Lyric-a-Day.fm

This was the best thread I ever made on ap, so I'm making a new one here.

Post lyrics you love or that particularly strike you. Share them with others.

 

Well, I've had my share of broken dreams,
And more than a couple of falls.
And in chasing what I thought were moonbeams,
I have run into a couple of walls.
But in looking back at the places I've been,
And the changes that I've left behind,
I just look at myself to find
I've learned the hard way every time.

'Cause I've had my share of good intentions,
And I've made my share of mistakes.
And I've learned at times it's best to bend,
'Cause if you don't, well, those are the breaks.
Should have listened to all the things I was told,
But I was young and too proud at the time.
Now I look at myself to find
I learn the hard way every time.

 

Then I'll take my clothes off
And I'll walk around
Because it's so nice outside
And I like the way the sun feels
And when it's dark
I'll call out in the night for my mother
But she isn't coming back for me
Cause she's already gone
But you will not tell me that
Cause you know it hurts me everytime you say it
And you know you're doing the right thing
You must know you're doing the right thing

Daughter - Doing the Right Thing

 

All I ask is that you leave before I lose you
Circumnavigate your grace as I stow away in the weather beaten doldrums
of apathy and your forgiveness
All I ask is that you walk the other way
All I ask is that you leave before I lose you

From the magnificent, wonderful Friends In America.

Be In Love, by Friends In America

Edit: I just copied and pasted the Bandcamp Link in, and it nicely typed it up like that instead of just dumping the URL. Nicely done @Jason Tate !

 

Old man down, way down down, down by the docks of the city.
Blind and dirty, asked me for a dime, a dime for a cup of coffee.
I got no dime but I got some time to hear his story.
My name is August West, and I love my Pearly Baker best more than my wine.
More than my wine - more than my maker, though he's no friend of mine.

Everyone said, I'd come to no good, I knew I would Pearly, believe them.
Half of my life, I spent doin' time for some other fucker's crime,
The other half found me stumbling 'round drunk on Burgundy wine.

But I'll get back on my feet again someday,
The good Lord willin', if He says I may.
I know that the life i'm livin's no good,
I'll get a new start, live the life I should.
I'll get up and fly away, I'll get up and fly away, fly away.

@Wharf Rat by u know who

 

This EP is just pretty as all get-out.

 

Maybe I would've been something you'd be good at
Maybe you would've been something I'd be good at
But now, we'll never know
I won't be sad but in case I'll go there everyday
To make myself feel bad
There's a chance I'll start to wonder if this was the thing to do

 

Friends who cry together stay together

 

Car crash came and car crash went
So I went along with it but
The girl you love's not coming back
It'll never be the same

 

Oh, swing the door wide open;
Show me your jaded eyes.
I will turn them red,
Drunk with vivid flame.
You will see again,
And you will learn your real name.

 

coming around again
making some space to mend
gaining the strength to stand
feeling the love again

 

So can you trace this distance from me to you so I could etch this on my spine?
Replace my face with just a blurry memory,
you must be kidding me, my busted mouth,
I've come to find less creative ways to speak my mind

 

What's this?

 

thursday - the other side of the crash/over and out (of control)

 

Oh wow. I've heard that song a million times, too, and somehow never realized how much I like those

 

You're brought back but you're running
I'll find sleep in the end tonight
I can't shake this little feeling
I'll never get anything right

 

Interpretation 7,000 I've seen on this line.

 

It's the one I've always heard/gone with, but this is so true. It's usually the second line that gets changed, yeah?

 

So if I seem a little out of it, sorry.
Why should I lie?
Everything reminds me of her.

The spin of the Earth impaled the silhouette of the sun on the steeple.
And I've got to hear the same sermon all the time now from you people.
"Why are you staring into outer space crying?
Just because you came across it,
Lost it?"
Everything reminds me of her...

 

First two. "You're burned bad, but you're running." You burn bright but you run out" "You're burned out but you're running" "I'll bet you're running (which is what Genius has but I don't here at all)"

and then "find sleep in the end tonight/incline/alkaline," and "fell asleep in the end tonight/incline/alkaline"

 

It was Don Delillo, whiskey neat, and a blinking midnight clock
Speakers on a TV stand, just a turntable to watch
And the smoke came out our mouths on all those hooded sweatshirt walks
We were a stroke of luck
We were a goldmine and they gutted us

 

so your place or mine?
my reflection in the window won't reply.

 

You may be Saturday's child all grown
moving with a pinch of grace
You may be a clown in the burying ground
or just another pretty face
You may be the fate of Ophelia
sleeping and perchance to dream
honest to the point of recklessness
self centered to the extreme

 

a twofer bc screw ur rules!!

If you hear that same sweet song again, will you know why?
Anyone who sings a tune so sweet is passin' by,
Laugh in the sunshine, sing, cry in the dark, fly through the night.