leather's mean and love hurts: a mix for bad ideas
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For Day 6, about a certain type of relationship. For obsession and frustration and wanting someone you can't (or shouldn't) have. For the one who sticks in your head long past sanity, who chases out all desire for a stable, healthy relationship. For tattoos and muscles hiding under nondescript clothing, for a low smoker's drawl saying things you could never get away with, for the id and the animus and the bad boy you should have outgrown by now.
1. You Sent Me Flying (Amy Winehouse)
now I feel so small discovering you knew
how much more torture would you have put me through?
you probably saw me laughing at all your jokes
or how I did not mind when you stole all my smokes
although my pride is not easy to disturb
you sent me flying when you kicked me to the curb
with your battered jeans and your Beasties tee
now I can't work like this with you next to me
2. Ever Fallen In Love (The Buzzcocks)
you spurn my natural emotion
you make me feel I'm dirt, and I'm hurt
but if I start a commotion
I run the risk of losing you, and that's worse
3. Blue Jeans (Lana Del Rey)
blue jeans, white shirt
walked into the room you know you made my eyes burn
it was like James Dean for sure
you're so fresh to death and sick as cancer
you were so punk rock, I grew up on hip hop
but you fit me better than my favorite sweater
and I know that leather's mean and love hurts
but I still remember that day we met in December
4. Mercy (Duffy)
I don't know what this is
but you got me good just like you knew you would
I don't know what you do
but you do it well, I'm under your spell
5. Stuck on You (Failure)
thought I'd drop you easily, but that was not to be
you burrowed like a summer tick
so you invade my sleep and confuse my dreams
turn my nights to sleepless itch
6. Temptation Greets You Like Your Naughty Friend (Arctic Monkeys)
I don't ever want to hate you
so don't show me your bed
the only roads are cul-de-sacs
the only ends are dead
I don't ever want to hate you
it's not part of the plan
so keep your charm where I can't see it
and your hands where I can
7. There is a Light that Never Goes Out (The Smiths)
and if a double-decker bus crashes into us
to die by your side is such a heavenly way to die
and if a ten ton truck kills the both of us
to die by your side, well the pleasure, the privilege is mine
8. Nothing Ever Hurt Like You (James Morrison)
loving you was easy playing by the rules
but you said love tastes so much better when it's cruel
to you everything was just a game, oh yeah you played me good
but I want you, I want you, I want you so much more than I should
9. Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk (Rufus Wainwright)
cigarettes and chocolate milk
these are just a couple of my cravings
everything it seems I like's a little bit stronger
a little bit thicker, a little bit harmful for me
10. Breathe In (Frou Frou)
and I'm high enough from all the waiting
to ride a wave on your inhaling
'cause I love you
can't help but love you
yes, hello we're back
and we're taking calls, now what was the question?
11. Gravity (Sara Bareilles)
you hold me without touch
keep me without chains
I never wanted anything so much
than to drown in your love and not feel your rain
set me free, leave me be
I don't wanna fall another moment into your gravity
here I am and I stand so tall
just the way I'm supposed to be
but you're onto me, and all over me
12. Hurricane Drunk (Florence + The Machine)
I'm going out, I'm gonna drink myself to death
and in the crowd I see you with someone else
I brace myself, 'cause I know it's going to hurt
but I like to think at least things can't get any worse