Your Favorite Lyrics...

[heyjoshua]

post your favorite lyrics in this thread and list the bands who wrote them.

[zachff]

edit:
In before the person who says "Search Function"
http://absolutepunk.net/search.php?searchid=38895871

Every battle has its glory and its consequence
- Ben Harper

We only do it for the scars and stories
- Fall Out Boy

[zachff]

Boy, what you gonna do with your life?

So you want to be an artist, want to be a singer
Want to be remembered for what you could create

So you want to be a cowboy, ride into the distance
Never have to listen or answer to anyone

So you want to be a boxer, surviving on your instincts
Relying on your fists and the quickness of your wit

Are you bigger than these buildings and the grey around you?
Is your pain more worthy than everybody else?

- Bloc Party

[brokendogleg]

what bloc party song is that?

[zachff]

what bloc party song is that?
Rhododendron, definitely my favorite song by them. It's a b-side from Weekend in the City.
http://www.metrolyrics.com/rhododendron-lyrics-bloc-party.html

[MADSTA]

Look at this photograph
Every time I do it makes me laugh

[And Hours Pass]

These are the days of miracle and wonder,
This is the long distance call,
The way the camera follows us in slo-mo
The way we look to us all,
The way we look to a distant constellation
That's dying in a corner of the sky,
These are the days of miracle and wonder
And don't cry baby don't cry

- Paul Simon

Here is a line that you won't understand
I'm half of a boy but I'm twice the man
Carrying the weight of the world in the palm of my hand
Who did you think I was?

- John Mayer

[undercrowns]

mmmmbop...

-hanson-

[suppyguppy]

"We're filling up with embers, and this water tastes like timber, but I try not to think about it now and then"

-Cassino

[Vanedarlingg]

"I would kill for the atlantic but I am paid to make girls panic while I sing."
Brand new

"You're the metaphors I can't create to comprehend this curse that I call love"
Motion City Soundtrack

[mymusicismylife]

Any Modest Mouse. I'll go with 3rd Planet.

Everything that keeps me together is falling apart
I've got this thing that I consider my only art of fucking people over
My boss just quit the job
Says he's going out to find blind spots and he'll do it
The third planet is sure that they're being watched
By an eye in the sky that can't be stopped
When you get to the promised land
You're going to shake that eye's hand

Your heart felt good
It was dripping pitch and made of wood
And your hands and knees
Felt cold and wet on the grass to me

Well, outside naked, shivering, looking blue
From the cold sunlight that's reflected off the moon
Baby cum angels fly around you
Reminding you we used to be three and not just two
And that's how the world began
And that's how the world will end

Well, a third had just been made and we were swimming in the water
Didn't know then, was it a son, was it a daughter
When it occurred to me that the animals are swimming
Around in the water in the oceans in our bodies
And another had been found, another ocean on the planet
Given that our blood is just like the Atlantic
And how

Well, the universe is shaped exactly like the earth
If you go straight long enough you'll end up where you were
And the universe is shaped exactly like the earth
If you go straight long enough you'll end up where you were
The universe is shaped exactly like the earth

Your heart felt good
It was dripping pitch and made of wood
And your hands and knees
Felt cold and wet on the grass to me

Well, outside naked, shivering, looking blue
From the cold sunlight that's reflected off the moon
Baby cum angels fly around you
Reminding you we used to be three and not just two
And that's how the world began
And that's how the world will end

A third had just been made and we were swimming in the
water
Didn't know then, was it a son, was it a daughter
When it occurred to me that the animals are swimming
Around in the water in the oceans in our bodies
And another had been found, another ocean on the planet
Given that our blood is just like the Atlantic
And how

Well, the universe is shaped exactly like the earth
If you go straight long enough you'll end up where you were
And the universe is shaped exactly like the earth
If you go straight long enough you'll end up where you were
The universe is shaped exactly like the earth

Everything that keeps me together is falling apart
I've got this thing that I consider my only art of fucking people over

[HometownHero]

And I see you fogging up the mirror
Vapor round your body glistens in the shower
And I want to stay right here and go down on you for an hour

-Third Eye Blind

Not really haha I was just listening to this song

[fishguts182]

after my exgirlfriend left me these lyrics would always be in my head...

Jesus Christ, I'm alone again
So what did you do those three days you were dead?
Because this problem is going to last
More than the weekend

-Brand new

[strat1428]

bad religion lyrics are definitely the one. greg gaffin is the guy.

[guitard226]

Is that what you call tact?
You're as subtle as a brick in the small of my back
So let's end this call and end this conversation

Is that what you call a getaway?
Tell me what you got away with
Because I've seen more spine in jellyfish
I've seen more guts in 11 year old kids

Have another drink and drive yourself home
I hope there's ice on all the roads
So you can think of me when you forget your seatbelt
And again when your head goes through the windshield

Is that what you call a getaway?
Tell me what you got away with
Because you left the frays from the ties you severed
When you said "Best friends means friends forever..."

-Brand New

[Smeee]

Look at this photograph
Every time I do it makes me laugh

im_5QdHp04E

[necro94]

the worms will live in every host,
it's hard to pick which ones they eat the most,
the horrible people the horrible people,
it's all anatomic as the size of your stepple,
capitalism has made it this way,
old-fashioned fascism will take it away.

[notdeadyet]

Movement no movement
just a falling bird
cold as it hits the bleeding ground
he lived and died
catch sight
cover me with earth
draped in black
static white sound
a day without substance
a change of thought
the atmosphere rots with time
colors flicker in water
a short term..
effect...
scream as she tries to push him over
helpless and sick
with teeth of madness
jump jump dance
and sing
sideways across the desert
a charcoal face
bites my hand
time is sweet
derange and disengage
everything
a day without substance
a change of thought
the atmosphere rots with time
colors that flicker in water
a short term...
effect..
an echo and
a stranger's hand
a short term...
effect..

-Short Term Effect by The Cure, album: Pornography

[tristabelle]

Look at this photograph
Every time I do it makes me laugh

^ best answer.

my personal favorite:

"I wish that I could find the words to tell you,
to politely go fuck yourself."

-Everclear

[drevans18]

mmmmbop...

-hanson-

this.

I'm not sad anymore, i'm just tired of this place
This homophobic bullshit that's somehow okay,
just because you didn't mean it that way.

-The Wonder Years

[Steiny29]

Suckin' on my titties like you wanted me,
Callin me, all the time like blondie,
Check out my chrissy behind
It's fine all of the time
Like sex on the beaches,
What else is in the teaches of peaches? huh? what?

-Peaches

[JuneJuly]

And I realized that then you were perfect
And my teeth ripping out of my head
And it looked like a painting I once knew
Back when my thoughts weren't entirely intact

To pray for what I thought were angels
Ended up being ambulances
And the Lord showed me dreams of my daughter
She was crying inside your stomach

And I felt love again

[herestoyoufla]

And I see you fogging up the mirror
Vapor round your body glistens in the shower
And I want to stay right here and go down on you for an hour

-Third Eye Blind

Not really haha I was just listening to this song

haha, they do have some great lyrics though, this is just obviously not their best.

[heyjoshua]

they say the captain goes down with the ship
so when the world ends
will God go down with it?

- "What A Catch, Donnie" by Fall Out Boy

[herestoyoufla]

Is that what you call tact?
You're as subtle as a brick in the small of my back
So let's end this call and end this conversation

Is that what you call a getaway?
Tell me what you got away with
Because I've seen more spine in jellyfish
I've seen more guts in 11 year old kids

Have another drink and drive yourself home
I hope there's ice on all the roads
So you can think of me when you forget your seatbelt
And again when your head goes through the windshield

Is that what you call a getaway?
Tell me what you got away with
Because you left the frays from the ties you severed
When you said "Best friends means friends forever..."

-Brand New

damn, he really doesn't like him/her, that's rough

[evvandflow]

"We're filling up with embers, and this water tastes like timber, but I try not to think about it now and then"

-Cassino

:appl:

[the seventeenth]

anything by Ronnie Radke, even though many will contradict this.

[maxvsmaradona]

http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/4/45270/1253930-this_thread_again_super.jpg

[bluejase]

I'll take what you're willing to give
And I'll teach myself to live
With a walk-on part of a background shot
From a movie I'm not in



- Blink 182 - "Apple Shampoo"

[maxvsmaradona]

anyway.

goCMKozo66k

[takeaction]

It seems like were all fighting to be more than who we are.
Life’s been a test of virtue and humility so far.
'cause give and take don’t matter either way.
Luck of the draw, the lottery;
Roshambo for poverty.
Destination: anywhere but here.

Roshambo - Bayside

[denissuxx]

I'm talkin bout
Everybody getting crunk (crunk)
Boys try to touch my junk (junk)
Gonna smack em if they gettin too drunk (drunk)
Na, Na we going till they kick us out (out)
And The police shut us down (down)
Police shut us down (down)
Til the Po pos shut us (DOWN)

[BornUnderPunches]

i aaaaaaaaaammmmmm, ready to be newwwww agaiiiiiinnnn

[BornUnderPunches]

I'm talkin bout
Everybody getting crunk (crunk)
Boys try to touch my junk (junk)
Gonna smack em if they gettin too drunk (drunk)
Na, Na we going till they kick us out (out)
And The police shut us down (down)
Police shut us down (down)
Til the Po pos shut us (DOWN)
Aint got a care in the world,
but got plenty of beer.
Aint got no money in my pocket,
but I'm already here.
And now the dudes are linin' up, '
cause they hear we got swaggger,
but we kick 'em to the curb
unless they look like Mick Jagger

how cool are we

[catherinexhimel]

"Well that is that and this is this.
Will you tell me what you saw and I'll tell you what you missed,
when the ocean met the sky.
You missed when time and life shook hands and said goodbye.
When the earth folded in on itself.
And said 'Good luck, for your sake I hope heaven and hell
are really there, but I wouldn't hold my breath.'
You wasted life, why wouldn't you waste death?"


-Ocean Breathes Salty by Modest Mouse.

[deFobbed14yrs]

M) Welcome to my life fuckin VIP
(A) You see I see you lookin at me
(D) High rollin on the side got them drinks raise em high
(M) Boy with tats is my guy now lets take it to the sky
(A) In the helli raisin hell your boys blowin up my cell
(D) While he's grabbin on my ass open bar we're gettin trashed
(M) In my 5 star suite bitch we can't be beat
(A) We got 5 boys each hoe you know me!!

[Chorus]
(ALL) Cause I just paid
Lets get laid

-millionaires

[roughroads]

"The truth is you could slit me throat, and with my one last gasping breath I'd apologize, for bleeding on you're shirt."
- Taking Back Sunday

"Call me a safe bet, I'm betting I'm not."
- Brand New

"I won't go back outside 'til my memory starts erasing itself into something less brutal, some beautiful bullshit I pretend to belong to."
- Kevin Devin

"Not the person who you were; I hate the person you've become. You inspired, now expired, it has died for nothing."
"Trading afflictions for imperfections"
- Set Your Goals

"I wouldn't change a single moment, in this train wreck we call our lives"
- Daggermouth

"So if you want roses, you can go buy a bouquet"
- Say Anything

"These small town minds stay small"
- The Wonder Years

"I'll be your cheap novelty"
- Senses Fail

[Debut_Fin]

when i leave brush my teeth with a bottle of jack

[RoadTrippin33]

i'm glad that you can forgive, only hoping as time goes you can forget - brand new

may your organs fail before your dreams fail you - the matches

i wish i don't wish i still smoked, i wish i wrote you one original note. take me home, tuck me in, moon go down, do it again - alkaline trio

[troubledbyinsects]

Find better lyrics than Mineral, I dare you:

"Take The Picture Now"
There are blue skies in my dreams
And laughter that seems unending
There are green grass fields there
And happiness and hope for tomorrow

My cup is full and my heart
Spills awkward and embarrassing blood
Onto white golden streets
And I am unashamed of the stains my steps leave

Tears stream down my cheeks
Only to meet their redeemer and be wiped away
And there is joy

"If I Could"
She stepped outside into the morning air
To watch the cars go by and let the sun dry her hair
I wanted to tell her how beautiful she was
But I just stared

I sat behind the wheel and watched the raindrops
As they gathered on the windshield
And raced down into the humming motor
And she folded up her fears like paper airplanes
And lost them in the trees

And I know I don't deserve this
The capacity to feel
To laugh and cry and to praise
For that I live and breathe and wake each day
Is nothing less than your grace
In awkward and glorious movement

[J.M Danis]

mmm... I'll go with everything on "Born to run" or anything Morrissey has written.

[inthemidst]

"Only love proves to be the truth."

and...

"The world is ours if we could only let it be."

Both by Sleeping at Last

[brokenmixtape]

thank you for taking me
from my monastery
I was dying to get out
with tears of gratitude
I like my latitude
cross town train to you
-jets to brazil

[deFobbed14yrs]

i'm glad that you can forgive, only hoping as time goes you can forget - brand new

may your organs fail before your dreams fail you - the matches

i wish i don't wish i still smoked, i wish i wrote you one original note. take me home, tuck me in, moon go down, do it again - alkaline trio


the matches <3

[carlllll]

"Look at your eyes.... they're small in size, but they see enormous things." - mewithoutYou

Pretty much any So Long Forgotten or Thursday song also.

[xjulianx89]

I am waiting until I don't know when
Because I'm sure it's going to happen then
Time keeps creeping through the neighborhood
Killing old folks, waking up babies just like we knew it would

All the neighbors are starting up a fire
Burning all the old folks the witches and the liars
My eyes are covered by the hands of my unborn kids
But my heart keeps watching through the skin of my eyelids

They say a watched pot won't ever boil
Well I closed my eyes and nothing changed
Just some water getting hotter in the flames

It's not a lover I want no more
And it's not heaven I'm pining for
But there's some spirit I used to know
That's been drowned out by the radio!

They say a watched pot won't ever boil
You can't raise a baby on motor oil
Just like a seed down in the soil, you've got to give it time

Recently, I would have to go with these lyrics.

[Carolina.Alex]

Careening through the universe
Your axis on a tilt, you're guiltless and free
I hope you take a piece of me with you
And there's things I'd like to do
That you don't believe in
I would like to build something
But you never see it happen
And there's this burning
Like there's always been
I've never been so alone
And I've, I've never been so alive

-Third Eye Blind

[SuchAPerson22]

"Not the person who you were; I hate the person you've become. You inspired, now expired, it has died for nothing."
"Trading afflictions for imperfections"
- Set Your Goals

Yes.
"Hard-hearted don't worry, I'm ready for a fight. The nerve, a nerve, you're nervous. You're nervous that I'm right."
-Tegan and Sara
That's my current favorite at this very moment.

[sammyboy516]

"Neutrality means that you don't really care, 'cause the struggle goes on even when you're not there." - Rise Against


and who could forget...

"come put a little love in my glove box." - ke$ha.

[hurryupbrett]

Look at this photograph
Every time I do it makes me laugh

I laughed pretty hard at this.

[hurryupbrett]

"Wake up, look up, there's a warmth up there a reminder of peace, a reason to care" - Have Heart

"I'd rather be working for a paycheck than waiting to win the lottery" - Bright Eyes

"Why pluck one string when you can strum the guitar" - mewithoutYou


Pretty much anything from mewithoutYou is my favorite.

[phillipjacob]

Fate is an elegant, cold-hearted whore
She loves salting my wounds
Yes, she enjoys nothing more
I bleed confidence from deep within my guts now
I'm the king of this pity party with my jewel encrusted crown

- spill canvas

[LowFlyingJets]

Stealing a tusk from an elephant must
make one feel creepy inside,
and although you'll boast
around the fire at night,
that ghost will kick up a fight.
"Be Gone! Be Gone!" you scream.
"You're just some elephant dream!
I needed you like you needed me;
people - they need piano keys."

-Monster of Folk

so clever, so awesome

[And Hours Pass]

Stealing a tusk from an elephant must
make one feel creepy inside,
and although you'll boast
around the fire at night,
that ghost will kick up a fight.
"Be Gone! Be Gone!" you scream.
"You're just some elephant dream!
I needed you like you needed me;
people - they need piano keys."

-Monster of Folk

so clever, so awesome
I must admit those are some pretty sweet lyrics.

[flask]

I'm calling from your house,
in your room,
in your name,
lying in your bed,
following your dreams.
I listen to your voice get caught in my throat
as I sing,
"This Is Just A Dream."
on New Year's Day,
we will change back to ourselves.
in the flame
we are cured.
we are cured.
we are cured.

[Brand-new-123]

You were born in KC, Missouri
To a girl who wasn't married
After your birth she brought you to the nursery
Kissed your head and told you not to worry
And then quietly she turned and slipped away

In the elevator her heart began to pound
To the rooftop in her slippers and her gown
On the edge she took one last look around
Then closed her eyes and pushed away

Speeding toward the ground
Through the air without a sound
So gracefully

Twelve flights down, nearly naked on the ground
Skin and tragedy always attract a crowd
And so it was when the policeman came around
He took more than fifty eye-witness accounts
Each one in awe for they'd never seen a girl
So sad and beautiful

Speeding toward the ground
Through the air without a sound
Speeding toward the ground
Through the air without a sound
So gracefully

-Pedro the Lion

[kearn1tm]

One that comes to mind:

Lou Reed -- Kill Your Sons

All your two-bit psychiatrists are giving you electro shock
They say, they let you live at home, with mom and dad
Instead of mental hospital
But everytime you tried to read a book
You couldn't get to page 17
'Cause you forgot, where you were
So you couldn't even read
Don't you know, they're gonna kill your sons

[cshadows2887]

I hate a lot of lyrics in this thread. That kind of surprises me. One off the cuff:

I asked Hank Williams "how lonesome does it get?"
Hank Williams hasn't answered yet,
But I hear him coughing all night long,
100 floors above me in the tower of song.

Leonard Cohen

[apsterling]

Go Radio - Why I'm Home

I paint you pictures all night long
And tell you tales of our every song
And let you know that you're the reason why I'm home

Or I could quote a page of poetry
Show you all you mean to me
And we'd go falling somewhere faster
Knowing we don't want to ever fall at all

Just don't think that this will be easy
Saying that you love me
Lying tongues are clumsy
And don't speak when one more word would kill me
Saying that you love me
Lying tongues are clumsy

But who am I to say
That every breath we take
Won't be another pointless kiss
We gave away

When what we love we burn
Is from the ashes we all yearn
To be the phoenix that rises up from the flames

I paint you pictures all night long
And tell you tales how every song
And let you know that you're the reason why I'm home

[grizzyAREi]

And these tragic nights and afternoons wreak disaster
and I can still feel you as if you were in the room
where does our story end? where does it start?
I buried you along with my heart
-Matchbook Romance: Shadows Like Statues

I hope the air will serve to remind you,
that my heart is as cold as the clouds of your breath,
and my words are as timed as the beating in my chest.
-All Time Low: Jasey Rae

I hope that love he gave you
Was just enough to save you
You nearly broke my heart
Just look at what you're tearing apart
-AAR: Stab My Back

[grizzyAREi]

Fate is an elegant, cold-hearted whore
She loves salting my wounds
Yes, she enjoys nothing more
I bleed confidence from deep within my guts now
I'm the king of this pity party with my jewel encrusted crown

- spill canvas

I like that =)

[aboyandhiscurse]

there's a crack in the edge of the end of the world
where i will sit with my love in this fluorescent swirl
eat us up break it down to the tiniest cell
in a room with a view and a window to hell
with those who bury bodies into barrels of fun
who'll be marched through museums that display what they've done
they'll be shot up through the sky by a cannon of sin
who will reluctantly let them in

[TheProsAndCons]

Before you put my body in the cold ground, take some time to warm it with your hands, we must come to an end, yeah

-Brand New

[reesa]

you're the metaphors i can't create, to comprehend this curse that i call 'love'...
- motion city soundtrack

i think it's more of how he sings it that makes me love it even more (:

[Thomas Nassiff]

And my car's out back
If you're ready to take that long walk
From your front porch to my front seat
The door's open but the ride it ain't free
And I know you're lonely
For words that I ain't spoken
But tonight we'll be free
All the promises'll be broken
There were ghosts in the eyes
Of all the boys you sent away
They haunt this dusty beach road
In the skeleton frames of burned out Chevrolets
They scream your name at night in the street
Your graduation gown lies in rags at their feet
And in the lonely cool before dawn
You hear their engines roaring on
But when you get to the porch they're gone
On the wind so Mary climb in
It's town full of losers
And I'm pulling out of here to win

springsteen- thunder road. best song ever written imo.

[Thomas Nassiff]

here's the full lyrics to that song.

The screen door slams
Mary' dress waves
Like a vision she dances across the porch
As the radio plays
Roy Orbison singing for the lonely
Hey that's me and I want you only
Don't turn me home again
I just can't face myself alone again
Don't run back inside
Darling you know just what I'm here for
So you're scared and you're thinking
That maybe we ain't that young anymore
Show a little faith there's magic in the night
You ain't a beauty but hey you're alright
Oh and that's alright with me

You can hide 'neath your covers
And study your pain
Make crosses from your lovers
Throw roses in the rain
Waste your summer praying in vain
For a saviour to rise from these streets
Well now I'm no hero
That's understood
All the redemption I can offer girl
Is beneath this dirty hood
With a chance to make it good somehow
Hey what else can we do now ?
Except roll down the window
And let the wind blow
Back your hair
Well the night's busting open
These two lanes will take us anywhere
We got one last chance to make it real
To trade in these wings on some wheels
Climb in back
Heaven's waiting on down the tracks
Oh-oh come take my hand
We're riding out tonight to case the promised land
Oh-oh Thunder Road oh Thunder Road
Lying out there like a killer in the sun
Hey I know it's late we can make it if we run
Oh Thunder Road sit tight take hold
Thunder Road

Well I got this guitar
And I learned how to make it talk
And my car's out back
If you're ready to take that long walk
From your front porch to my front seat
The door's open but the ride it ain't free
And I know you're lonely
For words that I ain't spoken
But tonight we'll be free
All the promises'll be broken
There were ghosts in the eyes
Of all the boys you sent away
They haunt this dusty beach road
In the skeleton frames of burned out Chevrolets
They scream your name at night in the street
Your graduation gown lies in rags at their feet
And in the lonely cool before dawn
You hear their engines roaring on
But when you get to the porch they're gone
On the wind so Mary climb in
It's town full of losers
And I'm pulling out of here to win

[WordsAndFears]

currently id have to go with atreyu's "honor"

Resolute a stance of defiance
Always teetering on the brink
Nothing can hold you back when
WHEN YOU'RE NOT HOLDING BACK A THING
Open arms we embrace tomorrow
Closed fists, tarnishing today
We're not afraid to open our mouths and scream:
WE BELIEVE IN WHAT WE SAY


Like a whisper to the dusk
An oath against the shadows, denying the dark
FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT 'til the break of dawn
Like a prayer unto the dawn
In arms against the shadows, destroying the dark
FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT 'til the break of dawn


Covered in sweat and blood
Yet still our heads held high
Actions have consequences
When you live for foolish pride

Been careful not to lose ourselves
Stand together one passion, one hate
We believe in a better tomorrow
We believe in WHAT WE SAY

Like a whisper to the dusk
An oath against the shadows, denying the dark
FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT 'til the break of dawn
Like a prayer unto the dawn
In arms against the shadows, destroying the dark
FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT 'til the break of dawn
FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT 'til the break of dawn


We'll fight our battles
We'll wage our wars
Settle the score with honor and blood
We'll wear our scars like medals of hope
LIKE MEDALS OF HOPE, LIKE MEDALS OF HOPE


Like a whisper to the dusk
An oath against the shadows, denying the dark
FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT 'til the break of dawn
Like a prayer unto the dawn
In arms against the shadows, destroying the dark
In arms against the shadows, destroying the dark
In arms against the shadows, destroying the dark
FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT 'til the break of dawn
FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT 'til the break of dawn
FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT 'til the break of dawn
FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT 'til the break of dawn

[xJesusFreakx]

Here's a song I've been really enjoying as of late:

I don't worry anymore
Nothing like I did before
I don't worry
I just watch them rolling back
I don't worry anymore
'Cause it's all right, all right to see a ghost
And I wanna see 'em go down in the river where they go
And I wanna see 'em rolling, rolling back
And I wanna see 'em go
'Cause it's all right, all right to see your ghost

I'm gonna run to the river
Kiss my hand and wait
Gonna run to the river
Gonna throw a blue bouquet
'Cause they're gonna be cool happy genius heroes
I'm gonna miss 'em so much

I will settle in and dream
Of a slow and funny scene
I will settle in and watch 'em rolling back
I will settle in and dream
'Cause it's all right, all right to see a ghost
And I wanna see 'em go down in the river where they go
And I wanna see 'em rolling, rolling back

-"Santa Clara" by The National

[Star Slight]

And I shall drive my chariot
Down your streets and cry
'Hey, it's me, I'm dynamite
And I don't know why'
And you shall take me strongly
In your arms again
And I will not remember
That I even felt the pain.
We shall walk and talk
In gardens all misty and wet with rain
And I will never, never, never
Grow so old again.
- Sweet Thing, Van Morrison

We're finally drunk enough that,
We're finally soaking up,
The hours that everyone else throws away.
And if we have to go now,
I guess there's always hope,
Tomorrow night will be more of the same.

This night is winding down but
Time means nothing,
As always at this hour
Time means nothing,
One final final round cos
Time means nothing,
-After Hours by We Are Scientists

[Kev Chelios]

The composure in my soul is harmonized by the sounds that travel into me
- Born of Osiris

[SockMonkeyRiot]

The barons of industry put inspiration on Hitlers tongue
The next century crashed hard with a loud sound like a starting gun
Its race for acquisition and to make more things that glow
I got a knack for dodging bullets and flying zeros
So I act like I am rich, try and make it my whole look
Cause poor people dont exist when times are good

Mozarts foster parents put cigarettes out in his ears
When he got old enough to stutter he said I dont listen but I-I-I can hear
The eloquence of traffic, yeah the milk ponds sad lament
Its a requiem of moments I keep living through them
But wheres the monster in the closet?
I cant find the hangman inside his hood
I guess evil dont exist when times are good

Doctor Oppenheimer winced when he felt the broken piece of his pace-maker
Unbuttoned his shirt on a subway platform clutching his chest while his vision blurred
He saw the bane of his creation, the destroyer of the world
Yeah, truth can lead to solace or a life long bender
Its like wading through a wasteland where a town you love once stood
You just cry each time you think of when times were good

Napoleons tailor dressed him in a giant hat and funny platform shoes
Saying anyone can be a hero you just got to force people to look up to you
So when youre talking on a hotline to a suicidal soul
Dont let your voice sound like hot coffee more like a scented pillow
And strive for understanding over being understood
Just dont let yourself forget when the times get good
When the times get good

- "Napoleon's Hat" by Bright Eyes

I intended to find my favorite couple of lines and just post that, but the whole thing is just so damn good.

[Metal Now]

Find better lyrics than Mineral, I dare you.

Those are wonderful. I've never listened to Mineral but I think I'll have to now.

But mewithoutYou are the best band mentioned in this thread.

A fish swims through the sea,
while the sea is in a certain sense
contained within the fish!
Ah, what am I to think
of what the writing of a thousand lifetimes
could not explain
if all the forest trees were pens
and all the oceans ink?

mewithoutYou - The Dryness And The Rain

[troubledbyinsects]

Those are wonderful. I've never listened to Mineral but I think I'll have to now.

But mewithoutYou are the best band mentioned in this thread.



mewithoutYou - The Dryness And The Rain
Mineral are fantastic. mewithoutYou are great too

[Kozzy333]

Probably one of the best songs I've ever heard. A must listen.

Hand in hand, ankle deep in the sand
Eyes ablaze, we danced up a storm
Of love and warmth!
Our smiles were the houses of light
Circling the cliffs on the shore
Searching for each other!
And wave met wave and swayed
To the soothing sound
That was the love, the love
The love we found!
Played on our heartstrung guitars
And joy poured from our lips
As we sang!

Happiness, oh happiness!
I never thought you'd exist.
Happiness, oh happiness!
I never thought you'd exist.
(In a simple dance and a kiss)

The next time we dance
Will you hold my hand?
And the next time we kiss
Will you whisper in my ear?

Oh how young, we've become
You and I. We will live forever
And let our bodies die.

You've crossed a line in my heart, I'll reply,
That no one has ever crossed before.

I looked in your eyes,
Searching for some reply
To my heart's cry,
To my heart's cry of goodbye.

- Dancing & Kisses by Lifestory:monologue

Edit- Bolded my favourite lines.

[iplaythevocals]

just a few of my favorites...

fly from the inside by shinedown

"I can't escape the pain
I can't control the rage
Sometimes I think that I'm gonna go insane
I'm not against what's right
I'm not for what's wrong
I'm just making my way and I'm gone"

misery business by paramore

"once a whore youre nothing more im sorry thatll never change"

mutiny! by set your goals

"Well not today, not anymore.
This is us growing up, still young, but no longer impressionable.
We have come to pillage!
We have come to burn!
We have come to incite the riot!
We have come to take it over!"

[suppyguppy]

You were born in KC, Missouri
To a girl who wasn't married
After your birth she brought you to the nursery
Kissed your head and told you not to worry
And then quietly she turned and slipped away

In the elevator her heart began to pound
To the rooftop in her slippers and her gown
On the edge she took one last look around
Then closed her eyes and pushed away

Speeding toward the ground
Through the air without a sound
So gracefully

Twelve flights down, nearly naked on the ground
Skin and tragedy always attract a crowd
And so it was when the policeman came around
He took more than fifty eye-witness accounts
Each one in awe for they'd never seen a girl
So sad and beautiful

Speeding toward the ground
Through the air without a sound
Speeding toward the ground
Through the air without a sound
So gracefully

-Pedro the Lion

you are my new favorite person

[Charles777]

Just lots of POS, Say Anything, and Dear and The Headlights.

And I shall drive my chariot
Down your streets and cry
'Hey, it's me, I'm dynamite
And I don't know why'
And you shall take me strongly
In your arms again
And I will not remember
That I even felt the pain.
We shall walk and talk
In gardens all misty and wet with rain
And I will never, never, never
Grow so old again.
- Sweet Thing, Van Morrison

We're finally drunk enough that,
We're finally soaking up,
The hours that everyone else throws away.
And if we have to go now,
I guess there's always hope,
Tomorrow night will be more of the same.

This night is winding down but
Time means nothing,
As always at this hour
Time means nothing,
One final final round cos
Time means nothing,
-After Hours by We Are Scientists
More people need to know this band.

[teaahnuh]

after my exgirlfriend left me these lyrics would always be in my head...

Jesus Christ, I'm alone again
So what did you do those three days you were dead?
Because this problem is going to last
More than the weekend

-Brand new

yes. basically that whole song. And also the song, Okay I Believe You, But My Tommy Gun Don't.

[tawtaw]

Might as well...

This god of your holy books, I do not agree with him
I will not be one more servant
I will not bow to anything
Not a puff of smoke or the flash of a turning mirror
Let's talk about your real fears
Like that you might actually be all alone
No happy, heavenly home
To return to God, dispenser of judgmental pencil shavings
He's got baggies full for you
But I've got a planer packed with proof
Oh, to understand you must spend time alone
--------------

We're all sick of the missed shots
Passed over like the last man picked
No team, so pissed off
That's not honesty
That's just soft curves got your world flipped
Got you making mixed tapes for girls
And that's the skin again
Let's blame the skin again
Stretching itself so fluidly over these awkward ligaments
And I didn't shave today, I probably won't tomorrow
And it's safe to say I'm never gonna shed these extra...
Yeah, so fuck it.

derp rap derp

[Charles777]

I love the lyrics of Made of Stone from Envy On The Coast's new album

[Thesleepingwell]

Man this song is so darn creepy. Favourite Type O Neagtive song.
From the band's darkest opus 'October Rust'.

Wolf Moon (Including Zoanthropic Paranoia)

The 28th day
She'll be bleeding again,
And in lupine ways
We'll alleviate the pain.

Unholy water
Sanguine addiction,
Those silver bullets
A last blood benediction.

It is her moon time
When there's iron in the air,
A rusted essence
Woman may I know you're there?

Unholy water
Sanguine addiction,
Those silver bullets
A last blood benediction.

Hey wolf moon
Come cast your spell on me,
Hey wolf moon
Come cast your spell on me.

Don't spill a drop dear
Let me kiss the curse away,
Yourself in my mouth
Will you leave me with your taste?

Hey wolf moon
Come cast your spell on me,
Hey wolf moon
Come cast your spell on me.

Beware
The woods at night,
Beware
The Lunar light.

So in this gray haze
We'll be meeting again,
And on that great day
I will tease you all the same.

Unholy water
Sanguine addiction,
Those silver bullets
A last blood benediction.

Hey wolf moon
Come cast your spell on me,
Hey wolf moon
Come cast your spell on me.

Beware
The woods at night,
Beware
The Lunar light.

So epic.

[Blakee]

"You quote the good book, when it's convenient. But you don't have the sense, no you don't have the sense to tie your tangled tongue. Instead you slosh it through the mud."
- Taking Back Sunday
"Hoping for the best, just hoping nothing happens. A thousand clever lines unread on clever napkins. I will never ask if you don't ever tell me. I know you well enough to know you never loved me."
- Taking Back Sunday
"Nothing, just nothing, nothing will wipe this heart out. And no one, just no one, no one will break this front-line. We are, we are, we are the final ones. We are, we are, we are the final resistance."
- Heaven Shall Burn

[StevieYDG]

"I swear to God my intentions were gold." - Of Mice & Men

[Charles777]

There's a crack in the edge of the end of the world
Where I will sit with my love in it's fluorescent swirl.
Eat us up, break it down to the tiniest cell
In our room with a view and a window to hell
Where those who buried bodies in their barrels of fun
Will be marched through museums that display what they've done.
They'll be shot up through the sky by a cannon of sin
Where we'll reluctantly let them in.
So can I lie in your grave?

Ahh... Men by Say Anything

[StevieYDG]

"You're killing yourself when you lie,
so close those legs and open your eyes"

-Of Mice & Men

[SophGod]

There's a crack in the edge of the end of the world
Where I will sit with my love in it's fluorescent swirl.
Eat us up, break it down to the tiniest cell
In our room with a view and a window to hell
Where those who buried bodies in their barrels of fun
Will be marched through museums that display what they've done.
They'll be shot up through the sky by a cannon of sin
Where we'll reluctantly let them in.
So can I lie in your grave?

Ahh... Men by Say Anything
I'm a firm believer that album being shit in terms of lyrics, but the lyrics in that song are the exception. Love 'em.




the leaves will fall and so will you
when you do bury me under them too
seconds pass, we'll make it through
eventually we all go home
it won't be long
it won't be long

we walk along the wire tied between horizons you close your eyes like it's nothing at all throughout the rise
and fall, everything, everything changes I will be here when you die.

it won't be long until we find our way home.

did you hear the trumpets play the day your father died?
did the violins swell circles under your eyes?
did you play the part straight like a march?
or get lost in the beat, thinking and feeling...
did the drums in the street make the people dance
or fall to their knees as the sound
knocked the leaves from the trees?
when they fall from the branch they looked beautiful
as they hung in the air.
spinning around.
did you float in the air?
spinning around?

there must be somewhere where cigarettes burn through the night
and the leaves don't abandon their trees to the light
where the sky's always clear and the summer never ends...
won't you take me there?

the leaves will fall and so will you
when you do bury me under them too
seconds pass, we'll make it through
eventually we are all going home.

-Thursday

[GreenDayStinks!]

I am confused by that

[GreenDayStinks!]

atchya boyeeee

[Two Headed Girl]

I carved your name across my eyelids
You pray for rain, I pray for blindness

The Arcade Fire

[InsaneJester17]

"Reasons like seasons, they constantly change and the seasons of last year like reasons have floated away" - Something Corporate
"Insignificantly enough we both have significant others" - Anberlin
"She says live up to your first impression, well my best side was your worst invention, why can't you live without the attention?" TBS

[Gwytherspoon]

Movement no movement
just a falling bird
cold as it hits the bleeding ground
he lived and died
catch sight
cover me with earth
draped in black
static white sound
a day without substance
a change of thought
the atmosphere rots with time
colors flicker in water
a short term..
effect...
scream as she tries to push him over
helpless and sick
with teeth of madness
jump jump dance
and sing
sideways across the desert
a charcoal face
bites my hand
time is sweet
derange and disengage
everything
a day without substance
a change of thought
the atmosphere rots with time
colors that flicker in water
a short term...
effect..
an echo and
a stranger's hand
a short term...
effect..

-Short Term Effect by The Cure, album: Pornography

Such a wonderful album.

[socoxlove]

the sun is setting and its ending cause youre letting it go, forgetting everything you already know
and it all goes to show that youre moving too slow, it'll end up changing you
- "youre making it come alive," my favorite highway

basically that whole song, but if i had to pick it would be those lyrics

[movingxpictures]

"This is because I can spell confusion with a k and I can like it/It's to dying in another's arms/To why I had to try it/It's the Jimmy Eat world and those nights in my car/When the first star you see, may not be a star/I'm not your star"

Konstantine by Something Corporate

[DMc1616]

Careening through the universe
Your axis on a tilt, you're guiltless and free
I hope you take a piece of me with you
And there's things I'd like to do
That you don't believe in
I would like to build something
But you never see it happen
And there's this burning
Like there's always been
I've never been so alone
And I've, I've never been so alive

-Third Eye Blind

yes.

The composure in my soul is harmonized by the sounds that travel into me
- Born of Osiris
i really like that.

"when there's nothing left to burn, you have to set yourself on fire." - stars

[punk_transistor]

Irish coffee, an Irish car bomb, a fat drunk Jew starts singing this song.
I take a closer look and the fat guy is me so I buy him a shot and he buys me back three-NOFX!

[punk_transistor]

I also really love "Without it all, I'm choking on nothing it's clear in my head i'm screaming for somthing. Knowing nothing is better than knowing it all."-The Used

[$eth]

It's insanely lame, but it describes my situation with a girl at the moment.
"I'm just hopelessly hopeful and you're just hopeless enough." - Fall Out Boy.

And probably anything by You, Me, and Everyone We Know.

[showmethefever]

I'm absolutely blanking right now and can't think of anything specific.

[fightinirish217]

Always loved the lyrics of this song. Lying Dressed by Jimmy Eat World:

Everyday I get a little closer, dear
Will you love me, darling, when I get there?
I'll need sunshine, I'll need rest
You're just waiting there, I guess

[Two Headed Girl]

here's the full lyrics to that song.

The screen door slams
Mary' dress waves
Like a vision she dances across the porch
As the radio plays
Roy Orbison singing for the lonely
Hey that's me and I want you only
Don't turn me home again
I just can't face myself alone again
Don't run back inside
Darling you know just what I'm here for
So you're scared and you're thinking
That maybe we ain't that young anymore
Show a little faith there's magic in the night
You ain't a beauty but hey you're alright
Oh and that's alright with me

You can hide 'neath your covers
And study your pain
Make crosses from your lovers
Throw roses in the rain
Waste your summer praying in vain
For a saviour to rise from these streets
Well now I'm no hero
That's understood
All the redemption I can offer girl
Is beneath this dirty hood
With a chance to make it good somehow
Hey what else can we do now ?
Except roll down the window
And let the wind blow
Back your hair
Well the night's busting open
These two lanes will take us anywhere
We got one last chance to make it real
To trade in these wings on some wheels
Climb in back
Heaven's waiting on down the tracks
Oh-oh come take my hand
We're riding out tonight to case the promised land
Oh-oh Thunder Road oh Thunder Road
Lying out there like a killer in the sun
Hey I know it's late we can make it if we run
Oh Thunder Road sit tight take hold
Thunder Road

Well I got this guitar
And I learned how to make it talk
And my car's out back
If you're ready to take that long walk
From your front porch to my front seat
The door's open but the ride it ain't free
And I know you're lonely
For words that I ain't spoken
But tonight we'll be free
All the promises'll be broken
There were ghosts in the eyes
Of all the boys you sent away
They haunt this dusty beach road
In the skeleton frames of burned out Chevrolets
They scream your name at night in the street
Your graduation gown lies in rags at their feet
And in the lonely cool before dawn
You hear their engines roaring on
But when you get to the porch they're gone
On the wind so Mary climb in
It's town full of losers
And I'm pulling out of here to win

JL's cover is my all time favorite cover.

[paper halo]

You're a door-without-a-key, a field-without-a-fence
You made a holy fool of me and I've thanked you ever since.
If she comes circling back we'll end where we'd begun
Like two pennies on the train track the train crushed into one
Or if I'm a crown without a king, if I'm a broken open seed
If I come without a thing, then I come with all I need
No boat out in the blue, no place to rest your head,
The trap I set for you seems to have caught my leg instead.

Purely because I'm listening to it now.

[Indoor Living]

I've said time and time again that this is my all-time favorite song by my favorite band off my favorite album. Simply perfect.

I found a letter that said:
"I'm sorry that you were asleep when I wrote these words down,
You'd think I'd ought to be used to that by now.
Save for a few of those late night episodes,
Missed opportunities, and 'I Don't Cares,'
There's not a lot that I feel obliged to share or talk about."

"I'll have my brother stop by this Saturday to pick up my things,
Just make sure you're not there.
This may sound bad, and don't take it the wrong way..
I love you, however,
You hold me down"

"You're the echoes of my everything,
You're the emptiness the whole world sings at night.
You're the laziness of afternoon,
You're the reason why I burst and why I bloom.
How will I break the news to you?"

"Cancel our dinner with Max and Coraline,
feed Jacky's gerbil and try to stay clean.
We'll talk it over after I've had some time alone to sort it out.
You hold me down"

"You're the echoes of my everything,
You're the emptiness the whole world sings at night.
You're the laziness of afternoon,
You're the reason why I burst and why I bloom.
You're the leaky sink of sentiment,
You're the failed attempts I never could forget.
You're the metaphors I can't create to comprehend this curse that I call love.. (My favorite line ever)
How will I break the news to you?"

I'm a total fanboy. For those of you that don't know the song, it's 'Hold Me Down' by Motion City Soundtrack off the album Commit This To Memory.

[blink_again]

"How wrong we were to think, that immortality meant never dying" - My CHemical RomanCe

[BornUnderPunches]

"99 Problems but a bitch ain't one
if you havin girl problems
i feel bad for you son
I got 99 problems but a bitch ain't one hit me"

and

"...straight outta Compton
is a brotha that'll smother yo' mother
and make ya sister think I love her
Dangerous motherfucker raises hell
And if I ever get caught I make bail
See, I don't give a fuck, that's the problem
I see a motherfuckin cop I don't dodge him
But I'm smart, lay low, creep a while
And when I see a punk pass, I smile
To me it's kinda funny, the attitude showin a ***** drivin
but don't know where the fuck he's going, just rollin
lookin for the one they call Eazy
But here's a flash, they never seize me
Ruthless! Never seen like a shadow in the dark
except when I unload, see I'll get over the hesitation
and hear the scream of the one who got the last penetration
Give a little gust of wind and I'm jettin
But leave a memory no one'll be forgettin
So what about the bitch who got shot? Fuck her!
You think I give a damn about a bitch? I ain't a sucker!
This is the autobiography of the E, and if you ever fuck with me
You'll get taken by a stupid dope brotha who will smother
word to the motherfucker, straight outta Compton"

[notdeadyet]

Such a wonderful album.

Very much agreed :)

This too:

Where have I landed I don't quite remember
I fell to pieces one night in December
Pictures in boxes remind me of something
I miss the days when our fingers were touching

The memories of losing you, you're like a ghost
Tracing where I said to you

I wish you would listen, to get through it...

All my decisions were just second guesses
Looking for love like a bride looks for dresses
Every mistake turned to some sort of yearning
A heart that was hollow has filled up with meaning...

Paper Route, Wish, album: Absence

One of the best albums of 2009 I believe... Very very solid

[Neo Cassady]

They're tearing up streets again. They're building a new hotel. The Mayor's out killing kids to keep taxes down, and me and my anger sit folding a paper bird, letting the curtains turn to beating wings. Wish I had a socket-set to dismantle this morning. And just one pair of clean socks. And a photo of you. When you get off work tonight, meet me at the construction site, and we'll write some notes to tape to the heavy machines, like "We hope they treat you well. Hope you don't work too hard. We hope you get to be happy sometimes." Bring your swiss-army knife, and a bottle of something, and I'll bring some spraypaint and a new deck of cards. Hey I found the safest place to keep all our tenderness. Keep all our bad ideas. Keep all our hope. It's here in the smallest bones, the feet and the inner-ear. It's such an enormous thing to walk and to listen. I'd like to fall asleep to the beat of you breathing in a room near a truckstop on a highway somewhere. You are a radio. You are an open door. I am a faulty string of blue christmas lights. You swim through frequencies. You let that stranger in, as I'm blinking off and on and off again. We've got a lot of time. Or maybe we don't, but I'd like to think so, so let me pretend. These are my favourite chords. I know you like them too. When I get a new guitar, you can have this one and sing me a lullaby. Sing me the alphabet. Sing me a story I haven't heard yet.

I've said time and time again that this is my all-time favorite song by my favorite band off my favorite album. Simply perfect.

I found a letter that said:
"I'm sorry that you were asleep when I wrote these words down,
You'd think I'd ought to be used to that by now.
Save for a few of those late night episodes,
Missed opportunities, and 'I Don't Cares,'
There's not a lot that I feel obliged to share or talk about."

"I'll have my brother stop by this Saturday to pick up my things,
Just make sure you're not there.
This may sound bad, and don't take it the wrong way..
I love you, however,
You hold me down"

"You're the echoes of my everything,
You're the emptiness the whole world sings at night.
You're the laziness of afternoon,
You're the reason why I burst and why I bloom.
How will I break the news to you?"

"Cancel our dinner with Max and Coraline,
feed Jacky's gerbil and try to stay clean.
We'll talk it over after I've had some time alone to sort it out.
You hold me down"

"You're the echoes of my everything,
You're the emptiness the whole world sings at night.
You're the laziness of afternoon,
You're the reason why I burst and why I bloom.
You're the leaky sink of sentiment,
You're the failed attempts I never could forget.
You're the metaphors I can't create to comprehend this curse that I call love.. (My favorite line ever)
How will I break the news to you?"

I'm a total fanboy. For those of you that don't know the song, it's 'Hold Me Down' by Motion City Soundtrack off the album Commit This To Memory.

I read the first line and began humming these lyrics, which, coincidentally, are some more of my favorites:
*****
I found a letter; it read:
"Our existence has serious side effects"
Turned on the television
It's telling me the world is collapsing
I think it's coming and it comes so fast
I'm hearing whispers of an infinite yes
And I don't know why it is
Our bodies are dead, why you look so sad?

And my therapist said
"We've evolved through a series of accidents"
There's been talk of chemical imbalances
Restless sense of detachment, nausea and/or violence

I think it's coming and it comes so fast
I'm hearing whispers of an infinite yes
And I don't know why it is
I feel it coming, I think it's real and significant
I think, I think I think a little too often
That's what my therapist said
We're alone in this wilderness
Left to choke on the pills and to feed on the viruses
I think it's coming and it comes so fast

I think it's coming and it comes so fast
I'm hearing whispers of an infinite yes
Our bodies are dead, why do you look so sad?
Our bodies are dead, why do you look so sad?

--Wintersleep's "Dead Letter & The Infinite Yes"

[Neo Cassady]

here's the full lyrics to that song.

The screen door slams
Mary' dress waves
Like a vision she dances across the porch
As the radio plays
Roy Orbison singing for the lonely
Hey that's me and I want you only
Don't turn me home again
I just can't face myself alone again
Don't run back inside
Darling you know just what I'm here for
So you're scared and you're thinking
That maybe we ain't that young anymore
Show a little faith there's magic in the night
You ain't a beauty but hey you're alright
Oh and that's alright with me

You can hide 'neath your covers
And study your pain
Make crosses from your lovers
Throw roses in the rain
Waste your summer praying in vain
For a saviour to rise from these streets
Well now I'm no hero
That's understood
All the redemption I can offer girl
Is beneath this dirty hood
With a chance to make it good somehow
Hey what else can we do now ?
Except roll down the window
And let the wind blow
Back your hair
Well the night's busting open
These two lanes will take us anywhere
We got one last chance to make it real
To trade in these wings on some wheels
Climb in back
Heaven's waiting on down the tracks
Oh-oh come take my hand
We're riding out tonight to case the promised land
Oh-oh Thunder Road oh Thunder Road
Lying out there like a killer in the sun
Hey I know it's late we can make it if we run
Oh Thunder Road sit tight take hold
Thunder Road

Well I got this guitar
And I learned how to make it talk
And my car's out back
If you're ready to take that long walk
From your front porch to my front seat
The door's open but the ride it ain't free
And I know you're lonely
For words that I ain't spoken
But tonight we'll be free
All the promises'll be broken
There were ghosts in the eyes
Of all the boys you sent away
They haunt this dusty beach road
In the skeleton frames of burned out Chevrolets
They scream your name at night in the street
Your graduation gown lies in rags at their feet
And in the lonely cool before dawn
You hear their engines roaring on
But when you get to the porch they're gone
On the wind so Mary climb in
It's town full of losers
And I'm pulling out of here to win

:appl: As far as storytellers go, Brucie is top-notch. It'd be hard for me to pick one song of his to single out, but nothing beats playing this one loud, windows down (and the wind blowing back your hair), flying down the highway on a summer night.

[howisyourheart?]

People say we're done for, we're liabilities,
But I bought property on the thin line between genius and insanity.
You wrote the books on brains and wealth and looks,
Ahead of both our times, free thinkers only thrive in history books.

- Howard, Bayside.

I just can't handle this, I'm just so scared of it
A challenge fit for a man when I'm just a kid.
I'm all torn at the seams, just like you said I'd be.
If this is love, then I don't want a part of it.

- Carry On, Bayside.

The healing power of alcohol,
Only works on scrapes and nicks.
And not on girls in seedy bars,
Who drown themselves in it.

- Choice Hops And Bottled Self Esteem, Bayside.

My mouth's shooting blanks.
Situation's unbearable,
I've gotten vulnerable.
Now anyone is free to waltz right in.
My temple's been invaded
and there's nobody guarding it.
All over this lonely life,
but what's so wrong with being all alone?
Alone's the only way I've ever known.

- Devotion & Desire, Bayside.

This isn't who I am.
From confidence to self doubt in 60 seconds.
Storming stages and stereos from here to there,
trying to prove that I belong.
Trying to win approval from people that I don't know.

- They Looked Like Strong Hands, Bayside.

Empty fields move me so much more then rooms filled up with friends.
The way the trees look dead
reminds me that there's more to life then living.
Maybe giving up's not bad, but part of letting go of you.

- A Synonym For Acquiesce, Bayside.

[Gdancer]

Hello
I've waited here for you
Everlong

Tonight
I throw myself into
And out of the red, out of her head she sang

Come down
And waste away with me
Down with me

Slow how
You wanted it to be
I'm over my head, out of her head she sang
Chorus-

And I wonder
When I sing along with you
If everything could ever feel this real forever
If anything could ever be this good again

The only thing I'll ever ask of you
You've got to promise not to stop when I say when
She sang
Verse 2-

Breathe out
So I could breathe you in
Hold you in

And now
I know you've always been
Out of your head, out of my head I sang
Chorus-

And I wonder
When I sing along with you
If everything could ever feel this real forever
If anything could ever be this good again

The only thing I'll ever ask of you
You've got to promise not to stop when I say when
She sang
Chorus-

And I wonder
If everything could ever feel this real forever
If anything could ever be this good again

The only thing I'll ever ask of you
You've got to promise not to stop when I say when
She sang

[breakthesky]

I loved you, and I should have said it
But tell me, just what has it ever meant?

Jimmy Eat World - Kill

I just love the way Adkins sings it.

[musicalmichigan]

I called Jesus but he didn't check his phone today,
Oh oh, there's my summer girl
I've been wanting her
I hear she's got a boyfriend
Thought I could leave her for a season but it just got cold
Yeah, it's a lonely hour in my cellphone tower,
Broken down transmission.

But I'm gonna take you to my boxcar on the beach
And I'm gonna hang the sun above your bed
And soak your hair in bleach

You'll be missed Miss California
You'll be kissed by only me
When they can't find you you'll turn into a mystery
but you're no mystery to me, Miss California

I called Jesus but he heard I hurt his little girl, yeah,
with my reckless stare, I've been so unfair
Misplacing my affections
She had a reason not to take me back into her care
Oh, I'm just a stray dog now, I can't beg or bow
Just give me some direction.

And I'm gonna take you to the mansion where I hide
and I'm gonna paint a diamond on your hand
And you will be my bride
You'll be missed Miss California
You'll be kissed by only me
When they can't find you you'll turn into a mystery
But you're no mystery to me, Miss California
Miss California
I'll be around, I'll be around.

You'll be missed Miss California.
You'll be kissed by only me.
When they can't find you you'll turn into a mystery
But not to me.

You'll be missed Miss California
We'll be married in the rain
When they can't find you I'm sure I'll be the one they blame
But they can't prove anything
Miss California
Miss California
I'll be around

-Jack's Mannequin