tripoli.

Best to smile
Best to squeal for Daddy
Best to revile
The baby Jesus loves the company

Must have lost my mind
When I lost the car keys
On my way out
Strange how you're not with me

Where has my head gone?
Where do you hole up to mutilate the day from me?
Where has my head gone?
Well I felt it slip away

Best to defile
Best to stay sleeping
In a while
I will awake to be a has been

Must have lost my mind
When I lost your heart key
On my way out
Strange how you're not with me

-Matthew Good

goodbye.

I remember holding on to you
All them long and lonely nights I put you through
Somewhere in there I'm sure I made you cry
But I can't remember if we said goodbye

But I recall all of them nights down in Mexico
One place I may never go in my life again
Was I just off somewhere just too high
But I can't remember if we said goodbye

I only miss you here every now and then
Like the soft breeze blowing up from the Caribbean
Most Novembers I break down and cry
But I can't remember if we said goodbye

-Steve Earle

sunny in space.

If I could I would hide my face and clear my mind with a bottle of wine, fly into the sky away from this place.

It's always sunny in space.

loneliness.

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.

-Albert Einstein

personalities.

...are there. In all their good and bad. Do you ever wonder if you will forever be stuck in one experience?

the challengers.

Yes I know it was late
We were greeting the sun
Before long
And you live with someone
I live with somebody too
Leave it there
For safe keeping
One of the west village in plains
That was the custom
Come dawn
On the walls of the day
In the shade of the sun
We wrote down
Another vision of us
We were the challengers of
The unknown
"Be safe" you say
Whatever the mess you are you mind okay
That is the custom
On down
Until I see you around
Until we clear the accounts
Leave it there
Leave it to us
We are the challengers of
The unknown

-The New Pornographers

the highwayman.

I'll fly a starship across the Universe divide
And when I reach the other side
I'll find a place to rest my spirit if I can
Perhaps I may become a highwayman again
Or I may simply be a single drop of rain
But I will remain
And I'll be back again.

nessun dorma.

Nessun dorma! Nessun dorma!
Tu pure, o Principessa,
nella tua fredda stanza
guardi le stelle
che tremano d'amore e di speranza!

Il nome suo nessun saprà...
E noi dovrem, ahimè, morir, morir!

Dilegua, o notte! Tramontate, stelle!
Tramontate, stelle! All'alba vincerò!
Vincerò! Vincerò!

five hornets.

Remember when five hornets flew into our apartment all at once?
You hid in the bathroom until I had killed them all.

The times we walked in Point Pleasant Park the dogs were happy and we were happy. They chased the deer away; you cried but they came back.

Hand raised pigeons, cats that made me crazy, we shared a single solitaire game when we went to bed. And you were safe again.

Don’t you forget about me, like childhood movies. Every moment that slowly dies is like rain on the sidewalk that slowly dries.

I killed all of our best memories like those five hornets, but parts remain. Dead bugs in our minds. The drinking helps me sleep.

things in common.

If we had one thing in common
It’s that all those things, I did for you.
And all those things that you did, you did for you too.

peeling the labels off drink bottles.

Even in a crowd, I'm by myself and cold
As we were getting closer, closer was getting old
Peeling the labels off drink bottles

a single spark explosion.

I dreamt last night of sirens
By flashlight I had found you
You just held my hand
By the bright lights in some ICU
Even the planless have a plan
I can't write love songs when I'm on these things
I'm affable, responsible, but hard to be around
It's correctible and they're right you know
It's as easy as it sounds
It's all as easy as it sounds
I dreamt last night I saw you
A single spark explosion negotiating with the dead
By the bright lights in some ICU
On my chest you put your head
And said...
There you are
There you are
There's my heart

-Matthew Good

canon in d.

Maybe if I wrote a love song for you; when I sang it, all the words could be true.

aliens.

It is like you are an alien. You came to this planet. You observed people in various situations. Maybe you took notes. And now you act how you think you should act, without really knowing why.

life and people.

Here is the church and here is the steeple, life would be great if it wasn't for all the people.

august whenever.

The closer you get to me, the further you’ll want to be.

fashionable people.

I feel foolish, I want to drink too much...

now what.

Have you ever been at a loss?

testing, 1, 2, 3.

Hello. Is there anybody in there?

soldier.

I'm a soldier, but I've got no soul.