"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"

"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"

"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"

"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"

"The sun came up with no conclusions Flowers sleepin' in their beds The city cemetery's hummin' I'm wide awake, its mornin'"

"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 sound of loneliness makes me happier"

"Well let the poets cry themselves to sleep And all their tearful words will turn back into steam"

"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"

"Love's an excuse to get hurt and to hurt. Do you like to hurt? I do, I do then hurt me."

"As they take eye for an eye until no one can see, we must stumble blindly forward, repeating history."

"And each new act of war is tonight's entertainment. We're still the pawns in their game."

"Well, ABC, NBC, CBS: Bullshit. They give us fact or fiction? I guess an even split."

"Honesty" "Accuracy" is just "Popular Opinion."

"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."

"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."

"The animals laugh from the dark of the wilderness."

"Ambition, I’ve found, can lead only to failure. I do not read the reviews. No, I am not singing for you."

"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."

"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."

"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"

"Well is it your fear of being buried that makes you so afraid to speak?"

"If you wanna see the future, Go stare into a cloud."

"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?"

"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 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."

"For a sunrise or a sunset, you're manic or you’re depressed. Will you ever feel ok?"

"And I sing and sing of awful things The pleasure that my sadness brings."

"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 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."

"You could be happy, the minute you try. Why won't you try? Oh won't you 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.""

"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."

"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!"

"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!"

"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""

"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"

"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.""

"In a coma, you don't dream, you just hope that someone sits with you."

"I swear that I'm dying slowly but it's happening, and if the perfect spring is waiting somewhere... just take me there."

"I started to sink like the moon tends to do if you stare at it too long Then you blink and it's gone"

"If I die tonight, then I guess I die tonight Let me go on."

"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."

"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 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."

"The world's become a little too mean."

"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."

"You'll be free child once you have died from the shackles of language and measurable time"