lyrics_of_the_day e_o_i Lana del Rey, "Ride": "I'm trying hard not to get into trouble but I've got a war in my mind." First thought: World_War_1? Everybody's_attacking_Belgium. Or it's the trivial-but-oh-so-frustrating struggle NOT to be always_behind (partly about what we hope isn't World_War_3). 220328 ... raze this chunk of "cool knife bro" by crywank (which is not at all the kind of song you'd expect it to be with a title and a band name like that): "i dig and dig dig out my brain with primordial soup spoon phantasmagoric memories are slowly detuned and endlessly i rewrite all my histories of you unstable causality breathes into tapestries untrue and soon, unsure, the guilt i feel just comes from my disposition if these proppian dichotomies are just my own rendition some days i feel the hero other days i feel the villain perhaps we both are mutually instigator and the victim i want to think so fickle and live just aesthetic life because this self-analysis it cuts through me like a knife it slices so mathematically into these perfect halves and the binaries of thinking can tear my head apart" 220329 ... tender_square yes, it's friday and i have more time on my hands than usual, but there's always things to do on the mental checklist, and i doubt i'll be able to keep still for very long. caught myself singing pavement a few moments ago: "i want a range life if i could settle down if i could settle down then i would settle down" 220401 ... tender_square_as_jack_white inspired by e_o_i's latest translation: "i'm gonna fight 'em all a golden_donkey_army couldn't hold me back" 220403 ... raze from the talking heads song "this must be the place (naive melody)": "home is where i want to be but i guess i'm already there i come home she lifted up her wings i guess that this must be the place i can't tell one from the other did i find you or you find me? there was a time before we were born if someone asks this is where i'll be" 220504 ... raze from gord downie's "wolf's home": "i didn't run i didn't vanish when i was afraid i never asked, 'how many out there?' i only asked, 'where are they?'" 220610 ... tender_square (from the pretenders "show me") you with your angel face keep the despair at bay send it away, and show me the meaning of the word show me the meaning of the word 'cause i've heard so much about it i don't want to live without it i don't want to live without it oh, i want love i want love i want love 220620 ... tender_square (from angel olsen's "ghost_on" [thanks, nr, for reminding me i needed to listen to this record]) "and i don't know if you can love someone stronger than what suits you and i can't fit into the past that you're used to, i refuse to i don't know if you can take such a good thing coming to you" 220621 ... tender_square from johnny_west's "molly, go home": "time is never on your side; she just laughs at you and says, 'why you taking so long, taking so long to fail?'" 220627 ... tender_square from johnny_west, "feckless": "the truth has a very strange smell to it, a cross between cabbage and watermelon." 220707 ... raze from "mother of violence" (a peter_gabriel song, with lyrics penned by his wife jill): "mouth all dry eyes bloodshot data stored in microdot kicking the cloud with my moccasin shoes tv dinner tv news ah, 'cause fear fear, she's the mother of violence don't make any sense to watch the way she breed fear, she's the mother of violence making me tense to watch the way she feed the only way you know she's there is the subtle flavour in the air getting hard to breathe hard to believe in anything at all but fear" 220802 ... raze from "full colour dream", by chris staples: "in a full colour dream you were there and you followed me up a golden stair we ceremonially kissed i territorially pissed on everything that i could find like i could somehow stop time and i remember the things that never happened and i've forgotten all the things that clearly did the warm summer rays cooked our skin for days we fell asleep under shade oh lord, we had it made the earth will spin beneath your feet your shadow stretches down the street calendar pages fly ten thousand crows will take the sky i woke up and burned a picture you woke up and swept away the ash now we pass along the road like perfect strangers nodding to each other rightly turning from each other slightly the earth will spin beneath your feet your shadow stretches down the street calendar pages fly ten thousand crows will take the sky" 220811 ... raze the entirety of "ripple", by the grateful dead: "if my words did glow with the gold of sunshine and my tunes were played on the harp unstrung would you hear my voice come through the music? would you hold it near as it were your own? it's a hand_me_down the thoughts are broken perhaps they're better left unsung i don't know don't really care let there be songs to fill the air ripple in still water when there is no pebble tossed nor wind to blow reach out your hand if your cup be empty if your cup is full may it be again let it be known there is a fountain that was not made by the hands of men there is a road no simple highway between the dawn and the dark of night and if you go no one may follow that path is for your steps alone ripple in still water when there is no pebble tossed nor wind to blow you who choose to lead must follow but if you fall you fall alone if you should stand then who's to guide you? if i knew the way i would take you home" 221027 ... raze this bit from U2's "the fly": "every artist is a cannibal every poet is a thief all kill their inspiration and sing about the grief" 230408 ... raze from leonard_cohen: "now, the angel's got a fiddle the devil's got a harp every soul is like a minnow every mind is like a shark may have broken every window but the house the house is dark i care but very little what happens to the heart" 230506 ... raze from paul westerberg's "boring enormous": "our coffee laughs at us every morning we always laugh at the choices we've made and ask ourselves how did it get so early?" 230706 ... raze from david sylvian's "orpheus": "i wrestle with an outlook on life that shifts between darkness and shadowy light" 230901 ... raze from "skeletons" by rickie lee jones: "some kids like watching saturday cartoons some girls listen to records all day in their rooms but what do birds leave behind of the wings that they came with if a son's in a tree building model planes?" 230906 ... raze from "little drop of poison" by tom_waits: "did the devil make the world while god was sleeping?" 230911 ... raze from "no time this time" by the police: "if i could i'd slow the whole world down i'd bring it to its knees i'd stop it spinning round but as it is i'm climbing up an endless wall" 230927 ... raze from bruce cockburn's "lovers in a dangerous time": "don't the hours grow shorter as the days go by? we never get to stop and open our eyes one minute you're waiting for the sky to fall and next you're dazzled by the beauty of it all" 231007 ... raze from "eliza (a day for every hour)" by mountaineer: "you picked me up at hungry and you set me down at cold and i know that you're still driving from the things that i've been told you gave me medication to ease my pain you gave me a taste of magic and sent me back into the rain" 231027 ... raze from "how come you never go there?" by feist: "our love is not the light it was when i walk inside the dark i'm calm where we look for where we went it's only echoes in the melody how come you never go there? how come i'm so alone there?" 231030 ... raze from "one of the best ones" (bruce cockburn again): "there are eight million mysteries in the naked body can't even sight on some distant horizon like the nine billion names of god don't bring you any closer to anyone you can simply set eyes on" 240917 ... raze words from "ruby_tuesday" that only just struck me for the first time today: "dying all the time lose your dreams and you will lose your mind ain't life unkind?" 241017 what's it to you? 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