Alternative Rock Bands

"[The Smiths] emerged out of the UK post-punk scene, but it wouldn’t be any more accurate to call The Smiths “post-punk” than it would be to call the Meat Puppets “hardcore.” Whoever you tried to compare them to, they sounded different. Whoever influenced them–be it The Byrds, The Velvet Underground, or the New York Dolls–they transcended those influences and made them their own. They got even better throughout their airtight, four-albums-in-four-years run, but they already had their unique approach entirely figured out on this debut. Andnce you fuse The Smiths’ influence with any of the more hardcore-informed albums [of 1984], you’ve pretty much got the ingredients for the vast majority of popular post-hardcore and emo."

"And I feel like I'm being eaten By a thousand million shivering, furry holes. And I know that in the morning, I will wake up in the shivering cold. And the spiderman is always hungry."Come into my parlor," said the spider to the fly. "I have a little something here.""

"Whenever I'm alone with you, You make me feel like I am home again. Whenever I'm alone with you, You make me feel like I am whole again.Whenever I'm alone with you, You make me feel like I am young again. Whenever I'm alone with you, You make me feel like I am fun again."

"However far away, I will always love you. However long I stay, I will always love you. Whatever words I say, I will always love you. I will always love you."

"Good times for a change. See, the luck I've had can make a good man turn bad. So please, please, please, Let me, let me, let me Let me get what I want this time."

"I'm running out of time, I'm out of step and closing down. And never sleep for wanting hours, The empty hours of greed. And uselessly always the need To feel again the real belief Of something more than mockery. If only I could fill my heart with love."

"You're so gorgeous I'll do anything. I'll kiss you from your feet to where your head begins. You're so perfect, you're so right as rain. You make me, make me, make me, make me hungry again.Everything you do is irresistible. Everything you do is simply kissable. Why can't I be you? (Why can't I be you?)"

"You know I even think that she stared like you. She used to just stand there and stare. And roll her eyes right up to heaven, And make like I just wasn't there.And she used to fall down a lot. That girl was always falling, Again and again. And I used to sometimes try to catch her But I never even caught her name."

"Show me, show me, show me how you do that trick, The one that makes me scream", she said. "The one that makes me laugh," she said. And threw her arms around my neck. "Show me how you do it, and I promise you, I promise that I'll run away with you. I'll run away with you."

"You, soft and only. You, lost and lonely. You, strange as angels, Dancing in the deepest oceans, Twisting in the water. You're just like a dream. You're just like a dream."

"Say goodbye on a night like this If it's the last thing we ever do. You never looked as lost as this, Sometimes it doesn't even look like you. It goes dark; It goes darker still. Please stay. But I watch you like I'm made of stone As you walk away."

"I want to smash you to pieces I want to smash you up and screaming I want to smash you helpless Down on the floor Smash you until you're not here anymore."

"I've been looking so long at these pictures of you That I almost believe that they're real. I've been living so long with my pictures of you That I almost believe that the pictures are all I can feel.Remembering you standing quiet in the rain As I ran to your heart to be near. And we kissed as the sky fell in, holding you close, How I always held close in your fear."

"Oh, it's opening time down on Fascination Street, So let's cut the conversation and get out for a bit. Because I feel it all fading and paling, and I'm begging To drag you down with me to kick the last nail in."

"We slip through the streets while everyone sleeps Getting bigger and sleeker, and wider and brighter. We bite and scratch and scream all night. Let's go and throw all the songs we knowInto the sea, you and me All the years and no one heard I'll show you in spring, it's a treacherous thing We missed you hissed the love cats. We missed you hissed the love cats."

"I don't think I can love Anyone but you That's for sure... The upstairs room is cool and bright We can go up there in summer And dance all night."

"I don't care if Monday's black, Tuesday, Wednesday heart attack. Thursday never looking back, It's Friday, I'm in love."

"Oh, Elise it doesn't matter what you say, I just can't stay here every yesterday Like keep on acting out the same The way we act out. Every way to smile, forget And make-believe we never needed Any more than this, Any more than this."

"Yesterday I got so old, I felt like I could die. Yesterday I got so old, it made me want to cry. Go on, go on, just walk away. Go on, go on, your choice is made. Go on, go on and disappear. Go on, go on away from here.And I know I was wrong when I said it was true. That it couldn't be me and be her in between without you, Without you."

"I know I need hardly say How much I love your casual way. Oh, but please put your tongue away, A little higher and we're well away. The dark nights are drawing in And your humour is as black as them. I look at yours, you laugh at mine, And "love" is just a miserable lie."

"Ah, a jumped-up pantry boy Who never knew his place. He said, "Return the ring." He knows so much about these things. He knows so much about these things."

"Under the iron bridge we kissed. And although I ended up with sore lips, It just wasn't like the old days anymore. No, it wasn't like those days. Am I still ill? Ohh... Oh, am I still ill? Ohh...Does the body rule the mind? Or does the mind rule the body? I dunno..."

"But if I had your faith Then I could make it safe and clean. Oh, if only I was sure That my head on the door was a dream."

"I've waited hours for this. I've made myself so sick. I wish I'd stayed asleep today. I never thought this day would end. I never thought tonight could ever be This close to me."

""I think it's dark and it looks like it's rain," you said. "And the wind is blowing like it's the end of the world," you said. And it's so cold, it's like the cold if you were dead, And then you smiled for a second."

"A hundred other words blind me with your purity Like an old painted doll in the throes of dance. I think about tomorrow, please let me sleep As I slip down the window, freshly squashed fly."

"I chose an eternity of this, Like falling angels, the world disappeared. Laughing into the fire, is it always like this? Flesh and blood and the first kiss; The first colours, the first kiss."

"Let me take your hand I'm shaking like milk Turning Turning blue All over the windows and the floors Fires outside in the sky Look as perfect as cats The two of us together again But it's just the same A stupid game But I don't care if you don't And I don't feel if you don't And I don't want it if you don't And I won't say it If you don't say it first You think you're tired now But wait until three..."

"Park the car at the side of the road. You should know time's tide will smother you, And I will too.When you laugh about people who feel so very lonely, Their only desire is to die. Well, I'm afraid it doesn't make me smile. I wish I could laugh.But that joke isn't funny anymore. It's too close to home, And it's too near the bone."

"And if the day came when I felt a natural emotion I'd get such a shock I'd probably jump in the ocean."

"We walked around the lake And woke up in the rain And everyone turned over, Troubled in their dreams again.Visiting time is over, And so we walk away And both play dead then cry out loud: Why we always cry this way?"

"I would say I'm sorry If I thought that it would change your mind, But I know that this time I have said too much, been too unkind.I tried to laugh about it, Cover it all up with lies. I tried to laugh about it, Hiding the tears in my eyes 'Cause boys don't cry. Boys don't cry."

"Don't say what you mean, You might spoil your face. If you walk in the crowd, You won't leave any trace. It's always the same, You're jumping someone else's train."

"Burn down the disco, Hang the blessed DJ. Because the music that they constantly play, It says nothing to me about my life."

"The innocence of sleeping children. Dressed in white and slowly dreaming. Stops all time. I slow my steps and start to blur. So many years have filled my heart. I never thought I'd say those words.The further we go and older we grow, The more we know the less we show. The further we go and older we grow, The more we know the less we show."

"Stroking your hair as the patriots are shot Fighting for freedom on the television. Sharing the world with slaughtered pigs, Have we got everything?"

"I looked into her eyes tried to make her mine but then she said "I'm really not that into guys.""

"Your way I'm trying to understand these days I need to know if you're feeling it or I'm wasting my time"

"I see you there, still shy, but smilin' now I find it hard to remember all the times I've tried to forget her I am hangin' on to somethin' real"

"Why'd you waste all the time back and forth in my mind cleaning out, tell me now was it worth all the time? you're not here, with me dear can we go, through the years? take you there, every night"

"Don't let them take away all the games we played go on and take a bow, 'cause it's over now"

"Help me darling, now I'm feeling tired help me darling, now I'm feeling low"

"Close your eyes, close your eyes, Breathe the air, out there. We are free, we can be wide open.For you opened my eyes to the beauty I see. We will pray, we will stay wide open.Don't analyse, don't analyse. Don't go that way, don't live that way. That would paralyse your evolution."

"They had an accident, But they never noticed anyway. A lack of originality, Couldn't focus on the day. So much for the radio, Everybody sounds the same. Everybody wears the same clothes now, And everybody plays the game."

"We better think about the things we say. We better think about the games we play. The world went round, yeah, around and round.We better think about the consequences. We better think about the global census. If time went down, yeah, if time went down."

"You'd better believe I'm comin', You'd better believe what I say. You'd better hold on to your promises Because you bet, you'll get what you deserve. She's going to leave him over, She's gonna take her love away. So much for your eternal vows. Well, it does not matter anyway."

"Suddenly, something has happened to me As I was having my cup of tea. Suddenly, I was feeling depressed; I was utterly and totally stressed. Do you know you made me cry? (Woah-oh) Do you know you made me die?"

"There was a game we used to play: We would hit the town on Friday night, Stay in bed until Sunday. We used to be so free. We were livin' for the love we had, Livin' not for reality."

"The Irish alternative rock outfit broke musical boundaries for their cheery melodic and dreamy approach to rock songwriting. [...] The pop-like quality to The Cranberries otherwise melancholic songwriting — not to mention O’Riordan’s signature yodel vocal style — set them apart from many of the prominent rock acts at the time, and it’s certainly an aspect that’s kept the band’s music so admired for the last three decades."

"To all those people doing lines: Don't do it, don't do it. Inject your soul with liberty, It's free, it's free."