- Abraham Lincoln
"Im a phoenix in the water
A fish thats learnt to fly
And I've always been a daughter
But feathers are meant for the sky
So I'm wishing, wishing further
For the excitement to arrive
It's just I'd rather be causing the chaos
Than laying at the sharp end of this knife
With every small disaster
I'll let the waters still
Take me away to some place real
'Cause they say home is where your heart is set in stone
Is where you go when you're alone
Is where you go to rest your bones
It's not just where you lay your head
It's not just where you make your bed
As long as we're together, does it matter where we go?
Home"
A fish thats learnt to fly
And I've always been a daughter
But feathers are meant for the sky
So I'm wishing, wishing further
For the excitement to arrive
It's just I'd rather be causing the chaos
Than laying at the sharp end of this knife
With every small disaster
I'll let the waters still
Take me away to some place real
'Cause they say home is where your heart is set in stone
Is where you go when you're alone
Is where you go to rest your bones
It's not just where you lay your head
It's not just where you make your bed
As long as we're together, does it matter where we go?
Home"
- Home by Gabrielle Aplin
"Press my nose up to the glass around your heart
I should've known I was weaker from the start
You'll build your walls and I will play my bloody part
To tear, tear them down
Well I'm gonna tear, tear them down"
- Babel by Mumford & Sons
"The glove compartment isn't accurately named
And everybody knows it.
So I'm proposing a swift orderly change.
Cause behind its door there's nothing to keep my fingers warmAnd all I find are souvenirs from better times
Before the gleam of your taillights fading east
To find yourself a better life.I was searching for some legal documentAs the rain beat down on the hood
When I stumbled upon pictures I tried to forget
And that's how this idea was drilled into my headCause it's too importantTo stay the way it's beenThere's no blame for how our love did slowly fadeAnd now that it's gone it's like it wasn't there at all
And here I rest where disappointment and regret collide
Lying awake at night"
- Title and Registration by Death Cab for Cutie
"Older brother, restless soul, lie down
Lie for a while with your ear against the earth
And you'll hear your sister sleep talking
Say "Your hair is long but not long enough to reach
Home to me
But your beard
Someday might be"
And she'll wake up in a cold sweat on the floor
Next to a family portrait drawn when you were four
And beside a jar of two cent coins that are no good no more
She'll lay it aside
Older father, weary soul, you'll drive
Back to the home you made on the mountainside
With that ugly, terrible thing
Those papers for divorce
And a lonely ring
A lonely ring
Sit on your porch
And pluck your strings
And you'll find somebody you can blame
And you'll follow the creek that runs out into the sea
And you'll find the peace of the Lord.
Grandfather, gentle soul, you'll fly
Over your life once more before you die
Since our grandma passed away
You've waited for forever and a day
Just to die
And someday soon
You will die
It was the only woman you ever loved
That got burnt by the sun too often when she was young
And the cancer spread and it ran into her body and her blood
And there's nothing you can do about it now"
- Blood by The Middle East
?Honey how you gonna make it on your own?
Honey how you gonna make it on your own?
When you wake up in the night
And see the stars just city lights
And you can't find home?
You act like you don't need nobody else And you dance like you don't need nobody else
And all the other moths need light
To circle round while you just fly
Around yourself Oh I stir my sugar with a spoon And watch your white dress float around the room
I try to see what you're about
But even my candles are down and out Honey why you gotta hide your face from me? Honey why you gotta hide your face from me?
Will I starve in this eclipse while you treat every hungry kiss Like one more mouth to feed?"
- One More Mouth by Josh Ritter
"If I ventured in the slipstream
Between the viaducts of your dream
Where immobile steel rims crack
And the ditch in the back roads stop
Could you find me?
Would you kiss-a my eyes?
To lay me down
In silence easy
To be born again"
- Astral Weeks by Van Morrison
"Oh how I wish I could drag you down here;
Pull these feet oh far from the ground
Because this, this city ain't no friend of mine,
Ain't no friend
All I can do,When the tracks stop at the final destination,
Is just push on through
The weariness and silences of such a crowded situation here
All I can do,When every brick, every bar, every elegance I see,
I see her face,
Is just push on, just push on through;
These embers are memories that float from the fire,
From the fire of this place
So don't give up on me nowOh these legs that'll walk me home
Because it's only concrete and cars oh,
Yeah it's only sirens and missing stars,
Oh it's only whiskey and disregard
In the smallest hours here, when I feel alone
All I can do, When these lights,
They haunt me like orchids in a graveyard here
Is just push on, just push on through
These faces of dust and stone;
The dirt and bone of loss;
Loss is here,
Oh we’re lost here"
- London by Ben Howard
"Sheets of empty canvas
Untouched sheets of clay
Were laid spread out before me
As her body once did
All five horizons
Revolved around her soul
As the earth to the sun
Now the air I tasted and breathed
Has taken a turn
Oh and all I taught her was everything Oh I know she gave me all that she wore
And now my bitter hands
Chafe beneath the clouds
Of what was everything
Oh the pictures have
All been washed in black
Tattooed everything
I take a walk outside
I'm surrounded by
Some kids at play
I can feel their laughter
So why do I sear
Oh, and twisted thoughts that spin
Round my head
I'm spinning
Oh, I'm spinning
How quick the sun can, drop away
And now my bitter hands Cradle broken glass
Of what was everything
All the pictures had
All been washed in black
Tattooed everything
All the love gone bad
Turned my world to black
Tattooed all I see
All that I am
All I'll be
YeahI know someday you'll have a beautiful life
I know you'll be a star
In somebody else's sky
But why
Why
Why can't it be
Why can't it be mine"
- Black by Pearl Jam
I should've known I was weaker from the start
You'll build your walls and I will play my bloody part
To tear, tear them down
Well I'm gonna tear, tear them down"
- Babel by Mumford & Sons
"The glove compartment isn't accurately named
And everybody knows it.
So I'm proposing a swift orderly change.
Cause behind its door there's nothing to keep my fingers warmAnd all I find are souvenirs from better times
Before the gleam of your taillights fading east
To find yourself a better life.I was searching for some legal documentAs the rain beat down on the hood
When I stumbled upon pictures I tried to forget
And that's how this idea was drilled into my headCause it's too importantTo stay the way it's beenThere's no blame for how our love did slowly fadeAnd now that it's gone it's like it wasn't there at all
And here I rest where disappointment and regret collide
Lying awake at night"
- Title and Registration by Death Cab for Cutie
"Older brother, restless soul, lie down
Lie for a while with your ear against the earth
And you'll hear your sister sleep talking
Say "Your hair is long but not long enough to reach
Home to me
But your beard
Someday might be"
And she'll wake up in a cold sweat on the floor
Next to a family portrait drawn when you were four
And beside a jar of two cent coins that are no good no more
She'll lay it aside
Older father, weary soul, you'll drive
Back to the home you made on the mountainside
With that ugly, terrible thing
Those papers for divorce
And a lonely ring
A lonely ring
Sit on your porch
And pluck your strings
And you'll find somebody you can blame
And you'll follow the creek that runs out into the sea
And you'll find the peace of the Lord.
Grandfather, gentle soul, you'll fly
Over your life once more before you die
Since our grandma passed away
You've waited for forever and a day
Just to die
And someday soon
You will die
It was the only woman you ever loved
That got burnt by the sun too often when she was young
And the cancer spread and it ran into her body and her blood
And there's nothing you can do about it now"
- Blood by The Middle East
?Honey how you gonna make it on your own?
Honey how you gonna make it on your own?
When you wake up in the night
And see the stars just city lights
And you can't find home?
You act like you don't need nobody else And you dance like you don't need nobody else
And all the other moths need light
To circle round while you just fly
Around yourself Oh I stir my sugar with a spoon And watch your white dress float around the room
I try to see what you're about
But even my candles are down and out Honey why you gotta hide your face from me? Honey why you gotta hide your face from me?
Will I starve in this eclipse while you treat every hungry kiss Like one more mouth to feed?"
- One More Mouth by Josh Ritter
"If I ventured in the slipstream
Between the viaducts of your dream
Where immobile steel rims crack
And the ditch in the back roads stop
Could you find me?
Would you kiss-a my eyes?
To lay me down
In silence easy
To be born again"
- Astral Weeks by Van Morrison
"Oh how I wish I could drag you down here;
Pull these feet oh far from the ground
Because this, this city ain't no friend of mine,
Ain't no friend
All I can do,When the tracks stop at the final destination,
Is just push on through
The weariness and silences of such a crowded situation here
All I can do,When every brick, every bar, every elegance I see,
I see her face,
Is just push on, just push on through;
These embers are memories that float from the fire,
From the fire of this place
So don't give up on me nowOh these legs that'll walk me home
Because it's only concrete and cars oh,
Yeah it's only sirens and missing stars,
Oh it's only whiskey and disregard
In the smallest hours here, when I feel alone
All I can do, When these lights,
They haunt me like orchids in a graveyard here
Is just push on, just push on through
These faces of dust and stone;
The dirt and bone of loss;
Loss is here,
Oh we’re lost here"
- London by Ben Howard
"Sheets of empty canvas
Untouched sheets of clay
Were laid spread out before me
As her body once did
All five horizons
Revolved around her soul
As the earth to the sun
Now the air I tasted and breathed
Has taken a turn
Oh and all I taught her was everything Oh I know she gave me all that she wore
And now my bitter hands
Chafe beneath the clouds
Of what was everything
Oh the pictures have
All been washed in black
Tattooed everything
I take a walk outside
I'm surrounded by
Some kids at play
I can feel their laughter
So why do I sear
Oh, and twisted thoughts that spin
Round my head
I'm spinning
Oh, I'm spinning
How quick the sun can, drop away
And now my bitter hands Cradle broken glass
Of what was everything
All the pictures had
All been washed in black
Tattooed everything
All the love gone bad
Turned my world to black
Tattooed all I see
All that I am
All I'll be
YeahI know someday you'll have a beautiful life
I know you'll be a star
In somebody else's sky
But why
Why
Why can't it be
Why can't it be mine"
- Black by Pearl Jam
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