The Shins » Gone For Good Lyrics

 

Untie me, I’ve said no vows
The train is getting way too loud
I gotta leave here my girl
Get on with my lonely life

Just leave the ring on the rail
For the wheels to nullify

Until this turn in my head
I let you stay and you paid no rent
I spent twelve long months on the lam

That’s enough sitting on the fence
For the fear of breaking dams

I find a fatal flaw
In the logic of love
And go out of my head

You love a sinking stone
That’ll never elope
So get used to the lonesome
Girl, you must atone some
Don’t leave me no phone number there

It took me all of a year
To put the poison pill to your ear
But now I stand on honest ground, on honest ground

You want to fight for this love
But honey you cannot wrestle a dove
So baby it’s clear

You want to jump and dance
But you sat on your hands
And lost your only chance

Go back to your hometown
Get your feet on the ground
And stop floating around

I find a fatal flaw
In the logic of love
And go out of my head

You love a sinking stone
That’ll never elope
So get used to used to the lonesome
Girl, you must atone some
Don’t leave me no phone number there

SUFJAN STEVENS- CHICAGO

I fell in love again 
all things go, 
all things know, 

we sold our clothes to the state 
I don’t mind, 
I made a lot of mistakes 
in my mind, 

you came to take us 
all things go, 
to recreate us 
all things grow, 
we had our mindset 
all things know, 
you had to find it 
all things go, 

I drove to New York 
in a van, with my friend 
we slept in parking lots 
I don’t mind,
I was in love with the place 
in my mind, 
I made a lot of mistakes 
in my mind, 


if I was crying 
in the van, with my friend 
it was for freedom 
from myself and from the land 
I made a lot of mistakes 

Rufus Wainwright

Men reading fashion magazines
Oh what a world
It seems we live in
Straight man
Oh what a world
We live in

Why am I always on a plane or a fast train
Oh what a world my parents gave me
Always
Travelin’ but not in love
Still I think I’m doin’ fine
Wouldn’t it be a lovely headline
“Life is
Beautiful” on a New York Times

Crying Lightning

Sat in the cafe by the cracker factory

You were practicing a magic trick

And my thoughts got rude, as you talked and chewed

On the last of your pick and mix

Said your mistaken if your thinking that I haven’t been caught cold before

As you bit into your strawberry lace

And then a flip in your attention in the form of a gobstopper

Is all you have left and it was going to waste

Your past-times, consisted of the strange

And twisted and deranged     

And I love that little game you had called

Crying lightning

And how you like to aggravate the ice-cream man on rainy afternoons

The next time that I caught my own reflection

It was on it’s way to meet you

Thinking of excuses to postpone

You never look like yourself from the side

But your profile did not hide

The fact you knew I was approaching your throne

With folded arms you occupy the bench like toothache

Saw them, puff your chest out like you never lost a war

And though I try so not to suffer the indignity of a reaction

There was no cracks to grasp or gaps to claw

Uninviting

But not half as impossible as everyone assumes

You are crying lightning

VETO

Getting in there 
Is the easiest part 
Just keep your head down 

It’s finding meaning 
Once you’re in there 
That’s hard 


What’s the point of speech 
When all I do with it 
It just repeating myself 


What’s the point of a soul 
When all I’m being is 
A faulty copy of myself 

But if you get off 
Then I get off 

What’s the meaning of 
Covering up yourself when 
You are who you were born 

What’s the meaning of 
Doing things that you 
Obviously think are wrong 

If you say one more clever thing 
I’ll just repeat it 
And act like I said it first

Revenge by Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse

Pain
I guess it’s a matter of sensation
But somehow you have a way of avoiding it all
In my mind
I have shot you and stabbed you through your heart
I just didn’t understand
The ricochet is the second part

‘Cause you can’t hide what you intend
It glows in the dark
Once you’ve sought
The path of revenge
There’s no way to stop 
And the more I try to hurt you
The more it hurts me

Strange
It seems like a character mutation
Though I have all the means of bringing you fuckers down
I can’t make myself
To destroy upon command
Somehow forgiveness lets the evil make the laws

No you can’t hide what you intend
It glows in the dark
Once we’ve become the thing we dread
There’s no way to stop 
And the more I try to hurt you
The more it backfires

The more that it backfires
The more that it backfires