“Party Girl” by U2
“Mysterious Ways” by U2
“Love is Blindness” by U2
“A Stroke of Luck” by Garbage
I like instrumentals. “Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White” works for me. I feel like it’s already early spring, since it’s so mild out today.
- "A Case of You" by Joni Mitchell.
Sort of a yearning, a confusion, an unexpressed-desire-trying-to-get-out sort of feeling. Lovely and painful at the same time.
The lover speaks about the monsters
Ahhh Annie Lennox
and in a similar vein
…this the book I never read
these are the words I never said
this the path I’ll never tread
these are the dreams I’ll dream instead
this the joy that’s seldom spread
these are tears, the tears we’ve shed
this is the fear this is the dread
these are the contents of my head
and these are the years we’ve spent
and this is what they represent
and this is how I feel
do you know how I feel?
Cause if you think you know…
I don’t think you know what I feel
I don’t think you know what I fear
You don’t know what I fear
… more Dylan:
I didn’t want to want you, but now I have no choice
It’s too late to listen to that warning voice
All I hear is thunder of two hearts beat
Going ninety miles an hour down a dead end street
Ninety miles an hour down a dead end street.
I resolved to call her up a thousand times a day
and ask her if she’ll marry me in some old fashioned way
but my silent fears have gripped me
long before I reach the phone
long before my tongue has tripped me
must I always be alone - The Police
Not that I actually planned to ask her to marry me or anything, not that I actually live in the same time zone as her anymore, but what the hell, l had to listen to that before calling to say hello. Particularly because she had the power to turn me into a quivering doofus should I come within a 10 meter radius of her. sigh
I have a couple more now that I think of it.
“Hello darkness, my old friend…I’ve come to talk with you again.”
“I won’t disturb the slumber of feelings that have died, if I never loved I never would’ve cried.”
Both Simon and Garfunkel, “Sound of Silence” and “I Am a Rock,” respectively.
“Don’t fall away and leave me to myself
Don’t fall away and leave love bleeding
In my hands, in my hands again.”
Fuel, “Hemorrhage”.
And on a happier note:
“It’s a beautiful day…don’t let it get away.”
*The motorcycle black madonna
Two-wheeled gypsy queen
And her silver-studded phantom cause
The gray flannel dwarf to scream
As he weeps to wicked birds of prey
Who pick up on his bread crumb sins
And there are no sins inside the Gates of Eden
The kingdoms of Experience
In the precious wind they rot
While paupers change possessions
Each one wishing for what the other has got
And the princess and the prince
Discuss what’s real and what is not
It doesn’t matter inside the Gates of Eden*
Boy, most of us are a bit maudlin on this Sunday evening aren’t we? Sometimes it’s nice to know you aren’t alone in your despair, huh. Good thing is, it’ll all come around! May all of you find your tomorrow just a bit nicer than today. We’ll all get through it. Just wait and see…
“Why Can’t I fall In Love” Chagall Guevara
I envy your username.
One song pretty much has summed up my life since it was released - ‘Someday I Suppose’ by the Mighty Mighty Bosstones.
*There was this place
But the name of the place escapes me
When I can’t remember
It irritates me
Could be I can’t remember
Could be I choose to not
Let’s move the song along
And try to find the plot
There was this girl
But I don’t know her name either
She gave me love
And I said I’d never leave her
And if I did
I’d come back someday and find her
Maybe I will
I should write down a reminder*
and you have no idea how revered the name ‘frannie’ is in our house…(dewt’s late mom’s name)
usually, the username ‘Dylan’ is always taken, whatever site I am on.
this is the first place where it has been free for the taking…
and I took it
bob is god.
Pardon me is the first song that came to mind when I saw the thread title…
*Hey, Jude, don’t make it bad
Take a sad song and make it better
Remember to let her into your heart
Then you can start to make it better
Hey, Jude, don’t be afraid
You were made to go out and get her
The minute you let her under your skin
Then you begin to make it better.
And any time you feel the pain, hey, Jude, refrain
Don’t carry the world upon your shoulders
Well don’t you know that its a fool who plays it cool
By making his world a little colder
Hey, Jude! Don’t let her down
You have found her, now go and get her
Remember, to let her into your heart
Then you can start to make it better.
So let it out and let it in, hey, Jude, begin
You’re waiting for someone to perform with
And don’t you know that it’s just you, hey, Jude,
You’ll do, the movement you need is on your shoulder
Hey, Jude, don’t make it bad
Take a sad song and make it better
Remember to let her into your heart
Then you can start to make it better*
Some verses stick out as more relevant than others for me
Some lines from Tonight We Fly by ** The Divine Comedy**:
And when we die
Will we be that disappointed or sad
If heaven doesn’t exist
What will we have missed?
This life is the best
We’ve ever had
And it hurts because deep down I believe we are more than friends
So if you ever change your mind
You know where you can find me…
http://www. (I won’t believe it)
http://www. (until I read it)
my heart is tied up in a knot (you know it’s true)
http://www.nevergetoveryou
-Prozzäk, “www.nevergetoveryou”
And it hurts because deep down I believe we are more than friends
So if you ever change your mind
You know where you can find me…
www. (I won’t believe it)
www. (until I read it)
my heart is tied up in a knot (you know it’s true)
www.nevergetoveryou
-Prozzäk, “www.nevergetoveryou”
Up against it, the higher you fly the further you fall
Up against it, wondering why we fought after all
Such a cold winter
With scenes as slow as Pinter
Synchronize your watches
There’s still time to kill
Up against it, drinking this swill to sweeten the pill
Up against it, the more that it hurts the less that it works
-Pet Shop Boys, “Up Against It”
A little sexual frustration
Combined with lack of motivation
And a loss of concentration
I’ve got a strange disease
I can’t concentrate on work
My libido’s gone berserk
Now I’m sweating thru my shirt
I’ve got a strange disease
Only two weeks ago you said you’d never leave me
Now here I am alone
And in this world of reckless happenstance
Why do good things have to go away
And leave you with nothing
Yea, you left me with nothing
But a strange disease.
-Prozzäk, “Strange Disease”
Why? This is why: http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=55502
If were getting all Bob on it, I have to say that these lines sum up my world view at any given second:
and the Cowboy Junkies, “Lonely Sinking Feeling”:
and “Angel Mine”:
Basically, I’m sad and lonely and pathetic. You know, the usual. I think I’ll go watch “Notting Hill” and cry myself to sleep.
-R.E.M. “Half a World Away”
-Radiohead, “How to Disappear Completely”