i listen to the music i do, for the most part, because of the lyrics and how they are delivered. today's focus will be on nine inch nails:
from "Love is Not Enough"
In your eyes is a place worth remembering
For you to go and take this and smash it apart, I've gone all this fucking way, to wind up back at the start."
from "Every Day Is Exactly the Same"
"I can feel their eyes are watching in case I lose myself again
from "Only"
Now I am somewhere I am not supposed to be,
and I can see things I know I really shouldn't see.
from Somewhat Damaged
In the back off the side far away is a place where I hide, where I stay
from "The Wretched"
The clouds will part and the sky cracks open and god himself will reach his fucking arm through, just to push you down, just to hold you down.
from "We're In This Together"
The farther I fall, I'm beside you
As lost as I get, I will find you
The deeper the wound, I'm inside you
from "Even Deeper"
In a dream I'm a perfect me with a perfect you, we fit perfectly. For once in my life I feel complete, and I still want to ruin it.
from "The Big Come Down"
There is a game I play
Try to make myself okay
Try so hard to make the pieces all fit
Smash it apart, just for the fuck of it.
from "The Becoming"
The me that you know had some second thoughts
he's covered with scabs and he is broken and sore
the me that you know doesn't come around much
that part of me isn't here anymore.
(and)
it won't give up it wants me dead
goddamn this noise inside my head
and who can forget "Hurt?"
(okay. i'd have to type the whole effing song. you know the words.)
from "Gave Up"
Covered in hope and vaseline still cannot fix this broken machine watching the hole it used to be mine
just watching it burn in my steady systematic decline
of the trust i will betray give it to me i throw it away
after everything i've done i hate myself for what i've become
from "Suck"
She makes it sweeter than the sun
I get too tight I come undone
I bow my head to confess
The temple walls are made of flesh
Runs up my arms 'til I'm on track
Itches my skin right off of my back
I'll heal your wounds
I'll set you free
I'm Jesus Christ on Ecstacy
whew...i think that'll do for now.
tomorrow's lyric fest? Liz Phair. Pre-2003 Liz Phair, that is.
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Those were powerful. For Liz, are you going to do the oft-overlooked "Rocket Boy"? (Hint: It's on the "Stealing Beauty" soundtrack.)
I'm all about the pre-2003 Liz, but not so much the current incarnation. My fave off Exile in Guyville: "I want to [bleep] you like a dog. I'll take you home and make you like it." Wait, is that how they go? My head is so full of exam material that I'm suddenly questioning the last sentence.
The lyrics I love the most are from Flaming Lips "Do you realize?"
Do you realize
That everyone
you know
someday
will die?
And instead of saying all of your goodbyes,
Let them know you realize that time goes fast.
It's hard to make the good times last.
You realize the sun doesn't go down.
It's just an illusion caused by the world
spinnin' round.
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