Archive for October 18th, 2013
Vampire Weekend’s “I Think Ur a Contra”
by aaron on Oct.18, 2013, under Lyrics I Love
“I Think Ur A Contra”
That you and I
Could tell each other everything
For two months
But even without hope
With truth on our side
When you turn away from me
It’s not right
I think you’re a Contra
I think you’re a Contra
And dear Contra
I think you’re a Contra
My revolution thoughts
Live in lies of desire
I wanna trace them to the source
And the wire
But it’s not useful now
Since we both made up our minds
You gotta watch out for yourself
So will I
I think you’re Contra
I think that you lie
Don’t call me Contra
Till you’ve tried
You wanted good schools
And friends with pools
You’re not a Contra
You wanted Rock’ n’ Roll,
Complete control
Well, I don’t know
Never pick sides
Never choose between two
But I just wanted you
Never pick sides
Never choose between two
But I just wanted you
I think you’re Contra
I think that you lie
Don’t call me Contra
Till you’ve tried
Stone Sour’s “Sillyworld”
by aaron on Oct.18, 2013, under Lyrics I Love
“Sillyworld”
Freedom’s just a word
When someone takes your word away it’s seldom ever heard
So take a sentence full of things you’re not supposed to say
Carry on, but don’t write it down or you’ll be gone
Love is just a song today
Love is just a song
When someone takes the song away
you seldom sing along
So take those lyrics serious and sing your life away
Carry on, but don’t write ’em down or they’ll be gone
All we ever do is talk
We like to ride but we never walk
We make it so damn easy
We get bored
Why can’t anybody see what’s good for you is good for me
I can’t take your sillyworld
I can’t take your sillyworld no more
Peace is just two fingers now
Peace was just a phase
When someone put it on a shirt
you knew to count the days
So take those fingers tape ’em up and shove ’em up your ass and carry on
but don’t try it now cause peace is gone
All we ever do is talk
We like to ride but we never walk
We make it so damn easy
We get bored
Why can’t anybody see what’s good for you is bad for me
I can’t take your sillyworld
I can’t take your sillyworld no more
We fight our instincts
We go to extremes
We fight our instincts
We go to extremes
We fought a lot [x13]
Something Corporate’s “Konstantine”
by aaron on Oct.18, 2013, under Lyrics I Love
Konstantine
I can’t imagine all the people that you know
And the places that you go
When the lights are turned down low
And I don’t understand all the things you’ve seen
But I’m slipping in between
You and your big dreams
It’s always you
In my big dreams
And you tell me that it’s over
Wake up lying in a patch of four leaf clover
And you’re restless, and I’m naked
You’ve got to get out
You can’t stand to see me shaking, no
Could you let me go?
I didn’t think so
And you don’t want to be here in the future
So you say the present’s just a pleasant
Interruption to the past
And you don’t want to look much closer
Because you’re afraid to find out all this hope
You had sent into the sky by now had crashed
And it did
Because of me
And then you bring me home
Afraid to find out that you’re alone
And I’m sleeping in your living room
But we don’t have much room to live
I had these dreams in them I learned to play guitar
Maybe cross the country
Become a rock star
And there was hope in me that I could take you there
But damnit, you’re so young
Well, I don’t think I care
And if I hurt you
Then I’m sorry
Please don’t think that this was easy
Then you’d bring me home
Because we both know what it’s like to be alone
And I’m dreaming in your living room
But we don’t have much room to live
And Konstantine is walking down the stairs
Doesn’t she look good
Standing in her underwear?
And I was thinking
What I was thinking
We’ve been drinking and it doesn’t get me anywhere
My Konstantine came walking down the stairs
And all that I could do is touch her long blonde hair
And I’ve been thinking
It hurts me thinking that these nights when we were drinking
No, they never got us anywhere, no
This is because I can spell confusion with a ‘k’
And I can like it
It’s to dying in another’s arms and why I had to try it
It’s to Jimmy Eat World and those nights in my car
When the first star you see may not be a star
I’m not your star
Isn’t that what you said
What you thought this song meant
And if this is what it takes
Just to lie with my mistakes
And live with what I did to you
All the hell I put you through
I always catch the clock
It’s 11:11
And now you want to talk
It’s not hard to dream
You’ll always be my Konstantine
My Konstantine, they’ll never hurt you like I do
No, they’ll never hurt you like I do
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no
This is to a girl who got into my head
With all the pretty things she did
Hey, you know
You keep me up in bed
This is to a girl who got into my head
With all these fucked up things I did
Hey, maybe, baby
You could keep me up in bed
My Konstantine
You spin around me like a dream
We played out on this movie screen
And I said
Did you know I missed you?
Did you know I missed you?
Did you know I missed you?
Did you know I missed you?
Did you know I missed you?
Did you know I missed you?
Did you know I missed you?
I miss you
And then you bring me home
And we’ll go to sleep, but this time not alone, no, no
And you’ll kiss me in your living room
I know
You’ll miss me in your living room
Because these nights I think maybe that
I’ll miss you in my living room
We don’t have much room
I said does anybody need that room?
Because we all need a little more room
To live
My Konstantine
Snow Patrol’s “Spitting Games”
by aaron on Oct.18, 2013, under Lyrics I Love
“Spitting Games”
And left a note at your bedside
I’m far too shy to speak to you at school
You leave me numb and I’m not sure why
I find it easier to sit and stare
Than push my limbs out towards you right there
My heart is bursting in your perfect eyes
As blue as oceans and as pure as skies
I struggle for the words and then give up
My heads up with the birds on the t-hut
A little piece of mind that I know better
Than the plain disgrace of all my letters
But after that the floodgates opened up
And I fell in love with everyone I saw
Please take your time I’m not in any rush
And it’s in everything I ever write
It’s not as if I need the extra weight
Confused enough by life so thanks a lot
Lonely written words for company
Just raise the roof this once and follow me
Snow Patrol’s “How to Be Dead”
by aaron on Oct.18, 2013, under School
“How To Be Dead”
No you don’t know what happened
And you never will if
You don’t listen to me while I talk to the wall
This blanket is freezing, it’s been out in the hall
Where you’ve had me for hours
Till I’m sure what I want
But darling I want the same thing that I wanted before
So sweetheart tell me what’s up I won’t stop no way
Please keep your hands down
And stop raising your voice
It’s hardly what I’d be doing if you gave me a choice
It’s a simple suggestion can you give me sometime
So just say yes or no
Why can’t you shoulder the blame
Coz both my shoulders are heavy
From the weight of us both
You’re a big boy now so let’s not talk about growth
You’ve not heard a single word I have said…
Oh, my God
Please take it easy it can’t all be my fault
I haven’t made half the mistakes
That you’ve listed so far
Oh baby let me explain something
It’s all down to drugs
At least I remember taking them and not a lot else
It seems I’ve stepped over lines
You’ve drawn again and again
But if the ecstacy’s in the wit is definitely out
Dr. Jekyll is wrestling Hyde for my pride
Rise Against’s “The Dirt Whispered”
by aaron on Oct.18, 2013, under Lyrics I Love
“The Dirt Whispered”
One ear against the ground,
Holding her breath to hear something,
But the dirt made not a sound tonight
Echoes of songs still lurk on distant foreign shores,
Where we danced just to please the gods that only ask for more,
So it goes
But still we give ourselves to this
We can’t spend our lives waiting to live
On cold nights
In a prayer for dawn
But the daylight
Isn’t what she wants
The concrete
Calls my name again
I’m falling
Through the cracks I slip
The postcard says wish you were here
But I’d rather I was there,
Holding on to the simple things before they disappear,
That’s what I meant
But that was then, and this is now
I’ll make it up to you somehow
On cold nights
In a prayer for dawn
But the daylight
Isn’t what she wants
The concrete
Calls my name again
I’m falling
Through the cracks I slip
A destination, a fading smile.
Another station, another mile.
Another day gone, I swore that I will.
Be there before dawn.
So be there, I will.
She got down on hands and knees,
One ear against the ground,
Holding her breath to hear something,
Anything at all
The dirt whispered, “Child, I’m coming home”
On cold nights
In a prayer for dawn
But the daylight
Isn’t what she wants
The concrete
Calls my name again
I’m falling
Through the cracks I slip
Pink Floyd’s “Comfortably Numb”
by aaron on Oct.18, 2013, under Lyrics I Love
“Comfortably Numb”
Is there anybody in there
Just nod if you can hear me
Is there anyone at home
Come on now
I hear you’re feeling down
I can ease your pain
And get you on your feet again
Relax
I’ll need some information first
Just the basic facts
Can you show me where it hurts
There is no pain, you are receding
A distant ship smoke on the horizon
You are only coming through in waves
Your lips move but I can’t hear what you’re saying
When I was a child I had a fever
My hands felt just like two balloons
Now I’ve got that feeling once again
I can’t explain, you would not understand
This is not how I am
I have become comfortably numb
O.K.
Just a little pin prick
There’ll be no more aaaaaaaah!
But you may feel a little sick
Can you stand up?
I do believe it’s working, good
That’ll keep you going through the show
Come on it’s time to go.
There is no pain you are receding
A distant ship smoke on the horizon
You are only coming through in waves
Your lips move but I can’t hear what you’re saying
When I was a child
I caught a fleeting glimpse
Out of the corner of my eye
I turned to look but it was gone
I cannot put my finger on it now
The child is grown
The dream is gone
And I have become
Comfortably numb.
Pink Floyd’s “One of My Turns”
by aaron on Oct.18, 2013, under Lyrics I Love
One of My Turns
“Oh my God! What a fabulous room! Are all these your guitars?
[Film in background: “I’m sorry sir, I didn’t mean to startle you!]
“This place is bigger than our apartment!
[Film: “Let me know when you’re entering a room”
“Yes sir!”]
“erm, Can I get a drink of water?
[Film: “I was wondering about …”]
“You want some, huh?”
[Film: “Yes”]
“Oh wow, look at this tub? Do you wanna take baaaath?”
[Film: “I’ll have to find out from Mrs. Bancroft what time she wants to meet us, for her main …”]
“What are watching?”
[Film: “If you’ll just let me know as soon as you can … Mrs Bancroft” “Mrs Bancroft …”]
“Hello?”
[Film: “I don’t understand …”]
“Are you feeling okay?…”
Day after day, love turns grey
Like the skin of a dying man.
Night after night, we pretend its all right
But I have grown older and
You have grown colder and
Nothing is very much fun any more.
And I can feel one of my turns coming on.
I feel cold as a razor blade,
Tight as a tourniquet,
Dry as a funeral drum.
Run to the bedroom,
In the suitcase on the left
You’ll find my favorite axe.
Don’t look so frightened
This is just a passing phase,
One of my bad days.
Would you like to watch T.V.?
Or get between the sheets?
Or contemplate the silent freeway?
Would you like something to eat?
Would you like to learn to fly?
Would’ya?
Would you like to see me try?
Would you like to call the cops?
Do you think it’s time I stopped?
Why are you running away?
Motion City Soundtrack’s “Feel Like Rain”
by aaron on Oct.18, 2013, under Lyrics I Love
“Feel Like Rain”
in the lifeless corners of this empty frame.
Though we feel let down by the same old autumn breathing,
winter’s curse is just around the bend.
With our hands all tied to the blades of their design,
we are armed and ready to commit this crime.
We love that game, but we never play
’cause we will lose, and we wanna stay
the way we are, the way we’ve been for far too long.
From the falsest smile to the fear of death is why
the pain reminds us that we’re still alive.
With our hopes on hold and our lack of interest exposed,
all hands damage our determined eyes.
But the lines are drawn and the red begins to creep
its way from boredom toward apathy.
We love that game, but we never play
’cause we will lose, and we wanna stay
the way we are, the way we’ve been for far too long.
We love that game, but we never play
’cause we will lose, and we wanna stay
the way we are, the way we’ve been for far too long.
Say something, finally we’re alone.
Alright, is there anyone out there at all?
Say something, finally we’re alone.
How about a phone call now?
We love that game, but we never play
’cause we will lose, and we wanna stay
the way we are, the way we’ve been for far too long.
We love that game, but we never play
’cause we will lose, and we wanna stay
the way we are, the way we’ve been for far too long.
We love that game, but we never play
’cause we will lose, and we wanna stay
the way we are
And we feel like rain when the words all sound the same
As the curtain closes on another day.
Marilyn Manson’s “The Beautiful People”
by aaron on Oct.18, 2013, under Lyrics I Love
“The Beautiful People”
Don’t bother to resist, or I’ll beat you
It’s not your fault that you’re always wrong
The weak ones are there to justify the strongThe beautiful people, the beautiful people
It’s all relative to the size of your steeple
You can’t see the forest for the trees
You can’t smell your own shit on your knees
There’s no time to discriminate,
Hate every motherfucker
That’s in your way
[Chorus:]
Hey you, what do you see?
Something beautiful, something free?
Hey you, are you trying to be mean?
If you live with apes man, it’s hard to be clean
The worms will live in every host
It’s hard to pick which one they eat most
The horrible people, the horrible people
It’s as anatomic as the size of your steeple
Capitalism has made it this way,
Old-fashioned fascism will take it away
[Chorus]
There’s no time to discriminate,
Hate every motherfucker
That’s in your way
The beautiful people
The beautiful people (aahh) [x4]
[Chorus x2]
The beautiful people [x8]
