::In The Summer When You Really Know - Jets To Brazil:: In the tall grass of a long sun quiet repast and I'm sweet nothings, come hell I'm your lover your man your friend your fair weather. It's a world stopped afternoon passion legs your wordless, all blue routes to your birth place chalk white wincing pretty in it. Summer dress, your hair's wet and gets into our kisses. Can you tell why my intentions always wind up just near misses. There's a kindness in your smile but my sky plays fatal music. There's a promise and the shell of great beginnings seldom finished. In the laze of a barefoot afternoon, what's a boy to do? Sunday eyes, am I losing you? Is the summer really through? Straps down and overtired if I had a favorite picture I'd call it right now, uncertain, braced for your disaster. Summer gown were you sent down to wrestle me to reason? I'm a thrown fight, in your favor, I'll do everything but listen to you now. In the summer you really know that it doesn't feel like summer so much anymore, but I keep trying to find you somewhere smiling over me, over you, over me. Summer girl all summer long you know the winter's wrong. Southbound those motel towns can mend most broken mornings. There's citrus groves where noone knows the fruit of truth from evil. And a long walk on a short pier means nothing more than swimming here. There's an end we don't get to choose. We can only lose. If I cried a river just for you, would you swim in it some sunny afternoon? In the summer you'll really know you're the only summer that I think I'll ever know, so I'll keep trying to find you somewhere smiling over me, over you, over me.
::Don't Look Back in Anger - Oasis::
Slip inside the eye of your mind
Don't you know you might find
A better place to play
You said that you'd once never been
All the things that you've seen
Will slowly fade away
So I start the revolution from my bed
Cos you said the brains I have went to my head
Step outside the summertime's in bloom
Stand up beside the fireplace
Take that look from off your face
You ain't ever gonna burn my heart out
So Sally can wait, she knows its too late as we're walking on by
Her soul slides away, but don't look back in anger I hear you say
Take me to the place where you go
Where nobody knows if it's night or day
Please don't put your life in the hands
Of a Rock n Roll band
Who'll throw it all away
::Firefly - Saves The Day:: I said I'd walk you home after our third round of pouring whiskey down the barrel of our guts
and I grabbed hold of your hand. We're up and we're out and we're yelling through the streets
and I'm out of my fucking mind
and I know you're next to me but I must confess what's in my head.
Keep pumping now, legs to beat the ground, and our hearts to beat the band.
The sky's on fire again. Run down this alleyway.
Lightning bolts again and we become fireflies just flashing at the air.
Rattle garbage cans. Prepare to be ravaged by our lust burning mad, the fire that we've become.
And I know you're under me but I must confess what's in my head:
To me you are the light from a light bulb that breaks sometimes
and the tender warmth inside is released into my life
and it smothers me in flames that lick and scorch my face.
As the smoke reaches the sky know I'm burning tonight.
Know I'm burning tonight.
::Girl On The Wing - The Shins:: one wound up punch of intuition
lays flat my whole take on us.
you're the girl on the wing of a barnstormer
the tidal rabbit who came of age before her time.
we could have been so good-natured
if i'd relented when you insisted,
but we've been backed against
all nature's walls far too long.
you felt abandoned by me,
i recall the sunshine as you were melting
and though the comedy softens the fall
they still hear us with their ears to the wall.
i sold all my evil motives,
no icicles stuck in my hide.
i'm through with riddles, i know we're little
just help me feel warm inside.
before we take this ride and let it slide
into the cracks where fall and winter collide.
i surrender all my gall in a song of modern love.
remember you're the one who summoned me above any other kind.
we could have been so good-natured
if you'd relented when i insisted,
we take a week off, let the garden grow by itself
and let the gluttons fill themselves with all the worst of the gory ninties.
and though the comedy softens the fall, we stall fall short.
::Left and Leaving - The Weakerthans:: My city's still breathing (but barely it's true) through buildings gone missing like teeth. The sidewalks are watching me think about you, all sparkled with broken glass. I'm back with scars to show. Back with the streets I know. They never take me anywhere but here. Those stains in the carpet, this drink in my hand, these strangers whose faces I know. We meet here for our dress-rehearsal to say " I wanted it this way" and wait for the year to drown. Spring forward, fall back down. I'm trying not to wonder where you are. All this time lingers, undefined. Someone choose who's left and who's leaving. Memory will rust and erode into lists of all that you gave me: some matches, a blanket, this pain in my chest, the best parts of Lonely, duct-tape and soldered wires, new words for old desires, and every birthday card I threw away. I wait in 4/4 time. Count yellow highway lines that you're relying on to lead you home.
::Nightswimming - R.E.M.:: Nightswimming deserves a quiet night.
The photograph on the dashboard, taken years ago,
turned around backwards so the windshield shows.
Every streetlight reveals the picture in reverse.
Still, it's so much clearer.
I forgot my shirt at the water's edge.
The moon is low tonight.
Nightswimming deserves a quiet night.
I'm not sure all these people understand.
It's not like years ago,
The fear of getting caught,
of recklessness and water.
They cannot see me naked.
These things, they go away,
replaced by everyday.
Nightswimming, remembering that night.
September's coming soon.
I'm pining for the moon.
And what if there were two
Side by side in orbit
Around the fairest sun?
That bright, tight forever drum
could not describe nightswimming.
You, I thought I knew you.
You I cannot judge.
You, I thought you knew me,
this one laughing quietly underneath my breath.
Nightswimming.
The photograph reflects,
every streetlight a reminder.
Nightswimming deserves a quiet night, deserves a quiet night.
::You're the one I want - Jets to Brazil:: Blooming black flower wine.
Slashed arms and new cut smiles.
Taller for the falling down.
Stronger now without you around.
The prophecies were realized when we gave them proper time.
All truths come to light after lies have had their night.
And it's hard without you,
but it's harder not to doubt you when you're so polite.
I'm too uptight.
You've grown more beautiful since you took off.
What can I do?
I'm in love with you and it won't stop.
You're the one I want.
Cookie crumbs and alcohol.
Crooked hands, the band's on hold
'cause your shoulders make me old and your concerns...
they leave me cold.
And it's hard to leave you, but it's harder to believe you.
Harder to believe you when you smile crooked style.
You've grown more beautiful since you took off.
What can I do?
I'm in love with you and I can't stop.
What's best for everyone is bound to hurt somebody.
What's best for everyone is killing me.
Let me down. Set me down. Let me down easy.
Blood crushed from a clock.
I'm in love but we just talk and your teeth make me weak
and you're keeping them from me.
::Help Me When You're Gone - Starflyer 59::
I will be right here
When you say
Spend your days with me always
No complaint
I'm leaving and I won't delay
I won't delay
Summer time and summer days
And summer days
Help me when you're gone...
I will be right here
When you say
Share your love with me only
Anyway
I'm leaving and I won't delay
I won't delay
Summer time and summer days
And summer days
Help me when you're gone...
::No New Kinds Story - Starflyer 59::This is what we want
You know we had to wait a good while
This is what we need
To live out all the love that we read
This ain’t no new kinda story
Things are not that bad
You know we had a hell of a dad
This is what we need
To live out all the love that we read
This ain't no new kinda story
This is what we want
You know we had to wait a good while
This is what we need
To live out all the love that we read
This ain't no new kinda story
::Kissing the Lipless - The Shins:: Called to see if your back
was still aligned and your sheets
were growing grass all on the corners of your bed
But you've got too much to wear on your sleeves
it has too much to do with me
and secretly I want to bury in the yard
the grey remains of a friendship scarred
You told us of your new life there
you got someone comin' around
gluing tinsel to your crown
he's got you talking pretty loud
you berate remember your ailing heart and your criminal eyes
you say you're still in love
if it's true what can be done
it's hard to leave all those moments behind
You tested your metal of doe's skin and petals
while kissing the lipless
who bleed all the sweetness away
::Lost Dropped and Cancelled - Rainer Maria:: expect me like one waits for mail,
all lost dropped and cancelled.
like foreign post, i leave twice a day
but take a week to get there.
expect me like one waits for rain,
or sleet or hail or snowfall.
like foreign post, i'm lost on the way
and take a week to get there.
i want to be delivered
'til i'm gone gone gone.
the way it's sealed in my heart, i
t's guaranteed that i'm
in your hands
by morning, when you're ready
to read between the lines
and the paper isn't telling you anything.
if you miss me, drop me a line
in care of fin de siecle,
mit luftwaffe.
it's the end of the end of the end.