"Sometimes it hard to know whats real when your not"

"Is that a leary machine you've got there?"

What songs this from?

'I am a moron and this is my wife'
-Frank Zappa, Flakes

"Consequence, it seems, can be stranger than a gang of drunken mimes." - Incubus

"What's that? You're Jewish?"- Frank Zappa, Dancin' Fool

It's in my sig, from the Pavement song, "Motion Suggests",

"And a voice could soothe you
Captivate the senses like a ginger ale rain"

I really love the imagery it provokes.

"Sitting on a hillside, watching all the people die
I feel much better on the other side" - Love, The Red Telephone

"With neon darkness shimmering through the haze
A sea of faces rippling in the heat
And through that namesless changing crowd
A sweet vibration seemed to fill the air" - The Zombies, Hung Up on a Dream

"Hung velvet overtaken me
Dim chandelier awaken me
To a song dissolved in the dawn" - Beach Boys, Surf's Up

You cannot go against nature
Because when you do
Go against nature
It's part of nature too

—Love & Rockets "No New Tale To Tell"

I love so many of his lyrics but this one is definitely one of my favorites.

"Or you could substitute an ear
For an extra useless eye" from Printhead by The Fall

"He's good-bad but he's not evil" from Leader of the Pack by The Shangri-Las

you're dog was your only friend
you spent your life saving fixing it's broken leg
you loved it more than you're parents loved you
and then i ran it over

"I Intentionally Ran Over Your Dog"

Way too many to limit myself to just the one im afraid but i feel i need to make mention of the following

"Asleep in the sand with the ocean washing over"
(Jeff Buckley - Dream Brother)

"And tell me where is the love in what your prophet has said?
Man, It sounds to me just like a prison for the walking dead"
(Jeff Buckley - Eternal Life)

"The past is so beautiful
The future like a corpse in snow"
(Richey Edwards/Nicky Wire) (Manic Street Preachers - Condemened to Rock n' Roll)

"For $200 anyone can concieve a God on video"
(Richey Edwards) (Manic Street Preachers - Yes)

"Rock 'n Roll is our Epiphany"
(Richey Edwards/Nicky Wire) (Manic Street Preachers - Little Baby Nothing)

"I am an architect, they call me a butcher"
(Richey Edwards) (Manic Street Preachers - Faster)

"Madonna drinks Coke and so you do too
Tastes real good not like a sweet poison should"
(Richey Edwards/Nicky Wire) (Manic Street Preachers - Slash 'n Burn)

"All of our sons and our daughters are dead
And the birth that we stole
Eater grows old" from Devil Walk, God Walk (Heaven Walk, Hell Walk) by Oceana

"All we are is entertainment, Caught up in our own derangement." Entertainment - Rise Against

"Did you exchange, a walk on part in the war, for a leading role in a cage." Pink Floyd

"Something about the way you taste makes me want to clear my throat."
My favorite Devo song.

"The glass was raised, the fired rose
The fullness of the wine, the dim last toasting
While at port, adieu or die.

A choke of grief, heart-hardened I
Beyond belief a broken man too tough to cry.

Surf's up, aboard a tidal wave.
Come about hard and join the young and often spring you gave.
I heard the word,
Wonderful thing,
A children's song."

"Surf's Up" - The Beach Boys

Says it was good to be alive
And now he rides the comet's flame
And won't be coming back again
The Earth looks better from a star
That's right above from where you are
Holland 1945 - Neutral Milk Hotel (The entire song is great, this is just my favorite excerpt)

Somebody once said remove specifics and convert to ambiguities because definition is
A myth a mirage a speculation a shaky medium made weaker by personal scales of pain

Caldo - School of Seven Bells

And sooo many more.

it'll seem more like a song, and less like it's math, if you pull on my hair & bite me like that.
- bright eyes, pull my hair.

i can think of more "meaningful" lyrics but this one gives me goosebumps each & every time, and i'm not even a big bright eyes fan at all : )

Strangers passing in the street
By chance two separate glances meet
And I am you and what I see is me

"I'd stay if I ever could...
And pick up your pieces babe...
Cause there's never a perfect day."

"She's the kind of girl you want so much it makes you sorry,
Still you don't regret a single day"

"we built this city on rock and roll" -Jefferson Starship

Breathe in for luck, breathe in so deep
This air is blessed, you share with me
This night is wild, so calm and dull
These hearts they race from self control
Your legs are smooth as they graze mine
We're doing fine, we're doing nothing at all

My hopes are so high that your kiss might kill me
So won't you kill me, so I die happy?
My heart is yours to fill or burst, to break or bury
Or wear as jewelery, whichever you prefer

The words are hushed let's not get busted
Just lay entwined here, undiscovered
Safe in here from all the stupid questions
"Hey did you get some?" . . . Man, that is so dumb
Stay quiet, stay near, stay close they can't hear
So we can get some

My hopes are so high that your kiss might kill me
So won't you kill me, so I die happy?
My heart is yours to fill or burst, to break or bury
Or wear as jewelery, whichever you prefer

Hands down this is the best day I can ever remember
Always remember the sound of the stereo
The dim of the soft lights,
The scent of your hair that you twirled in your fingers
And the time on the clock when we realized it's so late
And this walk that we shared together
The streets were wet and the gate was locked
So I jumped it, and let you in
And you stood at your door with your hands on my waist
And you kissed me like you meant it
And I knew that you meant it
That you meant it, that you meant it
I knew that you meant it, that you meant it

Dashboard Confessional - Hands Down.

good choice...!

"Do you really ****ing think
that it's a choice, a way of life
played by discrimination?
you're narrow-minded, quick to judge
with bible belt tunnel vision"

Is this my fate? He asked them By Story of the year

"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"

Oh Comely by Neutral Milk Hotel

"Your lips on my own when they printed "farewell" / Had never been soiled by the beverage of hell / But they come to me now with the bacchanal sign / But the lips that taste liquor, they taste so divine"

Skyclad - Which Is Why

"Jesus Christ im alone agian, So what did you do those three days you were dead?"

Jesus Christ = Brand New

"There's a sweetness in the worst things" - MK Ultra, John Vanderslice's first band

I lol'd


Anyways...

"We hope your rules and wisdom choke you" - Radiohead, Exit Music

I usually tone the fanboyism wayyy down when it comes to Yorke's lyrics, but Exit Music is just plain perfect in that aspect.


Some other favorites:

"We are trapped in the belly of this horrible machine, and the machine is bleeding to death" - GY!BE

"Stay on your knees with your cross and don't tell me you know so,
The world is my playground too and I refuse to follow." - Archive

"The artist is living in the mirror
With the echoes of himself
Even the greatest stars live their lives in the looking glass
Even the greatest stars live their lives in the looking glass" - Kraftwerk


And this one is a sample from K-Pax, but Muon pulls it off SO well...

"I wanna tell you something Mark, something you do not yet know, that we K-PAXians have been around long enough to have discovered. The universe will expand, then it will collapse back on itself, then will expand again. It will repeat this process forever. What you don't you know is that when the universe expands again, everything will be as it is now. Whatever mistakes you make this time around, you will live through on your next pass. Every mistake you make, you will live through again, & again, forever. So my advice to you is to get it right this time around. Because this time is all you have." - Muon (KPax)

that song gives me aids

'Whatd'ya mean I hurt ya feelings? I didn't know ya had any feelings' - Megadeth, Peace Sells

'Rockefeller died of AIDS, that was the end of his chapter,
And that's the guy y'all chose to name your company after?' - Nas, Ether

'The gods are laughing, so take your last breath' - Metallica, Fight Fire with Fire

"She's as ripe as a cantaloupe and invisible as me".

Sun City Girls

I have a favorite in my signature - it's the final line in 'Squirrel Song' by Shellac.

Another favorite is the opening line of the same song:
This is a sad fucking song. We'll be lucky if I don't bust out crying.

Well my favorite lyrics ever are from Protest the Hero's Kezia, and Fortress. But a few of my particular favorites are...

("Turn Soonest to the Sea" from Kezia) "When you bled on the bed as you fed those expectations as a whore and not a human you embraced with hesitiation the parameters of all you can be; not a mother not a sister not and aunt who's not subdued because dignity's not physical and your flesh means more then you"

("The Divine Suicide of K" from Kezia) "Ressurected to be killed and maybe born again, I'll always be Kezia so long as any hope remains"

("The Dissentience" from Fortress) "Somebody's little girl dreaming of the things she reads, or the monsters in her bed who hacked her in to bloodmeat"

("Sequoia Throne" from Fortress) "We are still life in cold-blood and we feel nothing, hell-bent on heaven while our righteous men are stuffing corpses full of **** and faith"

I could go on for a long time with these albums...

"I want to grow old with you, no matter how long it takes"

" we dont need a key,we will break in" rage against the machine