Don't Forget the Lyrics
And everything looks so complete
When you're walkin' out on the street And the wind catches your feet And sends you flyin', cryin' - Wild Night Standin' in the sunlight laughin' Hidin' 'hind a rainbow's wall Slippin' and a-slidin' All along the waterfall With you, my brown eyed girl - Brown Eyed Girl 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 - Sweet Thing Meet them halfway with love, peace and persuasion And expect them to rise for the occasion Don't it gratify when you see it materialize Right in front of your eyes That surprise - Glad Tidings There and then all my dreams will come true, dear There and then I will make you my own And every time I touch you, you just tremble inside And I know how much you want me that you can't hide - Moondance mika_'s rating:
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 You'll ask me to pray for rain With ash in your mouth You'll ask it to burn again - Cinder and Smoke With his gun the pagan angel rose to say "My love is one made to break every bended knee" - Pagan Angel and a Borrowed Car 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 - White Tooth Man From your changing contentments What will you choose for to share? Someday drawing you different, May I be weaved in your hair? - Love and Some Verses mika_'s rating:
Betty said she prayed today
For the sky to blow away Or maybe stay She wasn't sure For when she thought of summer rain Calling for her mind again She lost the pain And stayed for more - River Man Been a long time that I've wandered through the people I have known. Oh, if you would and you could straighten my new mind's eye - Northern Sky Look through time and find your rhyme Tell us what you find We will wait at your gate Hoping like the blind - Way to Blue While the earth sinks to its grave You sail to the sky On the crest of a wave - Cello Song A day once dawned from the ground Then the night she fell And the air was beautiful The night she fell all around - From the Morning mika_'s rating:
I'll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past
So send me off to bed forevermore - Tango 'till They're Sore Don't say goodbye to me Describe the sky to me And if the sky falls mark My words - we'll catch mocking birds - Green Grass The large print giveth and the small print taketh away - Step Right Up How does the ocean rock the boat? How did the razor find my throat? The only strings that hold me here Are tangled up around the pier - Alice Sometimes I kill myself a jackal Suck out all the blood Steal myself a station wagon Driving through the mud - Whistlin' Past the Graveyard mika_'s rating:
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 'till we're only good for Waiting for you" - Angels of the Silences Every race night is shot through with sunlight - Another Horsedreamers' Blues We drove out to the desert just to lie down beneath this moat of stars We stand up in the palace like it's the last of the great pioneer town bars We shout out these songs against the clang of electric guitars You can see a million miles tonight but you can't get very far - Mrs. Potter's Lullaby Hey Mr., if you're gonna walk on water You know you're only gonna walk all over me - Omaha Don't you wonder what she looks like in the light? She says "I'm alright, I just can't get home tonight" - She Don't Want Nobody Near mika_'s rating:
What went before is not no more
It's the embers of People always catching names too late - Absinthe May there never be a time that you don't live through Be a star, be an altar, and I will hang it on you - Mount Washington Some of these thoughts Only seem to take me out of here - Thinking About Tomorrow Stepping through brilliant shades Of the color you bring But this time, this time, this time Is whatever I want it to mean - Central Reservation We're burning a new sunrise into Yesterday's skies An ashen fingerprint Melts into the sea - Daybreaker mika_'s rating:
"Ain't it just like the present
To be showing up like this" - Blood Bank Sky is womb and she's the moon - Flume There's a black crow sitting across from me; his wiry legs are crossed And he's dangling my keys, he even fakes a toss Whatever could it be That has brought me to this loss? - Re: Stacks Come on, skinny love, just last the year Pour a little salt, we were never here - Skinny Love Can't you find a clue when your eyes are all painted Sinatra blue - The Wolves (Act I and II) mika_'s rating:
She says I like long walks and sci-fi movies
If you're six foot tall and East Coast bred Some lonely night we can get together And I'm gonna tie your wrists with leather And drill a tiny hole into your head - Fake Palindromes Although pratfalls can be fun Encores can be fatal And then I hear you say Thank God it's fatal - Heretics We'll fight, we'll fight We'll fight for your music halls and dying cities They'll fight, they'll fight They'll fight for your neural walls and plasticities And precious territory - Plasticities You promise spring Still my lover won't return to me Wild parsnips scald my lungs And thistles are burning my feet - Souverian Tenuousness less seven comes to three Them you us plus eleven Comes just shy of infinity And that's for those who live and die for numerology - Tenuousness mika_'s rating:
Sweet reflection knife into me
For I see what I destroy - My Medea Though rain pounds harshly against the glass Like an unwanted stranger, there is no danger I am here tonight - Lullaby for a Stormy Night My lover sits, the silent eye In a hurricane of warmth and word - Passage I need not to need I've always been the tower But now I feel like I'm the flower Trying to bloom in snow - The Tower It's the season of bowing our heads in the wind And knowing we are not alone in fear Not alone in the dark - The Atheist Christmas Carol mika_'s rating:
All I really, really want our love to do
Is to bring out the best in me and in you I want to talk to you, I want to shampoo you I want to renew you again and again Applause, applause: Life is our cause - All I Want Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you've got until it's gone They paved paradise And put up a parking lot - Big Yellow Taxi Oh it gets so lonely When your walking And the streets are full of strangers - California I hope you got your heat turned on, baby I hope they finally fixed your automobile I hope it's better when we meet again, baby - This Flight Tonight I wish I had a river I could skate away on I wish I had a river so long I would teach my feet to fly - River mika_'s rating:
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 - American Jesus To live a life of hostility Never asking what it means When Mother Nation Blood and religion Sanction killing upon the Fields of Mars - Fields of Mars A grizzly scene on my electron beam Told a story about human rights So all the King's horses And all the King's men Had a riot For two days and nights - Don't Pray on Me History and future are the comforts of our curiosity but here we are Rooted in the present day, rooted in the present day Questions that besiege us in life are testament of our helplessness - No Control It's progress 'til there's nothing left to gain As the dearth of new ideas makes us wallow in our shame So before you go contribute more To the destruction of this world you adore Remember life on Earth is but a flash of dawn We're all part of it as the day rolls on - Progress mika_'s rating:
When you come to me, you come to me broke - Lorelai
Should I be sung and unbroken by not saying Still being cried and laughed at from behind me, from gains Hugged and tugged down through this tiger's masque for key - Cherry-Coloured Funk All of the time I improvise by making sure - Frou-Frou Foxes in Midsummer Fires Steal more treasures, steal more gifts This'll size creative lies Until we grow up - Summerhead I make up hundreds so I know how to make love There, you can have my youth - Blue Bell Knoll mika_'s rating:
I could make you satisfied in everything you do
All your secret wishes could right now be coming true And be forever with my poison arms around you - Angeles I don't want to walk around I don't even want to breathe I live in a southern town Where all you can do is grit your teeth - Southern Belle High on amphetamines The moon is a light bulb breaking It'll go around with anyone But it won't come down for anyone - St. Ides Heaven Don't be cross, it's sick what I want - Christian Brothers The people you've been before that you don't want around anymore That push and shove and won't bend to your will I'll keep them still - Between the Bars mika_'s rating:
You hear laughter
Cracking through the walls It sends you spinning You have no choice - Spellbound Your former glories and all the stories Dragged and washed with eager hands But, oh, your city lies in dust, my friend - Cities In Dust My chest was full of eels Pushing through my usual skin I opened up new wounds Pouting, shouting - Cascade Commit your crime in your deadly time - Face to Face Hold the whirlwind, don't let it blow I seemed to know the ghost in you - The Ghost In You mika_'s rating:
Turn the light out, say goodnight
No thinking for a little while Let's not try to figure out everything at once - Fake Empire 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 - Mistaken for Strangers I carry the dollhouse, safe on my shoulders Through the black city, night lights are on in the corners And everyone's sleeping upstairs - All the Wine I had a secret meeting in the basement of my brain It went the dull and wicked ordinary way - Secret Meeting Build a room for your love Take your time when you tell her How she lives in your blood - Val Jester mika_'s rating:
No loves as random
As God's love I can't stand it - Can't Stand It Our love is all of God's money Everyone is a burning sun - Jesus, Etc. If the whole world's singing your songs And all you're paintings have been hung Just remember what was yours is everyone's from now on - What Light You have to learn how to die If you wanna be alive - War On War God is with us everyday That illiterate light Is with us every night - Theologians mika_'s rating:
There's no need for me
With a girl that does yoga When we come over - Dogs I remember it well There was wet in your hair I was stood in the stair And time stopped moving - I Remember Killers reinvent and believe And this leans on me - Rootless Tree You give me miles and miles of mountains And I ask for the sea - Volcano I give my gun away when it's loaded Is that all right? Is that all right with you? - 9 Crimes mika_'s rating:
They've got the stars for the gallant hearts
I'm the replacement for your part But all I want to do is forget you, friend - Hammer Horror I can't be left to my imagination Let me be weak, let me sleep and dream of sheep - And Dream of Sheep I found a fox caught by dogs He let me take him in my hands His little heart, it beat so fast And I'm ashamed of running away - Hounds of Love Didn't we cry at that old mythology he'd read I will come home again, but not until The sun and the moon meet on yon hill - The Kick Inside These prints of our feet Lead right up to the sea - Nocturn mika_'s rating:
And if a double-decker bus
Crashes in to us To die by your side Is such a heavenly way to die - There Is a Light That Never Goes Out Do you know how animals die? - Meat is Murder It's so easy to laugh It's so easy to hate It takes strength to be gentle and kind - I Know It's Over I am the son and heir Of nothing in particular - How Soon Is Now Nature is a language, can't you read? - Ask mika_'s rating:
Three bodies lying there does Patty see
And another man named Bello, moving around mysteriously "I didn't do it," he says, and he throws up his hands, "I was only robbing the register, I hope you understand" - Hurricane "No reason to get excited," the thief, he kindly spoke, "There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke But you and I, we've been through that, and this is not our fate So let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late" - All Along the Watchtower Early one morning the sun was shining, I was laying in bed Wondering if she'd changed at all - Tangled Up In Blue Girl by the whirlpool looking for a new fool Don't follow leaders, watch the parking meters - Subterranean Homesick Blues The drunken politician leaps Upon the street where mothers weep And the saviors who are fast asleep, they wait for you - I Want You mika_'s rating:
With your feet in the air and your head on the ground
Try this trick and spin it Your head will collapse When there's nothing in it - Where Is My Mind? Must be a devil between us Or whores in my head - Hey Got hips like Cinderella Must be having a good shame Talking sweet about nothing - Tame He took his sister from his head And then painted her on the sheets - The Holiday Song Drive my car into the ocean You'll think I'm dead, but I sail away - Wave of Mutilation mika_'s rating:
I wanted to give you a letter,
Maybe take you down to the coast, But everyone has something special I guess I just wanted a ghost - Ghost Let me sing a song for you that alters your beliefs - This Is It She's inside me like a secret and I've got no one to tell Wandering like a fool through the halls of a blue hotel - Blue Hotel I wanna see you tonight Dancing in the endless moonlight In the parking lot, in the headlights of cars - Let It Ride Most of the time I got nothing to say When I do it's nothing and nobody's there to listen anyway I know I'm probably better off this way - I Taught Myself How to Grow Old mika_'s rating:
So you can make me cum, that doesn't make you Jesus - Precious Things
What you stole, I would have given freely - Code Red So I got me some horses To ride on, to ride on As longs as your army Keeps perfectly still - Horses And I found out where my edge is And it bleeds into where you resist And my only way out is to go So far in Billowing out to somewhere - Spring Haze Is there trouble ahead for you, the acrobat I won't push you unless you have a net - Sleeps with Butterflies mika_'s rating:
Standing on a corner
Suitcase in my hand Jack's in his corset, Jane is in her vest And me, I'm in a Rock 'n' Roll band - Sweet Jane Candy says I've come to hate my body And all that it requires in this world Candy says I'd like to know completely What others so discreetly talk about - Candy Says Just look into her false colored eyes She builds you up to just put you down - Femme Fatale I'll be the wind, the rain and the sunset The light on your door to show that you're home - I'll Be Your Mirror Thought of you as my mountain top Thought of you as my peak Thought of you as everything - Pale Blue Eyes mika_'s rating:
Pain works on a sliding scale
So does pleasure in a candy jail - The Candy Jail Do you believe in MGM endings Everybody's coming back to Christmas for Texas Folks who've watched their mother kill an animal know That their home is surrounded by places to go - Like Like the the the Death Suffering jukebox such a sad machine Your filled up with what other people need - Suffering Jukebox Punk rock died when the first kid said "Punk's not dead, punk's not dead" You know Louisville is death, we've got to up and move Because the dead do not improve - Tennessee "Romance is the douche of the bourgeoisie" Was the very first thing she imparted to me We had sarcastic hair, we used lewd pseudonyms We got a lot of stares on the street back then - San Francisco B.C. mika_'s rating:
I feel like I'm disappearing
Getting smaller every day But when I open my mouth to sing I'm bigger in every way - Tunic I wanted to know the exact dimension of hell Does this sound simple? Fuck you. Are you for sale? Does 'Fuck you' sound simple enough? - The Sprawl My future is static It's already had it I could tuck you in And we can talk about it - Schizophrenia I hope it's not too late for me It's too good on the sea Where the light is green - Jams Run Free Gotta change my mind before it burns out - Candle mika_'s rating:
I was just walking in the sand
I was just walking with my shoes in my hands Didn't have no plans - You Should Belong To Me It's hard to believe it Even as my eyes do see it The very things that make you live are killing you - Shelter Now you're clawing at my throat And you're crying all is lost But your tears they felt so hot upon my shirt - Lesson Learned There's nothing I want more than to wake up on your floor - Can I Stay When all your faith is gone Feels like you can't go home - Let It Be Me mika_'s rating:
If Adolf Hitler flew in today
They'd send a limousine anyway - (White Man) In Hammersmith Palais We will teach our twisted speech To the young believers We will train our blue-eyed men To be young believers - Clampdown What a relief I feel like a soldier Look like a thief - Jimmy Jazz Now first you must cure your temper Then you find a job in the paper You need someone for a savior Oh, Rudie can't fail - Rudie Can't Fail The ice age is coming, the sun's zooming in Meltdown expected, the wheat is growing thin Engines stop running, but I have no fear Because London is drowning and I, I live by the river - London Calling mika_'s rating:
But I believe that lovers should be tied together
And thrown into the ocean in the worst of weather And left there to drown - A Perfect Sonnet If you're ever gonna grow When crying don't help, you can't compose yourself It's best to compose a poem An honest verse of longing Or a simple song of hope - Bowl of Oranges Until we see the moon We're invisible - Down in a Rabbit Hole They fit together like a puzzle I love their love, and I am thankful That someone actually receives the prize that was promised - Waste of Paint With all these wishes I make, I should buy something real At least a telephone to call home - Let's Not Shit Ourselves (To Love and to Be Loved) mika_'s rating:
Standing on the bridge that crosses
The river that goes out to the sea The wind is full of a thousand voices They pass by the bridge and me - All Soul's Night Cast your eyes on the ocean Cast your soul to the sea When the dark night seems endless Please remember me - Dante's Prayer The poets of drumming Keep heartbeats suspended - Marrakesh Night Market What is that quest that pulls me onward My heart is full when you are by my side - Caravanserai And as I listened, your voice seemed so clear So calmly you were calling your god - Full Circle mika_'s rating:
On a bed of roses in the big sky country
Spread out to love you, love you in your second skin - Big Sky Country In the hours after washing I do my dreaming with a gun - Living with the Law I'll live anywhere you think you're from Far as it is in you - To Joy (Revolution of the Innocents) Statesmen and salesmen bend to kiss the ground Lawyers and losers hold hands and hang around - Accordingly Well the mist shall be your blanket While the moss shall ease your head As the future is soon forgotten As the dirt shall be your bed - Dirt Floor mika_'s rating:
I feel you in the pocket of my overcoat
My fingers wrap around your words And take the shape of games we play I feed your words through my buttonholes I pin them to my fingerless gloves They're green and prone to fraying - An Ocean and a Rock Seemly, we'd freely make a trade-off A dry rot to take the weight off Swap the boots for red shoes - Pistachio And though we are like the sea and it's right we be so We could chase tails all the years I've been given - Sea Song Put me back in the bottle Where the sea meets the sun Where the bones and their rattle Don't mean anything to no one - Teeth I read the time in shadows on the wall The shards of light through the slats on your window - Venn Diagram mika_'s rating:
In darkness I know you
The sunlight showers my rain Your movements obscure me, your laughter so lurid - Darker My Love I'm worse than death I'm the late night air, exhilarating I'm with you in the darkness, waiting - Silent Scream I can hear the sounds of laughter Could it be they're laughing at me I can hear the roar of thunder - Sounds of Laughter White horses dragged my lover from me The clouds rushed in and drowned my sorrow with the rain - Wash Away I creep on over to the mortuary Lift up the casket and fiddle with the dead Their cold blue flesh makes me turn red - Code Blue mika_'s rating:
I am a masquerade
Just a man-parade So I dance, I dance with you - Champs Elysees Don't confide in my smile ‘Cause jokers are wild - Joker in the Pack You can only stop and stare When your life unfolds And your soul is sold - Put Yourself in My Hand I’m a dreamer, I’m a dream I’m a fantasy addict I’m a ghost in a ghost town - Smart Alex Drink the wine from the rich man's cask This revolution won't be the last - Viva La Revolution mika_'s rating:
It's cold on the tollgate
God knows what I could do with you That's what it is - What It Is Behind my back Lord You made a fool of me Don't do jack And don't wait up for me - Hill Farmer Blues The folks line up all down the street And I'm seeing this girl devour her meat now And then I get it--wham--as clear as day - Boom, Like That They see her coming from a long, long way They clap their hands together when they get her in their store She's gonna wanna get more, more, more Imelda baby, Imelda baby what to do? All the poor people saying that they gotta quit paying for you - Imelda I bend to the wood and I coax it to sing - Monteleone mika_'s rating:
We'll crucify the insincere tonight
We'll make things right We'll feel it all tonight - Tonight, Tonight The killer in me is the killer in you My love I send this smile over to you - Disarm Today is the greatest Day I've ever known Can't live for tomorrow - Today Bullshit fakers, enchanted kingdoms The fashion victims chew their charcoal teeth - Zero In you I taste God In you I feel so hungry In you I crash cars We must never be apart - Ava Adore mika_'s rating:
This conversation, the alienation in your tone
I've got no fucking clue from your point of view and your time zone - National Steel There are your good friends and I like them fine These are your old streets and you know them well This is not my town and it will never be - Copied Keys I've got a long, long list of things That no one needs to see - Good Things Silence reminds me I'm a secret to dirty to keep - What Are You Waiting For? I won't paint a picture Of what you want to see - Run mika_'s rating:
There's nothing in my dreams
Just some ugly memories Kiss me like the ocean breeze - Gimme Danger Somebody gotta save my soul Baby penetrate my mind - Search and Destroy I need a lover with an alibi I wanna fall into a love so sweet - Your Pretty Face Is Going To Hell Now is the season for war with no reason - My Idea of Fun Let's move on out of here Raw power is sure to come Running to you - Raw Power mika_'s rating:
How about them engine breaks?
And, if I should die before I wake, Will you keep an eye on Baby Birch? Because I'd hate to see her Make the same mistakes - Baby Birch And we were galloping manic To the mouth of the source We were swallowing panic In the face of its force And I am blue I am blue and unwell Made me bolt like a horse - Peach, Plum, Pear I chew my lips and I scratch my nose Feels so good to be a rose - Clam, Crab, Cockle, Cowrie And no amount of talking Is going to soften the fall But, like after the rain, step out Of the overhang, that's all - Good Intentions Paving Company That the meteorite is a source of the light And the meteor's just what we see And the meteoroid is a stone that's devoid of the fire that propelled it to thee And the meteorite's just what causes the light And the meteor's how it's perceived And the meteoroid's a bone thrown from the void that lies quiet in offering to thee - Emily mika_'s rating:
You made me yours
With your lovely cures - Butterfly Since you were a child We've built our lives around you How am I supposed to live In this world we made without you - The Field Godless burning underneath the sun Don't sleep in the light (Let 'em come, let 'em come) - Godless I went in to the liquor store looking for a bottle Of my favorite Bombay gin, the answer to my problems But to my delight, the bottles were all taken Ah yeah, another hero's night - Ulysses Where's my golden crown That you took and passed around There's no telling what a man might do With a life like this when it all falls through - Crown mika_'s rating:
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 - Days of the Phoenix I can't stand my laughter as they cry My soul brings tears to angelic eyes And miles away my mother cries Omnipotence, nurturing malevolence - God Called In Sick Today As waves of plastic fame go out of fashion You're going out, going out forever unknown - Paper Airplanes (Makeshift Wings) Once felt so warm, now I'm fucking freezing I am the once embraced abandoned one I raised my eyes up to the light in hopes of finding healing No relief was mine, I was burnt by the sun - A Single Second Once there was boy who had vibrant glow But as it goes, someone took it from him - The Boy Who Destroyed the World mika_'s rating:
I hear this year’s Vans Warped Tour is “going green”
I guess they heard that money grows on trees Hope they ship those shitty bands overseas Like they did the factories - Rock for Sustainable Capitalism 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 - Purina Hall of Fame Everyone's hands cause natural disasters - Natural Disasters No needle-dick is gonna silence me - Ladies Night In Loserville Meat is still murder, dairy is still rape And I am still as stupid as anyone, but I know my mistakes I have recognized one form of oppression, now I recognize the rest Life's too short to make another's shorter - Nailing Descartes to the Wall/(Liquid) Meat is Still Murder mika_'s rating:
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 - Building a Mystery I pull you from your tower I take away your pain And show you all the beauty you possess If you'd only let yourself believe that - Adia Heaven bend to take my hand I've nowhere left to turn - Fallen I believe This is heaven to no one else but me And I'll defend it as long as I can be Left here to linger in silence - Elsewhere 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 - Silence mika_'s rating:
Strange we children grow
Days will come and nights will go But we get loud when the eastside meets the west coast crowd - Interstate If the one you care for gives out, stay And even though you know there's no God, pray Lift her up and out the door Give her something sound My name - Troublemaker Time's gonna show this ain't trash It's one for the ages Spending our waking hours and minimum wages Trying to make just one, one for the ages - One for the Ages Life fades 'tween sky and sea Miles away the hours of heartbreak In dark they’re coming to get me - Tricks On Me "It's me, your baby" Drink slips from her hand "Don't call me crazy..." Hear shattering glass "Cause you made me" - Bad Son mika_'s rating:
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- Great list, pal.
but i love everybody else"
and did you say, "i can't escape myself"
and then you did, now that there's noone else
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