playlist
THE DISTILLERS - CITY OF ANGELS
it's going down tonight in this town
cause they stare and growl,
they all stare and growl.
I take a scar every time I cry
cause it ain't my style, no it ain't my style.
going down to the gravel, head to the barrel
take this life and end this struggle
Los Angeles, come scam me, please
emptiness never sleeps at Clifton's
6AM with your bag lady friend and your mind descending
stripped of the right to be a human in control
it's warmer in hell so down we go.
it's a ghost town, rabid underworld
dionysian night, vitriolic twilight.
a mirage come up, it never ends.
once you get burned you're never the same.
left behind, erased from time
ain't no decency in being boxed up alive.
look around, ain't no RIP signs here
we don't rest in peace
we just disappear.
THE VINES - AUTUMN SHADE II.
look through me because I am a transparent
hard to know me, but why even know yourself?
I'm beginning to need all that I can't have.
I'm succeeding to speak like I'm fucking mad.
looking at the autumn shade
you am I, and I am gray.
THE DISTILLERS - I AM A REVENANT
another year has passed and I'm alright.
I lick the salt from my wounds and run into the night.
well, it's unknown why collusion goes on.
it rapes like betrayal
and I'm rotting in the squalor of some.
do you remember the rage?
I remember the hate.
I remember it rained for years
and the blood had left a stain.
you say I got karma to collect.
I dig my grave and I'm here waiting for some kind of check
and if I get one I'll hold my breath
I racked my spine; it takes a year of you to warrant a test.
as the years go by I won't cry.
it's the year you walked into my life I will despise.
we are the revenants
and we will rise up from the dead
we become the living
we've come back to reclaim our stolen breath.
THE BEATSTEAKS - HELLO JOE
hello, hello, joe, I'd like to have advice
but you won't tell
I strain my ears to straight to hell.
down in London town, these times of war
you will raise your voice no more.
it's still playing on my stereo
I'm never ever gonna let it go.
and I try to sing along
and I know I can't go wrong
I am not the only one
it's not over it's just begun.
QOTSA - EVERYBODY KNOWS YOU ARE INSANE
you wanna know why you feel so hollow
because you are
you're missing out.
well, if you say so
then you're missing out.
you wanna know just how long you can hide from
what you are
not very long.
I have been lost
down every road I follow.
out in the dark
on my way home.
everybody knows that you're insane.
but I feel nothing. am I better yet?
TED LEO & THE PHARMACISTS - I'M A GHOST
I'm a ghost, and I wanted you to know
that it's taking all my strength to make this toast.
I'm a ghost and I want you to come close
cause i don't want you to miss me and misquote
I'm a ghost I'm no one of any note.
sure, your mind was made up long before i spoke.
but I'm a ghost one of an unholy host,
made invisible and mute, but with sore throats.
look, you can't make a sound from six feet under ground.
now you'll say you disagree, keep my statistic around.
LEGION OF DOOM - HANDS DOWN GANDHI
mr. save the world, spare us the details
save the females from losing interest.
and miss save the universe?
you're a damsel in distress,
tied down to a track of isolated incidents.
generalize my disease,
I need a taste of what it's like
living off the fat of kings
I play the scab at your hunger strike.
slow down, Gandhi, you're killing 'em.
they tell me that it's not that bad
and it fucks you up good, but it's not that bad.
they hold on to these tails til it's the dog that wags.
god save us all if he lets the cat out the bag.
it's time to call a stop to the abuse of authority.
the truth keeps calling me
and I'ma live to tell the story.
NINE INCH NAILS - SOMEWHAT DAMAGED
so impressed with all you do.
tried so hard to be like you.
flew too high and burnt the wing
lost my faith in everything.
made the choice to go away
drank the fountain of decay
tear a hole exquisite red
fuck the rest and stab it dead.
broken, bruised, forgotten, sore
too fucked up to care anymore
poisoned to my rotten core
too fucked up to care anymore.
how could I ever think it funny how
everything you swore would never change, is different now
like you said, you and me, make it through
didn't quite, fell apart
where the fuck were you?
MAD CADDIES - LAST BREATH
still awake on a winter's day
skies are gray and it's cold.
smoke signals from my last cigarette
lets me know that it's finally getting old.
everybody hates me for the night before.
the man you saw wasn't me.
and now there's blood upon the bathroom floor -
I've got a disease.
wait a while - all I need is a friend.
come on, stay a while - won't you please understand?
I'm fucked up with nothing ahead but the end.
I know that I'll never get sober.
and I'm fed up with this miserable life after death.
I know that I've taken my last breath.
FRANZ FERDINAND - I'M YOUR VILLAIN
you toss in a word, and I'm your villain.
I see the passion emerge
and I'm your villain.
but serious, you're so serious.
like a waiter hating the rich
but taking their tips.
if I could laugh, I'd love you.
if I could smile at anything you said
we could be laughing lovers
I think you'd prefer to be miserable instead.
GAVIN GLASS - RAGDOLL
it's now or never: there is no in between.
if we must sever, I'm gonna quit this crazy scene.
I know, sometimes, I was cold, I, I know that sometimes...
but I believed in you. til you went and let me down.
so long, so long, from your ragdoll, yeah, your ragdoll.
so wrong, so wrong, oh, about you. yeah, about you.
you talk about leaving when you just walked through the door.
and I started believing
honey, you're not worth fighting for.
well, I know, sometimes, I was cold, I, I know that sometimes...
but you believed in me. til I went and let you down.
so long, so long, from your ragdoll, yeah your ragdoll.
so wrong, so wrong, oh about you. yeah, about you.