- “'cause with my mid-youth crisis all said and done i need to be youthfully felt 'cause, god, i never felt young” - jackie & wilson
- “a moment's silence when my baby puts the mouth on me” - moment’s silence (common tongue)
- “all my love and terror balanced there between those eyes” - abstract (psychopomp)
- “all that i've been taught and every word i've got is foreign to me” - foreigner’s god
- “and i think about you though, everywhere i go, and i've done everythin' and i've been everywhere, you know” - hoizer
- “and the sights were as stark as my baby, and the cold cut as sharp as my baby, and the nights were as dark as my baby, half as beautiful too” - as it was
- “be as you've always been (lover, be good to me. be like the love that discovered the sin that freed the first man and will do so again” - be
- “but still my heart is heavy with the hate of some other man's beliefs” - foreigner’s god
- “but try measure loss, measure the silence of a house, the unheard footsteps at the doorway, the unemployment of the mouth, the waking up, having forgotten and remembering again the full extent of what forever is” - through me (the flood)
- “darlin', don't you join in, you're supposed to drag me away from it” - sedated
- “darling, there's a part of me i’m afraid will always be trapped within an abstract from a moment of my life” - abstract (psychopomp)
- “do you know i could break beneath the weight? of the goodness, love, i still carry for you” - unknown/nth
- “don’t you ever tame your demon but always keep 'em on a leash” - arsonists’ lullaby
- “electing strange perfections in any stranger i choose” - someone new
- “every time i’d burn through the world, i’d see that the world, it burns through me” - through me (the flood)
- “everything that we're denied by keeping the divide” - nina cried power
- “go and take this the wrong way. you knew who i was with every step that i ran to you” - someone new
- “he feels a coming of a squall will drag him out a greater length but knows his strength, and tries to gather it” - through me (the flood)
- “honey, when you kill the lights and kiss my eyes i feel like a person for a moment of my life” - to be alone
- “i couldn't name that feeling carried in that voice, was it that or just the act of makin' noise that brought you joy?” - to noise making (sing)
- “i fall in love just a little, oh, a little bit every day with someone new” - someone new
- “i have never known a silence like the one fallen here, never watched my future darken in a single tear” - all things end
- “i know we want this to go easy by bein' somebody's fault but we've gone long enough to know this isn't what we want” - all things end
- “i remember the view, streetlights in the dark blue, the moment i knew i’d no choice but to love you” - abstract (psychopomp)
- “i slithered here from eden just to sit outside your door” - from eden
- “i still watch you when you're groovin' as if through water from the bottom of a pool, you're movin' without movin' and when you move, i'm moved” - movement
- “i think i'll take my whiskey neat, my coffee black and my bed at three. you’re too sweet for me” - too sweet
- “i think of loss and i can only think of you” - through me (the flood)
- “i wake at the first cringe of morning and my heart's already sinned” - someone new
- “i was housed by your warmth, thus transformed” - shrike
- “i wouldn't fall for someone i thought couldn't misbehave. but i want you to know that i’ve had no love like your love” - nobody
- “i wouldn't know where to start, sweet music playing in the dark. be still, my foolish heart, don't ruin this on me” - almost (sweet music)
- “i'd be the sweet feeling of release mankind now dreams of” - talk
- “i'd be the voice that urged orpheus when her body was found, i'd be the choiceless hope in grief that drove him underground” - talk
- “i’d still know you, not being shown you. i only need the workin' of my hands” - de selby (part 2)
- “i’d walk so far just to take the injury of finally knowin' you” - unknown/nth
- “i’ll worship like a dog at the shrine of your lies, i’ll tell you my sins, and you can sharpen your knife” - take me to church
- “i’m so full of love i could barely eat, there's nothing sweeter than my baby” - work song
- “i’m starvin', darlin', let me put my lips to somethin', let me wrap my teeth around the world” - eat your song
- “i’ve been fed gold by sweet fools in abu dhabi and i’ve danced real slow with rockettes on dodgy molly” - nobody
- “i’ve never loved a darker blue than the darkness i have known in you” - better love
- “idealism sits in prison […] innocence died screaming” - from eden
- “if i had the choice between hearing either noise, the excitement of a thousand, or the soothing of your voice, at first chance, i’d take the bed warmed by the body” - nobody
- “if i was born as a blackthorn tree i’d wanna be felled by you, held by you, fuel the pyre of your enemies” - NFWMB
- “if the lord don't forgive me, i’d still have my baby and my babe would have me” - work song
- “if the wind turns, if i hit a squall, allow the ground to find its brutal way to me” - i, carrion (icarian)
- “in the low lamp light i was free, heaven and hell were words to me” - work song
- “it’s bloody and raw, but i swear it is sweet” - angel of death and the codeine scene
- “it’s not the song, it is the singing. it’s the hearing of a human spirit ringing” - nina cried power
- “it’s not the waking, it's the rising […] it’s not the wall, but what's behind it” - nina cried power
- “love with every stranger, the stranger the better” - someone new
- “my heart is thrilled by the still of your hand” - no plan
- “my lover's got humour, she’s the giggle at a funeral” - take me to church
- “no grave can hold my body down, i'll crawl home to her” - work song
- “one more sweet boy to be butchered by men” - swan upon leda
- “rattle your chains if you love being free” - nina cried power
- “remember when you'd sing just for the fuck of it? any joy it would bring, honey, the look of it was as sweet as the sound. your head tilt back, your funny mouth to the clouds […] remember when you'd sing just for the love of it?” - to noise making (sing)
- “screaming the name of a foreigner's god, the purest expression of grief” - foreigner’s god
- “settled soft and as pure as snow, i fell in love with the fire long ago” - would that i
- “she give me toothaches just from kissin' me” - work song
- “since some liar brought the thunder when the land was godless and free” - foreigner’s god
- “so much of the livin', love, is the being unknown” - unknown/nth
- “some part of me must have died the final time that you called me ‘baby’ but some part of me came alive the final time you called me ‘baby’” - first time
- “some part of me must have died the first time that you called me ‘baby’ and some part of me came alive the first time that you called me ‘baby’” - first time
- “the blood is rare and as sweet as cherry wine” - cherry wine
- “the first time that you kissed me i drank dry the river lethe” - first time
- “the gateway to the world was still outside of reach of him. would never belong to angels, had never belonged to men. the swan upon leda, empire upon jerusalem” - swan upon leda
- “the last time i felt your weight on my chest, you said ‘we didn't get it right but, love, we did our best’ and we will again. movin' on in time and takin' more from everything that ends” - all things end
- “the only heaven i’ll be sent to is when i’m alone with you” - take me to church
- “there are some people, love, who are better unknown” - unknown/nth
- “there is no sweeter innocence than our gentle sin” - take me to church
- “this year, i swear it will be buried in actions” - wildflower and barley
- “though i burn how could i fall? when i am lifted by every word you say to me” - i, carrion (icarian)
- “true that i saw her hair like the branch of a tree, willow dancing on air before covering me” - would that i
- “we’ll name our children jackie and wilson, raise 'em on rhythm and blues” - jackie & wilson
- “what a waste to say the heart could feel apart or feel complete” - no plan
- “when i was a child heard voices, some would sing and some would scream” - arsonist’s lullaby
- “when i was a child i’d sit for hours staring into open flame. something in it had a power, could barely tear my eyes away” - arsonists’ lullaby
- “when stunted hand earns place with man by mere monstrosity, alarms are struck and shore is shook by sheer atrocity” - moment’s silence (common tongue)
- “when you move i’m put to mind of all that i wanna be. when you move, i could never define all that you are to me” - movement
- “why were you digging? what did you bury? before those hands pulled me from the earth?” - like real people do
- “why would you make out of words a cage for your own bird? when it sings so sweet” - no plan
- “you are a call to motion. there, all of you a verb in perfect view” - movement
- “you called me angel for the first time, my heart leapt from me. you smile now, i can see its pieces still stuck in your teeth and what's left of it, i listen to it tick every tedious beat” - unknown/nth
- “you don't have to sing it right but who could call you wrong? to put your emptiness to melody, your awful heart to song. you don't have to sing it nice, but honey sing it strong. at best, you'll find a little remedy; at worst, the world will sing along” - to noise making (sing)
- “you don't know what hell you put me through to have someone kiss the skin that crawls from you, to feel your weight in arms i’d never use” - to be alone
- “you have me floatin' like a feather on the sea while you're as heavy as the world that you hold your hands beneath” - i, carrion (icarian)
aug 17 2023 ∞
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