Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Vampire Weekend - Ottoman



Ottoman couch, how handsome your furniture
Lovelier now, but dressed for a funeral
Begging you to sit for a portrait on the wall
To hang in the dark of some parliamentary hall

Elegant clothes, you want to be seen with her
Under your tweeds you sweat like a teenager
Begging you to sit for a portrait on the wall
To hang in the dark of some parliamentary hall

Today�s for you
They laid it out for you
For you
There will be six bells a-ringing and white women singing for you
But this feels so unnatural to Peter Gabriel, too

All of the cards and all of the time it took
Soon it's all lines of red in a leather book
Begging you to wait for a minute by the door
Your creeping feet where they�ve never been before

Today�s for you
They laid it out for you
For you
There will be six bells a-ringing and white women singing for you
But this feels so unnatural Peter Gabriel, too

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Army Navy - Slight of Hand



Smoke, Mirrors and Lights
I have the feeling like it is all an illusion
All break is it right that way
I have the feeling it was all disillusion

Tonight
As I panic
Thought of you
Makes me manic and lose tears to my eyes

Its a bright came to boggle my mind
And I have the feeling it was going somewhere
Oh gees lock up the minute you missed
I get the feeling like I'm going nowhere

Tonight
As I panic
I'll put to rest
All the magic that ended up these slight of hand

And this is where I land
Oh I'll belong to what I've don't know
If I'll survive cause this is still my life
Oh I'll be strong for what I don't know

So you cornered me
Cut me into threes
She waves her arms and she going

So you punished me
From across the sea
I will be holding my breath
I will be stung and oppressed

Slight of hand
And this is where I land
Oh I'll belong to what I don't know
If I'll survive cause this is still my life
Oh I'll be strong for what I don't know

For what I don't know

Monday, February 16, 2009

The Beatles - Yesterday



Yesterday,
All my troubles seemed so far away,
Now it looks as though they're here to stay,
Oh, I believe in yesterday.

Suddenly,
I'm not half the man I used to be,
There's a shadow hanging over me,
Oh, yesterday came suddenly.

Why she
Had to go I don't know, she wouldn't say.
I said,
Something wrong, now I long for yesterday.

Yesterday,
Love was such an easy game to play,
Now I need a place to hide away,
Oh, I believe in yesterday.

Why she
Had to go I don't know, she wouldn't say.
I said,
Something wrong, now I long for yesterday.

Yesterday,
Love was such an easy game to play,
Now I need a place to hide away,
Oh, I believe in yesterday.

Mm-mm-mm-mm-mm-mm-mm.

Sunday, February 15, 2009

John Oszajca - I Hate You ( My Friend )



No one here likes you
Go away
Get a clue
Go back to your fucking zoo
Or whatever it is you do

I don't know why
I don't like what's in your eyes
and I'd love to split 'em wide

I could pretend
Can't you understand
I hate you, my friend

And some call it obsession
And some call it pure hate
And others call it pathetic
But some totally relate

I'd rather go to hell
Than shake your hand or wish you well
In case you couldn't tell

Go ahead boy drink your drink
Go ahead boy do your thing
Can you ????
and the words to every song I sing


I could pretend
Can't you understand
I hate you, my friend

And some call it obsession
And some call it pure hate
And others call it pathetic
But some totally relate

No one here likes you
Go away
Get a clue
Go back to your fucking zoo
Or whatever it is you do

I could pretend
Can't you understand
I hate you, my friend

I hate you, my friend
I hate you, my friend

Saturday, February 14, 2009

Bishop Allen - Click Click Click Click



I had ducked out of the rain
Into Maria's wedding day
And I sat there with her friends
And with her family
And I was happy

I wasn't someone they'd invite
Because I didn't know the groom
Or know the bride
But when I stood next to her brother
For the photograph
He was laughing

Take another picture with your click, click, click, click camera

Sure, I've got pictures of my own
Of the people and the places that I've known
Here's one: I'm carrying your suitcase
Outside of Alphabet City

But in someone else's life
Where Maria is a wife
I'm on the mantle in the corner of the photograph
Smiling pretty

Take another picture with your click, click, click, click camera

Are you tired of where you've gone?
And you think you might belong
In a moment when you step out of the rain?
And you've ended up in someone else's frame?
And they're memory now is never quite the same
And they never even thought to ask your name

Take another picture with your click, click, click, click camera

Thursday, February 12, 2009

Barcelona - Get Up, Get Up, Get Up



Five days after black and red collide.
The motion sickness past, I’ll be the first to stand.
Behind that weathered door, I thought it would be safest.
My head is dizzy now, I thought we’d overcome.
We might not make it home tonight.

Crawling on the ash, she’s pitiful.
She lost her sense of light; she has to hold my hand.
Had I known we might be two kids without their jackets.
My fear would come alive, I wouldn’t love her now.
She might not make home tonight.

Get up
Get up
Get up