On one's shadow side... sometimes

Just an impotent wraith, buzzing in your ear.

- Stark, in Farscape (Series 3, Episode 1)

On process

It's not a religion, it's just a technique
It's just a way of making you speak
Distance and speed have left us too weak
And destination looks kind of bleak

- The Church, Destination

Just shout, and I'll be there

I've got you under my skin
where the rain can't get in
but if the sweat pours out
just shout 
I'll try to swim and pull you out

- The The, Uncertain Smile

Time goes by

I am all the days
that you choose to ignore

Radiohead, All I Need

No bodies pt 2

Nobody lingers
like your hands on my heart
Nobody figures
like you figured me out

- Sleater-Kinney, Oh!

No bodies pt1

No bodies ever knew
No bodies ever felt like you

- Smashing Pumpinks, No bodies

She came into my head last night

and when I wake every morning with a new broken heart
I let her out
I let her in

- Steve Mason, I Let Her In

Give me something to cling to any day

You're gonna be fine. You're gonna spend a long thinking you won't be, but then one morning you'll wake up and you will be, and you know for a while you'll miss the fact that you're not because it almost seems scarier than when you are, because at least when you're not at least you've got something to cling to and then, when you've got over that, you're gonna be fine.

- Spaced

Forever isn't long enough

You don't belong to her and she doesn't belong to you, but you're both part of each other; if she got up and left now and walked away and you never saw each other again for the rest of your lives, and you lived an ordinary waking life for another fifty years, even so on your deathbed you would still know she was part of you.

You have left your marks on each other, you have helped shape one another; you have each given the other an accent to their life which they will never quite lose; no matter.

- Iain Banks, The Bridge

I think about life and I think about death

and I'm alive
and I'm alone
and I never wanted to be either of those

- Chemical Brothers, Alive Alone

And now I know

I'm waiting for a time
that I can be without
these things that make me feel
this way all of the time

- Spirtualized, Medication

On the edge

Hello, hello
I'm at a place called vertigo
It's everything I wish I didn't know

- U2, Vertigo

Our song

I can't get enough of easy living
I can't get enough of how you get me singing
Is it a time for ruin, or time for glue
Cause I can't get enough of you

- Moose, Can't Get Enough of You

Oh my heart, I cling to your rocks, and shy from my sorrow

Here I am
Here I am
Waiting to hold you

- Tim Buckley, Song To The Siren

On our future

there
in the dust
all the things
we discussed

- Low, Point Of Disgust

Don't leave me this way

now who's to blame
we used to be the same
now you won't let me speak your name
what a shame

- Low, Monkey

On when the most trite pop describes your life

Now I know I'm being used
That's okay man because I like the abuse
I know she's playing with me
That's okay 'cause I've got no self-esteem
...

When she's saying oh that I'm like a disease
Then I wonder how much more I can stand
Well I guess I should stick up for myself
But I really think it's better this way
The more you suffer
The more it shows you really care, right?
 ....

Now I know I should say no
But that's kind of hard when she's ready to go
I may be dumb
But I'm not a dweeb
I'm just a sucker with no self-esteem

- The Offspring, Self Esteem

You are a thread, woven into this city, into my dreams, into my life. You're everywhere and nowhere.

I'm dreaming of you
you are free of all the pain
you kept from me

all I'm saying
all I'm saying
all I'm saying
all I'm saying
I'm missing you


I'm missing you and all the worlds you opened up to view

I love you

See you next time

- James, All I'm Saying

 

On things to ease the pain

Sometimes have my breakfast right
Off of a mirror
And sometimes I have it
Right out of a bottle

- Spiritualized, Home Of The Brave

Why do you treat me like this?

When you cancel dinner plans
When you cross the street
And you don't take my hand
When you make impossible demands
I wish I didn't understand

- The Magnetic Fields, You're My Only Home