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Bright Eyes- "The calender hung itself."
Does he kiss your eyelids in the morning
When you start to raise your head
And does he sing to you incessantly
in the space between your bed and wall
Does he walk around all day at school
with his feet inside your shoes?
Looking down every few steps to pretend
he walks with you?
Does he know that place below your neck
is your favorite to be touched?
And does he cry through broken sentences
Like , " I love you far too much?"
Does he lay awake listening to your breath?
Worried you smoke too many cigarettes
Is he coughing now, on the bathroom floor?
For every speck of tile, there's a thousand more
That you won't ever see
but most you hold inside yourself
eternally
I drug your ghost across the country
and we plotted out my death.
In every city, memories would whisper
Here is where you rest
I was determined in Chicago
But I dug my teeth into my knees
I settled for a telephone
sang into your machine
You are my sunshine, my only sunshine...
I kissed a girl with a broken jaw
that her father gave to her
She had eyes bright enough to burn me
They reminded me of yours
In a story told she was a little girl
In a red-rouged sun-bruised field
and there were rows of ripe tomatoes
where a secret was concealed
And it rose like thunder
clapped over our heads
In it stretched for centuries
To a diary entries end
Where I wrote
YOU MAKE ME HAPPY WHEN SKIES ARE GRAY
YOU MAKE ME HAPPY WHEN SKIES ARE
GRAY AND GRAY AND GRAY
Well the clock's heart it hands inside
its open chest
with its hands stretched towards a
calendar hanging itself
but I will not weep for those dying days
For all the ones who have left,
there are a few that stayed
And they found me here, and pulled me
From the grass, where I was laid.
Conor Oberst (Bright Eyes)
At The Drive In- "Invalid Litter Department"
intravenously polite it was the walkie talkies
that had knocked the pins down
as their shoes gripped the dirt floor
in the silhouette of dying
dancing on corpses' ashes
yeah they had plans for him
they has spun the last of the pimps
polyester satin nailed jewelry lips
while the guillotine just laughed again
dancing on the corpses' ashes
paramedics fell into the wound
like a rehired scab at a barehanded plant
an anesthetic penance beneath
the hail of contraband
they had been defected and excommunicated
and all the pulses were subverted
and they made sure the obituaries
showed pictures of smoke stacks
a vivid dissection that mocked
the strut of vivisection
semi automatic colonies
and a silencing that still walks the streets
in the company of wolves
was a stretcher made of
cobblestone curfews
the federales performed
their custodial customs quite well
callous heels
numbed in travel
endless maps made
by their scalpels
on my way
nails broke and fell
into the
wishing well
At The Drive In.
Goo Goo Dolls- "Slide"
could you whisper in my ear
the things you wanna feel
i'll give you anything
to feel it comin'
do you wake up on your own
or wonder where you are
you live with all your faults
chorus
i wanna wake up where you are
i won't say anything at all
so why don't you slide
yeah we're gonna let it slide
don't you love the life you killed
the priest is on the phone
your father hit the wall
your ma disowned you
don't suppose i'll ever know
what it means to be a man
it's something i can't change
i'll live around it
chorus
and i'll do anything you ever
dreamed to be complete
little pieces of the nothing that fall
oh may put your arms around me
what you feel is what you are
what you are is beautiful
oh may do you wanna get married
or run away
and i'll do anything you ever
dreamed to be complete
little pieces of the nothing that fall
oh may put your arms around me
what you feel is what you are
what you are is beautiful
oh may do you wanna get married
or run away
i wanna wake up where you are
i won't say anything
chorus
oh may just slide between them sheets
upon the bed you never knew
just slide into my room
why don't you just slide into my room
and we'll runaway runaway runaway
Goo Goo Dolls
Goo Goo Dolls- "Black Balloon"
baby's black balloon makes her fly
i almost fell into that hole in your life
and you're not thinking about tomorrow
'cause you were the same as me
but on your knees
a thousand other boys could never reach you
how could i have been the one
i saw the world spin beneath you
and scatter like ice frm the spoon
that was your womb
comin' down th world turned over
and angels fall without you there
and i go on as you get colder
or are you someone's prayer
you know the lies that they always told you
and the love you never knew
what's the things they never showed you
that swallowed the light from the sun
inside your room
comin' down the world turned over
and angels fall without you there
and i go on as you get colder
and theres no time left for losin'
when you stand they fall
comin' down the world turned over
and angels fall without you there
and i go on as you grow colder
all because i'm
comin' down the years turn over
and angels fall without you there
and i'll go on to bring you home
all because i'm
all because i'm
and i'll become
what you became to me
Black Balloon.
Mos Def- "Fear Not of Man"
bismillah ir rahman ir raheem
if you can hear me ladies and gentlemen
then i'm very happy that you came here
ooh ooooooooooohhhh ooh ooooooooooooooohh wheeeee
that was for brooklyn
ha ha we get it everytime
you got me on ohh
shout out to all of my crew east west north south
all the continent europe all abroad international
bring it in bring it in bring it in bring it in
it's a lot of things goin on y'all
21st century is comin
20th century almost done
a lot of things have changed
a lot of things have not mainly us
we gon' get it together right i believe that
listen people be askin me all the time
yo mos what's gettin ready to happen with hip hop
where do you think hip hop is goin
i tell em you know what's gonna happen with hip hop
whatever's happening with us
if we smoked out hip hop is gonna be smoked out
if we doin alright hip hop is gonna be doin alright
people talk about hip hop like it's some giant livin in the hillside
comin down to visit the townspeople
we are hip hop
me you everybody we are hip hop
so hip hop is goin where we goin
so the next time you ask yourself where hip hop is goin
ask yourself where am i goin how am i doin
til you get a clear idea
so if hip hop is about the people
and the hip hop won't get better until the people get better
then how do people get better hmmmm
well from my understanding people get better
when they start to understand that they are valuable
and they not valuable because they got a whole lot of money
or cause somebody think they sexy
but they valuable cause they been created by god
and god makes you valuable
and whether or not you recognize that value is one thing
you got a lot of socities and governments
tryin to be god wishin that they were god
they wanna create satellites and cameras everywhere
and make you think they got the all seein eye
eh i guess the last poets wasn't too far off
when they said that certain people got a god complex
i believe it's true
i don't get phased out by none of that none of that
helicopters the tv screens the newscasters the
satellite dishes they just wishin
they can't really never do that
when they tell me to fear they law
when they tell me to try to
have some fear in my heart behind the things that they do
this is what i think in my mind
and this is what i say to them
and this is what i'm sayin to you check it
all over the world hearts pound with the rhythm
fear not of men because men must die
mind over matter and soul before flesh
angels for the pain keep a record in time
which is passin and runnin like a caravan freighter
the world is overrun with the wealthy and the wicked
but god is sufficient in disposin of affairs
gunmen and stockholders try to merit my fear
but god is sufficient over plans they prepared
mos def in the flesh where you at right here
on this place called earth holdin down my square
bout to do it for y'all and y'all at the fair
so just bounce come on bounce
b b bounce b bounce b bounce bounce
and just
just step two three
just step two three and
step two
two three and
one two three and four
one two three and four
once again
all over the world hearts pound with the rhythm
fear not of men because men must die
mind over matter and soul before flesh
angels for the pain keep a record in time
which is passin and runnin like a caravan freighter
the world is overrun with the wealthy and the wicked
but god is sufficient in disposin of affairs
gunmen and stockholders try to merit your fear
but god is sufficient over plans they prepared
mos def in the flesh where you at right here
on this place called earth holdin down my square
bout to represent in your whole atmosphere
bout to represent in your whole atmosphere
to your atmosphere to your atmosphere
oh ooooooohhhhhhhhhh
that was for you and brooklyn too
Mos Def "Black on Both Sides"
Lisa Loeb- "When All the Stars Were Falling"
when all the stars were falling
i reached up like you said
all the stars were falling
one hit me in the head
and i fell down down down
i fell down down
when all the stars were falling
they fell from above
and i thought of hate and i thought of hate
and then i thought of love
and i fell down down down i fell down down
and i've learned how to dance from a vincent van gogh
and the nights were wrapped in a white sheet
and now no one even says hello
'cause i couldn't stand on my two feet
i fell down
i fell down
now the peace you will find in your own you have found
the lights of the city are the stars on the ground
i may not be a quaalude living in a speed zone
but i could be restful i could be someone's home
if i fell down
and i fell down down
now all the stars have fallen
Lisa Loeb.
Pharcyde- "Passing Me By"
Now in my younger days I used to sport as sag
When I went to school I carried lunch in a bag,
With an apple for my teacher 'cause I knew I'd get a kiss.
Always got mad when the class was dismissed,
But when it was in session, I always had a question.
I would raise my hand to make her stagger to my desk and
Help me with my problem, it was never much,
Just a trick, to smell her scent and try to sneak a touch
Oh, how I wish I could hold her hand and give her a hug.
She was married to the man. He was a thug, his name was Lee, he drove a Z,
He'd pick her up from school promptly at three o'clock.
I was on her jock, yes indeedy. I wrote graffiti on the bus.
First I'd write her name then carve a plus,
With my name last, on the looking glass,
I seen her yesterday but still I had to let her pass.
She keeps on passing me by....
When I dream of fairytales I think of me and Shelly.
See, she's my type of hype and I can't stand when brothers tell me,
That I should quit chasin' and look for something better,
But the smile that she shows makes me a go-getter.
I haven't gone as far as asking if I could get with her,
I just play it by ear and hope she gets the picture.
I'm shootin' for her heart, got my finger on the trigger.
She could be my broad, and I could be her nigger,
But all I can do is stare.
Back as kids we used to kiss when we played truth or dare.
Now she's more sophisticated, highly edu-ma-cated, not at all over-rated.
I think I need a prayer,
To get in her book and it looks rather dry,
I guess a twinkle in her eye is just a twinkle in her eye.
Although she's crazy steppin' I'll try to stop her stride,
'Cause I won't have no more of this passing me by.
And I must voice my opinion of not even pretending she didn't have me.
Strung like a chicken, chase my tail like a doggie,
She was kind of like a star, thinking I was like a fan.
Dude, she looked good, down side: she had a man.
He was a rudey, too, a nincompoop.
She told me soon your little birdie's gonna fly the coop.
She was a flake like corn, and I was born not to understand,
By letting her pass I had proved to be a better man.
She keeps on passing me by....
Now there she goes again, the dopest Ethiopian,
And now the world around me be gets movin' in slow motion when-
Ever she happens to walk by. Why does the apple of my eye
Overlook and disregard my feelings no matter how much I try?
Wait, no, i did not really pursue my little princess with persistance;
And I was so low-key that she was unaware of my existance
From a distance I desired, secretly admired her;
Wired her a letter to get her, and it went:
My dear, my dear, my dear, you do not know me but I know you very well.
Now let me tell you about the feelings I have for you.
When I try, or make some sort of attempt, I symp.
Damn I wish I wasn't such a wimp!
'Cause then I would let you know that I love you so,
And if I was your man then I would be true.
The only lying I would do is in the bed with you.
Give a try and consider the one who loves you dearly,
P.S. Love me tender.'
The letter came back three days later: Return to Sender.
Damn!
She keeps on passing me by...