SOTD: Matt Hires
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have i been a sinner?
a lover, a killer?
cause the world i’ve discovered
it feels nothing like my heart
i wanna escape it
or try to embrace it
i keep re-arranging everything I know
in a strange strange place, lying on the edge of a star
in these violent days, i only wanna be where you are
even fools, they say, can find a way out of the dark
help me out of the dark
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Baby, behave, we’ll make it work
Are you with me?
You’re not golden, and I’m getting tired
Act like you own the place, when really you’ve only just arrived
I caught first glimmers in hides and skins
Look who’s all grown up, black-swanning about the solar winds
You’re gonna lose it all and find yourself on your knees
So, get a grip and you might flow, reverse the great, slow bleed
I’ve tried patience, but you always want a war
This house won’t tolerate any more
The cold shoulder, folded arms and looking up
You’ve never listened, and carry on careless, regardless
This is not a fire drill and if we hold any hope
It’s harmonic connection and stereo symbiosis
These legoland empires choking out mine now
You’re everywhere, everywhere, multiplying around me
A strain on my heart, this rock can’t tolerate any more
Stop this right away
Put that down and clean this mess up
End of conversation
Put your back in it and
Make it up to me now
You’re only what you give back
Baby, behave, we’ll make it work
Are you with me?
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There was a time you let me know
What’s really going on below
But now you never show it to me, do you?
And remember when I moved in you
The holy dove was moving too
And every breath we drew was Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
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Welcome to another day
It don’t seem that different ’cause nothing has changed
Try to remember, try to remember
When we were just running in place
Tell me all your wildest dreams
You don’t really care, you don’t know what they mean
Raiding the closets with skeleton keys
You know it’s easier than you think
Even my wonder, even my fear
Only amount to a couple of tears
There is a rhythm, it’s near and it’s far
It flows through the heart of us
Technicolor Phase
I am the gray in the ghost
That hides with your clothes behind your closet door
I am the green in the grass
That bends back from underneath your feet
I am the black in the book
The letters on the pages that you memorize
And I am the white in the walls
That soak up all the sound when you cannot sleep
LOTD: Lyricollage
you can ask about it
but nobody knows the way
no bread crumb trail
to follow through your days
it takes an axe sometimes or feather
in the sunshine and bad weather
it’s a matter of getting deeper in
any way you can
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i don’t wanna run
just overwhelm me
i want pent up
i want unsettled
rattle cage after cage
until my blood boils
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Everyone’s looking, everyone hides
Everyone’s telling everyone lies
We’re changing the subject and turning away
Away from the heart of it all
You say you are happy, do you think this is fun?
It’s only a firefly to the light of the sun
You say this is living, you feel so alive
Well, you know everything dies
Welcome to another day
It don’t seem that different ’cause nothing has changed
Try to remember, try to remember
When we were just running in place
Reasons for living never come cheap
And even your best ones can put me to sleep
What I am saying, or trying to say
Is that there must be a better way
Tell me all your wildest dreams
You don’t really care, you don’t know what they mean
Raiding the closets with skeleton keys
You know it’s easier than you think
Even my wonder, even my fear
Only amount to a couple of tears
There is a rhythm, it’s near and it’s far
It flows through the heart of us
Reasons for living are all very fine
Leaving me cold though they’re not really mine
Did you ever find out, did you ever find out
What’s at the heart of us?
I don’t know, I don’t know
LOTD
No, not LOTR. Nerd.
I’m adding something new. Again. Lyrics of the Day. Every day there’s some stanza from some song floating in my head that seems to fit in some way, but it’s a little different than a song that feels like a Song of the Day. Lyrics of the Day are generally just a phrase or couple of lines, maybe a verse or a chorus when just that part stands out.
This little thing is more for me than for you, but you’re welcome to follow along if it amuses you. I haven’t decided yet if I’ll tell you what song they’re from. It would be fun to make you guess if you all weren’t so good at the Google.
So let’s kick it off. Here are my lyrics of the day. Feel free to leave guesses (sans-Google, cheaters).
We live like the sun
Comin’ up, comin’ down
Ever distant, ever proud
And how the world unfolds
Shall the young never see
All the wounds that never bleed
Just hold the line
You’ll find that time’s not enough
There’s a light on your face
And a hope on the breeze
A knowing whisper in the trees
There’s money to burn
And books to read
Another lie to be believed
