Lyrics you wish you wrote

[heidi]

also:


fools leave too soon
built to fill roles and fall
standing alone again
distant and dissatisfied

these three years
and how we say goodbye
to these three years

it's a long goodbye
with mixed emotions
just fragments of another life

well i'm not dead yet
but the regrets are killing me

[erik]

Got this feeling
When i heard your name the other day
Couldn't say it
Couldn't make it go away
It's a hard place
Can't be friends, we can't be enemies
It's just too much
Feel the weight crushing down on my face

The hardest part is things already said
Getting better, worse, I cannot tell
Why do good things never wanna stay
Some things you lose some things you give away

---"Good Things", Sleater-Kinney

[jute gyte]

I'll be with them asleep or dreaming
I'll be there wide awake but screaming
At the hour of death I will nurse them
To have one moment more to curse them

Watch the maggots crawl out of them
Hear the angels call above them
Watch them as the cold earth sucks them
Down to hell good night good luck then

If any should escape above me
I'll beg and cheat until they trust me
Drag them down and be damned with me
Laugh at them if they forgive me

I wish that they could walk forever
On the earth alone unfettered
'Til they crave their sweet damnation
Fitful warmth and consolation

Give them cold drink give them water
Share their pain, share their laughter
Raise their hopes so surely sunken
Slash them as they lie there drunken

Push them down into the foul mud
'Til they choke up on their own blood
Pull 'em out before their last breath
Rob them of their mercy at death

Mother's eyes were sparkling diamonds
Still the stars shone no light
As roses wither may god deliver
The rake at the gates of hell tonight

-"Rake at the Gates of Hell", The Pogues

[Poor June]

erupt again ignore the pill
and i won't let it show
sacrifice the tortures
orchestral, tear, cash flow

increase, delete, escape, defeat
it's all that matters to you
cotton case for an iron pill
distorted eyes
when everything is clearly dying

burn my knees and
burn my knees and
burn my knees and...

emotion sickness, addict with no heroin
emotion sickness
distorted eyes, when everything is clearly dyin'

burn my knees and
burn my knees and pray
burn my knees and
burn my knees and pray
get up, get up, get up, get up, get up, get up, get up
won't you stop my pain..

emotion sickness
addicts with no heroin
good things will come
it helps with excess access
lessons learned

emotion sickness
lessons learned

-silverchair-'emotion sickness' of course i also wished i wrote the music... cause that song has awesome music \m/

[Leaf]

"Making love to a vampire with a monkey on my knee."



~brilliant.

[Poor June]

"another day of overcast
pray for spring to come at last
for something in this world, to hold on 2
it seems a storm is coming down
there's a sickness in the clouds
violet's got a thought
she can't let go of

and though ice hangs heavy in the sky
somehow we must keep warm in the night" (basically wished i wrote the whole song... but i fear i'll mess up a few parts... lunkhead really wrote an awesome song then)

[Adam!]

I'm up in heaven trying to figure out which sack
They're going to stuff us atheists into and Peter and his monkey laugh
And I laugh with them... I'm not sure what at.
They point and say: "We'll keep you in the back."

Modest Mouse
Styrofoam Boots

[Southwest_Statistic]

"Well I'm a wreck.
I really can't explain it but I,
I hear the music when I look at you.
Orchestrating the song to accommodate the moment."

- Mae, the most awesomst band evr.

[obscurity]

One of these days you'll get away from London town
Causing chaos and delay on the underground
I'll read your letter as I pass away the time
Stuck in a tunnel on the Hammersmith and City line

I'll hurry home a little bored but still alive
Unplug the phone to keep the outside world outside
I'll take some aspirin then I'll take myself to bed
You'll be gone and you'll be dead
All because I never said,

Lean on me I won't fall over
I'm made of steel and stone cold sober
If you feel the need come over
Lean on me I won't fall over

You're off the wagon you were never really on
Chasing the dragon like you're Saint fucking George or someone
Stop punching walls don't cut yourself
Shift some burden onto somebody else

Lean on me I won't fall over
I'm made of steel and stone cold sober
If you feel the need come over
Lean on me I won't fall over


- Carter USM, Lean On Me I Won't Fall Over.

[WeaselSlayer]

The new feelings
will rise up
like fake blood in crisp October
from the cracks and the edges
of the graves of our proudest moments,
because
that's not a monument.
It's a grave.

The new feelings
will probably be buried here, too.
But I swear
they'll be born elsewhere.

The new feelings
will rise up
like fake blood blood in crisp October
from the cracks and the edges
of the graves of our proudest moments,
because
that's not a monument.
It's a grave.

-Dirty Projectors

[Erwin Cloibhofer]

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[fodroy]

Some of Okkervil River's lyrics are pretty awesome.

from "Red"

"but I have seen some things that I can’t even tell to my family pictures,'"

from "Westfall"

"...And when I killed her it was so easy that I wanted to kill her again. I got down on both of my knees and….she ain’t coming back again. Now, with all these cameras focused on my face, you’d think they could see it through my skin. They’re looking for evil, thinking they can trace it, but evil don’t look like anything."

And their new song
The President's Dead is pretty goddamn amazing. Don't go in expecting a lameass protest songs.*

*Yes, "lameass protest song" is redundant.

[Adnoisium]

"It's making be blue
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- Reno Dakota by Magnetic Fields

"I saw you baby dancin' in you x-ray gingam dress"
- My Human Gets Me Blues by Captain Beefheart

"That's right The Mascara Snake fast and bulbous, tight also"
- Ella Guru by Captain Beefheart

... You know I'll save time and say anything by Captain Beefheart