Well focus on the quasar in the mist
The Kaiser has a cyst
And I'm a blank want list
The qualms you have and if they stick
They will drown you in a crick
In the neck of a woods
That was populated by
Tired nation on the fly
Everybody knows advice
That was given out for free
Lots of details to discern
Lots of details -Pavement "Stereo"
Nonsensical, but so musical. Beck writes like Malkmus too.
Quote:
I remember lying, I don't remember a line
I don't remember a word but I don't care
I care, I really don't care
Did you see the drummer's hair?
Strangers passing in the street
By chance two separate glances meet
And I am you and what I see is me
And do I take you by the hand
And lead you through the land
And help me understand the best I can
And no one calls us to move on
And no one forces down our eyes
No one speaks
And no one tries
No one flies around the sun
Dogs (Waters, Gilmour)
Quote:
You gotta be crazy, you gotta have a real need.
You gotta sleep on your toes, and when you're on the street,
You gotta be able to pick out the easy meat with your eyes closed.
And then moving in silently, down wind and out of sight,
You gotta strike when the moment is right without thinking.
I don't believe in an interventionist God
But I know, darling, that you do
But if I did I would kneel down and ask Him
Not to intervene when it came to you
Not to touch a hair on your head
To leave you as you are
And if he felt he had to direct you
Then direct you into my arms
Cowboy Junkies: 'Cause Cheap Is How I Feel
Quote:
It's the kind of night that's so cold, when you spit
It freezes before it hits the ground
And when a bum asks for a quarter, you give a dollar
If he's out tonight, he must be truly down
And I'm searching all the windows for a last minute present
To prove to you what I said was real
For something small and frail and plastic, baby
Cause' cheap is how I feel
Gary Numan: Are Friends Electric?
Quote:
You know I hate to ask
But are 'friends' electric?
Only mine's broke down
And now I've no-one to love
Billie Holliday: Good Morning Heartache
Quote:
Good morning heartache
You old gloomy sight
Good morning heartache
Thought we said goodbye last night
I turned and tossed until it seems you we've gone
But here you are with the dawn
(...)
Might as well get used to you hanging around
Good morning heartache
Sit down
When he was a kid, he'd be up at five
Take shots till eight, make the thing drive
Out after school, back on ice
That was his life, he was gonna play in the big league
The big league
Not many ways out of this cold northern town
You work in the mill and get laid in the ground
If you're gonna jump it will be with the game
Real fast and tough is the only clear lane to the big league
All the right moves when he turned eighteen
Scholarship and school on a big u.s. team
Out with his girl near Lake Mcclean
Hit a truck doing seventy in the wrong lane
To the big league
Sometimes at night I can hear the ice crack
It sounds like thunder and it rips through my back
Sometimes in the morning I still hear the sound
Ice meets metal...
"can't you drive me down to the big league?"
My boy's gonna play in the big league
My boy's gonna turn some heads
My boy's gonna play in the big league
My boy's gonna knock 'em dead
It's been too hard living, oh my
And I'm afraid to die
I don't know what's up there
Beyond the clouds
It's been a long long time coming
But I know, but I know a change is gotta come
Oh yes it is
On my!
There was a time I would go to my brother
I asked my brother, "Will you help me please?"
He turned me down and then I ask my dear mother, oh
I said "Mother!"
I said "Mother! I'm down on my knees"
It's been a time that I thought
Lord this couldn't last for very long
But somehow I thought I was still able to try to carry on
It's been a long, long time coming
But I know a change is gonna come
Oh, yes it is
Just like I said, I went to my little bitty brother, my littele brother
I asked my brother "Brother help me please?"
He turned me down and then I go to my little mother, my dear mother
I said "Mother!"
I said "Mother! I'm down on my knees"
But there was a time that I thought
Lord this couldn't last for very long
But somehow I thought I was still able to try to carry on
It's been a long, long time coming
But I know, but I know a change is gotta come
Oh yes it will
So tired of standing by myself
You know that I know that a change is gotta come
Strangers passing in the street
By chance two separate glances meet
And I am you and what I see is me
And do I take you by the hand
And lead you through the land
And help me understand the best I can
And no one calls us to move on
And no one forces down our eyes
No one speaks
And no one tries
No one flies around the sun
Beautiful song, but I think this verse from Echoes is just amazing
Cloudless every day you fall upon my waking eyes
Inviting and inciting me to rise
And through the window in the wall
Come streaming in on sunlight wings
A million bright ambassadors of morning
And no one sings me lullabies
And no one makes me close my eyes
So I throw the windows wide
And call to you across the sky
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If ever there was an oilering
Connor Zary will win the Hart Trophy in 2027.
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I could have been someone
Well so could anyone
You took my dreams from me
When I first found you
I kept them with me babe
I put them with my own
Can't make it all alone
I've built my dreams around you
I think any man who's gone through a divorce can relate to this verse.
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Remember the time we went and snorted
That piece of the Berlin Wall that you'd extorted
And we had such a laugh of it
Prostrate on my carpet - St. Vincent "Prince Johnny"
Few of the sins of the father, are visited upon the son
Hearts have been hard, our hands have been clenched in a fist too long
Our sons need never be soldiers, our daughters will never need guns
These are the years between
These are the years that were hard fought and won
Contracts torn at the edges, old signatures stained with tears
Seasons of war and peace, these should not be forgotten years
Still it aches like tetanus, it reeks of politics
How many dreams remain? This is a feeling too strong to contain
The hardest years, the darkest years, the roarin' years, the fallen years
These should not be forgotten years
The hardest years, the wildest years, the desperate and divided years
We will remember, these should not be forgotten years
Our shoreline was never invaded, our country was never in flames
This is the calm we breathe, this is a feeling too strong to contain
Still it aches like tetanus, it reeks of politics
Signatures stained with tears, who can remember
We've got to remember
The hardest years, the darkest years, the roarin' years, the fallen years
These should not be forgotten years
The hardest years, the wildest years, the desperate and divided years
We will remember, these should not be forgotten years
The hardest years, the darkest years, the roarin' years, the fallen years
These should not be forgotten years
The hardest years, the wildest years, the desperate and divided years
We will remember, these should not be forgotten years
The hardest...
Forsaking aching breaking years, the time and tested heartbreak years
These should not be forgotten years
The blinded years, the binded years, the desperate and divided years
These should not be forgotten years, remember
Forgotten years, Midnight Oil
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Corporal Jean-Marc H. BECHARD, 6 Aug 1993
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And if the blue sky mining company won't come to my rescue
If the sugar refining company won't save me
Who's gonna save me? - Midnight Oil "Blue Sky Mine"
A Springsteen song written by Australians.
It is actually a pretty ####ing solid effort across the board on that album.
I will still listen to it as memories come flooding back.
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Corporal Jean-Marc H. BECHARD, 6 Aug 1993
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I think it's about Devin's bi-polarness, but regardless it's one of the most intense pieces of music ever. Pure insanity
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Originally Posted by ####storm - Strapping Young Lad
OH YOU BASTARD!!!
Know, Know, KNOW...
I HATE YOU!!!
EVERYTHING...everything, EVERYTHING...
is WRONG!!!
And I don't want to fight...
When I don't know what's WRONG or RIGHT
But I'll do ANYTHING to get some ####ING sleep tonight...
And I can't even EAT
And I can't even ####ING PISS!!!
All I've been doing is thinking about
GOD and DEATH InFiNiTy!!!!!
####ING KILL YOU!!!
NOW
You ####ing listen to me...
Everyone of you in my MOTHER####ING LIFE;
All I've been looking for is an excuse to feel this way...
...And now I know...
NOW I KNOW!!!
I'm in control of the infinite mind
And I control infinite power
When?!?!?
EVERY BLACK MINUTE
And self control is something I've learned...
But don't think I won't do it
Don't you EVER forget;
If you want crazy...
IF YOU WANT ####ING CRAZY...
I'LL SHOW YOU HOW TO BE CRAZY
#### YOU!!!!
LADIES!!!
All this time I thought you wanted me to be like YOU
...you don't want me to BE LIKE YOU
now you'll sing to ME!
Baby!!! Little baby, little baby...YEAH!!!
Aw, ####!!!! ####!!!!!!!
I hate me...I HATE ME!!!
KNOW...KNOW...KNOW
I ####ING HATE MYSELF
EVERYTHING...EVERYTHING...EVERYTHING
about this is ####ED!!!
Now it's
SCIENCE!!!
SCIENCE!!!
SCIENCE!!!
...and...
MATH!!!
MATH!!!
MATH!!!
Love...
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"Think I'm gonna be the scapegoat for the whole damn machine? Sheeee......."
"Today, as you listen to this song
Another 394,000 children were born into this world
They break like waves of hunger and desire upon these eroded shores
Carrying the curses of history and a history yet unwritten
The oil burns in thick black columns, the buzz saws echo through the forest floor
They shout give us our fair share, give us justice
Here comes the war
On a grey morning to the south of here Two young men in makeshift uniforms peer into the misty light
And figures dart behind the trees
As a snap of rifle rounds echoes out across the fields
They hardly know their sacred mother tongue but they know their duty
To defend the flag hanging limp and bloody above the village church
While a thousand miles away, in a warehouse complex down by the river,
Young money men play paintball games
Here comes the war - put out the lights on the Age of Reason
So blow out the candle and tell us another of those great stories,
the ones about serial killers. Let dreams flow into savage times.
Do you hear the sirens scream across the city?
We've had three hot nights in succession - the riot season is here again
Dear Lord, lead us back into the Valley of the Shadow of Death,
Here comes the war.
Did you think we were born in peaceful times?
Faster, faster, like a whirling dervish spinning round
Faster, faster, until the Centre cannot Hold You screamed give us Liberty or give us Death
Now you've got both, what do you want next ?
Here comes the war - put out the lights on the Age of Reason."
Was trying to refrain from listing complete songs, alas.
The first bolded parts reminds me of a group of Calgarians of Serbian ethnic descent that I used to know a long time ago. It was during the violent breakup of Yugoslavia. They were all super aggressive and keen to find Croatians to attack. They talked of flying "home" to Belgrade and joining up to kill Croats and Bosnians.
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Another New Model Army, just the last half.
"Green And Grey"
"...
You used to talk about winners and losers all the time - as if that was all there was
As if we were not of the same blood family, as if we live by different laws
Do you owe so much less to these rain swept hills than you owe to your good self?
Is it true that the world has always got to be something
That seems to happen somewhere else?
For God's sake don't you realise that I still hear that call Do you think you're so brave just to go running to that which beckons to us all?
Ch: No, not for one second did you look behind you
As you were walking away
Never once did you wish any of us well
Those who had chosen to stay
And if that's what it takes to make it
In the place that you live today
Then I guess you'll never read these letters that I send
From the valleys of the green and the grey"
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