Searching for Truth: Excellent!!
My contribution:
Hate, hate your enemies
Save, save your friends
Find, find your place
Speak, speak the truth
Nirvana, Radio Friendly Unit Shifter
Oh, and Violet: That’s not Bob Dylan, that’s Stealer’s Wheel (with Gerry Rafferty).
loving you forever is what I need. Al Green, stay together
he flicks an ash like a wild loose comma. Soul coughing, hmmm cant remember.
shit, blood, and cum on my hands. Tool, prison sex. (What? you said my favorite songs)
I am everyday people. Sly and the family stone, everyday people.
yes yes I come fully equiped with a band, a mic, and a bunch of bad habits, now thats my trip try not to fall, get off the wall and shamalama y’all. Silly Rabit, shamalamajam Odyssey
the revolution will not be brought to you by xerox. Gil Scott Heron, the revolution will not be televised.
I just got paid today, got me a pocket full o change. ZZ Top, just got paid.
SHUT THE FUCK UP! Cake, Nugget
I could go on but instead I’ll go to bed.
It’s long, but the whole song is worth quoting:
Seeing that moving van pull out
Watching that awful sun go down
What’ll I have to laugh about?
Cartoons
Saturday morning, eight o’clock
Wishing that fun would never stop
Not even caring about where you are
Cartoons
Sunday morning three o’clock
Haven’t moved off that same old spot
Mighty thankful that I still got cartoons
When you spend all that time alone
Locked up doors, unplugged phone
You feel as if, you feel as though you’re cartoons
You’re in cartoons
Should have stayed and stuck it out
Think we could have worked it out
But you’ve got a lot to learn about cartoons.
[By Jack Logan]
And another:
Studies have shown
That we like sheep are prone
To sure-fatal doses
Of malcontent through osmosis.
But don’t be sympathetic,
Just pass the anesthetic
'Cause sheep are benign,
And on their young we will dine.
[By Andrew Bird}
“meet the new boss…same as the old boss”
The Who - “Won’t Get Fooled Again”
“nurse, get your pad, the boy’s insane!”
Bob Dylan - “Talkin World War III Blues”
“the pursuit of happiness just seems a bore”
Rolling Stones - “Mother’s Little Helper”
“watching the skirts you start to flirt now you’re in gear”
Beatles - “Good Morning Good Morning”
“'Cause I got tossed out the window of love’s el Camino
And I shattered into a shower of sparks on the curb.”
-Marrow - Ani Difranco
“Sometimes you can hear the wind blow in a handshake
Sometimes there’s poetry written right on a bathroom wall.”
-Good, Bad, Ugly - Ani Difranco
*“And in my prayers
I dream alone
A silent speach
To deaf ear
If you want love
You must be love
But if bleed love
You will die loved” *
-Age of Innocence - Smashing Pumpkins
“The Christmas Spirit is not what you drink.”
A Christmas Song
Jethro Tull
“As she floats in the kitchen
I’m tasting the smell
Of toast as the butter runs.
Then she comes, spilling crumbs on the bed
And I shake my head.”
Wond’ring Aloud
Same fellers
“Watch out where the huskies go-
and don’t you eat that yellow snow”
“I’m an asshole, and I’m proud of it!”
“Shut you f.cking face, uncle f.cker! You’re a c.ck-sucking ass-licking uncle f.cker!”
“Oh, I’m a mutha fukka on a motorcycle …”
The more I think,
The more I know,
The more it hurts.
From “Where are you” by Cat Stevens
Slash wrist
Scarlet fever
Crawl under your bathroom door.
Pumping arteries ooze their problems
through the gap that the razor tore.
Marillion - He Knows, You Know
“Now you’re ringin’ out slowly,
Like cathedral bells
And you’d sleep through Heaven,
Just to get to Hell”
“The winds that blow across the sea
Bring the light with rays of new disease
Thoughts come over the human mind
Fallen drops of rain unwind”
"I love my friend,
She is passionate and wonderful,
But so far away.
Our affectionate romance
has sunk beneath the waves …
… and I don’t know how to swim."
“Living in a science-fiction world
Living life the way we want
And blaming God for what we’ve done
Living in a science-fiction world
God’s a cosmic puppet here,
And I’m the puppeteer.”
“A connecting principle, linked to the invisible,
Almost imperceptible, something inexpressible,
Science insusceptible, logic so inflexible,
Casually connectible, nothing is invincible…”
“Convince an enemy, convince him that he’s wrong
Is to win a bloodless battle where victory is long
A simple act of faith
In reason over might
To blow up his children will only prove him right.”
“If blood will flow when flesh and steel are one
Drying in the colour of the evening sun
Tomorrow’s rain will wash the stains away
But something in our minds will always, always stay
Perhaps this final act was meant
To clinch a lifetime’s argument
That nothing comes from violence
And nothing ever could
For all those born beneath an angry star
Lest we forget how fragile we are”
“Beautiful one,
Asleep in the sun,
Secret, sweet and sublime …
I hope you last a long, long time
I hope you last a long, long time”
Why don’t we call it a day and we can both confess
You can’t force me to use a little tenderness
white lies, alibis – anything but say that it’s true
we could sit like lovers staring in each other’s eyes but
the magic of the moment might become to much for you
Sneaky Feelings – Elvis Costello
Life may be sweeter for this,
I don’t know.
We’ll see how it feels in the end.
-Crazy Fingers
Everything you say is so obnoxious, funny, true and mean.
I want to be your blowjob queen.
Flower by Liz Phair
Oh, make me over. I’m all I wanna be. A walking study in demonology.
Celebrity Skin by Hole
*The ones who love us best
Are The ones we’ll lay to rest
And visit their graves on holidays at best
The ones who love us least
Are the ones we’ll die to please
If it’s any consolation
I don’t begin to understand them*
“Bastards of Young” - The Replacements (lyrics by Paul Westerberg)
I know someday you’ll have a beautiful life,
I know you’ll be a star in somebody else’s sky
But why, why, why can’t it be mine?
Pearl Jam – Black
“Titties and Beer”
Frank Zappa
“Fat Bottom Girls make the Rockin’ world go 'round”
Queen
“The trees are all kept equal by hatchet, axe and sword”
Rush
So often times it happens, that we live our live in chains.
And we never even know we have the key.
“Already Gone”, the Eagles
All the late night bargains have been struck
Between the satin beans and their bells
And prehistoric garbage trucks
Have the city to themselves
Echoes and the roars dinosaurs
They’re all doing the monster mash
And most of the taxis and all of the whores
Are only taking calls for cash
“Your Latest Trick”, Dire Straits
She cuts you hard, she cuts you deep,
She’s got so much skill
She’s so fascinating that you’re still there waiting
When she comes back for the kill
You’ve been slashed in the face
You’ve been left there to bleed
You want to run away
But you know you’re gonna stay
'Cause she gives you what you need
Then she says she wants affection
While she searches for the vein
She’s so good with her stiletto
You don’t really mind the pain
“Stilleto”, Billy Joel
And Daddy, won’t you take me back to Muhlenberg County,
Down by the Green River where Paradise lay?
Well, I’m sorry, my son, but you’re too late in askin’;
Mr. Peabody’s coal train has hauled it away.
– John Prine, “Paradise”
Actually I love the whole song. Here’s the last verse:
When I die, let my ashes flow down the Green River,
Let my soul roll on up to the Rochester Dam.
I'll be halfway to heaven with Paradise waiting,
Just five miles away from wherever I am.Counting Crows:
“She’s talking in her sleep
It’s keeping me awake
And Anna begins to toss and turn
And every word is nonsense
But I understand it all”
-Anna Begins
*“In all this time
The bottom line is
You don’t know how I feel
You say you see
But I don’t agree
You don’t know…don’t know how I feel”
-Speedway
“Good morning, baby
I guess you wanna touch me now,
And tell me you love me,
And tell me you need me
Don’t say you love me
Don’t say anything
Because I am not that kind of man
I’m much less than you think I am
So many people are just like Jesus
They drag all this weight
To get to anything better than
Where they are, or where they’ve been
Well, what the hell’s the reason
When we never get anywhere”
-Suffocate
*"I was wasted in the afternoon
Waiting on a train
I woke up in pieces, and
Elisabeth had disappeared again
I wish you were inside of me
I hope that you’re okay
I hope you’re resting quitely
I just wanted to say goodnight, Elisabeth
Goodnight, Elisabeth
Now, I’m all alone
And you ain’t coming home"*
-Goodnight Elisabeth
*"I never go to New York City
These days
Something about the buildings in
Chelsea that kills me
The things I do
To the people I love
Shouldn’t be allowed
There’s something about an angel
That just kills me
I keep hoping something will"*
-Chelsea
“I want to be the light
That burns out your eyes
Because I know the little things
About me that would sing
In the silence of
So much rejection
In every connection I make
I want to be the last thing
You hear when you’re falling asleep”
-Catapult
Ben Folds Five:
*"I feel like a quote out of context
The ‘problem-with-you’ speech
You gave me was fine
I liked your theories
About my ‘little stage’
And I swore I was listening
But I started drifting
Around the part about me acting my age
Now if it’s all the same
I’ve people to entertain
Juggle one-handed
Do some magic tricks and
The best imitation of myself
“Last night I was
East with them, but
West within
Trying to be for you
What you want to see
But I couldn’t help it if you
You couldn’t quite come true”*
-Best Imitation of Myself
“Don’t you know I’m numb, man
No, I can’t feel a thing at all
And it’s all smiles and business these days
And I’m indifferent to the loss
I think that there’s a soul somewhere
That’s leading me around
I wonder if she knows which way is down?”
-Evaporated
“Driving back to her apartment
For the moment, we’re alone
And she’s alone, and I’m alone”
-Brick
“Now my dreams are drowning like puppies,” Bif Naked, Daddy’s Getting Married.