Twenty Songs to Help You Find Inspiration
I said I’d post a mix list for those of you interested in that kind of thing. These are all songs you shouldn’t have trouble youtubing, limewiring, or ituning. In no particular order, twenty songs to give you a little perspective:
LG FUAD-Motion City Soundtrack
Let’s get fucked up and die..
I’m speaking figuratively, of course..
Like the last time that I committed suicide.. social suicide..
Yeah, so I’m already dead on the inside,
But I can still pretend with my memories and photographs,
I have learned to love the lie.
You Can Kill the Protestor, But You Can’t Kill the Protest- Anti-Flag
Lying still now, no way to speak.
There’s nothing to fear (there’s nothing to fear)
Lying still now, no way to speak.
There’s nothing to fear
No nothing to fear
Because bullets can’t silence ideas!
Just Like Heaven- The Cure
Spinning on that dizzy edge
I kissed her face I kissed her neck
And dreamed of all the different ways I had
To make her glow
“Why are you so far away?” she said
“Oh, won’t you ever know that I’m in love with you
That I’m in love with you”
Walking By- Something Corporate
And these nights I get high just from breathing.
When I lie here with you I’m sure that I’m real,
like that firework over the freeway.
I could stay here all day but that’s not how you feel.
Do You Feel-The Rocket Summer
I can’t help it
I got too many issues I own
So I cannot help I’m afraid, yeah
But keep on preaching, preaching and heal the world
Lip service makes us look great
Do you feel
The weight of the world singing sorrow
Or to you is it just not real
Cause you got your own things
Yeah we all have our things I guess
Chasing Rainbows- No Use For A Name
All I want to do is make sure you stop chasing rainbows
Trusting those around you is an easy thing to do
I’m not saying don’t believe in someone that you don’t know
Just don’t go on thinking that the whole world tells the truth
Five Vicodin Chased With A Shot of Clarity- Atreyu
I’m sorry, I don’t think it’s going to be okay this time
My heart has skipped its final beat
It’s beating me down onto the floor
That must mean that the pills are working
The glass isn’t half empty this time
I smashed it to the ground a long long time ago
It shattered when it fell and I broke to pieces
Each shard’s another reason, another way to give up
Sweet Ain’t Sweet- Bidwell
Well you’ve been high and you’ve been low, but whatever happened
There you go again and now it shows, That you never really cared
Well you’re better when you know you don’t belong
(but you were better when, you were a better friend)
You think you’re better when you’re singing all your own songs
Call Me Ishmael- Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly
You are not your job, and you are not the clothes you wear,
You are the words that leave your mouth so speak up, speak up loud,
For none of us want to sit,
In evaluations taking notes for hours,
We’re all sick and tired of waiting, lets set sail.
Bundy- Animal Alpha
I’m coming to get you
Yeah, I’m coming to get you
I have a surprise for you
Beware, beware
Don’t go to bed, don’t close your eyes
Hands Down- Dashboard Confessional
Breathe in for luck, breathe in so deep,
this air is blessed, you share with me.
This night is wild, so calm and dull,
these hearts they race from self control.
The Plastic Surgery Hall Of Fame- Schoolyard Heroes
15 minutes is much too generous for a girl with a crippled smile.
She walks, suffering with none of the benefits
She will be your plague tonight.
30 seconds is all we’re giving her. Any more and the time has passed.
Nothing shatters like broken glass, with lips like murder and a mouth like trash
Only Ashes- Something Corporate
Piece by piece, and bit by bit
I’ll break this down for you, real slow-
But I can’t whisper all of this
and I can’t seem to let this go,
So I’ll watch the matches, turn to ashes-
I’ll watch the matches, turn to ashes.
I can tell as you turn, I smell the sulfur so clear
and fire’s a beautiful sound-
and the wings that you burn, turn to ashes my dear
and ashes just fall to the ground.
Yeah, we’re only ashes
Ready, Aim, Misfire- New Years Day
if I had just one bullet and a trigger I’d pull it
shoot my cupid out of the sky
break off his wings and gouge out his eyes
and thank him for nothing,
cause that’s all that he gave me
your love is my heart disease
Beautiful People- Marilyn Manson
the beautiful people the beautiful people
it’s all relative to the size of your steeple
you can’t see the forest for the trees
and you can’t smell your own shit on your knees
I’m Not Jesus- Apocalyptica ft. Corey Taylor
do you remember me?
and the kid I used to be
do you remember?
do you remember?
when your own world comes undone,
let me be the one to say
(your god is looking down on me)
i’m not jesus
you can’t run away
So What- Ani DiFranco
who are you now and who were you then
that you thought somehow you could just pretend
that you could figure out all the mathmatics of regret
so it takes two beers to remember now and five to forget
that i loved you so yeah, i loved you so what
The Weight-The Band
I pulled into Nazareth, I was feelin’ about half past dead;
I just need some place where I can lay my head.
“Hey, mister, can you tell me where a man might find a bed?”
He just grinned and shook my hand, and “No!”, was all he said.
Round Here- Counting Crows
step out the front door like a ghost
into the fog where no one notices
the contrast of white on white
and inbetween the moon and you
the angels get a better view
of the crumbling difference between wrong and right
My Heart- Paramore
sing us a song
and we’ll sing it back to you
we could sing our own
but what would it be without you
[All lyrics are taken from various places on the net in the interest of time and may be slightly wrong.]