Anna Calvi - Hunter [Hunted version]

I dressed myself in leather
With flowers in my hair
The red light of the window
Nothing can compare

One more taste
One more time
One more time
I open the door wide
I wanted to survive
Nothing lasts
Nothing lasts

The bodies and the rhythm
And flowers in my hair
The red light on the leather
Nothing will compare

And now I want to play
Now I want to play
Now I want to play
Now I want to play

One more taste
One more time
One more time
I open the door wide
I wanted to survive
Nothing lasts
Nothing lasts

Explosions In The Sky - Losing the Light

...

Queens Of The Stone Age - Paper Machete

They're out to get you aren't they?
The kids, the man, the chicks, the breaks
I don't care what you think anymore
Doesn't matter anyway
Joan of Arc, victim, perpetrator
Just a paper machete

The truth is just a peace of clay
You sculpt, you change, you hide, then you erase
You think you're brave?
All the plans you made
Behind my back and from far away?
Truth is, face to face, you're a coward
Sharp as a paper machete

Now I know you'd use anything, anyone
To make yourself look clean
In sickness, no vows mean anything
So long cruelty
So long, too late
So long, my love
Is dead

Is there nothing you cannot replace?
You speak lioness and damsel in distress so fluently
Does your every single relation end in pain and misery?
You're a paper machete
You're a paper machete

Marilyn Manson - SOLVE COAGULA

You are the one
Tore off both your arms
Gouged out your eyes
And ripped out your own tongue
So listen

I'm not special, I'm just broken
And I don't wanna be fixed

No one else I
No one else I
Wanna be like
So I stayed the same
Like nobody else

So you think you can sing or clap
Well, all you need is an ear
So listen

I'm not special, I'm just broken
And I don't wanna be fixed

No one else I
No one else I
Wanna be like
So I stayed the same
Like nobody else
No one else I
No one else I
Wanna be like
So I stayed the same
Like nobody else

No one else I
No one else I
Wanna be like
So I stayed the same
Like nobody else
No one else I
No one else I
Wanna be like
So I stayed the same
Like nobody else

I'm not special, I'm just
Broken and I don't wanna be fixed
I'm not special, I'm just
Broken and I don't wanna be fixed
I'm not special, I'm just
Broken and I don't wanna be fixed
I'm not special, I'm just
Broken and I don't wanna be fixed
I'm not special, I'm just
Broken and I don't wanna be fixed

St. Vincent - The Party

Honey, the party, you went away quickly
But oh, that's the trouble with ticking and talking
I lick the ice cube from your empty glass
Oh, we've stayed much too late
Till they're cleaning the ashtrays

Do you have change or a button or cash?
Oh, my pockets hang out like two surrender flags
Oh, but I'd pay anything to keep my conscience clean
I'm keeping my eye on the exit sign, steady now

How did we get here?
With creaks in these chairs
Oh, there aren't enough hands to point all the fingers
But I sit transfixed by a hole in your tee shirt
Oh, I've said much too much and they're trying to sweep up

Deftones - Ohms

We're surrounded by debris of the past
And it's too late to cause a change in the tides
So we slip into our hopeless sea of regret as I stare

Through the haunted maze in your eyes
Right through where I'll remain for all time

And time won't change this
This promise we made
Yeah, the time won't change this
It's how it'll stay

This is our time, we devour the days ahead
We've been possessed by these changing times
As we slip on through, we promised to meet again somewhere

Through the haunted maze in our minds
Right through where we shall remain for all time

Yeah, time won't change this
This promise we made
And time won't change this
We shall remain

The Naked And Famous - Well-Rehearsed

Nothing new
This love, so well-rehearsed
Future proof
Emptily we nurse
Back to poor health
This love, so well-rehearsed
If we dress it down
We can make it work

Call the doctor there must be something we can do
Find a cause, patch it up, and we'll make do
In exchange for a life a little closer to truth

All I know
Disappears like lightning
When there's nowhere to go
(Only one way to learn)
What if I let go lightly?

This bad form not so easily reversed
Picture perfect
This love so well-rehearsed
Just practice, practice, and practice
Muscle memory
But we're faithful and engineered to bleed

We are more than well convinced of its worth
And we're doubling down just to show that it works
If it hurts it must be real
If it hurts it must be real

All I know
Disappears like lightning
When there's nowhere to go
(Only one way to learn)
What if I let go lightly?

All I know
Disappears like lightning
When there's nowhere to go
(Only one way to learn)
It's a little frightening

All I know
Disappears like lightning
When there's nowhere to go
(Only one way to learn)
What if I let go lightly?

This Mortal Coil - Carolyn's Song

I heard that you said that you feel all alone
Do you think that they could understand
When they told you go ahead

Is it in your head are you upside down
You drive around feeling sad

And I wish you everything I ever said
Do you understand, are you feeling dead?
Are you lost, are you sad?
Did I leave you alone?
Do you think that I don't understand?
What it's like to feel all alone?

(originally recorded by The Rain Parade)

U2 - The Troubles (Alternative version)

You think it’s easier
To get your fingers… trouble
The trouble is you
You think it’s easier
To keep your head out of trouble
When the trouble is you…

I have a will for survival
So you can hurt me then
And hurt me some more
I can live with denial
But you’re not my troubles anymore

Somebody stop the world I’m on
Somebody stop the world I’m on
Somebody throw a line to me
Somebody tell me what to say

Somebody stop the world I’m on / I can’t wait any longer
Somebody stop the world I’m on / I can’t wait any longer
Somebody throw a line to me
Somebody tell me what to say

You think it’s easier
To give up on the trouble
The trouble is destroying you
You think it’s easier
To know your own tricks
Well it’s the hardest thing you’ll ever do

I have a will for survival
So you can hurt me then
And hurt me some more
I can live with denial
But you’re not my troubles anymore

Somebody stop the world I’m on
Somebody stop the world I’m on
Somebody throw a line to me
Somebody tell me what to say

Somebody stop the world I’m on / I can’t wait any longer
Somebody stop the world I’m on / I can’t wait any longer
Somebody throw a line to me
Somebody tell me what to say

I stepped outside like I had never seen the night before
Looking at the stars that never looked so bright before
This crooked heart it never felt so light before
A brand new man, a brand new man
Yes I am

Somebody stop the world I’m on
Somebody stop the world I’m on
Somebody throw a line to me
Somebody tell me what to say

Somebody stop the world I’m on / I can’t wait any longer
Somebody stop the world I’m on / I can’t wait any longer
Somebody throw a line to me
Somebody tell me what to say

Joy Division - I Remember Nothing

We were strangers.
We were strangers, for way too long, for way too long,
We were strangers, for way too long.
Violent, violent,
Were strangers.

Get weak all the time, may just pass the time,
Me in my own world, and you there beside,
The gaps are enormous, we stare from each side,
We were strangers for way too long.

Violent, more violent, his hand cracks the chair,
Moves on reaction, then slumps in despair,
Trapped in a cage and surrendered to soon,
Me in my own world, the one that you knew,
For way too long.
We were strangers for way too long.
We were strangers,
We were strangers for way too long,
For way too long.

Pearl Jam - Jeremy

At home
Drawing pictures
Of mountain tops
With him on top
Lemon yellow sun
Arms raised in a V
The dead lay in pools of maroon below

Daddy didn't give attention
To the fact that mommy didn't care
King Jeremy the wicked
Ruled his world

Jeremy spoke in class today
Jeremy spoke in class today

Clearly I remember
Pickin' on the boy
Seemed a harmless little fuck
Oh, but we unleashed a lion
Gnashed his teeth
And bit the recess lady's breast
How could I forget
He hit me with a surprise left
My jaw left hurtin
Oh, dropped wide open
Just like the day
Like the day I heard

Daddy didn't give affection
And the boy was something mommy wouldn't wear
King Jeremy the wicked
Ruled his world

Jeremy spoke in class today
Jeremy spoke in class today
Jeremy spoke in class today

Try to forget this... (try to forget this)
Try to erase this... (try to erase this)
From the blackboard

Jeremy spoke in class today
Jeremy spoke in class today

The Chemical Brothers - All Rights Reversed

Heaven's down
And Hell is up
All rights reversed
Proven by the planets and their movements
While, down on earth
The primal chaos
Is pushing backwards
But even then the danger never stops

And no-ones stopping
It never stops
And no-ones stopping
It never stops
And no-ones stopping
It never stops
And no-ones stopping

It never stops
And no one's stopping

All rights reversed
Undertaking kopyleft while flying sideways
While, down on earth
The primal chaos
Is pulling forward
And there are other threats below

It never stops
And no one's stopping
It never stops
And no one's stopping

It never stops
It never stops

Never stops
And no one's stopping

It never stops
and no one's stopping

Green Day - One Eyed Bastard

I’m making an offer that you cannot deny
You won’t be laughing when I’m making you cry
’Cause, eh oh
I hear the pleas get louder
You son of a bitch
You’re gonna beg and cower

Vendetta is a friend of mine
Revenge is sweeter than wine
I never asked to hear your God damn feelings
Get on your knees when you’re kissing my ring

Well I can remember all the bad memories
I never forget a face that’s quite so ugly
Eh oh
Lost years are wasted
I always liked you but I’m glad that you’re all dead

Vendetta is a friend of mine
Revenge is sweeter than wine
I never asked to hear your God damn feelings
Get on your knees when you’re kissing my ring

I’m making an offer that you cannot deny
You won’t be laughing when I’m making you cry
’Cause eh oh
I hear the pleas get louder
You son of a bitch
You’re gonna beg and cower

The Strokes - Not The Same Anymore

You're not the same anymore
Don't wanna play that game anymore
You'd make a better window than a door
Oh, the strangers, they implore
It gets so easy to ignore
Just like the girl next door

Uncle's house, it was noon
Sorry, boy, I can't employ ya
You are strange, but I like you
Sorry, this is overdue
I promised I would do it right
Her and a boy on a Saturday night

And now the door slams shut
A child prisoner grows up
To seek his enemy's throat cut
(I'm on and on it, on and on and on it)
We're on the way, fuel the jet
Can see that what he wants, he gets
What does your sworn enemy regret?

I didn't know, I didn't care
I don't even understand
Did somethin' wrong, I wasn't sure
Stay on top of this, or else
I was afraid, I fucked up
Yeah, yeah, yeah
I couldn't change, it's too late

And now it's time to show up
Late again, I can't grow up
And now it's on me, they've given up

Uncle's house, I forget
Violent tendencies I get
Your timing sucks, she went overboard
Don't forget, you are insured
I didn't know, I wasn't sure
Can't remember all that well
I couldn't change, was too late
Yeah, yeah, yeah

Dead Can Dance - Indus

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Blur - The Rabbi

On the last message you sent to me
You seem confused to get an offering
At the events that brought us to this juncture
'Cause where's the joy in this self-delusion?
We're all practitioners of vague illusions
Hieroglyphics and pictures

Careering round blind bends at high speed
The loneliness of the long-distance driver

I was lost (I was lost)
Lost (I was lost)
Then you saved me

Now who's gonna be tomorrow's heroes?
While the system grinds
To an unseemly halt
Apologize to the streets and the rivers
The port is out in the 1980s
There's no going back now
The message degraded
And the storms evaded

Careering round blind bends at high speed
The loneliness of the broken-hearted

I was lost (I was lost)
Lost (I was lost)
Then you saved me
Lost (I was lost)
(I was lost)
I was lost (I was lost)
Then you saved me
Lost (I was lost)
(I was lost)
I was lost (I was lost)
Then you saved me

Explosions In The Sky - Be Comfortable, Creature

...

James - Walk Like You

You know more than you think you know,
This universe is in your eyes,
Inside the galaxies collide.

Which parent told you that you're slow?
My absent dad, my mum's control,
Schooled me to be a worker drone.

So this is it,
A life on earth,
We're made of stars,
We're made of dirt,
Unconsciousness,
We disconnect,
Tone deaf to calling.

We learn to walk like you,
Talk like you,
Oo-be-do,
Think like you, Whine like you,
Love like you in pieces.

You know more than you think you know,
Your DNA is pulsed by stars,
Reveal the cogs that wheel the show.

So this is it,
A universe of birth and death,
Love and neglect,
But we forget,
Dad's off on tour or in a meeting.

We will not walk like you,
Talk like you,
Oo-be-do,
Fight like you,
Screwed like you,
Break like you,
In pieces.

God knows I know no better
Easy to say that I can talk
I can talk
God knows I know no better
Easy to say that I can talk
(I can talk, I can talk, I can talk)
I can talk
(I can talk, I can talk, I can talk)
I can talk
(I can talk, I can talk, I can talk)

Welcome to our coming of age
To embrace all that we've become
Bored with your stories of pain
Shoot yourself with a ricochet
You don't know, you don't know, you don't know me
You don't know, you don't know, you don't know me

Let's inspire, let's inflame, create awe from our pain
Find a love that's as deep as it's holy
Let's inspire, let's inflame, create gods from our pain
Find a love that's as sweet as it's holy
Let's inspire, let's inflame, create dreams from our pain
Find a love that's as plain as it's holy
Let's inspire, let's inflame, create songs from our shame
Find a love that won't fade, love is holy

But I can talk
(I can talk, I can talk, I can talk)
I can talk
(I can talk, I can talk, I can talk)
I can talk
(I can talk, I can talk, I can talk)
I can talk
(I can talk, I can talk, I can talk)

Arcade Fire - Unconditional I (Lookout Kid)

lookout kid
trust your heart
you don’t have to play the part
they wrote for you
just be true
there are things that you can do
that no one else on earth
could ever do
but I can’t teach you
I can’t teach it to you

lookout kid
trust your mind
but you can’t trust it every time
you know it plays tricks on you
and it don’t give a damn
if you are happy or you’re sad
but if you’ve lost it
don’t feel bad
‘cause it’s alright to be sad

lookout kid
trust your body
you can dance
and you can shake
things will break
you make mistakes
you lose your friends again and again
‘cause nothing’s ever perfect
no one’s perfect
let me say it again...
no one’s perfect

a lifetime of skinned knees
and heartbreak comes so easy
but a life without pain would be
boring

and if you feel it it’s fine
I give you everything that’s mine
I give you my heart and my
precious time
lookout kid
trust your soul
it ain’t hard to rock n’roll
you know how to move your hips
and you know God is cool with it
some people want the rock without
the roll
but WE all know there’s no God
without soul
a lifetime of skinned knees
and heartbreak come so easily
but a life without you
would be boring for someone like me...

and if you feel it, it’s fine
I give you everything that’s mine
I give you my heart and my
precious time
I give you my heart and my
precious time
it’s UNCONDITIONAL
no matter what you do
it’s UNCONDITIONAL

The Vaccines - Another Nightmare

You announced to the stadium that
You knew that you were leaving and you'd never come back
Even for love
It wasn't enough
And now you're living by whatever you've read
If you wanted to escape then you should have just said
"Go to Rome for the week"
'Cause you never went there with me

I was trying to smile
But got blood on the tiles
It was taken away with the evidence
I thought I was awake
Must have been a mistake
Now you've run out of patience

I don't wanna wait a year to feel better
Taking everything to forget ya
Living in echoes so mellow
Another nightmare
I don't want the hate and anger they gave me
All the pills and Percocets daily
Numbing and running to nothing
Just another nightmare

If I ran then I didn't get far
Just a little plus one to the really big star
Mothering me
Begging you not to leave
Roll your eyes and you call me Bruce Wayne
Say with all my years of therapy I should be Mark Twain
Will I know when I'm dead
If you beckon me back to bed?

I was trying to smile
But got blood on the tiles
It was taken away with the evidence
Shouldn't talk about that
Fell asleep on your lap
As you ran out of patience

I don't wanna wait a year to feel better
Taking everything to forget ya
Living in echoes so mellow
Another nightmare
I don't want the hate and anger they gave me
All the pills and Percocets daily
Numbing and running to nothing
Just another nightmare

They don't have to look like you do if they know

I don't wanna wait a year to feel better
Taking everything to forget ya
Living in echoes so mellow
Another nightmare
I don't want the hate and anger they gave me
All the pills and Percocets daily
Numbing and running to nothing
Just another nightmare

Editors - The Sting

Danger, we don't always hide around here
Now in here, I see my old friend disappear
In tonight, in tonight

People don't change
And I know your story so well
I know your faith, it's my favorite tale to tell

You wanted to make me believe in love
You wanted to make me believe in love
You bring the money and I will be waiting
I'm in the corner with a wasp sting in my throat
Throw the money down, you never ran this town
I'm in the corner with a wasp sting in my throat

Whisper to me, we'll want to escape
Now what have you got, what you got that's so great

You wanted to make me believe in love
You wanted the things you dream of
You bring the money and I will be waiting
I'm in the corner with a wasp sting in my throat
Throw the money down, you never ran this town
I'm in the corner with a wasp sting in my throat

I will be waiting
I will be waiting
I will be waiting
I will be waiting
I will be waiting
I will be waiting
I will be waiting
I will be waiting
I will be waiting
I will be waiting

You bring the money and I will be waiting
I'm in the corner with a wasp sting in my throat
Throw the money down, you never ran this town
I'm in the corner with a wasp sting in my throat
(You bring the money and I will be waiting)
(Throw the money down, you never ran this town)

PJ Harvey - I Inside The Old Year Dying

Zun’s a feeble lamp
O’er leery land

Stares a’chat in code
Lark a meagre note

Drush repeats ’enself
Over UNDERWHELEM

Croopied in the reames
Shepherd gurrel weaves

Moby feat. Margo Timmins, Damien Jurado - Helpless [Resound NYC version]

There is a town in North Ontario
With dream, comfort, memory to spare
And in my mind, I still need a place to go
All my changes were there

Blue, blue windows behind the stars
Yellow moon on the rise
Big birds flying across the sky
Throwing shadows on our eyes

Leave us
Helpless, helpless, helpless, helpless
Helpless, helpless, helpless, helpless
The chains are locked and tied across my doors
Baby, baby sing with me somehow

Blue, blue windows behind the stars
Yellow moon on the rise
Big birds flying across the sky
Throwing shadows on our eyes

Leave us
Helpless, helpless, helpless, helpless
Baby, can you hear me now?
The chains are locked and tied across my door
Baby, sing with me somehow

Helpless, helpless, helpless, helpless
Helpless, helpless, helpless, helpless
Baby, sing with me somehow
Helpless, helpless, helpless

Helpless, helpless, helpless, helpless...

Helpless, helpless, so helpless...

(originally recorded by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)

Joy Division - Komakino

This is the hour when the mysteries emerge.
A strangeness so hard to reflect.
A moment so moving, goes straight to your heart,
The vision has never been met.
The attraction is held like a weight deep inside,
Something I'll never forget.

The pattern is set, her reaction will start,
Complete but rejected too soon.
Looking ahead in the grip of each fear,
Recalls the life that we knew.
The shadow that stood by the side of the road,
Always reminds me of you.

How can I find the right way to control,
All the conflict inside, all the problems beside,
As the questions arise, and the answers don't fit,
Into my way of things,
Into my way of things.

U2 - With Or Without You [Songs Of Surrender version]

See the stone set in your eyes
Am I such a thorn in your side
Should I wait for you
Sleight of hand and a twist of fate
On a bed of nails you make me wait
Without you

With or without you
With or without you

Through the storm we reach the shore
We give it all but I want more
And I’m greedy for you

With or without you
With or without you
I can’t live with or without you

And you give yourself away
You give yourself away
And you give, you give
You give yourself away

My hands are tied, my body bruised
You’ve got me with nothing to win
And nothing left to lose

You give yourself away
You give yourself away
You give
You give
You give yourself away
With or without you
With or without you

I can’t live
With or without you

With or without you

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Black Hair

Last night my kisses
Were banked in black hair
And in my bed, my lover,
Her hair was midnight black
And all her mystery dwelled
Within her black hair
And her black hair framed
A happy heart-shaped face
And heavy-hooded eyes
Inside her black hair
Shined at me from the depths
Of her hair of deepest black
While my fingers pushed into
Her straight black hair
Pulling her black hair back
From her happy heart-shaped face
To kiss her milk-white throat,
A dark curtain of black hair
Smothered me, my lover
With her beautiful black hair
The smell of it is heavy
It is charged with life
On my fingers lingers the smell
Of her deep black hair
Full of all my whispered words,
Her black hair
And wet with tears and goodbyes,
Her hair of deepest black
All my tears cried against
Her milk-white throat
Hidden behind the curtain
Of her beautiful black hair
As deep as ink and black,
Black as the deepest sea
The smell of her black hair
Upon my pillow
Where her head and all its
Black hair did rest
Today she took a train to the West
Today she took a train to the West
Today she took a train to the West

U2 - Zoo Station

I'm ready
Ready for the laughing gas
I'm ready
Ready for what's next
Ready to duck
Ready to dive
Ready to say
I'm glad to be alive
I'm ready
Ready for the push

In the cool of the night
In the warmth of the breeze
I'll be crawling around
On my hands and knees

She's just down the line ... Zoo Station
Got to make it on time ... Zoo Station

I'm ready
Ready for the gridlock
I'm ready
To take it to the street
Ready for the shuffle
Ready for the deal
Ready to let go
Of the steering wheel
I'm ready
Ready for the crush

Alright, alright, alright, alright, alright
It's alright ... it's alright ... it's alright ... it's alright
Hey baby ... hey baby ... hey baby ... hey baby ...
It's alright
It's alright

Time is a train
Makes the future the past
Leaves you standing in the station
Your face pressed up against the glass

I'm just down the line from your love ... Zoo Station
Under the sign of your love ... Zoo Station
I'm gonna be there ... Zoo Station
Tracing the line ... Zoo Station
I'm gonna make it on time ... make it on time ... Zoo Station
Just two stops down the line ... Zoo Station
Just a stop down the line ... Zoo Station

Mogwai - Stop Coming To My House

...

The Cure - The Walk [Acoustic version]

I called you after midnight
Then ran until I burst
I passed the howling woman
And stood outside your door

We walked around a lake
And woke up in the rain
And everyone turned over
Troubled in their dreams again

Visiting time is over
And so we walk away
And both play dead then cry out loud
Why we always cry this way?

I kissed you in the water
And made your dry lips sing
I saw you look
Like a Japanese baby
In an instant I remembered everything...

I called you after midnight
Then ran until my heart burst
I passed the howling woman
And stood outside your door

I kissed you in the water
And made your dry lips sing
I saw you look
Like a Japanese baby
In an instant I remembered everything...

Cat Power - Cross Bones Style

Oh how time flies
With crystal clear eyes
And cold as cold
When you're ending with diamond eyes

Oh come child
In a cross bones style
Oh come child
Come and rescue me

Cause you have seen some unbeilevable things

Hater I have your diamonds
And still...

Cause you have seen some unbeilevable things

Hater I have your diamonds

Oh come child
In a cross bones style
Oh come child
come and rescue me

Cause you have seen some unbeilevable things

Hater I have your diamonds
And still, so still...

Oh how time flies
With crystal eyes
And cold as cold
When you're ending with diamond eyes

Oh come child
In a cross bones style
Oh come child
Come and rescue me

Cause you have seen some unbeilevable things

St. Vincent - Champagne Year

So I thought I'd learned my lesson
But I secretly expected
A choir at the shore
And confetti through the falling air

I make a living telling people what they want to hear
It's not a killing, but it's enough to keep the cobwebs clear

'Cause it's not a perfect plan
It's not a perfect plan
But it's the one we got

It's not a perfect plan
But it's the one we got

'Cause I make a living telling people what they want to hear
And, boy, I tell you, it's gonna be a champagne year