Since we all like lyrics so much 'round 'ere,
Does anyone have favourites from non-national artists?

I love Arcade Fire's:
"C'mon hide your lovers underneath the covers"

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Bright Eyes:
"We are nowhere and it's now."

"Do you believe that you belong to someone? I can't believe that I belong to no-one."
"I knew that if you could make another you then you wouldn't give the other one to me. When the conductor fucks up you can't blame the symphony so I won't blame you if you won't blame me."
"He's just a kid. He wants a ride. They took his ears. They took his eyes. They said a ride is never free. He couldn't hear. He couldn't see."
"If I ever hurt you it will be in self defence."
"It never occurred to me that the men are called horsemen there and I am no horseman!"
"He says your name out loud in miniature rooms where no one's found. It's a desperate sound."
"Why do you always get to dance to everything?"
"You're the one who's riding around on a leopard! And you're the one who's throwing dead birds in the air!"

ALL - Spencer Krug.


"I'm not in love with the modern world."
"At the party we got chained at the wrists. Outside there’s girls saying falling bricks. It’s not gonna be just only a kiss. Everyone’s disguised just a little bit"
"That's fine, I'm barely alive."
"We hate this city... buildings grow."

ALL - Dan Boeckner.

Yes I like Wolf Parade and its affiliates.

Two from Mike Cooley of the Drive-by Truckers:

"Skelletons ain't got nowhere to stick their money. Nobody makes britches that size. And besides you're a ghost to most before they notice that you ever had a hair or a hide." (A Ghost to Most)

"I went stumblin' through the fog tryin' to find a reason for the things I told her. She woke up sunny side down and I was still thinkin' I was too proud to flip her over." (Gravity's Gone)

This is from "The K&D Sessions" by Kruder & Dorfmeister.
The song (bug powder dust) is made by Bomb the bass, and remixed by K&D.

"Never been a fake, and I'm never phony. I've got more flavour thank a packet of macaroni. "

Radiohead - All I Need

I'm the next act
waiting in the wings
I'm an animal
trapped in your hot car
I am all the days
that you choose to ignore

You are all I need
You are all I need
I'm in the middle of your picture
Lying in the reeds

I am a moth
who just wants to share your light
I'm just an insect
trying to get out of the night

I only stick with you
because there are no others

You are all I need
You are all I need
I'm in the middle of your picture
Lying in the reeds

It's all wrong
It's all right
It's all wrong
It's all right

She looks like the real thing, she tastes like the real thing - Radiohead, Fake Plastic Trees
Outside another yellow moon has punched a hole in the nighttime
I climb through the window and down to the street, I'm shining like a new dime
The downtown trains are full of all those Brooklyn girls
They try so hard to break out of their little worlds
But you wave your hand and they scatter like crows
They have nothing that will ever capture your heart
They're just thorns without the rose
Be careful of them in the dark -Tom Waits, Downtown Train
Pull my fist from my mouth, I beat myself for a quarter century
Remind, remind that it's bigger than me, dissolve, dissolve into evergreens - Cloud Cult, Take Your Medicine
Hey, you ain't never met a fool like me before
They told you all romantic fools had died
I'm here to tell you that they lied - M Ward, Fool Says
If all I had was just one final call
Would you answer my ring, would you hear it at all
Oh I spent my life trying to make someone mine
And now all I want is a voice at the end of the line - M Ward, A Voice at the End of the Line
Your heart felt good, it was dripping pitch and made of wood -Modest Mouse, 3rd Planet
Cassius Clay was hit more than Sonny Liston - Sun Kil Moon, Glenn Tipton
Salvador Sanchez arrived then vanished, only 23 with so much speed, owning the highway - Sun Kil Moon, Salvador Sanchez
I could continue for hours, but I don't want the forum to collapse under its own weight.

I recently discovered Ghosts of the Great Highway. Excellent record.

A few more:

"She said 'My sails are flying in the wind'
I said 'Can I use that song?'
She said 'I mean, the end begins!'
I said 'I know!
Can I use that too?'
- The Taming of the Hands that Came Back To Life

"He wants to tell you stories
stories of boys who stomp their feet, saying
'Shut, shut up I'm dreaming of places where lovers have wings'
- Shut Up I Am Dreaming of Places Where Lovers Have Wings

"If I'm sorry then so are you
'cause I go where you tell me to
on horseshoes"
- The Men Are Called Horsmen There

"This one's for Maggie, this one's for Sam
or any other random spirit lover busted
I have lusted after you
the way bloodsuckers do!"
- The Mending of The Gown

"I say it's just smoke
so you say it's the hair of ghosts"
- Winged/Wicked Things

"There's the weapon you hold,
and the thing that you hold it to
and there's the thing you hold dear"
- For The Pier (And Dead Shimmering)

"The older men spoke low
they took a vote, and said No!"
- They Took A Vote And Said No

I really like Mark Kozelek, in all his many musical guises (Sun Kil Moon, Red House Painters, and solo.) You're right about Ghosts. And anybody who has the balls to do a whole album of Modest Mouse covers and makes it WORK is A-OK with me.

I assume you've heard that Sun Kil Moon has a new album coming out in April.

You can hear one new tune off Sun Kil Moon's "April" on Mark K's label page, it sounds pretty.

Nice! Thanks for the heads up. And he's putting out Nights of Passed Over here too, same day. I hope he'll tour.

"And one day we will die
And our ashes will fly from the aeroplane over the sea
But for now we are young
Let us lay in the sun
And count every beautiful thing we can see
Love to be
In the arms of all I'm keeping here with me"

-Neutral Milk Hotel, In The Aeroplane over the Sea


"It's not like the movies
They fed us on little white lies

I think you're crazy, maybe"

-Radiohead, Motion Picture Soundtrack

"And now we rise
And we are everywhere
And now we rise from the ground
And see she flies
And she is everywhere
See she flies all around

So look see the sights
The endless summer nights
And go play the game that you learnt
From the morning."

-Nick Drake, From the Morning


I'm done.

Can't even begin to explain how much I love this song.

"Even if I think that you are right, well I'm tired of being down, I've got no fight."

Elliott Smith - Twilight.