❝ and you thought the lions were bad well they tried to kill my brothers and for every king that died oh they would crown another and it's harder than you think telling dreams from one another and you thought the lions were bad well they tried to kill my brothers ❞
❝ well, the sun one day will leave us all behind unexplainable sightings in the sky well, i hate to be the one to ruin the night right before your, right before your eyes
i say ya kill your heroes and fly, fly, baby don't cry no need to worry cause everybody will die every day we just go, go, baby don't go don't you worry we love you more than you know ❞
❝ there's a still in the street outside your window you're keeping secrets on your pillow let me inside, no cause for alarm i promise tonight not to do no harm i promise you babe, i will do you no harm
and we're caught up in the crossfire of heaven and hell and we're searchin' for shelter
lay your body down lay your body down lay your body down ❞
❝ you're not the first thing in my life i've loved and lost yeah i've thought worse things that i might be less inclined to merely just shrug off
you'll take me home like my family did my father did i know you'll think real slow but don't forget the speed that i can go away cause this is the end if you want it yeah this is the end ❞
❝ by the cracks of the skin i climbed to the top i climbed the tree to see the world when the gusts came around to blow me down held on as tightly as you held onto me held on as tightly as you held onto me ❞
❝ i walked across an empty land i knew the pathway like the back of my hand i felt the earth beneath my feet sat by the river and it made me complete
oh simple thing where have you gone? i'm getting old and i need something to rely on so tell me when you're gonna let me in i'm getting tired and i need somewhere to begin
i came across a fallen tree i felt the branches of it looking at me is this the place we used to love? is this the place that i've been dreaming of? ❞
❝ there's one thing i want to say, so i'll be brave you were what i wanted i gave what i gave i'm not sorry i met you i'm not sorry it's over i'm not sorry there's nothing to save
❝ there's a trap door hidden in my heart i fell into a lover's hell, deeper than i thought i keep crawling back to that motel i don't recognize who i am tonight
i'm some kind of monster since i lost her now i'm raging wild and starting fires, i burn this whole thing down i'm some kind of monster how bad do i want her i don't sleep at night, i terrorize there's blackness in my eyes i'm some kind of monster i'm some kind of monster ❞
❝ it’s getting late, and i cannot seem to find my way home tonight feels like i am falling down a rabbit hole falling for forever, wonderfully wandering alone what would my head be like if not for my shoulders or without your smile may it follow you forever may it never leave you to sleep in the stone, may we stay lost on our way home
c’mon, c’mon, with everything falling down around me i’d like to believe in all the possibilities
if i should die tonight may i first just say i’m sorry for i, never felt like anybody i am a man of many hats although i never mastered anything when i am ten feet tall i’ve never felt much smaller, since the fall nobody seems to know my name so don’t leave me to sleep all alone may we stay lost on our way home? ❞
❝ emergency call this is our code red put your hands up high put them in the air you know what we do and we do it well in a world full of lies we live to tell
for all the years that you've been feeding us all that trash you wasted time kick out the epic motherfucker. ❞
❝ my head's alive, my head's alive, can't get no peace you're my escape from this heartache, i need relief oh baby, this world's crazy, so lie here in my arms tonight you can't deny a poor man's cry, a poor man's cry
just when i'm finding it hard to breathe, you lift the weight inside of me oh baby i see the light that's burning bright, and we're the stars oh annie, you save me from the world oh annie, you save me from the world ❞
❝ i might be wrong but i might be right anyhow i know i tried i better leave, i better leave i better stop
i like her taste when it fills my soul i'll tell you something i've never told anyone not anyone, not anyone
everyone's got a bleeding heart i don't know where or when to start i better bleed, i better bleed i better stop i better bleed, i better bleed i better stop
silly boys you ran away you're unemployed you'd waste away ❞
❝ and those bight brown eyes, they are islands i’ve swam to before your crooked smile is the anchor that pulls me to shore if the waves are high, darling i won’t be running scared i will hold my breath if you just keep me floating here
and no i’m not, i’m not afraid your lips are still, but your hands ask me to stay
and though the night, it’s a cold one, it’s a cold one your skin is warm and your voice feels like the sun and though the rain, it keeps falling, it’s falling i am safe when it’s my name you’re calling
if i ask you why the moon hangs over the tides well you tell me tales of wolves and their broken cries with whispered words you can sing me to sleep and i’ll memorize a map of your skin to keep ❞
( side note: go buy this, if you haven't. it's absolutely fantastic. ♥ )
❝ teeth in skin and nails in your palm well, you've seen better days the girl in town who gave you her heart now won't look your way but if you close your eyes, do you feel any lighter at all? you want to know how to keep on standing when you feel so small
if you could push back time to relive yesterday are you better off being no one, is that what you say? but if there's no hope left for the boy who shoulders them all when he shakes, does the city fall? when you shake, do your friends all fall?
the moon is high above your head when you're pacing the town if everyone wants you to rise up, why are they pushing you down? if you hold your breath do you feel any lighter at all? your heavy feet are far outweighed by your heavy heart ❞
❝ you said you reap just what you sow so tell me where does your garden grow you said in the time the pain would pass looks like the end is here at last
burn, burn, like a star burn a hole in every heart strung out on a trail of blood who knew the stars were not enough? ❞
❝ i have to block out thoughts of you, so i don't lose my head they crawl in like a cockroach leaving babies in my bed dropping little reels of tape, to remind me that i'm alone playing movies in my head that make a porno feel like home there's a burning in my pride, a nervous bleeding in my brain an ounce of peace is all i want for you, will you never call again? and will you never say that you love me just to put it in my face? and will you never try to reach me, it is i that wanted space
hate me today hate me tomorrow hate me for all the things I didn't do for you hate me in ways yeah, ways hard to swallow hate me so you can finally see whats good for you
i'm sober now for 3 whole months, it's one accomplishment that you helped me with the one thing that always tore us apart is the one thing i won't touch again in a sick way i want to thank you for holding my head up late at night while i was busy waging wars on myself, you were trying to stop the fight you never doubted my warped opinions on things like suicidal hate you made me compliment myself when it was way too hard to take so i'll drive so fucking far away that i'll never cross your mind and do whatever it takes in your heart to leave me behind
and with a sad heart i say bye to you and wave kicking shadows on the street for every mistake that i had made and like a baby boy i never was a man until i saw your blue eyes cry and i held your face in my hands and then i fell down yelling "make it go away" just make a smile come back and shine just like it used to be and then she whispered "how could you do this to me?" ❞
❝ i'm just a normal boy that sank when i fell overboard my ship would leave the country but i'd rather swim ashore
without a life vest i'd be stuck again wish i was much more masculine maybe then i could learn to swim like fourteen miles away
now floating up and down i spin, colliding into sound like whales beneath me diving down i'm sinking to the bottom of my everything that freaks me out the lighthouse beam has just run out i'm cold as cold as cold can be be
i want to swim away but don't know how sometimes it feels just like i'm fallin' in the ocean let the waves up take me down let the hurricane set in motion, yeah let the rain of what i feel right now, come down let the rain come down ❞
❝ i thought that the world had lost it's sway ( it's so hard sometimes ) then i fell in love with you ( then came you ) and you took that away ( it's not so difficult the world is not so difficult ) you take away the old show me the new and i feel like i can fly when i stand next to you so while i'm on this phone a hundred miles from home i'll take the words you gave me and send them back to you
i only want to see if you're okay when i'm not around asking "if you love me" i love the way you make it sound calling you to see do i try too hard to make you smile? to make us smile
i will keep calling you to see if you're sleeping, are you dreaming if you're dreaming, are you dreaming of me i can't believe you actually picked me ❞
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i'm not the one → 3oh!3
'cause there are deeper and darker things than you
i know 'cause 've been there too
i know it might seem frightening
to have the world fall apart right under your shoes
trust me,
you'll make it through ❞
when we first met → hellogoodbye
that we ever had
i could, i could see how long it had been, oh
oh, how long it had been
and this thought, made it clearer
i ought to be nearer ❞
daniel in the den → bastille
well they tried to kill my brothers
and for every king that died
oh they would crown another
and it's harder than you think
telling dreams from one another
and you thought the lions were bad
well they tried to kill my brothers ❞
lazy eye → silversun pickups
still the same 'ol decent lazy eye
straight through your gaze
that's why i said i relate
i said we relate
it's so fun to relate ❞
riverside → agnes obel
to wash off the dirt on the riverside
go to the water so very near
the river will be your eyes and ears
i walk to the borders on my own
to fall in the water just like a stone
chilled to the marrow in them bones
why do i go here all alone ❞
kill your heroes → awolnation
unexplainable sightings in the sky
well, i hate to be the one to ruin the night
right before your, right before your eyes
i say ya kill your heroes and fly, fly, baby don't cry
no need to worry cause everybody will die
every day we just go, go, baby don't go
don't you worry we love you more than you know ❞
crossfire → brandon flowers
you're keeping secrets on your pillow
let me inside, no cause for alarm
i promise tonight not to do no harm
i promise you babe, i will do you no harm
and we're caught up in the crossfire of heaven and hell
and we're searchin' for shelter
lay your body down
lay your body down
lay your body down ❞
if you want it → relient k
i've loved and lost
yeah i've thought worse things
that i might be less inclined to merely just shrug off
you'll take me home
like my family did my father did i know
you'll think real slow
but don't forget the speed that i can go away
cause this is the end if you want it
yeah this is the end ❞
to build a home → cinematic orchestra
i climbed the tree to see the world
when the gusts came around to blow me down
held on as tightly as you held onto me
held on as tightly as you held onto me ❞
somewhere only we know → keane
i knew the pathway like the back of my hand
i felt the earth beneath my feet
sat by the river and it made me complete
oh simple thing where have you gone?
i'm getting old and i need something to rely on
so tell me when you're gonna let me in
i'm getting tired and i need somewhere to begin
i came across a fallen tree
i felt the branches of it looking at me
is this the place we used to love?
is this the place that i've been dreaming of? ❞
your ex lover is dead → stars
you were what i wanted
i gave what i gave
i'm not sorry i met you
i'm not sorry it's over
i'm not sorry there's nothing to save
i'm not sorry there's nothing to save ❞
some kind of monster → neon trees
i fell into a lover's hell,
deeper than i thought
i keep crawling back to that motel
i don't recognize
who i am tonight
i'm some kind of monster
since i lost her
now i'm raging wild and starting fires,
i burn this whole thing down
i'm some kind of monster
how bad do i want her
i don't sleep at night, i terrorize
there's blackness in my eyes
i'm some kind of monster
i'm some kind of monster ❞
c'mon → panic! at the disco & fun.
cannot seem to find my way home tonight
feels like i am falling down a rabbit hole
falling for forever, wonderfully wandering alone
what would my head be like
if not for my shoulders or without your smile
may it follow you forever may it never leave you
to sleep in the stone,
may we stay lost on our way home
c’mon, c’mon, with everything falling down around me
i’d like to believe in all the possibilities
if i should die tonight
may i first just say i’m sorry
for i, never felt like anybody
i am a man of many hats although i never mastered anything
when i am ten feet tall
i’ve never felt much smaller, since the fall
nobody seems to know my name
so don’t leave me to sleep all alone
may we stay lost on our way home? ❞
kick out the epic motherfucker → dada life
put your hands up high put them in the air
you know what we do and we do it well
in a world full of lies we live to tell
for all the years that
you've been feeding us all that trash
you wasted time
kick out the epic motherfucker. ❞
annie you save me → graffiti6
you're my escape from this heartache, i need relief
oh baby, this world's crazy, so lie here in my arms tonight
you can't deny a poor man's cry, a poor man's cry
just when i'm finding it hard to breathe,
you lift the weight inside of me
oh baby i see the light that's burning bright, and we're the stars
oh annie, you save me from the world
oh annie, you save me from the world ❞
silly boy → the blue van
anyhow i know i tried
i better leave, i better leave
i better stop
i like her taste when it fills my soul
i'll tell you something i've never told anyone
not anyone, not anyone
everyone's got a bleeding heart
i don't know where or when to start
i better bleed, i better bleed
i better stop
i better bleed, i better bleed
i better stop
silly boys
you ran away
you're unemployed
you'd waste away ❞
anchor → maeve kelly
your crooked smile is the anchor that pulls me to shore
if the waves are high, darling i won’t be running scared
i will hold my breath if you just keep me floating here
and no i’m not, i’m not afraid
your lips are still, but your hands ask me to stay
and though the night, it’s a cold one, it’s a cold one
your skin is warm and your voice feels like the sun
and though the rain, it keeps falling, it’s falling
i am safe when it’s my name you’re calling
if i ask you why the moon hangs over the tides
well you tell me tales of wolves and their broken cries
with whispered words you can sing me to sleep
and i’ll memorize a map of your skin to keep ❞
( side note: go buy this, if you haven't. it's absolutely fantastic. ♥ )
any lighter → maeve kelly
well, you've seen better days
the girl in town who gave you her heart now won't look your way
but if you close your eyes, do you feel any lighter at all?
you want to know how to keep on standing when you feel so small
if you could push back time to relive yesterday
are you better off being no one, is that what you say?
but if there's no hope left for the boy who shoulders them all
when he shakes, does the city fall?
when you shake, do your friends all fall?
the moon is high above your head when you're pacing the town
if everyone wants you to rise up, why are they pushing you down?
if you hold your breath do you feel any lighter at all?
your heavy feet are far outweighed by your heavy heart ❞
all those friendly people → funeral suits
so tell me where does your garden grow
you said in the time the pain would pass
looks like the end is here at last
burn, burn, like a star
burn a hole in every heart
strung out on a trail of blood
who knew the stars were not enough? ❞
hate me → blue october
they crawl in like a cockroach leaving babies in my bed
dropping little reels of tape, to remind me that i'm alone
playing movies in my head that make a porno feel like home
there's a burning in my pride, a nervous bleeding in my brain
an ounce of peace is all i want for you, will you never call again?
and will you never say that you love me just to put it in my face?
and will you never try to reach me, it is i that wanted space
hate me today
hate me tomorrow
hate me for all the things I didn't do for you
hate me in ways
yeah, ways hard to swallow
hate me so you can finally see whats good for you
i'm sober now for 3 whole months, it's one accomplishment that you helped me with
the one thing that always tore us apart is the one thing i won't touch again
in a sick way i want to thank you for holding my head up late at night
while i was busy waging wars on myself, you were trying to stop the fight
you never doubted my warped opinions on things like suicidal hate
you made me compliment myself when it was way too hard to take
so i'll drive so fucking far away that i'll never cross your mind
and do whatever it takes in your heart to leave me behind
and with a sad heart i say bye to you and wave
kicking shadows on the street for every mistake that i had made
and like a baby boy i never was a man
until i saw your blue eyes cry and i held your face in my hands
and then i fell down yelling "make it go away" just make a smile
come back and shine just like it used to be
and then she whispered "how could you do this to me?" ❞
into the ocean → blue october
that sank when i fell overboard
my ship would leave the country
but i'd rather swim ashore
without a life vest i'd be stuck again
wish i was much more masculine
maybe then i could learn to swim
like fourteen miles away
now floating up and down
i spin, colliding into sound
like whales beneath me diving down
i'm sinking to the bottom of my
everything that freaks me out
the lighthouse beam has just run out
i'm cold as cold as cold can be
be
i want to swim away but don't know how
sometimes it feels just like i'm fallin' in the ocean
let the waves up take me down
let the hurricane set in motion, yeah
let the rain of what i feel right now, come down
let the rain come down ❞
calling you → blue october
( it's so hard sometimes )
then i fell in love with you
( then came you )
and you took that away
( it's not so difficult
the world is not so difficult )
you take away the old
show me the new
and i feel like i can fly when i stand next to you
so while i'm on this phone
a hundred miles from home
i'll take the words you gave me and send them back to you
i only want to see
if you're okay when i'm not around
asking "if you love me"
i love the way you make it sound
calling you to see
do i try too hard to make you smile?
to make us smile
i will keep calling you to see
if you're sleeping, are you dreaming
if you're dreaming, are you dreaming of me
i can't believe you actually picked me ❞