blather
some_of_the_best_lyrics_everwritten
unhinged 'i hurt myself today to see if i still feel; i focus on the pain the only thing that's real...you can have it all, my empire of dirt. i will let you down. i will make you hurt.'

'you know you're down when you count the friends you have but you only use one hand honey; it finally hit your face. you're feeling mighty low just slightly out of place. storm. your dreams have drowned again because you never learned to swim. older but no better.'

'in this life like weeds you're the dirt i breathe; eyes need us to see, hearts need us to bleed.'

'silence is the loudest parting word you never say.'

'it's he who laughs last that cries first.'

'all this talk of getting old is getting me down my love. like a cat in a bag waiting to drown, it's time that i come down.' 		030614
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silentbob i am writing
graffitti on your body
I am drawing the story of
how hard we tried
I am watching your chest rise and fall
like the tides of my life,
and the rest of it all
and your bones have been my bedframe
and your flesh has been my pillow
I am waiting for sleep
to offer up the deep
with both hands
in eachother's shadows we grew less and less tall
and eventually our theories couldn't explain it all
and I'm recording our history now on the bedroom wall
and eventually the landlord will come
and paint over it all 		030615
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x "my brain's the weak heart and my heart's the long stairs" 030615
...
whoa nellie It was like, the last day before trash day (uh)
My place was gettin' kinda nas-tay (uh)
Even though the garbage I knew would reek
(You know) Thought that I could leave it for one more week

--Weird Al 		030615
...
god i found a beak in a mcnugget once 030616
...
wayuphigh 'all eyes on the calendar
another year i claim of total indifference
to here the days pile up
with decisions to be made
i'm sure all of them were wrong
into this song, i send myself
and with these drinks i plan to collapse and forget
this wasted year
these wasted years
devoted friends, they disappear
i'm sorry about the phone call and needing you
some decisions you don't make
i guess it's like breathing and not wanting to
there are some things that you can't fake
i guess that it is typical
to cling to memories you'll never get back again
and to sort through old photographs of a summer long ago
or a friend that you used to know
and there, below his frozen face
you wrote the name and that ancient date
and you can't believe he is really gone
when all that's left is a fucking song
i'm sorry about the phone call and waking you
i know that its late
but thank you for talking because i needed to
some things just can't wait'

and

'is it because i can spell confusion with a k its hard to like it. its to dying in anothers arms and why i had to try it. its to jimmy eat world and those nights in my car. when the first star you see, may not be a star, im not your star. isnt that what you said, what you thought this song meant? and if this is what it takes just to lay in my mistakes. to live with what i did to you, and all the hell i put you through. i always catch the clock, its 11:11 and you wanna talk. its not hard to dream. youll always be my konstantine. theyll never hurt you like i do. no no no no no no no no. this is to a girl who got into my head with all the pretty things she did. hey maybe, baby, you could keep me up in bed. this is to a girl who got into my head with all these fucked up things i did. hey maybe maybe you should keep me up in bed. my konstantine. spin around me like a dream. we played out on this movie screen, and i said, did you know i missed you? did you know i missed you? did you know i missed you? did you know i missed you? did you know i missed you? did you know i missed you? god i missed you.' 		030616
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unhinged 'i can never finish it. i can never get the courage up to finish it...cause i'm absent-minded.'

'there's a gap in between/ there's a gap where we meet/ where i end & you begin/ and i'm sorry for us/ the dinosaurs roam the earth/ the sky turns green/ where i end & you begin/ i am up in the clouds/ i am up in the clouds/ and i can't/ & i can't come down/ i can watch but/ not take part/ where i end & where you start/ where you you left me alone/ you left me alone./ X will mark the place/ like parting the waves/ like a house falling into the sea/ i will eat you alive/ and there'll be no more lies'

'in pitch dark/ i go walking in/ your landscape/ broken branches/ trip me as i speak/ just because you feel it/ doesn't mean it's there/ just because you feel it/ doesn't mean it's there/ there's always a siren/ singing you to shipwreck/ steer away from these rocks/ we'd be a walking disaster/ just because you feel it/ doesn't mean it's there/ just because you feel it/ doesn't mean it's there/ there there/ why so green and lonely?/ heaven sent you to me/ we are accidents/ waiting/ waiting to happen/ we are accidents/ waiting/ waiting to happen' 		030619
...
celestias shadow AFI. It's poetry. 030629
...
paranoid martyr to me, afi sometimes is way to corny to the sound of the music. but yeah, they have neat pieces.


i think any song by tool or radiohead owns the title. 		030720
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/anon "i wish i were an oscar meyer weiner! that is what id truley like to be!
cuz if i were an oscar meyer weiner..
then every one would be in love with me"


"broken, bruised, forgotten, sore!
too fucked up to care anymore!
poison to my rotton core!
too fucked up to care anymore!"
NIN
"teeths in the knecks of everyone you know
you can keep on sucking till the blood wont flow
when it starts to hurt it only helps it grow
taking all you need (but not this time)
no you dont!"
NIN
catchy little number 		030720
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delial "i was staring at the sky
just looking for a star
to pray on, or wish on, or something like that
I was having a sweet fix of a daydream of a boy
whose reality, I knew was hopeless to be had
but then the dove of hope began its downwards slope
and I believed for a moment that my chances were approaching to be grabbed
but as it came down near, so did a weary tear

I thought it was a bird
but it was just a paper bag


hunger hurts, and i want him so bad
oh, it kills
cause i know i'm a mess he don't wanna clean up
i gotta fold cause these hands are too shaky to hold
hunger hurts, but starving works
when it costs too much to love


and i went crazy again today
looking for a strand to climb
looking for a little hope
baby said he couldn't stay
he wouldn't put his lips to mine
a fail to kiss is a fail to cope
I said: "honey, i don't feel so good, don't feel justified; come on, put a little love here in my void"
he said: "it's all in your head,"
and i said: "so's everything"
but he didn't get it

I thought he was a man
but he was just a little boy 		030720
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jane anything by atmosphere 030721
...
jane i.e.

like_today
god's_bathroom_floor 		030721
...
Freak i'm so tired of being here
suppressed by all my childish fears
and if you have to leave
i wish that you would just leave
'cause your presence still lingers here
and it won't leave me alone

these wounds won't seem to heal
this pain is just too real
there's just too much that time cannot erase

[chorus]
when you cried i'd wipe away all of your tears
when you'd scream i'd fight away all of your fears
i held your hand through all of these years
but you still have
all of me

you used to captivate me
by your resonating life
now i'm bound by the life you left behind
your face it haunts
my once pleasant dreams
your voice it chased away
all the sanity in me

these wounds won't seem to heal
this pain is just too real
there's just too much that time cannot erase

[chorus]

i've tried so hard to tell myself that you're gone
but though you're still with me
i've been alone all along

[chorus] 		030721
...
nomatter stairway to heaven 030914
...
Dafremen "Meanwhile back in the year One --- when you belonged to no-one ---
you didn't stand a chance son, if your pants were undone.
`Cause you were bred for humanity and sold to society ---
one day you'll wake up in the Present Day ---
a million generations removed from expectations
of being who you really want to be.

Skating away ---
skating away ---
skating away on the thin ice of the New Day.

So as you push off from the shore,
won't you turn your head once more --- and make your peace with everyone?
For those who choose to stay,
will live just one more day ---
to do the things they should have done.
And as you cross the wilderness, spinning in your emptiness:
you feel you have to pray.
Looking for a sign
that the Universal Mind (!) has written you into the Passion Play.

Skating away on the thin ice of the New Day.

And as you cross the circle line, the ice-wall creaks behind ---
you're a rabbit on the run.
And the silver splinters fly in the corner of your eye ---
shining in the setting sun.
Well, do you ever get the feeling that the story's
too damn real and in the present tense?
Or that everybody's on the stage, and it seems like
you're the only person sitting in the audience?

Skating away on the thin ice of the New Day." 		030914
...
Dafremen "Wond'ring aloud --
how we feel today.
Last night sipped the sunset --
my hands in her hair.
We are our own saviours
as we start both our hearts beating life
into each other.

Wond'ring aloud --
will the years treat us well?
As she floats in the kitchen,
I'm tasting the smell
of toast as the butter runs.
Then she comes, spilling crumbs on the bed
and I shake my head.
And it's only the giving
that makes you what you are." 		030914
...
Dafremen "In the shuffling madess
of the locomotive breath,
runs the all-time loser,
headlong to his death.
He feels the piston scraping --
steam breaking on his brow --
old Charlie stole the handle and
the train won't stop going --
no way to slow down.
He sees his children jumping off
at the stations -- one by one.
His woman and his best friend --
in bed and having fun.
He's crawling down the corridor
on his hands and knees --
old Charlie stole the handle and
the train won't stop going --
no way to slow down.
He hears the silence howling --
catches angels as they fall.
And the all-time winner
has got him by the balls.
He picks up Gideons Bible --
open at page one --
old Charlie stole the handle and
the train won't stop going --
no way to slow down." 		030914
...
Dafremen "The minstrel in the gallery
looked down upon the smiling faces.
He met the gazes ---
observed the spaces
between the old men's cackle.
He brewed a song of love and hatred ---
oblique suggestions --- and he waited.
He polarized the pumpkin-eaters ---
static-humming panel-beaters ---
freshly day-glow'd factory cheaters
(salaried and collar-scrubbing).
He titillated men-of-action ---
belly warming, hands still rubbing
on the parts they never mention.
He pacified the nappy-suffering,
infant-bleating
one-line jokers ---
T.V. documentary makers
(overfed and undertakers).
Sunday paper backgammon players --- family-scarred
and women-haters.

Then he called the band down to the stage
and he looked at all the friends he'd made.

The minstrel in the gallery
looked down on the rabbit-run.
And threw away his looking-glass -
saw his face in everyone."

You can take all yer favorites and compare them up against Jethro Tull and come nowhere NEAR matching the man's genius. Perry Farrell could barely take care of Tull's LIGHT work. 		030914
...
once again "They love to tell you stay inside the lines, but somethings better on the other side."

"Take a shower, shine your shoes, you got no time to lose, you are young men you must be livin'"

"Let's walk home. Let's be afraid"

"At least we're still friends, at lest we're still alive."

Hello & Goodbye - The Ataris 		030914
...
ferret "iii am a muchkin
eeeating a mushroom"

sounds beter when i do the dance with it though 		030914
...
bandersnatch "im your only friend,
im not your only friend.

im your little glowing friend,
but really im not accually your friend,

but i am."

they_might_be_giants
bridhouse_in_your_soul 		030915
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Alden ...and it comes to be that the soothing light at the end of your tunnel
is just a freight train coming your way... 		030915
...
sirflaccid I HOLD MY BREATH BUT I HAVE TO BREATHE

-Alien Ant Farm
-truANT
-#3 Quiet 		030915
...
celestias shadow so you think you can tell heaven from hell blue skies from pain can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail a smile from a veil do you think you can tell? 030915
...
spathic Satan gave me a taco and it made me really sick
The chicken was all raw and the grease was mighty thick
The rice was all rancid and the beans were so hard
I was gettin' kinda dizzy eatin' all the lard
There was aphids on the lettuce an' I ate every one
An' after I was done the salsa melted off my tongue
Pieces of tortilla got stuck in my throat
An' the stains on my clothes burned a hole through my coat
My stomach was a-tremblin' and I broke out in a rash
I was so dry and thirsty and I didn't have no cash
So I went and found a hose, tore off all my clothes
Turned on the water and it shot right up my nose
Some old lady came along and she thought I was a freak
So she beat me with a handbag till I could hardly speak
I was lying there naked, my body badly bruised
In a pool of my own blood, unconscious and confused
Well, the cops came and got me and threw me in their van
And I woke up on the ceiling and I couldn't find my hand
They took me to the judge, his eyes a-glowin' red
The courtroom was filled with witches and the dead
Well, the sheriff was a hellhound with fangs and claws
The prisoners were tied up and chained to the walls
The air was gettin' thick; the smoke was gettin' thicker
The judge read the verdict: said, "Cut off his head!"
Well, they placed me on the altar, and they raised up the axe
My head was about to explode when I noticed the Marshall stacks
I noticed all the smoke machines, cameras and the lights
Some guy with a microphone, runnin' around dancin' in tights
And I noticed the crew and the band playin' down below
And I realized I was in a rock video

So I went and joined the band and I went out on tour
And I smoked a lot of heroin and I passed out in manure
I made out with the groupies, started fires backstage
I made a lot of money and I gave it all away
Well, the band got killed, so I started a solo career
And I won all the awards and I drank all the beer
I opened up a taco stand just to smell the smell
Cookin' with the devil, fryin' down in hell 		031019
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unhinged subsequent_losses 031221
...
karl the weed Mirror, mirror, upon the wall... I'm asking you
Who is the most confused of them all?
Mirror, mirror, subservient twin screams back at me "you."
You sick flawless mime, I want to break you. Yeah, you're a clever one...

Do you reflect me, or do I reflect you, are you inside of another world?
I want to break through... yeah, you're a clever one.

Is this a tool, can I step through?
To find another plane or just a shadow of a man?
A superficial tool to support the vanity of weak...
When you don't love yourself. 		031221
...
melted plastic yellow hair
you are a funny bear.
yellow hair
you are such a funny bear. 		031221
...
smurfus rex when the rain is blowin in your face
and the whole world is on your case
I would offer you a warm embrace
to make you feel my love.

when the evening shadows and the stars appear
and there is no one to dry your tears
I could hold you for a million years
to make you feel my love.

know you haven't made your mind up yet
but I would never do you wrong
known it from the moment that we met
there's no doubt in my mind where you belong.

I'd go hungry I'd go black and blue
I'd go crawlin down the avenue
there ain't nothin that I wouldn't do
to make you feel my love.

storms are raging on a rollin sea
down the highway of regret
the winds of change are blowin wild and free
but you ain't seen nothin like me yet.

there ain't nothin that I wouldn't do
go to the ends of the earth for you
make you happy make your dreams come true
to make you feel my love.

~GB 		031221
...
bob dylan actually, that's my song, smurf. at the time he wanted to cover it, garth led me to believe that he was moving away from country for more of a lo-fi post-rock landscape. so i give him the song, and he plays it garth by numbers. i got some nice royalty cheques out of it, though, so i can't complain. but i still don't know what i was thinking when i let billy joel cover it. i gotta learn to draw the line somewhere, or in a few years every teenager is gonna think avril lavigne wrote "knockin' on heaven's door". 031222
...
Nirvanic Blind I got on here to write the "hurt" lyrics only to see that they were the first ones written. 031222
...
smurfus rex I'll have to find your original version, then, Bob, so I can make a comparison. Garth's was the first version I heard, though.

And I thought Guns and Roses did "Knockin'" first...j/k :) 		031222
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Flowers from Safeway "When your name is Evil
Bad is good
or so you think
but you're so very wrong

It's Evil
But being wrong is right
so then you're good again
...which is the evilest thing of all"

TMBG 		031222
...
Nirvanic Blind Burry me softly in this womb
I give this part of me for you
Sand rains down and here I sit, holding rare flowers in a tomb....in bloom

Down in a hole and I don't know if I can be saved
See me heart I decorate it like a grave
you don't understand who they thought I was supposed to be
Look at me now, a man who won't let himself be

Down in a hole
Feeling so small (losing control)
Down in a hole
Losing my soul

I want to fly but my wings have been so denied 		031227
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whitechocolatewalrus Where do we go from here
The words are coming out all weird
Where are you now, when I need you
Alone on an aeroplane
Fall asleep on against the window pane
My blood will thicken

I need to wash myself again to hide all the dirt and pain
Cos I'd be scared that there's nothing underneath
But who are my real friends
Have they all got the bends
Am I really sinking this low

My baby's got the bends, oh no
We don't have any real friends, no, no, no

Just lying in the bar with my drip feed on
Talking to my girlfriend, waiting for something to happen
I wish it was the sixties, I wish I could be happy
I wish, I wish, I wish that something would happen

Where do we go from here
The planet is a gunboat in a sea of fear
And where are you
They brought in the CIA, the tanks and the whole marines,
To blow me away, to blow me sky high

My baby's got the bends
We don't have any real friends

Just lying in the bar with my drip feed on
Talking to my girlfriend, waiting for something to happen
I wish it was the sixties, I wish I could be happy
I wish, I wish, I wish that something would happen

I wanna live, breathe
I wanna be part of the human race
I wanna live, breathe
I wanna be part of the human race, race, race, race

Where do we go from here
The words are coming out all weird
Where are you now when I need you 		040101
...
x "the ravens and the seagulls push eachother inwards and outwards"
"i never met a pearl quite like you who could shimmer and rot at the same time too"
"how do i get back there to the place where i fell asleep inside you?"
"you told me that you want to die, i said i've been there myself more than a few times, and i go back every once and awhile. you called me lucky. you said tonight is a wonderful night to die. i asked you... you told me to look at the sky. look at all those stars. look at how goddamn ugly the stars are"
"i said 'maybe you're a vampire' you said 'it's quite possible i feel truly dead inside'"
"twitching and salivating like with myxomatosis"
"the me that you know is now made up of wires"
"i hopped up like a wet ciggarette and shes coming up to me with the butterfly net"
"you are spinning off into candy floss" 		040102
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love hater "You won't believe in me/ but you would fancy/ leprechauns or groundhogs/ No thank you, easter bunny" 040102
...
phil The gleam in your eyes, it troubles my brain
Will I see it again
so I can rest my head
Angel, angel, dancing away
as all of my thoughts get rearranged
Angel, Angel turning away
just when things seem to have changed
so I can rest my head 		040427
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bwaaaaahahahahaha just about any of daffy's stuff 040427
...
SpoiLed_BraT I’ve looked at you
With the focus I gave to my birthday candles
I’ve wished on the lidded blue flames
Under your brow
And baby, I wished for you
Nobody sees when you are lying in your bed
And I wanna crawl in with you
But I cry instead
I want your warm, but it will only make
Me colder when it's over
So I can’t tonight, baby
No, not ‘baby’ anymore - if I need you
I’ll just use your simple name
Only kisses on the cheek from now on
And in a little while, we’ll only have to wave
My hand won’t hold you down no more
The path is clear to follow through
I stood too long in the way of the door
And now I’m giving up on you 		040729
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ItGirl "cuz when i look around
i think this, this is good enough
and i try to laugh
at whatever life brings
cuz when i look down
i just miss all the good stuff
when i look up
i just trip over things"

"The sun is shining down and
There is no one else around now
Wish you were here to hear me say
This is gonna be my greatest day"

"cuz i've got
no illusions about you
and guess what?
i never did
and when i say
when i say i'll take it
i mean,
i mean as is..."

"you're a star the way you are
You know you're not fooling anyone, no
You got the eyes of an angel
Don't try to change, yeah
Everybody's got their scars
no matter what they tell you you're beautiful the way you are"

"Baby don't worry cause now I got your back. And every time you feel like crying,
I'm gonna try and make you laugh. And if I can't, if it just hurts too bad,
then we will wait for it to pass and I will keep you company
through those days so long and black.
And we'll just keep working on the problem we know we'll never solve of Love's uneven remainder.
But if the world could remain in a frame like a painting on a wall.
Then I think we would see the beauty.
Then we would stand staring in awe at our still lives posed like a bowl of oranges,
like a story told by the fault lines and the soil." 		040729
...
pete "St John after the war

d g d g
As I sit here and write you this letter I feel
d bm em a
that im almost beside you not on the north sea
d g d g
send me pictures of springtime and robins in hintonburg
d a d
and i'll sail my corvette for free
your reflection amazed me it woke me it dayzed me
the moonlight is reversing reality
and as i stare through my teardrop the gunfire just wont stop
on fire i fall in the sea
d f#
but like a bluebird on your window
g em
ill be waiting in the morning
d bm em a
ill be flying like the flag on the first of july
d g
and if my words start repeating
d g d a d
it means that were meeting in St John after the war

In that warm mountain weather when we were together
around wakefield and wolf lake and camp pellerin
but the winds were depressing and the u-boats addressing
their parties to old montreal

I remember the sinking and many were thinking
why it was us that lived through that hell
but for me it was you and the baby thats due
and ill see you after the war
but like a bluuebird
. words and music Charlie Gardner (last verse Aaron Zaadich once Don Gardner)

"

from www.charlieville.com

this man is brilliant (guitar tabs are included, the wierd letter lines) 		040729
...
aM i DiStUrBeD? CLOUDED IS MY JUDGEMENT
OF WHAT I THOUGHT IS YOU
WHAT I NOW PRECIVE YOU TO BE
AND WHAT I THOUGHT I KNEW

HOW COULD I SEE LIKE THIS?
THIS BLANKET THAT COVERS MY EYES
OBSCURED THEN MY VISION
THIS THOUGHT NOW COLD AS ICE.

WHY WOULD I THINK LIKE THIS?
WHAT IS IT THAT I HAVE DONE?
HOW COULD IT END UP THIS WAY?
WHY CANT I FIND SOMEONE?

AM I DISILLUSIONED?
LOST ON THE ROAD OF MY LIFE?
CAN I FIND ANOTHER WAY?
OR IS MY HEART TO PAY THE PRICE?

PAINT THIS CANVAS BLACK WITH MY MIND
THE PAIN GETS WORSE WITH YOUR PRESSENCE
DESTROY THE TORN FRAGMENTS WITH MY HEART
THE FIRE THAT BURNS, MY ESSENCE. 		040729
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SpoiLedBraT LIFE SUCKS
woke up today, won't be the same,
I'll cope with this flaw that's my life and that's ok
it's not depressing it just takes a little work.
i try a little harder, try a little harder than everyone else...
i don't want your pity. i'm happy with what i am.
if you don't like how i act then you don't have to be around me.
if i could just grow up then everything would be just fine.
why does my life suck? today i broke a mirror with some grace.
seven years of bad luck don't seem so bad.
just an extension of what i already had. 		040808
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pete The Man Comes Around

And I heard as it were the noise of thunder
One of the four beasts saying come and see and I saw
And behold a white horse

There's a man going around taking names and he decides
Who to free and who to blame every body won't be treated
Quite the same there will be a golden ladder reaching down
When the man comes around

The hairs on your arm will stand up at the terror in each
Sip and each sup will you partake of that last offered cup
Or disappear into the potter's ground
When the man comes around

CHORUS

Hear the trumpets hear the pipers one hundred million angels singing
Multitudes are marching to a big kettledrum
Voices calling and voices crying
Some are born and some are dying
Its alpha and omegas kingdom come
And the whirlwind is in the thorn trees
The virgins are all trimming their wicks
The whirlwind is in the thorn trees
It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks
Till Armageddon no shalom no shalom

Then the father hen will call his chicken's home
The wise man will bow down before the thorn and at his feet
They will cast the golden crowns
When the man comes around

Whoever is unjust let him be unjust still
Whoever is righteous let him be righteous still
Whoever is filthy let him be filthy still
Listen to the words long written down
When the man comes around

CHORUS

Hear the trumpets hear the pipers one hundred million angels singing
Multitudes are marching to a big kettledrum
Voices calling and voices crying
Some are born and some are dying
Its alpha and omegas kingdom come
And the whirlwind is in the thorn trees
The virgins are all trimming their wicks
The whirlwind is in the thorn trees
It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks
In measured hundred weight and penny pound
When the man comes around

And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts
And I looked and behold, a pale horse
And it's name it said on him was Death
And Hell followed with him.

-johnny cash 		040809
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shiestygirl for the girl with the hourglass figure, time runs out very fast. 071231
...
another blather NIN fan "you were never really real to begin with
i just made you up to hurt myself
and it worked

yes it did"

only 		071231
...
anne-girl i said be careful his bowtie is really a camera 080102
...
jane started out so young & strong, only to surrender..

jackson_browne 		080102
what's it to you? blather
who go from