I will not wake you from your sleep
Leaving you wandering, counting sheep
No more sad and sunshine days
Trust me dear, you’re better off this way.
-“Airport Song,” by Guster
“September is coming soon
I’m pining for the moon
And what if there were two
Side by side in orbit
Around the fairest sun.”
-“Nightswimming,” REM
Spiderman, Spiderman,
does whatever a spider can,
spins a web, any size,
catches thieves just like flies
Maybe that’s just me…
“It’s a hard road when you know where you’re going
And it’s harder when you know where you’re not.”
we were inseparable
you followed me around
and I got used to you this new friend that I found
I pictured us together
I pictured us apart
and I knew from that moment that you were capable
of breaking my heart
don’t tell my ears 'cause they’re not listening
don’t tell my heart it doesn’t know what it’s missing
don’t tell my eyes I know they won’t believe
that you’re not in love with me
six months of being friends
was all that I could stand
so I mustered up the courage to hold your hand
you were bedazzled bewildered
I guess it was just too soon
and when I finally kissed you
you walked out of the room
– Fleming and John, “Shhh!”
*Every time I stare into the sun
Angel dust and my dress just comes undone
Every time I stare into the sun
Be a model or just look like one*
Asking For It by Hole
OR
*I can feel in my bones
I’m going to spend my whole life alone.*
Fuck and Run by Liz Phair
A lady came to our house, our house, our house,
A lady came to see why I wasn’t in school.
So we asked her to come in,
And we gave her poison lemonade,
And put her in the freezer where it’s nice and cool.
*When you need a lover and you’re down so low,
you start to wonder but you never know
When it feels like sorrow is your only friend,
knowin’ that tomorrow you’ll feel this way again
When the blues come callin’ at the break of dawn,
the rain keeps fallin’ but the rainbow’s gone
When you feel like cryin’ but the tears won’t come,
when your dreams are dyin’, when you’re on the run.*
–Firefall
“No one speaks English, and everything’s broken”-Tom Waits.
Tomorrow’s coming round a hairpin curve in the road
She’s got a run in her stocking
And she’s missing a heel off her shoe …
Got up this morning rolled out of bed
I spilled a Diet Coke, called my mother, said “Hi”
What I meant to say was “Why is your life a joke?”
And I went down to that ugly bar
And I clicked my heels three times just like you said
And I climbed that road to your empty house
The anticipation was a turnon … but you let me down
Cuz I stood on that empty stoop alone
I said I’m ready for my close up Mr. deMille
I waited for the light but it never showed …
Well I wanna know what you’ll do with that expensive piece of land
That overlooks a billion years of history
I have a sneaking suspicion you will never understand.
Hey maybe I’ll see you down by the Rocky and Bullwinkle
And we can talk to that charlatan psychic
And she can paint a prettier picture of your future
Cuz that day in my life …
… never should have taken place …
And this day in my life still cannot explain
Why I listened in the first place … to you.
Oh yeah, something else.
I hope one day you call up your father
And you have the guts to tell him how he hurt you
And how he made you hurt another
Cuz it makes me sad.
– Poe, “That Day”
“Austin,” except replace it with “Nova Scotia,” which doesn’t scan as well.
Esprix
“I need to wash myself again to hide all the dirt and pain
'Cause I’d be scared that there’s nothing underneath
And who are my real friends?
Have they all got the bends?
Am i really sinking this low?”
“A man my age is very young, so I’m told. Why do I feel so old?” -Billy Joel
“Sometimes it’s like someone took a knife, baby, edgy and dull and cut a six-inch valley through the middle of my soul.” -Bruce Springsteen
Good choice. Why Judy Why has always been a favorite of mine.
And so we talked all night about the rest of our lives
Where we’re gonna be when we turn 25
I keep thinking times will never change
Keep on thinking things will always be the same
But when we leave this year we won’t be coming back
No more hanging out cause we’re on a different track
And if you got something that you need to say
You better say it right now cause you don’t have another day
Cause we’re moving on and we can’t slow down
These memories are playing like a film without sound
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Will we think about tomorrow like we think about now?
Can we survive it out there? Can we make it somehow?
I guess I thought that this would never end
And suddenly it’s like we’re women and men
Will the past be a shadow that will follow us round?
Will these memories fade when I leave this town
I keep, I keep thinking that it’s not goodbye
Keep on thinking it’s a time to fly
graduation, by vitamin c
I’ve been waiting a lifetime
For this moment to come
I’m destined for anything at all…
Green Day, Waiting
“You make me come.
You make me complete.
You make me completely miserably.”
Skull, not soul.
Estat ai en greu cossirier
per un cavallier q’ai agut,
a vuoill sia trotz temps saubut
cum eu l’ai amat a sobrier;
Ben volria mon cavallier
tener un ser a mos bratz nut,
car plus m’en sui abellida
no fetz Floris de Blanchaflor.
Ara vei q’ieu sui trahida
car eu non li dinei m’amor,
don ai estat en gran error
en lieig e quand sui vestida.
Well, as of the past three weeks, but that’ll change soon enough. Verve Pipe’s “The Freshmen” worked for me for a year or two, too.
This could lead to excellence
Or serious injury.
Only one way to know:
Go, go, go.
Go ahead and wreck your life;
That might be good.
Who can say what’s wrong or right?
Nobody can.
—The Spiraling Shape by They Might Be Giants