117 quotes found
"I never fuck with Facebook. I absolutely despise social networking. I think it's truly going to result in the destruction of mankind. Sometimes I just wish I didn't live in this time. Before, there was so much more freedom and privacy, and you could truly escape places."
"The world's become a little too mean."
"And me I'm in my bedroom drawing in my notebook Because my hand thinks I'm an artist But my heart knows I'm a poet It's just words they mean so little to me."
"My Brother went to college To become a doctor And if he studies hard enough He'll end up just like papa, who hates his life."
"And me I'm in the bathroom crying out my eyelids because it's hard to be a man when you're scared, just like a little kid."
"If I die tonight, then I guess I die tonight Let me go on."
"I started to sink like the moon tends to do if you stare at it too long Then you blink and it's gone"
"I swear that I'm dying slowly but it's happening, and if the perfect spring is waiting somewhere... just take me there."
"In a coma, you don't dream, you just hope that someone sits with you."
"I had a brother once, he drowned in a bathtub, before he'd ever learned how to talk. And I don't know what his name was but my mother does, I heard her say it once, she said, "Padraic, my prince, I have all but died from the sheer weight of my shame: you cried but no-one came.""
"I find that life is easier when it is just a blur With no details to confuse who or what or where I was So when the ending comes the full regret will be obscure"
"Well morning came, and it dressed the sky in a lovely yellow gown. Shopping malls are opening in that narrow hallway of downtown, filled with people who are shopping for their lovers and their friends, singing "I won't ever be lonely again""
"There's a cat in the window, of the house of my lover. Well she sleeps there alone now, or perhaps with another. Oh I try no to think about that, I try not to think at all!"
"My parents ask if I'm alright; I say "I've just been staying up too late. I need to sleep" I need to do something! To get this awful weight up off my chest, keep her pretty ghost from chasing me!"
"So you say there are spaces, opening wide? Oh believe me, there's day longer than nights. And you could be happy, if only you'd try. But you don't try. No you don't try."
"And you speak of a fever, that burns you inside, as you explain to your mother, how you've wanted to die. So she kisses your fingers, and says "My darling, but why? When there is so much more. There is so much more.""
"You could be happy, the minute you try. Why won't you try? Oh won't you try?"
"And the sad act like lepers They stick to the shadows They long to ring bells of warning To tell of their coming So that the pure can shut their doors."
"I drug your ghost across the country, and we plotted out my death. Every city and memory we whispered "Here is where you rest." Well I was determined in Chicago but I dug my teeth into my knees And I settled for a telephone, sang into your machine: "You are my sunshine, my only sunshine.""
"And I sing and sing of awful things The pleasure that my sadness brings."
"For a sunrise or a sunset, you're manic or you’re depressed. Will you ever feel ok?"
"I think it is more like a ghost that has been following us both. Something vague that we're not seeing, something more like a feeling."
"There was this book I read and loved, The story of a ship Who sailed around the world and found That nothing else exists Beyond its own two sails And wooden shell And what is held within. All else is sure to pass. We clutch and grasp And debate what's truly permanent."
"I sing and drink and sleep on floors And try hard not to be annoyed By all these people worrying about me. So when I'm suffering through some awful drive, You occasionally cross my mind. It's my hidden hope that you are still among them. Well, are you?"
"If you wanna see the future, Go stare into a cloud."
"Well is it your fear of being buried that makes you so afraid to speak?"
"So you can try and live in darkness but you will never shake the light. It will greet you every morning and make you more aware with its absence at night"
"The hook is in deep boys, there is no more time. So you can struggle in the water and be too stubborn to die, or you could just let go and be lifted to the sky."
"If the world could remain within a frame Like a painting on a wall, Then I think we would see the beauty, then We would stand staring in awe At our still lives posed Like a bowl of oranges, Like a story told By the fault lines and the soil."
"Ambition, I’ve found, can lead only to failure. I do not read the reviews. No, I am not singing for you."
"The animals laugh from the dark of the wilderness."
"I’ve seen a child, he's caught in the sad trap of gravity. He falls from the lowest branch of the apple tree and lands in the grass and weeps for his dignity. Next time he will not aim so high. Yeah, next time, neither will I."
"Well, I stood dropping a coin into the pit of a well. And I would throw my whole billfold if I thought it would help."
"Honesty" "Accuracy" is just "Popular Opinion."
"Well, ABC, NBC, CBS: Bullshit. They give us fact or fiction? I guess an even split."
"And each new act of war is tonight's entertainment. We're still the pawns in their game."
"As they take eye for an eye until no one can see, we must stumble blindly forward, repeating history."
"Love's an excuse to get hurt and to hurt. Do you like to hurt? I do, I do then hurt me."
"So you think I need some discipline, well, I had my share. I have been sent to my room. I've been sat in a chair. I held my tongue. I didn't plug my ears. No, I got a good talking to. And now I don't know why, but I still try to smile when they talk at me like I'm just a child. Well, I'm not a child. No, I am much younger than that. And now I have read some books and have grown quite brave. If only I could just speak up I think I would say that there is no truth. There is only you and what you make the truth."
"He once cut one of my nightmares out of paper. I thought it was beautiful, I put it on a record cover."
"It is clear to see that it is not them but me, who had lost my self-identity. As I hide behind these books I read, while scribbling my poetry, like art could save a wretch like me, with some ideal ideology that no one can hope to achieve. And I am never real; it is just a sketch of me. And everything I have made is trite and cheap and a waste of paint, of tape, of time"
"My head's a carousel of pictures and The spinning never stops."
"For a song I was bought Now I lie when I talk With a careful eye on the cue card. Onto a stage I was pushed, With my sorrow well rehearsed. So give me all your pity and your money, now (all of it)."
"But where was it when I first heard that sweet sound of humility? It came to my ears in the goddamn loveliest melody! How grateful I was, then, to be part of the mystery, To love, and to be loved! Let’s just hope that is enough."
"But you should never be embarrassed by your trouble with living Cause it's the ones with the sorest throats Laura, who have done the most singing."
"It's not a movie, no private screening This method acting, well, I call that living"
"If I could act like This was my real life, And not some cage where I've been placed, Well then, I could tell you The truth like I used to And not be afraid of sounding fake."
"And it's too hard to focus through all this doubt I keep making this to-do list but nothing gets crossed out Working on the record seems pointless now When the world ends who's gonna hear it?"
"Everything that happens is supposed to be And it's all pre-determined, can't change your destiny Guess I'll just keep moving, someday maybe I'll get to where I'm going"
"So hurry up and run to the one that you love. And blind him with your kindness. And he'll make war, oh war, On who you were before. And he'll claim all that has spoiled in your heart."
"Because the truth is that gossip is as good as gospel in this town. You can save face but you won't ever save your soul. And that's a fact."
"It was a small mistake Sometimes that is all it takes."
"But, I was as helpless as a chess piece when I was lifted up by someone's hand And delivered from the corner my enemies had got me in But in all of my salvation I still felt imprisoned inside that holding cell that is myself"
"So I wait for the day when I'll hear the key as it turns in the lock And the guard will say to me, "Oh my patient prisoner you waited for this day and finally, you are free! You are free! You are free!""
"We're all too busy working, entertaining ourselves With forty hours, television and prescription pills Well, I take two a day to help my brain behave It never does, but who's to say? At least my doctor gets paid."
"'Cause a costume can be comfortable It can make you feel more beautiful It can even make you look like someone else But it's still you, so there's nothing you can do Like a bad habit, the one you couldn't kick, there it always is And it's nothing that no doctor's gonna fix."
"I know you have a heavy heart, I can feel it when we kiss So many men stronger than me Have thrown their backs out trying to lift it But me I'm not a gamble You can count on me to split The love I sell you in the evening by the morning won't exist."
"I'd rather be working for a paycheck, than waiting to win the lottery. Besides, maybe this time it's different, I mean, I really think you like me."
"If you walk away I'll walk away first tell me which road you will take I don't want to risk our paths crossing someday so you walk that way I'll walk this way"
"I found a liquid cure for my landlocked blues"
"And there's kids playing guns in the streets And one's pointing his tree branch at me So I put my hands up I say "Enough is enough, If you walk away I walk away." And he shot me dead."
"But greed is a bottomless pit And our freedom's a joke we're just taking a piss And the whole world must watch the sad comic display If you're still free start runnin' away 'cause we're comin' for ya!"
"You'll be free child once you have died from the shackles of language and measurable time"
"And I never thought this life was possible,You're the yellow bird that I've been waiting for."
"In polaroids you were dressed in women's clothes Were you made ashamed, why'd you lock them in a drawer? Well, I don't think that I ever loved you more"
"Well let the poets cry themselves to sleep And all their tearful words will turn back into steam"
"The sound of loneliness makes me happier"
"Well, I could have been a famous singer If I had someone else's voice But failure's always sounded better Let's fuck it up, boys, make some noise!"
"The sun came up with no conclusions Flowers sleepin' in their beds The city cemetery's hummin' I'm wide awake, its mornin'"
"i keep drinking the ink from my pen and i'm balancing history books up on my head but it all boils down to one quotable phrase if you love something give it away"
"a good woman will pick you apart a box full of suggestions for your possible heart and you may be offended. and you may be afraid but don't walk away, don't walk away"
"we made love on the living room floor with the noise in the background of a televised war and in that defeaning pleasure i thought i heard someone say if we walk away they'll walk away"
"So don't be fooled, so don't get lied to Love was always cruel And don't act strange, don't be a stranger It happened to me, now it's happening to you But if you'd take that train underwater Then we could talk it through"
"Yeah, I was a postcard, I was a record I was a camera until I went blind"
"I guess the best that I can do now is to pretend that I've done nothing wrong and to dream about a train that's gonna take me back where I belong"
"So I go back and forth forever All my thoughts they come in pairs Oh I will, I won't, I doubt, I don't, I'm not surprised but I never feel quite prepared"
"Now I'm hunched over a typewriter I guess you call that paintin' in a cave And there's a word I can't remember and a feeling I cannot escape"
"I dreamt this ship was sinkin' there was people screaming all around And I awoke to my alarm clock it was a pop song it was playin' loud"
"So I will find my fears and face them or I will cower like a dog I will kick and scream or kneel and plead I'll fight like hell to hide that I've given up"
"I want to be the surgeon who cuts you open Who fixes all of life's mistakes I want to be the house that you were raised in The only place where you feel safe."
"I wanna be a shower in the morning That wakes you up and makes you clean I know I'm just the weather against your window As you sleep through a winter's dream"
"I hear if you make friends with Jesus Christ, you will get right up from that chalk outline. And then you'll get dolled up, and you'll dress in white all to take your place in his chorus line. And then in you'll come with those marching drums in a saintly compromise. No more whiskey slurs, no more blonde-haired girls for your whole eternal life. And you'll do the dance that was choreographed at the very dawn of time. Singing "I told you son, the day would come you would die, you'd die you'd die you'd die you'd die"."
"Sometimes I worry that I've lost the plot My twitching muscles tease my flippant thoughts I never really dreamed of heaven much Until we put him in the ground."
"There is nothing as lucky, as easy, or free"
"You took off your clothes and left on the light, You stood there so brave, you used to be shy, Each feature improved, each movement refined, And eyes like a showroom."
"There is no Hell when you die so don't look so worried"
"so immagine what you want and hold onto that thought cause thats as close as it will ever come and believe you're were you're are keep acting out the part but at the end of the day the trees all get wheeled away and you'll be standing alone in a blank, blank space"
"so believe you're who you are and stay in character but at the end of the play the audience walks away and ill be shivering cold on a well lit stage"
"The drunk kids, the catholics They’re all about the same They’re waiting for something Hoping to be saved"
"And I'm sorry about the phone call and needing you Some decisions you don't make I guess it's just like breathing or not wanting to There are some things you can't fake"
"I'm sorry about the phone call; and waking you. I know that it is late, But thank you for talking, because I needed to. Some things just can't wait."
"So I want to get myself attached to something bolted down, So that these winds of circumstance won't keep blowing me around. From when I land to when I leave there is enough time to sleep and sing. I keep running around, when all I want is to lay motionless."
"Future markets, holy wars Been tried ten thousand times before If you think that god is keeping score, hooray!"
"And, you know, it's kind of like with people and the tarot cards. Just because you get the death card doesn't mean death or dying. It means transformation. It means changing things around and starting something new."
"Your class, your caste, your country, sect, your name or your tribe There's people always dying trying to keep them alive"
"Squatters made a mural of a Mexican girl With fifteen cans of spray paint and a chemical swirl She's standing in the ashes at the end of the world Four winds blowing through her hair"
"The Bible's blind, the Torah's deaf, the Qur'an's mute If you burned them all together you'd get close to the truth still They're pouring over Sanskrit under ivy league moons While shadows lengthen in the sun"
"I never thought of running My feet just led the way"
"I'm a repeat first time offender Who has rewritten history"
"I tried to pass for nothing But my dreams gave me away"
"Oh, I've made love, yeah, I've been fucked, so what? I'm a cartoon, you're a full moon, let's stay up"
"Death doesn't ask It don't owe you that Some things you lose You don't get back So just know what you have"
"Saw the wave of the future through the crack of the dam Drowned the soul singer in the session band Bless the soul singer in the session band"
"Now the sky is a torn up denim and the clouds are just splattered paint It's a room I'm renovating; it's a name I got to change"
"I traveled though the atmosphere As a wall of feedback climbed The pegs were gold, the band was old They played in half time"
"Hear the chimes, did you know that the wind when it blows It is older than Rome and our joy and our sorrow"
"Little soldier, little insect You know war it has no heart It will kill you in the sunshine Or happily in the the dark Where kindness is a card game Or a bent up cigarette In the trenches, in the hard rain With a bullet and a bet"
"In the South the Sun is shining Back in the East the lights went out Out in the West the cars are crashing Up in the North the ice gave out"
"They locked the devil in the basement, threw god up into the air Yeah, everything it must belong somewhere"
"It comes to me in fragments, even those still split in two Under the leaves of that old lime tree I stood examining the fruit Some were ripe and some were rotten, I felt nauseous with the truth"
"Do what you want, when you want, with whoever you wanted to"
"The sun is eclipsed as silence swoons"
"Is it midnight or high noon?"
"You’ve been a father to me. Your 1960’s speak. Gives me comatose joy like re-run TV. While the mountainside was shining. Wild colors of my destiny"
"And in the morning when the sun rise. Look in the water, see the blue sky. As if heaven has been laid there at our feet."
"I wanna be your happiness. I wanna be your common sense pain."
"If I loved you, well that's my fault"