December 2011
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One of the best things about Christmastime in LA...
June 2011
2 posts
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“Do you realize that everyone you know, someday, will die?
And instead of saying...”
– The Flaming Lips, “Do You Realize?”
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Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, "Home"
Alexander: Well, there's something I never told you about that night.
Jade: What didn't you tell me?
Alexander: While you were in the backseat, smoking a cigarette, you thought it was going to be your last. I was falling deep... deeply in love with you... and I never told you 'til just now.
May 2011
1 post
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“It could all be so simple
But you’d rather make it hard
Loving you is...”
– Lauryn Hill, “Ex-Factor”
April 2011
3 posts
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“We will live longer than I will
We will be better than I was”
– Lykke Li, “Love Out Of Lust”
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“Don’t ask me what you know is true
Don’t have to tell you
I love...”
– INXS, “Never Tear Us Apart”
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“Don’t say a word…
The last one’s still stingin’”
– Spoon, “Everything Hits At Once”
March 2011
4 posts
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“Sensitive. Yes, it’s true.
Alligator tears, cried over you.
Run around...”
– Tegan and Sara, “Alligator”
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“Come back to kiss my dear
Come back to face my fears
It can’t be worse...”
– Ozma, “Shooting Stars”
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Being forced into a contemplative mood today I was thinking about long term relationships (about 1.5+ years qualifies as “long term” in my book). I was thinking about how you can be with someone for such a long time and at some point, it stops being what it was when it started and turns into something that you no longer enjoy. Maybe it never really worked to begin with but it just took...
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“Take me home with you tonight
We’ll touch ‘til it feels right
You...”
– Stars, “Time Can Never Kill The True Heart”
February 2011
5 posts
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“Will you take the pain
I will give to you
Again and again?
And will you...”
– Depeche Mode, “Strangelove”
bonus cover by Bat for Lashes
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“It’s not easy to let it all go
But once in awhile it’s good for...”
– Zola Jesus, “I Can’t Stand”
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“Baby, it’s you, and only you, and no one else.
And I mean it
Even when...”
– Third Eye Blind, “Monotov’s Private Opera”
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“My heart’s lost touch with the world around me
I need that love back so I...”
– School of Seven Bells, “The Wait”
January 2011
1 post
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“You don’t know how to play the game
You cheat
You lie
You don’t...”
– Gayngs, “Cry”
December 2010
13 posts
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“We were all basically alone,
Despite what all his studies had shown...”
– Andrew Bird, “Imitosis”
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“I could have meant it if you let me”
– Broken Social Scene, “Market Fresh”
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“I’m gonna steer clear
‘Cause I’d die if I saw you
I’d...”
– John Mayer, “In Your Atmosphere”
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“My momma used to say “always trust your lover”
I guess that only...”
– Prince, “Another Lonely Christmas”
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“I keep those chopsticks you had from
when you taught abroad in Japan
I love...”
– Local Natives, “Airplanes”
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“I know you’re wise beyond your years
But do you ever get the fear
That...”
– The Postal Service, “Clark Gable”
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“Let’s admit we made a mistake
But can we still be friends?...”
– Todd Rundgren, “Can We Still Be Friends?”
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“I don’t want to know
That you don’t want me
I don’t want to...”
– Tegan and Sara, “Someday”
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“Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around.”
– Penelope Cruz, “Vanilla Sky” 2001
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“When you think nothing could be further from the truth
When you’re sure...”
– Tegan and Sara, “Red Belt”
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“If anything could ever feel this real forever
If anything could ever be this...”
– Foo Fighers, “Everlong”
November 2010
9 posts
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“Well, you always knew where you were going to
So sweetly you said please come...”
– Third Eye Blind, “Forget Myself”
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“Will someone please call a surgeon
Who can crack my ribs and repair this broken...”
– The Postal Service, “Nothing Better”
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“The troubled words of a troubled mind
I try to understand what is eating you
...”
– Radiohead, “Black Star”
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“Cry on demand, how’d you learn to?
Cry on demand, teach me if you want...”
– Ryan Adams, “Cry On Demand”
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“I flew home, back to where we met,
And I stayed inside, I was so upset.
I...”
– Tegan and Sara, “Nineteen”
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The Static Age, “Lights In The Attic”
...
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“Break me into bigger pieces
So some of me is home with you”
– LCD Soundsystem, “Dance Yrself Clean”
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“And baby, my heart’s been breaking
I gave a lot to you
I take a lot...”
– Interpol, “The New”
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October 2010
11 posts
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“And the trails on your skin spoke more to me than reams and reams of...”
– Los Campesinos, “This is how you spell ‘HAHAHA, We’ve Destroyed The Hopes and The Dreams of A Generation of Faux-Romantics’”
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“I can put my arms around every boy I see…
But they only remind me of you.”
– Prince, “Nothing Compares 2 U”
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“Your joy is your sorrow unmasked.
And the selfsame well from which your...”
– Kahlil Gibran, On Joy and Sorrow (via narratrix)
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“They say size doesn’t count
But my heart is a house”
– Broken Social Scene, “Gang Bang Suicide”
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“It’s nothing but time and a face that you lose,
I chose to feel it and...”
– Stars, “Your Ex-Lover Is Dead”
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“I think the kids are in trouble
Do not know what all their troubles are for...”
– The National, “Conversation 16”
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“You must be a masochist
To love a modern leper on his last leg
Well I...”
– Frightened Rabbit, “The Modern Leper”
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“I want to be wrong but
No one here wants to fight me like you do
Combat baby,...”
– Metric, “Combat Baby”
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“Alright, I’ll say what you want me to
Alright, I’ll do all the...”
– Stars, “Heart”
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“If I touched myself the way you touched me
If I could hold myself the way you...”
– Norah Jones, “I Wouldn’t Need You”