song endings

It’s deeper than you can breathe It’s farther than you could see It’s too much to...

Tue, 29 May 2012 23:36:32 -0400

It’s deeper than you can breathe
It’s farther than you could see
It’s too much to ask of me
It’s all in the glass you’ll see
It’s deeper than you can breathe
It’s all in the glass you’ll see
It’s farther than we could be
It’s deeper than you and me
Frightened eyes

- Beach House

we live on a mountainright at the topthere’s a beautiful viewfrom the top of the mountainevery...

Thu, 10 May 2012 10:35:20 -0400

we live on a mountain
right at the top
there’s a beautiful view
from the top of the mountain
every morning i walk towards the edge
and throw little things off
like:
car-parts, bottles and cutlery
or whatever i find lying around

it’s become a habit
a way
to start the day

i go through this
before you wake up
so i can feel happier
to be safe up here with you

it’s real early morning
no-one is awake
i’m back at my cliff
still throwing things off
i listen to the sounds they make
on their way down
i follow with my eyes ‘til they crash
imagine what my body would sound like
slamming against those rocks

and when it lands
will my eyes
be closed or open?

i’ll go through all this
before you wake up
so i can feel happier
to be safe up here with you

- bjork, hyperballad

Well I’m as cool as a cucumber in a bowl of hot sauce You’ve got the rhyme and reason...

Mon, 07 May 2012 18:31:34 -0400

Well I’m as cool as a cucumber in a bowl of hot sauce
You’ve got the rhyme and reason but no cause
Well if you’re hot to trot you think you’re slicker than grease
I’ve got news for you crews you’ll be sucking like a leech

- Adam Yauch / MCA

[RIP]

Bob Marley was a prophet for the freedom fightIf dancin’ prays to the LordThen I shall feel...

Sun, 06 May 2012 18:32:27 -0400

Bob Marley was a prophet for the freedom fight
If dancin’ prays to the Lord
Then I shall feel alright’
I’m feeling good to play a little music
Tears running down my face ‘cause I love to do it’

- MCA / Adam Yauch

If you can feel what I’m feeling then it’s a musical masterpiece If you can hear what...

Sun, 06 May 2012 09:16:57 -0400

If you can feel what I’m feeling then it’s a musical masterpiece
If you can hear what I’m dealing with then that’s cool at least
What’s running through my mind comes through in my walk
True feelings are shown from the way that I talk

- Adam Yauch / MCA

[RIP]

Roving packs of elusive young becomeChoke lore writers over boosted drumsIn the terrifying face of a...

Sat, 05 May 2012 18:31:26 -0400

Roving packs of elusive young become
Choke lore writers over boosted drums
In the terrifying face of a future tongue
Down down from a huntable surplus to one

- Aesop Rock, Zero Dark Thirty

To try to change the world I will plot and scheme.

Sat, 05 May 2012 12:05:24 -0400

- Adam Yauch / MCA

[RIP]

I never sleep, cause sleep is the cousin of death.

Fri, 04 May 2012 18:31:45 -0400

- Nas

To all the mothers and sisters and the wives and the friends, I want to offer my love and respect to the end...

Fri, 04 May 2012 17:44:26 -0400

– MCA (Adam Yauch), Beastie Boys

God only knows what I'd be without you.

Thu, 03 May 2012 18:31:17 -0400

- The Beach Boys

Human beings in a mobWhat’s a mob to a king? What’s a king to a God?What’s a God...

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 21:42:30 -0400

Human beings in a mob
What’s a mob to a king? What’s a king to a God?
What’s a God to a non-believer who don’t believe in anything?
Will he make it out alive? Alright, alright, no church in the wild.

- Kanye West & Jay-Z

And you still say I love you, but you still want my soul.

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 22:41:17 -0400

- Youth Lagoon

Here I am, baby,Come and take me,Take me by the hand.Show me, take me, won’t yaShow meHere I...

Sun, 15 Apr 2012 22:42:45 -0400

Here I am, baby,
Come and take me,
Take me by the hand.
Show me, take me, won’t ya
Show me
Here I am, baby
Take me
Teach me
Won’t you take me by the hand
Teach me.

- Al Green

However far away,I will always love you.However long I stay,I will always love you. Whatever words I...

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 23:02:25 -0400

However far away,
I will always love you.
However long I stay,
I will always love you.
Whatever words I say,
I will always love you;
I will always love you.

- The Cure, Lovesong

You’re not my dream girl.You’re not my reality girl.You’re my dreams come true...

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 12:26:40 -0400

You’re not my dream girl.
You’re not my reality girl.
You’re my dreams come true girl.

– Cass McCombs

As I decay, demons prey above me like a vulture Ability to endure contradiciton is a high sign of...

Sat, 07 Apr 2012 08:27:45 -0400

As I decay, demons prey above me like a vulture
Ability to endure contradiciton is a high sign of culture
Verbal sculptures, self defacing
It is not God or lunacy that I am facing
But the erasing of the purity and passion of my words
The herds of cattle babble on with talk of the absurd
But I preferred
To walk away from all the feuds
To find my life is more confusing than a rubic’s cube
So i’m subdued
In all my words of verbal prods
To live alone one must be an animal or a God
But it’s official
All of my pain is clear as crystal
The natural side of life has now been seeming artificial
But I can hit you
And rest assured that i’m a last words
I could give a fuck about your secrets and your passwords
I can pass words with the ability to hurt you
Patience is a virtue and knowledge is a commercial
I who have nothing but the pain that I refer to
I who have nothing but the pain that I refer to

- Jedi Mind Tricks, I Who Have Nothing

How to Write a Screenplay or Tell a Better Story. This is my...

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 12:36:46 -0400

How to Write a Screenplay or Tell a Better Story.

This is my first non-lyrics update. I wrote this deck over the last few weeks, consolidating things I’ve learned as I continue writing. Mostly I wrote it because it’s something I wish I had when I was starting out.

I’m not a super successful screenwriter, but I wrote/produced the documentary Second Skin, which premiered at SXSW, won a bunch of awards, and was distributed internationally; and I’ve written a bunch of screenplays, one which was a Sundance Film Lab Finalist. No summer blockbusters, no Oscars.

How can we dance when our Earth is turning?How do we sleep while our beds are burning? - Midnight...

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 23:13:48 -0400

How can we dance when our Earth is turning?
How do we sleep while our beds are burning?

- Midnight Oil

Red is my favorite colorRed like your mother’s eyes after a while Of crying about how you...

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 09:28:31 -0400

Red is my favorite color
Red like your mother’s eyes after a while
Of crying about how you don’t love her
She says, “I know I don’t deserve
Supervised sight of her
But each day becomes a blur without my daughter”

Fall is my favorite season
Like falling to reasoning why you crashed from on high
She says, “Why is my life so uneven
And what have I done right
But given you your life
If after I led you on into that bar room?”

“Yes” is my favorite answer
I took a dancer home, she felt so alone
We stayed up all night in the kitchen
Doing my dishes, on and on until the dawn
She said, “I know that it’s easy to have me
But I have seen some things
That I cannot even tell to my family pictures
And I’m full of fictions and fucking addictions
And I miss my mother”

She’ll never know I could never forget her
If I could write her a letter, I’d try with every line
To say, “She still remembers your touch
And I know that it’s not much
But you still haven’t lost her”

- Okkervil River, Red

I still keep my baby teeth in the bedside table with my jewelry you still sleep in the bed with me,...

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 13:39:07 -0400

I still keep my baby teeth
in the bedside table with my jewelry
you still sleep in the bed with me,
my jewelry, and my baby teeth

I don’t need another friend
When most of them
I can barely keep up with them
perfectly able to hold my own hand,
but I still can’t kiss my own neck.

I wanted to give you everything
but I still stand in awe of superficial things
I wanted to love you like my mother’s mother’s mothers did

civilian

– Wye Oak