«Valentine's Day is Over» (Billy Bragg)

Some day boy you'll reap what you've sown
You'll catch a cold and you'll be on your own
And you will see that what's wrong with me
Is wrong with everyone that
You want to play your little games on

Poetry and flowers pretty words and threats
You've gone to the dogs again and i'm not placing bets
On you coming home tonight anything but blind
If you take me for granted then you must expect to find
Surprise, surprise

Valentine's day is over, it's over
Valentine's day is over

If you want to talk about it well you know where the phone is
Don't come round reminding me again how brittle bone is
God didn't make you an angel the devil made you a man
That brutality and economy are related now i understand
When will you realise that as above so below there is no love

For the girl with the hour glass figure
Time runs out very fast
We used to want the same things but that's all in the past
And lately it seems that as it all gets tougher
Your ideal of justice just becomes rougher and rougher

Thank you for the things you bought me thank you for the card
Thank you for the things you taught me when you hit me hard
That love between two people must be based on understanding
Until that's true you'll find your things
All stacked out on the landing, surprise, surprise


Blue Valentines (Tom Waits)

She sends me blue valentines 
All the way from philadelphia 
To mark the anniversary 
Of someone that I used to be 
And it feels just like there's 
A warrant out for my arrest 
Got me checkin in my rearview mirror 
And Im always on the run 
That's why I changed my name 
And I didn't think you'd ever find me here 

To send me blue valentines 
Like half forgotten dreams 
Like a pebble in my shoe 
As I walk these streets 
And the ghost of your memory 
Is the thistle in the kiss 
And the burgler that can break a roses neck 
Its the tatooed broken promise 
That I hide beneath my sleeve 
And I see you every time I turn my back 

She sends me blue valentines 
Though I try to remain at large 
They're insisting that our love 
Must have a eulogy 
Why do I save all of this madness 
In the nightstand drawer 
There to haunt upon my shoulders 
Baby I know 
Id be luckier to walk around everywhere I go 
With a blind and broken heart 
That sleeps beneath my lapel 

She sends me my blue valentines 
To remind me of my cardinal sin 
I can never wash the guilt 
Or get these bloodstains off my handa 
And it takes a lot of whiskey 
To take this nightmares go away 
And I cut my bleedin heart out every nite 
And I die a little more on each st. valentines day 
Remember that I promised I would 
Write you... 
These blue valentines 
Blue valentines 
Blue valentines

I Will Survive (Cake)

At first I was afraid 
I was petrified 
I kept thinking 
I could never live without you by my side 
But then I spent so many nights 
Just thinking how you'd done me wrong 
And I grew strong 
I learned how to get along 
So now you're back 
From outer space 
I just walked in to find you here 
Without the look upon your face 
I should have changed my f-ing lock 
I would have made you leave your key 
If I'd have known for just one second 
You'd be back to bother me 

Oh now go, 
Walk out the door 
Just turn around now 
You're not welcome anymore 
Weren't you the one who tried to break me with desire 
Did you think I'd crumble 
Did you think I'd lay down and die 
Oh no, not I 
I will survive 
As long as I know how to love I know I'll be alive 
I've got all my life to live 
I've got all my love to give 
I will survive 
I will survive 
Yeah, yeah 

It took all the strength I had 
Just not to fall apart 
I'm trying hard to mend the pieces 
Of my broken heart 
And I spent oh so many nights 
Just feeling sorry for myself 
I used to cry 
But now I hold my head up high 
And you see me 
With somebody new 
I'm not that stupid little person still in love with you 
And so you thought you'd just drop by 
And you expect me to be free 
But now I'm saving all my loving 
For someone who's loving me 

Oh now go, 
Walk out the door 
Just turn around now 
You're not welcome anymore 
Weren't you the one who tried to break me with desire 
Did you think I'd crumble 
Did you think I'd lay down and die 
Oh no, not I 
I will survive 
As long as I know how to love I know I'll be alive 
I've got all my live to live 
I've got all my love to give 
I will survive 
I will survive 
Yeah, yeah


Back to Black (Amy Winehouse)

He left no time to regret
Kept his dick wet
With his same old safe bet
Me and my head high
And my tears dry
Get on without my guy
You went back to what you knew
So far removed from all that we went through
And I tread a troubled track
My odds are stacked
I'll go back to black

We only said good-bye with words
I died a hundred times
You go back to her
And I go back to.....

I go back to us

I love you much
It's not enough
You love blow and I love puff
And life is like a pipe
And I'm a tiny penny rolling up the walls inside


We only said goodbye with words
I died a hundred times
You go back to her
And I go back to

Black, black, black, black, black, black, black,
I go back to
I go back to

We only said good-bye with words
I died a hundred times
You go back to her
And I go back to

We only said good-bye with words
I died a hundred times
You go back to her
And I go back to black


I Just Don't Think I Can Get Over You (Colin Hay)

I drink good coffee every morning
Comes from a place that's far away
And when I'm done I feel like talking
Without you here there is less to say
I don't want you thinking I'm unhappy
What is closer to the truth
That if I lived till I was 102
I just don't think I'll ever get over you
I'm no longer moved to drink strong whisky
'Cause I shook the hand of time and I knew
That if I lived till I could no longer climb my stairs
I just don't think I'll ever get over you
Your face it dances and it haunts me
Your laughter's still ringing in my ears
I still find pieces of your presence here
Even after all these years
But I don't want you thinking I don't get asked to dinner
'Cause I'm here to say that I sometimes do
Even though I may soon feel the touch of love
I just don't think I'll ever get over you
If I lived till I was 102
I just don't think I'll ever get over you



What were the chances? (Damien Jurado)

When I left you alone to fight your battles 
Of long winters in motels, what went through your mind?
How is it that you made it? How is it that you noticed?
It wasn't me who was looking at you 
Through foggy glass or windows... it was them

I was out in Coolidge with my head on a counter
Drinking down my chances to ever return to anyone
No I wasn't faking it the hurt I felt was real 
And all that was holy just slowly disappeared 
Or just appeared in parking lots of truck stops
The lights all blinking and now all I'm thinking is
"How the hell did I get here?"

Does your husband know I call you sweetheart?
Does he know that I call you at all?
It's not like you're cheating we're only meeting 
In hotels and not your home
(It's not like we're cheating
We're only meeting in hotels and not your home)

Would you change your last name to mine?
(Would you change your last name to mine?)

I think your kids will mind

I was in the desert waving planes and burning phonebooks 
To a tune that was famous the year I was born
Do not leave me dancing alone
(Do not leave me dancing alone, pick up the phone and call me lover)
Pick up the phone
And call me lover 
Say, "Come and get me, I am home"

Please pick up the phone
Please pick up the phone


This mess we are in (Tom Yorke & P.J. Harvey)

( Thom Yorke )
Can you hear them
The helicopters
I'm in New York
No need for words now
We sit in silence
You look me
In the eye directly
You met me
I think it's Wednesday
The evening
The mess we're in
And ooooh...

( PJ Harvey )
The city sunset over me
The city sunset over me

( Thom Yorke )
Night and day
I dream of
Making love
To you now baby
Love making
On screen
Impossible dream
And I have seen
The sunrise over the river
The freeway
Reminding of
This mess we're in
And ooooh...

( PJ Harvey )
The city sunset over me
The city sunset over me

( PJ Harvey )
The city sunset over me
The city sunset over me

( PJ talking / Thom singing...together )
What were you wanting / What was that you wanted
I just wanna say
Don't ever change now baby
I'd thank you
I don't think we will meet again
And you must leave now
Before the sun rises
Over the skyscrapers
And the city landscape comes into view
Sweat on my skin
Oh
This mess we're in
Ooooh...

( PJ Harvey )
The city sunset over me
The city sunset over me
The city sunset over me
The city sunset over me

I lost you but I found country music (Ballboy)

I lost you but i found country music
I found country music to hold me and soothe me
The way you used to do.
And i miss you but luckily there’s music
Luckily there’s music, to get me through
And i think of you everyday of my life
And everyday i miss you, and wander and guess
What you are listening to
And everyday i miss you, and wander and guess
What you are listening to
What you are listening to
What you are listening to

The Sorrowful Wife (Nick Cave)

I married my wife on the day of the eclipse
Our friends awarded her courage with gifts
Now as the nights grow longer and the season shifts
I look to my sorrowful wife
Who is quietly tending her flowers
Who is quietly tending her .....
The water is high on the beckoning river
I made her a promise I could not deliver
And the cry of the birds sends a terrible shiver
Through me and my sorrowful wife
Who is shifting the furniture around
Who is shifting the furniture around
Now we sit beneath the knotted Yew
And the bluebells bob around our shoes
The task of remembering the telltale clues
Goes to my lovely, my sorrowful wife
Who is counting the days on her fingers
Who is counting the days on her .....
Come on and help me babe
Come on now
Help me babeI was blind
The grass here grows long and high
Twists right up to the sky
White clouds roll on by
Come on now and help me babe
I was blindI was a fool babeI was blind
Come on now
A loose wind last night blew down
Black trees bent to the ground
Their blossoms made such a sound
That I could not hear myself think babe
Come on now
And help me babe
Help me now
I was blind
I was a fool


It's cool we can still be friends (Bright Eyes)

Yeah, you still kiss me, but it's just on the cheek
Yeah, you still kiss me, but it's just on the cheek
Yeah, you still kiss me sometimes, but it's just on the cheek
You pull away so easily

And I still call you, but I get your machine
And I still call you, but I get your machine
And if I'm lucky I guess, I get your roommate answering
But you're at the bar, or at Gene's

And we go to dinner, but you won't hold my hand
We sit at the same table, but we don't play with our feet
Yeah, we still go to dinner sometimes, but we don't sneak a kiss
When the waitress turns around

And we still watch movies, but we don't share the couch
And we still rent movies, but we don't share the couch
Yeah, we still watch movies sometimes, but you don't lay in my lap
The plot is slow, take a nap

And you even stay over, but now we stay in our clothes
Yeah, you'll even sleep over, but now we stay in our clothes
Yeah, you even sleep over sometimes, but we stay in our clothes
I'm only there so that you're not alone

And you say that I hurt you, in a voice like a prayer
Yeah, you say that I've hurt you, and your voice is like a prayer
Yeah, well maybe I hurt you sometimes, but let's contrast and compare
Lift up your shirt, the wound isn't there

I guess that your truth, is just the ghost of your lies
I guess your kind of truth, is just the ghost of your lies
Yeah, your kind of truth, darling, is just the ghost of your lies
I see through them all the time
So I'm pouring some whiskey, I'm gonna get drunk
Yeah, I'm pouring myself some whiskey, I'm going to get really fucking drunk
I'm pouring some whiskey right now, I'm going to get so, so drunk
That I pass out, forget your face, by the time I wake up.

All My Little Words (Magnetic Fields)

You are a splendid butterfly
It is your wings that make you beautiful
And I could make you fly away
But I could never make you stay
You said you were in love with me
Both of us know that that's impossible
And I could make you rue the day
But I could never make you stay

Not for all the tea in China
Not if I could sing like a bird
Not for all North Carolina
Not for all my little words
Not if I could write for you
The sweetest song you ever heard
It doesn't matter what I'll do
Not for all my little words

Now that you've made me want to die
You tell me that you're unboyfriendable
And I could make you pay and pay
But I could never make you stay

And No More Shall We Part (Nick Cave)

And no more shall we part
It will no longer be necessary
And no more will I say, dear heart
I am alone and she has left me

And no more shall we part
The contracts are drawn up, the ring is locked upon the finger
And never again will my letters start
Sadly, or in the depths of winter

And no more shall we part
All the hatchets have been buried now
And all of birds will sing to your 
beautiful heart
Upon the bough

And no more shall we part
Your chain of command has been silenced now
And all of those birds would've sung to your beautiful heart
Anyhow

Lord, stay by me
Don't go down
I will never be free
If I'm not free now

Lord, stay by me
Don't go down
I never was free
What are you talking about?

For no more shall we part
And no more shall we part 


Breakin' Up (Rilo Kiley)

It's not as if New York City
Burnt down to the ground once you drove away
It's not as if the sun won't shine
When clouds up above wash the blues away

Are we breaking up? Are we breaking up?
Is there trouble between you and I?
Did my heart break enough?
Did it break enough this time?

Here's to all the pretty words
We will never speak
Here's to all the pretty girls
You're gonna meet

Am I breaking up? Am I breaking up?...

Ooh it feels good to be free...

Betrayal is a thorny crown
You wear it well just like a king
Revenge is the saddest thing
Honey, I'm afraid to say you deserve everything

Am I breaking up? Are we breaking up?....

Ooh it feels good to be free...



Reno, Dakota (Magnetic Fields)

Reno Dakota there's not an iota of kindness in you 
You know you enthrall me and yet you don't call me 
It's making me blue, Pantone 292
Reno Dakota I'm reaching my quota of tears for the year
Alas and alack you just don't call me back You have just disappeared
It makes me drink beer
I know you're a recluse, You know that's no excuse. Reno, that's just a ruse
Do not play fast and loose with my heart
Reno Dakota I'm no Nino Rota I don't know the score
Have I annoyed you or is there a boy who Well he's just a whore
I've had him before 
It makes me drink more


I don't have time...(Ballboy)

I don't have time to stand here with you
Fighting about the size of my dick
I've got a meeting to get to
And a gun to pick up first

And i don't have time to stand in the rain
Fighting about all the same things again
If i don't leave now
Then i'll be too late to ever get back

And in 24 hours i've lived a hundred lives
I've shot one man dead and watched another two die
And it's touch and go if i should run or hide
And it's touch and go if i can live through the night

Well i've got the money and i've got the truck
But it's too close to call whether i've got the luck
But i'm too far in to even dream of getting back out

And i wish all the fighting
Had taken less time
I could have been in and out
We could have laughed through the night
But sometimes days can be seconds
And seconds can be your whole life

And in 24 hours i've lived a hundred lives
I've shot one man dead and watched another two die
And it's my turn now and i'm not surprised
I never thought that i would live through the night

It's not the bullet that causes the pain
It's the hole that it leaves when it comes out again
And the blood in the sunshine
Disappears just like the rain

And i'm dying for breathing
I'm blind in one eye
But here's what i choose
To take me into the night

You beautiful and drunk and singing softly to yourself
You beautiful and drunk and singing softly to yourself


Calling and not calling my ex (Okkervil River)

She was once mine
That smile that shines from the glossy magazine that's stuck inside the Sunday times
She was so sweet
On Christmas eve
With the snow set deep when we went walking through the pines
I had just been fired and her first offer had arrived
And the new year would see her flying far away from me
Though I didn't know it a the time

With out-stretched hands
Now she commands a famous figure
For every picture
And she stands up strong and she demands
And they deliver
Yeah she's a fixture
And it's mixture of dumb jealously and fear that I might feel
Should she appear
Just like it hasn't been three years
And there's distance to her voice over the phone
And that's because she stands alone
While I'm still sitting here

Girl you see me here on another quite night
I will wait until another indistinguishable day arrives
I'll sigh when the light is even and bright
Where my life is sweet while it's slightly disappointingly just gliding softly by
Girl you won't wait for me
In some secluded stand of trees
Some Christmas eve some god was kind enough to set aside
Although I love you too, I'm proud of you
God knows I'm feeling really stupid now
For ever having said "goodbye"

During the fight
I said yeah right
When insisted that I'd visit
That you'd write
Now I know you're working hard so I never hear from you
And that's fine
You look the same on TV as when you where mine

I walk in from the kitchen and I finger the remote control
I watch you from the distance you go walking through the terminal
I remember every instance when you stunned me
Well you're so lovely yeah you're so smart

So go turn their heads
Go knock them dead
Go break their hearts

Go break their hearts
Baby break their hearts
And I know you will


Doesn't it remind you of something? (Ken Stringfellow)

Doesn't it remind you of something
The way my hand was struck by your face
The way that all time keep coming back in my watch
The more I tried keeping it coming my way

Doesn't it remind you of something
When my cheeck was bruised by your kiss
The way the sunlight came down from the sky
And stare at my eyes though I tried to resist.

I was bored with the things life have showed me
Till that damn dog sniffed at my bed
It was six long years in a whole, in the water
They talked how life it just don't miss that bad

I still cry when I listen to church bells
(they have that effect)
I thought they're ringing might drive me insane
(that one too)
I cursed your last breath
And I begged for yor death
(so I heard)
It worked a little too well,
I guess that's what they call it praying.

Doesn't it remind you of something
The way my face beats up your dreams
The way that my smoke still hangs around this whole world
The way your eyes light up when you're caught in my beans?

Oh, baby I tried so hard to miss you
(keep trying)
I even photographed myself crying.
I doctored those years with more medicinal tears,
The kind that you should've known to start prescribing.

I was driving to Stone Lake 115,
To Arizona, Nevada...
Who cares?
(how was Nevada?)
Down in that ditch I was in pale on the wheel
It was so peaceful
When that time brought down the stars.

Doesn't it remind you of something
The way my socks still hangs on that crack
The way that those credit cards keep coming by mail
If they offered me someone to pay it all back?

Doesn't it remind you of something
The way my face still beats up your dreams
The way that my smoke still hangs around this whole world
The way your eyes light up when you're caught in my beans?


I just don't know what to do with myself (White Stripes)

I just don't know what to do with myself
I don't know what to do with myself

Planning everything for two
Doing everything with you
And now that we're through
I just don't know what to do

I just don't know what to do with myself
I don't know what to do with myself

Movies only make me sad
Parties make me feel as bad
'Cause I'm not with you
I just don't know what to do

Like a summer rose
Needs the sun and rain
I need your sweet love
To beat love away

Well, I don't know what to do with myself
Just don't know what to do with myself

Planning everything for two
Doing everything with you
And now that we're through
I just don't know what to do

Like a summer rose
Needs the sun and rain
I need your sweet love
To beat love away

I just don't know what to do with myself
Just don't know what to do with myself
Just don't know what to do with myself
I don't know what to do with myself


Kiss Off (Violent Femmes)

I need someone a person to talk to
Someone who'd care to love
Could it be you could it be you
Situation gets rough then I start to panic
It's not enough it's just a habit
Hey kid your sick well darling this is it
You can all just kiss off into the air
Behind my back I can see them stare
They'll hurt me bad but I won't mind
They'll hurt me bad they do it all the time
Yeah yeah they do it all the time
Yeah yeah they do it all the time
Yeah yeah they do it all the time
Yeah yeah they do it all the time
I hope you know this will go down
On your permanent record
Oh yeah well don't get so distressed
Did I happen to mention that I'm impressed
I take one one one cause you left me and
Two two two for my family and
3 3 3 for my heartache and
4 4 4 for my headaches and
5 5 5 for my lonely and
6 6 6 for my sorrow and
7 7 for no tomorrow and
8 8 I forget what 8 was for and
9 9 9 for a lost god and
10 10 10 10 for everything everything everything everything
You can all just kiss off into the air
Behind my back I can see them stare
They'll hurt me bad but I won't mind
They'll hurt me bad they do it all the time
Yeah yeah,yeah they do it all the time
Yeah yeah,yeah they do it all the time
Do it all the time
Do it all the time
Do it all the time time time
Yeah yeah they do it all the time