chelsea.

I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel, you were talking so brave and so sweet, giving me head on the unmade bed, while the limousines wait in the street. Those were the reasons and that was New York, we were running for the money and the flesh. And that was called love for the workers in song probably still is for those of them left.

Ah but you got away, didn't you babe, you just turned your back on the crowd, you got away, I never once heard you say, I need you, I don't need you, I need you, I don't need you and all of that jiving around.

I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel you were famous, your heart was a legend. You told me again you preferred handsome men but for me you would make an exception. And clenching your fist for the ones like us who are oppressed by the figures of beauty, you fixed yourself, you said, "Well never mind, we are ugly but we have the music."

And then you got away, didn't you babe, you just turned your back on the crowd, you got away, I never once heard you say, I need you, I don't need you, I need you, I don't need you and all of that jiving around.

I don't mean to suggest that I loved you the best, I can't keep track of each fallen robin. I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel, that's all, I don't even think of you that often.

-Leonard Cohen

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