R.E.M. - Chorus And The Ring

hey there now young one wholly, swing along
quote the scriptures, keep them guessing
which pit you crawled from.
just defy it, just deny it, was it fun?
your time has come-
what have you done? what have you done?

that's when the insults start to sting
you can't remember anything
the chorus chime in, the greek chorus,
the machine of god singing

it's the poison that in measures brings
illuminating vision
it's the knowing with a wink that we expect in
southern women
it's the wolf that knows which root to dig
to save itself
it's the octopus that crawled back to the sea

that's when the insults start to sting
you can't remember anything
the chorus chime in, the greek chorus,
the machine of god ring!

hammered, shooting plywood in the backyard
laughing 'cause the racket makes the
blackbirds sing
write the holy terror, suck the marrow from
the bone- singe
your own wings burning books, you got the
chorus and the ring

that's when the insults start to sting
you can't remember anything
the chorus chime in, the greek chorus,
the machine sings
that's when the insults starts to sting
you can't remember anything
the chorus chime in, the greek chorus,
the machine sings

that's when the calibration brittle as a stick
gets you the gold ring
and the tar museum Che Guevera wink,
gold ring
gold ring.

sing.
sing.
sing.
sing.

Green Day - Suzie Chapstick

Will I ever see your face again
Not just photos from an Instagram
Will you say hello from across the street
From a place and time we used to meet

Sometimes everything just grows apart
Broken pieces from a busted heart
Not even the drugs seem to work
Living in the shadows where we lurk

Outside my window before the sun comes up to shine
It’s just another vacant, cold and lonely night

Do you remember the jokes we told
Rumors from a long long time ago
Did we get over our innocence?
Did we take the time to make amends?

Will you dedicate a song to me
Do you want me to just go away
I just want to be your nobody
Is there any chance that I can stay?

Outside my window there is nothing but a sky
It’s just another vacant, cold and lonely night

Outside my window there is nothing but a sky
It’s just another vacant, cold and lonely night

Do you remember the jokes we told
Rumors from a long long time ago
Did we get over our innocence?
Did we take the time to make amends?

St. Vincent - Strange Mercy

Oh, little one, I know you've been tired for a long, long time
And oh little one I ain't been around for a little while
But when you see me, wave

Oh, little one, your Hemingway jawline looks just like his
Our father in exile
For God only knows how many years
But when you see him, wave
Through double-pane
I'll be with you lost boys
Sneaking out where the shivers won't find you

Oh little one I'd tell you good news that I don't believe
If it would help you sleep
Strange mercy

If I ever meet the dirty policeman who roughed you up
No I I don't know what
If I ever meet the dirty policeman who roughed you up

I'll be with you lost boys
Sneaking out where the shivers won't find you

Paradise Lost - Widow [Icon 30 version]

You’re breaking a chain
Lying until you can erase the past
Born with a look of deceit
Praying that all the bitter guilt’s defeated
Born…

Stand on your own, killed from behind
Fools are blind, unwilling to accept, decline
You’ll turn a blind eye

Bought by a sickening man
The weakened gather just as fast as they can
‘Whore’ is what the people roar
From fear of rejection you’ll come back for more
Strong, don’t see that love has ceased
In the end, only death can release

Stand on your own, killed from behind
Fools are blind, you’re on a lonely road...
You’re on a lonely road

Dead Can Dance - Song Of The Nile

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Deftones - Pompeji

Deep in the bottomless depths of the ocean
Empty bodies, we sink
Open your eyes, you smile and release me
We slip down beneath and

Jesus Christ, you watch us fail
We raise our glasses and drink in hell

Locked in the core of the tower, I'm patient
In no hurry to leave
Life has been lonely, it might be forever
Making hard to believe in

Jesus Christ, we hold you to blame
You gave your life, but we died in vain

And ooh, we drink from the fountain of intent
And ooh, we choke on the water, then repent

In the street, violent behavior
In chaos, where it's warm
Black omens call, our cage is electric
So we signal, we wait for

Jesus Christ, God raised you as
We raised our glasses and drank in hell

Ooh, we sip from the fountain of intent
And ooh, we choke on the water, then repent
Ooh, we drink from the fountain of intent
Ooh, we choke on the water, then repent

Florence And The Machine - Mermaids

I thought that I was hungry for love
Maybe I was just hungry for blood
Sea foam woman on the shore
Your prairie ghost, I'm a cottage whore
All the mermaids have sharp teeth
Razor blades all in your feet

England is only ever grey or green
The girls glitter striding glorious and coatless in the rain
I remember falling through these streets
Somewhat out of place, if not for the drunkenness

It makes my chest hurt to think of it
Not of regret, but of missing that

Cheerful oblivion
Cheerful oblivion

It was not all pain and pavements slick with rain
And shining under lights from shitty clubs and doing shitty drugs
And hugging girls that smelt like Britney Spears and coconuts

And with your mermaid hair and your teeth so sharp
You crawled from the sea to break that sailor's heart
You only get one night upon the shore
So dance like you've never danced before
And the dance floor is filling up with blood
But, oh, Lord, you've never been so in love

Cheerful oblivion
Cheerful oblivion
Cheerful oblivion

And the mermaids, they come once a year
They climb the struts of Brighton Pier
They come to drink, they come to dance
To sacrifice a human heart
And the world is so much wilder than you think
You haven't seen nothing till you seen an English girl drink

Cheerful oblivion
Cheerful oblivion
Cheerful oblivion
Cheerful oblivion
Cheerful oblivion

Pearl Jam - React, Respond

I see you worried & hurried
As if addressing the jury
You are innocent
Til proven innocent
You are hurting
And it’s so magnificent

Don’t let the sky hook
Beat you to submission
Maybe it’s the price of
Price of our admission

Ain’t no fucking roses
To our condition
Turn this anger into
Nuclear fission
Yeah baby, baby

Don’t react, respond
Don’t react, respond
When what you get
Is what you don’t want
Don’t react, respond

Are we at war with each other?
Are you at war with yourself?
We could be fighting together
Instead of fighting ourselves

Start the rebuttal
All part of the game
What makes us different
And what makes us the same

The incandescence
That is your essence
The unexpected embrace
Embrace the unexpected

There’s no book on this life
There’s no use as directed
The best part I know
Was when we were connected

And the light gets brighter
As it grows
The darkness it recedes

It’s better to give
Give than to deceive
Questions dissolve
The more you believe

Don’t react, respond
Don’t react, respond
When what you get
Is what you don’t want
Don’t react, respond.

R.E.M. - Wendell Gee

That's when Wendell Gee takes a tug
Upon the string that held the line of trees
Behind the house he lived in
He was reared to give respect
But somewhere down the line he chose
To whistle as the wind blows
Whistle as the wind blows, with me

He had a dream one night
That the tree had lost its middle
So he built a trunk of chicken wire
To try to hold it up
But the wire, the wire turned to lizard skin
And when he climbed inside
There wasn't even time to say
Goodbye to Wendell Gee
So whistle as the wind blows
Whistle as the wind blows, with me

If the wind were colors
And if the air could speak
Then whistle as the wind blows
Whistle as the wind blows

Smashing Pumpkins - Every Morning

Babes in the dark wings
Faun of the wood
Who wouldn't want to yearn
With given names writ
Upon the trunk of god
Where every rune's in gold
Where if you've traveled here, or far
A secret to discard
Without some change
And oh, I've stood behind those eyes as tired
Astride a soul alone

So face this valley, opine
There's one, one way home that's mine
And right back by your side I'll lead with you

We're so near to feel unwise
A penny'd heart could never expire
So if you know lay fast with me now
A requiem ourselves

There's lines to flee
And ages to reach
In chapters I conceive

Fade along, pale moon
Failed is our tune
A requiem ourselves
Fade along, pale moon
Failed is our tune
A requiem ourselves
A requiem ourselves
A requiem ourselves

In requiem we cry
In requiem we tried
In mortis, I might weep
In chapters I can't read