Alternative Rock Bands

"I am one as you are three, Try to find a messiah in your trinity. Your city to burn, your city to burn, Try to look for something in your city to burn. You’ll burn.Am I as I seem? I’m down. Down, So down."

"You know I’m, you know I’m not dead, I’m just living in my head. Forever waiting On the ways of your desire. You always find a way And through it all Into us all you move, Forgotten touch, Forbidden thought. We can never have enough."

"Emptiness is loneliness And loneliness is cleanliness And cleanliness is godliness And God is empty just like me.Intoxicated with the madness, I'm in love with my sadness."

"That we don't even care, As restless as we are. We feel the pull In the land of a thousand guilts And poured cement."

"Speak to me in a language I can hear, Humor me before I have to go. Deep in thought, I forgive everyone. As the cluttered streets greet me once again, I know I can't be late. Supper's waitin' on the table. Tomorrow's just an excuse away, So I pull my collar up and face the cold, on my own."

"It’s you that I adore, You’ll always be my whore. You’ll be the mother to my child, And a child to my heart."

"The world is a vampire, Sent to drain. Secret destroyers Hold you up to the flames. And what do I get For my pain? Betrayed desires And a piece of the game."

"Lovely girl, you're the murder in my world, Dressing coffins for the souls I've left to die. Drinking mercury to the mystery Of all that you should ever leave behind In time."

"Freak out and give in. Doesn't matter what you believe in. Stay cool And be somebody's fool this year. 'Cause they know Who is righteous, what is bold. So I'm told."

"I wanted more Than life could ever grant me. Bored by the chore Of saving face.Today is the greatest Day I've ever known. Can't wait for tomorrow, I might not have that long. I'll tear my heart out Before I get out."

"Bleed in your own light, Dream of your own life. I miss me. I miss everything I’ll never be.And on and on, I torch my soul to show The world that I am pure. Deep inside my heart, No more lies."

"I used to be a little boy, So old in my shoes. And what I choose is my choice. What's a boy supposed to do? The killer in me is the killer in you, my love. I send this smile over to you."

"And I don't even care To shake these zipper blues. And we don't know Just where our bones will rest. To dust I guess, Forgotten and absorbed into the earth Below."

"The earth laughs beneath my heavy feet At the blasphemy in my old jangly walk. Steeple guide me to my heart and home, The sun is out and up and down again.I know I'll make it, love can last forever Graceful swans of never topple to the earth."

"You and me Meant to be. Immutable, Impossible. It’s destiny, Pure lunacy. Incalculable, Inseparable.But for the last time, You’re everything That I want and asked for. You’re all that I dream."

"I know we're just like old friends. We just can't pretend That lovers make amends.We are reasons so unreal, We can't help but feel That something has been lost."

"What moonsongs Do you sing your babies? What sunshine do you bring? Who belongs? Who decides who's crazy? Who rights wrongs where others cling?"

"My life has been extraordinary, Blessed and cursed and won. Time heals but I'm forever broken By and by the way Have you ever heard the words I'm singin' in these songs? It's for the girl I've loved all along. Can a taste of love be so wrong?"

"Nails to the quick Daddy died and liars lie. A bit more than sick A dash in bittersweet What's that make of me? Save a lost thing, No choice but a choice to leave.Can't you make me believe? Up where the others dare. What chance have I, what chances we? Would fight in love's affair."

"So swallow hard the serpents Of many tags and faces hid in masks, Coiled 'round this lung until the last. He’ll crack your boots, young pagans 'Cause like you, I was hatched to traipse on cold And seventeen's a long drawn way from home."

"Fragments form the mind, Shadows hold the mist. Fractured as this wish, Shattered I resign. We're on the verge, we're on the verge Of sacred dawning and sloe-sloe eyesSay, I done told you Say how I tried too. Where you've wrought From creation's crown Say, dire warning Stare down your masters With the promise of (With the promise of) One and what you are. We're on the verge."

"Take me away, I'm gonna find you. Take me away, I'm gonna find you. 'Cause nobody else could ever mind you. Take me away, I'm gonna find you."

"Away, away foul dreams, You're gonna listen now to me. No rules, or in-betweens, You're gonna listen now to me. Waste all your time, Find another kind of boy. A feint up on the line, A phantom I don't care to hold."

"Find first obsessions before yourself A candlesong for where you are. You can't escape this, like someone else. Your love remains."

"Stumbling before you speak, Stunning and stunning and stunning the black. You turn turncoat, Inward to seek out all your hopes. It's your signals That hurt me most.We’re in the middle, We’re in the middle: Ghosts."

"When they say What it's worth, The world tells you first. And you know Where to hurt.The world's on fire so The world's on fire so The world's on fire so Have you heard?"

"Never let the summer catch you down. Never let your thoughts run free. Even when their numbers draw you out. Everything I want is free. ‘Til the end ‘Til the end ‘Til the end I’m gonna love you 101 percent. I’m gonna love you ‘til this ends."

"I don't mind what you're running 'Cause you and me we're just something. Don't just hang what you're running on I don't mind we're so alone."

"I feel that something ain’t right; No fear but reasons that I can’t cite.Tear down the sun, Bring down the sun. I’m not everyone. I’m not everyone. I’m not everyone."

"Please don’t stop, It’s lonely at the top. These lonely days, When will they ever stop? This doomsday clock ticking in my heart. Not broken.I love life every day, In each and every way. Kafka would be proud, to find out I’m certain of the end. It’s the means that has me spooked It takes an unknown truth to get out."

"Last chance to make believe in always and all it seems. Train wrecks hide underneath your umbrella, Set the frame destiny on this first name soliloquy. Tired symphonies play downward.Let me give the world to you my love. Let me give the world to you my love. Let me show you what I'm thinking of. Let me give the world to you my love."

"We are the real, If real ever was. And just because We are the ruin Of every living soul, We are surreal 'Cause someone gave us up.Don't break the oath, I want to love you when you're happy. Don't break this oath, I want to be there when you're sad. Freeze-frame the pouring rain."

"But please, you know you're just like me. Next time (Time), I promise we'll bePerfect, Perfect, Perfect strangers down the line, Lovers out of time. Memories unwind.So far, I still know who you are, But now (Now), I wonder who I was."

"Who am I to need you now? To ask you why? To tell you no? To deserve your love and sympathy? You were never meant to belong to me.And you may go, but I know you won’t leave. Too many years built into memories. Your life is not your own."

"Rise! Love is here Oh don’t make me wonder. Life’s never clear where choice is a gift To use and abuse, To build on proof. Oh don’t make me suffer. Birds find the wind and wing, Rest in the shells I’ve designed, Run through the fields I’ve denied, And stroll upon the years I’m alive.There’s a sun that shines in, There’s a world that stares out at me And all I refuse to please."

"Whomever wants you alone, Whomever wants you atoned, It's with this prayer, I disown Whomever wants you alone."

"Time is never time at all. You can never ever leave Without leaving a piece of youth. And our lives are forever changed. We will never be the same. The more you change, the less you feel."

"Despite all my rage, I am still just a rat in a cage. Despite all my rage, I am still just a rat in a cage. Someone will say, "What is lost can never be saved" Despite all my rage, I am still just a rat in a cage."

"I fear that I am ordinary, Just like everyone To lie here and die among the sorrows Adrift among the days For everything I ever said And everything I've ever done is gone And dead.As all things must surely have to end And great loves will one day have to part I know that I am meant for this world."

"AFI have done a lot for the post-hardcore scene as a whole, but cracking into the mainstream with “Miss Murder” is a massive achievement. The song had all of the makings of a radio hit, with a massive chorus, driving bassline and simplistic nature to capture the attention of people in and out of the know on bands playing this style of music."

"What Nirvana did was nothing new; Husker Du did it before us."

"With today’s hardcore scene embracing alt-rock, ' is a still-relevant reminder that history repeats itself."

"Hüsker Dü are making quite important music right now, and people aren't hearing it because it never gets played."

"I've never recognized 'emo' as a genre of music. I always thought it was the most retarded term ever. I know there is this generic commonplace that every band that gets labeled with that term hates it. They feel scandalized by it. But honestly, I just thought that all the bands I played in were punk rock bands. The reason I think it's so stupid is that – what, like the Bad Brains weren't emotional? What – they were robots or something? It just doesn't make any sense to me."

"Emo means different things to different people. Actually, that's a massive understatement. Emo seems soley to mean different things to different people − like pig latin or books by Thomas Pynchon, confusion is one of its hallmark traits. [...] The word has survived and flourished in three decades, two milleniums, and two Bush administrations. It's older than four baseball teams, six basketball teams, four football teams, and two soccer leagues. It's older than five former Yugoslav republics, the last seven national spelling champions, and Avril Lavigne. It's older than most of its fans. It's been a source of pride, a target of derision, a mark of confusion, and a sign of the times. It's been the next big thing twice, [and] the current big thing once. And yet, not only can no one agree on what it means, there is not now, nor has there ever been, a single major band that admits to being emo. Not one. That's pretty impressive, and contentious. And ridiculous. Good thing too − because so is emo."

"The one fact that no one seems to debate − or at least debate that loudly − is that emo emerged from hardcore."

"Emo is not supposed to hold up. You get older and maybe you feel the same, but the same just feels different."

"Is it worth it can you even hear me Standing with your spotlight on me Not enough to feed the hungry I'm tired and I felt it for awhile now In this sea of lonely The taste of Ink is getting old It's four o' clock in the fucking morning Each day gets more and more like the last day Still I can see it coming While I'm standing in the river drowning This could be my chance to break out This could be my chance to say goodbye Can't take this town much longer Being half dead wasn't what I planned to be Now I'm ready to be free"

"It's safe to say emo music today is barely a shadow of what it once was. Nobody today thinks about the DIY hardcore punk element that the genre was founded on. Now when you hear emo you think Hot Topic, you think whiny pre-teens, and you think terrible sellout radio tunes. Most people either hate or love the genre of emo based on the era they grew up in. Lovers of the first wave generally hate the 1990's second wave, listeners from the 90's generally hate the 2000's era, and people who grew up through the 3rd wave now realize what crappy music they were listening too. Whether you love it or hate it, you might as well laugh at it."

"The Used are kings of the 2000s emo scene."