[playlist] anthems for a seventeen year old girl
1. "invincible" ok go
when they finally come, what'll you do to them? gonna decimate them like you did to me? will you leave them stunned and stuttering? when they finally come, how will you handle them? will you devastate them deliberately? 'cause i'm gonna guess they won't be prepared for thousand fahrenheit hot metal lights behind your eyes. invincible, you're invicible, that crushing, crashing, atom-smashing, white-hot thing, invincible. so please, use your powers, for good. please use your powers for good.
2. "life is short" butterfly boucher
another door to peek in through, the floor is filthy but the couch is clean. at the end of the day, that's another day gone. oh i am young but i have aged, waited long to seize the day, all things said and plenty done. oh i am young but i have a past, travelled far to find the start. yes i am scared and i've been burnt, but life is short. could this be, oh, could this be the day i've waited for?
3. "she's perfect" jimmy eat world
she's perfect in her own way, smoke rings rising to the winter grey. she's perfect in her own way, shining, stepping off a silver train. she's amazing in her own way, always moving to a better place. she's amazing in her own way, laughing, you won't get to her weaker traits. now i'm getting that sick taste in my mouth, from the medicine that i can't keep down. you know time heals nothing by itself, i see that ever so clearly now. she looks just a little bit different now, maybe a little bit softer around her eyes.
4. "superhero" ani difranco
yeah you've been gone exactly two weeks, two weeks and three days, and now i'm a different person, different in so many ways. tell me what did you like about me? don't say my strength and daring, 'cause now i think i'm at your mercy and it's my first time for this kind of thing. i used to be a superhero, i would swoop down and save me from myself. you are like a phone booth that i somehow stumbled into, and now look at me, i am just like everybody else, i am worse than everybody else.
5. "cannibal's hymn" nick cave & the bad seeds
those heathens you hang with down by the sea, all they want to do is defrock you. i know a river, where we can dream, it will swell up, burst its banks, babe, and rock you. but if you're gonna dine with them cannibals, sooner or later, darling, you're gonna get eaten, but i'm glad you've come around here with your animals, and your heart that is bruised but unbeaten, and beating like a drum. i will sit like a bird on a fence, sing you songs with a happy ending. swoop down and tell you that it don't make no sense, to attack the very thing you're defending.
6. "her eyes" pat monahan
she's not afraid; she just likes to use her night light. when she gets paid, true religion gets it all if they fit right. she's a little bit manic, completely organic, doesn't panic for the most part. she's old enough to know, and young enough not to say no to any chance that she gets for home plate tickets to see the mets. like everybody, she's in over her head, dreads feds, grateful dead, and doesn't take meds. she's a gemini capricorn, thinks all men are addicted to porn. i don't agree with her half the time, but, damn i'm glad she's mine. her eyes, that's where hope lies. that's where blue skies meet the sunrise.
7. "falling slowly" glen hansard and marketa irglova
i don't know you but i want you all the more for that. words fall through me, and always fool me, and i can't react. games that never amount to more than they're meant will play themselves out. falling slowly, eyes that know me, and i can't go back. wounds that take me, and erase me, and i'm painted black. well you have suffered enough, and warred with yourself, it's time that you've won. take this sinking boat and point it home, we've still got time. raise your hopeful voice, you had the choice, you've made it now.
8. "pretty eyes" mirah
wake up in the morning and i can see there's something about you that's following me. the sun's in my heart, the stars in the sky, i just wanna tell you, you have such pretty eyes. if i go out in the world, i might get tired and when i finally feel like coming home again, but what will i find here after walking on the whole wide world? maybe i'll find your pretty eyes. the tracks they lead right to your ocean side, i'm scratching my head can't you see that i'm trying? life is a road and love is a car, i'm old enough now so teach me all about driving.
9. "monster" the meg & dia band
his little whispers, love me, love me. that's all i ask for, love me, love me. he battered his tiny fists to feel something, wondered what it's like to touch and feel something. monster, how should i feel? that night he caged her, bruised and broke her, he struggled closer, then he stole her. violet wrists and then her ankles, silent pain, then he slowly saw their nightmares were his dreams.
10. "all around me" flyleaf
my hands are searching for you, my arms are outstretched towards you. i feel you on my fingertips, my tongue dances behind my lips for you. this fire rising through my being, burning, i'm not used to seeing you. i'm alive, i'm alive. i can feel you all around me, thickening the air i'm breathing, holding on to what i'm feeling, savoring this heart that's healing. my hands float up above me and you whisper you love me, and i begin to fade into our secret place. the music makes me sway, the angels singing say we are alone with you, i am alone and they are too with you. i'm alive, i'm alive.
11. "burn that broken bed" iron & wine
how do you bust the clouds? press on your back been hanging in the air. i wanna scope you out, i wanna touch your mouth when you're up there. when are you coming back? bird on a branch will come back home to sing. when are you coming back? bringing it back and singing what you bring. how do you bust the clouds? head on the ground and feeling what you've seen. i wanna scope you out, i wanna be your eyes and show you me. when are you coming back? when are you gonna burn that broken bed? when are you coming back? i wanna see you drifting overhead.
12. "and darling" tegan & sara
creep up and tell me that you you love me more each time you look into my eyes, i feel- i know you don't mean to be mean, i'm sure you know the same for me when you creep up and say i- darling, it breaks my heart each time you- darling, i break my heart each time i- you slip your hands inside my pockets, tell me nothing else would do, without me, you can't live, and you slip your heart into my chest they both become one of the strongest pairs when strangers come, and darling, this thing that breaks my heart, and darling, you break my heart each time you- darling, this thing that breaks my heart, and darling, you break my heart each time you-
13. "existentialism on prom night" straylight run
when the sun came up, we were sleeping in. sunk inside our blankets, sprawled across the bed, and we were dreaming. there are moments when, when i know it ends. the world revolves around us, and we're keeping it, keep it all going, this delicate balance, vulnerable, all knowing. sing like you think no one's listening, you would kill for this, just a little bit, just a little bit, you would, you would. sing me something soft, sad and delicate, or loud and out of key, sing me anything. we're glad for what we've got, done with what we've lost. our whole lives laid out, right in front of us.
14. "the only exception" paramore
maybe i know somewhere deep in my soul that love never lasts, and we've got to find other ways to make it alone, or keep a straight face. and i've always lived like this, keeping a comfortable distance, and up until now i had sworn to myself that i'm content with loneliness, 'cause none of it was ever worth the risk, but- you are the only exception, you are the only exception. i've got a tight grip on reality but i can't let go of what's in front of me here. i know you're leaving in the morning, when you wake up leave me with some kind of proof it's not a dream, oh-you are the only exception, and i'm on my way to believing it.
15. "honey" tori amos
a little dust never stopped me now, he liked my shoes, i kept them on. sometimes i can hold my tongue, sometimes not when you just skip-to-lou my darling. and you know what you're doing, so don't even. and i think i could leave your world, if she was the better girl, so when we died i tried to bribe the undertaker 'cause i'm not sure what you're doing, or the reasons. don't bother coming down, i made a friend of the western sky. don't bother coming down, you always like your babies tight. turn back one last time, love to watch those cowboys ride, but cowboys know that cowgirls ride on the indian side, and you know what you're doing, don't even. you're just too used to my honey, now, you're just too used to my honey.
16. "cannonball" vienna teng
still a little bit of your taste in my mouth, still a little bit of you laced with my doubt. it's still a little hard to say what's going on. still a little bit of your ghost - your witness, still a little piece of your face i haven't kissed. you step a little closer each day, and i can't say what's going on. stones taught me to fly, love taught me to lie, life taught me to die, and it's not hard to fall when you float like a cannonball. there's still a little bit of your song in my ear, still a little bit of your words i long to hear. you step a little closer to me, so close that i can't see what's going on. storms taught me to fly, love taught me to cry, so come on courage, teach me to be shy. and it's not hard to fall. and i don't want to scare him. it's not hard to fall, and i don't wanna lose. it's not hard to grow, when you know that you just don't know.
17. "even fairy tale characters would be jealous" playradioplay!
seventeen and running up the stairs my baby bear, seven lonely hours that i've been without a shower until you and i meet in the bathroom with the water on, steaming up the room with little but a towel on. you are my high, you are my high just like a joint or two just hanging out the window in september on the twenty-eighth i'll be dethroned and sent to clean up my act, four months in a penitentiary where i can read and think i'll make it home. everything i said last night when we were in the car, telling you i knew i knew i knew that we would make it far. everyone in this town will see, someone like you could be with someone like me. even fairy tale characters would jealous.
18. "hero" regina spektor
hey, open wide here comes original sin, it's all right, it's all right, no one's got it all. power to the people, we don't want it, we want pleasure, and the t.v.'s try to rape us, and i guess that they're succeeding, and we're going to these meetings, but we're not doing any meeting, and we're trying to be faithful but we're cheating, cheating, cheating. i'm the hero of the story, don't need to be saved. i'm the hero of the story, don't need to be saved. it's all right, it's all right.
19. "cry little sister" g tom mac
(thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not die.) last fire will rise behind those eyes. black house will rock, blind boys don't lie. immortal fear, that voice so clear. through broken walls, that scream i hear. blue masquerade, strangers look on. when will they learn this loneliness? temptation heat beats like a drum, deep in your veins, i will not lie, little sister (thou shalt not fall) come, come to your brother (thou shalt not die) unchain me, sister (thou shalt not fear) love is with your brother (thou shalt not kill). my shangri-la, i can't forget, why you were mine. i need you now. little sister (thou shalt not fall) come, come to your brother (thou shalt not die) unchain me, sister (thou shalt not fear) love is with your brother (thou shalt not kill).