Damn, these titles just get more and more trite...
Well, anyhoo. These days, it seems that music plays a more important part in people's lives than it ever has (with the possible exception of the '60s, which that last Woodstock just proved should've up and died maybe 30 years ago).
So, while in a funk of sorts, I compiled a short (short is relative, I could've gone on forever it seems) list (love making lists) of specific lyrics that have some sort of special appeal to my person. Think of it as insight into the Lemon Merchant.
Or see it as what it is... nothing more than yet another mindless distraction clogging up cyberspace.
The one thing I've looked for all my life Is killing everything I ever want Trust me to give my first born up I love him. He's all that I ever want - Therapy?, Dancin' With Manson I wanted you but what could I do? Now my hands are covered in you… - Therapy?, Fantasy Bag I was feelin' down So you pushed me around I'm not a people man I guess we'll never be friends - Therapy?, Shit Kicker I'm trying hard just to survive To keep myself alive - Therapy?, Potato Junkie I hate everyone but you Sometimes I even hate you too - Therapy?, Totally Random Man Now the dream is gone And your friends just tell you lies And you realize You're gonna die anyway - Therapy?, Die Laughing Lost in a world with no reality I'm frightened to move, I'm frightened to speak And I would kill for a good nights sleep I'm feelin', I'm feelin' Dead - Therapy?, Die Laughing I was awkward as a child Blueprint for my wretched life - Therapy?, Trigger Inside I look uglier when I cry Want to punch that look from your life - Therapy?, Trigger inside It's a beautiful day, but I don't see it that way The sky's too bright for my tired eyes to take - Therapy?, Bad Mother There's not so many demons in my head Not a lot of voices to be fed The voices are real, I hear them all the time Everyone looks better when they're dead - Bloody Mess & The Skabs, Empty I feel like a mirror Feel like nothing is mine I could go back to crying But now dying seems fine - Gary Numan, My Shadow in Vain Please look around Empty faces that can't ever quite die Don't be surprised Their bodies move by habit, look in their eyes Nothing is real If you break down and cry they won't even stare Nobody feels It's far to risky to admit that you care - Gary Numan, Zero Bars You know I hate to ask, But are 'friends' electric? Only mine's broke down And now I've no one to love - Gary Numan, Are 'Friends' Electirc? Please keep them away Don't let them touch me Please don't let the lie Don't let them see me - Gary Numan, Complex And ME I eat dust We're all so run down I'd call it my deat But I'll only fade away - Gary Numan, ME All that we are Is all that you'd love to be All that we know Is hate and machinery We're engineers - Gary Numan, Engineers Tell you a secret, I'm sure to fall My dog went AWOL and I blame you all - Gary Numan, Telekon I dare you to judge me Now God has disowned me - Gary Numan, A Question of Faith I'm cold and corrupt, looking for a heart I'm trying to hide my scars - Gary Numan, Scar I'll drive a stake through the black of your heart I'll pull down your temples and burn every word I'll kill all the angels that show me the light I'll drift into the darkness and tear out the soul of God - Gary Numan, The Angel Wars I could get wiser, I could get jaded I could remember, I could just fade away - Husker Du, Games Everyone looks good to me But I'm afraid that I can see That good intent and honesty Do not redeem stupidity - Nomeansno, Lonely My tribe is the indifferent kind Stumbling 'round in the valley of the blind What are you afraid you'll see If you open your eyes and take a look at me? - Nomeansno, The Valley of the Blind My girlfriend has been missing for two weeks I guess that's what happens When you walk the streets With a bag on your head And a sign that says Everyday, everyday Everyday I start to ooze - Nomeansno, Everyday I Start to Ooze Not for me, not for me I won't end up in the heap I want out, I'm free Burning, burning - -Black Flag, American Waste Keep me alive I can't accept my fate I need help Before its too late - Black Flag, Room 13 I no longer feel a thing I no longer want to see - Black Flag, Damaged II She made an angel's flight On angel wings Jumped out of her apartment window And hit the street below - Black Flag, The Bars Sat in stupid corners Thinking we're all alone Not counting friends who went the way We never used to go - Citizen Fish, Friends Speak! Don't just sit there! Freak! You're going nowhere! C'mon, don't you want a fag? You! Don't you want a fag? No… I got cancer. - Subhumans, Cancer People hide their problems Under faces of contempt They hide them, 'til it kills them And no one is exempt - not even you - Subhumans, Mickey Mouse is Dead Nobody says anything on busses And that's why people kill themselves - Subhumans, People are Scared Nothing left but rotting flowers On an unattended grave The epitaph has faded badly No one reads it anyway - Subhumans, Susan Idiots and cowards don't vote or fight Say your parents and the papers so they must be right - Subhumans, Joe Public Forget it You wouldn't understand anyway - Flipper, Brainwash Happyman is mad at the world - Less Than Jake, Happyman Man, its really strange This city never stays the same Its always: 'I've got to keep on moving, I got to keep on going' Or maybe To keep itself sane Its always: 'I've got to keep on going, so I don't have any feeling' - Less Than Jake, Rock n' Roll Pizzeria I sit on my ass all gaddamn day A Misanthropic anthropoid with nothing to say - Bad Religion, Do What You Want The person sitting next to you is dismal and deranged On the bus ride home from work to end your day And the food on your table is more plastic than protien And your intellect depends on your TV - Bad Religion, It Must Look Pretty Appealing Tally up the gleaming tender ventured on a wishing well Each shining trinket has a story it can tell - Bad Religion, Blenderhead I'm not taking nothing for granted anymore - Bad Religion, Too Much to Ask Everyday I wander in negative disposition As I'm bombarded by superlatives Realizing very well that I am not alone Introverted I look to tomorrow for salvation But I'm thinking altruistically And a wave of overwhelming doubt turns me to stone - Bad Religion, Struck a Nerve If you think I'm all alone you are foolishly wrong There's an entire army who blindly follow along And you happen to be one of them, believe it or not Even though you try not to be we are of the same plague - Bad Religion, Leave Mine to Me Fend for yourself, and shun the handshake - Bad Religion, The Handshake If life makes you scared and bitter At least its not for very long - Bad Religion, Slumber If I'm a monster, I'm a willing one - Bad Religion, Marked I don't ask questions Don't promote demonstration Don't look for new consensus Don't stray from constitution If I pierce the complexity I won't find salvation Just the bald and overt truth of the evil and deception - Bad Religion, Inner Logic We've got spite and dedication as a vehement brew The world hates us, well we hate them too - Bad Religion, Come Join Us And we ask for understanding But aren't we the stingy ones indeed When its asked of us in the end? - Bad Religion, The Same Person And I wonder if I was stronger when I didn't care If no one was there To hold me When I fail - American Lesion, When I Fail There's something wrong with The kids in my neighborhood - NOFX, What's the Matter With Kids Today? Kill the pain, integrity don't keep you warm and sane - NOFX, All His Suits are Torn One thing's for sure, I'm all outta angst Society don't bother me And there's something wrong with that - NOFX, All Outta Angst Now wait a minute, look at that He's a god, without a doubt Can't you see it in his eyes Got all of you to dispise - Nitzer Ebb, Godhead I'm living out of a bag Life comes and goes But I did not know No use thinking 'bout What I never had Don't suck for me Because it's setting me free Is it setting me free? Is it setting me free? - Nitzer Ebb, Living Out of a Bag 'Coz people reject it It don't make it so - Nitzer Ebb, Boy Wished once in my life I'd catch a falling sign To have wished for something To have wished for something - Pegboy, Witnessed I can't go by myself And it's the only time That I can be myself Try, though it seems so far And it's the only time That I can be like they are - Pegboy, Sideshow Just because you stay away Just because it's getting late You think I must be crazy - Pegboy, Dangerwood Last song I ever write Last song that I sing tonight I'm sick of caring - Pegboy, Dangermare Don't feel right, don't think too well I'm dead, I'm gone, I'm that invested Blind in the mud, I rip the seal Can't make the price, I don't make deals - Pegboy, In the Pantry of the Mountain King Make a stand I won't be dreaming much tonight Take a hand A guide to take you to the light - Pegboy, In the Panrty of the Mountain King
Just a couple of notes...
First and most importantly, I hold no permission to copy these copyrighted lines of text here. Bad me. If I were making money from this, I would find a more subtle way of displaying this stuff. God, m'not that dumb.
Also, and hardly important at all, is that the HTML here's a bit off. And if it weren't already quarter to five in the morning, I'd try to fix it. But it is. And I have to do stuff tomorrow. So I'm going to bed. So there.