Which means Sebadoh is important.

"Swallow what you feel
You alone decide what's real
Anyone can be your brand new love." - Sebadoh (Of Course)

Sometimes I sleep, sometimes its not for days
And the people I meet always go their separate ways
Sometimes you tell the day
By the bottle that you drink
And times when you're all alone all you do is think


I'm a cowboy, on a steel horse I ride
I'm wanted dead or alive
Wanted dead or alive


---Bon Jovi


(my favorite lyric here...."and times when you're all alone all you do is think"----brilliant)

"I remember the letter wrinkled in my hand
'I'll love you always' filled my eyes
I remember a night we walked along the Seine
riding on the Metro

I remember a feeling coming over me
the soldier turned, then looked away
I remember hating you for loving me
riding on the Metro

I'm alone
sitting with my BROKEN glass
my four walls
follow me through my past
I was on a Paris train
I emerged in London rain
and you were waiting there
swimming through apologies (Sorry)..." - Berlin

A knif,a fork,a bottle and a cork.
That's the way to spell New York.

Dillinger
(I think)

cuz it gets too hard
when it'sgone too far
what's left inside
well it got to something once
on the other side

Moving Targets-Other Side
R.I.P. Pat Leonard

"Alcohol's not a drug, it's a drink" Chris Morris, Brass Eye

"A robot walks into a bar,
orders a drink,
lays down a bill,
The bartender says, hey we don't serve robots,
and the robot says, oh but someday you will"

David Berman, Silver Jews, The Frontier Index


"O Dallas you shine with an evil light
How'd you turn a billion steers
into buildings made of mirrors,
and why am I drawn to you tonight?"

"Watching the makeup girls make out with the mannequins
"Hey boys, supper's on me, our record just went aluminum"

David Berman, Silver Jews, Dallas


Of course, I could pretty much copy and paste the whole lyric sheet from 'The Natural Bridge', the whole album is pretty much lyrical/poetic perfection.

"As easy as it might seem
remember that yerself is steam." - Mercury Rev

"There's only one thing that I know how to do well
And I've often been told that you only can do
What you know how to do well,
And that's be you.
Be what you're like.
Be like yourself.
And so I'm having a wonderful time
But I'd rather be whistling in the dark." - They Might Be Giants

"I'm only waiting for the proper time to tell you
That it's impossible to get along with you
It's hard to look you in the face when we are talking
So it helps to have a mirror in the room"


There's no home for you here - Jack White

All things considered, you just gotta face it - I don't think many of us would be here if it were not for the lyrics/sounds of Sebadoh.

As such, the song quote that has been on autoplay in my head tonight is:

"You've been broken for a long time
Swallowing what you deserve." - Sebadoh

Warms you up inside
Soothes your wounded pride
But your gold turns to lead
As it goes to your head
And you cry
Drunken tears once again, my friend

So what if you're not the genius
You always thought you were?
Nobody hears the brilliant words
Between your ears
And you cry
Drunken tears once again, my friend

Here's some ancient truth
Dredged up from your youth
A voice from way back when
Long lost love that might have been
And you cry
Drunken tears once again, my friend

Go ahead, I don't mind your drunken tears


----Quasi (Sam Coomes)

"Look who's talking to their shadow like one who hasn't got a friend
Like somebody with a broken heart that is never gonna mend

Look who's walking through the night in the rain like one who's under a spell
Like somebody with a lot on their mind, but no one to tell

Everyone you see seems so happy and carefree
They've found someone to love, but you are alone

Look who's flipping through the photographs of those happier days
Only losing something beautiful could make a person feel this way

Everyone you see seems so happy and carefree
They've found someone to love, but you are alone

Look who's talking to their shadow like one who hasn't got a friend
Like somebody with a broken heart that is never gonna mend..." - Of Montreal

"I know you're in there. I can hear you caring." - House (To Wilson)

"Look down deep inside the crystal clear
water flowing 'round from your head
Looks like again this time
I'll have to back track
on what it was that I said

I would never ever compromise,
kiss the clouds of love,
or fall for someone like you
Now I find my eyes are open
and my ship is coming in
with my beautiful love aboard

Shining like Athena
in a silver suit of armor
Her love is like a nail
and now I'll bring down the hammer
Sprouting like a flower on a hill top
is where I'll find her
Where I'll plant a seed and watch it grow
into the streaming light of love." - The Olivia Tremor Control

"There's a secret stigma, reaping wheel.
Diminish, a carnival of sorts.
Chronic town, poster torn, reaping wheel.
Stranger, stranger to these parts." - R.E.M.

"Merry Christmas." - Tritter

"And a 'Happy Go To Hell.'" - House

"My guitar wants to kill yr mamma"
FZ

These lyrics have really resonated with me lately....


I don't judge people
I just watch them 'til it's
time to look away
I want to look away now
Somebody's coming

I don't want to live backwards,
I don't want to even look backwards
It's not my fault
It's not my fault you don't love me
It's not my fault you don't love me
When I'm drunk

I'm wiped
I'm so tired

Carry me for a little while


---Kristin Hersh (Your Dirty Answer)

"He just smiled and gave me a vegemite sandwich
And he said,

'I come from a land down under
Where beer does flow and men chunder
Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
You better run, you better take cover.'" - Men At Work

Birds fighting in midair

And all the sky is theirs

There's all of the sky

Yet they peck out anothers eyes



Free as a bird!

Or is that just a word?

Up to be free

to free myself from me