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 43  8.2 Iron & Wine - Boy With a Coin
Boy with a coin he found in the weeds With bullets and pages of trade magazines Close to a car that flipped on the turn When God left the ground to circle the world Girl with a bird she found in the snow That flew up her gown and that's how she knows If God made her eyes for crying at birth Then left the ground to circle the Earth Boy with a coin he crammed in his jeans Then making a wish he tossed in the sea Walked to a town that all of us burn When God left the ground to circle the world mika_'s rating:
 
179 7.7 Sarah Mclachlan - Building a Mystery
You come out at night That's when the energy comes And the dark side's light And the vampires roam You strut your rasta wear And your suicide poem And a cross from a faith that died Before Jesus came You're building a mystery You live in a church Where you sleep with voodoo dolls And you won't give up the search For the Ghost in the halls You wear sandals in the snow And a smile that won't wash away Can you look out the window Without your shadow getting in the way? You're so beautiful With an edge and charm And so careful When I'm in your arms Cause you're working Building a mystery Holding on and holding it in Yeah you're working Building a mystery And choosing so carefully You woke up screaming aloud A prayer from your secret god But you feed off our fears And hold back your tears, oh You give us a tantrum And a know it all grin Just when we need one When the evening's thin You're so beautiful A beautiful fucked up man You're setting up your Razor-wire shrine Cause you're working Building a mystery Holding on and holding it in Yeah you're working Building a mystery And choosing so carefully Ooh you're working Building a mystery Holding on and holding it in Yeah you're working Building a mystery And choosing so carefully Yeah you're working Building a mystery Holding on and holding it in Yeah you're working Building a mystery And choosing so carefully You're building a mystery mika_'s rating:
22 8 Bad Religions - I Want to Conquer the World
Hey brother Christian with your high and mighty errand Your actions speak so loud I can't hear a word you're saying Hey sister bleeding heart with all of your compassion Your labors soothe the hurt but can't assuage temptation Hey man of science with your perfect rules of measure Can you improve this place with the data that you gather? Hey mother mercy can your loins bear fruit forever? Is your fecundity a trammel or a treasure? I want to conquer the world Give all the idiots a brand new religion Put an end to poverty, uncleanliness and toil Promote equality in all of my decisions With a quick wink of the eye and a "God you must be joking!" Hey mister diplomat with your worldly aspirations Did you see your children cry when you left them at the station? Hey moral soldier you're got righteous proclamation And precious tomes to fuel your pulpy conflagrations I want to conquer the world Give all the idiots a brand new religion Put an end to poverty, uncleanliness and toil Promote equality in all of my decisions I want to conquer the world Expose the culprits and feed them to the children Do away with air pollution And then I'll save the whales We'll have peace on Earth And global communion I want to conquer the world mika_'s rating:
20 8.1 Bon Iver - Blood Bank
Well I met you at the blood bank We were looking at the bags Wondering if any of the colors Matched any of the names we knew on the tags You said "See look that's yours! Stacked on top with your brother's See how they resemble one another's Even in their plastic little covers" And I said I know it well That secret that you know But you don't know how to tell It fucks with your honor And it teases your head But you know that it's good girl 'Cause it's running you with red Then the snow started falling We were stuck out in your car You were rubbing both my hands Chewing on a candy bar You said "Ain't this just like the present To be showing up like this" As a moon waned to crescent We started to kiss And I said I know it well That secret that we know That we don't know how to tell I'm in love with your honor I'm in love with your cheeks What's that noise up the stairs babe? Is that Christmas morning creaks? And I know it well I know it well mika_'s rating:
26 8.6 Cocteau Twins - Perhaps Some Other Aeon
Perhaps some other animal Perhaps some other aeon A change of head in hole Oh well, if he shaves his headdress Perhaps some other animal Perhaps some other aeon I was near when you died at birth I was near when you were born in death I've felt the faces within you It is a more sacred sin then on this list And on the way there Perhaps some other animal Perhaps some other aeon mika_'s rating:
 
54 7.5 Cocteau Twins - Hazel
Oh, on the phone No, not grapevine Ti-tinted (ta-tattletale) And on the phone Tinted Eight ball Oh, on the phone No, not grapevine Ti-tinted (ta-tattletale) And on the phone Julie outside Tinted Eight ball Oh, on the phone No, not grapevine Ti-tinted (ta-tattletale) And on the phone Julie outside It's a scuttle I'm a cheater Julie outside Oh, I slammed sleighs to him No, not grapevine Ti-tinted I slammed the sleighs down Tinted Eight ball Julie outside As a scuttle Your playground Across you Julie outside In vagrance Playground Julie outside I won't need you Julie outside mika_'s rating:
292 7.4 Tori Amos - Precious Things
So I ran faster But it caught me here Yes my loyalties turned Like my ankle In the seventh grade Running after Billy Running after the rain These precious things Let them bleed Let them wash away These precious things Let them break their hold over me He said you're really an ugly girl Buy I like the way you play And I died But I thanked him Can you believe that? Sick, holding on to his picture Dressing up every day I want to smash the faces Of those beautiful boys Those Christian boys So you can make me cum that doesn't make you Jesus These precious things Let them bleed Let them wash away These precious things Let them break their hold over me I remember Yes in my peach party dress No one dared No one cared To tell me where the pretty girls are Those demigods With their nine inch nails and little fascist panties tucked inside the heart Of every nice girl These precious things Let them bleed Let them wash away These precious things Let them break Let them wash away These precious things Let them bleed now Let them wash away These precious things Let them break their hold over me mika_'s rating:
14 8.2 Van Morrison - Wild Night
As you brush your shoes Stand before the mirror As you comb your hair Grab your coat and hat And you walk wet streets Trying to remember All the wild night breezes In your memory ever And everything looks so complete When you're walking out on the street And the wind catches your feet Sends you flying, crying Ooh-ooh wee Wild night is calling ooh-ooh wee Wild night is calling All the girls walk by Dressed up for each other And the boys do the boogie-woogie On the corner of the street And the people passing by Stare in wild wonder And the inside jukebox Roars out just like thunder And everything looks so complete When you walk out on the street And the wind catches your feet And sends you flying, crying Ooh-Ooh wee Wild night is calling Ooh-ooh wee Wild night is calling Well the wild night is calling The wild night is calling Come on out and dance Come on out and make romance Come on out and dance Come on out, make romance Wild night is calling Wild night is calling Come on out and dance Come on out and make romance Come on out and dance Come on out and make romance mika_'s rating:
1 8 Van Morrison - Brown Eyed Girl
Hey where did we go Days when the rains came Down in the hollow Playing a new game Laughing and a-running, hey, hey Skipping and a-jumping In the misty morning fog With out hearts a-thumping And you, my brown eyed girl You my brown eyed girl And whatever happened To Tuesday and so slow Going down the old mine With a transistor radio Standing in the sunlight laughing Hiding behind a rainbow's wall Slipping and a-sliding All along the waterfall With you, my brown eyed girl You my brown eyed girl Do you remember when We used to sing Sha la la la la la la la la la la te da Just like that Sha la la la la la la la la la la te da La te da So hard to find my way Now that I'm all on my own I saw you just the other day My, how you have grown Cast my memory back there, Lord Sometimes I'm overcome thinking about it Making love in the green grass Behind the stadium With you, my brown eyed girl You my brown eyed girl Do you remember when We used to sing Sha la la la la la la la la la la te da Sha la la la la la la la la la la te da Bit by bit by bit by bit by bit by bit Sha la la la la la la la la la la te da 
82 7.5 Counting Crows - Angels of the Silences
Well I guess you left me with some feathers in my hand Did it make it any easier to leave me where I stand? I guess there might not be too many who would stand beside you now Where'd you come from? Where am I going? Why'd you leave me 'til I'm only good for Waiting for you All my sins I said that I would pay for them if I could come back to you All my innocence is wasted on the dead and dreaming Every night these silhouettes appear above my head Little angels of the silences that climb into my bed and whisper Every time I fall asleep Every time I dream "Did you come? Would you lie? Why'd you leave us 'til we're only good for Waiting for you" All my sins I said that I would pay for them if I could come back to you All my innocence is wasted on the dead and dreaming I dream of Michelangelo when I'm lying in my bed Little angels hang above my head and read me like an open book And suck my blood, break my nerve, offer me their arms Well I will not be an enemy of anything I'll only stand here Waiting for you All my sins I said that I would pay for them if I could come back to you All my innocence is wasted on the dead and dreaming I'm gone, I'm gone, I believe today I'm gone I'm gone, I'm gone, take me away I'm gone I'm gone, I'm gone, got to leave today I'm gone, I'm gone, I'm gone, I'm gone mika_'s rating:
19 6.8 Bad Religion - The Voracious March of Godliness
Since the start of the 17th century There's been the scent of unseasoned wood burning in the air And the conquest of nature meant nothing at all While we betray exception we take all that's there But motives are translucent in the reflection of shame The actions ghostly remnants of our ancestral ways And unwittingly you just take your place in this parade The voracious march of Godliness makes us all the same anyway Since the dawn of our human family There's been concentrated sepsis blowing in the breeze And we turned on each other with ferocity Desperation, forced, without reprieve But the missions were misguided and the trammeled led astray The air resounds with thunder as the victor seized the day And the haunting voice of history lives ignored but not betrayed The voracious march of Godliness will get us close to Heaven one day mika_'s rating:
7 9.2 Iron & Wine - White Tooth Man
Said the plain clothes cop to the beauty queen "I've seen nothing but a spoke in a wheel" So she gave up her crown to a kid with a crutch And they both felt cheated after closing the deal And the white tooth man, I ran with him Got all cut up from pissing out in the weeds And a fight upstate with a broken blade And a wife whose finger never wanted a ring Said the plain clothes cop to the Indian Chief "I've made nothing but an honest mistake" The postman cried while reading the mail And we all got trampled in the Christmas parade And the white tooth man who sold me a gun A map of Canaan and a government bond Said, "I love this town but it ain't the same" The ski mask ripped as he was putting it on Said the plain clothes cop to the Holy Ghost "I've heard nothing if it wasn't the wind" And we all got sick on a strip club meal While the statehouse was frying all the witches again So the white tooth man with his kids in the car And a wad of money that was already spent Said, "I love my dog but she just ran away She'll keep running like the world never ends" mika_'s rating:
39 6.6 Bad Religion - American Jesus
I don't need to be a global citizen 'Cause I'm blessed by nationality I'm a member of a growing populace We enforce our popularity There are things that seem to pull us under and There are things that drag us down But there's a power and a vital presence It's lurking all around We've got the American Jesus See him on the interstate We've got the American Jesus He helped build the president's estate I feel sorry for the Earth's population 'Cause so few live in the U.S.A. At least the foreigners can copy our morality They can visit but they cannot stay Only precious few can garner our prosperity It makes us walk with renewed confidence We got a place to go when we die And the Architect resides right here We've got the American Jesus Bolstering national faith We've got the American Jesus Overwhelming millions every day He's the farmer's barren fields, the force the army wields Expressions on the faces of the starving millions The power of the man, the fuel that drives the klan He's the motive and the conscience of the murderer He's the preacher on TV, the false sincerity The form letter that's written by the big computers The nuclear bombs, the kids with no moms And I'm fearful that He's inside me (In God we trust Because He's one of us Break down, cave in He can redeem your sin Strong heart, clear mind And infinitely kind You lose, we win He is our champion) We've got the American Jesus See him on the interstate We've got the American Jesus Exercising his authority We've got the American Jesus Bolstering national faith We've got the American Jesus Overwhelming millions every day One nation, under God One nation, under God mika_'s rating:
 
8 8 Iron & Wine - Serpent Charmer
There's a woman hater with a broken record player And a dusty compass off to map the country's new behavior Strange words and we all roll back into the river Brave boys in the empty coats of men There's a kitchen timer, distractions and reminders Rolly-pollies slowly crawling 'cross your family china Strange words and we all roll back into the river And dead dogs only want to live again There's a serpent charmer, pair of shoes in wander Speeding ticket you got leading that last lamb to slaughter Strange words and we all roll back into the river Good girls come and kick you in the shin There's a hopeful hunter with a helpless sense of wonder And a million claw marks on the rock he hid his money under Strange words and we all roll back into the river And made men only want to live again mika_'s rating:
16 8.1 Andrew Bird - Anonanimal
I see a sea anemone The enemy See a sea anemone And that'll be the end of me While the vicious fish was caught unawares in the tenderest of tendrils Underneath her tender gills I will become this animal Perfectly adapted to the music halls I will become this animal Anomalous appendages A non-animal Hold on just a second Don't tell me this one you know I know this one I know this song I know this one I love this song Hold on just a second Don't tell me this one you know I know this one I know this song I know this one I love this song I know this one Underneath the stalactites The troglobites lost their sight Uh oh The seemingly innocuous plecostomus Though posthumous They talk to us They talk too much See a sea anemone The enemy See a sea anemone That'll be the end of me Vicious fish was caught unawares In the tenderest tendrils Underneath her tender gills and I will become this animal Perfectly adapted to a music hall I will become this animal Anomalous appendages A non-animal mika_'s rating:
47 8.5 Andrew Bird - Heretics
Bored holes through our tongues So sing a song about it Held our breath for too long ‘Til we're half sick about it Tell us what we did wrong And you can blame us for it Turn a clamp on our thumbs We'll sew a doll about it And tell us all about it How ‘bout some credit now Where credit is due For the damage that we've done? Wrought upon ourselves and others With a slow and vicious gun And although pratfalls can be fun Encores can be fatal And then I hear you say "Thank God it's fatal Thank God it's fatal Not shy Not shy of fatal Not shy of fatal Thank God" Wait just a second now It's not all that bad Don't you count out the sun. You're making mountains of handkerchiefs Where the mascara always runs So be careful when you're done You're bound to get post-nasal What, did I just hear you say? "Thank God it's fatal" We don't want to hear the sound of a door And we don't want to read the signs that you bore You know, the kind of sign you hang on the door Saying, "we'll be back," what a crack Now don't you think we might have heard that before? Bored holes through our tongues So sing a song about it Held our breath for too long ‘Til we're half sick about it Tell us what we did wrong And you can blame us for it Turn a clamp on our thumbs We'll sew a doll about it mika_'s rating:
3 10 Propagandhi - Purina Hall of Fame
Sleeping masters roused to burning homes from beds Steeping toddlers plucked from their watery deaths Ribbons, plaques, and soft-soap are the ephemeral rewards Paid to the slaves whose selfless acts accord A higher value to their masters While parting gifts (bolt pistols) Console the rest, the remainder Too bad the tribute's paid to lives that relegate these thrones To lives spent valuing the runners-up, are known To be neither fleeting nor desirable, but nothing surprises me these days I just sit and watch the boxcars roll by and wait Patient Unattended So patient So unattended A package under A terminal bench and A short fuse to scatter Steady hands if I forget to remember That better lives have Been lived in The margins and Locked in the prisons And lost on the gallows Than have ever been enshrined in palaces It's not your fault There's nothing you can do It's just the way it is There's nothing we can do mika_'s rating:
3 7.5 Propagandhi - America's Army
"Die Jugend marschiert mit frohem Gesang Bei Sonnenschein und Regen Die Jugend marschiert mit sieghaftem Drang Dem großen Ziel entgegen Wir stürmen die Welt, geh'n fest unser'n Schritt Wer jung ist der fügt sich freilich mit Die Jugend marschiert, kein Pfad ist zu steil dem Siege entgegen zu eil'n Sieg Heil!" Welcome to the offices of Economic and Manpower Analyses Here at our historic and sprawling West Point Academy campus! My name is Mindy! It is my distinct pleasure To introduce you to a father A loving father of three (And a champion of the sanctioned Use of armed force In pursuit of policy objectives) Ladies and gentlemen, put your hands together for The project director of our newest recruitment strategy Our mission to staff future combat systems Through current technologies Without any further ado I give to you Colonel Casey Wardynski Thank you! Let me begin With some sentimental appeals to our national myths Assorted cliches coined by the state Ideological shorthand meant to sweep your private doubts away Of this virtual training course This portal, this Trojan Horse That you living idiots paid for And actually rolled into Your own kids' rooms Did I just say that out loud? Oh well it's not like it's something new It's just the logical extension of The decades of bilge water that you Have let us pump into your homes The pink noise that hums away In the background while you run The gauntlet we force on you everyday The billowing candy floss That helps to soften the blows Deep down you've always known Your children already belong To us so why don't you cut the outraged parent routine Shut your mouth and get back in your seat Your children already belong To us. What are you? You will pass on And they won't know a fucking thing But this 'community,' this real life Ender's Game Forget what you think you know Forget what you think you know mika_'s rating:
92 6.9 AFI - Days of the Phoenix
I remember when I was told of story of crushed velvet, candle wax and dried up flowers The figure on the bed All dressed up in roses, calling, beckoning to sleep, offering a dream Words were as mystical as purring animals The circle of rage, the ghosts on the stage appeared The time was so tangible, I'll never let it go Ghost stories handed down reached secret tunnels below No one could see me I fell into yesterday Our dreams seemed not far away I want to, I want to, I want to stay I fell into fantasy Words were as mystical as purring animals The circle of rage, the ghosts on the stage appeared The time was so tangible, I'll never let it go Ghost stories handed down reached secret tunnels below No one could see me I fell into yesterday Our dreams seemed not far away I want to, I want to, I want to stay I fell into fantasy The girl on the wall always waited for me And she was always smiling The teenage death boys, the teenage death girls And everyone was dancing Nothing could touch us then, no one could change us then Everyone was dancing Nothing could hurt us then, no one could see us then Everyone was dancing No one could see me I fell into yesterday Our dreams seemed not far away I want to, I want to, I want to stay I fell into fantasy Our dreams seemed not far away I fell into fantasy mika_'s rating:
68 7.9 Iron & Wine - Upward Over the Mountain
Mother don't worry, I killed the last snake that lived in the creek bed Mother don't worry, I've got some money I saved for the weekend Mother remember being so stern with that girl who was with me? Mother remember the blink of an eye when I breathed through your body? So may the sunrise bring hope where it once was forgotten Sons are like birds, flying upward over the mountain Mother I made it up from the bruise on the floor of this prison Mother I lost it, all of the fear of the Lord I was given Mother forget me now that the creek drank the cradle you sang to Mother forgive me, I sold your car for the shoes that I gave you So may the sunrise bring hope where it once was forgotten Sons could be birds, taken broken up to the mountain Mother don't worry, I've got a coat and some friends on the corner Mother don't worry, she's got a garden we're planting together Mother remember the night that the dog had her pups in the pantry? Blood on the floor, fleas on their paws, and you cried till the morning So may the sunrise bring hope where it once was forgotten Sons are like birds, flying always over the mountain mika_'s rating:
169 7.4 Counting Crows - Anna Begins
My friend assures me, "It's all or nothing" I am not worried, I am not overly concerned My friend implores me, "For one time only Make an exception" I am not worried Wrap her up in a package of lies, send her off to a coconut island I am not worried, I am not overly concerned about the status of my emotions "Oh," she says, "you're changing" We're always changing It does not bother me to say this isn't love 'Cause if you don't want to talk about it then it isn't love And I guess I'm gonna have to live with that But I'm sure there's something in a shade of gray or something in between And I can always change my name, if that's what you mean My friend assures me, "It's all or nothing" But I am not really worried, I am not overly concerned You try to tell yourself the things you try to tell yourself To make yourself forget, to make yourself forget I am not worried "If it's love," she said, "then we're going to have to think about the consequences" And she can't stop shaking and I can't stop touching her And this time when kindness falls like rain, it washes her away And Anna begins to change her mind "These seconds when I'm shaking leave me shuddering for days," she says And I'm not ready for this sort of thing But I'm not gonna break and I'm not gonna worry about it anymore I'm not gonna bend and I'm not gonna break, I'm not going to worry about it anymore It seems like I should say, "as long as this is love" But it's not all that easy so maybe I should Snap her up in a butterfly net, pin her down on a photograph album I am not worried, I've done this sort of thing before But then I start to think about the consequences And I don't get no sleep in a quiet room And then this time when kindness falls like rain It washes me away and Anna begins to change my mind Every time she sneezes I believe it's love And, Oh Lord, I'm not ready for this sort of thing She's talking in her sleep, it's keeping me awake And Anna begins to toss and turn And every word is nonsense but I understand And, Oh Lord, I'm not ready for this sort of thing Her kindness bangs a gong It's moving me along And Anna begins to fade away It's chasing me away She disappears and Oh Lord, I'm not ready for this sort of thing mika_'s rating:
3 8 The National - Karen
Karen, I'm not taking sides I don't think I'll ever do that again I'll end up winning and I won't know why I'm really trying to shine here, I'm really trying You're changing clothes and closing windows on me all the time Well, whatever you do, listen, you better wait for me No, I wouldn't go out alone into America Whatever you do Listen, you better wait for me No, I wouldn't go out alone Karen, we should call your father, maybe it's just a phase He'll know the trick to get a wayward soul to change his ways It's a common fetish for a doting man To ballerina on the coffee table cock in hand Well, whatever you do Listen, you better wait for me No, I wouldn't go out alone into America Whatever you do Listen, you better wait for me No, I wouldn't go out alone Without warm water in my head All I see is black and white and red I feel mechanical and thin Hear me play my violin again I'm living in the target's shoes All I see is black and white and blue. Idle, idle, idle, idle, protect the nest Protect the title Karen, put me in a chair, fuck me and make me a drink I've lost direction, and I'm past my peak I'm telling you this isn't me No, this isn't me Karen, believe me, you just haven't seen my good side yet Well, whatever you do Listen, you better wait for me No, I wouldn't go out alone into America Whatever you do Listen, you better wait for me No, I wouldn't go out alone Without warm water in my head All I see is black and white and red I feel mechanical and thin Hear me play my violin again I'm living in the target's shoes All I see is black and white and blue Idle, idle, idle, idle, protect the nest Protect the title I must be me, I'm in my head Black birds are circling my bed I must be me, I must be me Black feathers are falling on my feet Idle, idle, idle, idle, protect the nest Protect the title Idle, idle, idle, idle, protect the nest Protect the title 
3 8 Iron & Wine - House by the Sea
There is a house by the sea Two jealous sisters there waiting for me And one is laid on the floor And one is changing the locks on her doors But I've been buying their time on my knees And I've been selling them blankets to bleed on Around the house by the sea The scent of roses and raspberry leaves And there is smoke in my clothes Too much time with just smoke in my nose But I've been making the meaning they lack And I've been burning that book they come back to There is a house by the sea And an ocean between it and me And like the shape of a wave The jealous sisters will sing on my grave I've been living to run where they've led And I've been dying to rise from their bed But I've been sparing my neck from their chain And they've been changing the sound of my name And I've been swimming to them in my sleep But I've been dreaming our love and our freedom 
7 9.5 Counting Crows - Mr. Jones
Sha la la la la la la, hmm, uh huh I was down at the New Amsterdam Staring at this yellow-haired girl Mr. Jones strikes up a conversation With a black-haired flamenco dancer You know she dances while his father plays guitar So she's suddenly beautiful And we all want something beautiful Man I wish I was beautiful So come dance this silence down through the morning Sha la la la la la la la yeah, uh huh yeah Curl up, Maria! Show me some of that Spanish dancing And pass me a bottle, Mr. Jones Believe in me, Help me believe in anything 'Cause I, I wanna be someone who believes, yeah Mr. Jones and me tell each other fairy tales And we stare at the beautiful women "She's looking at you. Ah, no, no, she's looking at me" Smiling in the bright lights Coming through in stereo When everybody loves you, you can never be lonely Well, I'm gonna paint my picture Paint myself in blue and red and black and gray All of the beautiful colors are very very meaningful Yeah, well you know gray is my favorite color I felt so symbolic yesterday If I knew Picasso I would buy myself a gray guitar and play Mr. Jones and me look into the future Yeah, we stare at the beautiful women "She's looking at you. I don't think so. She's looking at me" Standing in the spotlight I bought myself a gray guitar When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely I wanna be a lion Everybody wants to pass as cats We all wanna be big, big stars Yeah but we've got different reasons for that Believe in me because I don't believe in anything And I want to be someone to believe Mr. Jones and me stumbling through the barrio Yeah we stare at the beautiful women "She's perfect for you, Man, there's got to be somebody for me" I wanna be Bob Dylan Mr. Jones wishes he was someone just a little more funky When everybody loves you, son That's just about as funky as you can be Mr. Jones and me staring at the video When I look at the television I wanna see me staring right back at me We all wanna be big stars But we don't know why and we don't know how But when everybody loves me I wanna be just about as happy as I could be Mr. Jones and me, we're gonna be big stars 
37 7.7 Counting Crows - She Don't Want Nobody Near
She don't want nobody near But you can't get away from that They appear and disappear And they all get a string attached Pretty soon they got you hanging on the line Pretty soon they're singing one by one the same old rhyme They say, "I'm alright, I just can't get home tonight" She don't want nobody home 'Cause it's a little too crowded then But she don't wanna be alone So they just keep pouring in Pretty soon they got her headed for the door She comes home to fin That they're not hanging around no more She says "I'm alright, you just can't get home tonight" Don't you wonder what she looks like in the light? She says "I'm alright, I just can't get home tonight" Pretty whitewashed lies, endless alibis And the reasons that need cleaning every night Half a world away You can't wash away the stain of the deceiving And the things that you cannot believe, and well She don't want no one around 'Cause she don't want anybody to see What she looks like when she's down 'Cause that's a really sad place to be Pretty soon she gets them crawling up the walls Then she wonders why they beg her please to never call She says, "I'm ok. It's alright. Hey, look who's on TV tonight" She says, "I'm alright, I just can't get home tonight" Don't you wonder why it's dark outside at night? She says, "I'm alright, I just can't get home tonight" mika_'s rating:
13 8.4 Delerium featuring Sarah Mclachlan - Silence
Give me release Witness me I am outside Give me peace Heaven holds a sense of wonder And I wanted to believe That I'd get caught up When the rage in me subsides In this white wave I am sinking In this silence In this white wave In this silence I believe I can't help this longing Comfort me I can't hold it all in If you won't let me Heaven holds a sense of wonder And I wanted to believe That I'd get caught up When the rage in me subsides In this white wave I am sinking In this silence In this white wave In this silence I believe I have seen you In this white wave You are silent You are breathing In this white wave I am free 
60 8.1 The National - All the Wine
I'm put together beautifully Big wet bottle in my fists, big wet rose in my teeth I'm a perfect piece of ass Like every Californian So tall I take over the street With high-beams shining on my back A wingspan unbelievable I'm a festival, I'm a parade And all the wine is all for me And all the wine is all for me And all the wine is all for me I'm a birthday candle in a circle of black girls God is on my side 'Cause I'm the child bride I'm so sorry but the motorcade will have to go around me this time 'Cause God is on my side And I'm the child bride And all the wine is all for me And all the wine is all for me And all the wine is all for me I carry the dollhouse safe on my shoulders Through the black city, nightlights are on in the corners And everyone's sleeping upstairs All safe and sound All safe and sound I won't let the psychos around All safe and sound I won't let the psychos around I'm in a state, I'm in a state Nothing can touch us, my love I'm in a state, I'm in a state Nothing can touch us, my love mika_'s rating:
13 8.2 Joanna Newsom - Colleen
I'll tell it as I best know how And that's the way it was told to me I must have been a thief or a whore Then surely was thrown overboard Where they say I came this way from the deep blue sea It picked me up and tossed me round I lost my shoes and tore my gown I forgot my name And drowned Then woke up with the surf a-pounding It seemed I had been run aground Well they took me in and shod my feet And taught me prayers for chastity And said my name would be Colleen And I was blessed among all women To have forgotten everything And as the weeks and months ensued I tried to make myself of use I tilled and planted, but could not produce Not root, nor leaf, nor flower, nor bean; Lord It seemed I overwatered everything And I hate the sight of that empty air Like stepping for a missing stair And falling forth forever blindly Cannot grab hold of anything No, not I, most blessed among Colleens I dream some nights of a funny sea as soft as a newly born baby It cries for me pitifully And I dive for my child with a wildness in me And am so sweetly there received But last night came a different dream A gray and sloping-shouldered thing Said "What's cinched 'round your waist, Colleen? Is that my very own baleen? No! Have you forgotten everything?" This morning 'round the cape at dawn Some travelers sailed into town With scraps for sale and the saddest songs And a book of pictures, leather-bound, that Showed a whale with a tusk a meter long Well, I asked the man who showed it me "What is the name of that strange beast?" He said its name translated roughly to He-Who-Easily-Can-Curve-Himself-Against-The-Sky And I am without words He says, "My lady looks perturbed (The light is in your eyes, Colleen)" I said, "Whatever can you mean?" He leaned in and said "You ain't forgotten everything" "You dare to speak a lady's name?" He said, "My lady is mistaken I would not speak your name in this place And if I were to try then the wind I swear Would rise to tear you clean from me without a trace" "Have you come, then, to rescue me?" He laughed and said, "From what, 'Colleen'?" You dried and dressed most willingly You corseted and caught the dread disease By which one comes to know such peace" Well, it's true that I came to know such things as The laws which govern property And herbs to feed the babes that wean And the welting weight for every season But still I don't know any goddamned "Colleen" Then dive down there with the lights to lead That seem to shine from everything Down to the bottom of the deep blue sea Down where your heart beats so slow And you never in your life have felt so free Will you come down there with me? Down where our bodies start to seem like Artifacts of some strange dream Which afterwards you can't decipher And so, soon, have forgotten Everything 
14 6.6 Iron & Wine - Rabbit Will Run
Last I saw mother she rose from her chair When they caught me I'd just finished combing my hair 'Cause a rabbit will run and the colt hasn't long with the mare We've all learned the earth while we've carried the throne We dove under the rivers and under our clothes And I still have a prayer as sure as my settling bones Last I saw mother she covered my ears When they caught me I offered the captain a beer 'Cause the rabbit will run and the lion has nothing to fear We bricked up the garden and know what it means And we've all kissed a virgin as if she were clean And I still have a prayer despite all the colors I've seen And judgment is just like a cup that we share I'll jump over the wall and I'll wait for you there Well past the weeds in our vision of things to come We've all heard the rooster and all been denied And we've seen through the haze and the spit in our eyes And I still have a prayer, a well-weathered word to the wise Last I saw mother she smelled like a rose When they caught me, the captain, he opened my nose 'Cause the rabbit will run and the wind takes a bird where it blows We've all traded lovers and woke up alone And we've clapped for the king though our fingers were cold And I still have a prayer 'cause I love what I cannot control Last I saw mother she acted surprised When they caught me, the captain, he cried like a child 'Cause the rabbit will run, good dogs together go wild We've all lived in grace at the end of the day And we've armed all the children we thought we betrayed And I still have a prayer but too few occasions to pray And judgment is just like a cup that we share I'll jump over the wall and I'll wait for you there Well past the weeds in our vision of things to come And we've all found a reason for hiding a gun And we've helped out a few if we've hurt anyone And I still have a prayer and, so be it, I've done what I've done Last I saw mother, she blew me a kiss When they caught me, the cuffs cut the blood from my wrist 'Cause the rabbit will run and the pig has to lay in it's piss We've all given half to the hand in our face We've all taken a stone from the holiest place And I still have a prayer and I've furthered the world in my wait mika_'s rating:
1 9 Conflict - This is the A.L.F.
What does direct action mean? It means that you are no longer prepared to sit back and allow terrible, cruel things to happen The cameraman in Ethiopia took direct action, he filmed the worst disaster that has ever happened to human beings He realized it was too enormous a problem to handle himself--so he took the films home in the hope other people would help. They did. Are you prepared to sit back any longer? Direct action in animal rights means causing economic damage to those who abuse and make profits from exploitation Start! It's possible to do things alone, slash tires, glue up locks Butchers, burger bars, the furriers, smash windows, bankrupt the lot Throw paint over shops and houses. Paint stripper works great on cars Chewing gum sticks well to fur coats. A seized engine just won't start Sand in the petrol tank means that delivery's going nowhere When the new death shop opens up make sure you're the first person to be there If the circus comes to town remember what goes up must come down Stop contributing to the abuse yourself--don't eat meat, don't buy leather Buy non-animal tested make up, herbal soap and shampoo's better Try and form a group of people that you know that you can trust And plan ambitious direct action, sometimes risky but a must Only when you have animal liberation will we obtain human freedom When the last vivisectionist's blade is snapped It will be that one step nearer to peace Direct action in the animal movement is sussed and strong And our final goal is not far off Animal lovers, vandals, hooligans, cranks Recognize the labels? They say we don't care about human beings We say all sentient beings, animal or human Have the right to live, free from pain, torture, and suffering They say because we are human and speak the same, we matter more Is our pain and suffering any greater or lesser than that of animals? Human v. animal rights is as much a prejudice as black v. white Or the Nazis versus the Jews An affront to our freedom Vivisection is a violation of human beings, the same as it is for animals We have a chemical world built on a pile of drugs to thanks for their experiments Drugs are designed for profit, manufactured to suppress symptoms Human freedom, animal rights: it's one struggle, one fight When animal abuse is stopped then human abuse will soon stop also An attitude of mind. "An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind" Start by protecting the weak, the defenseless, animals, the sick, the disabled Compassion and emotion are our most important safety values If we lose them, then we lose the vitality of life itself Emotional? Hooligans? Cranks? mika_'s rating:
20 7.5 Joni Mitchell - Big Yellow Taxi
They paved paradise And put up a parking lot With a pink hotel, a boutique And a swinging hot spot Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you've got Till it's gone They paved paradise And put up a parking lot They took all the trees Put 'em in a tree museum And they charged the people A dollar and a half just to see 'em Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you've got Till it's gone They paved paradise And put up a parking lot Hey farmer farmer Put away that DDT now Give me spots on my apples But leave me the birds and the bees Please! Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you've got Till it's gone They paved paradise And put up a parking lot Late last night I heard the screen door slam And a big yellow taxi Took away my old man Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you've got Till it's gone They paved paradise And put up a parking lot They paved paradise And put up a parking lot mika_'s rating:
66 7.8 Tori Amos - Spring Haze
Well, I know it's just a spring haze But I don't much like the look of it And if omens are a Godsend like men Breezing in Certain these clouds go somewhere Billowing out to somewhere In a single engine Cessna You say we'll never make it there So all we do is circle it Uh oh, let go, off on my way Unseen this eternal wanting Uh oh, way to go, so I get creamed Waiting for Sunday to drown Uh oh, way to go, waiting on Sunday Waiting on Sunday to land Uh oh, way to go, waiting on Sunday Waiting on Sunday to drown So I know it's just a spring haze But I don't much like the look of it And all we do is circle it And I found out where my edge is And it bleeds into where you resist And my only way, way out Is to go so far in Billowing out to somewhere Billowing out Luna Riviera Billowing out to somewhere Uh oh, let go, off on my way Unseen this eternal wanting Let go, so if I really get creamed Waiting for Sunday to drown Waiting on Sunday to drown Why does it always end up like this? Why does it always end up like this? Why does it always end up like this? Let go, uh oh, off on my way Unseen this eternal wanting Let go, way to go, before I get creamed Waiting on Sunday to drown Uh oh, way to go, waiting on Sunday Waiting on Sunday to land Uh oh, waiting on, waiting on Sunday Waiting on Sunday to drown Waiting on Sunday to drown Waiting on Sunday Waiting on Sunday to land Uh oh, so if I really get creamed I'm waiting for Sunday to drown mika_'s rating:
68 7.9 Tom Waits - Get Behind the Mule
Molly Be Damned smote Jimmy the Harp With a horrid little pistol and a lariat She's going to the bottom and she's going down the drain Said she wasn't big enough to carry it She got to get behind the mule, yeah in the morning and plow Got to get behind the mule in the morning and plow You got to get behind the mule in the morning and plow Get behind the mule in the morning and plow Choppity chop goes the axe in the woods You gotta meet me by the fall down tree Shovel of dirt upon a coffin lid And I know they'll come looking for me, boys I know they'll come looking for me Got to get behind the mule, yeah in the morning and plow Get behind the mule in the morning and plow Get behind the mule in the morning and plow Get behind the mule in the morning and plow Big Jack Earl was eight foot one And he stood in the road and he cried He couldn't make her love him, couldn't make her stay But tell the good Lord that he tried Got to get behind the mule, yeah in the morning and plow Get behind the mule in the morning and plow, yeah You got to get behind the mule in the morning and plow You got to get behind the mule in the morning and plow Dusty trail from Atchison to Placerville On the wreck of the Weaverville stage Beaula fired on Beatty for a lemonade I was stirring my brandy with a nail, boys Stirring my brandy with a nail Got to get behind the mule in the morning and plow Get behind the mule in the morning and plow You got to get behind the mule in the morning and plow, yeah Get behind the mule in the morning and plow Well, the rampaging sons of the widow James Jack the Cutter and the Pockmarked Kid Had to stand naked at the bottom of the cross And tell the good Lord what they did Tell the good Lord what they did You got to get behind the mule, yeah in the morning and plow Get behind the mule, yeah, in the morning and plow You got to get behind the mule in the morning and plow Get behind the mule in the morning and plow Punctuated birds on the power line In a Studebaker with Birdie Joe Hoaks I'm digging all the way to China with a silver spoon While the hangman fumbles with the noose, boys The hangman fumbles with the noose You got to get behind the mule in the morning and plow Get behind the mule in the morning and plow You got to get behind the mule in the morning and plow Get behind the mule in the morning and plow Pin your ear to the wisdom post Pin your eye to the line Never let the weeds get higher than the garden Always keep a sapphire in your mind Always keep a diamond in your mind You got to get behind the mule in the morning and plow Got to get behind the mule in the morning and plow Got to get behind the mule in the morning and plow Got to get behind the mule in the morning and plow mika_'s rating:
13 7.3 Counting Crows - Cowboys
Cowboys on the road tonight Crying in their sleep If I was a hungry man with a gun in my hand And some promises to keep Who wanted to change the world What's as easy as murder? It's all headlights and vapor trails And Circle K killers And I know I could look at anyone but you now I could fall into the eyes of anyone but you now, now, now, now So come on, come on, come on, oh come on through now Come on, come on, come on, oh come on through now This is a list of what I should have been but I'm not This is a list of the things that I should have seen But I'm not seeing the look in your eyes As his fingertips lit on your neck and it made you shiver I'm just turning away from where I should have been Because I am not anything, oh anything, oh The president's in bed tonight But he can't get to sleep 'Cause all the cowboys on the radio are killers And I believe she loves you 'Cause you never make her feel like anything She said I wouldn't feel a thing But I can feel, oh I can feel And I know I could look at anyone but you now I could fall into the arms of anyone but you now, now, now, now So come on, come on, come on, oh come on through now Come on, come on, come on, oh come on through now This is a list of what I should have been but I'm not This is a list of the things that I should have seen But I am not seeing the look in your eyes As his finger's unzipping your dress and it makes you shiver I'm just turning away from what I shouldn't see Because I am not anything, oh anything, no Everyone's in bed tonight but nobody can sleep 'Cause all the satellites are watching through our windows She says she doesn't love me like she's acting But it's as if she isn't talking 'Cause Mr. Lincoln's head is bleeding On the front row while she's speaking I said come on all you cowboys All you blue-eyed baby boys Oh, come on all you dashing gentlemen of summer I'll wait for you where Saturday's a memory And Sunday comes to gather me Into the arms of God who'll welcome me Because I'll believe, oh I believe And I know I could look at anyone but you now I could fall into the eyes of anyone but you now, now, now, now So come on, come on, come on, oh come on through now Come on, come on, come on, oh come on through now This is a list of what I should have been but I'm not This is a list of the things that I should have seen But I'm not seeing you look at me So please, won't you look at me? 'Cause I'm not seeing you look at me Oh, I will make you look at me Or I am not anything Oh anything, no no no, no no no mika_'s rating:
50 7.9 The National - Lemonworld
So happy I was invited Gave me a reason to get out of the city See you inside watching swarms on TV Living and dying in New York, it means nothing to me I gave my heart to the army The only sentimental thing I could think of With cousins and cousins somewhere overseas But it'll take a better war to kill a college man like me I'm too tired to drive anywhere Anyway right now, do you care if I stay? You can put on your bathing suits And I'll try to find something on this thing that means nothing enough Losing my breath Losing my breath You and your sister live in a Lemonworld I want to sit in and die You and your sister live in a Lemonworld You and your sister live in a Lemonworld I want to sit in and die You and your sister live in a Lemonworld This pricey stuff makes me dizzy I guess I've always been a delicate man It takes me a day to remember a day I didn't mean to let it get so far out of hand I was a comfortable kid But I don't think about it much anymore Lay me on the table, put flowers in my mouth And we can say that we invented a summer loving torture party I'm too tired to drive anywhere Anyway right now, do you care if I stay? You can put on your bathing suits And I'll try to find something on this thing that means nothing enough You and your sister live in a Lemonworld I want to sit in and die You and your sister live in a Lemonworld You and your sister live in a Lemonworld I want to sit in and die You and your sister live in a Lemonworld mika_'s rating:
8 7.8 Sarah Mclachlan - World On Fire
Hearts are worn in these dark ages You're not alone in this story's pages Night has fallen amongst the living and the dying And I try to hold it in, yeah I try to hold it in The world's on fire and It's more than I can handle I dive into the water I try to bring my share I try to bring more More than I can handle Bring it to the table Bring what I am able I watch the heavens but I find no calling Something I can do to change what's coming Stay close to me while the sky is falling Don't wanna be left alone, don't wanna be alone The world's on fire and It's more than I can handle I dive into the water I try to bring my share I try to bring more More than I can handle Bring it to the table Bring what I am able Hearts break, hearts mend Love still hurts Visions clash, planes crash Still there's talk of Saving souls, still the cold Is closing in on us We part the veil on our killer sun Stray from the straight line on this short run The more we take, the less we become A fortune of one that means less for some The world's on fire and It's more than I can handle I dive into the water I try to bring my share I try to bring more More than I can handle Bring it to the table Bring what I am able mika_'s rating:
18 6.4 Ani DiFranco - What If No One's Watching
If my life were a movie There would be a sunset And the camera would pan away But the sky is just a little sister Tagging along behind the buildings Trying to imitate their gray The little boys are breaking bottles Against the sidewalk The big boys, too The girls are hanging out at the candy store Pumping quarters into the phone 'Cause they don't want to go home And I think What if no one's watching What it when we're dead, we are just dead What if it's just us down here What if God ain't looking down what if He's looking up instead If my life were a movie I would light a cigarette And the smoke would curl around my face Everything I do would be interesting I'd play the good guy In every scene But I always feel I have to Take a stand And there's always someone on hand To hate me for standing there I always feel I have to open my mouth And every time I do I offend someone Somewhere But what What if no one's watching What if when we're dead, we are just dead What if there's no time to lose What if there's things we gotta do Things that need to be said You know I can't apologize For everything I know I mean you don't have to agree with me But once you get me going You better just let me go We have to be able to criticize What we love Say what we have to say 'Cause if you're not trying to make something better Then as far as I can tell You are just in the way I mean what What if no one's watching What if when we're dead, we are just dead What if it's just us down here What if God is just an idea Someone put in your head I mean what What if no one's watching What if no one's watching If my life were a movie There would be a sunset And the camera would pan away But the sky is just a little sister Tagging along behind the buildings Trying to imitate their gray What if no one's watching What if no one's watching 
1 8 Kim Richey - A Place Called Home
Well, it's not hard to see Anyone who looks at me Knows I am just a rolling stone Never landing anyplace to call my own To call my own Well, it seems like so long ago But it really ain't you know I started out a crazy kid Miracle I made it through, the things I did The things I did Someday I'll go where there ain't no rain or snow 'Til then, I travel alone And I make my bed with the stars above my head And dream of a place called home I had a chance to settle down Get a job and live in town Work in some old factory I never liked the foreman standing over me Over me I'd rather walk a winding road Rather know the things I know See the world with my own eyes No regrets, no looking back, no goodbyes No goodbyes Someday I'll go where there ain't no rain or snow 'Til then, I travel alone And I make my bed with the stars above my head And I dream of a place called home mika_'s rating:
66 8.3 The National - Mistaken for Strangers
You have to do it running but you do everything that they ask you to 'Cause you don't mind seeing yourself in a picture As long as you look far away As long as you look removed Showered and blue-blazered Fill yourself with quarters Showered and blue-blazered Fill yourself with quarters You get mistaken for strangers by your own friends When you pass them at night under the silvery, silvery Citibank lights Arm in arm in arm and eyes and eyes glazing under Oh, you wouldn't want an angel watching over Surprise, surprise, they wouldn't wanna watch Another uninnocent, elegant fall into the unmagnificent lives of adults Make up something to believe in your heart of hearts So you have something to wear on your sleeve of sleeves So you swear you just saw a feathery woman Carry a blindfolded man through the trees Showered and blue-blazered Fill yourself with quarters Showered and blue-blazered Fill yourself with quarters You get mistaken for strangers by your own friends When you pass them at night under the silvery, silvery Citibank lights Arm in arm in arm and eyes and eyes glazing under Oh, you wouldn't want an angel watching over Surprise, surprise, they wouldn't wanna watch Another uninnocent, elegant fall into the unmagnificent lives of adults You get mistaken for strangers by your own friends When you pass them at night under the silvery, silvery Citibank lights Arm in arm in arm and eyes and eyes glazing under Oh, you wouldn't want an angel watching over Surprise, surprise, they wouldn't wanna watch Another uninnocent, elegant fall into the unmagnificent lives of adults mika_'s rating:
12 8.4 Cocteau Twins - Frou-Frou Foxes in Midsummer Fires
I buckle and rosed As God and the rest (wrist) How mere riches be A war or we lose Close into symbols A fly drinks the ignitions (indications) They turn infant's breath my Milk and wrap to her baby In day And night to come I buckle and rosed As God and the rest (wrist) How mere riches be A war or we lose Close into symbols A fly drinks the ignitions (indications) They turn infant's breath my Milk and wrap to her baby In day And night to come Their little hands Smooth all things Ad nauseum Singed by it, pulled around of my blazening (Pulled round) Eyes on the usually science of cherry-colored (Trousers) Limelight not the music it's plain as as can be so (Tighter) All of the time I improvise by making sure (Tighter) It's to wait for you Rounder Pulled rounder Pulled rounder Pulled rounder Singed by it, pulled around of my blazening (Pulled round) Eyes on the usually science of cherry-colored (Trousers) Limelight not the music it's plain as as can be so (Tighter) All of the time I improvise by making sure (Tighter) It's to wait for you Rounder Pulled rounder Pulled rounder Pulled rounder Pulled round Trousers Tighter Tighter Their fan I tickle From serpents to dragons I'd immerse you in flame Your milk and your passion Lead weight for his from his old turn The young, I was eagerest I'm losing the stars I enlisted to find you I buckle and rosed As God and the rest (wrist) How mere riches be A war all we lose Close into symbols A fly drinks the ignitions They turn infant's breath my Milk and wrap to her baby In day And night to come Their little hands Smooth all things Ad nauseum Things old And young Very young Rise here comes our reason of the stars I enlisted to find you Singed by it, pulled around of my blazening (Pulled round) Eyes on the usually science of cherry-coloursed (Trousers) Limelight not the music, it's plain as as can be so (Tighter) All of the time I improvise by making sure (Tighter) It's to wait for you Pulled round of Pulled round of Pulled round of Pulled round of Singed by it, pulled around of my blazening (Pulled round) Eyes on the usually science of cherry-coloursed (Trousers) Limelight not the music, it's plain as as can be so (Tighter) All of the time I improvise by making sure (Tighter) It's to wait for you Pulled round of Pulled round of Pulled round of Pulled round of 
3 7 Breaking rocks all day on the avenue It's hard to unearth anything that's true Soon I'm gonna drop this jack and run Returning to the wild where I'm from There's miles of stone, jack hammer in my hand There's compromises I cant comprehend Soon I am gonna lose these rags and run Returning to the wild where I'm from Returning to the wild where I'm from Between the bricks you'll hear the children play Their callouses get harder day by day Between the cracks you'll notice where I've gone Returning to the wild where I'm from Soon I am gonna loose these rags and run Returning to the wild where I'm from Returning to the wild where I'm from mika_'s rating:
0 0 Summer is lost now The frost is closing in To the cold gospel dollar The poor man walks in sin I can't get no entrance The doors all in rows I pray into the distance Let me out of these heavy clothes I beg Indian summer I need some return So hard to get warm now And so easy to get burned Down on the pavement the laws are learned It's so hard to get warm where It's so easy to get burned When a sister called up And said that love had broken down I said there too much ice around here To find no solid ground Well I just squeezed a season From this paper bag I pray to the burning tires Wrap my feet in rags Begging Indian summer I need some return It's so hard to get warm now And so easy to get burned Down on the pavement the laws are learned It's so hard to get warm where It's so easy to get burned Now the sky is empty The street is sweating tears Communion at the station For a million grinding gears Well I'm riding out this century The harvest engines sing From the church of mercenaries To a naked virgin spring I'm singing Indian summer I need some return It's so hard to get warm now And so easy to get burned Down on the pavement the laws are learned It's so hard to get warm where It's so easy to get burned Hard to get warm where It's so easy to get burned 
5 8.3 Ray LaMontagne - Acre of Land
I'm gonna buy me an acre of land Yes I'm gonna build me a home With my very own hands Gonna dig me a little garden And watch that garden grow And take it slow Take it slow Let it roll I'm gonna find me a high place to stand Then I'm gonna find me the girl Gonna take my hand Gonna have myself some children Watch those children grow And take it slow Let them grow Take it slow I'm gonna find me an acre of land Then I'm gonna build me a home With my very own hands Gonna plant me a little garden Watch that garden grow And take it slow Take it slow Let it roll mika_'s rating:
1 8 Propagandhi - Fixed Frequencies
Here in the land that Abraham was promised to receive We listen to you catechize from your pulpit overseas You mourn the proof of our barbarity Dry your eyes, O Pharisee, a settler's cant we both speak And we both read from the same old played out scripts and hum familiar tunes Fixed frequencies, stuck in locking grooves We both profess noble intent As we civilize human impediments If your hands are clean, then noblesse oblige That you wipe those "who me?" looks off of your faces and concede Our designs are separated by Nothing more than place and time Different scenes, same crimes Pray, let him whose without sin cast the first statues of Former rogues turned folk heroes That your grandfathers hung Don't lecture me about plundered soil While you loaf upon your father's spoils We want nothing more than what you already have A comforting set of exculpatory facts The myth of an empty land and a conquest so complete We can pull these tanks from our streets and Hand the loose ends over to bureaucrats and become just like you Lounging carefree in cafes, absolved from sin And human grenades, entre nous How did your desert bloom? 
1 8 Propagandhi - Devil's Creek
Take me back to those Sweltering summer days Bike down the gravel road To the creek outside the base Sun on skinny arms Chin on knobby knees Squatting in the cool Of the rotting of the reeds Enveloping No one here but me Never understood the other kids The adults even less So I hung out by myself In a backroad drainage ditch I called it Devil's Creek So it wouldn't seem so sad When you can't have what you want You learn to want what you have These adaptive preferences Have their way with you, shape world events In the wake of an ancient, shallow late Cretaceous sea Just this side of a clay-packed extinction boundary The biome breathing, buzzing, humming in the heat If I seem like I'm somewhere else, it's Devil's Creek mika_'s rating:
5 9.5 Face to Face - The Devil You Know (God Is a Man)
God is a man It's all right Everything is fine You live the perfect life Never one immoral thought inside your mind What they say Does it make you feel ashamed? Isn't everyone the same? Does it matter that it wasn't your idea God is a man You know for sure The knowledge in and of itself Is more than we deserve So you've tried And you've made up your mind Something's still not right The devil you don't know is still outside What they say Does it make you feel ashamed? Isn't everyone the same? Does it matter that it wasn't your idea God is a man You know for sure The knowledge in and of itself Is more than we deserve mika_'s rating:
1 10 Face to Face - Overcome
Fake, even when you're sure this time it's real Pain, isn't just defined by what you feel It isn't so wrong To be where you're from The image of what you are Can be overcome Angst, you'd cut out your heart to spite your mind Stay, even if it's just a waste of time It isn't so wrong To be where you're from The image of what you are Can be overcome It isn't so wrong To be where you're from The image of what you are Can be overcome I let my guard down I let my guard down I let my guard down 
5 9.6 Tori Amos - Crucify
Every finger in the room is pointing at me I want to spit in their faces then I get afraid what that could bring I got a bowling ball in my stomach, I got a desert in my mouth Figures that my courage would choose to sell out now I've been looking for a savior in these dirty streets Looking for a savior beneath these dirty sheets I've been raising up my hands, drive another nail in Just what God needs, one more victim Why do we crucify ourselves every day? I crucify myself and nothing I do is good enough for you I crucify myself every day I crucify myself and my heart is sick of being I said my heart is sick of being in chains Chains Got a kick for a dog begging for love I got to have my suffering so that I can have my cross I know a cat named Easter, he says, will you ever learn You're just an empty cage, girl, if you kill the bird I've been looking for a savior in these dirty streets Looking for a savior beneath these dirty sheets I've been raising up my hands, drive another nail in Got enough guilt to start my own religion Why do we crucify ourselves every day? I crucify myself and nothing I do is good enough for you I crucify myself every day I crucify myself and my heart is sick of being I said my heart is sick of being in chains Chains Please be Save me I cry Looking for a savior in these dirty streets Looking for a savior beneath these dirty sheets I've been raising up my hands, drive another nail in Where are those angels when you need them Why do we crucify ourselves every day I crucify myself and nothing I do is good enough for you I crucify myself every day I crucify myself and my heart is sick of being I said my heart is sick of being in chains Chains Why do we in chains Why do we crucify ourselves Crucify ourselves every day Why do we crucify ourselves Why do we crucify ourselves Chains Why do we crucify ourselves Chains Why do we crucify ourselves I'm never going back again to crucify myself again you know Why do we crucify ourselves I'm never going back again to crucify myself again every day 
1 8 Propagandhi - Mate Ka Moris Ukun Rasik An
Dickheads shit-talk huddled single file First World frat boys and prairie skinheads who will never walk a mile Or mourn a murdered friend in this tiny woman's shoes Drink up and mumble your abuse, I'm still humbled by it all And around the same time I was riding with no hands Busting windows and getting busy behind the Sportsplex With Laplante's older sister decked out in Her Speedos, Bella was flinching from the sting Of a Depo-Provera family planning, her own Pearl Harbor And a holocaust spanning 25 years to life A prison my country underwrote in paradise And in the shadows of Santa Cruz She crossed her fingers behind her back And built Suharto a Trojan horse And lay still till the motherfuckers sent her north Where as night fell she emerged With a box under her arm That held her pledge of allegiance and her uniform And she laid it at the gates Of the General's embassy And her whisper echoed into dawn As she disappeared "The truth will set my people free" 
3 8.3 Chuck Ragan - The Boat
Some days we're ripped and torn away From the shore and tossed to a watery grave Set adrift in the depths of the drink in the hands of the gods we curse We call for help when no one's around Shot down fleeting thoughts never make a sound Set adrift in the depths of the dark in the heart of the sea where we wish I feel it in my bones when the storm is close Then await for the rain and the wind to blow As dark colors fill the sky I'm drenched and feeling so alive Eyes closed tight my ears open for the boat We all carry the tune we love Think of home when the waves and the going get tough Hold our breath and go down with the wish of just one last kiss to rest I feel it in my bones when the storm is close Then await for the rain and the wind to blow As dark colors fill the sky I'm drenched and feeling so alive Eyes closed tight my ears open for the boat mika_'s rating:
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jaytoast
Posted: 1 year, 2 months ago at Mar 3 21:33
Nice to see a lot of my favorites listed. I'll be checking out the bands that I haven't heard of before and who knows might find a few new favorites. Thanks for this list. I always enjoy your taste :)
gumbygillyweed
Posted: 9 months ago at Aug 16 1:09
do you have last.fm, we have similar tastes
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