favorite songs, favorite lines

no shapes sail on the dark deep lakes 

& no flags wave me home 

in the caves, all cats are gray 

in the caves, the textures coat my skin.

(all cats are grey - the cure)

i'm in love with how you feel.

(anyone else but you - the moldy peaches)

why in the night sky are the lights hung ?

why is the earth moving 'round the sun ?

why is life made only for to end ?

why do i do all this waiting then ?

why this frightened part of me that's fated to pretend ?

(blue spotted tail - fleet foxes)

said the pillow to the head

"please gain control, we're soakin' wet

i'm losin' my color, you're losin' respect:

you're makin' a mess."

(butter for burns - the devil whale)

cruel professor, studying romances.

how am i supposed to pretend 

i never want to see you again ?

(campus - vampire weekend)

it's just a cigarette, & it harms your pretty lungs.

(the cigarette duet - princess chelsea)

but i wished you'd reappear

it seems our brains can't articulate but

please come to here

(come to here - bat manors)

you said you would always love me,

but begged me not to tell your kids.

dad forbade me to bring him home for christmas.

(the cruise - bat manors)

I wish the tide would take me over

I've been down on my knees

(crystalised - the xx)

come on down from that tree, little daniel

come on down, the winds are getting cold.

(daniel - joshua james)

will i wake up from this dark, dark daydream 

nothing can wake me from myself. 

(dark tower - miniature tigers)

it's been three months & the tv is snowing,

the radio and phone's dead too

and you're growing increasingly quiet,

sometimes i get concerned

that of all of the people to watch the apocalypse with,

it's not me you'd prefer.

(defcon 5 - book on tapeworm)

he said i am the devil boy,

come with me and we'll make many storms.

he offered me eternal life,

but inside my heart there's a picture of a girl;

i'll taste the devils tears, drink from his soul but ill never give up you.

(the devil's tears - angus & julia stone)

don't ever lose your innocence

don't you lose that heart

don't you lose your confidence

oh but most of all,

don't lose your love.

(don't lose your love - ivan & alyosha)

in every life we have some trouble

but when you worry, you make it double

so don't worry, be happy.

(don't worry be happy - bob marley)

with eyes so dialated i become your pupil,

i don't care what you think unless it is about me. 

(drain you - nirvana)

i wrestled by the sea

a loneliness in me

i asked myself for peace

and found it at my feet

people lie, people love, people go,

but beauty lies in every soul.

i asked myself for peace,

& found a piece of me.

(a dream of you and me - future islands)

come on, sleepyhead,

get yourself to bed.

you are loved, you are loved, you are loved.

(emmylou - vance joy)

your face is up against mine

& i'm too terrified to speak.

(epilogue - the antlers)

i want your flowers like

babies want God's love.

(fever dream - iron & wine)

did you get enough love, my little dove,

why do you cry ?

& i'm sorry i left, but it was for the best

though it never felt right;

my little versailles.

(fourth of july - sufjan stevens)

now if you find yourself falling apart,

well i'm sure i could steer.

(the great salt lake - band of horses)

you know those days when you just want to

choose to not get out of bed,

you're lost in your head again.

(helena beat - foster the people)

caught in the riptide,

i was searching for the truth,

there was a reason

i collided into you.

(here with me - susie suh)

well, i fell in love with the world in you.

(hold my hand as i'm lowered - noah & the whale)

hot venom is mixin' with my blood,

i can feel it on my fingers & taste it on her tongue.

(hot venom - miniature tigers)

i carried a bag of rock and stone full of memory

of our family

its not enough,

it's not enough to know you through them.

(the house that jack built - jesca hoop)

i know places we can go, babe.

where the highs won't bring you down, babe.

no, the highs won't hurt you there, babe.

(i know places - lykke li)

remember when you lost your sh*t and

drove the car into the garden ?

you got out and said 'i'm sorry'

to the vines & no one saw it.

(i need my girl - the national)

i wanna care for you when you are all alone,

sit inside our house and unplug all our phones,

watchin' raindrops stream down on our windowsill:

let's be in love.

(i saw lightning - telekinesis)

my burden is the weight of a feather;

(impossible soul (pt. 4) - sufjan stevens)

well your wartime is funny,

your guns don't bother me.

i said we're out to prove the truth of

the man from galilei.

(janglin' - edward sharpe & the magnetic zeros) 

through crooked lines, the morning light 

faded pictures in my mind:

not scared of death. 

(julius - strfkr)

i bit my tongue in the arc of conversation. 

i met you once, and i'd fallen for your notions;

i don't know why, i don't know why. 

one kiss from you & i'm drunk up on your potion,

that big ol' smile is all you are. 

(just a boy - angus & julia stone)

i dreamed of all the different ways i had 

to make you glow. 

you,

strange as angels,

dancing in the deepest oceans, twisting in the water

you're just like a dream. 

i found myself alone, alone 

alone above the raging sea

that stole the only girl i loved,

& drowned her deep inside of me. 

(just like heaven - the cure) 

you made me sleep all uneven

& i didn't believe them 

when they told me there was no

saving you. 

(kettering- the antlers)

no one laughs at God on a day they realize

that the last sight they'll ever see is a pair of hateful eyes. 

(laughing with - regina spektor)

where the mountains are cold, 

& the rain drops its tears, i'm told. 

so i moved myself out, & pictured a better home 

with a lawn full of marigolds, i guess. 

i headed back east, started thinking my hope away.

depression was the one to stay since then. 

now i take pills to push it from my head. 

(lawn full of marigolds - joshua james)

tell me where you're goin' 

what is goin' wrong,

i felt you leavin', before you'd even gone. 

see the moonlight shinin' 

on your windowpane,

see it leave you,

as faithful as it came. 

(the lengths - the black keys)

think less but see it grow

like a riot, like a riot. 

(lisztomania - phoenix)

she stands on the ledge,

she says, 'it looks so high'

you know, it's a long way down. 

such a long way down,

so honey don't leave, don't leave,

please don't leave me now. 

(long way down - tom odell)

we can't help but hurt the ones we care for. 

(lowly - bat manors)

there ain't a language for the things i've seen,

the truth is a stranger to my own worst dreams. 

(meet me in the woods - lord huron)

your honesty was killing me,

the monsters in the room were all dancing 

to the music all around us. 

(montana - youth lagoon)

oh, i hold my soul

from the lands unknown 

so i can play the strings of your death. 

(my body's a zombie for you - dead man's bones)

i'm slowly drifting to you,

this star is a planet i culinate. 

(my tears are becoming a sea - m83)

well it's been a long time, long time now,

since i've seen you smile;

i'll gamble away my fright, 

and i'll gamble away my time. 

(nantes - beirut)

& anything to make you smile,

is a better side of you to admire. 

(no one's gonna love you - band of horses)

there's blood on that blade,

f*** me, i'm falling apart;

(no shade in the shadow of the cross - sufjan stevens)

playgrounds are graveyards 

& all of our scars are permanent. 

(nothing & nowhere - emily haines & the soft skeleton)

hey, little train we're all jumping on !

the train that goes to the Kingdom;

we're happy, mom, we're having fun:

and the train ain't even left the station. 

(o children - nick cave & the bad seeds)

when you're in my arms,

but you've gone somewhere deeper. 

(oblivion - bastille)

i was forgotten in my chains,

but there was something greater runnin' through 

my veins. 

(oh joe - flannel graph)

the end is not as fun as the start,

please stay a child somewhere in your heart. 

(original of the species - u2)

if you wake to the northern lights

i know you will linger

stones from the skyline,

your jagged spine,

i trace with my finger

latent friend,

with rest came new light,

but still you fear

it's cyclical 

(otter friend - bat manors)

facing tempests of dust;

creatures of my dreams, raise up 

& dance with me !

(outro - m83)

so we just skirt the hallway sides. 

(phantom limb - the shins)

the pretty pictures in the magazines are sick,

they make you feel like sh*t;

the bodies that they fit,

are half a serving' hips. 

(pitchfork - joshua james)

you've got the salt & i've got the wound,

but all you've gotta do is ask. 

(please ask for help - telekinesis)

i was up all night,

thinking of twenty-one-two. 

(reptilians - strfkr)

'till the image sinks away

to someplace far but certain,

a land of mute suspension,

where someday we must go. 

(requiem on water - imperial mammoth)

i wish i had a river so long,

i could teach my feet to fly. 

(river (joni mithell cover) - angus stone)

nothing is as it has been,

& i miss your face like hell. 

(rivers and roads - the head & the heart)

once when our mother called,

she had a voice of last year's cough. 

(romulus - sufjan stevens)

bones, blood & teeth erode,

but they will be crashing low. 

(rosyln - bon iver & st. vincent)

i don't wanna die, i just wanna not exist. 

(ruined life - bat manors)

you've got to cry without weepin',

talk without speakin',

scream without raisin' your voice:

maybe, run from the darkness in the night. 

she will

suffer the needle chill,

she's runnin' to stand 

still. 

(running to stand still - u2)

your hands, they move like waves

over me,

beneath the moon tonight, we're the sea. 

(the sea & the rhythm - iron & wine)

& you tapped your foot so rapidly,

it's morse code 

for me to leave. 

(shadow puppets - book on tapeworm)

love: it will not betray, dismay or enslave you,

it will set you free. 

(sigh no more - mumford & sons)

& this damn room it gets so,

small sometimes. 

(silver coin - angus & julia stone)

the sea said goodbye to the shore,

so the sun wouldn't notice. 

the books that i keep by my bed

are full of your stories,

that i dreamed up from a little dream of mine 

a little nightmare of yours. 

i met a man today, 

& he smiled back at me;

now there are thoughts like these

that keep me on my feet. 

(sloom - of monsters & men)

i think i know what's on your mind,

a couple words, a great divide. 

(slow life - grizzly bear)

& the animals i've trapped

have all become my pets,

and i'm living off of grass and the

drippings from the ceiling. 

(something in the way - nirvana)

i know you tried,

i know you're cursed,

i know your best was still your worst.

i'm dreaming of car wrecks and 

thunderstorms so bright;

let's bury ourselves,

& go haunt someone tonight. 

(st. augustine - band of horses) 

skippin' town, let's get out & see what we find. 

(the stars keep on calling my name - mac demarco)

i watched every inch of film flash across your roman features. 

poetry is not a luxury, it's now i break this home. 

(the start of something - voxtrot)

but by the time the first bombs fell,

we were already bored. 

so, can you understand ?

why i want a daughter while i'm still young,

i wanna hold her hand & 

show her some beauty before

this damage is done. 

(the suburbs - arcade fire)

a violent wrench grips mass, rips light, 

tears limbs like rags. 

(taro - alt-j)

you'll be drenched to the bone;

if your time to you is worth savin',

then you better start swimmin', or you'll sink like a stone. 

(the times they are a-changin'- bob dylan)

you gave your body to the lonely,

they took your clothes. 

you gave up a wife & a family,

you gave your ghost. 

(to be alone with you (sufjan stevens cover) - joshua james)

out in the garden where we planted the seeds 

there is a tree as old as me,

branches were sewn by the color of green, 

the ground had arose & passed its knees. 

(to build a home - the cinematic orchestra)

put the stars in our eyes,

with heart shaped bruises. 

(toothpaste kisses - the maccabees)

mother, i made it up from the bruise on the floor of this prison. 

(upward over the mountain - iron & wine)

didn't anyone mention hate is all we show ?

love's not a sign we care to know. 

you cut half your heart, it makes it hard to grow. 

(weeds - joshua james)

you'd think they could see it through my skin. 

they're lookin' for evil, thinking they can trace it,

but evil don't look like anything. 

(westfall - okkervil river)

in a few weeks, i will get time 

to realize it's right before my eyes. 

(what you know - two door cinema club)

your head will collapse if there's nothing in it. 

(where is my mind ? (pixies cover) - trampled by turtles)

if you must die, sweetheart,

die knowing your life was my life's best part. 

(you - keaton henson)

i'm a northeast stream, 

get to the ocean 'fore i run too low. 

(you're a wolf - sea wolf)

i do believe it's beating at the same

pulse as yours, 

we're two atoms in a molecule,

inseparably combined

oh, like a piece of rope

made out of two pieces of vine.

(2 bodies 1 heart - noah & the whale)

i was swimming, 

your eyes were dark 'till you woke me

& told me that opening is just the start. 

(3 rounds and a sound - blind pilot)

you used to be alright, what happened ?

et. cetera, et. cetera. 

(15 step - radiohead)

she's got jumper cable lips,

she got sunset on her breath now,

i inhaled just a little bit now i've

got no fear of death now. 

(40 day dream - edward sharpe & the magnetic zeros)