The Supremes, You Keep Me Hanging On Set me free, why don’t you babe
Get out my life, why don’t you babe
'Cause you don’t really love me
You just keep me hangin’ on
The Police, Don’t Stand So Close To Me It’s no use, he sees her
He starts to shake and cough
Just like the old man in
That book by Nabakov
Offspring, Self-Esteem When she’s saying that she wants only me
Then I wonder why she sleeps with my friends
When she’s saying that I’m like a disease
Then I wonder how much more I can spend
Well I guess I should speak up for myself
But I really think it’s better this way
The more you suffer,
The more it shows you really care
and I hate this song, but… Gary Puckett and the Union Gap, Young Girl Young girl, get out of my mind
My love for you is way out of line
Better run, girl
You’re much too young, girl
Your Latest Victim - Park
10 Minutes to Downtown - Get Up Kids
Time Consumer - Coheed and Cambria
Coke - Flickerstick
Get on the Floor - The Promise Ring
And breaking my attempt to do an all-emo list*:
Warning, (probably a cover, but the only version I’ve heard is on Black Sabbath:
“I was warned about you baby, but my feelings were a little bit too strong.”
*so Flickerstick’s not an emo band, but if all a band’s songs sounded like Coke they’d be considered emo.
“That’s the Way I’ve Always Heard it Should Be” - Carly Simon
Boy, never would have wanted to be Carly’s husband. She was damn cute, great voice, lovely songs, but a really, really weird take on marriage througout a number of her songs.
muzzynyc: We do not permit quoting of full song lyrics. Best is to quote a line or two, and then provide a link to a website that has the copyright and has the full lyrics.
Stephin Merritt is one of the greatest lyricists to ever write pop songs.
Here’s another Magnetic Fields gem -
"cause I always say I love you
when I mean turn out the light
and I say let’s run away
when I just mean stay the night
but the words you want to hear
you will never hear from me
I’ll never say “happy anniversary”
