Mates Of State

Don't put your hands in the pockets that feed you. You might not get them out.

Elbow

I'm stopping by your place of work
And acting likeI haven't dreamed of you and I
And marriageIn an orange grove
You are the only thing in any room you're ever in

I sat you down and told you
How the truest love that's ever found is for oneself
You pulled apart my theory
With a weary and disinterested sigh

So yes I guessI'm asking you
To back a horse that's good for glue and nothing else
But find a man that's truer
Find a man that needs you more than I

Sit with me a while
And let me listen to you talk about your dreams and your obsessions
I'll be quiet and confessional
When I meet your eyes
I'm spinning
And I'm diving
Like a cloud of starlings
Darling is this love?

The Killers

You sit there in your heartache
Waiting on some beautiful boy
To save you from your old ways
He doesn't look a thing like Jesus
But he talks like a gentleman
Like you imagined
When you were young

Can we climb this mountain
I don't know
Higher now than ever before
I know we can make it if we take it slow
Let's take it easy
Easy now
Watch it go

We're burning down the highway skyline
On the back of a hurricane
That started turning
When you were young

And sometimes you close your eyes
You see the place where you used to live
When you were young

They say the devil's water
It ain't so sweet
You don't have to drink right now
But you can dip your feet
Every once in a little while

He doesn't look a thing like Jesus
But more than you'll ever know

The Killers

Save some face, you know you've only got one
Change your ways while you're young
Boy, one day you'll be a man
Oh girl, he'll help you understand

Looking back at sunsets on the East side
We lost track of the time
Dreams aren't what they used to be
Some things sat by so carelessly

And someone is calling my name
From the back of the restaurant
And someone is playing a game
In the house that I grew up in
And someone will drive her around
Down the same streets that I did

Smile like you mean it

Morrissey

There is a light
And it never goes out.

Glasvegas

I'm so clever
Until my paranoia kicks in
Then I'll accuse her
Of doing all the worst things I do best
The end was always coming and now it's here

So this is the grand finale
The crescendo of demise
This is the happy ending
Where the bad guy goes down and dies

This is the end
With me on my knees and wondering why?
Cross my heart, hope to die
It's my own cheating heart that makes me cry

So what's the story, morning glory?

B. Harper

You're a prison
I can't escape
You're a decision
I never made
Heard me laughing
You heard me weep and moan
When it's good, it's so, so good
When it's gone, it's gone

They say
Time will kill the pain
I say
Pain is gonna kill my time
Lord won't you save me
Or leave me alone
Cause when it's good, it's so, so good
When it's gone, it's gone, gone

I hang your picture right above my mind
Don't do anything you can't deny
I could never be your pawn
'Cause when it's good
It's so, so good
When it's gone, it's gone, gone

Some drink to remember
Some to forget
Some for satisfaction
Some to regret
I hope a brighter day to you I've shown
'Cause when it's good, it's so, so good
And when it's gone, it's gone

It's gone

A Fine Frenzy

Step right over the line
Onto borrowed time
When it's life, not waiting to die
Just waiting to divide

Counting stars and passing cars
On the interstate
The end is near, I feel it dear
But I am not afraid

We Are Scientists

I know it's not my business
To be digging up these things I shouldn't know
Twenty years of bad descisions
Haven't taught me much at all
Seperate events you're making
Everyone pretends it's not your fault
And all of this offense you're taking
Doesn't really bother me at all

Twist my arm
Because that's the way you think you're gonna work this whole thing out
You know you own my body
But don't think that you control my mouth

Another textbook situation
Everything I think I know I've read
What's the point of medication?
It only makes me wish that I were dead
It's pretty clear that you are me
It's written here on every single page
I'm spitting blood, I'm not stupid
I can read it all over your face

Having every question answered doesn't help
When you're not supposed to know anything

Snow Patrol

Cut my eyes out, dear
So I can't see your smug grin
You're right
You always win

Untie my hands now
I'm game up to a point
And we're well past bedtime now

All this time away
And I'm freezing cold now
And her look turns me to stone
I'm closer to the truth
She just hates being on her own

Louis XIV

Well it’s a minor altercation
Despite your hesitation
By all agrees that you will see how we’re causing quite a sensation
So publication of needing motivation
Your mother says it’s OK outside the subway station

You’re taking off your stripes
Even your knees are nice
I’ll tease you with a knife until you’re screaming for your life
I think so too
And you surrender
Can I spend you up?
You’re my illegally illegal tender

Well it’s a minor altercation
I looked into your eyes
And pushed your buttons and levers
You said you’d see until we agree and kindly said whatever
And you like my loving better
Cause’ you said so in a letter, that said return to sender
My illegally illegal tender

Two in the pocket is better than three
And three in the pocket is better than four
And five in the pocket is better than six
And put them together then pick up the sticks

It takes a lover that will love me like no other
It takes a lover that knows I love her like no other

Nightmare of you

I can find the reasoning to not get mad at the morning rain so long as you're waking up to it with me. I know what you're going to say before you even know how to say it. No I still don't have my shoes. And if I don't see you soon I just might lose whatever is left of my mind. I know, I know, I know that I'm so crazy. I know, I know, I know because you told me so. And there's nothing in this world that's quite prescribable that makes me feel the way I feel when I look into your eyes.
Everyone is going out but you will keep me in tonight even though you aren't here with me. You make me want to find God, you give me meaning for the means of my universe. Oh, the end would have no end. And if I don't see you soon I just might lose whatever is left of my mind. And there's nothing in this world that's quite prescribable that makes me feel the way I feel when I look into your eyes.

Robert Frost

Whose woods these are I think I know
His house is in the village, though
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow

My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year

He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake
The only other sound's the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake

The woods are lovely, dark, and deep
But I have promises to keep
And miles to go before I sleep
And miles to go before I sleep

We Are Scientists

Making my escape
Telling myself
That everything's in shape
But me

How long can this take
Telling myself that
Everything is great
Well how am I doing?

I've got a great idea
I'm going to wait right here
While everything is adding up

Breaking both my hands
They're telling me to take it like a man
I don't understand
Please repeat whatever you just said
Nothing is making sense

Everything is adding up

We Are Scientists

I got this whole thing figured out
I guess I better write it down now
'Cause presently my memory's not terribly sound
Everything is twice around now

It shouldn't be this hard
I guess I'm not as smart
As I'd like to think I am
And even though you won't admit it now
I know you know

I guess it isn't any news
This keeps coming out in two's
If history repeats itself then what can I do?
Nothing I can say is news to you

Spiritualized

Every time I say this
I just know this time I mean it
But a feeling deep inside says
"It's okay one more time"

I'm waiting for the time
When I can be without
These things that make me feel
This way all of the time

Makes me feel so good
Makes me feel so fine
Makes me feel so good
Leaves me fucked up inside

Jenny Lewis & The Watson Twins

I went to a cobbler
To fix a hole in my shoe
He took one look at my face
And said, "I can fix that hole in you"

I beg your pardon?
I'm not looking for a cure
Seen enough of my friends
In the depths of the godsick blues

Enough was enough
I was a little drunk
And looking for company
So I found myself a sweetheart
With the softest of hands
We were unlucky in love
But I'd do it all again

We build ourselves a fire

You don't know what I've done
There was no simple cure
For unlucky in love
To be lonely is a habit
Like smoking or taking drugs
And I've quit them both
But man, was it rough

Now I am tired
It just made me tired

Let's build ourselves a fire

NOY

And in a room, upon your bed, we tangled arms and crossed our legs. When you sleep alone the days go by oh so slow. Against the graffiti wall we know no law at all. And just to see your body in a place so tacky. There's no better irony than my own depravity. And with each heart-wrenching, fictious wail, you'd swear they sang your life with veracious details. The tears trickle down your face. Your skinny arms begining to flail. Oh won't you say what you mean? Give us a moment of offering. We love the second-rating, the repetition. The metaphors stripped of all gail, alright. Now I need a guillotine to get you off my mind. As you slept away the day in my bedroom I found a crimnal use for your pillow. I love you terribly, I swear that this is true. But I Just can't stop my hands from smothering you. There I crept up to your lover's window. He poured a scotch and sobbed alone in the kitchen. Stick a fork in a socket, do what you'd like. Just make sure that I'm far out of your life. Take an axe to your fingers, carve out your eyes. And cut out your tongue and we'll call this a tie. Cut out your lying tongue and we'll call this a tie. It's that drink in your hand. It's that knack for telling awful lies. Why am I always right? Nightmare of You.

Devotchka

The gringos block the roads inside your head
Are you sleepin it off when you're not in your bed?
You pray in the darkness
Let me walk in your light
Let me die in my lover's arms
Let me love through this night

You are watching over my three brave soldiers
I have not forgotten
I will send you something...

So this is the city
So this is progress?
How can something so prettybecome such a mess?
There is no more than this steal and stone
More than this flesh and bone
There is a little piece of land in me
No other man can own

Who is watching my three brave soldiers?
I have not forgotten
I will send you something...

Well shut my mouth I have nothing to say
Except, what is this life?
With no love along the way
You know that I'm good for it
You know I can pay
We don't have to look for it
It's right here, it's today

an angle

And each morning
I find myself
To stumble onto my couch
I turn the tv set on as the news reporter sings out loud
"Well, we are all in fear of what we don't know"

And there's this girl
She sees between the oldest assumption
And the oldest tree
And she can recognize beauty
Because that's all she sees
So she steps out of the door
With her backpack on one shoulder
And her heart in the other

And we are trying to find someone
Who we just met or followed
We're all just trying to find the truth
What is fact or fictional