Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - A Twisted State

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Joy Division - Dead Souls

Someone take these dreams away,
That point me to another day,
A duel of personalities,
That stretch all true realities.

That keep calling me,
They keep calling me,
Keep on calling me,
They keep calling me.

Where figures from the past stand tall,
And mocking voices ring the halls.
Imperialistic house of prayer,
Conquistadors who took their share.

That keep calling me,
They keep calling me,
Keep on calling me,
They keep calling me...

Arcade Fire - Normal Person

Is anything as strange as a normal person?
Is anyone as cruel as a normal person?
Waiting after school, you want to know if you're normal too
Well, are you?

I'm so confused, am I a normal person?
You know, I can't tell if I'm a normal person, it's true
I think I'm cool enough, but am I cruel enough...
Am I cruel enough... for you?

Break it down until everything is normal now
I know

Take their tea at two, all the normal people, they do
They burned the jungle down, while you were sleeping it grew
You dream in English now, in proper English
Look how you're just the same as me
It's through!

If that's what's normal now, I don't want to know!
Mama, don't make me go!

When they get excited they try to hide it (...No!)
Look at those normals go!

If that's what's normal now, I don't want to know
If that's what's normal now...

Maybe if you have together, you can make the changes in our hearts
And if you hang together, you can change us, just where should you start?

I've never really ever met a normal person (...like you)

How do you do?

Mogwai - Remurdered

...

Anna Calvi - Suddenly

Crawling out the need to protect me
I comb the earth to find me a stronger hand

I stand on the edge
Of sadness
That I can’t face
It tastes like I’m leaving
Suddenly I’ll leave it all behind

Tell you heart to jump to another
The darkness grows
I know a never ending night
I stand on the edge
Of sadness
That I can’t face
It tastes like I’m leaving
Suddenly I’ll leave it all behind

Ashes to ash
It leaves me with nothing
I’m falling away
Well if you want her

The touch on the spell
Her eyes are so wild
We stand on the edge
It tastes like I’m leaving
Suddenly I’ll leave it all behind

Cat Power - Speak For Me

Pick us up we're all by ourselves
The great big howling is about to begin
A thousand miles from where it all begins

Old world, the whole world is

Going on and on (forfeit the shape to fit)
The backhand to a touch is moving on again
Going on and on

What's next?
I'm out of time
Losing my touch I can't feel
Speak for me
Do you see the same signs?
Do you know how to read between the lines?
All in all, it's all or none, all for one
What you want?

Pick us out of a lineup
Stranded and strange just as innocent as kids
The found are leaving and they're trying to forget
The old world, the whole world is

Going on and on (forfeit the shape to fit)
A backhand to the touch is moving on again
Going on and on

What's next?
I'm out of time
Losing my touch I can't feel
Speak for me
Do you see the same signs?
Do you know how to read between the lines?
All in all, it's all or none, all for one
What you want?

Going on and on

Pearl Jam - Getaway

Everyone's a critic looking back up the river
Every boat is leaking in this town 
Everybody's thinking that they'll all be delivered
Sitting in a box like lost and found

But I found my place and it's alright
We all searching for our better way 
Got yours off my plate, it's alright
I got my own way to believe

Find a lighthouse in the dark stormy weather
We all could use a sedative right not
Holy rollers sittin with their backs to the middle 
All hands on deck, sinking is the bow

And if you wanna have to pray, it's alright
We all be thinking with our different brains
Get yours off my plate, it's alright
I got my own way to believe

It's ok
Sometimes you find yourself 
Having to put all your faith
In no faith 
Mine is mine, and yours won't take its place
Now make your getaway

Science says we're making love like the lizards
Try and say that fossils ain't profound
Simon says that we are not allowed to consider
Simon says "Stand-up. Sit-down. You're out!"

But I found my place, and it's alright
Bearing witness to some stranger days 
Get yours off my plate, it's alright
I got my own ways to believe

It's ok 
Sometimes you find yourself being told to change your ways
There's no way 
Mine is mine and yours won't take its place
Now make your getaway

It's ok
Sometimes you find yourself 
Having to put all your faith
In no faith
Mine is mine, and yours won't take its place
Now make your getaway

It's ok 
Sometime you find yourself
Being told to change your ways
For Gods sake
Mine is mine and yours won't take its place 
Now make your getaway

Make your getaway

Goldfrapp - Drew

Pull up the blinds
Open the door wide
Feel the cold arrive
In my bones
Put on my face
The way I dressed today
Feel like you tonight
On my day

Falling little more
You bumped and crashed in dirty snow
Up to our sin, I might as well
Melt into Sunday
Remember the time
We stood there by the lake
Watching boats and planes
Pretty white clouds

The sun will sweat
In fact the song begins
Trees are your skin
On my tongue
Falling little more
You bumped and crashed in dirty snow
Up to our sin, I might as well
Melt into Sunday

Pull up the blinds
Open the door wide
Feel the cold arrive
In my bones
You, me and more
We bumped and crashed in dirty snow
Up to our sin, we might as well
Melt into Sunday

La la la la la
La la la la la la la la la
We know you're, you're not how it seems
Don't have a point

You're not there for the stay
When I will wish you could
Wish that you were there
You could
You're dying in here
You could be here soon
You stumble on a river

TV On The Radio feat. David Bowie - Province

Suddenly, all your history's ablaze
Try to breathe, as the world disintegrates
Just like autumn leaves, we're in for change
Holding tenderly to what remains
And all your memories, are as precious as gold
And all the honey, and the fire which you've stole
Have you running through all your red-cheeked days
Shaking loose these souls, from their sacred hiding space

Hold your heart courageously
As we walk into this dark place
Stand steadfast erect and see
That love is the province of the brave

Pushed under this expanse of bursting stars
Let this burning brightly illuminate the where we are
In this hollow that lovers' voices occupy
Let it follow that we let it free, let it fly

Breaking open the walls of this cage
Intoxicated, Oh so amazed
Much like falcons tumbling from the heights at play
Conjoined, talons engaged

Hold these hearts courageously
As we walk into this dark place
Stand steadfast beside me and see
That love is the province of the brave

New Order - Young Offender

Pictures of an image of a person who could not be blamed
You are a colour and you are a number
We need a sanction to see one another
If I keep my distance in the season of this slender hell
It's because of the need to live off one another
Go home young offender and stay undercover

We're busy running out of time
(Whatever it takes, I will make you mine)
I'll take the future from your hands
(All the things I've ever had, I can make the perfect crime)

We're strong, we do our thing
Let the world cry, watch the birds sing
Give me the freedom, I need to recover
Words cannot heal, when a line is your lover

Wind howls in my chamber like an angel
(like an angel)
You are a colour and you are a number
Go home young offender and stay undercover

Sonic Youth - Incinerate

I ripped yr heart out from yr chest
Replaced it with a grenade blast

Incinerate
Incinerate
Incinerate
Incinerate

Firefighters hose me down
I don't care I'll burn out anyhow
It's 4 alarm girl nothing to see
Hear the sirens come for me

You doused my soul with gasoline
You flicked a match into my brain

Incinerate
Incinerate
Incinerate
Incinerate

The firefighters are so nice
I remember you so cold as ice
Now flames are licking at yr feet
Sirens come to put me out of misery

You wave yr torch into my eyes
Flamethrower lover burning mind

Incinerate
Incinerate
Incinerate
Incinerate
Incinerate
Incinerate
Incinerate
Incinerate

The Raveonettes - War In Heaven

Wait, a war in heaven

Wait, a war in heaven
I hate it when they forget
To let people live

Wait, a war in heaven
I hate it when they forget
To let people live

Slowly we come
There's blood on the chair
In this tender life

Led Zeppelin - Bron-Yr-Aur

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MGMT - Introspection

Glowing in the shadows
Twisted in confusion
Grazing in the meadows
Voices in profusion
Colors, thoughts, emotions
Are trapped within the heart
Feeling no emotions
End without a start

Introspection, what am I really like inside?
Introspection, why have all the prophets lied?
There's a season when I will find out where I am
And there's a reason, and I will someday find the plan

Striving for perfection
And hiding when it comes
Seeing its reflection
And the fire it becomes

Turning of the seasons
And turning outside in
Burning with the reasons
Burning for revenge

Introspection, what am I really like inside?
Introspection, why have all the prophets lied?
There's a season when I will find out where I am
And there's a reason, and I will someday find the plan

Tripled by the onslaught
Speeding feud of time
Dying by the unloved
Of voices in the pride

Introspection, what am I really like inside?
Introspection, why have all the prophets lied?
There's a season when I will find out where I am
And there's a reason, and I will someday find the plan

Introspection, what am I really like inside?
Introspection, why have all the prophets lied?
There's a season when I will find out where I am
And there's a reason, and I will someday find the plan

(Faine Jade)

Kings Of Leon - Coming Back Again

Rose and wine and
Skin and cigarette
Locks fall down your neck
I saw you right be-
Fore your eyes caught mine
Better than the rest

And I can feel it coming back again
I got a feeling coming back again

And you got me on the ropes
Yeah, you got me on the ropes again

I got the feeling coming back again, oh
Oh, I can feel it coming back again, oh

Callous hands and
Grimace hides a smile
Faith so close in time
I'm enough for talking
I'm turned and pushed aside
Fearless creatures fight

And I can feel it coming back again
I got a feeling coming back again

And now you got me on the ropes
Yeah, you got me on the ropes again

And I can feel it coming back again, oh
Oh, I can feel it coming back again, oh
I can feel it coming back again, oh
Oh, I can feel it coming back, oh

And I can feel it coming back again, oh
Oh, I can feel it coming back again, oh
I can feel it coming back, oh
Oh, I can feel it coming back again, oh

Smashing Pumpkins - Lucky 13

The same blood
I suppose
Breaking jars
I'm no good
As the prodigal son
And I know
That you're mesmerized
You had a vision, made these laws
and sanitized, are we above desires
I miss him so

You are so fucked
It has begun
Revolution crawls
All over you
I was asleep
You light up this sky
And scrape out your skull
Your lovely face
Will never be claimed thrice
It was so unlikely doom
Upon my wrists I bear the cross
My losses mount as I climb across the hole
of my own soul

I'll claim my prize
I don't exist
I am divine
A ghost with eyes

Mazzy Star - California

I think I'm going back to California
Somewhere distant and it's all far away
It's so far, it's so far far away

I think I'll drift across the ocean now
Clouds look so clear in your eyes
Let me dream all my, let me dream all my friends

I think I'll fly across the ocean
I can watch the sky turning grey
I think I'm going back, I think I'll go back

I think I hear the whisper of my own best friend
I think I hear the bells ringing in the square
California, California

Placebo - Begin The End

Look me in the eyes, say that again.
Take me to your chest, and let me in.
Give me mouth-to-mouth, and make amends.
Knock me off my feet like heroin.
No need to disguise or to pretend.
Don't misconstrue and don't misapprehend.
There's nothing left, no fortress, to defend.
And tonight's the night that we begin the end.

You and I kept looking to transcend.
The fact that I was breaking to your bend.
But this is now, and, sadly, that was then.
And tonight's the night that we begin the end.

And I tried, God knows, I tried.
There's you can do to change my mind.
And I tried, God knows, I tried.
There's nothing you can do to change my mind.
And I don't enjoy to watch you crumble,
I don't enjoy to watch you cry.
Make no mistake.
Make no mistake.

Look me in the eyes, say that again.
Blame me for the sorry state you're in.
It's not my fault if you can't comprehend
that tonight's the night that we begin the end.

I tried, God knows, I tried,
but there's nothing you can do to change my mind.
I tried, God knows, I tried,
but there's nothing you can do to change my mind.
I don't enjoy to watch you crumble! I don't enjoy to watch you cry.
I don't enjoy to watch you crumble! I don't enjoy to watch you cry.
Make no mistake.
Make no mistake.

Look me in the eye, say that again.

The Cure - The Big Hand

The big hand makes all of your favourite things
Like all your dreams go small
And all your friends run away
Until your memories fail
And the words don't fit
But the way the big hand smiles
You just won't care about it

The big hand makes all of your favourite things
Like all your days run out
And all your hopes disappear
And your smiles just stop
And your eyes go dead
And the shadows start to crawl
In the back of your head

But when the big hand speaks
It's like fireworks and heaven
So you listen
Don't think
And wish for nothing at all
And when the big hand sings
It's like fireworks and friends
Leaving alone I'm not
Leaving alone
Leaving alone I'll never
Leave alone again

So when the big hand holds up all your favourite things
And with a touch like glass
Starts to squeeze
You don't ask
"Why me?"
You just slip to the floor
Just slip to your knees

But when the big hand speaks
It's like fireworks and heaven
So you listen
Don't think
And wish for nothing at all
And when the big hand sings
It's like fireworks and friends
Leaving alone I'm not
Leaving alone
Never leaving alone
Leaving alone I'm not
Leaving alone
Leaving alone
I'm not leaving alone again

Peter Murphy - Marlene Dietrich's Favourite Poem

My mother loved it so she said
Sad eyed pearl and drop lips
Glancing pierce through writer man
Spoke hushed and frailing hips
Her old eyes skim in creasing lids
A tear falls as she describes
Approaching death with a yearning heart
With pride and no despise

Hot tears flow as she recounts
Her favorite worded token
Forgive me please for hurting so
Don't go away heartbroken no

Just wise owl tones no velvet lies
Crush her velvet call
Oh Marlene suffer all the fools
Who write you on the wall
And hold your tongue about your life
Or dead hands will change the plot
Will make your loving sound like snakes
Like you were never hot

Hot tears flow as she recounts
Her favorite worded token
Forgive me please for hurting so
Don't go away heartbroken no

My mother loved it so she said
Sad eyed pearl and drop lips yeah
Glancing pierce through writer man
Spoke hushed and frailing lips yeah
Old eyes skim in creasing lids
A tear falls as she describes
Approaching death with a yearning heart
With pride and no despise

Hot tears flow as she recounts
Her favorite worded token
Forgive me please for hurting so
Don't go away heartbroken no

Beastie Boys - Time For Livin'

Yeah, that's right
It's time to set the record straight

Ain't nobody got to spell it for me
Ain't nobody got to yell I can see
Ain't nobody got the pain I can hear
But if I have to I'll yell in your ear

Time for living
Time for giving
Time for living
Time for giving
Time for living
Time for giving
Time for living
Time for giving

Ain't nobody to to spell it for me
I said ain't nobody got to yell I can see
I said ain't nobody got the pain I can hear
But if I have to I will yell in your ear

Soul fire
Soul fire
And we ain't got no water
We don't got no water

Time for living time for giving
No time for making up a monster to sell
Time for living time for giving
No time for breakin' out a lie to sell

Blur - Song 2

I got my head checked
By a jumbo jet
It wasn't easy
But nothing is
No

Woo-hoo
When I feel heavy-metal
And I'm pins and I'm needles
Well, I lie and I'm easy
All the time but I am never sure
Why I need you
Pleased to meet you

I got my head down
When I was young
It's not my problem
It's not my problem

Woo-hoo
When I feel heavy-metal
And I'm pins and I'm needles
Well, I lie and I'm easy
All the time but I am never sure
Why I need you
Pleased to meet you

Yeah yeah
Yeah yeah
Yeah yeah
Oh yeah

Iggy Pop - Real Wild Child (Wild One)

Well I'm just outa school
Like I'm real real cool
Gotta dance like a fool
Got the message that I gotta be
A wild one
Ooh yeah I'm a wild one

Gotta break it loose
Gonna keep 'em movin' wild
Gonna keep a swingin' baby
I'm a real wild child

Gonna met all muh friends
Gonna have ourself a ball
Gonna tell my friends
Gonna tell them all
That I'm a wild one
Ooh yeah I'm a wild one

Gotta break it loose
Gonna keep 'em movin' wild
Gonna keep a swingin' baby
I'm a real wild child

I'm a real wild one
An' I like a wild fun
In a world gone crazy
Everything seems hazy
I'm a wild one
Ooh yeah I'm a wild one

Gotta break it loose
Gonna keep 'em movin' wild
Gonna keep a swingin' baby
I'm a real wild child

I'm a wild one
I'm a wild one
I'm a wild one
Oh baby
I'm a wild one

Gotta break it loose
Gonna keep 'em movin' wild
Gonna keep a swingin' baby
I'm a real wild child

(originally recorded by Johnny O'Keefe)

White Lies - Heaven Wait

Heaven wait
Is your light always on?
Through the ashen wake
I'll swim with the saved to your door

Heaven wait
Are you but a bruise on the sky?
A moral ache?
A reason to live or to die?

So wait for me
Wait for me
Take this weight up from me

Heaven wait
If change is a world of regret...
In shallow faith
My lip hooked
How mild I'll ascend!

So wait for me
Wait for me
Take this weight up from me

Sharon Van Etten - Keep

Keep still so I can find you at your whim.
Breathe slowly so I can breathe with you.
Ooh... ooh...

Leave me alone,
We all want to feel at home.
Find me sleeping,
My inner dialogue's a drone.
Keep...

Don't cry for me,
I can't either.
I can't weep.
Remember these moments,
They're all we have
And all I can keep.
Caught in a lie I want
You to keep me to yourself.

Keep running deep under my skin I want to shed.
Don't keep it in keep it on the thinnest of all threads
And I want to break you no no...
Ooh...

Deftones - Headup

Got back out, back off the forefront
I never said, or got to say bye to my boy, but
It's often I try
I think about how id be screaming
And the times would be bumping
All our minds would be flowing
Taking care of shit like
Hey holmes what you needing
As lifes coming off
Whack it will open your eyes

As I proceed to get loose
You seem to have some doubt
I feel you next to me
Fiending getting spacey
With the common love of music
Think of this as the sun and the mind
As a tool
But we could bounce back from this one
With attitude will and some spirit
With attitude will and your spirit
We'll shove it aside

Soulfly
Fly high
Soulfly
Fly free

Shut your shit, please say what you will.
I can't think
Sidestep around
I'm bound to the freestyle
Push down to the ground
With a nova dash but they watch you
Now climb up, super slide
The spirits so low it's coming over you

Soulfly
Fly high
Soulfly
Fly free

When you walk in to this world
Walk in to this world
With your head up high

Headup

TOOL - Ænema

Some say the end is near.
Some say we'll see Armageddon soon.
I certainly hope we will.
I sure could use a vacation from this

Bullshit three ring circus sideshow of freaks

Here in this hopeless fucking hole we call L.A.
The only way to fix it is to flush it all away.
Any fucking time. Any fucking day.
Learn to swim, I'll see you down in Arizona Bay.

Fret for your figure and
Fret for your latte and
Fret for your lawsuit and
Fret for your hairpiece and
Fret for your Prozac and
Fret for your pilot and
Fret for your contract and
Fret for your car.

It's a bullshit three ring circus sideshow of freaks

Here in this hopeless fucking hole we call L.A.
The only way to fix it is to flush it all away.
Any fucking time. Any fucking day.
Learn to swim, I'll see you down in Arizona Bay.

Some say a comet will fall from the sky.
Followed by meteor showers and tidal waves.
Followed by fault lines that cannot sit still.
Followed by millions of dumbfounded dip shits.

Some say the end is near.
Some say we'll see Armageddon soon.
I certainly hope we will cause
I sure could use a vacation from this

Stupid shit, silly shit, stupid shit...

One great big festering neon distraction,
I've a suggestion to keep you all occupied.

Learn to swim.
Learn to swim.
Learn to swim.

Mom's gonna fix it all soon.
Mom's comin' round to put it back the way it ought to be.

Learn to swim.

Fuck L Ron Hubbard and
Fuck all his clones.
Fuck all these gun-toting
Hip gangster wannabes.

Learn to swim.

Fuck retro anything.
Fuck your tattoos.
Fuck all you junkies and
Fuck your short memory.

Learn to swim.

Fuck smiley glad-hands
With hidden agendas.
Fuck these dysfunctional,
Insecure actresses.
Learn to swim.

Cause I'm praying for rain
And I'm praying for tidal waves
I wanna see the ground give way.
I wanna watch it all go down.
Mom, please flush it all away.
I wanna see it go right in and down.
I wanna watch it go right in.
Watch you flush it all away.

Time to bring it down again.
Don't just call me pessimist.
Try and read between the lines.

I can't imagine why you wouldn't
Welcome any change, my friend.

I wanna see it all come down.
Bring it down
Suck it down.
Flush it down.

Green Day - Baby Eyes

The year of the rat, the first of the leader
Somebody shot the babysitter
They say my middle name is danger
The kind you keep away from strangers

I'm singing woahhhh
I'm out of control
Oh baby when I see your pretty face
I say woahhhh
God rest your fuckin' soul
Cause baby baby I was born to kill

I pulled the trigger from the shooting stars
I am the motor in your crashing car
I am the cherub and the arab spring
I am the bullet in your magazine

I'm singing woahhhh
I'm out of control
Oh baby when I see your pretty face
I said woahhhh
God rest your fuckin' soul

Cause baby baby eyes
Uh baby baby eyes
Uh baby baby I was born to... kill

Public Image Limited - Public Image

Hello, hello, hello (ha, ha, ha)

You never listen to a word that I said
You only seen me
For the clothes that I wear
Or did the interest go so much deeper
It must have been
The colour of my hair

The Public Image

What you wanted was never made clear
Behind the image was ignorance and fear
You hide behind this public machine
Still follow same old scheme

Public Image

Two sides to every story
Somebody had to stop me
I'm not the same as when I began
I will not be treated as property

Public Image

Two sides to every story
Somebody had to stop me
I'm not the same as when I began
It's not a game of monopoly

Public image

Public image
You got what you wanted
The public image belongs to me
It's my entrance
My own creation
My grand finale
My goodbye

Public image
Goodbye