Alternative Rock Bands

"Are you such a dreamer To put the world to rights? I'll stay home forever Where two and two always makes a five."

"Oh, why don't you quiet down? (Maybe I want peace and honesty) Why don't you quiet down? (Maybe I want to live in the children's land And you know maybe, maybe I) Why don't you quiet down? (Maybe I'll wander the promised land I want peace and honesty) Why don't you quiet down? (I want to live in the promised land And maybe wander the children's land) Quiet down! (Yeah, and there, there we can free)"

"Maybe you'll be president, But know right from wrong. Or in the flood you'll build an ark And sail us to the moon."

"Yesterday's headlines Blown by the wind. Yesterday's people end up Scatterbrain there. Any fool can easy pick a hole I only wish I could fall in A moving target in a firing range."

"I keep the wolf from the door, but he calls me up. Calls me on the phone, tells me all the ways that he's gonna mess me up. Steal all my children if I don't pay the ransom And I'll never see them again if I squeal to the cops."

"Hey, it's me, I just got off the train A frightening place, the faces are concrete grey And I'm wondering, should I turn around? Buy another ticket?"

"Math Rock is a relation to post-rock, a better known indie-rock style that shares similar aesthetics. Where post-rock has distinct jazz influences, math rock is the opposite side of the same coin -- it's dense and complex, filled with difficult time signatures and intertwining phrases. Also, the style is a little more rockist than post-rock, since it's usually played by small, guitar-led bands. Math rock peaked in the mid-'90s, when groups like Polvo and Chavez had small, dedicated followings among indie rockers on collegiate campuses."

"You don't have to go home, but you can't stay here."

"Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end."

"It's a dirty job, but someone's gotta do it."

"The Replacements embraced cheesy rock as much as they embraced hardcore punk, they embraced sloppy noise as much as they embraced tear-jerking beauty."

"Rip out the table, We need room to move. In a life unstable, You're so easily amused. Anywhere you hang Yourself is home, Throw in a tape, fix the tone.Someone take the wheel And I don't know where we're going. Anybody say what you feel, Back home I guess it's still snowin'."

"In fall, you knew how much it cost. A trouble doll Around your neck when you lost. You wouldn't make a sound, But I could hear your little heart pound And I watched your feet slip off the ground.Merry go round in dreams, Writes 'em down, it seems. When she sleeps, she's free, Merry go round in dreams."

"Stop at a light that shine bright blue And where you've been is still in view. You stop at nothing at your first chance, Now it's nothing like when it began. When it began, When it began, When it began.Long ago, or yesterday, The queen sits quietly as the jester plays. She plays off with their heads and on with my pants. Oh and it was something, when it began. Oh when it began, When it began, When it began."

"Lights that flash in the evening Through a hole in the drapes. I'll be home when I'm sleeping, I can't hardly wait."

"I'm the boy they can't ignore, For the first time in my life, I'm sure. All the love sent up high to pledge Won't reach the ledge."

"And if it's just a game, Then I'll break down just in case. Hurry up, (hurry up) we're runnin' in our last race.Well, I laughed half the way to Tokyo, I dreamt I was Surfer Joe. And what that means, I don't know. A dream too tired to come true Left a rebel without a clue. And I'm searching for somethin' to do."

"Well, a person can work up a mean, mean thirst After a hard day of nothin' much at all. The summer's passed, it's too late to cut the grass, There ain't much to rake anyway in the fall. And sometimes I just ain't in the mood To take my place in back with the loudmouths. You're like a picture on the fridge that's never stocked with food. I used to live at home, now I stay at the house."

"God, what a mess, on the ladder of success Where you take one step and miss the whole first rung. Dreams unfulfilled, graduate unskilled, It beats pickin' cotton and waitin' to be forgotten.Wait on the sons of no one, bastards of young. Wait on the sons of no one, bastards of young. The daughters and the sons."

"Cerebral rape and pillage in a village of his choice, Invisible man who can sing in a visible voice. Feeling like a hundred bucks, exchanging good lucks face to face, Check-checkin' his stash by the trash at St. Mark's Place.And children by the million sing for Alex Chilton when he comes 'round, 'round. They sing, "I'm in love, what's that song? Well, I'm in love with that song.""

"Well she's kind of like an artist Sittin' on the floor... And she's kind of like a movie Everyone rushes to see And no one understands it... Well she dances alone in nightclubs Every other day of the week... She closes her mouth to speak and Closes her eyes to see"

"How young are you? How old am I? Let's count the rings around my eye. How smart are you? How dumb am I? Don't count any of my advice.Oh, meet me anyplace or anywhere or anytime. Now, I don't care, meet me tonight. If you will dare, I might dare."

"Here comes Dick, he's wearing a skirt. Here comes Jane, y'know she's sporting a chain. Same hair, revolution. Same build, evolution. Tomorrow who's gonna fuss?And they love each other so Androgynous. Closer than you know, love each other so Androgynous."

"If being wrong's a crime, I'm serving forever. If being strong's your kind, I need help here with this feather. If being afraid is a crime, we hang side by side At the swingin' party, down the line."

"Brag about things you don't understand, A girl and a woman, a boy and a man. Everything's sexually vague. Now you're wondering to yourself if you might be gay.Your age is the hardest age. Everything drags and drags. One day, baby, maybe help you through."

"[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."

"Stop me if you think that you've heard this one before, Nothing's changed. I still love you, oh, I still love you Only slightly, only slightly less Than I used to, my love."

"I started somethin. I forced you to a zone. And you were clearly Never meant to go. Hair brushed and parted. Typical me, typical me Typical me I started something ...And now I'm not too sure. I grabbed you by the gilded beams Uh, that's what tradition means."

"Girlfriend in a coma, I know I know - it's serious. Girlfriend in a coma, I know I know - it's really serious.There were times when I could Have "murdered" her (but you know, I would hate Anything to happen to her) No, I don't want to see her."

"Last night I dreamt That somebody loved me. No hope, no harm, Just another false alarm."

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

"I want to go home, I don't want to stay. Give up education As a bad mistake."

"Fame, fame, fatal fame It can play hideous tricks on the brain. But still I'd rather be famous Than righteous or holy, any day, any day, any day. But sometimes I'd feel more fulfilled Making Christmas cards with the mentally ill. I want to live and I want to love. I want to catch something that I might be ashamed of."

"And if a double-decker bus crashes into us, To die by your side is such a heavenly way to die. And if a ten-tonne truck kills the both of us, To die by your side, well, the pleasure, the privilege is mine."

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

"Is it wrong to want to live on your own? No, it's not wrong, but I must know How can someone so young sing words so sad?"

"It's so easy to laugh, it's so easy to hate. It takes strength to be gentle and kind Over, over, over, over."

"The boy with the thorn in his side, Behind the hatred there lies A murderous desire For love."

"Oh, but don't mention love. I'd hate the strain of the pain again.A rush and a push and the land that We stand on is ours. It has been before, So it shall be again. And people who are uglier than you and I, They take what they need and just leave."

"I don't care if Monday's blue, Tuesday's grey and Wednesday too. Thursday I don't care about you, It's Friday, I'm in love. Monday you can fall apart, Tuesday, Wednesday, break my heart. Oh, Thursday doesn't even start, It's Friday, I'm in love.Saturday, wait And Sunday always comes too late. But Friday, never hesitate."

"Every time we do this, I fall for her. Wave after wave after wave, it's all for her. "I know this can't be wrong", I say. (And I'll lie to keep her happy) As long as I know that you know That today I belong right here with you, Right here with you."

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

"But I never said I would stay to the end. So I leave you with babies and hoping for frequency, Screaming like this in the hope of the secrecy. Screaming me over and over and over. I leave you with photographs, pictures of trickery, Stains on the carpet and stains on the scenery. Songs about happiness murmured in dreams, When we both of us knew how the ending would be."

"And when I see you take the same sweet steps You used to take, I say, "I'll keep on holding you in my arms so tight. I'll never let you slip away.""

"I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour, But heaven knows I'm miserable now. I was looking for a job and then I found a job, And heaven knows I'm miserable now.In my life, why do I give valuable time To people who don't care if I live or die?"

"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."

"On the day that your mentality Decides to try to catch up with your biology, Come round.Cause I want the one I can't have. And it's driving me mad. It's all over, all over, all over my face."

"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."

"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."

"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."