Anna Von Hausswolff - Persefone

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The Cramps - Sheena's In A Goth Gang

She's digging up the graveyard, black lips and toenails
A brand new bat wing at the county jail
Like Tammy Trapeze, the dead acrobat
I dig her deeply when she swings like that

Sheena's in a goth gang
Sheena's in a goth gang
Sheena's in a goth gang now

Mixed up women, do you have one in your house?
She's in the forbidden vampire underground
In the cult of the cobra, snakes in her hair
She looks so macabre with her cobweb stare

Sheena's in a goth gang
Sheena's in a goth gang
Sheena's in a goth gang now

Sheena's in a goth gang
Sheena's in a goth gang
Sheena's in a goth gang now

Sneer on her face like the Mona Lisa
A coke cold up her nose like the Sphinx at Giza

Sheena's in a goth gang
Sheena's in a goth gang
Sheena's in a goth gang now
Sheena's in a goth gang now
Sheena's in a goth gang now

The Clash - All The Young Punks (New Boots And Contracts)

Hanging about
Down the market street
I spent a lot of time on my feet
When I saw some passing yabbos
We did chance to speak

I knew how to sing
Why' know an
They knew how to pose
An' one of them had a Les Paul
Heart attack machine

All the young punks
Laugh your life
'Cause there ain't much to cry for
All the young cunts
Live it now
'Cause there ain't much to die for

Everybody wants to bum
A ride on the rock 'n' roller coaster
And we went out
Got our name in small print on the poster
Of course we got a manger
Though he ain't the mafia
A contract is a contract
When they get 'em out on yer

You gotta drag yourself to work
Drag yourself to sleep
You're dead from the neck up
By the middle of the week

Face front you got the future shining
Like a piece of gold
But I swear as we get closer
It look more like a lump of coal
But it's better than some factory
Now that's no place to waste your youth
I worked there for a week once
I luckily got the boot

Peter Murphy - Keep Me From Harm

Health is all I'm asking for
Love is all I need
Hope is what I'm asking for
Lay me down to sleep
It was then that I lost you
Was dragged there too
Under a sea of mystery
Died there along with you
Love me hold me keep me from harm
Love me hold me keep me from harm
Guess you found your own root
Dug into that fast heart
Flew without wing or pinion
Now you orbit the stars
Now haunted and weary
Your vision creeps
I need a clear water
I need a release
Love me hold me keep me from harm
Love me hold me keep me from harm

Fields Of The Nephilim - Deeper

Deeper... deeper... deeper

Ground zero, the flame in lights
Oh, can I hide here tonight?
Can't get up, can't get away
I couldn't die here today

Can't get out
And deeper
And deeper
And deeper
Can't get out

Can't get out
And deeper
And deeper
And deeper
Can't get out

All my life
Can't get out
All my life

What if you
What if I
Wanna live

Wanna die
What if you
Wanna die

Leave me be
Is it a world for me?
In your way, as we dream for you
Girl... girl, is it you for me?
You, girl... is it you for me?

Deeper... Deeper

...And deeper
And deeper
And deeper
Can't get out

...And deeper
And deeper
And deeper
Can't get out

All my life
Can't get out
All my life

Placebo - This Picture

I hold an image of the ashtray girl
Of cigarette burns on my chest
I wrote a poem that described her world
And put our friendship to the test
And late at night
Whilst on all fours
She used to watch me kiss the floor
What's wrong with this picture?
What's wrong with this picture?

Farewell the ashtray girl
Forbidden snowflake
Beware this troubled world
Watch out for earthquakes
Goodbye to open sores
To broken semaphore
You know we miss her
We miss her picture

Sometimes it's fated
Disintegrated
For fear of growing old
Sometimes it's fated
Assassinated
For fear of growing old

Farewell the ashtray girl
Angelic fruitcake
Beware this troubled world
Control your intake
Goodbye to open sores
Goodbye and furthermore
You know we miss her
We miss her picture

Sometimes it's fated
Disintegrated
For fear of growing old
Sometimes it's fated
Assassinated
For fear of growing old

Hang on
Though we try
It's gone
Hang on
Though we try
It's gone

Sometimes it's fated
Disintegrated
For fear of growing old
Sometimes it's fated
Assassinated
For fear of growing old

Can’t stop growing old
Can’t stop growing old
Can’t stop growing old
Can’t stop growing old
Can’t stop growing old

The Clash - 1-2 Crush On You

Standing in a queue in a school canteen
Guys on the corner, they were laughing at me
But I don't mind if they see it all, you know
I gotta come clean, I gotta come clean
Ooh, I got a crush on you

My mind don't need it, but my body do
A little bit of loving and attention from you
Although we're only strangers they don't need to know
I gotta come clean, I gotta come clean
Ooh, I got a crush on you

I wanna get serious right away - one, two, I got a crush on you
What you doin' today or any other day - one, two, I got a crush on you
Just one look and I go insane - one, two, I got a crush on you
It's true!

Your daddy never comes to see you 'cause he lives so far away
But his Italian chauffeur shows up every day But I'll get you in the corner, I'll really let you know
I gotta come clean, I gotta come clean Ooh, I got a crush on you
I wanna get serious straight away - one, two, I got a crush on you
What you doin' today or any other day - one, two, I got a crush on you
Just one look and I go insane - one, two, I got a crush on you
It's true!

One, two, I got a crush on you
One, two, I got a crush on you
One, two, I got a crush on you
I said one, two, I got a crush on you

Why shouldn't I get a crush on you?
Why shouldn't I get a crush on you?

Pearl Jam - Education

I'm questioning my education
Is my education who I am now?
While you're deciding, I've been finding
Looking around in the here and now.
If I've been taught from the beginning
Would my fears now by winning?

I'm questioning my own equation
Is my own equation relevant somehow?
The flags are waving, the news is breaking
See the man who can't pick out his own tie
If I've been taught from the beginning
Would my fears now be winning?
A wild world, figuring out the answers
I'll be in my own dance and I, I, yeah, I, I....
I'm questioning my education
Rewind and what does it show?
Could be, the truth it becomes you
I'm a seed, wondering why it grows

Megadeth - Super Collider

When you feel life is bringing you down
And you see that you’re all alone
When your friends – they have all run out
That is when you will know I'm the one

On the high road
(On the high road)
I will take you higher
(I will take you higher)
Till the world explodes
(Till the world explodes)
Just like a super collider
(like a super collider)

This could be all the heaven you see
Life can be wicked, mean and cold
Could this be the end of your living hell
Come with me and I’ll free your soul

On the high road
(On the high road)
I will take you higher
(I will take you higher)
Till the world explodes
(Till the world explodes)
Just like a super collider
(like a super collider)

Just one thing that I want you to know
You don’t need to be on your own
No more feeling left out in the cold
Take my hand and I’ll take you home

On the high road
(On the high road)
I will take you higher
(I will take you higher)
Till the world explodes
(Till the world explodes)
Just like a super collider
(like a super collider)

On the high road
(On the high road)
I will take you higher
(I will take you higher)
Till the world explodes
(Till the world explodes)
Just like a super collider
(super collider yeah)

On the high road
I will take you higher
Till the world explodes
Just like a super collider

Dead Can Dance - Carnival Of Light

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Cigarettes After Sex - Touch

I missed you and I cried, but I said that I was alright
And I know it’s been awhile since I needed a distraction

Because I want to do everything that you want me to
To tell you the truth

I need to stay alive, so sad that I could die

It’s leading me on, every time we touch
Leading me on, every time it hurts
Feeling so lonely because it’s not enough
Missing you only ever since we fell in love

And I watched you do a line that you spread out on the table
I don’t need to see you wired, I just want to see you upside down

I want to do everything that you want me to
To tell you the truth

I listened to you cry all night through the telephone…

Couldn’t say you didn’t want me then when we were lying in my bed that night
You were acting like a different person as if suddenly you wanted to just be friends
I was hurt and so I took a shower so you couldn’t hear me, knowing I had to cry
Sad to know that while my heart was breaking you were sleeping or just faking…

Manu Chao - Coraçao No Mar

Eu vou levar, eu vou levar
E jogar... meu coração no mar
Eu vou levar, eu vou levar
E jogar... meu coração no mar

Eu nasci da fonte de um rio
Joguei minha vida pra nadar
Cuidar minha Alma de não afogar
Na correnteza do dia a dia
Vai, minha vida, riachuelo
Na sua sangria me mandar

Eu vou levar, eu vou levar
E jogar... meu coração no mar
Eu vou levar, eu vou levar
E jogar... meu coração no mar

Aí na beira, lavandeira
Aí na beira do meu olhar
Vou na quebrada me mandar
Lá na cachoeira borbolhar
Lá na sua beira colorida
Minha canoa aportar

Eu vou levar, eu vou levar
E jogar... meu coração no mar

Lhe confessar minha promessa
Sei que algum dia vou chegar
Vai, minha vida, riachuelo
Eu vou vivendo no suspiro
Eu vou achando meu respiro
Vai, minha vida, navegar

Eu vou levar, eu vou levar
E jogar... meu coração no mar
Eu vou levar, eu vou levar
E jogar... meu coração no mar

Meu coração no mar

Paradise Lost - Jaded

Opaque the dissident establishment
That we all suffer
Refill the porous shell with words that mean so many things

Words mean so many things

The feeling can’t avoid you…

Stoking the fires of absence
Loss and anguish long departed
Adjust to changes re-arranging, burns in many ways

Pain burns in many ways

The feeling can’t avoid you…

The Chemical Brothers - Leave Home

The brothers gonna work it out

(Yo man, you guys are mean)
(You know that)
(Yo man, you guys are mean)
(You know that)
(Yo man, you guys are mean)
(You know that)

The brothers gonna work it out

(Yo man, you guys are mean)
(You know that)
(Yo man, you guys are mean)
(You know that)
(Yo man, you guys are mean)
(You know that)

A Perfect Circle - Annihilation

From dehumanization to arms production,
For the benefit of the nation or it's destruction?

Power is power.
It’s the law of the land.
Those living for death will die by their own hand.

Life's no ordeal if you come to terms.
Reject the system dictating the norms.

From dehumanization to arms,
production to hasten the nation
towards it's destruction.

Power is power.
the law of the land,
those living for death
will die by their own hand.

life's no ordeal
if you come to terms.
reject the system
dictating the norms

From dehumanization to arms,
production to hasten the nation
towards it's destruction.

Power is power
the law of the land,
those living for death
will die by their own hand.

life's no ordeal
if you come to terms.
reject the system
dictating the norms

From dehumanization to arms, production
to hasten this nation
towards it's destruction

it's your choice
your choice:
peace, or annihilation?

(originally recorded by Crucifix)

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Rich

I'm rich
Like a hot noise
Rich, rich, rich
I'll take you out boy
So stuck up
Wish you'd stick in to me
Flesh ripped off
RAAAAAWR

Turning it beating no beat
The walls are always speaking
No want no want no want no speaking at all

She slipped down a rot drink
Unzipped she doesn't exist
So unloved
I took 'em standing up
So stuck up
RAAAAAWR

I'm rich
Like a hot noise
Rich, rich, rich
I'll take you out boy
I'll take you out boy
Hey

Turning it beating no beat
The walls are always speaking
No want no want no want no speaking at all

Turning it beating no beat
The walls are always speaking
No want no want no want no speaking at all

Rich, rich, rich, rich, rich, rich
Rich, rich, rich, rich, rich, rich
Rich, rich, rich, rich, rich, rich
Rich, rich, rich, rich, rich, rich
Rich, rich, rich, rich, rich, rich
Rich, rich, rich, rich, rich, rich
Rich, rich, rich, rich, rich, rich
Rich, rich, rich, rich, rich, rich
Rich, rich, rich, rich, rich, rich
Rich, rich, rich, rich, rich, rich

London Grammar - The Greatest Love

I think I found the greatest love
From high above me
She stood by me when all was gone
And the world was so unrelenting
When they tied my hands with velvet string
They said I was worthless but worth everything
And the one who hurt me he called on the phone
Deep in the night he said are you alone?
I need you because you are a woman
And I’ll hate you because you are a woman
And I’ll love you because you are a woman
On a brighter day at the end of September
I’m finally stronger without them
Don’t let them take back the things that you need
You’re what I want not material things
They tie your hands with velvet string
They say that you’re worthless but worth everything
And the one who hurt me he called on the phone
Deep in the night he said are you alone?
I need you because you are a woman
And I’ll hate you because you are a woman
And I’ll love you because you are a woman
Ahh Ahh Ahh Ahh Ahh
Ooh Yeah
I think I’ve found baby
I think I've found the greatest love
Sent from high above baby
I think I’ve found the greatest love

Snow Patrol - Talking About Hope

The last of sunlight seems to speak
And it cuts between us now like borders
And from these new countries the lines are weak
And we no longer hear each other

But I know my name
And I know your name

And I'm not talking about hope
And I'm not talking about fire
I'm just trying to make sense of this desire
So put your hand on my head
And put your hand on my heart
And please don't tell me you can't tell them apart

I fell in love with you again
But I don't know how to tell you of it
Through the distance now to then
I still see the dark that you lit

And I know my name
And I know your name

And I'm not talking about hope
And I'm not talking about fire
I'm just trying to make sense of this desire
So put your hand on my head
And put your hand on my heart
And God don't tell me you can't tell them apart

We've finally figured it out
And it's not meant to make sense
It's just meant to be said in present tense
So in the spirit of that
I'm in love with you now
And if you want we can show each other how
Let's show each other how

Siouxsie And The Banshees - Running Town

Just a step onto the street
On an uncomfortable heat
Rattlers at your feet
In running town

Helter-skelter all a-swelter
The impetus is seething
In running town

A thousand curses
Full speed ahead

Lockjaw aggression
And buzzing irritations
Deride the friendly martian
In running town

Helter-skelter all a-swelter
The impetus is seething
In running town

A thousand curses
Full speed ahead

If you gaze into her face
She'll glare back and drown
All refugees in the sea
In running town

A thousand curses
Full speed ahead
Full speed ahead...

Laughter rebounds and strangles that sound
In running town

In running town...

Faith No More - Woodpecker From Mars

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Ramones - Oh Oh I Love Her So

I met her at the Burger King we fell in love by the soda machine
So we took the car downtown the kids were hanging out all around
Then we went down to Coney Island on the coaster and around again
And no one's gonna ever tear us apart cause she's my sweetheart
All right, oh yeah

Oh oh I love her so
Oh oh I love her so
Oh oh I love her so

Oh oh I love her so
Oh oh I love her so
Oh oh I love her so

Hanging out on a night like this I'm gonna give her a great big kiss
I'm gonna make her mine and everything's gonna be real fine

I met her at the Burger King we fell in love by the soda machine
So we took the car downtown the kids were hanging out all around
Then we went down to Coney Island on the coaster and around again
And no one's gonna ever tear us apart cause she's my sweetheart
All right, oh yeah

Oh oh I love her so
Oh oh I love her so
Oh oh I love her so

Oh oh I love her so
Oh oh I love her so
Oh oh I love her so

Savages - When In Love

Is it good
Is it bad
Things we do
When in love

Is it a demon
Or an angel
Holding us
When in love

Is it love
Or is it boredom
That took me up
To your bedroom

Is it love
Or something stupid
Was I feeling
All alone

When in love
When in love
When in love

Oh I hate your
Taste in music
You're not the one
I've been waiting for
Chase you around
The tables
I want your fingers
Down my throat

Fear of drowning
Die of longing
Head is swirling
Hands are cold
Find excuses
After excuses
To stay longer
Than I should

When in love
When in love
When in love
When in love
I think I'm in love
This is love
You say you want love, yeah?
But what kind of love?

And if I leave you now forever
Would it be really forever
Coz next time I'm in the neighborhood
I might be knocking at your door
I might be knocking at your door
I might be knocking at your door

Coz this love
This is not boredom
That took me up
To your bedroom
This is love
It's not a demon
That came knocking at your door

When in love
When in love
I think I'm in love
This is love
I'm in love
This is love

U2 - Stranger In A Strange Land

Stranger, stranger in a strange land.
He looked at me like I was the one who should run.

We asked him to smile for a photograph
Waited a while to see if we could make him laugh.

The soldier asked for a cigarette
His smiling face I can't forget.
He looked at me across the street
But that's a long way here.

Oh, and I wish you were here.
Oh, and I wish you were here.

Stranger, stranger in a strange land.
He looked at me like I was the one who should run.

I watched as he watched us get back on the bus
I watched the way it was
The way it was when he was with us
And I really don't mind sleeping on the floor
But I couldn't sleep after what I saw
I wrote this letter to tell you the way I feel.

Oh I wish you were here
Oh I wish you were here
To see what I could see
To hear
And I wish you were here.

Anna von Hausswolff - Ugly And Vengeful

I'm restless
I'm older
I'm heavy
Like a stone

Forgiven, foresaken
I'm searing
At my pores

I wanna die
For the stone
For the stone
For the stone
I can't die for the stone
For the stone

He wants to have my glorious
He wants to have my glorious
He wants to have my glorious

I am restless
And I'm older
And I'm heavy
Like a stone
Stone
Stone
Stone
Stone

God Is An Astronaut - Falling Leaves

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The Clash - Capital Radio

Yes, it's time for The Doctor Goebbels Show!

There's a tower in the heart of London
With a radio station right at the top
But they don't make the city beat
They're making all the action stop

A long time ago there was pirates
Beaming waves from the sea
Now all the stations are silent
'Cause they ain't got a government license

If you wanna tell your problems
Phone in from your bedsit room!
Having trouble with your partner?
Let us all in on the news!

If you wanna hear a record
Well get the word from Aiden Day
He picks all the hits to play
To keep you in your place all day

Capital radio
Capital radio
Capital radio
Capital radio
In tune with nothing
Don't touch that dial

Nine Inch Nails - Eraser

Need you
Dream you
Find you
Taste you
Fuck you
Use you
Scar you
Break you
Lose me
Hate me
Smash me
Erase me
Kill me

Placebo - Exit Wounds

In the arms of another
Who doesn't mean anything to you
There's nothing much to discover

Does he shake, does he shiver
As he sidles up to you
Like I did in my time

As you wake, does he smother
You In kisses long and true
Does he even think to bother

And at night under covers
As he's sliding into you
Does it set your sweat on fire

Want you so bad I can taste it
But you're nowhere to be found
I'll take a drug to replace it
Or put me in the ground

In the arms of another
Who doesn't mean anything to you
Do you lose yourself in wonder

If I could, I would hover
While he's making love to you
Making rain as I cry

Want you so bad I can taste it
But you're nowhere to be found
And I'll take a drug to replace it
Or put me in the ground

Want you so bad I can taste it
But you're nowhere to be found
I'll take a drug to replace it
Or put me in the ground

Put me in the ground
And put me in the ground
Put me in the ground

This Mortal Coil - Thais (Bird Of Paradise)

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The Sisters Of Mercy - A Rock And A Hard Place

And she came to look for me
Sold me name and innocence
Took my key
And told me to follow her
Down from Igor with her bangles and her reference
One from the church from the valley of the --
Well she wanted a haven and a place to hide
So I gave her an alibi took her inside but...

A rock and a hard place await for for me
Between the devil and the deep blue sea
Everything I ever did right or wrong
Hid out of sight where I belong,
Belong...

And I didn't have the heart to tell her why
And there wasn't a part of me that
Didn't want to say goodbye but...

Cause and effect go hand in hand and
The devil may care but I don't mind
And I thought she'd never quite understand
So I left her there that night
But will she find me?
I don't think so, no
When you go, you go alone
And I'm gone...
Far away
Far away
Far away
Far away

And I didn't have the heart to tell her why
And there wasn't a part of me that
Didn't want to say goodbye but...

A rock and a hard place await for for me
Between the devil and the deep blue sea
Everything I ever did right or wrong
Hid out of sight where I belong,
Belong...