post-punk

"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."

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

"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."

"Talking loud and clear, Saying just what we feel. Lying in the grass With the sun on our backs It doesn't really matter What we do or what we say With every little movement We give ourselves away."

"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."

"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?"

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

""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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"It's not worth anything more than this at all; I live as I choose or I will not live at all."

"I'm still remembering the day I gave my life away. I'm still remembering the time You said you'd be mine. Yesterday was cold and bare Because you were not there. Yesterday was cold, My story has been told."

"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."

"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?"

"It's the same old theme Since nineteen-sixteen..."

"There's no need to argue No need to argue anymore There's no need to argue anymore"

"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."

"Another mother's breakin' Heart is takin' over. When the violence causes silence, We must be mistaken."

"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."

"Lying in my bed again And I cry cause you're not here. Crying in my head again And I know that it's not clear. Put your hands, put your hands Inside my face and see that it's just you. But it's bad and it's mad And it's making me sad Because I can't be with you."

"Another head hangs lowly Child is slowly taken And the violence caused such silence Who are we mistaken? But you see, it's not me, it's not my family. In your head, in your head, they are fightin'. With their tanks and their bombs and their bombs and their guns, In your head, in your head, they are cryin'. In your head, in your head Zombie, zombie, zombie-ie-ie"

"And in the night I could be helpless, I could be lonely Sleeping without you.And in the day Everything's complex, There's nothing simple When I'm not around you."

"Oh, my life Is changing every day, In every possible way.And oh, my dreams, It's never quite as it seems, Never quite as it seems."

"I know I've felt like this before, But now I'm feeling it even more Because it came from you.Then I open up and see The person falling here is me: A different way to be."

"You're spinning me around, My feet are off the ground. I don't know where I stand. Do you have to hold my hand? You mystify me. You mystify me. You mystify me."

"If you, if you could return Don't let it burn, Don't let it fade. I'm sure I might be rude, But it's just your attitude. It's tearing me apart. It's ruining everything. And I swore, I swore I would be true. And honey, so did you. So why were you holding her hand? Is that the way we stand? Were you lying all the time? Was it just a game to you?But I'm in so deep. You know I'm such a fool for you. You've got me wrapped around your finger. Do you have to let it linger? Do you have to, do you have to, do you have to let it linger?"

"Unhappiness where's when I was young And we didn't give a damn Cause we were raised To see life as fun and take it if we can. My mother, my mother, She'd hold me. She'd hold me when I was out there. My father, my father, He liked me, well he liked me. Does anyone care?"

"Nothing or no one Will ever make me let you down. Kiss them for me, I may be delayed. Kiss them for me, if I am delayed."

"Computers focus you in on all the wrong things. You start to worry about minute pitching differences. When the band first started, they never knew about concert pitch... or tuning. No one had a tuner, it was okay, that's an E because it's the bottom string. We recorded Superstition with Stephen Hague because it was a perverse idea, he'd worked with New Order, the Pet Shop Boys... we should have been warned. Stephen's a computer fiend, and when you're working with computers, there's no need to stop. You can constantly readjust, rejig, you can move notes left and right. But somehow, computers don' t seem to belong in the recording studio and, if they are, they should be in the back somewhere. They should help you tap your creative energy, not be the creative energy. It certainly didn't work with us."

"There's an army on the dance floor It's a fashion with a gun, my love In a room without a door A kiss is not enough in.Love my way, it's a new road, I follow where my mind goes."

"So swallow all your tears, my love And put on your new face. You can never win or lose If you don't run the race."

"She lives in the place In the side of our lives Where nothing is Ever put straight. She turns herself round And she smiles and she says 'This is it' 'That's the end of the joke' And loses herself In her dreaming and sleep And her lovers walk Through in their coats.Pretty in pink, Isn't she? Pretty in pink, Isn't she?"

"Listen, to the weathermen They're not saying anything They're tripping flags for you This crazy face for you You don't have a point of view You don't have to say you do"

"Give me all your paper ma So I can get a train. They just wanna suck you in To being one of them. Tell her that I'm not in here, Tell her I'm a freak. Tell her that I fall about Every time I speak."

"I hope you get your invitation It is here for you Listen to the conversation Playing pretty tunes Sorry i can't wait for you I couldn't stand to stay... They're making up things That we've all heard before Like romance and engage and divorce You have to be crazy to stay in this place You just have to laugh at it all"

"It's sick the price of medicine Stand up, we'll put you on your feet again Open up your eyes just to check that you're asleep again President gas is president gas again"

"Hamburger Mary She's got a gun Nothing goes on all the time And she thinks it's fun"

"And with her step I move my feet. And with her hand I feel my skin. And with her need I find I'm saved. And with her dreams I'm laid.Until she comes again. The sun goes out and night comes in. The time goes 'round and day grows dim. Until she comes again."

"From where I stand, I've got a view Out of all the miles of you Where I wait I know what's true All about you"

"All of this I now regret Not a name that I might place Not at my parade Framed the faces I applaud All the same sad eyes Write the world between the lines"