bury my future in coffee and wine

I can always remember good times
bury my future in coffee and wine,
but everytime I see you smile
it feels live I've been happy for a while.

(David Tattersall, Happy For A While)

We fall for the same lies

They swallowed it whole, they went for the gold for the gold
We fall for the same lies, we all have the same shoes to fit
The preachers and books of your empire will fight here alone
Some day they will be forgotten and die one by one

(Fanfarlo, The Walls Are Coming Down)

but it was just a lie

I said I give an eye for you
but that was just a lie
I said I'd be the catcher in the rye for you
but that was just a lie
I said I'd fight and die for you
but that was just a lie
I said I'd steal the sun from the sky for you
but that was just a lie
I've just closed my eyes for you

(Irene, The Catcher In The Rye)

This is no declaration, I just thought I'd let you know goodbye

Ooh! Get me away from here I'm dying
Play me a song to set me free
Nobody writes them like they used to
So it may as well be me
Here on my own now after hours
Here on my own now on a bus
Think of it this way
You could either be successful or be us
With our winning smiles, and us
With our catchy tunes and words
Now we're photogenic
You know, we don't stand a chance

Oh, I'll settle down with some old story
About a boy who's just like me
Thought there was love in everything and everyone
You're so naive!
They always reach a sorry ending
They always get it in the end
Still it was worth it as I turned the pages solemnly, and then
With a winning smile, the poor boy
With naivety succeeds
At the final moment, I cried
I always cry at endings

Oh, that wasn't what I meant to say at all
From where I'm sitting, rain
Falling against the lonely tenement
Has set my mind to wander
Into the windows of my lovers
They never know unless I write
"This is no declaration, I just thought I'd let you know goodbye"
Said the hero in the story
"It is mightier than swords
I could kill you sure
But I could only make you cry with these words"

(Belle & Sebastian, Get Me Away From Here I'm Dying)

You took me behind a dis-used railway line

You took me behind a dis-used railway line
And said: "I know a place where we can go
Where we are not known"
And you gave me something that I won't forget too soon
But I can't believe you'd ever care
And this is why you will never care

Oh the alcoholic afternoons
When we sat in your room
They meant more to me
Than any, than any living thing on earth
They had more worth
Than any living thing on earth
Vivid and in your prime
You will leave me behind.

(The Smiths, These Things Take Time)

Everyday is silent and grey

Hide on the promenade
Etch a postcard :
"How I Dearly Wish I Was Not Here"
In the seaside town
...that they forgot to bomb
Come, Come, Come - nuclear bomb

Everyday is like Sunday
Everyday is silent and grey

(Morrissey, Everyday Is Like Sunday)

Can I borrow part of your life?

In order to be smart he'll switch off his brain.
If conditions were different he'd do exactly the same
The same damn way
Again
Cut off my hair
Walk through the glass
Lock the door
We were outside
But locked inside
It was very beautiful
X's for eyes
Polaroid minds
Love without lies
Everyone's busy so let's watch a film
No one's got no money and no one's got no pills
We only have a few streets but they are ours
There's only one image and the camera's broke
And he's got no smokes
Again

(Comet Gain, Love Without Lies)

Sitting next to a central European monument

Just give me a second and I’ll tell you
Give me a month by myself
Sitting, smoking Belgian cigarettes
In a restaurant with a famous star

She said I know it’s not forever
I know it’s got to stop
Sitting next to a central European monument
Been driving all night on the grand highway

And if you fall hard, I fall harder
And if you fall hard, I fall harder
If you’re gonna break just let it break
I’ll pick up the pieces and mistakes

(Shout Out Louds, Fall Hard)

in the Summer weather

Cos in the Summer weather
we'll put sun screen on together
I would not watch your skin to burn

(Diamond Rings, All Yr Songs)

Is it April yet?

Is it April yet?
I forget sometimes how slowly summer passes
You disappeared into Departures
Only half a year ago
It seems like so much more, you know
I went a fortnight without so much as an email
Then a postcard scant of detail
In which you wished me all the best
From the non-specific north west

Should it one day come to pass
That you sit down to your memoirs
Where will this go?

(The Lucksmiths, The Chapter Of Your Life Entitled San Francisco)

will stay with me forever

And all the memories of the pubs
and the clubs and the drugs and the tubs
we shared together,
Will stay with me forever.

(The Libertines, Music When The Lights Go Out)

Do you remember the summer?

Do you remember the summer?
I haven't seen it for a while
Come on, bring me some thunder!
Oh, give me your smile.

(My Darling YOU!, Prince John Silver & Gold)

Spent a week in a dusty library

Spent a week in a dusty library
Waiting for some words to jump at me
We met by a trick of fate
French navy my sailor mate
We met by the moon on a silvery lake
You came my way
Said, I want you to stay

You and your dietary restrictions
Said you loved me
with a lot of conviction
I was waiting to be struck by lightning
Waiting for somebody exciting
Like you
Oh, the thing that you do
You make me go  uuuh
With the things that you do (you do, you do)

I wanted to control it
But love, I couldn't hold it
I wanted to
control it
But love, I couldn't hold it

I was criticized for lending out my heart
I would criticize for letting you break my heart
why would I stand the dissapointed looks
of fooling at my one tender heart with the looks

(Camera Obscura, French Navy)

I don't know where I'm going but I'm headed somewhere

I don't know where I'm going
But I'm headed somewhere
And it's not my time to die
Take a look up, Lauren
The clouds make way for the sunshine
No I'm never gonna fix up
And I might be crazy
But I really got it going on

(Girls, Lauren Marie)

questi giorni quando viene il bel sole

On days like these when skies are blue and fields are green
I look around and think about what might have been
and then I hear sweet music float around my head
as i recall the many things we left unsaid

(Matt Monro, On Days Like These, The Italian Job 1969 soundtrack)

Did you know that troubles overtook the neighborhood?

Did you know that troubles overtook the neighborhood?
Did you know there's chances we get crossed off the hill
Did you know that troubles overtook the neighborhood?
Did you know there's chances we get crossed off!
Only once again always leave

(Settlefish, In The Neighborhood)

I'm sick of dreaming and it's never for real

I'm sick and tired of the way that I feel,
I'm sick of dreaming and it's never for real.
I'm all alone with my deep thoughts.
I'm all alone with my heartache and my good intentions.

I work to eat and drink and sleep just to live,
Feels like I'm never getting back what I give.
I've got a sad song in my sweet heart.
And all I really ever need is some love and attention

And I don't want to cry my whole life through,
I want to do some laughing too.
So come on, come on, come on, come on, laugh with me.
And I don't want to die without shaking up a leg or two,
Yeah, I want to do some dancing too.
So come on, come on, come on, come on, dance with me.

Sometimes youve just gotta make it for yourself.
Sometimes sugar, it just takes someone else.
Sometimes youve just gotta make it for yourself.
Sometimes baby, you just need someone else.

(Girls, Hellhole Ratrace)

oh no, not the snow again

The death of the party
Came as no surprise
Why did we bother?
Should have stayed away
Another night
And I thought "Well, well"

(Blur, Death of a party)

I'll make your hopes and dreams fall away

When I get left alone
The streets offer me a home
So many times I've tried
To reach for the truth inside

Each time you close the door
I think I need you more and more
Just give me the time of day
I'll make your hopes and dreams fall away
I'll make your hopes and dreams fall away

You never will be mine
You never will be mine
You never will be mine
You never will be

Your skin it just drives me mad
My God, I want you so bad
Wanna kiss your red hot lips
Push myself against your hips

(Graham Coxon, You never will be)

The years have seemed short but the days go slowly by

Since then it's been a book you read in reverse
So you understand less as the pages turn
Or a movie so crass
And awkwardly cast
That even I could be the star.

I don't look back much as a rule
And all this way before murder was cool
But your memory is here and I'd like it to stay
Warm light on a winter's day.

Over the ramparts you tossed
The scent of your skin and some foreign flowers
Tied to a brick
Sweet as a song
The years have seemed short but the days go slowly by
Two loose kites falling from the sky
Drawn to the ground and an end to flight.

(The Shins, Pink Bullets)