list 43 of my favorite song lyrics

30.
Pulled off the highway in Missouri and low our hearts were heavy laid
Made for the chapel with some spray paint for all the things we’d held in secret
Lord lift up these lifeless bones
Light cascading through the windows
all the rainbow’s heavy tones

He has fixed his sign in the sky
He has raised me from the pit and set me high

Left that place in ruin, drunk on the Spirit and high on fumes
Checked into a Red Roof in stayed up for several hours and then slept like infants
In the burning fuselage of my days
Let my mouth be ever fresh with praise

He has fixed his sign in the sky
He has raised me from the pit and set me high

Each morning new
Each day shot through
With all the sharps small shards of shrapnel
that seem to burst of me and you

Head down towards kansas We will get there when we get there don’t you worry
Feel bad about the things we do along the way
But not really that bad
We inhaled the frozen air
Lord send me a mechanic if I’m not beyond repair

He has fixed his sign in the sky
He has raised from the pit and he will set me high
“Psalms 40:2” by The Mountain Goats

31.
Thunderous sparks from the dark of the stadiums
The music and medicine you needed for comforting
So make all your fat fleshy fingers to moving
And pluck all your silly strings and bend all your notes for me
Soft silly music is meaningful magical
The movements were beautiful all in your ovaries
All of them milking with green fleshy flowers
While powerful pistons were sugary sweet machines
Smelling of semen all under the garden was all you were needing
When you still believed in me
Say what you want to say and hang for your hollow ways
Moving your mouth to pull out all your miracle for me

I know they buried her body with others
Her sister and mother and 500 families
And will she remember me 50 years later
I wished i could save her in some sort of time machine
Know all your enemies
We know who our enemies are
Know all your enemies
We know who our enemies are

Goldaline my dear
We will fold and freeze together
Far away from here
There is sun and spring and green forever
But now we move to feel
For ourselves inside some strangers stomach
Place your body here
Let your skin begin to blend itself with mine
“Oh Comely” by Neutral Milk Hotel

32.
I’m going out sleepwalking
Where mute memories start talking
The boss that couldn’t help but hurt you
And the pretty thing he made desert you
I’m going out now like a baby
A naïve unsatisfiable baby
Grabbing onto whatever’s around
For the soaring high or the crushing down
With hidden cracks that don’t show
But that constantly just grow
I’m looking for the man that attacked me
While everybody was laughing at me
You beat it in me that part of you
But I’m going to split us back in two
Tired of living in a cloud
If you’re going to say shit now you’ll do it out loud
It’s 2:45 in the morning
And I’m putting myself on warning
For waking up in an unknown place
With a recollection you’ve half erased
Looking for somebody’s arms to
Wave away past harms
I’m walking out on center circle
The both of you can just fade to black
I’m walking out on center circle
Been pushed away and I’ll never go back
“2:45 AM” by Elliott Smith

27.

cut and paste
were you sitting down
on the beaded impotence of new orleans
a hint of suspense when that telephone rings
this is forever

it paved a wave of distance
between the syntax error
from austin’s yellow brick road
this is forever

from this texas breath exhaled
no sign of relief
this you know, this you know
this is forever

march 23rd hushed the wind, the music died
if you can’t get the best of us now
it’s because this is forever

makes no difference
our alphabet is missing letters
seventeen, embalmed and caskets
lowered into the weather
a drizzle, brisk and profound

from this texas breath exhaled
no sign of relief
this is forever

“Napolean Solo” by At The Drive In

28.

Baby bring me home to bed
Rebel, rebel, no
Lightening dances in my head
Devil, devil, whoa-oh-oh
Burning steady as a motor
Not a pebble, pebble
Baby, bring me home to bed
I need you to press me down before my body flies away from me

Your power
Inside
It rocks me like a lullaby
Your power
Inside
It rocks me like a lullaby
Your power
Inside
Oh baby, I just don’t know why
Your power
Your power inside

Waiting for you
Hurry up

Mirror, mirror on the wall
Can you see my face at all?
My man likes me from behind
Tell the truth I never mind
Cause you bomb me with life’s humiliations everyday
You bomb me so many times I never find my way
Come on and bomb me
Why won’t you bomb me?
Come on and bomb
Go on and whoa-oh-a-woah-a-oh-ooh-oh

“Powa” by Tune-Yards

29. Why are you so far away from me?
I need help and you’re way across the sea
I could never touch you
I think it would be wrong
I’ve got your letter
You’ve got my song

They don’t make stationery like this where I’m from
So fragile, so refined
So I sniff and I lick your envelope
And fall to little pieces every time
I wonder what clothes you wear to school
I wonder how you decorate your room
I wonder how you touch yourself
And curse myself for being across the sea

Why are you so far away from me?
I need help and you’re way across the sea
I could never touch you
I think it would be wrong
I’ve got your letter
You’ve got my song

“Across The Sea” by Weezer

24.

trees break the sidewalk
and the sidewalk skins my knee
there’s glass in my thermos and blood on my jeans
nickels and dimes of the 4th of july
rolling off in a crooked line to the chainlink lots
where the red-tails dive
oh, how I’d forgot what it’s like

hey, when she sings
when she sings
when she sings like she runs
moves like she runs
hey, when she moves
when she moves
when she moves like she runs
moves like she runs
hey, there there’s such tender wolves ‘round town tonight
‘round the town tonight
hey, there there’s such tender wolves ‘round town tonight
‘round the town tonight

hey pretty baby, get high with me
we can go to my sister’s if we say we’ll watch the baby
the look on your face yanks my neck on the chain
and I would do anything to see you again
so I’ve fallen behind

go on, go on
and scream and cry
you’re miles from where anyone will find you
this is nothing new, no television crew
they don’t even put on the siren
my nightgown sweeps the pavement
please don’t let him die

“Star Witness” by Neko Case

25. Tomorrow you’ll see it through
The clouded out disguises put you in the room
And though I wandered out alone
A thousand lights abounded on our home
And I remember every sound it made
The clouded out disguises and the grave
So yeah I know I’m still afraid
Of letting go of choices I have made
All delighted people raise their hands

And I took you by the sleeve
No other reason than to be your leading man
And you woke up with a fright
Our lives depended on the visions through the night
All we had always, all we had always wanted to before
The hurricane inclined us, grappling on the floor
All delighted people raise their hands

Still the force of nature spurned
Ideas of strength and style abated by the burning basement
All delighted people raise their hands

I’m not easily confused
The trouble with the storm inside us grew
But I had so much to give
In spite of all the terror and abuse

All delighted people raise their hands
And the people bowed and prayed
And what difference does it make?
It doesn’t matter anyway
The world surrounds us with its hate

“All Delighted People” by Sufjan Stevens

26. Nobody knows everything
We know this to be true
Everything is difficult
Except what’s in front of you
But it’s complicated even under your nose
Bullshit math equations
And your highs and your lows
And your manic depression
It comes and it goes
Your parasympathetic nervous system reacts
And you’re in fight-or-flight mode

How’s the world so small when the world is so large?
And what made the world, could I please speak to who’s in charge?
Everything is real but it’s also just as fake
From your daughter’s birthday party to your grandmother’s wake
And your bi-polar illness, it comes and it goes
You parasympathetic nervous system reacts
And you’re in fight or flight
You’re in fight or flight
You’re in fight or flight mode

I’ve tried to know which words to sing so many times
And I’ve tried to know which chords to play
And I’ve tried to make it rhyme
And I’ve tried to find the key that all good songs are in
And I’ve tried to find the notes to make that great resounding din

But there’s a bad man in everyone
No matter who we are
There’s a rapist and a Nazi living in our tiny hearts
Child pornographers and cannibals, and politicians too
There’s someone in your head waiting to fucking strangle you

So here’s to you, Mrs. Robinson
People love you more, oh nevermind, oh nevermind
In fucking fact, Mrs. Robinson
The world won’t care whether you live or die, live or die
In fucking fact, Mrs. Robinson,
They probably hate to see your stupid face, your stupid face
So here’s to you, Mrs. Robinson,
You live in an unforgiving place.

“People II: The Reckoning” by Andrew Jackson Jihad

20.

Let the summer wind hit your skin
remind me when this all started changing

Let the summer heat knock you over, take me over
times they are changing

With the light of night laid out before us, running wild
or so they called us, called us young

To the rest of us for all the best of us
we’re left with this now, we resign ourselves

A moment has passed / Our moment has passed

Let the summer wind blow stories in
like gold left buried underneath our neighborhood

Let the summer heat escape our streets
up overhead, the lives we lead in our neighborhood

And everywhere love’s spilling over can’t help ourselves
thought we were older when we were young

To the rest of us for all the best of us
we’re left with this now, we resign ourselves

A moment has passed / Our moment has passed

Let the summer wind reveal your skin
remind me how we’ve all started changing

Let the summer heat tear through the seems
remind me how times they are changing

And every year come summertime
I think how come things aren’t alive like when we were young

To the rest of us for all the best of us
we’re left with this now, we resign ourselves

“Has Passed” by Tegan and Sara

21.

No one laughs at God
When their airplane start to uncontrollably shake
No one’s laughing at God
When they see the one they love, hand in hand with someone else
And they hope that they’re mistaken

No one laughs at God
When the cops knock on their door
And they say we got some bad news, sir
No one’s laughing at God
When there’s a famine or fire or flood

But God can be funny
At a cocktail party when listening to a good God-themed joke, or
Or when the crazies say He hates us
And they get so red in the head you think they’re ‘bout to choke
God can be funny,
When told he’ll give you money if you just pray the right way
And when presented like a genie who does magic like Houdini
Or grants wishes like Jiminy Cricket and Santa Claus
God can be so hilarious
Ha ha
Ha ha

No one laughs at God in a hospital
No one laughs at God in a war
No one’s laughing at God
When they’ve lost all they’ve got
And they don’t know what for

“Laughing With” by Regina Spektor

22.

Well, I woke up Sunday morning
With no way to hold my head that didn’t hurt.
And the beer I had for breakfast wasn’t bad,
So I had one more for dessert.
Then I fumbled in my closet through my clothes
And found my cleanest dirty shirt.
Then I washed my face and combed my hair
And stumbled down the stairs to meet the day.

I’d smoked my mind the night before
With cigarettes and songs I’d been picking.
But I lit my first and watched a small kid
Playing with a can that he was kicking.
Then I walked across the street
And caught the Sunday smell of someone frying chicken.
And Lord, it took me back to something that I’d lost
Somewhere, somehow along the way.

On a Sunday morning sidewalk,
I’m wishing, Lord, that I was stoned.
‘Cause there’s something in a Sunday
That makes a body feel alone.
And there’s nothing short a’ dying
That’s half as lonesome as the sound
Of the sleeping city sidewalk
And Sunday morning coming down.

“Sunday Morning Coming Down” by Johnny Cash

23.

I don’t believe in an interventionist God
But I know, darling, that you do
But if I did I would kneel down and ask Him
Not to intervene when it came to you
Not to touch a hair on your head
To leave you as you are
And if He felt He had to direct you
Then direct you into my arms

Into my arms, O Lord
Into my arms, O Lord
Into my arms, O Lord
Into my arms

And I don’t believe in the existence of angels
But looking at you I wonder if that’s true
But if I did I would summon them together
And ask them to watch over you
To each burn a candle for you
To make bright and clear your path
And to walk, like Christ, in grace and love
And guide you into my arms

Into my arms, O Lord
Into my arms, O Lord
Into my arms, O Lord
Into my arms

And I believe in Love
And I know that you do too
And I believe in some kind of path
That we can walk down, me and you
So keep your candlew burning
And make her journey bright and pure
That she will keep returning
Always and evermore

“Into My Arms” by Nick Cave

16.

James, he came to my place
He said he had to see my face
He hopes that we can still be friends
In his own way, he’ll love me till the end

And James, he came to the door
Wanting to know for sure
Why love gets up and goes
I’m sorry but it had no place to grow
Oh, James, my love for you is stronger, don’t you know?

I’d like to celebrate you, dear
All in all it’s been a pretty good year
I looked deep within myself
I got scared by just how hard I fell
Oh, James, you broke me, I thought I knew you well

“James” by Camera Obscura

17.

When I grow up
I want to live near the sea
Crab claws and bottles of rum
That’s what I’ll have
Staring at the seashell
Waiting for it to embrace me

I put my soul in what I do
Last night I drew a funny man
With dark eyes and a hanging tongue
It goes way bad
I never liked a sad look
From someone who wants to be loved by you

I’m very good with plants
When my friends are away
They let me keep the soil moist
On the seventh day I rest
For a minute or two
Then back on my feet and cry for you

You’ve got cucumbers on your eyes
Too much time spent on nothing
Waiting for a moment to arise
The face in the ceiling
And arms too long
I wait for him to catch me

“When I Grow Up” by Fever Ray
ps: I like the first aid kit version better

18.

Wanderers this morning came by
Where did they go?
Graceful in the morning light
To banner fair
To follow you softly
In the cold mountain air

Through the forest
Down to your grave
Where the birds wait
And the tall grasses wave
They do not
know you anymore

Dear shadow alive and well
How can the body die
You tell me everything
Anything true

In the town one morning I went
Staggering through premonitions of my death
I don’t see anybody that dear to me

Tiger Mountain Peasant Song by Fleet Foxes

19.

White moon, white moon
Breaks open the tomb
Of a deserted cartoon that I wrote
Creature come, creature, creature
My own double feature
As I’m warming the bleachers at home

Well, my nose keeps on bleeding
‘Cause it’s rita I’m needing
I better call out a meeting of the boys
Of the boys
My friends are all dying
And death can’t be lying
It’s the truth and it don’t make a noise

Oh Rita, oh Rita
If you lived in mesita
I would move you with the beat of a drum
And this picture is proof
That although you’re aloof
You had the shiniest tooth ‘neath the sun

Easy come, easy go
Be a star of the show
I’m giving up all I know to get more
To get more
Photograph the picture
Young grunt pin-up scripture
For locker-tagged memories of war

A mirage, this garage
And a photo montage
And a finger massage from the host
Good lord, good lord
The one I adore
And I cannot afford is a ghost
Is a ghost

“White Moon” by The White Stripes

11.

Just before our love got lost you said
“I am as constant as a northern star”
And I said “Constantly in the darkness
Where’s that at?
If you want me I’ll be in the bar”

On the back of a cartoon coaster
In the blue TV screen light
I drew a map of Canada
Oh Canada
With your face sketched on it twice
Oh you’re in my blood like holy wine
You taste so bitter and so sweet

Oh I could drink a case of you darling
Still I’d be on my feet
oh I would still be on my feet

“A Case of You”/ Joni Mitchell

12.
Nobody ever loved me like she does
Oo she does, yes she does
And if somebody loved me like she do me
Oo she do me, you she does

Don’t let me down
Hey, don’t let me down
Don’t let me down
Don’t let me down

I’m in love for the first time
Don’t you know it’s gonna last
It’s a love that lasts forever
It’s a love that had no past
“Don’t Let Me Down”/The Beatles

13.
I am on the mend
At least now I can say that I am trying
And I hope you will forget things I still lack

Is it in you now?
To barely hear the truth that you have spoken?
Twisted up by knaves,
To make a trap for fools

Is it in you now,
To watch the things you gave your life to broken?
And stoop and build them up with warn out tools
“Sowing Season”/ Brand New

14.
And of these cut-throat busted sunsets,
these cold and damp white mornings
I have grown weary
If through my cracked and dusted dime-store lips
I spoke these words out loud would no one hear me?
Lay your blouse across the chair,
Let fall the flowers from your hair
And kiss me with that country mouth so plain.
Outside the rain is tapping on the leaves
To me it sounds like they’re applauding us,
The quiet love we’ve made.

Will I always feel this way
So empty, so estranged?
“Empty”/Ray Lamontagne

15. ometimes in the morning i am petrified and can’t move
Awake but cannot open my eyes
And the weight is crushing down on my lungs i know i can’t breath
And hope someone will help me this time
Your mother’s still calling you insane and high
Swearing it’s different this time
And you tell her to give in to the demons that possess her
And that godnever blessed her insides
Then you hang up the phone and feel badly for upsetting things
And crawl back into bed to dream of a time
When your heart was open wide and you loved things just because
Like the sick and the dying

And sometimes when you’re on you’re really fucking on
And your friends they sing along and they love you
But the lows are so extreme that the good seems fucking cheap
And it teases you for weeks in its absense
But you’ll fight and you’ll make it through
You’ll fake it if you have to
And you’ll show up for work with a smile
And you’ll be be better you’ll be smarter
More grown up and a better daughter
Or son and a real good friend
And you’ll be awake and you’ll be alert
You’ll be positive though it hurts
And you’ll laugh and embrace all your friends
And you’ll be a real good listener
You’ll be honest you’ll be brave
You’ll be handsome you’ll be beautiful
You’ll be happy

“A Better Son/Daughter”/Rilo Kiley

6. It ain’t no use in calling out my name, gal
Like you never done before
It ain’t no use in calling out my name, gal
I can’t hear you any more
I’m a-thinking and a-wond’rin’ walking down the road
I once loved a woman, a child I’m told
I give her my heart but she wanted my soul
Don’t think twice, it’s all right.

So long honey, babe
Where I’m bound, I can’t tell
Goodbye’s too good a word, babe
So I’ll just say fare thee well
I ain’t saying you treated me unkind
You could have done better but I don’t mind
You just kinda wasted my precious time
But don’t think twice, it’s all right.
“Don’t Think Twice, It’s all Right” Bob Dylan

7. You
Hate the tender-hearted torch song
You catch flame to my sentiment, my sentimental tune (Oh!)
Now you know you know it now, and so
Now you know you know it now

Hard-hearted, don’t worry, I’m ready for a fight
Unnerved, the nerve, you’re nervous, nervous that I’m right
Hard-hearted, don’t worry, I’m ready for a fight
Unnerved, the nerve, you’re nervous, nervous that I’m right

Now
With your cause and affection on my mind
I won’t yield; throw caution into the blaze (Oh!)
Now you know you know it now, and so
Now you know you know it now

Watch
With a bit of friction I’ll be under your clothes
With a bit of focus I’ll be under your skin (Oh!)
Now you know you know it now, and so
Now you know you know it now
“Sentimental Tune” Tegan and Sara

8. I’m sittin’ in the railway station
Got a ticket for my destination
On a tour of one night stands
My suitcase and guitar in hand
And every stop is neatly planned
For a poet and a one man band

Homeward bound
I wish I was
Homeward bound
Home, where my thought’s escaping
Home, where my music’s playing
Home, where my love lies waiting
Silently for me
“Homeward Bound” Simon and Garfunkel

9.Why in the night sky are the lights hung?
Why is the earth moving round the sun?
Floating in the vacuum with no purpose, not a one
Why in the night sky are the lights hung?

Why is life made only for to end?
Why do I do all this waiting then?
Why this frightened part of me that’s fated to pretend?
Why is life made only for to end?

In the city only for a while
Here to face the fortune and the bile
I heard you on the radio, I couldn’t help but smile
In the city only for a while
“Blue Spotted Tail” Fleet Foxes

10. I’ve been out walking
I don’t do too much talking
These days
These days
These days I seem to think alot
About the things that I forgot to do
And all the times I’ve had
A chance to

I stop my rambling
I don’t do too much gambling these days
These days
These days I seem to think alot
How all the changes came about my way
And I wonder if I’d see another highway

I had a lover
I don’t think I’d risk another these days
These days
And if I seem to be afraid
To live the life that I have made in song
It’s just that I’ve been losing
So long

I’d stop my dreaming
I won’t do too much sceming these days
These days
These days I sit at corner stones
And count the time the quarter turns to ten
Please don’t confront me with my failures
I had not forgotten them
“These Days” Nico

3.
When you kissed my lips with my mouth so full of questions
It’s my worried mind that you quiet
Place your hands on my face
Close my eyes and say
Love is a poor man’s food
Don’t prophesize
I could hold you in my arms
I could hold you forever
And I could hold you in my arms
I could hold you forever
“Hold You in my Arms” ray lamontagne

4. am thinking it’s a sign that the freckles
In our eyes are mirror images and when
We kiss they’re perfectly aligned
And I have to speculate that God himself
Did make us into corresponding shapes like
Puzzle pieces from the clay
True, it may seem like a stretch, but
Its thoughts like this that catch my troubled
Head when you’re away when I am missing you to death
When you are out there on the road for
Several weeks of shows and when you scan
The radio, I hope this song will guide you home
“Such Great Heights” The Postal Service

5.
Some days her shape in the doorway
Will speak to me
A bird’s wing on the window
Sometimes I’ll hear her when she’s sleeping
Her fever dream
A language on her face

I want your flowers like babies want God’s love
Or maybe as sure as tomorrow will come

Some days, like rain on the doorstep
She’ll cover me
With grace in all she offers
Sometimes I’d like just to ask her
What honest words
She can’t afford to say, like

I want your flowers like babies want God’s love
Or maybe as sure as tomorrow will come
“Fever Dream” Iron and Wine

1. Everyone is dying
Stop crying now here comes the sun
I didn’t mean to hurt you no no no
It takes time to see what you have done
So I wean myself off slowly

I believe I believe I believe
Love is the only one
I deceive I deceive I deceive I deceive
Cos’ I’m not that strong
Hope you feel the same

And now it seems that we’re falling apart
But I hope I see the good in you come back again
I just believed in you
Blur – Sweet Song

2. I was nineteen, calling
I felt you in my life before I ever thought to
Feel the need to lay down beside you and tell you
“I feel you in my heart and I don’t even know you”
And now we’re saying bye
Tegan and Sara – Nineteen