Saturday, 4 February 2017

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

Tuesday, 24 January 2017

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

Saturday, 21 January 2017

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

Sunday, 15 January 2017

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

Wednesday, 4 January 2017

On the edge

Hello, hello
I'm at a place called vertigo
It's everything I wish I didn't know
- U2, Vertigo

Wednesday, 28 December 2016

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

Tuesday, 27 December 2016

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

Wednesday, 21 December 2016

On our future

there
in the dust
all the things
we discussed
- Low, Point Of Disgust

Sunday, 11 December 2016

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

Monday, 21 November 2016

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

Sunday, 20 November 2016

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

 

Monday, 14 November 2016

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

Wednesday, 9 November 2016

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

Sunday, 16 October 2016

You came on your own - and that's how you'll leave

let it go
let it leave
let it happen
nothing
in this world
was promised or
belonged to you
anyway
all you own is yourself
- Rupi Kaur

Thursday, 29 September 2016

You

You're a weapon of devotion

You're a lover of attention
- James, P.S.

Thursday, 22 September 2016

They don't burn like we do... (are you listening to this too, my love?)

even though our love is doomed
even though we're all messed up
even though our love is cruel
even though our stars are crossed

you're the only thing worth fighting for
- Garbage, Even Though Our Love Is Doomed


Wednesday, 21 September 2016

Every day

I drown myself in sorrow
Until I wake up tomorrow
- Tricky, Ponderosa

Saturday, 17 September 2016

On being cut off

I know you're out there
I know you're gone
You can't say that's fair
Can't you be wrong?
- Dinosaur Jr., Out There

Thursday, 15 September 2016

On living in the borderlands with you

I disappeared in you
You disappeared from me
I gave you everything you ever wanted
It wasn't what you wanted
The men who love you, you hate the most
They pass right through you like a ghost
They look for you, but your spirit is in the air
Baby, you're nowhere
- U2, So Cruel

Thursday, 8 September 2016

One does one's best

Let's not focus on her. That'll be like entering a bad k-hole you'll never wake up from.
- Mr Robot, Episode 2