Temporary Bad Weather

It's really
Too bad,
He became a prisoner of his own past.
He stabbed the moment in the back
With the round thumbtack
That held up the list of things he gotta do.
It's really
No good,
He's moving on before he understood.
He shot the future in the foot with every step he took
From the places that he's been cause he forgot to look.

Better staple it together and call it bad weather.
Staple it together and call it bad weather.

If the weather is better,
We should get together,
Spend a little time and we can do whatever.
And if we get together, we'll be twice as clever
So, staple it together and call it bad weather, mm hmmm

Look Up

The Moon Is Down

-Explosions in the Sky-

Goals

The businessman says, “After that, you can finally retire. You can move to a house by the fishing village, wake up early in the morning and catch a few fish, then return home to play with your kids and have a nice afternoon nap with your wife. When the evening comes, you can join your buddies for a drink, play the guitar, and sing and dance throughout the night!”

The fisherman was puzzled, “Isn’t that what I am doing now?”

The Wrong Role Models

We watch movies of murder and we censor the breast
Give thanks for the murders of Chris Columbus
We kill our own and we vote for the men
The lesser of evils and us starring the role of victim

I wonder how we change if we can in this land

I wonder how many mountains we'd move if we bent together
Us priveleged Americans

We pass our revisions onto the next generation
We kneel to the gods of corporation
We eat when we're full and we hoard all the rest
With our hands on remotes we say "yes, we're the best"

We teach our offspring for themselves, every man
We shrug shoulders and create yet another -ism
We dissuade our young from using their imagination
We avert our eyes from this our very own manifestation

I wonder what will change in this land, cause we can
I wonder how many mouths we'd fill if we band together
Us awakening Americans

-Alanis Morisette-

Change

The rain is falling down

I feel like a dog that's been kicked out into the street
I know that dogs can't drive cars
But that's about the only difference between us now
But wait, there's a rainbow over the freeway
And I think I feel the morning sun
Another song is number one
Golden days have just begun

Well, you can't argue all day long about
whether love really exists or not
It's a complete waste of time
Like arguing about whether Santa Claus really exists or not
I got better things to do with my time
I got places that I've gotta be
And people that I've got to see
Mountains that I have to ski
Golden days ahead of me

Change. Every dog is gonna have his day
Change. Every loser's gonna have his way
Change. I don't care what other people say
Change. I know everything will be OK

-The Sparks-

Water

Water dragons spitting fireballs,
underneath a perfect sky somewhere very far away.
Fools playing in their paradise,
all we can do is try to find our way back one of these days.
I had a dream of falling stars and ocean waves were rolling me.
Caught up it seems I'm gonna get way too lonely
here up in this scene.

Like water let worries drift away.

Strange people walking 'round missing everything,
that we can see and that will never change.
Not perfect but I feel ok,
fools waste their time on wishing things away,
dreaming of better days.
Caught underneath a mountain of reef and hoping,
I'll see you when you go.
I'm a rolling away,
I'm a get on my way,
'cause i don't wanna be late on my way home.

Like water let worries drift away.
Drift away.

-The Beautiful Girls-

Beauty in the Breakdown

Break it down again

When it's all mixed up
Better break it down
In the world of secrets
In the world of sound

It's in the way you're always hiding from the light
See for yourself you have been sitting on a time bomb
No revolution maybe someone somewhere else
Could show you something new about you and your inner song
And all the love and all the love in the world
Won't stop the rain from falling
Waste seeping underground
I want to break it down

Break it down again

They make no mention of the beauty of decay

Break it down again
No more sleepy dreaming
No more building up
It is time to dissolve
Break it down it again
No more sleepy dreaming

-Tears For Fears-

The Unknown

If there's no one beside you

When your soul embarks

Then I'll follow you into the dark

-Death Cab for Cutie-

Fearless

In the holding tank I built for myself it's feeding time

And I start to feel afraid 'cause I'm the last one left in line

The endless string of summer storms that led me today

Began one afternoon with you long ago and faraway

And someone leads the beast in on its chain

But I know you're thinking of me 'cause it's just about to rain

So I won't be afraid of anything ever again

In the cell that holds my body back the door swings wide

And I feel like someone's lost child as the guards lead me outside

And if the clouds are gathering, it's just to point the way

To an afternoon I spent with you when it rained all day

And someone leads the beast in on its chain

But I know you're thinking of me 'cause it's just about to rain

So I won't be afraid of anything ever again

-The Mountain Goats-

Completion

My grandfather's name was Moon
Because his eyes were bright and round
And no amount of time or liquor could dull them
My grandmother's name was Joy
Because it spilled out of her heart
And bathed her precious children in its warmth
And there was happiness in life beyond the sorrow
and the pain
But how they ever found it, I cannot explain
I guess time has a way of making everything all right
It's just, there is not enough of it
And so we drink and we sing and we celebrate
This lie and hope that it will last
Morning is here, night has passed
My grandfather was a doctor
He cured the sick with his kind hands
And he taught me how to sail and how to find dry land
My grandmother was all sweetness
And when she spoke we all heard bells
And they rang in such a way that we were comforted
And they held on to each other with all the strength they had
And they loved with devotion beyond what I understand
But I guess fear has a way of making sleep unbearable
And the days seem cold and long
But we cry and we dance and we stumble into love with awkward, perfect grace
The moon is gone and the sun has took it's place

-Bright Eyes-

Fame/Success

He said you're just as boring as everyone else
When you tut and you moan
And you squeal and you squelch
He said that you're just as boring as everyone else
Nothing ever happens

Things replace things
Days replace days
Things replace things

Run, run, run, run, run, run
And you cannot run or ever, ever escape
You cannot run or ever hide it away
Something glorious is about to happen
The reckoning

The fear and the yearning
The fear and the consumption
The fear and the yearning
It's going to eat you alive

Why'd you have to get so hysterical?
Success, success, success is over
Why'd you have to get
So fucking useless?

-Bloc Party-

Eternity

The End Has No End

-The Strokes-

Suicide (I am not suicidal; this is just about self-expression)

Just lately I've been feeling
Like I don't belong
Like the ground's not mine
To walk upon

And I sat watching a flower
As it was withering
I was embarrassed by
It's honesty

So please forgive what I have done
No, you can't stay mad at the setting sun
We all get tired, I mean, eventually
There is nothing left to do but sleep

But spring came bearing sunlight
Those persuasive rays
So I gave myself
A few more days

I wrote this for a baby
Who has yet to be born
I hope that womb's not too warm
Because it's cold out here
And it will be quite a shock
To breathe this air
To discover loss
So I'd like to make some changes
Before you arrive
So when your new eyes meet mine
They won't see no lies

Just love

-Bright Eyes-

Happiness = Resources/Needs

So I won't ever be happy again

But as the story goes, or it is often told
A new day will arise
And all the dance halls will be full of skeletons
That are coming back to life
And on a grassy hill the Lion will lay down with the Lamb
And I won't ever be lonely again
But until that time I think I had better find
Some disbelief to suspend
Because I don't want to feel like this again

-Bright Eyes-

Apathy + Loneliness + Boredom = Emptiness

So gather your strength and break free

Or you will surely die

Gather your strength don't follow me

'Cause I will surely die

Defy only if you have a way to resist the lies

Decline only if you have the intention of taking this advice

Apply only if you're not afraid to see your spirit die

Retreat only if you dare not hear yourself say goodbye

Cool night gave my truth for a lie

My lips are dry you gave me drugs to try

Hold me when I die

The sky has frozen to a wall

We die we all

My youth unknown to me

I'm walking by a wire

What's left from me to breathe

Cold smell of fire

One day I will be free

I was born to be no one

My youth unknown to me

I walked behind the sun

Emptiness within me

Exit signs within me

-Katatonia-

Alone

No...

I really don't think so
That you'd think I'd be incapable of being on my own

No...
I really don't think so
That I would for a second let you back in through my door

I have spent many a-nights even when you were by my side
I shed tears I couldn't dry

But I should thank you for
Taking my blindfold off
Now I ain't jaded no more
And I take pride in being the one that said goodbye
That could only mean
I am me, once more

-Zee Avi-

Forever

What's the use between death and glory?

I can't tell between death and glory
Happy endings, no, they never bore me
Happy endings, they still don't bore me
But they, they have a way
A way to make you pay
And to make you tow the line

No I sever my ties
Because I'm so clever
But clever ain't wise

And fuck forever
If you don't mind
Oh, fuck forever
If you don't mind, I don't mind

One and the same
No, it's not the same
It's not suppose to be the same

And fuck forever
If you don't mind
See I'm stuck forever
I'm stuck in your mind

-Babyshambles-

Stay Strange

Everything is everything
Love is the light of my heart
Get rid of the heavy thing
I will forever sing
Forever will bring
And never come between
The terror of life and better things
This is my medique
That lifts off the scene from
Music is my everything
We enter my kingdom
God bless

I want to be free
How free?
Ay yo, free as can be

Generation after generation we continue to fall
Give me a call if you want to talk
We're like brothers, kid
Let's build
And continue to live
All the way

This is the song of inspiration
For the many who have not experienced the ups and downs
What is life and love
So many choices we can make
But what you need to do is take your time

To some my diction may sound foreign
No, I hope I ain't borin'
What I'm trying to do is fit your mental like a glove
In hopes that you might understand
That joy and pain go hand-in-hand

It's for you that I pray
That you will listen with your heart
And cast away the things that you have heard
So on this day
It's for you that I pray
That you will listen to my own
And hear a soul instead of just my words
Instead of just my words

-Strange Fruit Project-

All Good People Struggle

Mr. Maker he's got it made

But all around him, the world grows hard
He thinks to himself, he must have played a lucky card
If he was alone he'd give it all away
To people and things, that he wanted to save
Doesn't stop to think it's because of he
Always doing right, he stays healthy

But oh no, it's alright
Mr. Maker, he'll be fine
It's all right, it's OK
Because of the love he gave away
Oh yeah

Heart beat, stay heavy
Love us all please, stay on your feet
For me

-The Kooks-

Wake Up and Let Your Love Shine

***need a butterfly picture***
Wake up your time is nearly over
No more the supernova
No action guaranteed
Wake up you've had an operation
Ideals above your station
Too much reality

Think about the wasted time spending
Watching Mother Nature's knees bending
Everybody loves a happy ending
Don't you just love a happy ending?
Oh yeah well so do I
And all your love will shine on everyone

The darkness of the day
A curse in every way
You try to see the light
But you don't know why

The grass is always green on the other side
So stay and breathe new life
Wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up
Everything is moving faster than you think

All your love will shine on everyone

-Tears For Fears-

The Unmanifest

One dream one soul one prize one goal
One golden glance of what should be

One shaft of light that shows the way,
No mortal man can win this day

The bell that rings inside your mind
Is challenging the doors of time

The waiting seems eternity
The day will dawn of sanity

Magic magic magic magic
Ha ha ha it's magic
It's a kind of magic

-Queen-

There's No Such Thing As Certainty

And fact is only what you believe.
And fact and fiction work as a team.
Its almost always fiction in the end.
The content begins to bend.
When context is never the same.
And it's all relative,
Even if we don't understand.
And its all understood,
Especially when we don't understand.
And its all just because,
Even if we don't understand.

Then let's all just believe-I was reading a book.
Well, maybe it was a magazine.
Suggestions on where to place faith,
Suggestions on what to believe.
But I read somewhere that you've got to beware.
You can't believe anything you read.
But the good book is good and that's well understood,
So don't even question if you know what I mean.

But there you go once again you missed the point,
And then you point your fingers at me
And say that I said not to believe.
I believe.
But there you go once again you missed the point,
And then you point your fingers at me
And you say that I said not to believe.
I believe...I guess.
I guess it's all relative.

-Jack Johnson-

Wasting Time Learning

Now please don't pretend to know what's on my mind
If we already knew everything that everybody knows
We would have nothing to learn tonight
And we would have nothing to show tonight

Oh, but everybody thinks
That everybody knows
About everybody else
Nobody knows anything about themselves
'Cause they're all worried about everybody else

Love's just a waste of our energy,
And this life's just a waste of our time
So why don't we get together?
We could waste everything tonight
We could waste it all (:

-Jack Johnson-

Liberty (Destiny, not Fate)

This is the moment
It’s on the line
Which way you gonna fall?
In the middle between
Wrong and right
But you know after all

It’s your life
What you gonna do?
The world is watching you
Every day the choices you make
Say what you are and who
Your heart beats for
It’s an open door
It’s your life

Are you who you always said you would be?
With a sinking feeling in your chest
Always waiting for someone else to fix you
Tell me when did you forget

To live the way that you believe
This is your opportunity
To let your life be one that lights the way

-Francesca Battistelli-

Illusions Confusions

Action in the ways I see today
Hold me back into the world where I can stay
Go away so I can see you in my eye
The world is a panic lost in time

Other worlds for us to find
Leaving all these things behind
Sun is fire in the sky
Burns a hole into our lives

I look into the eyes of my disguise
There you are waiting for my cries
Hide in darkness staying out of sight
Flashing feelings cloud the night

Knowing when I'm going to fall
I try so hard to do it all
Flames surround this dream I'm in
Suddenly it never ends

-Screaming Trees-

The Sun (:

But when the sun is shining
But when the weather is sweet
You've got to get up off the floor
And move your dancin' feet
But when you feel jah music
But when you feel it inside
I've the rockin' an' the rollin'
And the feelin' everything just fine

-Slightly Stoopid-
(Bob Marley)

Live!

Goodbye to all my yesterdays

Goodbye, so long, I'm on my way

I've had enough of cryin'
Bleedin', sweatin', dyin'
Hear me when I say
Gonna live my life everyday
I'm gonna touch the sky
And I spread these wings and fly
I ain't here to play
I'm gonna live my life everyday

Strange, everybody's feeling strange
Never gonna be the same
Makes you wonder how the world keeps turning
Life, learning how to live my life

-Bon Jovi-

Perspective

Of course I was raised to
Gather courage from those
Lofty tales so tried and true, but
If you're able
I'd suggest it, 'cause this
Modern thought can get the best of you

This rather simple epitaph
Can save your hide, your falling mind
Fate isn't what we're up against
There's no design, no flaws to find

But I learned fast how to
Keep my head up, 'cause I
Know I've got this side of me that
Wants to grab the yoke from the pilot
And just fly the whole mess into the sea

-The Shins-

The Mind

I've never had much cause for worry
And I've not got a lot to say
You'll never find me in a hurry
Because I live my life day by day

I'm happy the way that I do things
Continually feeling okay
I've no worries on what tomorrow brings
Because I live my life day by day

People say that I'm crazy
But I'm not that way inclined
I know what I know and I'll happily show
That madness is all in the mind

-Rise and Fall-

Moving On

Oh now.
What would you do, if you were me?
When it's suicide to stay, and murder to leave?

-Edie Brickell-

The Beginning Is The End

Where do you move when what you're moving from

Is yourself?
The universe works on a math equation
That never even ever really ends in the end
Infinity spirals out creation

And the plants and the animals, they are linked
And the plants and the animals eat each other

Well, I know what I have and want
But I don't know what I need

"Where we're going, I'm dead"

-Modest Mouse-