random song line of choice

[gilmoreren]

"Of course I was raised to gather courage from those lofty tales so tried and true."
The Shins

Well my heart knows me better than I know myself
So I'm gonna let it do all the talking
KT Tunstall

Oh what fun we had
But, did it really turn out bad
All I learnt at school
Was how to bend not break the rules
Madness

[gilmoregirls021]

We all live in a yellow submarine, yellow submarine, yellow submarine

[louise]

Ooh, I like those from the Shins too
And:
I know there is this side of me that, wants to grab the yoke from the pilot and just fly the whole mess into the sea

[zeldafitzgerald]

there's a guy behind me, he actually wants to pass, so I put my foot to that accelerator and say "Hey man I'll see you later."

"When the world ends, collect your things... you're coming with me"

[gilmoreren]

[Chorus:]
Oh I wish I was a punk rocker with flowers in my hair
In '77 and '69 revolution was in the air
I was born too late into a world that doesn't care
Oh I wish I was a punk rocker with flowers in my hair

When the head of state didn't play guitar
Not everybody drove a car
When music really mattered and when radio was king
When accountants didn't have control
And the media couldn't buy your soul
And computers were still scary and we didn't know everything

[Chorus]

When pop stars still remained a myth
And ignorance could still be bliss
And when god saved the queen she turned a whiter shade of pale
My mom and dad were in their teens
And anarchy was still a dream
And the only way to stay in touch was a letter in the mail

[Chorus]

When record shops were still on top
And vinyl was all that they stocked
And the super info highway was still drifting out in space
Kids were wearing hand me downs
And playing games meant kick arounds
And footballers still had long hair and dirt across their face

[Chorus]

I was born too late into a world that doesn't care
Oh I wish I was a punk rocker with flowers in my hair

by Sandi Thom

[Paige]

I'm on fire
And the day is feeling hopeless
You'd see me burning but the burning's turning smokeless
Soon I won't feel at all
No

It's electric the neon hurt inside your phone call
The layered sadness and the madness it revolves
Bringing down the walls where you found her
No

Well, I'm willing to break myself
To shake this hell from everything I touch
I'm willing to bleed for days my... reds and grays
So you don't hurt so much

And now I'm static
As your sky is turning purple and gray
I'm learning that the further that I crawl
The farther that I fall, is that ok?
No

And you're in pieces
As your world becomes a rainstorm
You've got no shelter I'm a thousand miles away
If you survive the day

You say your leaving
You say your leaving

Well, I'm willing to break myself
To shake this hell from everything I touch
I'm willing to bleed for days my... reds and grays
So you don't hurt so much

So you don't hurt so much

Never again will we fire this gun
No never again your the only one
No never again but you're already gone.

I'm willing to break myself
I'm not afraid
I'm willing to break myself
I'm not afraid
I'm willing to break myself
I'm not afraid

Well, I'm willing to break myself
To shake this hell from everything I touch
I'm willing to bleed for days my... reds and grays
So you don't hurt so much

~Break Myself by Something Corporate

[Dominique]

"if I could be who you wanted all the time" radiohead
(one of my most amazing concert experiences was during these lyrics of Fake Plastic Trees. It was in Sydney in 2003 and the entire audience sang the line in time and the band went quiet. It all felt so emotionally insync and like the band's lyrics had spoken to so many people in the audience. Anyway at the risk of sounding like a drugged out hippy that's my two cents

[Dominique]

"and she was lying in the grass,
and she could hear the highway breathing" And She Was by Talking Heads

[cauthoncrazy]

If you don't have a date
Celebrate
Go out and sit on the lawn
And do nothing
'Cause it's just what you must do
Nobody does it anymore

No I don't believe in the wasting of time,
But I don't believe that I'm wasting mine
-Fiona Apple

You'll say you understand, you'll never understand
I'll say I'll never wake up knowing how or why
I dont know what to believe in, you dont know who I am
You'll say I need appeasing when I start to cry
But never is a promise and I'll never need a lie
-Fiona Apple

You don't mean nothing at all to me--Nelly Furtado (I've got her stuck in my head)

[louise]

poisonpen said:

"if I could be who you wanted all the time" radiohead
(one of my most amazing concert experiences was during these lyrics of Fake Plastic Trees. It was in Sydney in 2003 and the entire audience sang the line in time and the band went quiet. It all felt so emotionally insync and like the band's lyrics had spoken to so many people in the audience. Anyway at the risk of sounding like a drugged out hippy that's my two cents

I saw Radiohead at a Belgian festival in August, they were amazing. Also, Thom Yorke even made little jokes. At one point he turned his back to the audience and put his face right in front of the camera. He was staring right at you on the big screens. They sure can get you in some sort of trance...

Here are some freaky lyrics from awesome krautrock band CAN. The song is called Oh Yeah. In the first verse the vocals are played backwards, which sounds amazing. It gives me shivers.

As your silver hair save that,
For you got to better not there.
I see your own cheeks, saves that,
It’s a time you’re my lasting sign.
They have got to sue the passing
As you do too everyday.
Still you point at them and then
Sometimes I’m the slave.

[Michelle]

"Every word is nonsense but I understand it all" Counting Crows

"A thousand miles seems pretty far
But they've got planes and trains and cars
I'd walk to you if I had no other way
Our friends would all make fun of us
and we'll just laugh along because we know
That none of them have felt this way" Plain White Tees

"Wish upon a star but
Do you know what stars are?
Balls of fire, burning up the black space
Falling from the landscape
Exploding in the face of God" Something Corporate

I think I have a million more lyrics that I love, but that's a start for me.

[rebeldavis]

You say I'm a dreamer
we're two of a kind
both of us searching for some perfect world we know we'll never find
so perhaps I should leave here
yeah, yeah go far away
but you know that there's nowhere that I'd rather be than with you here today

This is from the Thompson Twins song 'hold me now' from 1984. The words have always touched me.

Another 80s song that I've always loved is 'don't dream it's over' by Crowded House

Now I'm walking again
to the beat of a drum
and I'm counting the steps to the door of your heart

I love the symbolism of the song

[Pilleriin]

Give up the ground
Under your feet
Hold on to nothing for good
Turn and run at the mean times
Chasing you
Stand alone and misunderstood...

Reflecting Light - Sam Phillips

[Paige]

I love the time and in between
the calm inside me
in the space where I can breathe
I believe there is a
distance I have wandered
to touch upon the years of
reaching out and reaching in
holding out holding in

Elsewhere by Sarah McLachlan

[Brunella]

I feel like this most of the time.... :

I'm a creep, I'm a weirdo.
What the hell am I doing here?
I don't belong here.

I don't care if it hurts,
I want to have control.
I want a perfect body,
I want a perfect soul.
I want you to notice,
when I'm not around.

Creep - Radiohead (Pablo Honey is one of my favorite CDs )