featherfinyipp, posts by tag: lyrics - LiveJournal

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sing a song, write a tune, find the words for those who can't

Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
You fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way

Tired of lying in the sunshine
Staying home to watch the rain
And you are young and life is long
And there is time to kill today
And then one day you find
Ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run
You missed the starting gun

And you run, and you run to catch up with the sun, but it's sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in a relative way, but you're older
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death

Every year is getting shorter
Never seem to find the time
Plans that either come to nought
Or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way
The time is gone
The song is over
Thought I had something more to say


Taken from 'Time', by Pink Floyd.

And so it has to change
The notebook's now in pieces
Words we'll never sing
I know you'll say I've simply jumped the gun
And that they've won
But you can't keep making the same mistakes
You see I've had this thought
It took its time in coming
But now won't be denied
I'd always gone about these things all wrong
But not this song
Coz you can't keep making the same mistakes
No you can't keep making the same mistakes
Can't jump ship just yet
There's no one at the wheel
Someone has to steer
Get a hold of yourself
Keep your head there's no time to waste
You'll see it soon enough
But all is not forgotten
And now's no time for tears
Coz though that boy has died this one still lives
And now there's life
And a change to make up for all those mistakes
But please don't get me wrong
Coz everything was honest
True and from the heart
There's still the same old hang ups so don't fret
It's not safe yet
And who knows there's always time to screw up again
But maybe we'll be cool
Coz you were made an offer
You could not refuse
You made me come alive and see my face
See my grace
And we grow or do we just haul it around?

My mother is listening to some Edith Piaf CD someone gave her, and in the general vein of "je ne regrette rien" let's have a quote for posterity -

Charlotte: "It's not the living to tell the tale, it's having the tale to live to tell"

The best 89p I spent this week was on Muse - Assassin [Grand Omega Bosses Edit]. I couldn't find it anywhere else, so I caved in and bought the protected WMP (ugh, I know) off their site. Anyway, I declare it to be about a hundred times better than the album version of Assassin. When I first listened to it the initial guitar distortion was an eye-widening moment, but I love love love the distortion on the chorus vocals and the slow middle section. The lyrics are dutifully ridiculous in true Assassin fashion but my god it works so well with the slower, pounding instrumental backing, with that touch of piano.

"They'll try to steal your life
So watch your back
You're not alone
But you must actualise
The first attack "

Biology revision is also enjoyable, really, when you get down to it. It's just starting it that I struggle with, as always.

"Don't grow up too fast
And don't embrace the past
This life's too good to last
And I'm too young to care."

Blackout, by Muse.

Interesting interesting interesting lyric I found today -

"The fundamental loneliness goes whenever two can dream a dream together"

Frank Sinatra, of all people. *wanders off to muse over it*

Sometimes The Libertines say it all so perfectly;

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And finally, because it's true;

"'cause blood runs thicker, oh
We're thick as thieves, you know"