Just some timely appropriate lyrics: Welcome home! 
Husker Du - Do you remember?
We do it all for fun you know
Get loaded after the show, it’s all part of the scene
Don’t hate us, we’re just kids
People say we’re behind the times,
go ahead and see if I care
Do you remember?
When you were our age
Do you remember?
Henry Rollins: Inhale, Exhale.
Inhale resolve, Exhale ambition
Inhale all I need, Exhale all I want
Inhale love of life, Exhale fear of death
Inhale power, Exhale force
I have all I need
I can live without
I have what I need
I can live without
Inhale tolerance, Exhale judgement
Inhale what I am, Exhale what I think I am
I have all I need
I can live without
I have all I need
I can live without
Don’t hold me down
Don’t hold me down
Don’t hold me down
Inhale fact, Exhale assumption
Inhale what I want to be, Exhale how I want to be seen
Don’t hold me down
Don’t hold me down
Don’t hold me down
I have all I need
I can live without
I have what I need
I can live without
I have all I need
I can live without
I have all I need
I can live without
I’m so sorry
I know exactly what you mean
Tired of being devilish
Sick of being wicked
Habitual, and untrue
Another starting over
Although it is the ending
I send regards to you
Standing on the steps
Steps of the cathedral
Watch the summer fade
Just trying to get to somewhere
Trying to get just anywhere
And I know it ain’t my day
Mark Lanegan.
In the immortal (ish) words of Mark E Smith - The Fall, John Peel’s favourite band of all time - everything hurtz.
Today anyway.
“Come to me
Come unto me
All ye that labor
You that are heavy laden
Cos everything hurts
And everything hurts
I’ve been pursuing the fuel too long
Got a big fat pain in my chest bone
Got an empty pocket book
Got a big fat momma in my cheque-book
And everything hurts
And everything hurts
I got the disease tinnitus
I’m speakin’ like I’ve got Tourrette’s
And everything hurts
I’m born
I’m dressed like a road beacon
On my way to Valhalla breakfast
And everything hurts
Can’t you see the bitches by my side
Followin’ me through all my life
And everything hurts
I was born
Come to me all ye that labor and are heavy laden
My head dip dip dip dipping, man
All my limbs are disconnected
And everything hurts
I’ve been pursuing the fuel too long
Got a big fat pain in my chest bone
And everything hurts
Everything hurts
[...] man
Cos everything hurts
I got a big fat [slug] on my knee bone
And the back of my [...], zipped up
And everything hurts “
Evil musical genius. When he gets it right, he is lethally accurate, and devastingly good.
Things Have Changed
A worried man with a worried mind
No one in front of me and nothing behind
There’s a woman on my lap and she’s drinking champagne
Got white skin, got assassin’s eyes
I’m looking up into the sapphire tinted skies
I’m well dressed, waiting on the last train
Standing on the gallows with my head in a noose
Any minute now I’m expecting all hell to break loose
People are crazy and times are strange
I’m locked in tight, I’m out of range
I used to care, but things have changed
This place ain’t doing me any good
I’m in the wrong town, I should be in Hollywood
Just for a second there I thought I saw something move
Gonna take dancing lessons do the jitterbug rag
Ain’t no shortcuts, gonna dress in drag
Only a fool in here would think he’s got anything to prove
Lot of water under the bridge, Lot of other stuff too
Don’t get up gentlemen, I’m only passing throug
I’ve been walking forty miles of bad road
If the bible is right, the world will explode
I’ve been trying to get as far away from myself as I can
Some things are too hot to touch
The human mind can only stand so much
You can’t win with a losing hand
Feel like falling in love with the first woman I meet
Putting her in a wheel barrow and wheeling her down the street
I hurt easy, I just don’t show it
You can hurt someone and not even know it
The next sixty seconds could be like an eternity
Gonna get low down, gonna fly high
All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie
I’m in love with a woman who don’t even appeal to me
Mr. Jinx and Miss Lucy, they jumped in the lake
I’m not that eager to make a mistake
Sometimes, using this “shuffle” it takes almost the whole song before I can work which singer it is. Unless the “Southern twang” kicks in early, or the “little bit London, almost” accent comes in.
Complete musical wonders, both. Unreal talents.
Listening to the b-sides and rarities. Fuck me, the woman has talent beyond admiration. MILF. LOL!
If I ride on the rails
I shall ride them alone
And if I need all this pain, I will find it alone
If I’m wanted for leaving
I will leave here aloneAnd if I cant resist this
Then I am unfit to go on
A simple solution is all I require
If fire is the passion I only aspire to be free
Let me be free
If the strain on your conscience gets under your skin
And leads you to making a sacrifice
Sacrifice me
Let there be peace
To the grave from the cradle
We dont rock anymore
Now I stand here with both feet
Planted firm on the floor
And if youre planning a futureOf indefinite grace
You’d better start removing
The lines of deceit from your face
A simple conclusion is all I require
If fire is the passion I only aspire to be free
Let me be free
And all of the hypocrites lie through their teeth
Talk about making a sacrifice
Sacrifice me
Let there be peace
How much longer can all this go on? How many more choices can one person have? And all of the questions with no proper answers
Continue continue
Have to go on have to go on have to go on
Should I bend down and worship the ground
Of the beautiful people who live without flaws? Success is a virtue to share with the world
But failures a lesson thats best learned alone
Respect is a virtue that strong men command
But when words become weapons
There’ll be peace in the valley of death when I rise
Peace in the valley of death when I rise
Thanks Bob! I seriously love this song; however depressing it may seem, there is redemption in it.
Fascists are all I see
One too many Buttfuckers controlling me
But Suicide or VigilanteTo up the ante -
Which is my way?
Ain’t but the One Way
Ain’t but the One Way
Ain’t but the One Way… (gunshot)
To be free
Step into view… and about time
Make yourself some enemies + step out of line
We need a deadly assassin
And we need to do it today
‘Cause the greed inside the Greedheads ain’t ever gonna go away…Grab yourself some friends, man
And grab yourself a good plan
And get yourself a hitman
And work out a time span
And aim for the Headman… Then lie low
Despite my “hatred” for all things Apple (he says, typing on an Apple keyboard into his dual-boot Mac Mini) I admit to being amazed this morning when I fell asleep, leaving my Shuffle still playing. Bugger is still playing as I wake up - it is much smaller than a matchbox - and so I’m listening to it for wake up exercise duties. Amazing. Just invest in proper headphones (Sennheiser PX100s in my case - unbelievably good.)
