A-HA – Angel In The Snow

Angel, angel or so
Wherever you may go
Hmm, yeah…
I’ll follow
Wherever you may go:

And always will I be there
Shake worries from your hair
Hmm, yeah…
I’ll be there
Always:

Angel, angel or so
Wherever you may go
Hmm, yeah…
I’ll follow
Wherever you may go:

You’re my angel in the snow
You’re my angel in the snow

A-HA – Analogue

Come back, my darling one
I’m calling on you
The road ahead is long
And I must warn you

I wonder
Where did she go?
If I failed you
I tell you right now

All I want you to know; I love you
All I need is the time to show you

Come back, my fallen son
Don’t let them fool you
Cos when the day is done
They’ll never move you

Lay down your senseless pride
(Got more than you)
Put out your mournful tones
I tell you right now

All I want you to know; I love you
All I need is the time to show you how I feel
Feel

(Lay down your senseless pride
You travelled once too often, yeah)

I tell you right now
All I want you to know; I love you
All I need is the time to show you how I feel

All I want you to know I love you
All I need is the time to show you how I feel

(Come back, my analogue
I hardly knew ya
the high end sloping off
a thing of beauty
take hold, my little ones
my minor key sonatas
show forth your looping grace
no one here can take your place)

A-HA – And You Tell Me

Please don’t hurt me
I have told you
All my love is all I’ve got
And tomorrow is the day
When I for your sake
I’m coming back

And you tell me
That I don’t love you

I’m trying hard to make you jealous
Trying harder to make you stay
Days are longer
Nights are crazy
It’s so strange when you’re away

And you tell me
That I don’t love you
Because I love you I will show you
All the faces my love can have
So please
Let me come to you
And stay this time

And you tell me
That I don’t love you
Oh you know
That it’s just not true

A-HA – A Little Bit

And it will take a little bit of extra time
To make it shine, to make it shine
And it will take a little bit of extra care
To bring it where you think it’s there

And there’s no one else around
This is what I’ve found Anyone you see
Anyone you meet
Some one at your feet
Anyone could be that one
Anyone you know
Anywhere you go
Some one in a show
Could be that one

And it will take a little bit of all you’ve got
To get a shot, get a shot
And it will take a little bit of extra care
To bring it where you think it’s there

And there’s nowhere else to go
This is what I know
Anyone you see
Anyone you meet
Maybe down the street
Anyone could be that one
Everywhere you look
Pages of a book
All the years it took
Everything got you down

And it will take a little while to get back home
The road is long, the road is long
And it will take a little work to get it back
To mend the cracks, to bridge the gaps

Anyone you see
Could be the one
Anyone you meet
Could be that one
Some one at your feet
Could feel the same
Maybe you’d complete
Could share your name
Anywhere you look
Pages of a book
Everything she took
Never let it keep you down

Holding out for used
Broken up and bruised
Losable to lose
Anywhere you go
Anyone you know
Think it doesn’t show
Everybody knows
Anyone you meet
Maybe down the street
(And it will take a little time to get back home)
Some one at you feet

A-HA – Afternoon High

The sunlight hits the corner of your eye
As it bounces off the morning sky
The summer in the 70s fly by
Bye
Daylight hits the corners of your mind
Steals the thought you thought no one could find
Close your eyes and it will rob you blind
Blind
Incidental memories collide
Sentimental reveries abide
Afternoon high

Daylight hits the corners of your mouth
Steals the words that filled you up with doubt
Open up and let them all fall out
Honey smoothes the wrinkles from you bed
Gone are the indentations of your head
Leaving just the frown upon your forehead
Incidental memories collide
Sentimental reveries abide
Afternoon high

Worry works a wrinkle over time
Open eyes and let it rob you blind
Incidental memories collide
People tell me you’ve been blinded by
On afternoon high
On afternoon high
On afternoon high

AGAINST ME! – You Must Be Willing

Let there be a volume that cannot be denied.
Let there be an emotion that you cannot fake
The greatness unanimously acknowledged.
A lie that you just cannot tell.
Let them know hatred, fear and war. Let there be peace for us all.
With our goals one day met, let us know a feeling of great accomplishment.
With our failures complete, let us learn to survive.

Your body will know if it’s not the right way to go,
just listen closely to your heart and follow
You must be willing to abandon it all.
You must be willing to starve.

Let us challenge the wait for a day of reckoning.
Let us deny shame and guilt.
Let us know with absolute certainty that we were fools to ever second guess ourselves.
Let us know a feeling of invincibility, as real as our fragile bones.
There’s a truth to be learned, I’m sure of it,
just like I know there is nothing at all.

Your Body will know if it’s not the right way to go,
just listen closely to your heart and follow.
You must be willing to abandon it all.
You must be willing to starve.

A-HA – A Fine Blue Line

Take a look and see
What’s become of me
Remember how it used to be

People that we’d meet
Were falling at your feet
You didn’t eve see it

Time marches on ahead – enough said
There’s only one way through it
Time marches on ahead – one day we’ll see it
How there’s a fine blue line
Running through it

We read each other’s books
We gave each other looks
Like we couldn’t trust ourselves
And we knew it

So tell me where you’ve been
And I’ll show you were you’re going
You can shout, you can scream
Your way through it…

Well time rushes an ahead – enough said
That’s just the way we blew it
Time marches on ahead – one day you’ll see it;
Love is a fine blue line

Time races on ahead – enough said
That’s just the way we blew it
Time marches on ahead – one day you’ll see it
Love is the fine blue line
Running through it

AGAINST ME! – You Look Like I Need A Drink

In the closest alley,
in the first doorway,
he pushed up against her
and closed his eyes.
He said, “this is probably
the worst decision that I’ve ever made.”
She laughed and smiled.
she said, “I’m sure you do this all the time…right, right, right, right, right?”

And the morning came, and the city woke
into the building, people all went to work,
as their rides out of town came they parted ways
she said, “do you know when you’re coming back again?”
Dig it deeper, deeper, and farther still,
bury it up, over and into the ground,
all these lies will grow in ways that we never thought possible.

Quiet down, down, down
so soft of a sound,
you can hear it all coming back after you.
Quiet down, down, down
so soft of a sound,
you can hear it all coming back after you.

Now you want to take it back, you think you might have fucked up.
Waking dreams of concrete, deafening panic, cracked skull,
there is yelling all around, get up, get up please start breathing
and the moment will come when you finally realize
the results of decisions and choices in your life,
can you hear it all coming back after you.

Down, down down
so soft of a sound,
you can hear it all coming back after you.
Quiet down, down down
so soft of a sound,
you can hear it all coming back after you, you, you

AGAINST ME! – Y’all Don’t Wanna Step To Dis

Four sins past sainthood,
It’s like I’m dying to forget
All the sleepless nights,
Lying perfectly alone and still.
I can drink ’till victory,
I’ll drink to the mighty,
Drink until I die,
Or at least until the sunrise
When honesty,
As popular as a plague,
Comes to remind me
The dead’s winning the race
With me going nowhere.
Right down the street,
A prostitute is selling
The closest thing to love
That this country has to offer,
And Alachua still sleeps tonight,
And Alachua still sleeps tonight,
And Alachua still sleeps tonight…

So we fought for the republic
While the Catholic sun filled every eye.
From the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean,
We drank to the mighty.
We died for oil,
We died for borders,
Killed for democracy,
Still believed every platform.
Can you handle the death,
Accept what we create together?
I still know every politician
Is a fucking monster.
Culture kills bureaucrats
And all other undesireables.
History said we died for freedom,
But today no justice was served,
And America still sleeps tonight,
And America still sleeps tonight,
And America still sleeps tonight,
And I hope it doesn’t wake up tomorrow.

So we boasted that we were champions,
Each country singing it’s own praise.
Like a rock thrown into the ocean,
Humanity was rising to the top.
Two world wars later,
Countless “military interventions”,
We erect monuments to history
And give apologies to the dead.
All that was fought for the living
Is quickly forgotten.
We don’t remember the dates,
We don’t remember the reasons.
We have no idea what’s going on,
Building histories of western corporations.
It doesn’t even turn my stomach
To see the pictures of atrocities anymore,
Going numb in the new order
Of the new century.
And Alachua still sleeps tonight,
And America still sleeps tonight,
And the world still sleeps tonight…

And Alachua still sleeps tonight…
And America still sleeps tonight…
And the world still sleeps tonight…

AGAINST ME! – White People For Peace

East and West could not agree
So their generals gave a call and gathered troops at the border
With guns ready, drawn and aimed
each side was praying to a God
to bless them with strength and courage
it was in His name that artillery lit the sky on fire
the people sang protest songs to try and stop the soldier’s gun

Protest Songs in a response to Military Aggression
Protest songs to try and stop the soldier’s gun
But the battle raged on……

Sirens filled the air and the ground shook with war
Civilian casualties has been a cost that was predetermined
when interviewed for report victims pleaded in frustration
Their claim: That this was a war without reason
Bureaucrats engaged in debate to try and reach a resolution
the people sang protest songs to try and stop the soldier’s gun

Protest Songs in a response to Military Aggression
Protest songs to try and stop the soldier’s gun
But the battle raged on……

The Broadcast like their prayers went unanswered and ignored
god, like the rest of the world, just watched in silence
There was purpose to be served, there were fortunes to be earned
before a peace could be called to stop the fighting

Protest Songs in a response to Military Aggression
Protest songs to try and stop the soldier’s gun
But the battle raged on……

AGAINST ME! – What We Worked For

Lost the confidence to write a song,
So I found three simple chords
And held them together with my weak voice
On an out of tune guitar
My father gave to me.

And may Elvis turn in his grave
And Les Paul kiss my dirty, calloused fingers
And may the likes of this song never make
One fucking dollar,
leave it for a demo tape
To be played until it’s broken,
Then remembered only for what it was.

That we gave them hell
That we gave them hell
That we gave them hell

That we gave them hell
That we gave them hell
That we gave them hell

To my friends and enemies who could of been anything,
Titans and heroes who found survival in cause and effect.
Behind counters,
Behind windows,
Striving just
To be people
With bitter ideals of justice.
Do we only need to keep working because it pays rent?
Sleeping under plastic stars glued to ceiling,
Muscles burning alcohol and nicotine
Every morning.

But we gave them hell
But we gave them hell
But we gave them hell

But we gave them hell
But we gave them hell
But we gave them hell

There’s a height beyond skyscrapers,
There’s a distance beyond the freeway,
More than pictures in a magazine,
More than tragedy in a rock and roll song.
It’s more than the actions you know are safe to make.
It’s more than money could ever buy.

Are we living to work and die in American cities?
And working to live and die in American cities,
And dying for what we worked.

AGAINST ME! – We’re Breaking Up

This is the only voice I know.
These are the only words I have.
This is the only way I know how to say, we’re not in love anymore.

It’s the same way that it’s always been,
the dynamic to the relationship never changes.
It’s the same way that it’s always been,
the dynamic to the relationship never changes.

We used to like all the same bands.
We used to have all the same friends.
What do we have left in common?
Just shared memories of good times long since past.

It’s the same way that it’s always been,
the dynamic to the relationship never changes.
It’s the same way that it’s always been,
the dynamic to the relationship never changes.
You can’t get what you want from me, and I can’t get what I need from you.

This is the only voice I know.
These are the only words I have.
This is the only way I know how to say, we’re breaking up.

It’s the same way that it’s always been.
It’s the same way that it’s always been.
I’m not giving up on us.
I’m not giving up on us.

AGAINST ME! – We Laugh At Danger (And Break All The Rules)

It was a birthday gift
of a Mexican Telecaster
And from this day on I will play along
to all my young pioneers records
And there will be a poetry
spoken silently between me and the stereo
I’ll work mornings
and you can work through the night
Mary, there is no hope for us
If this GM van don’t make it
across the state line
we might as well lay down and die
Because if Florida takes us
we’re taking everyone down with us
Where we’re coming from (yeah)
will be the death of us
And I cannot help but hold on
to a handful of times
when what was spoken
was a revolution in itself,
and what we were doing
was the only thing that mattered
And how good it felt
to kill the memory of nights spent
holding your shirt for the smell
I heard you used to cry
when you made love to him
but this band will play on
Because all we can do is what we’ve always done.
And on and on and on…

A-HA – Barely Hanging On

I used to be so sensible on my own
Now I’m so sensitive it’s a joke
I’m getting by on decibels like a drug
And greet every brand
New day with a shrug

I’m barely hanging on

I used to be so comfortable in a suit
Almost presentable next to you
I used to be so confident in a crowd
Now I can’t say my own name aloud

I’m barely hanging on

And now I guess you’re
Wondering why
We never could see eye to eye
Oh but never mind
And now I guess it’s hard to see
What has gotten into me
Oh but never mind

I’m barely hanging on

AGAINST ME! – We Did It All For Don

Please tell me why we couldn’t stay
Don’t let this feeling ever go away
Let this memory forever be inside of me
Through every hour of every day
It’s with the company of these friends
That we drove on through the night
We were carried by the wheels of armageddon

We’re gonna force ourselves to live
Thankful it’s hurt more than we’ve ever felt
It’s just our means to an end

Please tell me why we couldn’t stay
Don’t let this feeling ever go away
Let this memory forever be inside of me
Through every hour of every day
It’s with the company of these friends
That we drove on through the night
We were carried by the wheels of armageddon

And honestly we were armed with our best intentions
Maybe those intentions alone
are just enough to get us anywhere but here
In the middle of America
Six cylinders will take us further than any president
The same promises that we forgot the last time
There’s no difference between staying and a bullet in the head

So fucking tell me why we couldn’t stay
Don’t let this feeling ever go away
Let this memory forever be inside of me
Through every hour of every day
It’s with the company of these friends
That we drove on through the night
We were carried by the wheels of armageddon

Maybe it’s gonna come from the radio
Or the next 8 hour day
Driving to the next town
A collect call home to your best friend
We are the company we keep
We could live off of dumpsters if we have to
Sell our blood by the pint to make rent
This kind of dignity doesn’t come easy
But you’ll never find it for sale

And that’s why we couldn’t stay
But never let that feeling ever go away
Kept to memory, inside of us
Through every hour, through every day
Until we die
It’s with the company of those friends
We drove on through the night
Behind the wheels of armageddon

AGAINST ME! – Walking Is Still Honest

Dear mother,
This is just survival.
Cannot promise your children everything,
But you would lie so they can sleep tonight.
Defeat tasted nothing like you said.
Still 22 days left till the end of the world.
My legacy was making you a man
For a justice I could not change.
This is one voice not to forget;
“Fight every fight like you can win;
An iron fisted champion,
An iron willed fuck up.”

Can anybody tell me why God won’t speak to me?
Why Jesus never called on me to part the fucking seas?
Why death is easier than living?
You can be almost anything
When you’re on your fucking knees.
Not today,
Not my son,
Not my family,
Not while walking is still honest,
And you haven’t given up on me.

Dear shithead,
This isn’t happening;
The sky is really falling,
The paint’s all made of lead,
There’s asbestos in the walls,
Hell’s coming to rip off the doors
To your priveleged heaven.
Do you want to love and feel it?
You can look but you can’t taste it.
You can reach but you’ll never have it.
We are untouchable;
Untouchable is something to be.

Can anybody tell me why God won’t speak to me?
Why Jesus never called on me to part the fucking seas?
Why death is easier than living?
You can be almost anything
When you’re on your fucking knees.
Not today,
Not my son,
Not my family,
Not while walking is still honest,
And you haven’t given up on me,
And you haven’t given up on me,
And you haven’t forgotten me…

AGAINST ME! – Wagon Wheel

Headed down south to the land of the pines,
I’m thumbin’ my way into North Caroline
Starin’ up the road,
Pray to God I see headlights

Oh, I made it down the coast in seventeen hours
Pickin’ me a bouquet of dogwood flowers
And I’m a hopin’ for Raleigh
I can see my baby tonight

So rock me mama like a wagon wheel
Rock me mama anyway you feel
Hey mama rock me
Rock me mama like the wind and the rain
Rock me mama like a south-bound train
Hey mama rock me

Runnin’ from the cold up in New England
I was born to be a fiddler in an old-time string band
My baby plays the guitar
I pick a banjo now

Oh, the North country winters keep a gettin’ me now
Lost my money playin’ poker so I had to up and leave
But I ain’t a turnin’ back
To livin’ that old life no more

So rock me mama like a wagon wheel
Rock me mama anyway you feel
Hey mama rock me
Rock me mama like the wind and the rain
Rock me mama like a south-bound train
Hey mama rock me

Walkin’ to the south out of Roanoke
I caught a trucker out of Philly
Had a nice long toke
But he’s a headed west from the Cumberland Gap
To Johnson City, Tennessee

And I gotta get a move on fit for the sun
I hear my baby callin’ my name
And I know that she’s the only one
And if I die in Raleigh
At least I will die free

So rock me mama like a wagon wheel
Rock me mama anyway you feel
Hey mama rock me
Rock me mama like the wind and the rain
Rock me mama like a south-bound train
Hey mama rock me

AGAINST ME! – Violence

Lock the door, to your room.
Pray they don’t find us, pray they don’t kick it down.
Oh you’ve been keeping secrets,
and these kind of lies have consequences.
So many possibilities for this to all end badly.
It’s almost guaranteed.
Nothing but shame and paranoia.
A slightly desperate feeling to calm you to sleep.

What could we have done to deserve the violence like this?
What could we have done to deserve the violence like this?

And we’ll watch the light, coming under the door.
Listen for footsteps coming down the hall.
Are you gonna wake up screaming through a slit throat?
Young flesh searing on a twin mattress.
But it doesn’t have to be, the way things end.
We don’t have to give up just yet.

What could we have done to deserve the violence like this?
What could we have done to deserve the violence like this?

AGAINST ME! – Up The Cuts

I can’t sleep.
Dry red eyes wide open.
Stare at the white stucco ceiling.
I turn on the TV,
watch music on television.
Have I heard this song before?
Did this already happen?
Derived influence in style of dress.
Similar trends in camera technique and editing.
Sync up the cuts to the bass drum kick.
All the taste makers drinking from the same glass.
Is there anyone thinking what I am?
Is there anyone thinking what I am?

Are you restless like me?

All the insiders rumor over the decline in sales.
All the buzz is happening in the new digital market place.
FBI warning printed on the flipside.
Under penalty of law piracy will be prosecuted.
In MRR someone asks the question,
“With the instant availability of information
and content so easily obtainable
is the culture now a product that’s disposable?”
All the punks still singing the same song.
Is there anyone thinking what I am?
Is there any other alternative?

Are you restless like me?

AGAINST ME! – Untitled

You tell me actions all that I, could ever do or say,
And me and my jealousy have stole your songs and passed them off as my own.
As much as I would like for it not to show,
You can smell the stink on my breath and in my clothes, its so obvious.

If I could only be, half the things you write about in your songs,
If I could only mean half as much to anyone.

And in my arrogance I write, pages of anger, hate and spite,
All of the reasons I have to trust, absolutely no one.
Today I heard you on my stereo, and it shamed me, and it shamed me to think,
That I could be so unoriginal.

Well I could only be half the genius that you are.
To feel such honest one, to show love. I would show you love.

Well if I could only feel half as resolute in my beliefs.
If I could only sing with such bravery.
I cannot explain how much you mean to me.
Without your words I would be lost.