PJ Harvey & John Parish - Cracks In The Canvas

How do we cope
With the days after a death
Empty days
Nothing left
Not even a funeral
I see shapes forming inside paintings
Animals and humans feet on road
Walking towards something
Waiting for something

I'm looking for an answe
Me and a million others
disbelievers, deserted lovers
Dear god you better not let me down this time

Cracks in the canvas
Look like roads that never end
Honey
Go to sleep
You have no one to wait for
And now, here's another voice

Outside the window
The voices of ten thousand angels
Tten thousand lives that lived before>

Rage Against The Machine - Ashes In The Fall

A mass of hands press on the market window

Ghosts of progress

Dressed in slow death

Feeding on hunger

And glaring through the promise

Upon the food that rots slowly in the aisle

A mass of nameless at the oasis

That hides the graves beneath the master’s hill

Are buried for drinking

The river’s water

While shackled to the line

At the empty well

This is the new sound

Just like the old sound

Just like the noose wound

Over the new ground

Listen to the fascist sing

“Take hope here

War is elsewhere

You were chosen

This is god’s land

Soon we’ll be free

Of blot and mixture

Seeds planted by our

Forefather’s hand”

A mass of promises

Begin to rupture

Like the pockets

Of the new world kings

Like swollen stomachs

In Appalachia

It’s the priests that fuck you

As they whisper holy things

A mass of tears have transformed to stones now

Sharpened on suffering

And woven into slings

Hope lies in the rubble of this rich fortress

Taking today what tomorrow never brings

This is the new sound

Just like the old sound

Just like the noose wound

Over the new ground

Ain’t it funny how the factory doors close

Round the time that the school doors close

Round the time that the doors of the jail cells

Open up to greet you like the reaper

Ain’t it funny how the factory doors close

Round the time that the school doors close

Round the time that the doors of the jail cells

Open up to greet you like the reaper

This is the new sound

Just like the old sound

Just like the noose wound

Over the new ground

Like ashes in the fall

U2 - Flower Child

(All you know, you don’t know yet)

On the fifth day of may, she was breaking away
When the moon came and sat on your shoulder
She was still young, not yet highly strung
As you need to be when you get older
George was a street, when you first faced the feat
You put money on the color of the sky
Well the color of her voice left you there with no choice
But to drink the Liffey dry

The seeds that you sow
You wanna watch them growing
Wild, you grow wild
You grow wild in my heart
Wild, you grow wild
You grow wild in my heart

Here comes Holy Joe, now how would he know
How laughter can make a man cruel
It’s fire on fire, and lovers conspire
To either a duet or duel
When it’s fire on fire, the flames just get higher
The harder you work to put them out
Well you know that you’re similar, sugar and weedkiller
Both heading north facing south


The seeds that you sow
You wanna watch them growing
Wild, you grow wild
You grow wild in my heart
Wild, you grow wild
You grow wild in my heart
Wild…

Sonic Youth - Stereo Sanctity

I'm keeping my commission

To faith's transmission

Two speakers dream the same

And skies turn red

Satellites flashing down Orchard and Delancey

I can't get laid cuz everyone is dead

Hey - gold connections

Analog soul waving in your hair

Hey - hylozoic directions

She's talking blue streaks everywhere

Your spirit is time-reversed to your body

Stereographic mix-up field on field

It started growing up the day your body dies

Only apparently real to irreal

Hey - stereo stations

Perfect image, kneel down

Hey - hypostatic information

Come on let's hear you turn it around

Mogwai - Kill Jester

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Smashing Pumpkins - Steps in Time

Can you
Can you hear me?
Can you feel?
You feel me?

Written as a birthright
On pregnant bough, a guarded night
Is it more than what you'd bargained for

Steps in time
We're steps in time

Risen to the fore
Yet rotten to our core
More has ceded more
Where history divides

Do you love me?
I'm shouting out
Will you need me now?
I've had it all
But the honor
Sha-la-la
Sha-la-la
Will you love me?
Shouting out what the ages brought
And triumph not what goes reeling
Sha-la-la
Sha-la-la
Sha-la-la
Sha-la-la

Dream-dream of new dreams
It's the cream of blessed shock
Boy, your gift ain't squandered
Boy, your head screams artifice
To the aught Decembrists we bid bye-bye

Steps in time
We're steps in time

Risen to the fore
Yet rotten to our core
More has ceded more
Where history divides

Do you love me?
I'm shouting out
Will you need me now?
I've had it all
But the honor
Sha-la-la
Sha-la-la
Will you love me?
Shouting out what the ages brought
And triumph not what goes reeling
Sha-la-la
Sha-la-la
Sha-la-la
Sha-la-la

Florence And The Machine - My Love

I was always able to write my way out
Song always made sense to me
Now I find that when I look down
Every page is empty

There is nothing to describe
Except the moon still bright against the worrying sky
I pray the trees will get their leaves soon

So tell me where to put my love
Do I wait for time to do what it does?
I don't know where to put my love

And when it came, it was stranger than I had ever imagined
No cracking open of heaven
But quiet and still (All my friends are getting ill)

So tell me where to put my love
Do I wait for time to do what it does?
I don't know where to put my love
So tell me where to put my love
Do I wait for time to do what it does?
I don't know where to put my love

My arms emptied, the skies emptied
The billboards emptied
My arms emptied, the skies emptied
The buildings emptied

So tell me where to put my love
Do I wait for time to do what it does?
I don't know where to put my love
So tell me where to put my love
Do I wait for time to do what it does?
I don't know where to put my love

My arms emptied, the skies emptied
The billboards emptied
My arms emptied, the skies emptied
The buildings emptied

Garbage - I Hate Love

Your words are pretty but I already know who you are

I knew you before you met me long before we would part

Before you tricked me and laid on my bones

Before you kissed me and buried my hope

Before you stole my spirit and rode the show into the wall

Shore you up. They lay all their dreams on you

They let you in and you start to believe you're soft as a miracle

Unfurled, I was new and unfurled

Innocent and open as any lamb and hoping for paradise

Yeah I hate love

Yeah I hate love

So I hate love

Yeah I hate love

Love leaves you desperate and feeling a fool

Love makes you ruthless and love makes you cruel

And love makes you crazy with nothing but lies

Love promises nothing and then your love dies

Unfurled, I was new and unfurled

Innocent and open as any lamb and hoping for paradise

Yeah I hate love

Yeah I hate love

So I hate love

Yeah I hate love

(Hey, it's me. Call me)

Then your love dies

(It's 2 AM, where are you?)

Then your love dies

(Where are you?)

Then your love dies

(Can you call me? Can you call me back?)

The Kills - Run Home Slow

You play with dogs
You lay with the dogs
You like it or not man
You lay with the dogs
Chewing your fingers
And rattling your mouth
Four and twenty hours
Just to wait for the sound

It's easily done my friend
It's easily done my friend
And you're wild for the night
And you run home slow
And you're wild for the night
And you run home slow

You lay with the dogs man
You lay with the dogs
A little too long man
You lay with the dogs
Chasing their taillights
And jumping their bones
Four and twenty hours
Till they take you on home

It's easily done my friend
Just take it and run, my friend
It's easily done
It's easily done
I'd easily do it again

And you're wild for the night
And you run home slow
And you holler and cry
And you run home slow
And you're hit and you're down
And you run home slow, little pony

Took a cherry, took a twenty
Took my skin and took my bone
Took a car and took a hit
And took myself far away from home
Took your card and took your messages
And took a look and then
Took a walk and turned around
And took a look again
You took my boots, you took my keys
And took a twenty, took a ten
Took your calls and your warnings about calling again

And you're wild for the night
And you run home slow
And you holler and cry
And you run home slow
And you're hit and you're down
And you run home slow, little pony

It's easily done my friend
Just take it and run my friend
It's easily done
It's easily done
I've easily done it again

And you're wild for the night
And you run home slow
And you holler and cry
And you run home slow
And you bitch and you whine
And you run home slow, little pony

Took your card and took your messages
And took a look and then
Took a walk and turned around
And took a look again
You took my boots, you took my keys
You took a twenty and took a ten
Took your calls and your warnings about calling again

And you're wild for the night
And you run home slow
And you're wild for the night
And you run home slow
And you're wild for the night
And you run home slow, little pony
Little pony
Little pony
Little pony

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Stranger Than Kindness

Stranger than kindness
Bottled light from hotels
Spilling everything
Wet hand from the volcano
Sobers your skin
Stranger than kindness

You caress yourself
And grind my soft cold bones below
Your map of desire
Burned in your flesh
Even a fool can come
A strange lit stair
And find a rope hanging there
Stranger than kindness

Keys rain like heaven’s hair
There is no home there is no bread
We sit at the gate and scratch
The gaunt fruit of passion
Dies in the light
Stranger than kindness

Your sleeping hands journey
They loiter
Stranger than kindness
You hold me so carelessly close
Tell me I’m dirty
Stranger than kindness