Some favourite lines/lyrics (non-Moz)

[Codreanu]

"You look like your self from the inside /
Turning into something you feel /
Too bad there's this image to live with // Alcohol"

Candy - Lisa Germano

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"And they said / When you empty your head / You can actually see without your sight"

Dream Glasses - Lisa Germano

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"I miss the way she said my name / Like I was a distant city"

Parachute - Simon Joyner

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"Put your hand in my good hand"

Sea - Codeine

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"On good days we'll pretend that the chill has reached our bones"

Citizens of the True World (unreleased) - American Music Club

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"I'd like to come home to see you / And embrace your illness under soft light / But then you'd know how much I really need you"

Drop - Red House Painters

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"Quiet in the corner / Numb and falling through / Without you what does my life amount to?"

Katy Song - Red House Painters

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"She's almost your passport to the world / She's almost your ticket out again"

Last Harbor - American Music Club

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"And written in the dust beneath your drink /
It says, "Deadness needs nothing to justify it" / Like the ache that's crawling though your chest / Needs nothing to amplify it"

X-Mas Lights Spin - Mark Eitzel

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"Well I’ve been praying a lot lately / It’s because I no longer have a TV / Just a fluorescent hangover to light the way / Between the things you say and the things I see."

Apology for an Accident - American Music Club

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"Everything that was to be / Now somehow all became memory"

You Should Be at Home Here - Carissa's Wierd

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"Green takes the leaves / Snow takes the sea / It reminded me how awful things can be"

It was Probably Green - Carissa's Wierd

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"And I’ve a theory of girls / They always seem to leave in the Spring? / As if they know that it hurts more to carry a heartbreak through the Summer"

Theory of Ghosts - Piano Magic

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"Your voice, thin as smoke, barely exits your mouth / There’s blood in your hair and a fire to the south /Your skeleton moves in a waltz with the stairs and the well of your heart / Full of no-one who cares"

Your Ghost - Piano Magic

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"I started last and I finished last"

Password - Piano Magic

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""You're not f***ed up, you're beautiful" / Is what I dreamed he said / While I played with myself in the hospital bed"

Le Monster - My Favorite

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"I'm gathering these splinters to make a raft someday / She gives me so little"

A Candle - Smog

 

[Nick]

Just about every Leonard Cohen song.

 

[Codreanu]

Re: Just about every Leonard Cohen song.

You know, I would appreciate Cohen much more if only he would liberate his deadpan baritone from all the soulful feminine backing that mars so much of his work. Even then, his first two albums are classic.

"Like a bird on the wire / Like a drunk in a midnight choir / I have tried in my way to be free / Like a worm on a hook / Like a knight from some old fashioned book / I have saved all my ribbons for thee"

Bird On a Wire

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You can hear the boats go by / You can spend the night beside her / And you know that she's half crazy / But that's why you want to be there"

Suzanne

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"Well they lay down beside me, I made my confession to them / They touched both my eyes and I touched the dew on their hem / If your life is a leaf that the seasons tear off and condemn / They will bind you with love that is graceful and green as a stem"

Sisters of Mercy

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"I cried, "oh, lady midnight, I fear that you grow old / The stars eat your body and the wind makes you cold."

Lady Midnight

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"I choose the rooms that I live in with care,
The windows are small and the walls almost bare / There's only one bed and there's only one prayer; / I listen all night for your step on the stair"

Tonight Will Be Fine

 

[Jo Jo70]

Re: Just about every Leonard Cohen song.

And of course this one:

'Well, maybe I've been here before
I've seen this room and I've walked this floor
I used to live alone before I knew ya.
And I've seen your flag on the marble arch
But love is not a victory march
It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah.'

 

[L'Estrange]

> "You look like your self from the inside /
> Turning into something you feel /
> Too bad there's this image to live with // Alcohol"

> Candy - Lisa Germano

> * *

> "And they said / When you empty your head / You can actually see
> without your sight"

> Dream Glasses - Lisa Germano

> * *

> "I miss the way she said my name / Like I was a distant city"

> Parachute - Simon Joyner

> * *

> "Put your hand in my good hand"

> Sea - Codeine

> * *

> "On good days we'll pretend that the chill has reached our
> bones"

> Citizens of the True World (unreleased) - American Music Club

> * *

> "I'd like to come home to see you / And embrace your illness under
> soft light / But then you'd know how much I really need you"

> Drop - Red House Painters

> * *

> "Quiet in the corner / Numb and falling through / Without you what
> does my life amount to?"

> Katy Song - Red House Painters

> * *

> "She's almost your passport to the world / She's almost your ticket
> out again"

> Last Harbor - American Music Club

> * *

> "And written in the dust beneath your drink /
> It says, "Deadness needs nothing to justify it" / Like the ache
> that's crawling though your chest / Needs nothing to amplify it"

> X-Mas Lights Spin - Mark Eitzel

> * *

> "Well I’ve been praying a lot lately / It’s because I no longer have
> a TV / Just a fluorescent hangover to light the way / Between the things
> you say and the things I see."

> Apology for an Accident - American Music Club

> * *

> "Everything that was to be / Now somehow all became memory"

> You Should Be at Home Here - Carissa's Wierd

> * *

> "Green takes the leaves / Snow takes the sea / It reminded me how
> awful things can be"

> It was Probably Green - Carissa's Wierd

> * *

> "And I’ve a theory of girls / They always seem to leave in the
> Spring? / As if they know that it hurts more to carry a heartbreak through
> the Summer"

> Theory of Ghosts - Piano Magic

> * *

> "Your voice, thin as smoke, barely exits your mouth / There’s blood
> in your hair and a fire to the south /Your skeleton moves in a waltz with
> the stairs and the well of your heart / Full of no-one who cares"

> Your Ghost - Piano Magic

> * *

> "I started last and I finished last"

> Password - Piano Magic

> * *

> ""You're not f***ed up, you're beautiful" / Is what I
> dreamed he said / While I played with myself in the hospital bed"

> Le Monster - My Favorite

> * *

> "I'm gathering these splinters to make a raft someday / She gives me
> so little"

> A Candle - Smog
I Love that line from "parachute" by simon Joyner (or is it the other way around?)- very romantic , whats the rest of the song like? I tried soulseek.

 

[Leader Of The Ring Tormentors]

Re: Just about every Leonard Cohen song.

> And of course this one:

> 'Well, maybe I've been here before
> I've seen this room and I've walked this floor
> I used to live alone before I knew ya.
> And I've seen your flag on the marble arch
> But love is not a victory march
> It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah.'

Yes, excellent, but sung much better by Jeff Buckley of course!

 

[Codreanu]

> I Love that line from "parachute" by simon Joyner (or is it the
> other way around?)- very romantic , whats the rest of the song like? I
> tried soulseek.

Parachute

I think that smile is shutting down
Or maybe it's just flinching
The sun shot up just like a child
But these old hands are only inching
Would you believe it is my fault
I went and made myself lonely
I miss the way she said my name
Like I was a distant city

Winter came and swept away
The birds nest from my chimney
The cold air marched right through the walls
And settled her in my belly
But her memory keeps me tossing
Those letters into the fire
And the flames they're twitching
A love which has retired

Now New York is not a place I'd choose
To have my body buried
But Omaha has got the trains to take
The snow to the cemetery
There is a place called home i believe
If you're willing to step out of the loop
I miss the way she held on to me
Like I was a parachute




parachute

 

[Codreanu]

Some more...

"I am so glad the radio / got turned off in your head"

Vague Millimeter - Audiotransparent

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"My whole drunken world / Is just a gaudy frame / For a picture-perfect girl"

Hello Hallo - Parker and Lily

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"I feel / cold as a razor blade / tight as a tourniquet / Dry as a funeral drum"

One of my Turns - Pink Floyd

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"Look under the bed / There's no ghosts / ...That I can see"

Vacancy - Codeine

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"I feel I am getting weaker / A life blue on gloomy waves / I feel I am diving deeper / Into the darkest caves"

Louise - Clan of Xymox

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"Your deep black eyes / Have revealed to me / What you're gonna say / If I get the nerve / To let you in on my little joke / That I've been living for / There's nothing left for me"

Just Might Run - Idaho

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"Gave all my passion to the ocean / She holds it for me in reserve / My word is gone into remission / Your love's a tragedy that I don't deserve"

The Confidential Agent - American Music Club

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"Shore far away off the port side / Shore far away off the bow / Shore far away off the starboard side / Sure far away from now"

The Confidential Agent - American Music Club

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"And though walk we must alone / Now at last / Alone we sing"

Will the Moon be Out Tonight? - Flashpapr

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"...And I hate the Goddamned telephone / Even more when no one calls"

I Hate - Havergal

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"I ask them the weather / I ask them the colours / that seep through my disgise"

The Walking Sonnet - Lazarus

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"I get afraid of the high-spots / And sick when I stare upon the docks"

The Year that Got Away - T.W. Walsh

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"When I was seven / My father said to me / 'But you can't swim' / And I've never dreamed of the sea again"

Bathysphere - Smog

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"Oh well, my best friend / Took a bullet through his eye / First he had a patch / Now he's got a glass eye / One hard, glass eye / He says sometimes he wishes / Both his eyes were glass"

It's Rough - Smog

 

[Scott]

Kirsty MacColl was my favourite lyricist.

Autumngirlsoup

"Get me on the boil and reduce me
To a simmering wreck with a slow kiss
To the back of my neck
Carve up my heart on a very low flame
Separate my feelings then pour them down the drain
Close my eyes and sweeten me with lies
Pierce my skin with a few well chosen words
Now you can stuff me with whatever you’ve got handy
And on a cold grey day a cold grey man will do"

You And Me Baby

"Every time I took your hand
I had a first class ticket
To the promised land"

Tomorrow Never Comes

"Let's part in the rain so the clouds hide
The despair and the sorrow I feel on the inside
And let my tears dry
In the light of a setting sun
And tomorrow never comes"

 

[Scott]

And TMBG, for clever, funny lyrics

Ana Ng

"Make a hole with a gun perpendicular
To the name of this town in a desk-top globe
Exit wound in a foreign nation
Showing the home of the one this was written for
My apartment looks upside down from there
Water spirals the wrong way out the sink
And her voice is a backwards record
It’s like a whirlpool and it never ends"

Hide Away Folk Family

"And sadly the cross-eyed bear’s been put to sleep behind the stairs
And his shoes are laced with irony"

Older

"You're older than you've ever been
And now you're even older
And now you're even older
And now you're older still"

I Palindrome I (a song about how the word "I" is a palindrome)

"See the spring of the grandfather clock unwinding
(egad, a base tone denotes a bad age)
See the hands of my offspring making windmills
(egad, a base tone denotes a bad age)
Dad palindrome dad
I palindrome I (I palindrome I)"

Kiss Me, Son of God

"I built a little empire out of some crazy garbage
Called the blood of the exploited working class
But they’ve overcome their shyness
Now they’re calling me your highness
And a world screams, kiss me, son of god"