Lyrics

Selected song lyrics I particularly like (no particular order). There are so many but so few come to mind when I want to write them down, hopefully the list will expand eventually.

We share the same biology, regardless of ideology

- Sting (Russians)

Love without pain isn’t really romance

- Röyksopp (Only This Moment)

Time is a piece of wax fallin’ on a termite who’s chokin’ on the splinters

- Beck (Loser)

Anything worth doing is worth getting hurt for

- The Faint (Take Me To The Hospital)

I’m young, but I’m yours, I am free but I am flawed

- Benjamin Francis Leftwich (Box of Stones)

It’s no good you trying to sit on the fence
And hope that the trouble will pass
‘Cause sitting on fences can make you a pain in the ass

- Alan Parsons Project (Turn it Up)

I’d rather have freedom than smoke in arenas

- Young Dreams (Fog of War)

The sky will be my shroud
A cenotaph of cloud

- Keane (Black Burning Heart)

You were writhing on the floor like a moth in molasses

- White Lies (Holy Ghost)

There’ll be twisted karaoke at the Aniseed Lounge

- Elbow (Grounds for Divorce)

Love can mend your life or love can break your heart

- Sting (Message in a Bottle)

Don’t put your faith in time, she heals but doesn’t change

- Bluetones (Bluetonic)

I’ve made some bad decisions, I’ll admit that freely
It’s just that life tastes sweeter when it’s wrapped in debauchery

- The Wombats (Jump Into The Fog)

If you love me, won’t you let me know

- Coldplay (Violet Hill) Yes, I like Coldplay. Get over it.

I’m gonna master all kinds of kung fu
I’m gonna live inside a tiny zoo

- Newton Faulkner (Gone in the Morning)

For you look even better than the face of god on a sunny day

- James (How Was It For You)

Is the power of love worth the pain of loss

- James (Five-O)

Let the good times roll, in case god doesn’t show

- Fall Out Boy (Thnx fr th Mmrs)

When we fall in love, we’re just falling
in love with ourselves

- Keane (Spiralling)

Please don’t put your life in the hands of a rock-and-roll band

- Oasis (Don’t Look Back In Anger)

They’re gonna die in a place they should’ve never been at all

- Levellers (Another Man’s Cause)

I can’t understand what makes a man hate another man, help me understand

- Depeche Mode (People Are People)

They say I’m up and coming like I’m fuckin’ in an elevator

- Ed Sheeran (You Need Me)

Steak Knife, Card Shark, Con Job, Boot Cut

- Red Hot Chili Peppers (By The Way)

I love you like a friend but – let’s not pretend – how I wish for something, wish for something more

- Amy MacDonald (Wish for Something More)

These are the hands we’re given, use them and let’s start trying to make this a place worth living in

- Genesis (Land of Confusion)

Pleasures remain, so does the pain

- Depeche Mode (Enjoy the Silence)

All my friends are as sharp as razors
cut you down if you touch the faders

- Kasabian (Vlad The Impaler)

You don’t know what love is – you wouldn’t do this if you did

- Plan B (She Said)

I’m not ever gonna know
if I’m right or wrong
‘cos we’re all going in the same direction

- Hoobastank (Same Direction)

I am human and I need to be loved
just like everybody else does

- The Smiths (How Soon Is Now?)

Seek the roses along the way
Just beware of the thorns

- Scorpions (Send Me An Angel)

I know that I can help you
I just don’t fucking want to

- Pendulum (The Tempest)

‘Cos you are constructed of chemicals
and you are descended from animals
The one thing you can’t have you like too much,
you look but you cannot touch

- Kaiser Chiefs (Like It Too Much)

I want to walk in your park
‘cos I’m alone
I want to walk in your heart

- Scorpions (In Your Park)

You grew on me like a tumour and you spread through me like malignant melanoma
I’m afraid there’s no cure for me, no dose of emotional chemotherapy

- Tim Minchin (You Grew On Me)