Band: Stop Motion Poetry (MySpace)
Song: On Your Feet

Lyrics:
When there is no one left to see
You feel alone but you’ll never be
You cry a bit and you wonder who
Dries your tears, well he’s right next to you

You’ve fallen one too many times
To get up by yourself
You’ve fallen one too many times
I am here to help

Now you’re walking forward
With your head held high
You’re no longer lonely
And you smile towards the sky

When there is no one next to you
You feel the strength to stand up on the two
Of your feet
And you smile, amidst the pain
Amidst the pain

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Tags: Stop Motion Poetry

Artist: Coheed & Cambria
Song: Feathers
Album:No World For Tomorrow

Lyrics: (Source)
History’s made its mark in anger.
As everybody knows, it’s what we do,
It’s nothing new.

The next chords struck are fault and failure
And we both know that finger points on cue,
There’s blame for two.

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Tags: Coheed & Cambria

Artist: The Weakerthans
Song: The Last Last One
Album: Watermark EP

You always stole all my last words.
Here’s no exception then, one more for me to send.
And nothing happens in the end.
I’m thinking of you less, more concerned…
and more is less, I guess it doesn’t matter now.

Maybe we’ll never go insane.
You always said we would,
sometimes I wished we could with
you lying naked in the rain
and singing Boney M, cutting down all our old friends.
I talk to them again now.

So here’s the last one I have left.
We fell a little deep, I watched you fall asleep.
And nothing happens in the end,
but I remember when I could remember when.
Seems like a long time ago.

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Tags: The Weakerthans

Artist: Moneen
Song: There Are A Million Reasons For Why This May Not Work… And Just One Good One For Why It Will

Lyrics:
Who’s to say the way I am
is not to blame on hating love.
Let’s be tragic, let’s be sad.
These eyes can’t seem to see the way I am.

All for love. You wait way too long.
All for love.

Cry and sob while you wait for him.
This kind of love won’t last it never did.
What if this had never happened?
What if we had never seen the light of day?
What if this had never happened?
What if we had never met at all?

All for love. You wait way too long.
All for love.

What if…
this had never happened?
We had never seen the light of day?
This had never happened?
We had never met at all?

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Tags: Moneen

It’s been 260 days.

Motion City Soundtrack – L.G. FUAD:

…
I wanna know what it’s like to be awkward and innocent, not belligerent
I wanna know how it feels to be useful and pertinent and have common sense.. yeah
Let me in, let me in to the club, cuz I wanna belong
And I need to get strong, and if memory serves
I’m addicted to words and they’re useless
…

Sometimes I still want to go out and get slammed. Stephen King describes his alcoholism well in his book “On Writing.”

I had forgotten the trick of being straight–and out of shame.

Hemingway and Fitzgerald didn’t drink because they were creative, alienated, or morally weak. They drank because it’s what alkies are wired up to do. Creative people probably do run a greater risk of alcoholism and addiction than those in some other jobs, but so what? We all look pretty much the same when we’re puking in the gutter.

He writes of a friend:

“How much do you drink?” the counselor asked.
My friend looked at the counselor with disbelief. “All of it,” he said, as if that should have been self evident.

I can relate. As so kindly pointed out by generations of alcoholics and their kin, alcoholism doesn’t end when you put the bottle down. Now I’ve got to learn to put down the pizza, the television, the HIMYM and Scrubs, the music, the movies, the books, the news.

Heck, while I’m at it maybe I ought to deny myself, take up my cross, and follow him.

Categories: Life, Lyrics, Religious, Writing
Tags: addiction, alcohol, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Motion City Soundtrack, Stephen King