Florence And The Machine - Blinding

Seems that I have been held, in some dreaming state
A tourist in the waking world, never quite awake
No kiss, no gentle word could wake me from this slumber
Until I realize that it was you who held me under

Felt it in my fist, in my feet, in the hollows of my eyelids
Shaking through my skull, through my spine and down through my ribs

No more dreaming of the dead as if death itself was undone
No more calling like a crow for a boy, for a body in the garden
No more dreaming like a girl so in love, so in love
No more dreaming like a girl so in love, so in love
No more dreaming like a girl so in love with the wrong world

And I could hear the thunder and see the lightning crack
All around the world was waking, I never could go back
Cause all the walls of dreaming, they were torn wide open
And finally it seemed that the spell was broken

And all my bones began to shake, my eyes flew open
And all my bones began to shake, my eyes flew open

No more dreaming of the dead as if death itself was undone
No more calling like a crow for a boy, for a body in the garden
No more dreaming like a girl so in love, so in love
No more dreaming like a girl so in love, so in love
No more dreaming like a girl so in love with the wrong world

Snow White's stitching up your circuit-boards
Synapse slipping through the hidden door
Snow White's stitching up your circuit-board

No more dreaming of the dead as if death itself was undone
No more calling like a crow for a boy, for a body in the garden
No more dreaming like a girl so in love, so in love
No more dreaming like a girl so in love, so in love
No more dreaming like a girl so in love with the wrong world

Snow White's stitching up your circuit-boards
Synapse slipping through the hidden door
Snow White's stitching up your circuit-board
Synapse slipping through the hidden door

Joy Division - Ice Age

I've seen the real atrocities,
Buried in the sand,
Stockpiled safety for a few,
While we stand holding hands.

I'm living in the ice age,
I'm living in the ice age,
Nothing will hold,
Nothing will fit,
Into the cold,
It's not an eclipse.
Living in the ice age,
Living in the ice age,
Living in the ice age.

Searching for another way,
Hide behind the door,
We'll live in holes and disused shafts,
Hopes for little more.

I'm living in the ice age,
I'm living in the ice age,
Nothing will hold,
Nothing will fit,
Into the cold,
No smile on your lips,
Living in the ice age,
Living in the ice age,
Living in the ice age...

Paradise Lost - Host

Hear your soothing comfort loud
One knows it’s not too quiet
All consuming circumstance
Can lead to our dysfunction

I see no life behind your weary eyes
I see the looks you struggle to disguise
I’ve seen all vital signs begin to slip
Oh it’s much too late for you to aim you only miss

Say you’ll pay the consequence
And though we all can see it
Time will challenge your defence
Alive but you can’t feel it

I see no life behind your weary eyes
I see the looks you struggle to disguise
I’ve seen all vital signs begin to slip
Oh it’s much too late for you to aim you only miss

Hear your soothing comfort loud
One knows it’s not too quiet
All consuming circumstance
Can lead to our dysfunction

I see no life behind your weary eyes
I see the looks you struggle to disguise
I’ve seen all vital signs begin to slip
Oh it’s much too late for you to aim you only miss

Say you’ll pay the consequence
And though we all can see it
Time will challenge your defence
Alive but you can’t feel it

Pearl Jam - Crazy Mary

She lived on the curve in the road in an old tar paper shack.
On the south side of the town on the wrong side of the tracks.
Sometimes on the way into town we'd say, "Mama can we stop and give her a ride?"
Sometimes we did but her hands flew from her side.
Wild eyed crazy Mary.

Down a long dirt road past the Parson's place.
That old blue car we used to race.
Little country store with a sign tacked to the side.
Said 'NO L-O-I-T-E-R-I-N-G ALLOWED.'
Underneath that sign always congregated quite a crowd.

Take a bottle drink it down. Pass it around.
Take a bottle drink it down. Drink it... Pass it around. Pass it a...
A-take a bottle drink it down. Pass it... Pass it a... Pass it around.

One night thunder cracked. Mercy backed outside her windowsill.
Dreamed I was flying high above the trees over the hills.
Looked down into the house of Mary.

Bare bulb on Newspaper covered walls. And Mary rising up above it all.
Oh... Oh... Oh...

Next morning on the way into town saw some skid marks and followed them around.
Over the curve, through the fields, into the house of Mary.
That what you fear the most could meet you halfway.
That what you fear the most could meet you halfway.

Take a bottle drink it down. Pass it around.
Take a bottle drink it down. Pass it... Pass it around. Pass it a...
Take a bottle drink it down. Pass it... Pass it a... Pass it around.
Oh, pass it a... Pass it around. Pass it a... Pass it a... Pass it a...
Oh yeah.

(Victoria Williams)

Cowboy Junkies - 200 More Miles

Atlanta's a distant memory
Montgomery a recent birth
and Tulsa burns on the desert floor
like a signal fire

I got Willie on the radio
a dozen things on my mind
and number one is fleshing out
these dreams of mine

I've got 200 more miles of rain asphalt in line
before I sleep
But there'll be no warm sheets or welcoming arms
to fall into tonight

In Nashville there is a lighter
in a case for all to see
it speaks of dreams and heartaches
left unsung

And in the corner stands a guitar and
lonesome words scrawled in a drunken hand
I don't travel past, travel hard before
and I'm beginning to understand

That I've got 200 more miles of rain asphalt in line
before I sleep
But there'll be no warm sheets or welcoming arms
to fall into tonight

They say that I am crazy
my life wasting on this road
that time will find my dreams
scared or dead and cold

But I heard there is a light
drawing me to reach an end
and when I reach there, I'll turn back
and you and I can begin again

I've got 200 more miles of rain asphalt in line
before I sleep
But there'll be no warm sheets or welcoming arms
to fall into tonight

I've got 200 more miles of rain asphalt in line
before I sleep
But I wouldn't trade all your golden tomorrows
for one hour of this night

Atlanta's a distant memory
Montgomery a recent birth
and Tulsa burns on the desert floor
like a signal fire

The Cramps - Sunglasses After Dark

I got somethin' to say to you and you better listen
I'm'a tell ya how to be cool in one easy lesson
Go!

Sunglasses after dark!
AAAAAHHHH! They're so sharp!
And you'll be cool
...And the squares'll drool

It's real simple...
Sunglasses after dark!
AAAAAHHHH! They're so sharp!

Listen to this:
Went out last Saturday night
Got myself in a knife fight
Everybody got cut includin' me
'Cause not one of us cats could see!
We had on S.A.D.
That's right.

I was hangin' around on the street,
When this great big guy ran right into me!
I could hardly make him out, everything was so dim,
But then I seen what was wrong with him...
He was wearin' sunglasses...after dark.

Sunglasses after dark!
Whooooo! They're so sharp!
Sunglasses after dark!
Whooooo! It's so simple!

...Uh, where am I, by the way?
...Oh, yeah.

The Mars Volta - Copernicus

Close the doors...
if you want to seen her breathing again
Blur the days...
sleeping is just not an option

How come every time I walk, you crawl?
Then you cut out all the letters that make up this note

I won't, I won't give up until I find out
until I find what happened to you

The solution inhaled from the rag I hold
holds a maximum vacancy
As I held you in crippled bandages
don't you stay up and wait for me

Left dangling in the wind...

You're not there...
I poke needles in the neck of a doll
She pokes back...
asking why can't I just let her lie

How come every time I walk, you crawl?
Then you cut out all the letters that make up this note

I won't, I won't give up until I find out
until I find what happened to you

The solution inhaled from the rag I hold
holds a maximum vacancy
As I hold you in crippled bandages
don't you stay up and wait for me

Left dangling in the wind...

Don't let the days escape
what I did brings more of them
And we'll be waiting just for them

Over my dead body
over the search they lead
They won't find them anymore

Over my dead body
over the search they lead
They won't find them anymore

The solution inhaled from the rag I hold
holds a maximum vacancy
As I hold you in crippled bandages
don't you stay up and wait for me

The solution inhaled from the rag I hold
holds a maximum vacancy
As I hold you in crippled bandages
don't you stay up and wait for me

Left dangling in the wind...

Dead Can Dance - Ocean

Dead
Dead
Isabella, she's dead
Isabella, she's dead
She's dead
Dead
Isabella, she's dead

Isabella, she's dead
Isabella, she's dead
Isabella lover
He's there
He slayed her, slayed her
Isabella
Dawn, it's so dark
Isabella, she's dead
But you, you're there
You're there
Beginning, beginning
To sunset to the day begun
But you, you're there
You're there

She's dead
Oh, dead
He said
Isabella, she's dead

Isabel'
Isabel'
Isabella, she's dead
Isabella, she's dead
Isabella, she's dead
Isabella lover
He's there
He slayed her, slayed her
Isabella
Dawn, it's so dark
Isabella, she's dead
But you, you're there
You're there
Beginning, beginning
To sunset to the day begun
But you, you're there
You're there

Soap&Skin - The Sun

I see the sun
I see the sun
I see the sun
I see the sun

She dawns, she burns
She grows, she feeds
She spews, she dies above us
and builds the shadows
which faces myself
She drives me into the black hole
The door opens there
The skin opens there

TV On The Radio - Lazerray

Four thousand years ago, I came back to my senses
Jumped on a laser ray and blew into a new dimension
This vertical line, I watch it go by

Chop down your master plan in nanoseconds, man
I hope you understand that nothing living lasts forever
This vertical line, I watch it go by

I can feel it
Overheating
So bad, it makes me want to cry
I can feel it
Overheating
A burning heart unstuck in time

Now I'm a solar flare, now I'm that light that rages
Now I'm that laser ray that blows a hole right through the ages
This vertical line, I watch it go by

Ain't got no second-hand, just got my good intentions
Just got my laser ray exploding into new dimensions
This vertical line, I watch it go by

I can feel it
Overheating
So bad, it makes me want to cry
I can feel it
Overheating
A burning heart unstuck in time

AHLAHA!
From the side, gets hot
That she could fuse us into one
If only we could take the light
Well, I got mine, yes, I got mine

Four thousand years ago, I came back to my senses
Swallowed a laser ray and blew my mind in all directions
This vertical line, I watch it go by

Chop down your master plan in nanoseconds, man
I hope you understand that nothing living lasts forever
This vertical line, I watch it go by

I can feel it
Overheating
So bad, it makes me want to cry
I can feel it
Overheating
A burning heart unstuck in time

AHLAHA!
Seen the stars last night
We're only vehicles for life
So should your mind begin to shine
Say "hey, alright!", say "I got mine!"
Say "hey, alright!", say "I got mine!"
Say "hey, alright!", say "I got mine!"
Say "hey, alright!", say "I got mine!"