U2 - Some Days Are Better Than Others

Some days are dry, some days are leaky
Some days come clean, other days are sneaky.
Some days take less, but most days take more
Some slip through your fingers and on to the floor.
Some days you're quick, but most days you're speedy
Some days you use more force than is necessary.
Some days just drop in on us.
Some days are better than others.
Some days it all adds up
And what you've got is enough.
Some days are better than others.

Some days are slippy, other days are sloppy;
Some days you can't stand the sight of a puppy.
Your skin is white, but you think you're a brother.
Some days are better than others.
Some days you wake up with her complaining.
Some sunny days you wish it was raining.
Some days are sulky, some days have a grin;
And some days have bouncers and won't let you in.
Some days you hear a voice
Taking you to another place.
Some days are better than others.

Some days are honest, some days are not;
Some days you're thankful for what you've got.
Some days you wake up in the army
And some days it's the enemy.
Some days are work, most days you're lazy;
Some days you feel like a bit of a baby
Lookin' for Jesus and his mother.
Some days are better than others.
Some days you feel ahead;
You're making sense of what she said.
Some days are better than others.

Some days I hear a voice taking me to another place.
Some days are better then others.

Lana Del Rey - Love

Look at you, kids, with your vintage music
Comin' through satellites while cruisin'
You're part of the past, but now you're the future
Signals crossing can get confusin'

It's enough just to make you feel crazy, crazy, crazy
Sometimes it's enough just to make you feel crazy

You get ready, you get all dressed up
To go nowhere in particular
Back to work or the coffee shop
Doesn't matter 'cause it's enough
To be young and in love, ah, ah
To be young and in love, ah, ah

Look at you, kids, you know you're the coolest
The world is yours and you can't refuse it
Seen so much, you could get the blues, but
That don't mean that you should abuse it

Though it's enough just to make you go crazy, crazy, crazy
I know, it's enough just to make you go crazy, crazy, crazy

But you get ready, you get all dressed up
To go nowhere in particular
Back to work or the coffee shop
It don't matter because it's enough
To be young and in love, ah, ah
To be young and in love, ah, ah

Hmm (Ah, ah)
Hmm (Ah, ah, ah, ah)
Hmm
Don't worry, baby
Hmm (Ah, ah)
Hmm (Ah, ah, ah, ah)
Hmm
Don't worry, baby

And it's enough just to make me go crazy, crazy, crazy
It's enough just to make me go crazy, crazy, crazy

I get ready, I get all dressed up
To go nowhere in particular
It doesn't matter if I'm not enough
For the future or the things to come
'Cause I'm young and in love, ah, ah
I'm young and in love, ah, ah, ah, ah

Hmm (Ah, ah)
Hmm (Ah, ah, ah, ah)
Hmm
Don't worry, baby
Hmm (Ah, ah)
Hmm (Ah, ah, ah, ah)
Hmm
Don't worry, baby

Interpol - Breaker 1

Come back, come back, I'm the warning
Come back, come back, breaker one
(Come back, come back, breaker one)
Come back, come back, I'm the warning
Come back, come back, breaker one (I'm the warning)
Come back, come back, breaker one

It's in the way that I hold you tight, sleep beside me
There is a slow plugging at the tire, decent slow me
And I feel my teeth make oh the ache inside, go away
The vacant mind just waves some explosions on the bright side

Come back, come back, I'm the warning
Come back, come back, breaker one
(Come back, come back, breaker one)
Come back, come back, I'm the warning
Come back, come back, breaker one (I'm the warning)
Come back, come back, breaker one

You've seen the way how it happens right, this feast inside me
It leads the way then it's at my side, it feeds 'til starving
And I feel my teeth make oh, the ache inside, go away
My all holidays, some reverence of a wild side
I'm inclined 'cause I've seen my dreams defied
And I take my turn, in stride to sink my feet away

Come back, come back, I'm the warning
Come back, come back, breaker one

It's begun, braves become
Makes weak I just need you so much
Need you so much darling
And I see my teeth make oh, the ache inside, go away
The patience to climb all day
Some reverence of a mountain
I'm inclined 'cause I need my needs to get by
And I take my turn in kind
To sink my feet, away

Come back, come back, I'm the warning
Come back, come back, breaker one

Bauhaus - Harry

Well hello pretty woman
You're looking good
With a yellow dot skirt
And you're swaying, hah

You look as though you've ate your one last meal
You're conceit is all thats left
You can sing a spiel
You used to hide away in kiosk land
Let's find you out and loosen up
You're so upset

Making coffee for the poor machines
Stipulate, copulate for all his schemes

I have you
You have me
We go where we want to be
We have it
We have fun
We go places to have some, hah

Well they're as stiff as New York
With the right wing lights
And the babies get for real if the group is right
Following her swallowing some two-tone pills
They said he's looking crazy, but he's so well built
You're moving steady, soon you'll be that star
Don't wrap up my tomorrows in your infectious car
They'll line you up and strip you down you'll see
That you're still the horny two-eyed bitch you used to be

Aye-aye-ah
Aye-aye-ah

Your mothers and your fathers and your boyfriend too
They're hiding places can't and won't expect you to

But he's seen shadows upon that ball
Fix the cast or fix to catch the things they install
They'll soon realize that stardom's going to your head
They'll visualize you rising my poor blood is dead
Your mother father brother sister too
Natural best, all the best go on you

I have you (Aye-aye-ah)
You have me
We go where we want to be
We have it (Aye-aye-ah)
We have fun
We go places to have some

Lalalalalalalalalalala la
Lalalalalalalalalalala la
Lalalalalalalalalalala la

Nine Inch Nails - The Collector

I pick things up
I am a collector
And things, well things
They tend to accumulate
I have this net
It drags behind me
And it picks up feelings
For me to feed upon

There are times, plenty of times
I wish I could let it go
But they start to breathe
And they start to grow inside me
There are times, plenty of times
I wish I could let it go
But they start to make me think
Things I don't want to know

I'm trying to fit it all inside
I'm trying to open my mouth wide
I'm trying not to choke and
Swallow it all
Swallow it all
Swallow it all
Swallow it all

I am the plague
I am the swarm
All your hurt sticks on me
And I keep it warm
They make me stay
They won't let me leave
There are so God damned many of them
It gets hard to breathe

I'm trying to fit it all inside
I'm trying to open my mouth wide
I'm trying not to choke inside
I am a good boy and I will
Swallow it all
Swallow it all
Swallow it all
Swallow it all

Every last one
Every last one
Every last one
Every last one

St. Vincent - The Power's Out

monday morning subway station pushers pushing racers racing came the message on the station the power’s out across the nation
and ladies and gentleman it seems we’ve got a problem the man on my screen said just as somebody shot him
and the mothers gasped the children cried almost could not believe my eyes
the power’s out and no one can save us no one can blame us now
that the power’s out

it was pouring like a movie every stranger looked like they knew me handsome cowboys praying gothic said I just remembered being happy
and “ladies and gentleman do remember me smiling” the queer on the train said as she jumped off the platform
and some blind folks held the police crying I swear to you I would not lie
the power’s out
the power’s out and no one can save us no one can blame us now
that the power’s out

that’s why I never came home

Cowboy Junkies - Powderfinger

Look out, Mama, there's a white boat coming up the river
With a big red beacon and a flag and a man on the rail
I think you'd better call John
'cause it don't look like they're here to deliver the mail
And it's less than a mile away
I hope they didn't come to stay
It's got numbers on the side and a gun
And it's making big waves

Daddy's gone, my brother's out hunting in the mountains
Big John's been drinking since the river took Emmy Lou
So the powers that be left me here to do all the thinking
And I just turned twenty-two
I was wondering what to do
And the closer they got
The more those feelings grew

Daddy's rifle in my hand felt reassuring
He told me, 'Red means run, Son, numbers add up to nothing'
But when that first shot hit the dock, I saw it coming
Raised the rifle to my eye
Never stopped to wonder why
Then I saw black and my face flash in the sky

Shelter me from the powder and the finger
Cover me with the thought that pulled the trigger
Just think of me as one you never figured
To fade away so young
With so much left undone
Remember me to my love
I know I'll miss her

(originally recorded by Neil Young and Crazy Horse)

Paradise Lost - Forging Sympathy

A mass of breathing souls
For times are desolate
Passing judgement on my sentence
As I perceive my dying day

Give me a promise
The word I will never hear
Sympathies forging, stalling in me

I’m closing all the doors
While my frown remains
Until I reach my golden haven
I’ll let the sadness pass my way

Preaching the words of angels, to a darker side of man

My halo’s fading with all the sin I deal
Have I been banished, a forgery

Sear, the tender feeling as my solar glow dies
And I’m waiting for my sweet Hell
You’ll wait for your Hell, I wish you Hell

In time the hate corrodes
Our brains are desolate And this prison which we serve in
Will be a witness to our pains

Preaching the words of angels, to a darker side of man

TOOL - Triad

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The Jesus And Mary Chain - Alphabet Street

I'm going down to Alphabet Street
I'm gonna crown the first girl that I meet
I'm gonna talk so sexy
She'll want me from my head to my feet

I'm gonna drive my daddy's thunderbird
I'm gonna try but you know it's absurd
I'm gonna put her in the back seat
And drive her to Tennessee

I'm going down down down cause that's the only way
To make this cruel cruel world hear what we've got to say
Put the right letters together and make a better day

(originally recorded by Prince)