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06/15/10 at 09:43 PM by mymusicismylife

I've been brainstorming about my first tattoo. With music basically being the focal point of my life, something band-related is an obvious idea. After much thought, I have decided to go with a mewithoutYou lyric for my first tattoo.

Why mewithoutYou? Because they are a deep, incredible, intelligent band that truly moves me.

Why a lyric? Because I can't really think of a simple symbol or picture that represents mewithoutYou. Also, they're lyrics are incredible.

Anyways, these are the lyrics I have picked out to mull over. They are not necessarily all of mwY's best lyrics, but they are some of the more fitting one's to be used as a tattoo for me. All of them come from the albums Catch For Us the Foxes and Brother, Sister.

My life is a cup of sugar I borrowed before time began and forgot to return.
-January 1979

However much you talk, however well you talk,
You make a certain sense, but it's still only stupid talk.
However much I strut around, however loud I sing,
The shining One inside me won't say anything.
- Leaf

I threw a small stone down at the reflection of my image in the water,
And it altogether disappeared.
I burst as it shattered through me, like a bullet through a bottle,
And I'm expected to believe that any of this is real.
-Seven Sisters

All things lovely only hurt my head.
-The Soviet

So turn your ears, you musicians, to silence,
Because they only come out when it's quiet.
-The Soviet

What unseen pen etched eternal things on the hearts of human kind...
But never etched them in our minds?
-My Exit, Unfair

Oh, but I'm so small I can barely be seen! How can this great love be inside of me?
Look at your eyes, they're small in size, but they see enormous things!
-Four Word Letter (Part Two)

Oh but I'm too tired, I won't last long.
No, He'll use the week to overcome the strong!
-Four Word Letter (Part 2)

Grape on the vine, grape on the vine,
We've been alone a long time.
Grape on the vine, why not be crushed to make wine?
-Son of a Widow

Pay no attention to me dancing with my girl
With evvery intention to be failures in this world.
-Son of a Widow

Such distance from our friends, like a scratch across the lens,
Made everything look wrong from everywhere we stood.
-Messes of Men

I'd never want someone so crass as to want someone like me.
-Messes of Men

Lord I could never show you anything as beautiful as you.
-Messes of Men

A glass can only spill what it contains.
-A Glass Can Only Spill What It Contains

It wasn't an end, it wasn't a beginning, but a ceaseless stumbling on.
-Nice and Blue, Part 2

The sun and the moon, I want to see both worlds as One!
-The Sun and the Moon

Find a friend and stay close, and with a melting heart,
Tell them whatever you're most afraid of.
-The Sun and the Moon

The sun and the moon are my Father's eyes.
-The Sun and the Moon

She hurried on her little way,
And scurried 'round my mind,
Ever since,
Every day.
-C-Minor

Still there's a whisper in my ear,
The voice of loneliness and fear,
And I say "Devil, disappear!"
-C-Minor

The bird that plucked the olive leaf,
Has been cirlcing like a record down the spindle of my mind,
Where the needle's worn the grooves too deep,
And scratched the wax that's blistered from the heat besides.
-In A Market Dimly Lit

Your flavor in my mind goes back and forth between
Sweeter than any wine and as bitter as mustard green
Light and dark as honeydew and pumpernickle bread
The trap I set for you seems to have caught my leg instead!
-In A Sweater Poorly Knit

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

But if I'm a crown without a king, if I'm a broken, open seed
If I come without a thing, 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

I
do
not
exist
only
YOU
exist

-In A Sweater Poorly Knit

A lot to sift through, but they're all so good. We'll see what happens.

Tags: mewithoutYou, tattoo, Catch For Us the Foxes, Brother, Sister

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