Shima/Kigai ST
Preliminary listing.
Ani Difranco - Falling is Like This
BNL - What a Good Boy
Beck - Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime
Fiona Apple - Love Ridden
Jets to Brazil - Sweet Avenue
Jets to Brazil - Cat Heaven
JYPU - Double Negative
Mae - Soundtrack For Our Movie
Nine Days - Wanna Be
Okkervil River - Song About a Star
Over the Rhine - Suitcase
Snow Patrol - Run
Vienna Teng - Daughter
With particularly pertinent lines in italics because I'm a freak.
Ani Difranco - Falling is Like This
you give me that look that's like laughing
with liquid in your mouth
like you're choosing between choking
and spitting it all out
like you're trying to fight gravity
on a planet that insists
that love is like falling
and falling is like this
feels like reckless driving when we're talking
it's fun while it lasts, and it's faster than walking
but no one's going to sympathize when we crash
they'll say "you hit what you head for, you get what you ask"
and we'll say we didn't know, we didn't even try
one minute there was road beneath us, the next just sky
i'm sorry i can't help you, i cannot keep you safe
i'm sorry i can't help myself, so don't look at me that way
we can't fight gravity on a planet that insists
that love is like falling
and falling is like this.
BNL - What a Good Boy
When I was born, they looked at me and said,
"What a good boy, what a smart boy, what a strong boy."
And when you were born, they looked at you and said,
"What a good girl, what a what a smart girl, what a pretty girl."
We've got these chains that hang around our necks
people want to strangle us with them before we take our first breath.
Afraid of change, afraid of staying the same,
when temptation calls, we just look away.
This name is the hairshirt I wear
and this hairshirt is woven from your brown hair.
This song is the cross that I bear,
bear it with me, bear with me, bear with me, be with me tonight,
I know that it isn't right, but be with me tonight.
I go to school, I write exams,
if I pass, if I fail, if I drop out,
does anyone give a damn?
And if they do, they'll soon forget 'cause it won't take much for me
to show my life ain't over yet.
I wake up scared, I wake up strange.
I wake up wondering if anything in my life is ever going to change.
I wake up scared, I wake up strange
and everything around me stays the same.
This name is the hairshirt I wear
and this hairshirt is woven from your brown hair.
This song is the cross that I bear,
bear it with me, bear with me, bear with me, be with me tonight,
I know that it isn't right, but be with me tonight.
I couldn't tell you that I was wrong,
chickened out, grabbed a pen and paper, sat down and I wrote this song.
I couldn't tell you that you were right,
so instead I looked in the mirror,
watched TV, laid away all night.
We've got these chains, hang 'round our necks,
people want to strangle us with them before we take our first breath.
Afraid of change, afraid of staying the same when temptation calls ...
This name is the hairshirt I wear
and this hairshirt is woven from your brown hair.
This song is the cross that I bear,
bear it with me, bear with me, bear with me, be with me tonight,
I know that it isn't right, but be with me tonight.
When I was born, they looked at me and said;
"What a good boy, what a smart boy, what a strong boy."
And when you were born, they looked at you and said;
"What a good girl, what a smart girl, what a pretty girl, hey"
Beck - Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime
Change your heart, look around you
Change your heart, it will astound you
I need your loving like the sunshine
And everybody's gotta learn sometime
Everybody's gotta learn sometime
Everybody's gotta learn sometime
Change your heart, look around you
Change your heart, it will astound you
I need your loving like the sunshine
And everybody's gotta learn sometime
Everybody's gotta learn sometime
Everybody's gotta learn sometime
Everybody's gotta learn sometime
Fiona Apple - Love Ridden
Love ridden, I’ve looked at you
With the focus I gave to my birthday candles
I’ve wished on the lidded blue flames
Under your brow
And baby, I wished for you
Nobody sees when you are lying in your bed
And I wanna crawl in with you
But I cry instead
I want your warm, but it will only make
Me colder when it's over
So I can’t tonight, baby
No, not ‘baby’ anymore - if I need you
I’ll just use your simple name
Only kisses on the cheek from now on
And in a little while, we’ll only have to wave
My hand won’t hold you down no more
The path is clear to follow through
I stood too long in the way of the door
And now I’m giving up on you
No, not ‘baby’ anymore - if I need you
I’ll just use your simple name
Only kisses on the cheek from now on
And in a little while, we’ll only have to wave
No, not ‘baby’ anymore - if I need you
I’ll just use your simple name
Only kisses on the cheek from now on
And in a little while, we’ll only have to wave
Jets to Brazil - Sweet Avenue
tasting you and rain I walk down to the train
trying not to look down
this day could someday be an anniversary
everything is light and sound
facing forwards going slowly wait for you to show me
where this train wants to go
living by the hour I stop for every flower
everything is soft and slow
now all these tastes improve through the view that comes with you
like they handed me my life
for the first time it felt right
thank you for making me see there's a life in me
it was dying to get out
holding you we make two spoons beneath an April moon
everything is soft and sweet
this cigarette it could seduce
a nation with its smoke
crawling down my tired throat
scratches part of me that's purring
softly stirring
I'm a captain of industry, smoking famously
feet up on the windowsill
looking at all these trees I feel affinity with
everything so soft and still
budding at my fingertips
touching you I start to bloom
alive with trains and passing ships
soft and sweet along your lips now
I go "oh wow"
thank you for taking me from my monastery
I was dying to get out
with tears of gratitude
I lock my latitude
cross town train to you
now all these tastes improve
through the view that comes with you
like they handed me my life
for the first time it felt worth it
like I deserved it
Jets to Brazil - Cat Heaven
In the dream that awakened me,
you had come and taken me to a sea of stars.
The cat stood in the flowers, two ears above.
And the ground that was under me
was holding me so wonderfully on a bed of leaves
and you were there with me and we were free.
Everything we saw was beautiful and strong and I knew we belonged.
Then the birds came and carried us to the sky
and married us on a bed of stars
where I was always yours and you were mine.
And in the long black eternity I loved you so perfectly in the words of clouds,
like a bird sings to his flowers and I was heard.
Everything I saw was everything I'd want
and this world had just begun to live.
Don't wake me up.
I can't wake up from this.
Everyone was forgiven, made hopeful,
made living, made winning tonight.
So captain please consider me.
Let the boats deliver me when I close my eyes.
Drive captain drive.
It's time for everything to be perfect.
For everything to stop hurting.
Tonight. Don't wake me up.
JYPU - Double Negative
This, this is the truth.
I’ve checked all my facts
and I’ve got all the proof I need.
I keep forgetting why I’m here,
I keep feeling I shouldn’t be.
The looks I keep getting,
the talk in my ears keeps reminding me.
It reminds me how our friendship died,
how my presence here is a thorn in your side.
I keep forgetting why I’m here, it’s because
I’m a petty guy who spends his time fabricating useless lies.
I wanna know why you had to say the things you said,
the time you spent inside my head. I don’t mind.
The truth is somewhere in between,
hurting you and killing me.
You are resigned with your shoulders shrugged,
a sideways glance, a nodded head, a non-response.
It’s so unkind. The truth is somehow hidden but still hurting you.
It’s a lie.
I keep forgetting why I’m here,
I keep feeling I shouldn’t be.
The looks I keep getting,
the talk in my ears keeps reminding me.
It reminds me how our friendship died,
how my presence here is a thorn in your side.
I keep forgetting why I’m here, it’s because
I’m a petty guy who spends his time fabricating useless lies.
I wanna know why you had to say the things you said,
the time you spent inside my head. I don’t mind.
The truth is somewhere in between,
hurting you and killing me.
You are resigned with your shoulders shrugged,
a sideways glance, a nodded head, a non-response.
It’s so unkind. The truth is somehow hidden but still hurting you.
It’s a lie.
It’s my lovesong to you.
It's a lie.
It's my lovesong to you.
It's a lie.
It's my lovesong to you.
It's a lie.
It's my, it's my, it's my...
Mae - Soundtrack For Our Movie
I started to ache when I started to think of you.
Wondering how long it would take beore I step into something new.
There's only so much I can fake.
There's only so much that I can prove.
Well, do it in a minute,
I could go play the fool for you.
Lights, camera, action.
I think I'm going for it this time.
There's something you should listen to.
Could I take you for a car ride?
This is the soundtrack for our movie.
Would you tell me when we get to the best part?
I'll play it for you.
Oh no, I think I've lost this one.
Can we try again?
Well I'm a wreck.
I really can't explain it but I,
I hear the music when I look at you.
Orchestrating the song to accommodate the moment.
Well, I'm so in love with you.
Are you looking for an answer?
Because I could really use a friend tonight.
We can make this last forever.
We don't have to fear the sunlight.
Well I'm a wreck.
I really can't explain it but I,
I hear the music when I look at you.
Orchestrating the song to accommodate the moment.
Well, I'm so in love with you.
I'll take a chance and steal away this movie moment.
I'm in deep whenever I'm with you.
I'm directing the scene that has you and me forever.
We'll I'm so in love with...
Nine Days - Wanna Be
To watch the leaves grow on the trees with you is out of question
I walk into this summer all alone the usual session
You feel your instinct then you act but was it your intention
To leave me down and broken now you've ended our ascension, yeah
I still can feel the beach sand in my shoes, remember when
We talked along the ocean's song til blue from black fade in
But that was then I learned to live without you far within
I ask you why you're back to try to let me lose again
You brought me here, you wet my taste
You disappear without a trace
It wasn't me who made the call
Cause now I wanna be
Where you sleep
Where you laugh
Where you breathe
And I hate to say
Still I sway
Brown your eyes
Gone away
Should I feel some closure I deserve if that at least
And would you be so kind to show reasons for your release
You woke me up from a distant past I left behind complete
The message that you sent that night now falls to bittersweet
Was it me, my honesty
You fail to show I never know
It wasn't me who made the call
Cause now I wanna be
Where you sleep
Where you laugh
Where you breathe
And I hate to say
Still I sway
Brown your eyes
Gone away
Was it me, my honesty
You fail to show I never know
You brought me here, you wet my taste
You disappear without a trace
Did you think I'd ever lead you wrong
Just know I'll save all of our moments that we are
Still I wanna be
Where you sleep
Where you laugh
Where you breathe
And I hate to say
Still I sway
Brown your eyes
Gone away
Now I wanna be
(Someday you'll wish you never)
Where you sleep
(Someday you'll wish you never)
Where you laugh
(Someday you'll wish you never)
Where you breathe
(Someday you'll wish you never)
And I hate to say
(Someday you'll wish you never)
Still I sway
(Someday you'll wish you never)
Brown your eyes
(Someday you'll wish you never)
Gone away
(Someday you'll wish you never)
You took it all away.
You took it all away.
Okkervil River - Song For a Star
He cut your strings so that he could float -
lit by lights, lifted by alcohol -
over acres of loving coast,
far away from your lonely ghost.
Now he’s cool and all, floating anchorless.
Ports of call: where it’s fabulous,
after all of this watching himself just crawl.
Think you see him? He’s not there,
that’s just light that’s not yet dead.
Wait two hours and watch what’ll be there instead.
Was he small and cold,
like a ring you call up from home,
held so tightly his limbs went numb,
worn away between your finger and thumb?
Well, now he’s bought and sold.
Cry his call number down the phone,
he can’t hear you - he’s on his float,
waving down to the folks at home.
As the cameras love all of his faces,
they hide all the traces of you in his heart.
Stand in line to hold forth on his grace,
but you won’t even get a head-start.
As his close-up comes cascading down from above,
the eyes of a nation in love are looking on all of their hopes held up.
And the words that some screenwriter counted and chose,
and then set in their sequence and froze,
unfreeze on his tongue as he speaks for all of us but one.
And honey, he’s gone.
And baby, he’s everyone’s.
In the dark sky tonight,
cast your eyes on the dim light that he will become.
You’re like everyone who thinks they see him.
He’s not there, that’s just light that’s not yet dead.
Wait two hours and watch what’ll be there instead.
Over the Rhine - Suitcase
Whatcha doin' with a suitcase
Tryin' to hit the ground with both feet runnin'
Aren't you trippin' on your shoelace
You're stealin' away on a sunny day
Well aren't you ashamed at all
Funny but I feel like I'm fallin'
I wanna beg you to stay
You're stealin' away on a sunny day
Why'd you love me in the first place
You were always closer than a brother
I can barely look at your face
I've said my I've said my
I've said my piece
I'm on my
I'm on my
Down on my knees
Whatcha doin' with a suitcase
Whatcha doin' with a suitcase
Snow Patrol - Run
I'll sing it one last time for you,
Then we really have to go.
You've been the only thing that's right,
In all I've done.
And I can barely look at you,
But every single time I do.
I know we'll make it anywhere,
Anywhere from here.
Light up, Light up.
As if you have a choice.
Even if you cannot hear my voice,
I'll be right beside you dear.
Louder, louder.
And we'll run for our lives,
I can hardly speak I understand,
Why you can't raise your voice to say.
To think I might not see those eyes.
It makes it so hard not to cry.
And as we say our long goodbyes,
I nearly do.
Light up, light up.
As if you have a choice.
Even if you cannot hear my voice,
I'll be right beside you dear.
Louder, louder.
And we'll run for our lives.
I can hardly speak I understand,
Why you can't raise your voice to say.
Slower, slower.
We don't have time for that.
All I want is to find an easier way,
To get out of our little heads.
Have heart, my dear.
We're bound to be afraid,
Even if it's just for a few days,
Making up for all this mess.
Light up, light up.
As if you have a choice.
Even if you cannot hear my voice,
I'll be right beside you dear.
Vienna Teng - Daughter
well it's you and it's me
me with a drink in my hand
the ice is tinkling like a wind chime
and late afternoon settles over the land
and you're talking about things
interesting just slightly
and things that matter too much
to say any way but lightly
did you know you're so beautiful
on the edge of summer
that years from now
I'll cry to remember
how very close you were
knowing this will I reach for you
knowing this will I reach for you
the way you want me to
well it's time to be wise
wise in the ways of the heart
to come out from under the covers
this voluntary state of apart
from the faces, oasis
in this Sahara of sorrow
these graces that hold me
it's from you that I borrow
did you know you're so beautiful
on the edge of summer
that years from now
I'll cry to remember
how very close you were
knowing this will I reach for you
knowing this will I reach for you
the way you want me to
Um. I'm a weirdo. :3 Seta/Kigai on the way. XD
Ani Difranco - Falling is Like This
BNL - What a Good Boy
Beck - Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime
Fiona Apple - Love Ridden
Jets to Brazil - Sweet Avenue
Jets to Brazil - Cat Heaven
JYPU - Double Negative
Mae - Soundtrack For Our Movie
Nine Days - Wanna Be
Okkervil River - Song About a Star
Over the Rhine - Suitcase
Snow Patrol - Run
Vienna Teng - Daughter
With particularly pertinent lines in italics because I'm a freak.
Ani Difranco - Falling is Like This
you give me that look that's like laughing
with liquid in your mouth
like you're choosing between choking
and spitting it all out
like you're trying to fight gravity
on a planet that insists
that love is like falling
and falling is like this
feels like reckless driving when we're talking
it's fun while it lasts, and it's faster than walking
but no one's going to sympathize when we crash
they'll say "you hit what you head for, you get what you ask"
and we'll say we didn't know, we didn't even try
one minute there was road beneath us, the next just sky
i'm sorry i can't help you, i cannot keep you safe
i'm sorry i can't help myself, so don't look at me that way
we can't fight gravity on a planet that insists
that love is like falling
and falling is like this.
BNL - What a Good Boy
When I was born, they looked at me and said,
"What a good boy, what a smart boy, what a strong boy."
And when you were born, they looked at you and said,
"What a good girl, what a what a smart girl, what a pretty girl."
We've got these chains that hang around our necks
people want to strangle us with them before we take our first breath.
Afraid of change, afraid of staying the same,
when temptation calls, we just look away.
This name is the hairshirt I wear
and this hairshirt is woven from your brown hair.
This song is the cross that I bear,
bear it with me, bear with me, bear with me, be with me tonight,
I know that it isn't right, but be with me tonight.
I go to school, I write exams,
if I pass, if I fail, if I drop out,
does anyone give a damn?
And if they do, they'll soon forget 'cause it won't take much for me
to show my life ain't over yet.
I wake up scared, I wake up strange.
I wake up wondering if anything in my life is ever going to change.
I wake up scared, I wake up strange
and everything around me stays the same.
This name is the hairshirt I wear
and this hairshirt is woven from your brown hair.
This song is the cross that I bear,
bear it with me, bear with me, bear with me, be with me tonight,
I know that it isn't right, but be with me tonight.
I couldn't tell you that I was wrong,
chickened out, grabbed a pen and paper, sat down and I wrote this song.
I couldn't tell you that you were right,
so instead I looked in the mirror,
watched TV, laid away all night.
We've got these chains, hang 'round our necks,
people want to strangle us with them before we take our first breath.
Afraid of change, afraid of staying the same when temptation calls ...
This name is the hairshirt I wear
and this hairshirt is woven from your brown hair.
This song is the cross that I bear,
bear it with me, bear with me, bear with me, be with me tonight,
I know that it isn't right, but be with me tonight.
When I was born, they looked at me and said;
"What a good boy, what a smart boy, what a strong boy."
And when you were born, they looked at you and said;
"What a good girl, what a smart girl, what a pretty girl, hey"
Beck - Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime
Change your heart, look around you
Change your heart, it will astound you
I need your loving like the sunshine
And everybody's gotta learn sometime
Everybody's gotta learn sometime
Everybody's gotta learn sometime
Change your heart, look around you
Change your heart, it will astound you
I need your loving like the sunshine
And everybody's gotta learn sometime
Everybody's gotta learn sometime
Everybody's gotta learn sometime
Everybody's gotta learn sometime
Fiona Apple - Love Ridden
Love ridden, I’ve looked at you
With the focus I gave to my birthday candles
I’ve wished on the lidded blue flames
Under your brow
And baby, I wished for you
Nobody sees when you are lying in your bed
And I wanna crawl in with you
But I cry instead
I want your warm, but it will only make
Me colder when it's over
So I can’t tonight, baby
No, not ‘baby’ anymore - if I need you
I’ll just use your simple name
Only kisses on the cheek from now on
And in a little while, we’ll only have to wave
My hand won’t hold you down no more
The path is clear to follow through
I stood too long in the way of the door
And now I’m giving up on you
No, not ‘baby’ anymore - if I need you
I’ll just use your simple name
Only kisses on the cheek from now on
And in a little while, we’ll only have to wave
No, not ‘baby’ anymore - if I need you
I’ll just use your simple name
Only kisses on the cheek from now on
And in a little while, we’ll only have to wave
Jets to Brazil - Sweet Avenue
tasting you and rain I walk down to the train
trying not to look down
this day could someday be an anniversary
everything is light and sound
facing forwards going slowly wait for you to show me
where this train wants to go
living by the hour I stop for every flower
everything is soft and slow
now all these tastes improve through the view that comes with you
like they handed me my life
for the first time it felt right
thank you for making me see there's a life in me
it was dying to get out
holding you we make two spoons beneath an April moon
everything is soft and sweet
this cigarette it could seduce
a nation with its smoke
crawling down my tired throat
scratches part of me that's purring
softly stirring
I'm a captain of industry, smoking famously
feet up on the windowsill
looking at all these trees I feel affinity with
everything so soft and still
budding at my fingertips
touching you I start to bloom
alive with trains and passing ships
soft and sweet along your lips now
I go "oh wow"
thank you for taking me from my monastery
I was dying to get out
with tears of gratitude
I lock my latitude
cross town train to you
now all these tastes improve
through the view that comes with you
like they handed me my life
for the first time it felt worth it
like I deserved it
Jets to Brazil - Cat Heaven
In the dream that awakened me,
you had come and taken me to a sea of stars.
The cat stood in the flowers, two ears above.
And the ground that was under me
was holding me so wonderfully on a bed of leaves
and you were there with me and we were free.
Everything we saw was beautiful and strong and I knew we belonged.
Then the birds came and carried us to the sky
and married us on a bed of stars
where I was always yours and you were mine.
And in the long black eternity I loved you so perfectly in the words of clouds,
like a bird sings to his flowers and I was heard.
Everything I saw was everything I'd want
and this world had just begun to live.
Don't wake me up.
I can't wake up from this.
Everyone was forgiven, made hopeful,
made living, made winning tonight.
So captain please consider me.
Let the boats deliver me when I close my eyes.
Drive captain drive.
It's time for everything to be perfect.
For everything to stop hurting.
Tonight. Don't wake me up.
JYPU - Double Negative
This, this is the truth.
I’ve checked all my facts
and I’ve got all the proof I need.
I keep forgetting why I’m here,
I keep feeling I shouldn’t be.
The looks I keep getting,
the talk in my ears keeps reminding me.
It reminds me how our friendship died,
how my presence here is a thorn in your side.
I keep forgetting why I’m here, it’s because
I’m a petty guy who spends his time fabricating useless lies.
I wanna know why you had to say the things you said,
the time you spent inside my head. I don’t mind.
The truth is somewhere in between,
hurting you and killing me.
You are resigned with your shoulders shrugged,
a sideways glance, a nodded head, a non-response.
It’s so unkind. The truth is somehow hidden but still hurting you.
It’s a lie.
I keep forgetting why I’m here,
I keep feeling I shouldn’t be.
The looks I keep getting,
the talk in my ears keeps reminding me.
It reminds me how our friendship died,
how my presence here is a thorn in your side.
I keep forgetting why I’m here, it’s because
I’m a petty guy who spends his time fabricating useless lies.
I wanna know why you had to say the things you said,
the time you spent inside my head. I don’t mind.
The truth is somewhere in between,
hurting you and killing me.
You are resigned with your shoulders shrugged,
a sideways glance, a nodded head, a non-response.
It’s so unkind. The truth is somehow hidden but still hurting you.
It’s a lie.
It’s my lovesong to you.
It's a lie.
It's my lovesong to you.
It's a lie.
It's my lovesong to you.
It's a lie.
It's my, it's my, it's my...
Mae - Soundtrack For Our Movie
I started to ache when I started to think of you.
Wondering how long it would take beore I step into something new.
There's only so much I can fake.
There's only so much that I can prove.
Well, do it in a minute,
I could go play the fool for you.
Lights, camera, action.
I think I'm going for it this time.
There's something you should listen to.
Could I take you for a car ride?
This is the soundtrack for our movie.
Would you tell me when we get to the best part?
I'll play it for you.
Oh no, I think I've lost this one.
Can we try again?
Well I'm a wreck.
I really can't explain it but I,
I hear the music when I look at you.
Orchestrating the song to accommodate the moment.
Well, I'm so in love with you.
Are you looking for an answer?
Because I could really use a friend tonight.
We can make this last forever.
We don't have to fear the sunlight.
Well I'm a wreck.
I really can't explain it but I,
I hear the music when I look at you.
Orchestrating the song to accommodate the moment.
Well, I'm so in love with you.
I'll take a chance and steal away this movie moment.
I'm in deep whenever I'm with you.
I'm directing the scene that has you and me forever.
We'll I'm so in love with...
Nine Days - Wanna Be
To watch the leaves grow on the trees with you is out of question
I walk into this summer all alone the usual session
You feel your instinct then you act but was it your intention
To leave me down and broken now you've ended our ascension, yeah
I still can feel the beach sand in my shoes, remember when
We talked along the ocean's song til blue from black fade in
But that was then I learned to live without you far within
I ask you why you're back to try to let me lose again
You brought me here, you wet my taste
You disappear without a trace
It wasn't me who made the call
Cause now I wanna be
Where you sleep
Where you laugh
Where you breathe
And I hate to say
Still I sway
Brown your eyes
Gone away
Should I feel some closure I deserve if that at least
And would you be so kind to show reasons for your release
You woke me up from a distant past I left behind complete
The message that you sent that night now falls to bittersweet
Was it me, my honesty
You fail to show I never know
It wasn't me who made the call
Cause now I wanna be
Where you sleep
Where you laugh
Where you breathe
And I hate to say
Still I sway
Brown your eyes
Gone away
Was it me, my honesty
You fail to show I never know
You brought me here, you wet my taste
You disappear without a trace
Did you think I'd ever lead you wrong
Just know I'll save all of our moments that we are
Still I wanna be
Where you sleep
Where you laugh
Where you breathe
And I hate to say
Still I sway
Brown your eyes
Gone away
Now I wanna be
(Someday you'll wish you never)
Where you sleep
(Someday you'll wish you never)
Where you laugh
(Someday you'll wish you never)
Where you breathe
(Someday you'll wish you never)
And I hate to say
(Someday you'll wish you never)
Still I sway
(Someday you'll wish you never)
Brown your eyes
(Someday you'll wish you never)
Gone away
(Someday you'll wish you never)
You took it all away.
You took it all away.
Okkervil River - Song For a Star
He cut your strings so that he could float -
lit by lights, lifted by alcohol -
over acres of loving coast,
far away from your lonely ghost.
Now he’s cool and all, floating anchorless.
Ports of call: where it’s fabulous,
after all of this watching himself just crawl.
Think you see him? He’s not there,
that’s just light that’s not yet dead.
Wait two hours and watch what’ll be there instead.
Was he small and cold,
like a ring you call up from home,
held so tightly his limbs went numb,
worn away between your finger and thumb?
Well, now he’s bought and sold.
Cry his call number down the phone,
he can’t hear you - he’s on his float,
waving down to the folks at home.
As the cameras love all of his faces,
they hide all the traces of you in his heart.
Stand in line to hold forth on his grace,
but you won’t even get a head-start.
As his close-up comes cascading down from above,
the eyes of a nation in love are looking on all of their hopes held up.
And the words that some screenwriter counted and chose,
and then set in their sequence and froze,
unfreeze on his tongue as he speaks for all of us but one.
And honey, he’s gone.
And baby, he’s everyone’s.
In the dark sky tonight,
cast your eyes on the dim light that he will become.
You’re like everyone who thinks they see him.
He’s not there, that’s just light that’s not yet dead.
Wait two hours and watch what’ll be there instead.
Over the Rhine - Suitcase
Whatcha doin' with a suitcase
Tryin' to hit the ground with both feet runnin'
Aren't you trippin' on your shoelace
You're stealin' away on a sunny day
Well aren't you ashamed at all
Funny but I feel like I'm fallin'
I wanna beg you to stay
You're stealin' away on a sunny day
Why'd you love me in the first place
You were always closer than a brother
I can barely look at your face
I've said my I've said my
I've said my piece
I'm on my
I'm on my
Down on my knees
Whatcha doin' with a suitcase
Whatcha doin' with a suitcase
Snow Patrol - Run
I'll sing it one last time for you,
Then we really have to go.
You've been the only thing that's right,
In all I've done.
And I can barely look at you,
But every single time I do.
I know we'll make it anywhere,
Anywhere from here.
Light up, Light up.
As if you have a choice.
Even if you cannot hear my voice,
I'll be right beside you dear.
Louder, louder.
And we'll run for our lives,
I can hardly speak I understand,
Why you can't raise your voice to say.
To think I might not see those eyes.
It makes it so hard not to cry.
And as we say our long goodbyes,
I nearly do.
Light up, light up.
As if you have a choice.
Even if you cannot hear my voice,
I'll be right beside you dear.
Louder, louder.
And we'll run for our lives.
I can hardly speak I understand,
Why you can't raise your voice to say.
Slower, slower.
We don't have time for that.
All I want is to find an easier way,
To get out of our little heads.
Have heart, my dear.
We're bound to be afraid,
Even if it's just for a few days,
Making up for all this mess.
Light up, light up.
As if you have a choice.
Even if you cannot hear my voice,
I'll be right beside you dear.
Vienna Teng - Daughter
well it's you and it's me
me with a drink in my hand
the ice is tinkling like a wind chime
and late afternoon settles over the land
and you're talking about things
interesting just slightly
and things that matter too much
to say any way but lightly
did you know you're so beautiful
on the edge of summer
that years from now
I'll cry to remember
how very close you were
knowing this will I reach for you
knowing this will I reach for you
the way you want me to
well it's time to be wise
wise in the ways of the heart
to come out from under the covers
this voluntary state of apart
from the faces, oasis
in this Sahara of sorrow
these graces that hold me
it's from you that I borrow
did you know you're so beautiful
on the edge of summer
that years from now
I'll cry to remember
how very close you were
knowing this will I reach for you
knowing this will I reach for you
the way you want me to
Um. I'm a weirdo. :3 Seta/Kigai on the way. XD