- random nonsense that occasionally wanders into ~deepness (chances of this happening increase when the listener is in an altered state of mind)
- paul banks (interpol)
- she says it helps with the lights out / her rabid glow is like braille to the night (leif erikson)
- anthony kiedis (red hot chili peppers)
- I'm a dance hall dirty breakbeat / make the snow fall up from underneath your feet / not alone; I'll be there / tell me when you want to go (don't forget me)
- you think they're mumbling until you actually listen, & then you're sort of gobsmacked
- alex turner (arctic monkeys)
- do you still think love is a laserquest / or do you take it all more seriously? / I've tried to ask you this in some daydreams that I've had / but you're always busy being make believe (love is a laserquest)
- josh homme (queens of the stone age)
- she said, I'll throw myself away; they're just photos, after all / I can't make you hang around, I can't wash you off my skin / outside the frame is what we're leaving out / you won't remember anyway (go with the flow)
- matt berninger (the national)
- you get mistaken for strangers by your own friends / when you pass them at night under the silvery, silvery city bank lights / arm in arm in arm & eyes & eyes glazing under / oh, you wouldn't want an angel watching over / surprise, surprise: they wouldn't wanna watch / another uninnocent, elegant fall into the unmagnificent lives of adults (mistaken for strangers) [ugh always & forever.]
- that rare melding of beautiful voice + beautiful music + beautiful lyrics ("beautiful" being used in a traditional, "oh how ~lovely" kind of way)
- damien rice
- stones taught me to fly, love taught me to lie, life taught me to die / so it's not hard to fall / when you float like a cannonball (cannonball)
- storytellers
- mirah
- but if you want something back / all the things that got cracked / when I felt like you lied to me (don't die in me)
- natasha khan (bat for lashes)
- trembling midnight lands / I travel with the wizard / drink his blood & he's our leader (the wizard)
- quirky realists
- kate nash
- I'm feeling kinda nervous & not quite myself / so I'm running late on purpose, & I know this won't help (don't you want to share the guilt)
- lily allen
- why can't i sleep at night? don't say it's gonna be alright / I wanna be able to eat spaghetti bolognese / & not feel bad about it for days & days & days (everything's just wonderful)
- weird poetry (a.k.a. I don't know how else to classify these wonderful wordsmiths)
- fiona apple
- I knew that to keep in touch would do me deep & dutch / cause it isn't the rush of remembering, it's just mush (tymps (the sick in the head song))
- erykah badu
- my love, what did I do to make you fall so far from me? / & now I can't recall; it's cause of the fall, selective memory / that you, you built a wall, a 20-foot wall, so I couldn't see / but if I get off my knees I might recall I'm 20 feet tall (20 feet tall)
- lykke li
- but don't go all soft on me / don't come across for me / don't lose your selfish ways over me (window blues)
- florence + the machine
- & I heard your voice as clear as day / you told me I should concentrate / it was all so strange & so surreal / that a ghost should be so practical (only if for a night)
- dirty, sexy rock & roll
- billy gibbons (zz top)
- I want your hi fi, mama, won't you let me play it tonight? / I put the needle in the groove, baby, while you douse the lights (hi fi mama)
- josh homme (queens of the stone age)
- they say I'll only do you wrong / we come together cause I understand / just who you really are, baby (little sister)
- seemingly clean-cut but deceptively dirty, sexy rock & roll
- dave grohl (foo fighters)
- she drains me when I'm empty / she fills herself, she takes it all / in too deep, she's spilling over me (have it all)
- cocky truth speakers
- kanyesus
- & what's a black Beatle anyway, a fucking roach? / I guess that's why they got me sitting in fucking coach (gorgeous)
- nicki minaj
- I'm fighting for the girls that never thought they could win / cause before they could begin, you told them it was the end / but I am here to reverse the curse that they live in (I'm the best)
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- brash primadonnas
- marina & the diamonds
- I get what I want cause I ask for it, not because I'm really that deserving of it / living life like I'm in a play / in the lime light I want to stay / I know I've got a big ego / I really don't know why it's such a big deal, though (primadonna)
- lily allen
- I wish my life was a little less seedy / why am I always so greedy? / wish I looked just like Cheryl Tweedy / I know I never will, I know I never will (cheryl tweedy)
- those who craft lyrics that actually extend beyond a single line.
- fiona apple
- the early cars already are drawing deep breaths past my door / & last night's phrases, sick with lack of basis / are still writhing on my floor (not about love)
- matt berninger (the national)
- it floats around & takes me over / like a little drop of ink in a glass of water / get inside their clothes with my green gloves / watch their videos in their chairs / get inside their beds with my green gloves / get inside their heads, love their loves (green gloves)
- alex turner (arctic monkeys)
- I elongated my lift home; yeah, I let him go the long way round / I smelled your scent on the seat belt / & kept my shortcuts to myself (cornerstone)
- ben gibbard (death cab for cutie)
- the atlantic was born today, & I'll tell you how / the clouds opened up & let it out / I was standing on the surface of a perforated sphere / when the water filled every hole, & thousands upon thousands made an ocean / making islands where no islands should go
aug 16 2011 ∞
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