I've always loved this part from Dead Kennedys "I Kill Children"
Ever wanted to die?
Of course you have
But I won't till I get my revenge
I've been buttfucked one too many ways
I don't wanna see people any more
Things I never ever saw before
Make me see them for the shit they are
Take as many as I can away with me
Anyone can be king for a day
Pretty much everything that Leonard Cohen has ever written
Nick Cave & Bad Seeds + Grinderman
"Red Right Hand"
"No pussy blues"
"Dig Lazarus, dig"
"Mercy seat"
"Kitchenette"
Any two lines from "Palaces of Montezuma"
"Well my baby calls me the Loch Ness Monster, two great big humps and then I'm gone"
- "Worm Tamer"
Talking Heads + David Byrne
"Cover your ears so you can hear what I'm saying. I'm not lost but I don't know where I am."
- "Lady don't mind"
"We dress like students, we dress like housewives, or in a suit and a tie. I changed my hairstyle so many times now, don't know what I look like"
"Burned all my notebooks, what good are notebooks? They won't help me survive/ My chest is aching, and it burns like a furnace, The burning keeps me alive"
- "Life during wartime"
"I should watch TV"
QOTSA
"Turnin' on the screw"
"Sidewalks, feel me strut so good? Gutter, don't forget this face" + entire end section of "Misfit Love"
Tom Waits
"Never trust a man in a blue trench coat, never drive a car when you're dead"
- "Telephone call from Istanbul"
"I never told the truth so I can never tell a lie"
- "Whistlin past the graveyard"
"Tango til they're sore"
"Shore leave"
"Cemetery polka"
"More than rain"
"Hoist that rag"
"Rain dogs"
Pretty much everything from Townes Van Zandt
Pretty much everything from Jim Yamouridis
Mark Lanegan
"Methamphetamine blues"
"Wish you well"
"Skeletal history"
"Head"
"Miracle"
"Low"
"Resurrection song"
"Wedding dress"
"Mockingbirds"
"Kingdoms of rain"
"Borracho"
"El sol"
"Sunrise"
"Jesus of nothing"
"Paper money"
If a title isn't given under a quote then I'm referencing the entire song.
bob the r0bot wrote:
Why? - Even the Good Wood Gone
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"And when I'm really buried, I'll be buried in Cleveland with a new pair of skis and someone's old set of keys to their car and bottom floor apartment door and health club locker."
Why? has some pretty rad lyrics all around, I'm particularly partial to strawberries and these few presidents.
Seems like he's really spilling out everything without worrying how it fits together in the context of a bigger "story" which is awesome
Skullservant, Ryan Summit and MSUsousaphone are righteous dudes
Disarm D'arcy wrote:Feeling confident and pretty like a little princess is just as important as pedge.
And MC's start to vanish/stepped up to a jet black kid & the n**** started speakin' Spanish/Said you wasn't from Panama/Ask him how he get so dark /da n**** said SUN TAN-ama
-Ol' Dirty Bastard
The ants are in the sugar
The muscles atrophied
We're on the other side, the screen is us and we're t.v.
Spread me open,
Sticking to my pointy ribs
Are all your infants in abortion cribs
I was born into this
Everything turns to shit
The boy that you loved is the man that you fear
Pray until your number,
Asleep from all your pain,
Your apple has been rotting
Tomorrow's turned up dead
I have it all and I have no choice but to
I'll make everyone pay and you will see
You can kill yourself now
Because you're dead
In my mind
The boy that you loved is the monster you fear
Peel off all those eyes and crawl into the dark,
You've poisoned all of your children to camouflage your scars
Pray unto the splinters, pray unto your fear
Pray your life was just a dream
The cut that never heals
Pray now baby, pray your life was just a dream
(I am so tangled in my sins that I cannot escape)
Pinch the head off, collapse me like a weed
Someone had to go this far
I was born into this
Everything turns to shit
The boy that you loved is the man that you fear
Peel off all those eyes and crawl into the dark,
You've poisoned all of your children to camouflage your scars
Pray unto the splinters, pray unto your fear
Pray your life was just a dream
The cut that never heals
Pray now baby, pray your life was just a dream
The world in my hands, there's no one left to hear you scream
There's no one left for you
When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed
What's the furthest place from here?
It hasn't been my day for a couple years.
What's a couple more?
And if I go, don't forget the one good thing I almost did.
I learned your name without words.
I used my eyes, not my hands.
What's the closest you can come to an almost total wreck and still walk away,
All limbs intact?
And when I go, you'll be there crying out, begging me.
I won't hear.
I'll just go fast into this night on broken legs.
A near miss or a close call?
I keep a room at the hospital.
I scratch my accidents into the wall.
I couldn't wait to breathe your breath.
I cut in line,
I bled to death.
I got to you, there was nothing left.
What's the meanest you can be to the one you claim to love
And still smile to your new found friends?
In the same confusing breath,
You pull away and draw me in.
I wanted you. You wanted more.
I built this life and now it's mine.
A near miss or a close call?
I keep a room at the hospital.
I scratch my accidents into the wall.
I couldn't wait to breathe your breath.
I cut in line,
I bled to death.
I got to you, there was nothing left.
Morning gray ignites a twisted mess of foreign shapes and sounds
I wish the ceiling was the ground
I'll send you flowers made of silent tiny pieces of the sun
To help me make up for this one
While you send me tidal waves of love when you're alone
And I can't remember what you do
To find a way to turn the signal back to Heaven sounding blue
And bring me faithful back to you
And she don't hold me right, she's never going to get me there
And she don't hold me right, she's never going to get me there
Not tonight
If we break off gently in slow motion
Spinning outward into space
My hand always floating gently at the wheel
While you sweetly hold my face
And I need you to give it meaning
I need you to share the view
Or it becomes a time for me to love myself
Like every other thing I do
She don't hold me right, she's never going to get me there
And she don't hold me right, she's never going to get me there
Not tonight
a lie i once heard: "we're innocent until proven guilty"
but the truth is absurd
we're poor until proven rich
and the scales of justice are fixed by lying pigs
a plot of human terror unfolds behind the precinct door
to cage all the minorities, the immigrants and poor
next they'll hunt the handicapped, disabled blind and deaf
and what will all these piggies do, ha! when there's no one left
swat police in riot gear are bombing us tonight
and all our civil liberties will die by morning's light
while crooked politicians lie and rig the ballot book
we whitewash fake democracy and paint another coat
we'll keep you here to stay; you'll never get away
your property ain't mine, until your dying day
we'll crush your soul inside; there is no easy ride
the hotel's never free and the rooms are always occupied
nice of you to join us welcome to the prison age
financial quest for new frontiers to build a bigger cage
surplus populations growing all around the world
capital invests quick to cage these boys and girls
we'll bomb the police state, assassinate the magistrate
we'll go to every town and burn them fucking prisons down
we'll keep you here to stay; you'll never get away
your property and mine, until your dying day
the court pretenders fake, the judge is on the take
if you wanna find a cop you're gonna have to drag the lake
[spoken:]
capitalism creates such a division between the rich and the poor
that this surplus population is created
and "government" solution has been their containment for increasing petty offenses...
plot of human terror unfolds behind the precinct door
to cage all the minorities, the immigrants and poor
next they'll hunt the handicapped, disabled blind and deaf
and what will all these piggies do, ha! when there's no one left
we'll bomb the police state, assassinate the magistrate
we'll go to every town and burn them fucking prisons down
we'll bomb the police state, assassinate the magistrate
we'll go to every town and burn them fucking prisons down, down
