Live, love, run

Great concert last night - Eskimo Joe at the Fremantle Arts Centre. Went with Grego and Muz and got ripped. I am not hideously hung over but am tired and seriously not even considering doing my 15km long run today. Not good. Will need to make it up next week.

Top shelf gig. They really played well with the songs of the night Childhood Behaviour and Sarah. Great venue and heaps of fun with the lads.

I hurt myself today
to see if I still feel
I focus on the pain
the only thing that’s real
the needle tears a hole
the old familiar sting
try to kill it all away
but I remember everything
what have I become?
my sweetest friend
everyone I know
goes away in the end
and you could have it all
my empire of dirt

I will let you down
I will make you hurt

I wear this crown of thorns
upon my liar’s chair
full of broken thoughts
I cannot repair
beneath the stains of time
the feelings disappear
you are someone else
I am still right here

what have I become?
my sweetest friend
everyone I know
goes away in the end
and you could have it all
my empire of dirt

I will let you down
I will make you hurt

if I could start again
a million miles away
I would keep myself
I would find a way

by Nine Inch Nails (check out the Johnny Cash version)

Counting Crows - From Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings 

Can you see me up on the building

From down on the pavement or out in the crowd?

Can you see me through the glare of the lamppost?

I’m walking a tightrope into the moon

I don’t want to feel so different

But I don’t want to be insignificant

And I don’t know how to see the same things different now

Oh, could you see me?

I’m one in a million

I am Icarus falling out of the sun

Could you see me fall in the light of spotlights

And jackknife through night as black as a bedroom

And white as a lie?

I don’t want to feel so different

But I don’t want to be insignificant

And I don’t know how to see the same things different now

Diving through the dark

While the night turns blue

Are you aware of your intentions?

Because I wear my intentions so clear

If you see me wading through water

Come drown in the river right in front of the world

You can wash your face and hands in the stream of my anger

It’s as bright as white paper

And as dark as a girl

I don’t want to feel so different

But I don’t want to be insignificant

And I don’t know how to see the same things different now

WORDS BY ADAM F DURITZ

MUSIC BY ADAM F DURITZ, DAN VICKREY,

CHARLES GILLINGHAM, & DAVID IMMERGLÜCK

By Ben Lee: 

I refuse to go numb
I refuse to go numb
I refuse to go numb
So let the music come
Let the music come
Let the music come

I think there’s something in that for all of us…

By U2 (edited)

Sometimes I feel like I don’t know
Sometimes I feel like checkin’ out
I want to get it wrong
Can’t always be strong
And love it won’t be long…

Oh sugar, don’t you cry
Oh child, wipe the
tears from your eyes
You know I need you to be strong
And the day is as dark as
the night is long
Feel like trash, you
make me feel clean
I’m in the black,
can’t see or be seen

Baby, baby, baby…light my way

You bury your treasure
Where it can’t be found
But your love is like a secret
That’s been passed around
There is a silence that
comes to a house
Where no one can sleep
I guess it’s the price of love
I know it’s not cheap

Baby, baby, baby…light my way

I remember
When we could sleep on stones
Now we lie together
In whispers and moans
When I was all messed up
And I had opera in my head
Your love was a light bulb
Hanging over my bed

Baby, baby, baby…light my way

Ultraviolet…

“What I’ve Done” - Linkin Park

In this farewell,

There’s no blood,

There’s no alibi.

‘Cause I’ve drawn regret,

From the truth,

Of a thousand lies.

So let mercy come,

And wash away…

What I’ve Done.

I’ll face myself,

To cross out what I’ve become.

Erase myself,

And let go of what I’ve done.

Put to rest,

What you thought of me.

While I clean this slate,

With the hands,

Of uncertainty.

So let mercy come,

And wash away…

What I’ve Done.

I’ll face myself,

To cross out what I’ve become.

Erase myself,

And let go of what I’ve done.

For What I’ve Done

I’ll start again,

And whatever pain may come.

Today this ends,

I’m forgiving what I’ve done.

I’ll face myself,

To cross out what I’ve become.

Erase myself,

And let go of what I’ve done.

What I’ve done.

Forgiving What I’ve Done.

I love this song. Simple. 

John Butler Trio - Losing You (from the excellent album Grand National)

There are things in this life I
would rather not sacrifice
You girl I cannot live without
And you know there’s no doubt that
All I mind’s losing you

I don’t mind losing sleep
Pray the lord my soul to keep
I’ll get plenty of rest when I am dead
But till then won’t you share my bed
Cos all I mind’s losing you
All I mind’s losing you

And I don’t mind losing money
There’s nothing this life owes me
I’ve been given more than I can receive
But for you there’s no receipt
So all I mind’s losing you
All I mind’s losing you
All I mind’s losing you

I don’t mind growing old
Losing teeth and going bald
Not as handsome as I ever was
But you love me just because
All I mind’s losing you
All I mind’s losing you

There are things in this life I
Would rather not sacrifice
You girl I cannot live without
And you know there’s no doubt that
All I mind’s losing you
All I mind’s losing you
All I mind’s losing you

Colorblind - Counting Crows - Lyrics

I am colorblind
Coffee black and egg white
Pull me out from inside
I am ready
I am ready
I am ready
I am
Taffy stuck, tongue tied
Stuttered shook and uptight
Pull me out from inside
I am ready
I am ready
I am ready
I am…fine
I am covered in skin
No one gets to come in
Pull me out from inside
I am folded, and unfolded, and unfolding
I am
colorblind
Coffee black and egg white
Pull me out from inside
I am ready
I am ready
I am ready
I am…fine
I am…. fine
I am fine