{ lyrics meme. }

[delga]

Lyrics meme. 60 songs - one point for title, one for artist. Don't search the lyrics, you pansies. Comments are screened; answers when I feel like it.

1. but your eyes tell a whole other story and I feel the weight of the world

2. I was caught in between all you wished for, and all you need

3. my city is still breathing, but barely, it's true, through buildings gone missing like teeth

4. no longer easy on the eyes, these wrinkles masterfully disguise the youthful boy below

5. I don't need to fall at your feet just cos you cut me to the bone

6. I hear the drums echoing tonight, but she hears only whispers of some quiet conversation

7. I lit my love and watched it burn, asking nothing in return except the lessons I have learned

8. he walked along the river's edge, among the weeds and the red clay bed

9. plastic cap on my hair, I used to mind now I don't care; I used to mind, now I don't care cos I’m grey

10. so come to me, my dear, I’ll tap into your stream and drain it dry

11. make up your mind to have no regrets, recline yourself, resign yourself: you're through

12. but I'm only in the outskirts, and in the fringes, on the edge and off the avenue

13. I’ll steal you something pretty, you'll say, man, well, aren't I lucky, gone and found myself a crooked lady

14. sometimes it's like someone took a knife, baby, edgy and dull, and cut a six-inch valley through the middle of my skull

15. Oh, how long do you believe that we might last? A thousand years, or more, if not for this, our flesh and blood?

16. you've a lazy laugh and a red white shirt, I fell to the floor fainting at the sight of blood

17. young girls in their bare feet cigarettes smoking, looking every which way, wishing and a-hoping

18. thunder rumbles in the distance, a quiet intensity, I am woeful, you're insistence is tugging at the best of me

19. darling you've won, it's no fun, martinis, girls and guns, it's murder on our love affair

20. all I know is everything is not as it's sold, but the more I grow, the less I know

21. I’m not the sort of person who falls in and quickly out of love, but to you I gave my affection right from the start

22. Marconi plays the mamba, listen to the radio; don't you remember?

23. with a name I’d never chosen I can make my first steps as a child of twenty-five

24. you've got your ball, you've got your chain tied to me tight, tie me up again

25. she says, I’m okay, I’m all right, though you have gone from my life, you said that it would, so everything should be all right

26. first there's lights out, then there's lock up, masterpieces serving maximum sentences

27. all you kids get out the back door, I’ve never seen her this mad before

28. hard times in the city in a hard town by the sea, ain't nowhere to run to, there ain't nothing here for free

29. what’s up with my heart when it skips a beat? can't feel no pavement right under my feet

30. man, I’ve had a few, but they wouldn't quite blow me like you, you gave me your name and signed with a halo around my eye

31. leave me out with the waste, this is not what I do, it's the wrong kind of place to be thinking of you

32. oh, like ink, love runs out, so I kept it up on a shelf, and I will polish it, finger it, but never let it breathe by itself

33. could it be I’m suffering because I’ll never give in, won't say that I’m falling in love?

34. he was perfect except for the fact that he was an engineer, mothers prefer doctors and lawyers

35. you'll always be this handsome and your weight will never gain, and when I give birth to our children, I will feel no pain

36. jealousy, turning saints in to the sea, swimming through sick lullabies, choking on your alibis

37. sorrow drips into your heart through a pinhole just like a faucet that leaks, and there is comfort in the sound

38. I’m having trouble breathing, you're sitting on my chest, I sure could use the rest, leave me

39. they woke up together not quite realising how, awkwardly stretching and yawning, it's always hard in the morning

40. prayers, like ammonites, curl beneath the lights, how I long to bite any hand that feeds you more

41. come and conquer and drop your bombs, cross my borders and kill the calm, bear your fangs and burn my wings, I hear bullets singing

42. big boots, and a home out on the range, twelve kids, don't you think it's kind of strange to want all of these things?

43. save some face, you know you've only got one, change your ways while you're young

44. oh, they tell me there's still time to save my soul, they tell me, renounce all those material things you gained by exploiting other human beings

45. breaking my back just to know your name, seventeen tracks and I’ve had it with this game

46. oh, was this solo, was this yesterday, was this true for you? cos of all the choices you have made this didn't do a lot for you

47. never lose the memory of April twenty-sixth, your hands designed my body, you autographed my hip

48. this is the story of how we begin to remember, this is the powerful pulsing of love in the vein

49. they say the devil's water, it ain’t so sweet, you don’t have to drink right now, but you can dip your feet in it

50. show me how you do that trick, the one that makes me scream, he said, the one that makes me laugh

51. breathe it in and breathe it out and pass it on, it's almost out, we're so creative, so much more, we're high above but on the floor

52. like a poor wayfaring stranger that they speak about in song I’m just a weary pilgrim trying to find what feels like home

53. help me get down, I can make it, help me get down, if I only knew the answer I wouldn't be bothering you, father

54. a man walks down the street, he says, why am I soft in the middle now the rest of my life is so hard?

55. I get up in the evening and I ain't got nothing to say, I come home in the morning, I go to bed feeling the same way

56. what if you find a fault between my purpose and my deeds, and deem me beyond salvation, judge me to be unworthy?

57. people are fragile things, you should know by now, you'll speak when you're spoken to

58. daddy's been working too much for days and days and doesn't eat, he never says much but I think this time it's got him beat

59. I wonder what you could possibly know about breaking down that I don't, it's been a while since I begged for anything but no more

60. so, morning comes and I’m nervously clad in these sheets not my own, and these hands where they don't belong

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Amusing story of the day: The Dad just came in, freaking out because he thought the battery on his phone was dead and he wasn't sure that the numbers were stored on the sim or not. Guess the ending. That's right: it wasn't switched on. Oh, parents.