December 2011
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vanderlyle crybaby geeks | the national
all the very best of us string ourselves up for love.
January 2010
3 posts
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“who are you now? and who were you then? that you thought somehow you could just...”
– ani difranco | so what
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amanda palmer | ampersand
and i may be romantic and i may risk my life for it but i ain’t gonna die for you you know i ain’t no juliet
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December 2009
10 posts
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the blow | parentheses
when you’re holding me we make a pair of parentheses. there’s plenty space to encase whatever weird way my mind goes, i know i’ll be safe in these arms.
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“the book of love is long and boring, no one can lift the damn thing, it’s...”
– the magnetic fields | the book of love
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plants and animals | a new kind of love
there’s a light and it’s showing me a piece of love, and i’ll be holding the hands. and if you go, i’ll go, and we’ll go together. and there’s children covered in dirt with songs from above and they went out looking for a new kind of love we’re giving it up again, we’re giving it up again. like a child, we get hungry and restless and wicked and wild.
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“today you were far away and i didn’t ask you why.
what could i say? i was...”
– the national | about today
[video: live]
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bjork | alarm call
i have walked this earth and watched people, i can be sincere and say i like them. you can’t say no to hope. can’t say no to happiness. i want to go on a mountain-top with a radio and good batteries and play a joyous tune and free the human race from suffering. i’m no fucking buddhist, but this is enlightenment. the less room you give me, the more space I’ve got. this is an...
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“so for once in my life, let me get what i want. lord knows it would be the first...”
– the smiths | please please please let me get what i want
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the decemberists | red right ankle
this is the story of the boys who loved you, who love you now and loved you then. and some were sweet, some were cold and snuffed you, and some just laid around in bed. some had crumbled you straight to your knees, did it cruel, did it tenderly. some had crawled their way into your heart to rend your ventricles apart. this is the story of the boys who loved you.
this is the story of your...
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“i remember sitting next to you. and i remember pretending i wasn’t...”
– yo la tengo | our way to fall
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florence and the machine | rabbit heart
here i am, a rabbit-hearted girl, frozen in headlights. it seems i’ve made the final sacrifice.
we raise it up, this offering.
this is a gift, it comes with a price. who is the lamb and who is the knife? midas is king and he holds me so tight and turns me to gold in the sunlight.
[video]
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“i’m working on my faults and cracks, filling in the blanks and gaps. and...”
– frightened rabbit | my backwards walk
November 2009
12 posts
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pete yorn | ez
only save, try to find another way. i’m taking what i gave to you again. some new day i could understand your face, you can even hold my hand if you would like to. it came up unexpected, i had to follow through, and it’s hard when you were looking like you do.
it was easy when you were younger, you could put it back together. it was there if you ever wanted it, but you closed the door and said...
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“i remember when we were driving in your car,
the speed so fast i felt like i...”
– tracy chapman | fast car
sometimes i forget how amazing this song is.
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young galaxy | swing your heartache
we do not believe that love is free ‘cause anything worth fighting for doesn’t come for free. we believe in time that you will see how a war might save us… it’s time for you and i to face the signs and realize that living’s a battle for all the times we cried and told the lies and realized life’s not a rehearsal. come on babe, swing your heartache.
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“colour my life with the chaos of trouble, ‘cause anything’s better...”
– belle and sebastian | the boy with the arab strap
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the gaslight anthem | we came to dance
honey, we came to dance with the girls with the stars in their eyes
, do the jump back jack, stop and slide to the right
never break their hearts, never make em cry, so come on
, strike up the band with a song that everybody knows. if i’m not your kind, then don’t tell a soul. i’m not the one who hates being alone so come on.
‘cause you ain’t never had a night on...
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“in the gaps between words are the things that really intrigue me. it’s the...”
– maximo park | girls who play guitars
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laura marling | ghosts
he walked down a busy street, staring solely at his feet clutching pictures of past lovers at his side. stood at the table where she sat and removed his hat in respect of her presence. presents her with the pictures and says: “these are just ghosts that broke my heart before i met you.”
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“if you could have one minute alone with yourself when you were young, do you...”
– hayden | more than alive
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ohbijou | the otherside
i knew it’d be you on the otherside, just ten minutes after we said goodbye, with things left unsaid so unsatisfied and a burning to hear your voice just one more time. and i walk in the cold to destroy this kick of wanting to know just what makes you tick, ‘cause if i knew all your secrets then i’d capture your heart and make you mine. and it’s so silly for me to...
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“this is not the sound of a new man or a crispy realization, it’s the sound...”
– bon iver | re:stacks
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regina spektor | on the radio
no, this is how it works you peer inside yourself you take the things you like and try to love the things you took and then you take that love you made and stick it into someone else’s heart pumping someone else’s blood and walking arm in arm you hope it don’t get harmed but even if it does you’ll just do it all again
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“i’d rather dance with you than talk with you.”
– kings of convienience | i’d rather dance with you
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October 2009
16 posts
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“soon enough, work and love will make a man out of you.”
– the constantines | soon enough
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the hold steady | magazines
she’s always funny in the morning. she isn’t always funny in the night.
once she gets a couple drinks in,
she’s probably gonna tell you you ain’t doing anything right.
then you’ll roll your eyes, and then you’ll probably fight.
she mainly trades in adoration. she gets pretty wasted at the celebrations,
the benefits and the building dedications.
it’s...
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“and i am a writer, a writer of fictions, i am the heart that you call home. and...”
– the decemberists | the engine driver
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“the town is so small. how could anybody not look you in the eyes or wave as you...”
– band of horses | ode to the lrc
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jets to brazil | sweet avenue
tasting you and rain, i walk down to the train, try not to look down. this day could some day be an anniversary, everything is light and sound.
facing forwards, going slowly, wait for you to show me where this train wants to go. living by the hour, i stop for every flower, everything is soft and slow. now all these tastes improve through the view that comes with you, like they handed me my...
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“you’re the shit and i’m knee-deep in it.”
– frightened rabbit | my backwards walk
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kate nash | mouthwash
and, this is my mind, it goes over and over the same old lines. and this is my brain, its torturous analytical thoughts make me go insane. and i use mouthwash, sometimes i floss, i’ve got a family, and i drink cups of tea. i’ve got nostalgic pavements. i’ve got familiar faces. i’ve got a mixed-up memory. and i’ve got favourite places.
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“who needs love when there’s law and order?
who needs love when...”
– amanda palmer | leeds united
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we are scientists | after hours
this door is always open, no one has the guts to shut us out. but if we have to go now, i guess there’s always hope that some place will be serving after hours
this night is winding down but time means nothing. as always at this hour, time means nothing. one final final round ‘cause time means nothing. say that you’ll stay.
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“the weekend is a godsend, the night-time is a lifeline.”
– maximo park | your urge
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“and i always have remembered, in case you’re wondering, 84 takes a...”
– the gaslight anthem | angry johnny and the radio
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heartless bastards | early in the morning
i don’t want to follow in a path that makes me hollow, i’ve been living underground trying to get my spirits up. there’s more than one direction to get to the same end. we don’t have to agree, we don’t have to agree.
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the weakerthans | pamphleteer
how i don’t know what i should do with my hands when i talk to you. how you don’t know where you should look, so you look at my hands. how movements rise and then dissolve, melted by our shallow breath. how causes dance away from me. i am your pamphleteer.
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“there’s strings attached to every single lover, oh they still can’t...”
– the hold steady | banging camp
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the national | the geese of beverly road
we’ll take ourselves out in the streets, and wear the blood in our cheeks like red roses. we’ll go from car to sleeping car and whisper in their sleeping ears: “we were here, we were here.” we’ll set off the geese of beverly road. hey, love, we’ll get away with it, we’ll run like we’re awesome, totally genius. hey, love, we’ll get away with...
September 2009
8 posts
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“forever is a long, long time when you’ve lost your way.”
– phoenix | lasso
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bon iver | blood bank
…then the snow started falling. we were stuck out in your car. you were rubbing both of my hands, chewing on a candy bar. you said: “ain’t this just like the present to be showing up like this?” as the moon waned to crescent, we started to kiss. and i said i know it well.
that secret that we know, that we don’t know how to tell…
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“i’m drunk, i’m drunk, and you’re probably on pills.
if...”
– frightened rabbit | keep yourself warm
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heartless bastards | hold your head high
oh, and then i woke up from the middle of the strangest dream and everyone was there that i ever knew and they all began to sing hold your head high, just as high as you can things will work out soon, things will come round again you see i’ve got this fascination with all the wrong ways to go i get lost even in the places that i know
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“are you hopeful or just gullible?”
– maximo park | russian literature
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amanda palmer | ampersand
the ghetto boys are cat-calling me as i pull my keys from my pocket i wonder if this method of courtship has ever been effective. has any girl in history said: “sure, you seem so nice, let’s get it on”?
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“everything dies, baby that’s a fact. but maybe everything that dies,...”
– bruce springsteen | atlantic city