Garage Rock

"I want you to be crazy, 'cause you're boring, baby, when you're straight. I want you to be crazy, 'cause you're stupid, baby, when you're sane."

"What about the night, Makes you change, yeah, Oh, from sweet, To deranged? What about my voice, Tells you who, Who's been wrong to you?"

"Girl is on my mind, Girl is on my mind, Try to ignore it, I try to unwind, But she is on my mind."

"Love me, Don't leave me, Make me feel you need me, You kill me, Thrill me, Don't you know that I will be, Callin' on you everyday, Till I get my way?"

"Evil hides In dark places, But now I find it In familiar faces."

"When I was thirteen, My mom said "Son, You're the one I adore." Now I'm old and wise, When I see your eyes, You're the one I adore."

"I was a movin' man in my younger days, But I've grown out of my ramblin' ways. I left that road so far behind, Now I know, oh baby. I got mine."

"And baby when I roll I roll deep and some are told I couldn't get no sleep"

"Kings and sons of God Travel on their way from here, Calming restless mobs, Easing all of their, all of their fear.Strange times are here. Strange times are here."

"I wanted love, I needed love, Most of all, most of all. Someone said true love was dead, And I'm bound to fall, bound to fall For you. Oh, what can I do?"

"When I was young and moving fast Nothing slowed me down, Oh slowed me down. Now I let the others pass; I've come around, Oh come around 'Cause I've found.Living just to keep going Going just to be sane All the while live knowing Such a shame."

"I must admit I can't explain Any of these thoughts racing Through my brain.It's true Baby I'm howlin' for you."

"Well I’m so above you And it’s plain to see But I came to love you anyway. So you tore my heart out. And I don’t mind bleeding Any old time you keep me waiting Waiting, waiting."

"The whole system right now with these majors is like, signing shit that has the most social media interaction, the most streaming... and I was like, you know what? When I was nine years old I bought Vanilla Ice's "Ice Ice Baby" and I listened to that shit-- I'm not joking-- like, 250 times in a week. Like a fucking idiot. And like, that's who's listening to this shit that's getting a billion streams in a month. It's like, fucking nine year old morons."

"You hit the city, it swallow you whole; You got no friends darlin', to satisfy your soul. And then the sidewalk ends, lights all red, You say to yourself, you're better off dead. Hard row to hoe all by yourself."

"You hold on To love that's gone. Run a mile To see him smile. But you don't know He's door to door, Playin' you For the fool.Let him go; Walk out your door. And come to me, I'm gonna set you free."

"At least there's a record that I'll love to play, Dreaming about a place I'll never see"

"Stranded in a spooky town Spotlights are swaying and The phone lines are down Floor is crackling cold She took my heart, I think she took my soul With the moon I'll run Far from the carnage of the fiery sun"

"Off in the night while you live it up I'm off to sleep Waging wars to shake the poet and the beat I hope it's gonna make you notice, someone like me"

"I get lost in the light, so high I don’t want to come down To face the loss of the good thing that I had found"

"So I drink and I smoke and I ask if you’re ever around Even though it was me that drove us right in the ground"

"See the time we shared it was precious to me But all the while I was dreaming of revelry"

"Born to run, baby run like a stream down a mountainside With the wind at my back I don’t ever even bat an eye Just know it was you all along who had a hold of my heart ""

"Everything just felt so incomplete; dreaming of revelry""

"Given the chance, I’m gonna be somebody If for one dance, I’m gonna be somebody Open the door, it’s gonna make you love me"

"Everyone noticed, everyone has seen the signs I’ve always been known to cross lines I never ever cried when I was feeling down I’ve always been scared of the sound Jesus don’t love me and no one ever carried my load I’m too young to feel this old"

"We drank wine in the matinee And the spotlight showed what I chased away"

"I'll be the one to show you the way You'll be the one to always complain"

"It's quite possible that I'm your third man, girl But it's a fact that I'm the seventh son"

"I had opinions that didn't matter I had a brain that felt like pancake batter"

"I wanna hold your little hand if I can be so bold And be your right-hand man 'til your hands get old And then when all the feeling's gone Just decide if you want to keep holding on I want to hold your little hand if I can be so bold If I can be so bold If I can be so bold"

"Life is so boring It's really got me snoring"

"Well, don't you remember? You told me in December That a boy is not a man until he makes a stand Will, I'm not a genius, But maybe you'll remember this: I never said I ever wanted to be a man"

"Well strip the bark right off a tree and just hand it this way Don't even need a drink of water to make the headache go away Give me a sugar pill and watch me just rattle down the street Acetaminophen—you see the medicine—oh, girl You have no faith in medicine"

"I've got your phone number written in the back of my bible"

"Love really bores me"

"The nurse should not be the one who puts salt in your wounds But it's always with trust that the poison is fed with a spoon"

"I blew it And if I knew what to do, then I'd do it But the point that I have, I'll get to it That forever for her is over for me "Forever"—just the word that she said that means never To be with another together And with the weight of a feather it tore into me"

"My friends are all dying And death can't be lying It's the truth and it don't make a noise"

"I am as ugly as I seem Worse than all your dreams"

"Can you believe some things are not Appealing as a spot On the ceiling of my childhood bedroom?"

"You wanna take away from me Things that are mine and it's not your right It's odd that you wouldn't expect a fight Can it be that I don't want what you want?"

"I go down to the river Filled with regret I go down and I wonder If there was any reason left I left just before my lungs could get wet I'm lonely, but I ain't that lonely yet"

"Icky thump with the lump in my throat Grabbed my coat and I was freaking, I was ready to go Yeah, I swear, beside the hair she had one white eye One blank stare, lookin' up, lyin' there"

"Well, Americans, what? Nothing better to do? Why don't you kick yourself out? You're an immigrant, too!"

"One sound can hold back a thousand hands when the pipe plays a tune forlorn"

"I travel backwards in ecstasy"

"Now my mind is filled with rubber tires and forest fires and whether I'm a liar and lots of other situations where I don't know what to do, at which time God screams to me, "There's nothing left for me to tell you""

"Well, in every complicated situation there's a human relation Making sense of it all takes a whole lot of concentration Well, you can blame the baby for her pregnant ma And if there's one of these unavoidable laws It's just that you can't just take the effect and make it the cause"

"Downtown Detroit has more vacant buildings over 10 storeys than any city in the world. Tons of skyscrapers with nothing in them. [The flag] is the idea of rooting for the underdog, because Detroit has such a bad reputation."