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The more we move ahead, the more we're stuck in rewind.
Well, I don't mind, I don't mind,
How the Hell could I know?
- Ocean Breathes Salty
Well that is that and this is this.
You tell me what you want and I'll tell you what you get.
You get away from me. You get away from me.
Collected my belongings and I left the jail.
Well, thanks for the time, I needed to think a spell.
I had to think a while. I had to think a while.
- Ocean Breathes Salty
Taking heartache with hard work,
God damn, I am such a jerk.
I can't do anything.
- Trailer Trash
I got the time, I got the hours, I got the days, I got the weeks.
I could say to myself I've got the words but I can't speak.
- Black Cadillacs
Bad news come, don't you worry even when it lands,
Good news will work its way to all them plans.
- Float On
I might,
And you might,
But neither of us do, though,
And neither of us will.
Yesterday night I broke every bone in my jaw.
Thought so hard it's the last thing I ever thought.
- Might
And I claim I'm not excited with my life any more,
So I blame this town, this job, these friends.
The truth is, it's myself.
And I'm trying to understand myself
and pinpoint where I am.
By the time I get things figured out,
I've change the whole damn plan.
- Talking Shit about a Pretty Sunset
Oh my God,
I've got to, got to, got to, got to move on.
But where do you move when what you're movin' from
Is yourself?
- Never Ending Math Equation
Your heart felt good.
It was drippin' pitch and made of wood.
- Third Planet
'Cause you cocked your head to shoot me down,
And I don't give a damn about you or this town
No more...
- Perfect Disguise
Well, I'm fed up and I need to go
Out of existence or just down the road
Forever.
- Other Peoples' Lives
I wrote my name on the sun!
Hey, alright, I might be goddamned.
A life of arctic sounds.
Hey, alright, I might be goddamned.
All the sad comedians...
Hey, alright, I might be goddamned.
- Life of Artic Sounds
My Hell comes from inside,
Comes from inside myself.
Why... fight... this?
- Your Life
I didn't go to work for a month,
I didn't leave my bed for eight days straight.
I haven't hung out with anyone,
'Cause if I did, I'd have nothing to say.
I didn't feel angry or depressed,
I didn't feel anything at all.
I didn't want to go to bed
And I didn't want to stay up late.
When youre living your life, well, that's the price you pay.
- Positive/Negative
And it's hard to be a human being,
And it's harder as anything else.
And I'm lonesome when you're around.
And I'm never lonesome when I'm by myself.
- Baby Blue Sedan
Well, I'll go to college and I'll learn some big words,
And I'll talk real loud,
Goddamn right, I'll be heard.
You'll remember that guy who said all those big words he must've
Learned in college.
- Bankrupt on Selling
Well, all the apostles, they're swingin' in swings
Saying, "I'd trade off my savior for a set of new rings
And some sandles with them straps in the style that cling best to the era."
- Bankrupt on Selling
I been dyin', I ain't complainin', I ain't blamin' you.
I didn't know that the words you said to me meant more to me than they ever could you.
- Black Cadillacs
Remember through sounds,
Remember through smells,
Remember through colors,
Remember through towns,
With fear and fascination
On what was here
And what's replacing it now...
Interchange plazas and malls,
And crowded chain restaurants.
More housing developments go up
Named after the things they replace.
So, welcome to Minnow Brook,
And welcome to Shady Space.
Well, it all seems a little abrupt.
No, I don't like this change of pace.
- Novocain Stain
By then it was too late and you wound up on an island of shells and bones that bodies had left.
And the one thing you taught me about human beings was this:
They ain't made of nothin' but water and shit!
- What Human Beings are Made Of
Well, the point was fast, but it was too blunt to miss.
Life handed us a paycheck and we said, "we worked harder than this!"
- Bury Me with It
If life's not beautiful without the pain,
Well, I'd just rather never see beauty again.
As life gets longer,
Awful feels softer.
Well, it feels pretty soft to me.
- The View
Well all that icing and all that cake,
I can't make it to your wedding, but I'm sure I'll be at your wake.
You were talk, talk, talk, talkin' in circles that day,
When you get to the point make sure that I'm still awake, okay?
- Bukowski
If God controls the land and disease
Keeps a watchful eye on me,
If he's really so damn mighty,
My problem is I can't see
Well, who would wanna be...
Who would wanna be such a control freak?
- Bukowski
I'm will remember to remember to forget
You've forgotten me.
- A Different City
The Devil's apprentice, he gave me some credit:
He fed me a line and I'll probably regret it.
- Alone Down There
Now the blow's been softened
Since we are our own damn coffins.
Well, everybody's talkin' 'bout their short list,
And everybody's talkin' 'bout death!
You were layin' on the carpet
Like you're satin in a coffin.
You said, "Do you believe what you're sayin'?"
"Yeah, right now, but not that often."
Are you dead or are you sleepin'?
Are you dead or are you sleepin'?
Are you dead or are you sleepin'?
God, I sure hope you are dead.
- Satin in a Coffin
