The Weepies – Happiness

Friday 13, lights go red/green, in a coffee shop
I’m giving you a look
While someone else
Is fingering your wallet in my pocketbook

It’s a mean town but I don’t care
Try and steal this
Can’t steal happiness

Got a charger, no cell phone, I can’t call out
Unless it’s to cry your name out the open window
To a sky that looks right back
And says it’s never seen rain
Sometimes you gotta start clean
You gotta begin not begin again, oh no

It’s a mean town but I don’t care
Try and steal this
Can’t steal happiness

And as we fly around the sun
We know we’re not the only ones
Love for the lonely
It’s been a long time coming
Can you hear that hopeful heart?
Hold on, hold on.

Night settles, still working on a way to breathe
Don’t you go, don’t you go down
Take a helium taxi home to me

‘Cause it’s a mean town, we don’t care
Try and steal this
Can’t steal happiness

Deb Talan “Forgiven”

You worry on
hurting anybody anymore
You worry on
small comfort
One of us seems not to tremble
You make a rift inside me
every day
Then you choose to stay
I walk the edge and
push it wider

You are forgiven
I open all my doors
You are forgiven
What a heart is for
I am no martyr
You give me reason
I try harder
and I wait
for a warmer season
Meanwhile,
You are
forgiven

I hear a soft noise like a sigh,
A singing
like a lullaby
It is my heart
It is this wind
that blows through,
Where you held me closer,
Where we whisper
This is
this is true

You are forgiven
I open all my doors
You are forgiven
What a heart is for
I am no martyr
You give me reason
I try harder
And I wait
for a warmer season
Meanwhile,
You are
forgiven

And it’s time
to go
I cannot stay
You cannot know
My love
So dear
Will it be faith
or fear?

You are forgiven
open all my doors
You are forgiven
What a heart is for
I am no martyr
You give me reason
I try harder
And I wait
for a warmer season
Meanwhile,
You are
forgiven

You are
Forgiven

Ah well, at least I’ve managed to turn off the Florence + The Machine album. I actually really love this whole album (A Violent Emotion.) If the F+TM album is all about breakups and painful love from a feminine perspective, this is all about those things from a more aggressive (and not to be sexist but male-feeling) perspective. This is all “I love you a lot but you suck and now I hope you die.”

If you like this, also check out “Pale” by the same band. (also, it’s got a great beat and you can dance to it!)

Aesthetic Perfection “Schadenfreude”

I’m not evil,
You’re just weak,
You’re too afraid to taste a thing so sweet,
It’s ok,
More for me,
I think you’re better off dead.

I can’t deny what is a part of me,
I take joy out of your misery,
Lay down,
Lay down,
Lay down, yeah
I guess that’s what you do best.

I can’t give you what you need but I can give you what you want,
I’ve found that all the things I love I despise,
I can’t give you what you need but I can give you what you want,
And when you hate the things you love then learn to love the things
That you hate.

I want one thing,
Suffering,
I want one thing,
You living in hell,
It’s so much better than apologies,
I want to watch it swell,
Don’t need to be the one who does it to you,
Don’t need to twist the knife or push it through,
Just want to see that you’re in misery too,
Just like me inside.

Their greedy eyes light up,
They’re salivating,
Everyone knows there’s no better way,
It’s like a crime to you,
It’s like the best for me,
Let it all out.

You can’t give me what I need but you will give me what I want,
And then I’ll leave what’s left of you to the flies,
You can’t give us what we need but you will give us what we want,
My dear your guests are waiting,
Time to begin

I want one thing,
Suffering,
I want one thing,
You living in hell,
It’s so much better than apologies,
I want to watch it swell,
Don’t need to be the one who does it to you,
Don’t need to twist the knife or push it through,
Just want to see that you’re in misery too,
Just like me inside.

I think you’re better off dead,
I think you’re better off dead,
I think you’re better off dead,
I think you’re better off dead.

Florence + The Machine “Blinding”

Seems that I have been held, in some dreaming state
A tourist in the waking world, never quite awake
No kiss, no gentle word could wake me from this slumber
Until I realised that it was you who held me under

Felt it in my fists, in my feet, in the hollows of my eyelids
Shaking through my skull, through my spine and down through my ribs

No more dreaming of the dead as if death itself was undone
No more cawing like a crow for a boy, for a body in a garden
No more dreaming like a girl so in love, so in love
No more dreaming like a girl so in love, so in love
No more dreaming like a girl so in love with the wrong world

And I could hear the thunder and see the lightning crack
All around the world was waking, I never could go back
’cause all the walls of dreaming, they were torn wide open
And finally it seemed that the spell was broken

And all my bones began to shake, my eyes flew open
And all my bones began to shake, my eyes flew open

No more dreaming of the dead as if death itself was undone
No more cawing like a crow for a boy, for a body in a garden
No more dreaming like a girl so in love, so in love
No more dreaming like a girl so in love, so in love
No more dreaming like a girl so in love with the wrong world

Snow White’s stitching up the circuitboards
Synapse slipping through the hidden door
Snow White’s stitching up the circuitboard

No more dreaming of the dead as if death itself was undone
No more cawing like a crow for a boy, for a body in a garden
No more dreaming like a girl so in love, so in love
No more dreaming like a girl so in love, so in love
No more dreaming like a girl so in love with the wrong world

Snow White’s stitching up the circuitboards
Synapse slipping through the hidden door
Snow White’s stitching up the circuitboard
Synapse slipping through the hidden door

I seriously love this album and am going to marry and/or make out with it forthwith. I don’t really want to know what happened to this girl, but it had to hurt like hell and I hope that writing and performing these songs has helped her.

Florence + The Machine “Cosmic Love”

A falling star fell from your heart
and landed in my eyes
I screamed aloud, as it tore through them
and now it’s left me blind

The stars, the moon, they have all been blown out
You left me in the dark
No dawn, no day, I’m always in this twilight
In the shadow of your heart

And in the dark, I can hear your heartbeat
I tried to find the sound
But then it stopped, and I was in the darkness,
So darkness I became

The stars, the moon, they have all been blown out
You left me in the dark
No dawn, no day, I’m always in this twilight
In the shadow of your heart

I took the stars from our eyes, and then I made a map
And knew that somehow I could find my way back
Then I heard your heart beating, you were in the darkness too
So I stayed in the darkness with you

The stars, the moon, they have all been blown out
You left me in the dark
No dawn, no day, I’m always in this twilight
In the shadow of your heart

Your fingertips across my skin
The palm trees swaying in the wind
Images
You sang me Spanish lullabies
The sweetest sadness in your eyes
Clever trick

Well, I never want to see you unhappy
I thought you’d want the same for me

Goodbye, my almost lover
Goodbye, my hopeless dream
I’m trying not to think about you
Can’t you just let me be?
So long, my luckless romance
My back is turned on you
Should’ve known you’d bring me heartache
Almost lovers always do

We walked along a crowded street
You took my hand and danced with me
Images
And when you left, you kissed my lips
You told me you would never, never forget
These images

No

Well, I’d never want to see you unhappy
I thought you’d want the same for me

Goodbye, my almost lover
Goodbye, my hopeless dream
I’m trying not to think about you
Can’t you just let me be?
So long, my luckless romance
My back is turned on you
Should’ve known you’d bring me heartache
Almost lovers always do

I cannot go to the ocean
I cannot drive the streets at night
I cannot wake up in the morning
Without you on my mind
So you’re gone and I’m haunted
And I bet you are just fine

Did I make it that
Easy to walk right in and out
Of my life?

Goodbye, my almost lover
Goodbye, my hopeless dream
I’m trying not to think about you
Can’t you just let me be?
So long, my luckless romance
My back is turned on you
Should have known you’d bring me heartache
Almost lovers always do

Devics – Lie to Me (listen at their site)

you’re wasting all your time here
riding around in the sun
alone and idling
come wander back to me
you know i’ll always be there

lie to me, lie to me
make like you love me
lie to me, lie to me, oh

with this one you never go
and this one you never show yourself
with this one you tell it all
and turn your world into a ghost town

lie to me, lie to me
make like you love me
lie to me, c’mon it’s easy

don’t think of what we can’t be
i know what you need and you know that you like it
the name you were born with
your soul on your sleeve
let me believe in something

Remy Zero “Prophecy” (listen free at last.fm)

Consider this a sign.
This is a train in the night
And now it’s time for you to go
You know you had a healthy life, boy.

You walk this world like you’re a ghost
Your hands are coming through the needles
Sick of your tragic and your evils
I am the keeper of the songs of everyone

Look into the sun and see your soul is dying
Used to feel the faith, but now you’re tired of trying
Should have left alone what you have stolen from everyone
Mmm…How you feeling?
Seems a little sick to me now

This is a coming of the times
You are a witness to the movement
If all you’re seeing is your lies
You had your chance, but now you’ve blown it.
You want this world so you can own them
I am the keeper of the songs of everyone

Look into the sun and see your soul is dying
Used to feel the faith, but now you’re tired of trying
Should have left alone what you have stolen from everyone
Mmm…How you feeling?
Seems a little sick to me

From the light on high
A chance to change your fate
Forgiveness falling down
On those who chose to wait
Remember the time
Find yourself home again
Deep within your light
Find yourself home again find yourself home again
It’s a choice
You have chosen your own

It’s like I told you
I could turn this into light
If you raise the mask, I could lead us home tonight

Look into the sun and see your soul is dying
Used to feel the faith, but now you’re tired of trying
Should have left alone what you have stolen from everyone
How you feeling?
Look into the sun and see your soul is dying
Used to feel the faith, but now you’re tired of trying
Should have left alone what you have stolen from everyone
Mmm…How you feeling?
Seems a little sick
It seems a little sick
It seems a little sick to me now

Over the Rhine “Fool”

Fool
Fool me
I’m just a sentimental fool
It happened again
When
I remembered you
And all that we’ve been through
Love
Truly
I know this world it can be so cruel
I won’t let you go

Fool
Use me
This is the part that I can’t refuse
Just do what you do
My heart’s becoming true
It aches to make room for you
Fool pursue me
To heaven above or to hell below
Just don’t let go

Fool me
I’m just a sentimental fool
I can’t let you go

Love grows in me like a tumor,
parasite bent on devouring its host.
I’m developing my sense of humor,
til I can laugh at my heart between your teeth,
til I can laugh at my face beneath your feet.

Skillet on the stove is such a temptation,
maybe I’ll be the lucky one that doesn’t get burned.
What the fuck was I thinking?

Love plows through me like a dozer,
I’ve got more give than a bale of hay,
and there’s always a big mess left over.
With a what did you do?
And what did you say?

Skillet on the stove is such a temptation,
maybe I’ll be the special one that doesn’t get burned.
What the fuck was I thinking?

Love tears me up like a demon.
Opens the wounds and fills them with lead,
and I’m having some trouble just breathing.
If we weren’t such good friends I think that I’d hate you.
If we weren’t such good friends I’d wish you were dead.

Skillet on the stove is such a temptation,
maybe I’ll be the lucky one that doesn’t get burned.
What the fuck was I thinking?

Oh it’s so embarrassing
(What the fuck was I thinking?)
I’m this awkward and uncomfortable thing,
and I’m running out of places to hide it
I’m running out of places to hide it

What the fuck was I thinking?
(you know that I’ve got what you need)
What the fuck was I thinking?
(you know that I’ve got what you need)
What the fuck was I thinking?
(you know that I’ve got what you need)