Mazzy Star
I’m no foolI know you’re coolI never really wanted your heart. —Mazzy Star, from “Blue Flower,” She Hangs Brightly. (1990)
Category: Lyric
Jason Molina
… here comes midnight with a dead moon in its jaw … — Jason Molina, from “Farewell Transmission,” The Magnolia Electric Co. (Secretly Canadian, 2003)
Jay Farrar
When you find what matters is what you feelIt arrives, and it disappears — Jay Farrar, song lyric from “Ten Second News,” Trace LP by Son Volt (Warner Bros., 1995)
The Cure
I’ve been looking so long at these pictures of youThat I almost believe that they’re real —The Cure, from “Pictures of You,” Disintegration (1989)
Lana Del Rey
There’s a hole that’s in my heart all my women try and healThey’re doin’ a good job convincin’ me that it’s not realIt’s heat lightningOh, oh‘Cause there’s a man that’s in my past, there’s a man that’s still right hereHe’s real enough to touch and in my darkest nightsHe’s shinin’ — Elizabeth Grant and Gabriel… Continue reading Lana Del Rey
Ryūtarō Arimura
I’m a lonely person. But that’s okay because I’ve gotten used to things like loneliness. — Ryūtarō Arimura, from “Sabishinbou/Lonely Person,” Ammonite (April 3, 2011)
Tom Waits
There’s no prayer like desire. — Tom Waits, from “Black Market Baby,” Mule Variations. (1999)
Gregory Alan Isakov
Where were you when I was still kind? — Gregory Alan Isakov, from “Master & A Hound,” This Empty Northern Hemisphere (2009)
Flyleaf
I will break into your thoughtsWith what’s written on my heart — Flyleaf, from “I’m So Sick,” Flyleaf (2006)
Regina Spektor
Now i’ve been sitting on this abandoned beach for yearsWaiting for the salty water to cover up my earsBut every time the tide come in to take me homeI get scared, and I’m sitting here alone. — Regina Spektor, from “Folding Chair,” Far. (June 9, 2009) Label: Sire.
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