Au Revoir Simone - Stay Golden

I saw it coming
I just thought that you should know
I'm feeling better every day
I'm only waiting if you stay
So don't feel bad
Your faith was an illusion
And you're as loyal as your faith
Will let you be

Your expectation
It's not hard to live without
I'm feeling better every day
And emptiness still leaves a space
So don't feel bad
You lost all your emotion
And may you find all your relations
Will keep you free

A careless bird is complicated
An empty nest still leaves a space

LCD Soundsystem - All My Friends

That's how it starts.
We go back to your house.
We check the charts,
And start to figure it out.

And if it's crowded, all the better,
because we know we're gonna be up late.
But if you're worried about the weather
then you picked the wrong place to stay.
That's how it starts.

And so it starts.
You switch the engine on.
We set controls for the heart of the sun,
one of the ways we show our age.

And if the sun comes up, if the sun comes up, if the sun comes up
and I still don't wanna stagger home.
Then it's the memory of our betters
that are keeping us on our feet.

You spent the first five years trying to get with the plan,
and the next five years trying to be with your friends again.

You're talking 45 turns just as fast as you can,
yeah, I know it gets tired, but it's better when we pretend.

It comes apart,
the way it does in bad films.
Except in parts,
when the moral kicks in.

Though when we're running out of the drugs
and the conversation's winding away.
I wouldn't trade one stupid decision
for another five years of lies.

You drop the first ten years just as fast as you can,
and the next ten people who are trying to be polite.
When you're blowing eighty-five days in the middle of France,
Yeah, I know it gets tired only where are your friends tonight?

And to tell the truth.
Oh, this could be the last time.
So here we go,
like a sail's force into the night

And if I made a fool, if I made a fool, if I made a fool
on the road, there's always this.
And if I'm sewn into submission,
I can still come home to this.

And with a face like a dad and a laughable stand,
you can sleep on the plane or review what you said.
When you're drunk and the kids leave impossible tasks
you think over and over, "hey, I'm finally dead."

Oh, if the trip and the plan come apart in your hand,
you look contorted on yourself your ridiculous prop.
You forgot what you meant when you read what you said,
and you always knew you were tired, but then,
where are your friends tonight?

Where are your friends tonight?
Where are your friends tonight?

If I could see all my friends tonight,
If I could see all my friends tonight,
If I could see all my friends tonight,
If I could see all my friends tonight

Babyshambles - Revelations

I dont want to leave my room
im happy in my dust and gloom
and i have been ever since
the revelations began
ever since the revelations began

when the revelation begun
man i just know i say a long lung lung
way back when upon the room of albion
the first anti-christ was napoleon

that's so typical of you,
so typical of me oh me oh me oh
way up on the numbers, high up on the numbers
nobody could see what you see in me oh me oh
way up on the numbers, upon the numbers
two wrongs dont make a right
but for five minutes it felt alright

 when the revelation begun
man i just know i say a long lung lung
way back when upon the room of albion
the first anti-christ was napoleon
and hitler is the second one
garble manifest in a worldwide satan
king soloman was the wisest man
but yet still he get tricked by a woman

that's so typical of you
so typical of me oh me oh me oh
way up on the numbers, high up on the numbers
nobody could see, nobody believed
way up on the numbers, high up on the numbers
one and one is three, if you throw in one for free, oh free me
upon the numbers, upon the numbers

I said just walk the walk, talk the talk
Billy Bilo cant smoke a pipe in peace, too much bothera, too much police.

i dont want to leave my room
quite happy in my dust and gloom
and i have been ever since
the revelations began
ever since the revelations began
ever since the revelations began
ever since the revelations began

The Beta Band - Assessment

I think I cracked my skull on the way down
I think I lost my head when I lay down
The fear of facts presented in the cold light of day

I say the time has come for decision
Better steer my boat for a reason
Lost on the way I went over horizon
She went out of sight
The girl lost me a lifetime

Sometimes I feel.. baby
Sometimes I feel.. baby

I say the time has come for decision
Better steer my boat for a reason
Lost on the way I went over horizon
She went out of sight
The girl lost me a lifetime

Sometimes I feel.. baby
Sometimes I feel.. baby

I think I cracked my skull on the way down
I think I lost my head when I lay down
The fear of facts presented in the cold light of day

And when I step back from all this I see that I'm fighting
I can't help myself, there's no reason for lying
Truth and fiction they all become one

Help me from the sea to the beach to the laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Sometimes I feel ..baby

Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967).  Counter-Attack and Other Poems.  1918.

Suicide In The Trenches

I knew a simple soldier boy
Who grinned at life in empty joy,
Slept soundly through the lonesome dark,
And whistled early with the lark.
In winter trenches, cowed and glum,	5
With crumps and lice and lack of rum,
He put a bullet through his brain.
No one spoke of him again.     .    .    .    .
You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye
Who cheer when soldier lads march by,	10
Sneak home and pray you’ll never know
The hell where youth and laughter go.