Eddie Vedder - Long Way

His eyes appear vacant
He’d taken more than his share
Trying hard not to awaken
The voice of regret in his ear
He can’t escape the timeline
So much worse than he had feared
Lived every moment
Wishing the past would disappear

He took the long way
On the freeway
He took the long way
On the freeway

She was his all and everything
But her strenght it needed space
Hеr love was but a haunting
She left but nеver went away

She took the long way
On the freeway
She took the long way
On the freeway
She took the long way
On the freeway
She took the long way
On the freeway

She took the long way
On the freeway
She took the long way
On the freeway
She took the long way
On the freeway
She took the long way
On the freeway
She took the long, long way

Well, it couldn’t be had
What he wanted to hold
He dared to let go
He should of known

She took the long way
On the freeway
She took the long way
On the freeway

U2 - I Threw A Brick Through A Window [Richard Skinner BBC Session - September 1981]

I was talking
I was talking to myself
Somebody else
Talk, talk, talking
I couldn’t hear a word
A word he said

He was my brother, brother
I said there was no other way out of here
Be my brother, brother
I gotta get out, I gotta get out

I was walking
I was walking into walls
And back again
I just keep walking
I walked up to a window
To see myself

In my reflection
And when I thought about it
My direction
You’re going nowhere, going nowhere
Anywhere’s better than this

No one
No, no one is blinder
Than he
Who will not see

I was talking
I was talking in my sleep
Oh I can’t stop
Talk, talk, talking
I’m talking to you
Oh it’s up to you

To be my brother, brother
There is another way out of here
Be my brother, brother
I gotta get out, gotta get out
Out of

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - The Carny

And no-one saw the carny go
And the weeks flew by
Until they moved on the show
Leaving his caravan behind
It was parked out on the south east ridge
And as the company crossed the bridge
With the first rain filling the bone-dry river bed
It shone, just so, upon the edge Away, away, we’re sad, they said

Dog-boy, atlas, half-man, the geeks, the hired hands
There was not one among them that did not cast an eye behind
In the hope that the carny would return to his own kind
And the carny had a horse, all skin and bone
A bow-backed nag, that he named “Sorrow”
Now it is buried in a shallow grave In the then parched meadow

And the dwarves were given the task of digging the ditch
And laying the nag’s carcass in the ground
And boss Bellini, waving his smoking pistol around
Saying, “The nag is dead meat”
“We can’t afford to carry dead weight”
The whole company standing about
Not making a sound
And turning to dwarves perched on the enclosure gate
The boss says “Bury this lump of crow bait”

And then the rain came hammering down
Everybody running for their wagons
Tying all the canvas flaps down
The mangy cats growling in their cages
The bird-girl flapping and squawking around
The whole valley reeking of wet beast
Wet beast and rotten hay
Freak and brute creation
Packed up and on their way

The three dwarves peering from their wagon’s hind
Moses says to Noah “We shoulda dugga deepa one”
Their grizzled faces like dying moons
Still dirty from the digging done
And Charlie, the eldest of the three, said
“I guess the carny ain’t gonna show”
And they were silent for a spell
Wishing they’d done a better job of burying Sorrow

And as the company passed from the valley
Into higher ground
The rain beat on the ridge and on the meadow
And on the mound
Until nothing was left, nothing at all
Except the body of Sorrow
That rose in time
To float upon the surface of the eaten soil

And a murder of crows did circle round
First one, then the others flapping blackly down
And the carny’s van still sat upon the edge
Tilting slowly as the firm ground turned to sludge
And the rain it hammered down
And no-one saw the carny go I say it’s funny how things go

Green Day - Dilemma

Welcome to my problems
It’s not an invitation
This is my dilemma
And it’s my obsession

I was sober now I’m drunk again
I’m in trouble and in love again
I don’t want to be a dead man walking
I don’t want to be a dead man walking

Welcome to my nightmare
Where dreams go to disappear
Sit around in rehab
Feeling like a lab rat

Strange days are here again
And it’s getting weirder
Here’s to all my problems
I just want to drink the poison

I was sober now I’m drunk again
I’m in trouble and in love again
I don’t want to be a dead man walking
I don’t want to be a dead man walking

I was sober now I’m drunk again
I’m in trouble and in love again
I don’t want to be a dead man walking
I don’t want to be a dead man walking

Oh, why
When I fall asleep tonight
On the wing
and prayer
Oh, why
For despair and obsession on you
You, yeah

I was sober now I’m drunk again
I’m in trouble and in love again
I don’t want to be a dead man walking
I don’t want to be a dead man walking

I was sober now I’m drunk again
I’m in trouble and in love again
I don’t want to be a dead man walking
I don’t want to be a dead man walking

Interpol - Fables

You're truly erupting too hard
That's why you're a sizeable God
And I am decidedly cold
I ain't taking the fall
I have forsaken you all
I was mistakenly chose
Now I'm mistaking my own
You can't take me

It's time we made something stable
We're in the sights of perfect danger
All is lost to the time beyond fables
And the circular rise of guileless angels
Say all is fine

I'll do it over again
Last time I was drunk in the Seine
Now I'm back drinking again
It was Satan, that's known
This running around without jokes
A boarded up house on the coast
And time is making me broke
You can't take me

It's time we made something stable (something)
We're in the sights of perfect danger (something)
All is lost to the time beyond fables (something)
And the circular rise of guileless angels (something)
Say all is fine, fine (something)
For the sake of time

Come on baby, it was a pleasure to know
You're so amazing

I do it all for the glow
I stand unbearably close
How could you possibly know?
I ain't taking the call (call stop please remember)
I have forsaken you all
I was mistakenly chose
Now I'm just taking my own
You can't make me

It's time we made something stable (something)
We're in the sights of perfect danger (something)
All is lost to the time beyond fables (something)
And the circular rise of guileless angels (something)
All is fine, fine (something)
For the second time

Come on baby, it was a pleasure to know
You're so amazing
Higher, higher than trails of meteors (come on my baby)
Come on baby, it was a pleasure to know
You're so amazing
Higher beyond the flames of meteors
Come on baby, it was a pleasure to know
You're so crazy
Higher, higher than tails of meteors

U2 - Stories For Boys

There's a place I go
When I am far away.
There's a T.V. show
And I can play.

Sometimes when a hero takes me
Sometimes I don't let go
Oh, oh, oh.

There's a picture book
With colour photographs
There's a comic strip
That makes me laugh

Sometimes away he takes me
Sometimes I don't let go.

Stories for boys
Stories for boys
Stories for boys
Stories for boys
Stories for boys.

There's a place I go
And it's a part of me
There's a radio
And I will go

Sometimes a hero takes me
Sometimes I don't let go.

Stories for boys
Stories for boys
Stories for boys
Stories for boys
Stories for boys.
Stories for boys.
Stories for boys.
Stories for boys.
Stories for boys.

Explosions In The Sky - Loved Ones

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The National feat. Rosanne Cash - Crumble

If you say that it's true
But you don't know what to do
And it's only because you love me

If you tell me that you're sure
And it can't wait anymore
And it's only because you love me

I... I'm gonna crumble
I... I'm gonna crumble

If you say it like that I'll die
If you say it like that I'll probably cry
If you say it like that and don't want to take it back
I'm gonna crumble

You say don't misread your words
Sometimes they're gonna hurt
And it's only because you love me

If you say you're well aware
Of that but you don't care
And it's only because you love me

I... I'm gonna crumble
I... I'm gonna crumble

If you say it like that I'll die
If you say it like that I'll probably cry
If you say it like that and don't want to take it back
I'm gonna crumble

Get yourself ready to catch what you can of me
Get yourself ready to pick me up
Get yourself ready to catch what you can of me
Get yourself ready to pick me up

If you say it without intention
You just thought that you should mention
And it's only because you love me

And you want to see me soon
Under less a children’s moon
And it's only because you love me

I... I'm gonna crumble
I... I'm gonna crumble

If you say it like that I'll die
If you say it like that I'll probably cry
If you say it like that and don't want to take it back
I'm gonna crumble

Get yourself ready to catch what you can of me
Get yourself ready to pick me up
Get yourself ready to catch what you can of me
Get yourself ready to pick me up

Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart [Permanent Mix]

When routine bites hard
And ambitions are low
And resentment rides high
But emotions won't grow
And we're changing our ways, taking different roads

Then love, love will tear us apart again
Love, love will tear us apart again

Why is the bedroom so cold?
You've turned away on your side
Is my timing that flawed?
Our respect runs so dry
Yet there's still this appeal
That we've kept through our lives

But love, love will tear us apart again
Love, love will tear us apart again

You cry out in your sleep
All my failings exposed
And there's a taste in my mouth
As desperation takes hold
Just that something so good
Just can't function no more

Then love, love will tear us apart again
Love, love will tear us apart again
Then love, love will tear it apart again
Love, love will tear it apart again

Dead Can Dance - Enigma Of The Absolute

Saloman hung down her head, laid bare her heart
For the world to see, she craved for intimacy
Through darkened doors her aspect veiled with indecision
Gazed out to sea, she craved lucidity

Cast adrift from past relationships in her life
Hoisted up the ideal, this was her saving grace
Sea's of rage that once assailed her concern for the truth
Had passed her by and left her high and dry
In her saviour's arms...

Across the sea lies the fountain of renewal
Where you will see the whole cause of your lonliness
Can be measured in dreams that transcend all these lies
And I wish and I pray that there may come a day
For a saviour's arms...