Hello Jake, you have a companion in boredom....
Doing it again, but this time I'm going to do my top 25 favorite lines from songs ever. (I really couldn't do just 20. This was bad enough, and I didn't do any Radiohead songs--just too damn hard--and I severely limited myself with regards to Bright Eyes, the Microphones, and Death Cab.)
1. Now there's no sun just a cellar / Nowhere a sky just that black black black black / dirt expanding outwards / Just echoes for answers / Not that it matters / It's back or it's forwards / Unhappy lovers with baskets of flowers / Use them as markers / The place where your bed once stood / The time when it still felt good
2. If I was the sun you'd be the world I'd shine on to
3. We're so controversial / We are entirely smooth / We admit to the truth / We are the best at what we do / These are the words you wish you wrote down / This is the way you wish your voice sounds / Handsome and smart/ My tongue's the only muscle in my body that works harder than my heart
4. Yet it still remains / This incessant refrain / That you're just like the rest/ Your restlessness makes you lazy / Keeping busy is just wasting time / And I've wasted what little he gave me
5. He then played every song from 1993 / The crowd applauded as he curtsied bashfully
6. And I guess I'm not sure it was fear that was born as those awful eyes laid their claim on us / I put my hands on the fence said your name and I started to climb / And it must have been sweat but I drank it like wine / it was sweet my mouth was dry / I heard you scream but I made no reply / I can still taste it now if I try
7. Got a statue of my heart inside my chest / Dropped it just to see if it would break / Now I'm picking up the pieces / And I'm saving every one
8. Brother see we are one in the same / And you left with your head filled with flames / And you watched as your brains fell out through your teeth / Push the pieces in place / Make your smile sweet to see / Don't you take this away / I'm still wanting my face on your cheek
9. Blankess and darkness like underneath the leaf / Has settled on me here / And scraped away the sound / She said / "You could find a place inside my heart if you would stay / And I need you back here on the ground"
10. Little bird I invite you / Build your nest / Litte bird I've got branches above my head / Sway with me aimlessly / Walk over mountains high / Find winter nights with me / Hang in you hammock high
11. Sitting in the station it's all a blur / of dancehall hips / pretentious quips / a boxer's bob and weave.
12. I want to be with you tonight / With our legs crossed / Our tongues tied / Now which one of you poor souls / Wants to drive me home
13. Girls found honey to drench our hands / Men cut marble to mark our graves / Saying we'll need something to remind us of all the sweetness that has passed though us / The priests dressed children for a choir/ But found no joy in what was sung / The funeral had begun
14. I could not get through September without a battle / I faced death / I went in with my arms swinging / But I heard my own breath /I had to face that I'm still living / I'm still flesh /I hold onto awful feelings / I'm not dead / There's no end / My face is red / My blood flows harshly / My heart beats loudly / My chest still draws breath / I hold in / I'm bouyant
15. You flicker / You amaze me / Your lips illuminate me / I want your eyes to tell me I'm their only flame
16. Thunderous sparks from the dark of the stadiums / The music and medicine you needed for comforting / So make all your fat fleshy fingers to moving / And pluck all your silly strings / And bend all your notes for me / Soft silly music is meaningful magical / The movements were beautiful / All in your ovaries
17. You fill my head and lay it down / My clouded heavy visions sees / Your arms once mine now wrapped around / A different boy / He looks like me
18. And that still-twitching bird was so deceived by a window / so we eulogized fondly / we dug deep and threw its elegant plumage and frantic black eyes in a hole / and then rushed out to kill something new / so we could bury that too
19. I know there's a big world out there like the one that I saw on the screen / In my living room late last night it was almost too bright to see / I know that it's not a party if it happens every night / Pretending there's glamour and candelabra / When you're drinking by candle-light
20. Valentine / I want to feel your hips press up against mine / We push into each other / Love's alive
21. Have you got any magic tricks that would work for me? / I don't suppose there's anything at all in that bag of yours for me? / 'Cause my baby is in the ground / And she's not coming back now
22. I want to call requests through heating vents / and hear them answered with a whispered "No" / Crack the code of muscles slack and tense / Let every second step in boots on snow / complete your name with accents I can't place / that stumble where the syllables combine
23. Dusk dropped her starry gown / I whispered out / "Sweetie are you here with me? / The mirror crashed on the dresser / And she began to scream / "Bloody murderer / Let me rest in peace"
24. Remember the J.A.M.C. / and reading aloud from magazines / I don't know about you but I swear on my name they could smell it on me / I've never been too good with secrets
25. And here I know seduction breeds / from wanton hearts that would seduce / and grows and spreads its vines and leaves / embracing those who might have moved / but now remain to drink the night / from vials black and thick with steam / such intoxicating delights / would leave you drunk inside this dream
Wow...I wonder what it says about me that almost all of these are horribly dark and depressing...
That took me almost 3 hours. Seriously.
1. Now there's no sun just a cellar / Nowhere a sky just that black black black black / dirt expanding outwards / Just echoes for answers / Not that it matters / It's back or it's forwards / Unhappy lovers with baskets of flowers / Use them as markers / The place where your bed once stood / The time when it still felt good
2. If I was the sun you'd be the world I'd shine on to
3. We're so controversial / We are entirely smooth / We admit to the truth / We are the best at what we do / These are the words you wish you wrote down / This is the way you wish your voice sounds / Handsome and smart/ My tongue's the only muscle in my body that works harder than my heart
4. Yet it still remains / This incessant refrain / That you're just like the rest/ Your restlessness makes you lazy / Keeping busy is just wasting time / And I've wasted what little he gave me
5. He then played every song from 1993 / The crowd applauded as he curtsied bashfully
6. And I guess I'm not sure it was fear that was born as those awful eyes laid their claim on us / I put my hands on the fence said your name and I started to climb / And it must have been sweat but I drank it like wine / it was sweet my mouth was dry / I heard you scream but I made no reply / I can still taste it now if I try
7. Got a statue of my heart inside my chest / Dropped it just to see if it would break / Now I'm picking up the pieces / And I'm saving every one
8. Brother see we are one in the same / And you left with your head filled with flames / And you watched as your brains fell out through your teeth / Push the pieces in place / Make your smile sweet to see / Don't you take this away / I'm still wanting my face on your cheek
9. Blankess and darkness like underneath the leaf / Has settled on me here / And scraped away the sound / She said / "You could find a place inside my heart if you would stay / And I need you back here on the ground"
10. Little bird I invite you / Build your nest / Litte bird I've got branches above my head / Sway with me aimlessly / Walk over mountains high / Find winter nights with me / Hang in you hammock high
11. Sitting in the station it's all a blur / of dancehall hips / pretentious quips / a boxer's bob and weave.
12. I want to be with you tonight / With our legs crossed / Our tongues tied / Now which one of you poor souls / Wants to drive me home
13. Girls found honey to drench our hands / Men cut marble to mark our graves / Saying we'll need something to remind us of all the sweetness that has passed though us / The priests dressed children for a choir/ But found no joy in what was sung / The funeral had begun
14. I could not get through September without a battle / I faced death / I went in with my arms swinging / But I heard my own breath /I had to face that I'm still living / I'm still flesh /I hold onto awful feelings / I'm not dead / There's no end / My face is red / My blood flows harshly / My heart beats loudly / My chest still draws breath / I hold in / I'm bouyant
15. You flicker / You amaze me / Your lips illuminate me / I want your eyes to tell me I'm their only flame
16. Thunderous sparks from the dark of the stadiums / The music and medicine you needed for comforting / So make all your fat fleshy fingers to moving / And pluck all your silly strings / And bend all your notes for me / Soft silly music is meaningful magical / The movements were beautiful / All in your ovaries
17. You fill my head and lay it down / My clouded heavy visions sees / Your arms once mine now wrapped around / A different boy / He looks like me
18. And that still-twitching bird was so deceived by a window / so we eulogized fondly / we dug deep and threw its elegant plumage and frantic black eyes in a hole / and then rushed out to kill something new / so we could bury that too
19. I know there's a big world out there like the one that I saw on the screen / In my living room late last night it was almost too bright to see / I know that it's not a party if it happens every night / Pretending there's glamour and candelabra / When you're drinking by candle-light
20. Valentine / I want to feel your hips press up against mine / We push into each other / Love's alive
21. Have you got any magic tricks that would work for me? / I don't suppose there's anything at all in that bag of yours for me? / 'Cause my baby is in the ground / And she's not coming back now
22. I want to call requests through heating vents / and hear them answered with a whispered "No" / Crack the code of muscles slack and tense / Let every second step in boots on snow / complete your name with accents I can't place / that stumble where the syllables combine
23. Dusk dropped her starry gown / I whispered out / "Sweetie are you here with me? / The mirror crashed on the dresser / And she began to scream / "Bloody murderer / Let me rest in peace"
24. Remember the J.A.M.C. / and reading aloud from magazines / I don't know about you but I swear on my name they could smell it on me / I've never been too good with secrets
25. And here I know seduction breeds / from wanton hearts that would seduce / and grows and spreads its vines and leaves / embracing those who might have moved / but now remain to drink the night / from vials black and thick with steam / such intoxicating delights / would leave you drunk inside this dream
Wow...I wonder what it says about me that almost all of these are horribly dark and depressing...
That took me almost 3 hours. Seriously.