her heart contains so many different chord of haunting music. she's a symphony of memories, made of loveliness and light, ugliness and shadow...

  • "blinding", florence + the machine
    • no more dreaming of the dead, as if death itself was undone;
    • no more calling like a crow for a boy, for a body in the garden;
    • no more dreaming like a girl so in love, so in love;
    • no more dreaming like a girl so in love, so in love;
    • no more dreaming like a girl so in love, so in love with the wrong world.
  • "just like heaven", the cure
    • show me, show me, show me how you do that trick!
    • the one that makes me scream, she said;
    • the one that makes me laugh, she said;
    • and threw her arms around my neck:
    • show me how you do it, and i promise you--
    • i promise that i'll run away with you.
      • you: soft and only.
      • you: lost and lonely.
      • you: strange as angels.
      • dancing in the deepest oceans;
      • twisting in the water;
      • you're just like a dream.
  • "drops of jupiter", train
    • now that she's back in the atmosphere
    • with drops of jupiter in her hair (hey, hey),
    • she acts like summer and walks like rain:
    • reminds me that there's time to change (hey, hey).
    • since her return from the stay on the moon,
    • she listens like spring and talks like june (hey, hey).
      • can you imagine no love, pride, deep-fried chicken?
      • your best friend always stickin' up for you...
      • even when i know you're wrong?
      • can you imagine no first dance, freeze-dried romance,
      • five-hour phone conversations,
      • the best soy latte that you ever had,
      • and me?
  • "rhiannon", fleetwood mac
    • rhiannon rings like a bell through the night,
    • and wouldn't you love to love her?
    • takes to the sky like a bird in flight,
    • and who will be her lover?
      • all your life, you've never seen
      • a woman, taken by the wind.
      • would you stay if she promised you heaven?
      • will you ever win?
    • she is like a cat in the dark,
    • and then she is the darkness.
    • she rules her life like a fine skylark,
    • and when the sky is starless.
      • all your life, you've never seen
      • a woman, taken by the wind.
      • would you stay if she promised you heaven?
      • will you ever win?
    • will you ever win?
  • "ruby tuesday", the rolling stones
    • don't question why she needs to be so free,
    • she'll tell you it's the only way to be.
    • she just can't be chained
    • to a life where nothing's gained
    • and nothing's lost, at such a cost.
      • there's no time to lose, i heard her say.
      • catch your dreams before they slip away.
      • dying all the time--lose your dreams, and you
      • will lose your mind.
      • ain't life unkind?
  • "meet virginia", train
    • well, she wants to be the queen...
    • then she thinks about her scene.
    • pulls her hair back as she screams,
    • i don't really wanna be the queen!
      • she only drinks coffee at midnight,
      • when the moment is not right:
      • her timing is quite... unusual.
      • you see, her confidence is tragic,
      • but her intuition magic.
      • and the shape of her body? unusual.
  • "she", green day
    • she...
    • she screams in silence,
    • a sullen riot penetrating through her mind.
    • wait--
    • ing for a sign,
    • to smash the silence with the brick of self-control.
  • "mary jane's last dance", tom petty & the heartbreakers
    • she grew up in an indiana town,
    • had a good-lookin' mama who never was around.
    • but she grew up tall, and she grew up right
    • with them indiana boys on them indiana nights.
      • last dance with mary jane: one more time to kill the pain.
      • i feel summer creepin' in, and i'm tired of this town again.
  • "dear prudence", the beatles
    • dear prudence, open up your eyes.
    • dear prudence, see the sunny skies.
    • the wind is low, the birds will sing
    • that you are part of everything.
    • dear prudence, won't you open up your eyes?
  • "she talks to angels", the black crowes
    • she never mentions the word "addiction"
    • in certain company;
    • yes, she'll tell you she's an orphan
    • after you meet her family.
      • she paints her eyes as black as night now,
      • pulls those shades down tight.
      • yeah, she gives a smile when the pain come:
      • the pain gonna make everything alright.
    • she keeps a lock of hair in her pocket;
    • she wears a cross around her neck.
    • yes, the hair is from a little boy;
    • and the cross is someone she has not met--not yet.
jun 10 2012 ∞
jan 2 2014 +