The Cure - A Letter To Elise

Oh Elise it doesn't matter what you say
I just can't stay here every yesterday
Like keep on acting out the same
The way we act out
Every way to smile, forget
And make-believe we never needed
Any more than this
Any more than this

Oh Elise it doesn't matter what you do
I know I'll never really get inside of you
To make your eyes catch fire
The way they should
The way the blue could pull me in
If they only would, if they only would
At least I'd lose this sense of sensing something else
That hides away
From me and you, there're worlds to part
With aching looks and breaking hearts
And all the prayers your hands can make
Oh I just take as much as you can throw
And then throw it all away
Oh I throw it all away
Like throwing faces at the sky
Like throwing arms round

Yesterday, I stood and stared
Wide-eyed in front of you
And the face I saw looked back
The way I wanted to
But I just can't hold my tears away
The way you do

Elise believe I never wanted this
I thought this time I'd keep all of my promises
I thought you were the girl I always dreamed about
But I let the dream go
And the promises broke
And the make-believe ran out

So Elise
It doesn't matter what you say
I just can't stay here every yesterday
Like keep on acting out the same
The way we act out
Every way to smile
Forget and make-believe we never needed
Any more than this
Any more than this

And every time I try to pick it up
Like falling sand
As fast as I pick it up
It runs away through my clutching hands
But there's nothing else I can really do
There's nothing else I can really do
There's nothing else I can really do
At all

Violent Femmes - Girl Trouble

Have mercy on me

I got girl trouble up the ass
have mercy on me people
I got girl trouble up the ass
and don't tell me no joke
cause I'm not gonna laugh
I need the cure
only one cure in this world
I need the cure
only one cure in this world
hey james brown
I need a woman or a girl
hit me in the morning
hit me in the night
hit me when I'm wrong
hit me when I'm right
hit me when I'm up
hit me when I'm down
hit me hit me hit me hit me
all over town
girl trouble
I got girl trouble up the ass
and don't tell me
cause I'm not gonna laugh
I'm not trying to fool you people
I'm not giving you no jive
make me feel I'd rather be dead than alive
take a look around
what's shoving up my behind
problems drive me out of my mind
girl trouble
I got girl trouble up the ass
and don't tell me no joke
cause I'm not gonna laugh

The Mission - Sacrilege

Tarot strewn across the floor
Fate creeps under the creaking door
Say farewell to the salad days
Arms held out for the needle haze
Scars, scars start to show
But don't, don't despair for the shame I know

Bible for the love and damned
Religion for the pagan man
Faith and prayer for the chosen few
Mystic shades of violent hue
Blood, blood on my cheeks
And the taste
The taste of ash curls across my tongue

Sacrilege, burning on the funeral pyre
Sacrilege, toss and turn on the cross to burn

Rape and pillage the sacred word
Heart of darkness crowned and stirred
Rite of passage reckless whirl
Fruit forbidden ritual swirl
And you, what can you do?
And I, I say there's nothing you can do to stop this

Sacrilege, burning on the funeral pyre
Sacrilege, toss and turn on the cross to burn

Tarot strewn across the floor
Fate creeps under the creaking door
Say farewell to the salad days
Arms held out for the needle haze
Scars, scars start to show
But don't, don't despair for the shame I know

Sacrilege, burning on the funeral pyre
Sacrilege, toss and turn on the cross to burn

Sharon Van Etten - I'm Giving Up On You

Under the freeway

Thought about staying late

Went to the dark place

Where we met

Forget everything I said in the park

Too tired to wait it out again, it's not smart

I am giving up on you

I am giving up on you

Flowers are dying

I hang them on my wall

Remember when you tried

Tried at all

Forget everything you've done, now it's none

Ten times the fool I was, not again

I am giving up on you

I am giving up on you

Birds on the phone wire

Thinking 'bout flying higher

You are the shoes hung

On the line

I am giving up on you

I am giving up on you

I am giving up on you

I am giving up on you

Goldfrapp - Clowns

Only clowns would play with those balloons
What d'ya wanna look like Barbie for
Dear oh Lord, it's easy

Roasting, roasting, roasting deed
Mahagony
Titties that live on and on and on and on

Only clowns would play with those balloons
What d'ya wanna look like Barbie for
Dear oh Lord, it's easy

Only clowns would play with those balloons
Passive when I'm in record
Day and night I'm watching you

Roasting, roasting, roasting deed
Mahagony
Titties that live on and on and on and on

Only clowns would play with those balloons
What d'ya wanna look like Barbie for
Dear oh Lord, it's easy

The Pogues - Love you 'Till the End

I just want to see you
When you're all alone
I just want to catch you if I can
I just want to be there
When the morning light explodes
On your face it radiates
I can't escape
I love you 'till the end

I just want to tell you nothing
You don't want to hear
All I want is for you to say
Why don't you just take me
Where I've never been before
I know you want to hear me
Catch my breath
I love you 'till the end
I love you 'till the end

I love you 'till the end
I love you 'till the end

I just want to be there
When we're caught in the rain
I just want to see you laugh not cry
I just want to feel you
When the night puts on its cloak
I'm lost for words don't tell me
Cause all I can say
I love you 'till the end
I love you 'till the end

I love you 'till the end
I love you 'till the end
I love you 'till the end

All I can say
I love you 'till the end
I love you 'till the end
I love you 'till the end
It's all I can say
I love you 'till the end
I love you 'till the end

The Gathering - Great Ocean Road

It is all there

The earth and the ocean

They contain the power

Of our lives

This beautiful city

That surrenders

To the nightfall

Carving the grounds

We walk upon

And the air

We all dare

To ride it somehow

Blue and black is the sky

While tumbling down

Trapped into the freedom

Of an aeroplane

Deprived of sleep

We jump into the deep

With no knowledge whatsoever

And the air

We all dare

To ride it somehow

There is no place

On the face

Of this earth

Only silence

Is the sound

Of an angel

Beck - I'm So Free

I'm on a tangent

Textbook ephemeral

Facts are confusing me

I'm so free now

I'm on a one-man waiting list

I'm bored again

I buried all my memories

I'm so free now

I see the silhouette of everything

I thought I ever knew

Turning into voodoo

I'm so free now

A panic cycle, sentimental

Feel it out until you know

It wasn't meant for you

I'm so free now

I'm so free now

I'm so free now

And the way that I walk

Is up to me now

And if I breathe now

I could scream now

You can hear me

From Topeka to Belize now

I'm gonna freeze out

These enemies out

They never see what I got

No need to bend my knees down

Heaven forbid

Time is running out

Nothing new under the sun

Better get down

I'm so free

Free from me

Free from you

Who am I supposed to be

In the middle of the day

With no good connection?

I'm so free now

They try to keep me down

With affliction

Alpha male fell asleep in the engine

I'm so free now

A horizontal aspiration

In the basement

With a digital lust for life

I'm so free now

I coin the phrase of the realm

Let it roll into the street

Like a token of sweet nothing

I'm so free now

I'm so free now

I'm so free now

And the way that I walk

Is up to me now

And if I breathe now

I could scream now

You can hear me

From Topeka to Belize now

I'm gonna freeze out

These enemies out

They never see what I got

No need to bend my knees down

Heaven forbid

Time is running out

Nothing new under the sun

Better get down

I'm so free

I'm so free now

Yeah, yeah, yeah

Hey nobody's going to keep me down

Nobody's going to keep me down

Nobody's going to keep me down

Gonna do, gonna do, gonna do what we want

I don't want to go

I don't want to go

I don't want to go down

Gonna do, gonna do, gonna do what we want

I'm so free

I'm so free now

Yeah, yeah, yeah

The Mars Volta - The Malkin Jewel

I must have crawled through your bedroom door

in a fit of jealous breath

perched upon the Bacchus foot

of your unsuspecting bed

From the blossom rags in my jackal croon

to the stems of this cinquefoil

I give to you the shrapnel

with which to sprinkle in the soil

Because...

All the traps in the cellar go clickety clack

cause you know I always set them for you

Yeah, for you!

And all the rats in the cellar form a vermin of steps

yeah, you know they're gonna take me to you

Yeah, to you!

Wash it down with harlot soap

well, is this what you want?

I'll paint your steps with the lilac stains

of smelter revenant

My cutlery is rattling

in the dormant wooden drawers

from the palm of my throne I beckon you

to cut the orchid cord

Because...

All the traps in the cellar go clickety clack

cause you know I always set them for you

Yeah, for you!

And all the rats in the cellar form a vermin of steps

yeah, you know they're gonna take me to you

Yeah, to you!

I know a girl that was woven

in spindle and thread

wrapped in a bivouac of taffeta

scaffolding wed

She tosses and turns

and wakes all the children in bed

yawning with hunger

they take turns of nourishment

She says...

Somebody, somebody help me

Is there anybody that can set me free?

From the mountains of avarice this I beg to you

My ether turns flesh to gravel

And all the traps in the cellar go clickety clack

cause you know I always set them for you

Yeah, I set them for you!

And all the rats in the cellar form a vermin of steps

cause you know they're gonna take me to you

Yeah, to you!

And all the traps in the cellar go clickety clack

cause you know I always set them for you

Yeah, for you!

And all the rats in the cellar form a vermin of steps

yeah, you know they're gonna...

M83 - My Tears Are Becoming A Sea

I'm slowly drifting to you
The stars and the planets
Are calling me
A billion years away from you
I'm on my way
I'm on...
I'm on...