di Vig, Erickson, Manson, Marker

GARBAGE

She gave you everything she had
But she was young and dumb
She’d just turned twenty-one
She didn’t care to hang around
So when the shit came down
Why she was nowhere to be found
This life can turn a good girl bad
She was the sweetest thing
That you had ever seen

You’re such a delicate boy
In the hysterical realm
Of an emotional landslide
In physical terms

With your cherry lips and golden curls
You could make grown men gasp
When you’d go walking past them
In your hot pants and high heels
They could not believe
That such a body was for real
It seemed like rainbows would appear
Whenever you came near the clouds would disappear
Because you looked just like a girl
Your baby blues would flash
And suddenly a spell was cast…

di Vernon

BON IVER

Well, I met you at the blood bank
We were looking at the bags
Wondering if any of the colors
Matched any of the names we knew on the tags

You said, “See look there, that’s yours
Stacked on top with your brother’s
See how they resemble one another
Even in their plastic little covers”

And I said I know it well

That secret that you knew
But you don’t know how to tell
It fucks with your honor
And it teases your head
But you know that it’s good, girl
‘Cause it’s running you with red

Then the snow started falling
We were stuck out in your car
You were rubbing both my hands
Chewing on a candy bar

You said, “Ain’t this just like the present
To be showing up like this?”
As a moon waned to crescent
We started to kiss

And I said I know it well…

di Grohl, Hawkins, Mendel, Shiflett

FOO FIGHTERS

I, I’m a one way motorway
I’m a road that drives away
Then follows you back home
I, I’m a street light shining
I’m a white light blinding bright
Burning off and on

It’s times like these
You learn to live again
It’s times like these
You give and give again
It’s times like these
You learn to love again
It’s times like these
Time and time again

I, I’m a new day rising
I’m a brand-new sky
That hang the stars upon tonight
I, I’m a little divided
Do I stay or run away
And leave it all behind?…

di May

QUEEN

Here I stand (here I stand)
Look around around around around around
But you won’t see me (but you won’t see me)

Now I’m here (Now I’m here), now I’m there (Now I’m there)
I’m just a … just a new man
Yes you made me live again, wow

A baby I was when you took my hand
And the light of the night burned bright

The people all stared didn’t understand
But you new my name on sight

Ooh whatever came of you and me
America’s new bride to be – ooh, don’t worry baby I’m safe and sound

Down in the dungeon just peaches ‘n’ me

Don’t I love her so
Yes you made me live again, yeah

Yeah, ooh, a thin moon me in a smoke-screen sky
Where the beams of your lovelight chase
Don’t move, don’t speak, don’t feel no pain
With the rain running down my face

Your matches still light up the sky
And many a tear lives on in my eye

Down in the city just Hoople ‘n’ me

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di Strummer, Simonon, Jones, Headon

CLASH

They cried the tears, they shed the fears
Up and down the land
They stole guitars or used guitars
So the tape would understand.
Without even
The slightest hope
Of a thousand sales
Just as if
As if there was
Hitsville in UK
I Know the boy was all alone
Till the Hitsville hit UK.

Remember
They say true talent
Will always emerge in time
When lightening hits small wonder
It’s fast rough factory trade
No expense accounts
Or lunch discounts
Or hypeing up the charts
The band went in
And knocked ‘em dead
In two minutes fifty-nine
I know the boy was all alone
Till the Hitsville hit UK

So hit it

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