Shelleyan Orphan
You’re like a flower with no scent
You’re heaven sent Summer Flies
Suddenly shattered ear to ear
Cut to the gut and I’m screaming to be Shatter
This is not love, this is life A Few Small Hours
The Swans
I’ve got one thing to say, before I am drunk again:
“Goddamn the sun, Goddamn the sun,
Gaddamn the light it shines, and this world it shows.
Goddamn the sun, Goddamn the sun,
Goddamn anyone who ever said a kind word” God Damn The Sun
The Smiths
Scratch my name on your arm with a fountain pen
This means you really love me The Rusholme Ruffians(IIRC)
Pixies
You buy me a soda…& then you try to molest me in the parking lot, yep yep yep Bone Machine
This is a song about a superhero named Tony, it’s called Tony’s theme Tony’s theme
Every word of every song by Ani Difranco and Suzanne Vega. No? Ok…
“Rejecting outfits offered me
Regretting things I’ve worn
When I was still playing roles in order to fill holes
In my conception of who I am
Well you know, now I understand
It’s not important to be defined
It’s only important to use your time well
Well, time is something nobody can buy
Nobody can sell you
And don’t let anyone tell you
They have the advantage.” - Ani Difranco, Pale Purple
“I got tossed out the window
Of love’s El Camino
And I shattered into a shower of sparks on the curb” - Ani, Marrow
“I spent 10 whole days in Jerusalem
Mmmm, Jerusalem
Sweet Jerusalem
And all I ate was olives
Nothing but olives
Mountains of olives
It was a good 10 days
I like olives” - Dan Bern, Jerusalem
“Do you love any
Do you love none
Do you love 20
Can you love 1
Do you love me?” - Suzanne Vega, Knight Moves
“You come from far away
With pictures in your eyes
Of coffee shops and morning streets
And the blue and silent sunrise” - Suzanne Vega, Gypsy
Did you exchange,
A walk-on part in the war,
For a lead role in a cage?
How I wish, how I wish you were here.
We’re just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl,
Year after year.
Running over the same old ground,
What have we found?
The same old fears.
Wish you were here.
BTW, since when is it shameful to like Jackson Browne? I think he’s one of the better lyricists in all of mainstream rock.
Public Enemy: Fight The Power
Elvis was a hero to most but he never meant sh#t to me the straight out racist was simple and plain!!
Mother*@#*$r he is John Wayne
Pink Floyd: In The Flesh
If you wanna find out what’s behind these cold eyes
You’ll just have to claw your way through this disguise
THE HIP!!!
Bourbon blues on the steet
Loose and complete
Under skies all smokey blue-green
and
New Orleans is sinking man and I don’t wanna swim!
and
Everyone has their breaking point
With me it’s spiders
With you it’s me
Thugs and perpetuity
I never understood the thrill of poetry until this:
Then take me disappearin’ through the smoke rings of my mind,
Down the foggy ruins of time, far past the frozen leaves,
The haunted, frightened trees, out to the windy beach,
Far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow.
Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free,
Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands,
With all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves,
Let me forget about today until tomorrow.