"when i say you sucked my brain out
the english translation
is i am in love with you
and it is no fun
but i don't use words like love
'cuz words like that don't matter"
-Ani D "Dilate""the empire state building
is the tallest building in new york
and i always got the feeling
you just liked to hear it fall
off your tongue
but i remember my name
in your mouth
and i don't think i was done
hearing it close to my ear
on a whisper's way to a moan
but pavlov hits me with
more bad news every time i answer the phone
so i play and i sing and i just let it ring
all day when i'm at home"
-Ani Difranco "serpentine"(Ani just has a way of making me feel like she knows exactly what I'm feeling...)
"I caught it in the face
Coming around again
I thought it was worth waiting
You're caught up in my hair
Wet sides from time to time
But mostly I'm just
dryYou leave me dry"
-PJ Harvey "Dry"(Beautiful
)
"And in my thinking
Steal you away
Though you never wanted me
Anyway"
-PJ Harvey - "Silence"(I think the reason why those lyrics touch me so much is because she sings them so heartbreakingly)
"She poured me another whisky,
Said, "Here's to the best you ever had."
We laughed and made a toast
It wasn't the best I ever had
Not even close"
-Bruce Springsteen "Reno"(i realize this isnt his best song, and it's kind of hard to appreciate the lyrics, but when he sings that one part... it just resonates...)
And, while there are SOOOO many songs out there with lyrics that really mean something to me, I'm going to end with these:
I lit a thin green candle, to make you jealous of me.
But the room just filled up with mosquitos,
they heard that my body was free.
Then I took the dust of a long sleepless night
and I put it in your little shoe.
And then I confess that I tortured the dress
that you wore for the world to look through.
I showed my heart to the doctor: he said I just have to quit.
Then he wrote himself a prescription,
and your name was mentioned in it!
Then he locked himself in a library shelf
with the details of our honeymoon,
and I hear from the nurse that he's gotten much worse
and his practice is all in a ruin.
I heard of a saint who had loved you,
so I studied all night in his school.
He taught that the duty of lovers
is to tarnish the golden rule.
And just when I was sure that his teachings were pure
he drowned himself in the pool.
His body is gone but back here on the lawn
his spirit continues to drool.
An Eskimo showed me a movie
he'd recently taken of you:
the poor man could hardly stop shivering,
his lips and his fingers were blue.
I suppose that he froze when the wind took your clothes
and I guess he just never got warm.
But you stand there so nice, in your blizzard of ice,
oh please let me come into the storm.
- Leonard Cohen "One of Us Cannot be Wrong"(I dont even really like Leonard Cohen the musician, but I think he has some of the greatest lyrics written. Amanda Palmer did a cover of this song at one of her solo shows, and I fell in love with the lyrics)
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