The random lyrics post

Arctangent

Feeling you shake
Feel your heart break
Thinking if only... if only... if only... if only
And the salt water runs
Through your veins and your bones
Telling you no not this way, not this way, not this way
And you would give anything
Give up everything
Offer your life blood away
For yesterday...

No one leaves you
When you live in their heart and mind
And no one dies
They just move to the other side
When we’re gone
Watch the world simply carry on
We live on laughing and in no pain
We’ll stay and be happy
With those who have loved us today

Finding the answer
It’s a human obsession
But you might as well talk to the stones and the trees and the sea
‘Cause nobody knows
And so few can see
There’s only beauty and caring and truth beyond darkness...

No one leaves you
When you live in their heart and mind
And no one dies
They just move to the other side
When we’re gone
Watch the world simply carry on
We live on laughing and in no pain
We’ll stay and be happy
With those who have loved us today

And we won’t understand your grief
Because time is illusion
As this watery world spins around
This timeless sun
Will dry your eyes
And calm your mind...

i feel moved to post these lyrics today as my partners mother died this morning.

pickupyourwill

great song. felt the need to share.



2 AM and she calls me 'cause I'm still awake,
Can you help me unravel my latest mistake,
I don't love him, winter just wasn't my season
Yeah we walk through the doors, so accusing their eyes
Like they have any right at all to criticize,
Hypocrites, you're all here for the very same reason

'Cause you can't jump the track,we're like cars on a cable
And life's like an hourglass, glued to the table
No one can find the rewind button girl,
So cradle your head in your hands
And breathe, just breathe,
Woah breathe, just breathe

May he turn 21 on the base at Fort Bliss
Just a day, he sat down to the flask in his fist,
Ain't been sober, since maybe October of last year.
Here in town you can tell he's been down for a while,
But my God it's so beautiful when the boy smiles,
Wanna hold him, maybe I'll just sing about it.

Cause you can't jump the track, we're like cars on a cable,
And life's like an hourglass, glued to the table.
No one can find the rewind button boys,
So cradle your head in your hands,
And breathe, just breathe,
Woah breathe, just breathe

There's a light at each end of this tunnel, you shout
'Cause you're just as far in as you'll ever be out
These mistakes you've made, you'll just make them again
If you only try turning around.

2 AM and I'm still awake, writing a song
If I get it all down on paper, its no longer
Inside of me, threatening the life it belongs to
And I feel like I'm naked in front of the crowd
Cause these words are my diary, screaming out loud
And I know that you'll use them, however you want to

Cause you can't jump the track, we're like cars on a cable,
And life's like an hourglass, glued to the table
No one can find the rewind button now
Sing it if you understand.
And breathe, just breathe
Woah breathe, just breathe,
Oh breathe, just breathe.

pickupyourwill

for my good friend, Ms. Byrd in her search to find Mr. Right. hang in there, girl.

DRESDEN DOLLS

Coin-Operated Boy


Coin operated boy
Sitting on the shelf
He is just a toy
But I turn him on and he comes to life
Automatic joy that is why I want
A coin operated boy

Made of plastic and elastic he is rugged and longlastic
Who could ever ever ask for more?
Love without complications galore
Many shapes and weights to chose from
I will never leave my bedroom
I will never cry at night again
Wrap my arms around him and pretend.

Coin operated boy
All the other real ones that I destroy
Cannot hold a candle to my new boy Anvil
Never let him go, and I'll never be alone, and I'll never let him go,
and I'll never be alone, go, and I'll never be alone, go, and I'll never be alone, go,
and I'll never be alone go, and I'll never be alone, not with my coin operated boy.

This bridge was written to make you feel smitten
and with my sad picture of girl getting bitter
oh can you extract me from my plastic fantasy
I didn't think so but im still convincible
oh will you persisted and after I bet you a million dollars that I'll never love you
and will you persisted and after I kiss you
goodbye for the last time will you be trying
to prove it im dying.
To lose it im losing my confidence
I want it I want it I want it I want it
I want to I want to I want to I want to
I want you I want you I want you I want you
i want a I want a I want a I want a
Coin operated boy.

Tip my hat and start to wish on
for my life I can't imagine any flesh and blood can be this match.
I can even take him in the bath
Coin operated boy he may not be real experienced with girls
But I know he feels like a boy should feel
Isn't that the point
That is why I want a coin operated boy
With a pretty coin opereated voice saying that he loves me that he's thinking of me
straight and to the point that is why I want a coin operated boy.

vmfury

Tonight we drink to youth
And holding fast to truth
I don't want to lose what I had as a boy
My heart still has a beat
But love is now a feat
As common as a cold day in LA
Sometimes when I'm alone I wonder
Is there a spell that I am under
Keeping me from seeing the real thing?

Love hurts...
But sometimes it's a good hurt
And it feels like I'm alive
Love sings
When it transcends the bad things
Have a heart and try me
'Cause without love I won't survive

I'm fettered and abused
I stand naked and accused
Should I surface this one man submarine?
I only want the truth
So tonight we drink to youth
I'll never lose what I had as a boy
Sometimes when I'm alone I wonder
Is there a spell that I am under
Keeping me from seeing the real thing?

Love hurts...
But sometimes it's a good hurt
And it feels like I'm alive
Love sings
When it transcends the bad things
Have a heart and try me
'Cause without love I won't survive.

vmfury

I wake up with blood-shot eyes
Struggled to memorize
Pleasure that made you cry
Feels so good to be bad
Not worth the aftermath, after that
After that
Try to get you back

I still don't have the reason
And you don't have the time
And it really makes me wonder
If I ever gave a damn about you

Give me something to believe in
'Cause I don't believe in you anymore
Anymore
I wonder if it even makes a difference to try
(Yeah)
So this is goodbye

Got them resting in my head
Decisions that made my bed
Now I must lay in it
And deal with things left unsaid
I want to dive into you
Forget what you're going through
I get behind, make your move
Forget about the truth

I still don't have the reason
And you don't have the time
And it really makes me wonder
If I ever gave a damn about you

Give me something to believe in
'Cause I don't believe in you anymore
Anymore
I wonder if it even makes a difference
It even makes a difference to try
And it's over, hurt the feeling
But I don't believe it's true anymore
Anymore
I wonder if it even makes a difference to cry
(Oh no)
So this is goodbye

I've been here before
One day a week
And it won't hurt anymore
I caught you in a lie
You have no alibi
The word is set on what it means to me
'Cause...

I still don't have the reason
And you don't have the time
And it really makes me wonder
If I ever gave a damn about you
And so this is goodbye

Give me something to believe in
'Cause I don't believe in you anymore
Anymore
I wonder if it even makes a difference
It even makes a difference to try
And it's over, hurt the feeling
But I don't believe it's true anymore
Anymore
I wonder if it even makes a difference to cry
(Oh no)
So this is goodbye.

Blind Melon

I will always wait for you to catch me up, yeah.

vmfury

We watch the season
Pull up its own stakes
And catch the last weekend
Of the last week
Before the gold and the glimmer have been replaced
Another sun soaked season fades away

You have stolen my heart
You have stolen my heart

Invitation only
Grand farewells
Crash the best one
Of the best ones
Clear liquor and cloudy eyed
Too early to say goodnight

You have stolen my heart
You have stolen my heart

And from the ballroom floor
We are in celebration
One good stretch before our hibernation
Our dreams assured
And we all will
Sleep well

Sleep well

You have stolen...
You have stolen...
You have stolen my heart

Watch you spin around
In your highest heels
You are the best one
Of the best ones
We all look like we feel

You have stolen my...
You have stolen my...
You have stolen my heart.

vmfury

It’s hard to have strength when there’s nothing to eat
And it’s hard to eat when you don’t have the teeth
And how when you lose the one thing you love
There’s nothing below and there’s nothing above

I’ve been going through changes
I’ve been going through changes
I’ve been going through changes
With nothing at all

It’s hard to accept what you don’t understand
And it’s hard to launch without knowing how to land
And how when it burns, you can’t change a thing
You can soften the blow, but you can’t stop the sting

I’ve been going through changes….

I am still yours even if you’re not mine
I stare at the floor and I study the lines
Oh I took my place at the back of the crowd
I couldn’t see, but at least it was loud
At least it was loud.

And I’ve been going through changes….

And I know that I needed changes
But not this, this is not painless
Oh no, this is not painless.

parel jam

Destined to be everything
A wilderness of despair
I see a true heart in clumsiness
So are you fit to be scared?

I need to touch,
I'm the whore out of luck,
and I don't know what to say to you,
and I'm selfish with myself
Hope passes, hope looks,
can you cope, do you suffer, do you suffer,
and I'm selfish with myself
I'm selfish with myself
I'm selfish with myself

What comes around goes back round
I was rejected today
I came from nowhere, smell it in the air?
So can you live with yourself?

I need to touch, I'm the whore out of luck,
and I don't know what to say to you,
and I'm selfish
with myself
Hope passes, hope looks, can you cope,
do you suffer, do you suffer,
and I'm selfish with myself
I'm selfish with myself
I'm selfish with myself

Lights are out now
Shout it loud now
Memories they fade
I'm selfish with myself

vmfury

I walk the streets without regret
Ah, ah, ah
I stood along and watched myself fall apart
Answered the voices in my head
Ah, ah, ah
Slipped through the chainlink of a broken heart

And when I'm tired of feeling black
Spread the wings upon your back
Take us high above it all
And stroke your feathers 'til we fall
Back down again

Bought everything that sounded good
Ah, ah, ah
I understand that I've been misunderstood

And when I'm tired of feeling black
Spread the wings upon your back
Take us high above it all
And stroke your feathers 'til we fall
Until we fall, until we fall back down again
Yeah, back down again

What do you feel before you think?
What do you see before you blink?
Who do you battle in your dreams?
Who strokes your feathers 'til you scream?

And when I'm tired of feeling black
Spread the wings upon your back
Take us high above it all
And stroke your feathers 'til we fall
Until we fall, until we fall back down again
Yeah, back down again.

vmfury

Sleep, don't weep, my sweet love
Your face is all wet and your day was rough
So do what you must do to find yourself
Wear another shoe, paint my shelves
Those times that I was broke, and you stood strong
I think I found a place where I...

Sleep, don't weep, my sweet love
Your face, it's all wet 'cause our days were rough
So do what you must do to fill that hole
Wear another shoe to comfort the soul
Those times that I was broke, and you stood strong
I think I found a place where I feel I will...

Sleep, don't weep, my sweet love
My face, it's all wet 'cause my day was rough
So do what you must do to find yourself
Wear another shoe, paint my shelves
Those times that I was broke, and you stood strong
I hope I find a place where I feel I belong

Sleep, don't weep, my sweet love
My face is all wet 'cause my day was rough.

Blind Melon

I need a map of your head..
Trans-lated into English,
So I can learn to not make you frown.

parel jam

Valt het je op dat de zon feller schijnt
Als de rook om je hoofd is verdwenen
Valt het je op dat de wind harder waait
Als je ‘m tegen hebt in plaats van mee
‘t Is koeler in huis dan aan zee
Als de rook om je hoofd is verdwenen

Je kerft je naam in de nerf van een boom
En niemand weet ooit wie je bent
De boswachter glimlacht als hij je herkent
Je drijft langzaam mee met de stroom

Als de rook om je hoofd is verdwenen (2x)

Als er gebeld wordt verlaat je het pand
En je loopt langs de trap naar beneden
De tramconducteur voor de deur op de stoep
Knikt je zwijgend maar zeer beleefd toe
Je wilt wel wat zeggen maar je bent veel te moe
Want je komt langs de trap naar beneden

Je verduistert de zon met de wind in je rug
De tramconducteur schudt z’n hoofd
Vandaag is er niemand meer die hij gelooft
Z’n blindenstok tikt op de brug

Als de rook om je hoofd is verdwenen (2x)

Valt het je op dat de dag langer duurt
Als de rook om je hoofd is verdwenen
Valt het je op dat de nacht warmer is
Als de nevel je ogen verzwaart
De kaars waar je samen naar staart
Als de rook om je hoofd is verdwenen

De klok en de klepel verzetten de tijd
Je glijdt in een sneeuwdiepe kuil
Ze vragen de morgen je geeft ‘m in ruil
Voor het ei dat je eet bij ‘t ontbijt

Als de rook om je hoofd is verdwenen

meme

So now that everybody's gone
You see what change has come
In every song you've ever sung
You find the words were wrong

But now the time is gonna come
And there's no feeling lost
For everyone you could've loved
And made me not to love

And all the time
I thought your words were mine
You held me down
As sure as the sun
You held me down
As sure as the sun

Now I could see into your eyes
But there's no compromise
For anyone you coulda saved
But never recognized
And now your world is gonna fall
But I wont help at all
For everyone who sees the place
Who knows they cant belong

And all the time
I thought your words were mine
You held me down
As sure as the sun
You held me down
As sure as the sun

You've taken away
Much more than you gave
What keeps me down
I'm lost in a rage
No one can explain
What keeps me down
What keeps you down

So now that everybody's gone
You see no change has come
In every song you've ever sung
You find the words were wrong

And every paper that you read
You feel your spirit grieve
For everyone who's gonna fall
The distance another leaves

And all the time
I thought your words were mine
You held me down
As sure as the sun
You held me down
As sure as the sun

You've taken away
Much more than you gave
What keeps me down
I'm lost in a rage
No one can explain
What keeps me down
What keeps you down

Matt Lukin

Well the animals laugh from the dark of the wilderness
A baby cries hard in an apartment complex
As I pass in a car buried under the influence
The city's driving me out of my mind
I've seen a child, he's caught in the sad trap of gravity
He falls from the lowest branch of the apple tree
And lands in the grass, and weeps for his dignity
Next time he will not aim so high
Yeah, next time, neither will I

Now a mother takes loans out, sends her kids off to colleges
Her family's reduced to names on a shopping list
While a coroner kneels beneath a great wooden crucifix
He knows there's worse things than being alone
And so I've learned to retreat at the first sign of danger
I mean, why wait around, if it's just to surrender?
And ambition, I've found, can lead only to failure
I do not read the reviews
No, I am not singing for you

Well, I stood dropping a coin into the pit of a well
And I would throw my whole billfold if I thought it would help
With all these wishes I make, I should buy something real
At least a telephone to call home
Well, my teachers, they built this retaining wall of memory
All those multiple choices I answered so quickly
And got my grades back, and forgot just as easily
But at least I got an A
And so I don't have them to blame

Well I should stop pointing fingers, reserve my judgement
Of all those public action figures, the cowboy presidents
So loud behind the bullhorn, so proud they can't admit
When they've made a mistake
Well, poison ink spews from a speechwriter's pen
He knows he don't have to say it so it, it don't bother him
Honesty, accuracy, just popular opinion
And the approval rating's high
And so someone's gonna die

Well, ABC, NBC, CBS bullshit
They give us fact or fiction, I guess an even split
And each new act of war is tonight's entertainment
We're still the pawns in their game
As they take eye for an eye, until no one can see
We must stumble blindly forward, repeating history
Well I guess we all fit into your slogan in that fast food marquee
Red-blooded, white skinned, oh and the blues
Oh, and the blues, I got the blues, that's me!
(That's me!)
That's me!

Well I awoke in relief, my sheets and tubes were all tangled
Weak from whiskey and pills in a Chicago hospital
And my father was there, in a chair by the window
Staring so far away
I tried talking, just whispered, "So sorry, so selfish"
He stopped me and said, "Child, I love you regardless
There's nothing you could do that would ever change this
I'm not angry, it happens
But you just can't do it again"

So now I try to keep up, I've been exchanging my currency
While a million objects pass through my periphery
Now I'm rubbing my eyes, cause they're starting to bother me
I've been staring too long at the screen
But where was it when I first heard that sweet sound of humility?
It came to my ears in the goddamn loveliest melody
How grateful I was then to be part of the mystery
To love and to be loved
Let's just hope that is enough

vmfury

Hey! Hey! You! You!
I don’t like your girlfriend
No way! No way!
I think you need a new one
Hey! Hey! You! You!
I could be your girlfriend

Hey! Hey! You! You!
I know that you like me
No way! No way!
No, it’s not a secret
Hey! Hey! You! You!
I want to be your girlfriend

You’re so fine
I want you to be mine
You’re so delicious
I think about ya all the time
You’re so addictive
Don’t you know what I could do to make you feel alright?
Don’t pretend, I think you know I’m precious
And hell yeah!
I’m the princess
I can tell you like me too
And you know I'm right

She’s like so...whatever
You could do so much better
I think we should get together now
And that’s what everyone’s talking about!

Hey! Hey! You! You!
I don’t like your girlfriend
No way! No way!
I think you need a new one
Hey! Hey! You! You!
I could be your girlfriend

Hey! Hey! You! You!
I know that you like me
No way! No way!
No, it’s not a secret
Hey! Hey! You! You!
I want to be your girlfriend


I can see the way you look at me
And even when you look away, I know you think of me
I know you talk about me all the time
Again and again
So come over here, tell me what I want to hear
Better yet, make your girlfriend disappear!
I don’t want to hear you say her name ever again
(And again and again and again!)

She’s like so...whatever
You could do so much better
I think we should get together now
And that’s what everyone’s talking about!

Hey! Hey! You! You!
I don’t like your girlfriend!
No way! No way!
I think you need a new one
Hey! Hey! You! You!
I could be your girlfriend

Hey! Hey! You! You!
I know that you like me
No way! No way!
No, it’s not a secret
Hey! Hey! You! You!
I want to be your girlfriend

In a second you’ll be wrapped around my finger
'Cause I can do it so much better
There’s no other
So when's it gonna sink in?
She’s so stupid
What the hell were you thinking?!

Hey! Hey! You! You!
I don’t like your girlfriend!
No way! No way!
I think you need a new one
Hey! Hey! You! You!
I could be your girlfriend!

pickupyourwill

DIXIE CHICKS

"Not Ready To Make Nice"

Forgive, sounds good
Forget, I’m not sure I could
They say time heals everything
But I’m still waiting

I’m through with doubt
There’s nothing left for me to figure out
I’ve paid a price
And I’ll keep paying

I’m not ready to make nice
I’m not ready to back down
I’m still mad as hell and
I don’t have time to go round and round and round
It’s too late to make it right
I probably wouldn’t if I could
‘Cause I’m mad as hell
Can’t bring myself to do what it is you think I should

I know you said
Can’t you just get over it
It turned my whole world around
And I kind of like it

I made my bed and I sleep like a baby
With no regrets and I don’t mind sayin’
It’s a sad sad story when a mother will teach her
Daughter that she ought to hate a perfect stranger
And how in the world can the words that I said
Send somebody so over the edge
That they’d write me a letter
Sayin’ that I better shut up and sing
Or my life will be over

I’m not ready to make nice
I’m not ready to back down
I’m still mad as hell and
I don’t have time to go round and round and round
It’s too late to make it right
I probably wouldn’t if I could
‘Cause I’m mad as hell
Can’t bring myself to do what it is you think I should

I’m not ready to make nice
I’m not ready to back down
I’m still mad as hell and
I don’t have time to go round and round and round
It’s too late to make it right
I probably wouldn’t if I could
‘Cause I’m mad as hell
Can’t bring myself to do what it is you think I should

Forgive, sounds good
Forget, I’m not sure I could
They say time heals everything
But I’m still waiting

meme

You're everything you need and so you fight,
You take them on your own until you die,
The wisdom in your breath comes much too late,
And everyone you see just gets a face,
In time, the words will come, they say, with faith,
But everything you see just turns you grey.

You're everything you need, but still suspicion holds you tight,
You're everything you need, but still suspicion holds you tight.

Well mind or care, decisions must be made,
Who's side who's on, the question should be saved,
Your purpose comes and nothings left in sight,
And it's clear, they sing, that nothing here feels right,
Now everyone's afraid cos no one moves,
Not towards anything that's anything to you.

You're everything you need, but still suspicion holds you tight,
You're everything you need but still suspicion holds you tight.

The righteous come and bleed you from the bone,
It's all they ever wanted from your soul,
Then every man's intentions are no more,
It's all you'll ever get if you let go.

You're everything you need, but still suspicion holds you tight,
You're everything you need, but still suspicion holds you tight.

pickupyourwill

meme wrote:

You're everything you need and so you fight,
You take them on your own until you die,
The wisdom in your breath comes much too late,
And everyone you see just gets a face,
In time, the words will come, they say, with faith,
But everything you see just turns you grey.

You're everything you need, but still suspicion holds you tight,
You're everything you need, but still suspicion holds you tight.

Well mind or care, decisions must be made,
Who's side who's on, the question should be saved,
Your purpose comes and nothings left in sight,
And it's clear, they sing, that nothing here feels right,
Now everyone's afraid cos no one moves,
Not towards anything that's anything to you.

You're everything you need, but still suspicion holds you tight,
You're everything you need but still suspicion holds you tight.

The righteous come and bleed you from the bone,
It's all they ever wanted from your soul,
Then every man's intentions are no more,
It's all you'll ever get if you let go.

You're everything you need, but still suspicion holds you tight,
You're everything you need, but still suspicion holds you tight.

I really like that song, meme. Who sings it?

Matt Lukin

I've come to wish you an unhappy birthday
I've come to wish you an unhappy birthday
'Cause you're evil
And you lie
And if you should die
I may feel slightly sad
(But I won't cry)

Loved and lost
And some may say
When usually it's Nothing
Surely you're happy
It should be this way?
I say "No, I'm gonna kill my dog"
And : "May the lines sag, may the lines sag heavy and deep tonight"

I've come to wish you an unhappy birthday
I've come to wish you an unhappy birthday
'Cause you're evil
And you lie
And if you should die
I may feel slightly sad
(But I won't cry)

Loved and lost
And some may say
When usually it's Nothing
Surely you're happy
It should be this way?
I said "No"
And then I shot myself
So, drink, drink, drink
And be ill tonight

From the one you left behind
From the one you left behind
From the one you left behind
From the one you left behind
Behind
Behind
Behind
Behind
Behind
Behind
Oh, unhappy birthday
Behind
Behind
Behind