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[championkid]

I don't know if anyone here has heard Tandemoro. I DLd their disc called "Don't Judge Me, It's Christmas," and i don't even know how big they are or what. but there's this lyric in the first song, "You Blew It," and it goes "you're much nicer than the last every other girl i've had." and i don't know why, but i fucking love this line.

[Agrimorfee]

For pain and pleasure are the twins/ that slightly out of focus spin around us till we finally understand/that everything that gives us pleasure also gives us pain to measure it by/ and I also realize that all our lives we love illusion/ neatly
caught between confusion/ and the need to know we are alive.--The Residents, "Pain & Pleasure"

We are only equal in the grave and in the dark
Said a man whose head was halfway eaten by a shark
Now if you ask me why I would continue on like this
I doubt that I would know so I could only make a guess
Half a mouth may not be much but it's still half a kiss.--The Residents, "No One Laughs When They Leave"

[Jenny Penny]

"Let's cut our hair / and fake our deaths" -- Califone, "Horoscopic.Amputation.Honey"

[Mr. Sinistro]

The nighttime is a lifeline, the weekend is a Godsend

From Maximo Park song Karaoke Plays off the new album.

Don't know why but I can't get that out of my head.

[throughsilver]

A line I quoted recently and loved all over again is this, by Josh T. Pearson from Lift To Experience: 'All you haircut bands Doing head-stands Thinking you've turned the world upside down' Sums things up quite succinctly, I feel.

[Hans Christian Anderson]

you cock your head to shoot me down...
from the same song...
need me to fall down so you can climb up some fool ass ladder, well good luck


that entire album is basically chock full of them....

i'm wearin myself a t-shirt that says "the world is my ashtray,"
our hearts pump dust and our hair's all grey

everyone's afraid of their own lives
if you could be anything you want
i bet you'd be disapointed
am i right?

[coolrock]

Ya know, once you become a teetering old motherfucker, you dismiss about 95% of pop lyrics as either silly, juvenile, pointless (as in, "tell me something I don't know'), or idiotic references to a ten minute span of pop culture, usually phrased in a way that sounds clever or cute, but , as Shakespeare said, signifying nothing. (Examples above^^) However--- there is one guy who actually makes more sense as you near the Depends Years, simply because he is displaying the bleak ugly truth in a literate, poetic, intelligent manner. And somehow it is not abysmal; but ya know, ya just slap yourself on the forehead, knocking yourself out of your wheelchair, and say, "Why didn't I think of that?!" That's right. Mr. Leonard Cohen "Everybody knows that the dice are loaded Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed Everybody knows that the war is over Everybody knows the good guys lost Everybody knows the fight was fixed The poor stay poor, the rich get rich That's how it goes Everybody knows " or "It's coming through a hole in the air, from those nights in Tiananmen Square. It's coming from the feel that this ain't exactly real, or it's real, but it ain't exactly there. From the wars against disorder, from the sirens night and day, from the fires of the homeless, from the ashes of the gay: Democracy is coming to the U.S.A. It's coming through a crack in the wall; on a visionary flood of alcohol; from the staggering account of the Sermon on the Mount which I don't pretend to understand at all. It's coming from the silence on the dock of the bay, from the brave, the bold, the battered heart of Chevrolet: Democracy is coming to the U.S.A." Notice the glaring omissions of references to "your mom" and " I'm drunk", the key phrases which unlock the door of pop punk.

[Slackmo]

Coolrockist.

[Pavement Ist Rad]

On the last day of your life, don't forget to die.

[redheadstepson]

I'm all lost in the supermarket I can no longer shop happily I came in here for a special offer Guaranteed personality

[Airport75]

I climb up on your house, Weep to water the trees

[taste the waste]

The empty bottle it misses you Yeah, and I'm the one that it's talking to Just wrap your legs 'round these velvet rims And strap your hands 'cross my engines

[Hans Christian Anderson]

I climb up on your house,
Weep to water the trees

yes sir, thats a great one.

[Airport75]

Also: I never wanna see you again I really wanna see you again. Genius!

[Complain]

toad the wet sprocket: Won't repeat myself again Will not repeat myself again

[bunk]

Buffalo Tom: You were made of wood and cried that no one understood but I had splinters in my fingers

[Agrimorfee]

Not a part
And not apart
Ghosts we carry in the heart--"Heart Ghosts"

(A shockingly poignant verse from Barnes & Barnes, the potheads who also brought the world "Fish Heads.")

[Duff.]

You told me once I made you smile. We both know damn well I didn't.

[Montana]

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Back in black, I hit the sack,
I've been too long, I'm glad to be back
Yes I'm let loose from the noose,
That's kept me hangin' about
I been livin like a star 'cause it's gettin' me high,
Forget the hearse, 'cause I never die
I got nine lives, cat's eyes
abusing every one of them and running wild

[Duff.]

God is the sweat running down his back.