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[constantasthenorthernstar]

a heat rash in the shape of the show me state - Los Campesinos

Letter from me to Charlotte;
"They appropriated everything we ever loved, and dressed it up in quotations and fluff.
And I had a dream: [though said with hands in pocket, I mean it hand on heart]
You held a gun to his head, pressed your thumbs to her throat".
In these letters. Letters from me to Charlotte.

Walk out onto your front lawn and face into the rain,
Shout into the wind this'll never be the same.

by your hand - Los Campesinos

By your hand is the only end I foresee,
I have been dreaming you’ve been dreaming about me

cry for Judas - The Mountain Goats

Some things you do just to see
How bad they'll make you feel
Sometimes you try to freeze time
'Til those thoughts are a blur of spinning wheels

But I am just a broken machine
And I do things that I don't really mean

Long black night, morning frost
I'm still here, but all is lost

Speed up to the precipice
And then slam on the brakes
Some people crash two or three times
And then learn from their mistakes

But we are the ones who don't slow down at all
And there's nobody there to catch us when we fall

Feel the storm every night, hope it passes by
Hallucinate a shady grove where Judas went to die

Unfurl the black velvet altar cloth
Draw a white chalk baphomet
Mistreat your altar boys long enough
And this is what you get

Sad and angry, can't learn how to behave
Still won't know how in the darkness of the grave

god of loneliness - Emmy the Great

So won't you talk to me
Won't you tell me why you've come
Tell me that life is hard
But it's hard for everyone
Tell me that you won't leave
Without everything I've loved
Tell me that you won't leave
But it's hard for everyone

You're just something
To get used to
Aren't you something?
I'll get used to you

Oh God of Loneliness
Have you got no face to show
Am I a loneliness
Will you stay?
Will you go?
Are you here, here, here, here?

I crush everything - Jonathon Coulton

My body's strong, but my will is weak
I got pretty nice arms, but I hate my beak
And the dolphins are all phonies
They seem nice enough at first
They pretend to be your friends
Until they see you at your worst and then they leave you
Without a word they swim away

So I can't do that thing anymore
I can't be the thing I was before
Maybe I am better off alone
Because I crush everything
And I crush everything
And I crush everything

And everything I want I take
And everything I love I break
And every night I lie awake

Madame van Damme - Lightspeed Champion

I've been waiting in this bedroom
and nothing seems to make this any easier
i think i'll take another shower

hopefully if i keep singing maybe this will all just go away
the next guy that walks through my door might strangle me and then i might be saved
san paulo seems so far away right now

kill me baby won't you kill me
kill me baby won't you kill me
kill me baby won't you kill me
kill me baby won't you kill me

Terrible Love - The National

And I can't fall asleep without a little help
It takes a while to settle down
My shivered bones
Until the panic's out

It takes an ocean not to break