed
The night's hard to get through
And I will die all alone
And when I arrive I won't know anyone
Well Jesus Christ, I'm alone again
So what did you do those three days you were dead?
Cause this problem's gonna last more than the weekend.
Well Jesus Christ, I'm not scared to die,
I'm a little bit scared of what comes after
Do I get the gold chariot?
Do I float through the ceiling?
Do I divide and fall apart?
Cause my pride is too sly to hold back all my dark
And the ship went down in sight of land
And at the gates does Thomas ask to see my hands
I know you'll come in the night like a thief
But I've had some time alone to hold my lies inside me
I know you think that I'm someone you can trust
But I'm scared I'll get scared and I swear I'll try to nail you back up
So do you think that we could work out a sign
So I'll know it's you and that it's over so I won't even try
I know you'll come for the people like me
But we all got wood and nails
Tongue tied to a hating factory
But we all got wood and nails
Your tortured (and hanging) factory
Yeah, we all got wood and nails
Your tortured (and hanging) factory
Yeah, we all got wood and nails
And we sleep inside of this machine
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| lyrics of the week november 17 - november 23 |
[24 Nov 2006|06:36pm] |
I watched them fall. Eyes locked to mine,
Feeling as if I had let them down.
Caught blinded by silk, led by lips
To the baited chains.
Now look around. Regret.
As the axe swings before your eyes,
Think how everyday we spent dreaming.
Never once did we pick up the sword and learn to fight.
Now is the time. Pick yourself up and fight.
Learn to swing. Learn to swing.
They watched me fall for the last time.
But how is such and elegant blade to be stopped?
When in times where eyes set sites
To cross-hair the weak, my bride,
I'll try, oh so hard, to find that Light.
Cause in his mind she baits me to fire.
What a cunning foe we've met!
Our horizons pushed pages away to a new fight,
A new method, new plan. But how do I train?
How do you ready a child for war?
Oh what a cunning foe we've met!
The Captain, what will He send?
I know He will send, but what will be sent?
I can feel a slip. A buzzard scrapes nearby...
As I atop this hill stand and scream,
It's all I can do to control my gaze
From the curiosity of seeing myself as prey.
And then I heard an armored march.
I heard an armored march that shook the trees.
Bows bent as they sang, "We are the archers!"
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| lyrics of the week november 10 - november 16 |
[17 Nov 2006|05:50am] |
I'm not afraid of you now, I know
So I climbed down from the bunk beds this low
I can talk back to you now, I know
From a few things I learned from this TV show
You can work late till midnight, we don't care
We can fix our own meals, we can wash our own hair
I go to school before sunrise, in the cold
And I pulled the alarm, and I kicked up the salad bowls
Since that time we meant to say much
Unsaid things begin to change
After school we shoveled through the snow
Drove upstate in silence in the cold
You can remind me of it
That I was lazy and tired
You can work all your life as
I'm not afraid of you anymore
If I loved you a long time, I don't know
If I can't recall the last time you told me so
Here in this house in Pittsfield
The ghost of our grandmother works at the sewing machine post
Hiding the bills in the kitchen on the floor
And my sister lost her best friend in the Persian Gulf War
There was a flood in the bathroom last May
And you kicked at the pipes when it rattled oh the river it made
Stand there, tell me that I'm of no use
Things unspoken break us if we share
There's still time to wash the kitchen floor
On your knees, at the sink once more
You can remind me that I was tired
You can work late and give yourself up
Now that I'm older, wiser, and working less
I don't regret having left the place a mess
You can remind me that I was lazy and tired
You can recall your life as
I'm not afraid of you, anymore
Anymore
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| lyrics of the week november 3 - november 9 |
[10 Nov 2006|03:59am] |
It seems like the ordinary's lost it's touch.
The flavor of the internet ain't shaking hands with your best friends.
And I'm stuck in meetings with both sides again,
afraid to make an enemy or use anything that I probably should be flaunting.
I stood in line for hours to take a chance on a night without a cineplex,
but you feed me guilt when all I want is sojourn.
So, paste on a grin before you leave the room.
Make sure to color in your lips and flex your gums 'cause the rumors will be biting.
If there's a place above the act, how do I decide to run away from it all?
I'm barely in love.
Let's take this mud and build a giant wall
and block off all the criminals.
We can raise it up until it crumbles down upon us.
Better yet, we could take apart the all-night scene and black our minds with alcohol.
We could stumble back to our beds with half the city.
If there's a place above the act, how do I decided to run away from it all?
I'm barely in love.
And you said this was important, so I pledged all my investment.
Outside of this apartment, no one knows that somewhere else on Sundays,
we lie on backs just waiting for a phone call from our mothers to prove them wrong.
I'm so sick of enjoyment.
It gets me off then passes.
And I've spent too long waiting for I was wrong
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| lyrics of the week october 27 - november 2 |
[03 Nov 2006|09:52am] |
We are just two islands
Crossing paths on the way out to sea
And this is just an echo
Down the hall that'll bring you to me
We share one heart
We share one heart
We are just two islands
Crossing paths on our way out to sea
No, we are just two birds
Sitting on a single wire
We share one heart
We share one heart
Here we are
(This is just an echo)
Here we are
(Down the hall that'll bring you to me)
Here we are
(This is just an echo down the hall)
We share one heart
We are just two islands
Crossing paths on our way out to sea
No, we are just two birds
Sitting on the single wire
We are just two islands
(We share one heart)
We are just two islands
(We share one heart)
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| lyrics of the week october 20 - october 26 |
[27 Oct 2006|10:14am] |
If it can be broke then it can be fixed, if it can be fused then it can be split
It's all under control
If it can be lost then it can be won, if it can be touched then it can be turned
All you need is time
We promised the world we'd tame it, what were we hoping for?
A sense of purpose and a sense of skill, a sense of function but a disregard
We will not be the first, we won't
You said you were going to conquer new frontiers,
Go stick your bloody head in the jaws of the beast
We promised the world, we'd tame it, what were we hoping for?
Breath in, breath out
So here we are reinventing the wheel
I'm shaking hands with a hurricane
It's a colour that I can't describe,
It's a language I can't understand
Ambition, tearing out the heart of you
Carving lines into you
Dripping down the sides of you
We will not be the last.
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| lyrics of the week october 13 - october 19 |
[20 Oct 2006|09:54am] |
You may tire of me as our December sun is setting
'Cause I'm not who I used to be
No longer easy on the eyes
These wrinkles masterfully disguise
The youthful boy below
who turned your way and saw
Something he was not looking for
Both a beginning and an end
But now he lives inside someone he does not recognize
When he catches his reflection on accident
On the back of a motor bike
With your arms outstretched trying to take flight
Leaving everything behind
But even at our swiftest speed
We couldn't break from the concrete
In the city where we still reside
And I have learned
That even landlocked lovers yearn
For the sea like navy men
'Cause now we say goodnight
From our own separate sides
Like brothers on a hotel bed [x4]
You may tire of me as our december sun is setting
'Cause I'm not who I used to be
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| lyrics of the week october 6 - october 12 |
[13 Oct 2006|05:06am] |
hey thats my heart
hey thats my love
wounds as fresh as yesterday
you held my hand and told me it would be ok
and there i go trusting you
falling in love too soon
hey thats my heart
hey thats my love
be careful not to hurt its fragile
its fragile way couldnt take all you've given it
promised the world to me
and like a fool in love i believed
now all we have oh is bitter words oh i could die
hey there goes my love
hey there goes my heart
shouldnt you know better
trusted love trusted you
be sure to take care of her now
be sure to promise her the world now
and i do my best to stop loving you
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| lyrics of the week september 29 - october 5 |
[06 Oct 2006|09:52am] |
if i get lost along the way to meet you
if i'm more than a little late
if i get caught up in circles chasing my own tail
if i trip up and fail you
if i let you down
if i let you down
i can see that injury that accompanies the passage of you
i can try to rationalize the accumulation of fear
and the dreams that draw a song in pursuit of the end of time
and the grace that illuminates the past
if i let you down
if i let you down
in the night the city's quiet
from the rooftop we can see the moon rise high above the clouds
just enough light to see our faces give expression to the words we thought but didn't speak
and then you asked me a question that i won't forget
even if i spend my life trying to live up to what it means
if i let you down
if i let you down
don't let it break down
don't let it break down
don't let it break down
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| lyrics of the week september 22 - september 28 |
[28 Sep 2006|10:40pm] |
When they call your name
Will you walk right up
With a smile on your face
Or will you cower in fear
In your favorite sweater
With an old love letter
I wish you would
I wish you would
Come pick me up
Take me out
Eff me up
Steal my records
Screw all my friends
They're all full of $$$$
With a smile on your face
And then do it again
I wish you would
When you're walking downtown
Do you wish I was there
Do you wish it was me
With the windows clear and the mannequins eyes
Do they all look like mine
You know you could
I wish you would
Come pick me up
Take me out
Eff me up
Steal my records
Screw all my friends behind my back
With a smile on your face
And then do it again
I wish you would
I wish you'd make up my bed
So I could make up my mind
Try it for sleeping instead
Maybe you'll rest sometime
I wish I could
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| lyrics of the week september 15 - september 21 |
[22 Sep 2006|11:00am] |
So this is the day of the dead
Of St. Jude and the lady of Guadeloupe
Apples and oranges
And silver coins for ghosts to gamble with
Marigolds and candles
This is birth and this is death
All in the same breath
We all lose one another along the way
So this is the day of the dead
Bound by love unbound by flesh
This is for those who have gone before
Flower petals falling on the altar
This is just a gift
This is birth and this is death
All in the same breath
We all lose one another along the way
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