Sunday, March 31, 2013

"Happy Easter mini-me!" "Happy Easter grape girl!" March 31, 2013

From the album In Defense of the Genre, released October 23, 2007
"I wake up in a room and realize I'm insane again/ this is the fifth time straight in a year I've ended up in here/ eating pbjs and watching the church channel nightly/ I didn't mind what I did/ I fell behind on my nightly four-course meal of rainbow pills/ and now I'm wondering what is fake and what is real"

Saturday, March 30, 2013

"Silly swagless boys" March 30, 2013

From the album Plans, released August 30, 2005
"Burn it down/ 'till the embers smoke on the ground/ and start new/ when your heart is an empty room/ with the walls of deepest blue/ home's face/ how it ages when you're away/ spring blooms/ and you find the love that's true/ but you don't know what now to do/ 'cause the chase is all you know/ and she stopped running months ago/ and all you see/ is where else you could be/ when you're at home"

Friday, March 29, 2013

"Interestingly enough, this light post isn't really a lightpost, it's a breed of totem pole" March 29, 2013

From the album Take Me Home, released November 9, 2012
"So tell me girl if every time we/ touch-ouch-ouch/ you get this kind of/ ru-uh-ush/ baby say yeah yeah yeah/ yeah yeah yeah/ if you don't wanna' take it slow/ and you just wanna' take me home/ baby say yeah yeah yeah/ yeah yeah/ and let me kiss you"

Thursday, March 28, 2013

"The first thing I think of when I think of you is a field carrots" March 28, 2013

From the album In Defense of the Genre, released October 23, 2007
"Oh god/ forgive me Moses Jesus Allah/ I have made such an awful regret of today/ I have made such an awesome regret/ I could be more than this/ with all the time I have I'm an insult to the dead"

Wednesday, March 27, 2013

"You rapscallion" March 27, 2013

From the album You're Awful, I Love You, released February 26, 2008
"You're a faith-healer on TV/ you're an office park without any trees/ corporate and cold/ gushing for gold/ leave me alone/ you suck so passionately/ you're a parasitic psycho filthy creature finger-bangin' my heart"

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

"My identity thief is my split personality" March 26, 2013

From the album Now You See Inside, released June 20, 2000
"Why you always kick me when I'm/ high/ knock me down 'till we see eye to/ eye...
/I used to be such a nice boy"

Monday, March 25, 2013

"It's raining like a horse" March 25, 2013

From the album Share What Ya' Got, released 2004
"This time/ this year/ is bigger than us/ it goes on long after we're gone/ this town has taken it all out of us/ made us new men/ made us look at our lives through new eyes/ I love you in so many ways/ taught me to give/ to lose/ to love/ to be lost/ and now/ how to want/ I held your shoulders/ we cried in the dark/ that was last year/ and we were so scared/ so when it comes March/ will we march together/ ride bikes to the river/ and wreck them along the way"

Sunday, March 24, 2013

"You sound like a knitting raptor" March 24, 2013

Song  #83: Strawberries- Why?
From the album Mumps, etc..., released October 9, 2012
"And I am not okay boys/ no I am not okay/ no I am not okay/ your mom she sits while her hair is in curlers/ smokes weed and listens to that Garrison Keiler/ that's how I'll live  when I quit my rap career/ let her laughter pass through the rafters and go out into the atmosphere/ strawberries on your birthday Shirley/ the shit I said to high school counselors haunts me/ and I am not okay boys"

Saturday, March 23, 2013

"Pardon your beauty" March 23, 2013

From the album Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys, released November 22, 2010
"Move your body when the sunlight dies/ everybody hide your body from the scarecrow/ everybody hide/ make a wish when your childhood dies/ hear the knock knock knock when she cries/ we're all alone tonight"

Friday, March 22, 2013

"What kind of trouble are you getting into now?" March 22, 2013

From the album You're Awful, I Love You, released February 26, 2008
"What's up/ didn't mean to sneak up on you there/ I looked downstairs/ and saw you leaving/ so what's up/ I haven't seen you at the pool/ since the barbecue/ not that I've been checked/ here's the deal I've got this thing from work this weekend and I was wondering if you don't have anything going on then maybe/ okay/ they that's cool/ you're busy/ but we should hit up Jose O'Flannegens for jello shots/ your call it's okay not this week/ but Monday/ you could come over tonight/ I'll be watching cop dramas/ and smoking fatty fatties/ I'm a go-getter guy/ with a gun in my hand/ but searching for that someone to be firing it"

Thursday, March 21, 2013

"I wish I owned a mini sex shop in high school" March 21, 2013

From the album Take the Crown, released November 2, 2012
"Liberate your sons and daughters...
/hey ho/ here she goes/ either a little too loud or a little too close/ got no self-esteem and vertigo/ 'cause she thinks she's made of candy"

Wednesday, March 20, 2013

"...the ACDC deities" March 20, 2013

Song #79: Total Revenge- Say Anything
From the album ...Is A Real Boy, released August 3, 2004
"You're a problem/ that I can't abide/ I could sleep well/ if only I tried/ but I stay up/ and dream of a bride to be/ oh me/ oh my/ give it up/ I can't wait no more/ I am stuck/ on your bedroom floor/ with the thought/ that I may not be/ as great as those who came before"

Tuesday, March 19, 2013

"We're terrible people" "We're funny though, so it's okay" March 19, 2013

Song #78: Pieces- Bribry
From the single Staying Together, released June 19, 2012
"Last night I slept alone/ and the bed felt so big that I got lost/ and no one heard my cry/ I woke up hugging air/ my father walked in/ thinking his son/ was still in love with life/ because no one knows I'm in pieces" 

Monday, March 18, 2013

"She's a mini-me" March 18, 2013

From the album Cardboard Castles, released March 12, 2013
"Fuck you if you love a car for its paint job/ love you if you love a car for the road trips/ show me miles and your arms and the pink scars/ where the doctors had to pull out all the bone chips...
/cold pizza/ tie-dye shirts/ broken hearts/ giv'em here/ giv'em here/ hand me downs/ left overs/ sloppy seconds/ giv'em here/ giv'em here/ I don't care where you've been/ how many mile/ I still love you"

Sunday, March 17, 2013

"Ruin my day" March 17, 2013

From the EP Continued Silence, released February 14, 2012
"So this is what you meant/ when you said that you were spent/ and now it's time to build from the bottom of the pit/ right to the top/ don't hold back/ packing my bags and giving the academy a rain check/ I don't ever wanna let you down/ I don't ever wanna' leave this town/ 'cause afterall/ this city never sleeps at night...
/so this is where you fell/ and I am left to sell/ the path to heaven runs through miles of clouded hell/ right to the top/ don't look back/ turning the rags and giving the commodities a rain check"

Saturday, March 16, 2013

"You just need to ride down on your polar bear, and I'll ride upon my surfboard and we'll meet halfway, in Canada" March 16, 2013

From the album Californication, released June 8, 1999
"Scar tissue that I wish you saw/ sarcastic Mr. Know It All/ close your eyes and I'll kiss you cause/ with the birds I'll share like lonely view"

Friday, March 15, 2013

"...economical flowering of trees" March 15, 2013

From the movie Hercules, released June 27, 1997
"I have often dreamed/ of a far off place/ where a great/ warm/ welcome would be waiting for me/ where the crowds would cheer/ when they see my face/ and a voice keeps saying/ this is where I'm meant to be/ I can find my way/ I can do the distance/ I'll be there someday/ if I can be strong/ I know every mile/ will be worth my while/ I'd go most anywhere to feel like I/ belong"

Thursday, March 14, 2013

"Gary motherfucking Oak" March 14, 2013

From the album Nevermind, released September 24, 1991
"With the lights out/ it's less dangerous/ here we are now/ entertain us/ I feel stupid/ and contagious/ here we are now/ entertain us...
 /I'm worse at what I do best/ and for this gift I feel blessed/ our little group has always been/ and always will until the end"

Wednesday, March 13, 2013

"What defines a hooligan?" "Well it has to be a young whippersnapper" March 13, 2013

From the album In The Aeroplane Over the Sea, released February 10, 1998
"Oh comely/ I will be with you when you lose your breath/ chasing the only/ meaningful memory you thought you had left with some pretty/ bright and bubbly/ terrible scene that was doing her thing on your chest/ but oh comely/ it isn't as pretty as you'd like to guess/ in your memory you're/ drunk on your awe to me/ it doesn't mean anything at all"

Tuesday, March 12, 2013

"I'm a little knowledgeable in my subjects" March 12, 2013

From the album Is This It, released July 30, 2001
"When we was young/ oh man did we have fun/ always/ always/ promises/ they break before they're made/ sometimes/ sometimes...
/no/ I ain't waistin' no more time/ and now my fears/ they come to me in threes/ so I/ sometimes/ say 'fate my friend/ you say the strangest things/ I find/ sometimes'/ oh Maya says I'm lacking in depth/ say I will try my best/ you say you wanna stay by my side/ darlin' your head's not right/ see alone we stand together we fall apart/ yeah I think I'll be alright/ I'm working so I won't have to try so hard"

Monday, March 11, 2013

"Remember that time we had the same life problem? I remember" March 11, 2013

From the album The Fear, The Fear, The Fear, released December 4, 2007
"Anxious and worrying/ so you spend your whole life hurrying/ searching for something better/ than what you knew before/and always knowing you are you/ and you are going to even up the score/ is that what you're always fighting for...
/everything is magic until it becomes routine/ in your bedroom/ on the road/ or in the corners of your dreams/ and I sure hope we aren't just spinning our wheels/ whatever happens I think you should know that I'm just glad it feels/ like anything at all/ so don't push me down/ I don't go down easy"

Sunday, March 10, 2013

"You're so great and everyone you know drags you down" March 11, 2013

From the album My Head is An Animal, released September 20, 2011
"And we are far from home/ but we're so happy/ far from home/ all alone/ but we're so happy/ after every sunny day/ came a stormy night/ that's when Finner said/ 'keep your heads held high'"

Saturday, March 9, 2013

"You're still cool though, nobody is perfect" March 9, 2013

From the album Say Anything, released November 3, 2009
"I want death/ death for my birthday/ I want death/ death in the worst way/ I want death/ death for my birthday/ don't get me wrong/ 'cause I love life/ life has a boyfriend/ bless my soul I'm out to destroy them...
/help me claw my way to the surface/ oh sweet lord you know I deserve this/ just one more/ just one more birthday"

Friday, March 8, 2013

"Superman's crystal palace" March 8, 2013

From the album Far, released June 22, 2009
"Hold on/ one more time with feeling/ try it again/ breathing's just a rhythm/ say in your mind until/ you know that the words are right/ this is/ why we/ fight/ you thought by now you'd be/ so much better than you are/ you thought by now they'd see/ that you had come so far/ and the pride inside their eyes/ would synchronize into a love you're never know/ so much more than you've been shown"

Thursday, March 7, 2013

"So edgy" March 7, 2013

From the album Say Anything, released November 3, 2009
"Don't you go leaving/ baby I'll find you/ tell all your secrets/ no one will want you/ it's for your own good/ I know what's best for you/ if you won't sleep with me/ there'll be no rest for you/ until the day you're broke/ until you drop and choke/ I'll be your man/ this much I know/ this much I know/ until the empire falls/ until you think it all/ you gave your love to me/ and now you are my property/ you've sold your soul/ you've sold your soul/ you can't retrieve the love I stole from you/ it's true/ deny with everything you do/ you're my property/ you're my property/ sell you into bondage/ baby I own you...
/X your ambition/ soon you will fear the dark/ 'cause I lurk in your bed/ till the day you see/ that you mean nothing to me/ until the day I find/ someone to fall in live/ without a single sin/ without an opinion"

Wednesday, March 6, 2013

"All my homies and my crew and my swag" March 6, 2013

From the album My Head is An Animal, released September 20, 2011
"Jumping up and down the floor/ my head/ is an animal"

Tuesday, March 5, 2013

"People should be more quotable" March 5, 2013

From the album I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning, released January 25, 2005
"Remember the time you drove all night/ just to meet me in the morning/ and I thought it was strange you said everything changed/ you felt as if you just woke up/ and you said/ 'this is the first day of my life/ I'm glad I didn't die before I met you'/ and now I don't care I could go anywhere with you/ and I'd probably be happy/ so if you want to be with me/ with these things there's no telling/ we just have to wait and see/ but I'd rather be working for a paycheck than waiting to win the lottery/ besides maybe this time is different/ I mean I really think you like me"

Monday, March 4, 2013

"I'd be scared if I saw you on the street" March 4, 2013

From the album Pretty. Odd., released March 21, 2008
"Innocence/ sunk the glow and drowned in covers/ send for all your absent lovers things...
/go on/ grab your hat and fetch your camera/ go on/ film the world before it happens"

Sunday, March 3, 2013

"At least it doesn't make you sleep 27 hours a day" March 3, 2013

From the album My Head is An Animal, released September 20, 2011
"Taking over this town/ they should worry/ but these problems aside I think I taught you well/ that we won't run/ we won't run...
/howling ghosts they reappear/ and mountains that are stacked with fear/ but you're a king and I'm a lionheart"

Saturday, March 2, 2013

"You're a very special snowflake" "Thank... you are too" March 2, 2013

From the album In Defense of the Genre, released October 23, 2007
"Empty all the meds/ never anymore/ for sure/ throbbing in my flesh/ breaking out/ in scarlet scores/ therapy/ I've been enslaved/ I think I better medicate this rage...
/fixing up the drugs/ with a tiny flame/ put 'em in my lungs/ and forget my name"

Friday, March 1, 2013

"How'd your pomegranate taste?" "Like an apple!" March 1, 2013

From the album My Head is An Animal, released September 20, 2011
"I heard them calling in the distance/ so I packed my things and ran/ far away from all the trouble/ I had caused with my two hands/ alone we traveled on/ with nothing but a shadow/ we fled/ far away...
/some had scars and some had scratches/ it made me wonder about their past/ and as I looked around I began to notice/ that we were nothing like the rest...
whoa oh oh oh/ we sleep until the sun goes down/ woah oh oh oh/ we sleep until the sun goes down"