Rites of Spring - For Want Of Rites of Spring Dischord Records 1985
I? I believed? memory might mirror no reflections on me, I? I believed? that in forgetting I might set myself free. But I woke up this morning with a piece of past caught in my throat? And then I choked. I bled? I tried to hide the heart from the head. And I? I said I bled? In the arms of a girl I'd barely met. And I woke up this morning with the present in splinters on the ground? And then I drowned. And if I can't see it's for want of? you You said, "I see" If there's nothing here then it's probably mine My? My turn to see? if there's nothing here it will always be mine, mine But I woke up this morning with a piece of past caught in my throat? And then I choked. I? I guess I've learned the taste of days that will always burn. I? I guess I've learned if it's in the corner of my eye I can't always turn. And I woke up this morning with the present in splinters on the ground? and then I drowned. And if I can't see it's for want of? you You.
Drive Like Jehu - Spikes to You
Drive Like Jehu
Cargo Music & Headhunter Records
1991
'A' frames, statuettes, sunset magazine
They're lining up to do their jobs but I swear to god I seen:
Bits and guts and pieces hanging from the trees
Stumpy mow the lawn, c'mon, ya gotta bare piece a' ground
Put a sofa on your concrete slab
Gonna lay your body down, down
Your kids are fucking in your garbage
They're waiting for your job
Got the mouths around your paycheck
Got joysticks for your saws
At The Drive-In - Napoleon Solo
In / Casino / Out
Fearless Records
1998
Cut and paste
Were you sitting down
On the beaded impotence of New Orleans
A hint of suspense when that telephone rings
This is forever
It paved a wave of distance
Between the syntax error
From Austin's yellow brick road
This is forever
From this Texas breath exhaled
No sign of relief
Cause this you know, this you know
This is forever
March 23rd hushed the wind, the music died
If you can't get the best of us now
It's cause this is forever
March 23rd hushed the wind, the music died
If you can't get the best of us now
It's cause this is forever
Makes no difference
Your alphabet is missing letters
Seventeen, embalmed and caskets
Lowered into the weather
A drizzle, brisk and profound
From this Texas breath exhaled
Their relief
This is forever
March 23rd hushed the wind, the music died
If you can't get the best of us now
It's cause this is forever
March 23rd hushed the wind, the music died
If you can't get the best of us now
It's cause this is forever
Strum this broken harp
We were struck by the chords
Set from their hearts
Yes this is forever
This is forever
Cut and paste
Were you sitting down
On the beaded impotence of new orleans
A hint of suspense when that telephone rings
This is forever
This is forever
This is forever
Makes no
Makes no
Makes no
Seventeen, embalmed and caskets
Lowered into the weather
A drizzle, brisk and profound
From this Texas breath exhaled
Strum this broken harp
We were struck by the chords
To your heart
This is forever
This is because
This is forever
This is forever
It is because
This is forever
But you can't get the best of us now
Can - Paperhouse
Tago Mago
United Artists Records
1971
Take a light shining on
The land off the wall
Up and down, think of anything
What you feel is all gone
You can make everything
What you want with your head
You're OK and be aware
Everywhere with your mind
Two times, goodbye love
You're sorting out your room
Too many savage songs
Laugh at him today
Playing everything
You and your mind
The flying paperhouse
Way back on the sky
You just can't give back no more, you just can't give back no more
You just can't give back no more, you just can't give back no more
You just can't give back no more, you just can't give back no more
You just can't give back no more, you just can't give back no more
You just can't give back no more, you just can't give back no more
You just can't give back no more, you just can't give back no more
You just can't give back no more, you just can't give back no more
You just can't give back no more, you just can't give back no more
You just can't give back no more, you just can't give back no more
You just can't give back no more, you just can't give back no more
You just can't give back no more, you just can't give back no more
You just can't give back no more, you just can't give back no more
You just can't give back no more, you just can't give back no more
You just can't give back no more
And you don't think anything
Makes you feel so bad
You can make everything
What you want with your head
And you don't think anything
Makes you feel so great
You can make everything
What you want with your head
Flying paperhouse
Comes down from the sky
Every day my paperhouse
Reaches out, comes in
Every day my paperhouse
Coming in, reaching out
Every day my paperhouse
Coming in, reaching out
Quicksand - Head to Wall
Slip
Polydor Records
1993
Relax in time
From the pain you've been
I don't know anything
But I can read what's on your face
Just one moment
Just one more to struggle
We all want everything
But we all can't fit in the door
Seven tries
Head to wall
Hurts your head
Sort of trust
That you'll get
What you paid for soon
Seven tries
Head to wall
Just to get cut
And it's only time
It's what you make it
I don't know what it brings
Hope for the good, hope from despair
A second, just one moment
Just one more to trust
Some time you'll get to see
You where you want to be
Seven tries
Head to wall
Hurts your head
Sort of trust
That you'll get
What you paid for soon
Seven tries
Head to wall
Just to get cut
It's what you break down
It's just a second
A thrown in towel is the first thing
Can't tell if it's the time that your gonna throw
Push through or you'll never get
To see what you gave up
Passed on
Dead Kennedys - Goons of Hazzard
Frankenchrist
Alternative Tentacles
1985
Happy hour belongs to America's best-loved thugs
Here come the four-wheel drive prosthetic penises
Got your gun racks, tractor tires and lynch mob drivers
We couldn't find a chick to sit in the middle
So we drink ourselves sick, lean out the windows and pinch ass instead
We are the goons of Hazzard
Glorified on your TV
We run down bikes and hitchhikers
And we know we'll get off scot-free
We're the vigilante heroes of your tough guy flicks
Bashing punks and bums and fags with our baseball bats
No deer to blow away in the woods today
So we go to Oroville and shoot a black kid down
Or waste demonstrators in Greensboro instead
We are the goons of Hazzard
Glorified on your TV
We'll leave you in a pool of blood
'Cause we know we'll get off scot-free
Let's get him!
C'mere!
C'mere!
Say something to me?
We've got him cornered
We've got him cornered
Is anybody looking?
Does anybody even care?
No!
The local papers paint us up to be big heroes
City fathers and chamber of commerce want us deputized
Stoner gestapo keeping your town clean
Get a shave kid, we'll pay you as a strikebreaker
Maybe you'll be make Tac Squad for the L.A.P.D.
We are the goons of Hazzard
Glorified on your TV
We'll leave you in a pool of blood
'Cause we know we'll get off scot-free
Free...
Scot-free
Scot-free
We'll get off...
We'll get off...
We'll get off scot-free
Muse - Hysteria
Absolution
2003
Taste Media
It's bugging me
Grating me
And twisting me around
Yeah, I'm endlessly
Caving in
And turning inside out
'Cause I want it now
I want it now
Give me your heart and your soul
And I'm breaking out
I'm breaking out
Last chance to lose control
And it's holding me
Morphing me
And forcing me to strive
To be endlessly
Cold within
And dreaming I'm alive
'Cause I want it now
I want it now
Give me your heart and your soul
I'm not breaking down
I'm breaking out
Last chance to lose control
And I want you now
I want you now
I feel my heart implode
And I'm breaking out
Escaping now
Feeling my faith erode