Lyrics That Speak to Me (Somebody)
By jumapili on Oct 4, 2009 in music
This is an old post by someone else and I have not seen it online in forever. I thought I would repost it and if anyone knows who the original poster is let me know so I can give credit. It is because of this post I found Melissa Ferrick and became a lover of the angry lesbian music. I do personally think she is angry but that is what my friends call it. I have extended the post a bit by linking to the artists websites as well as the song on Last.fm, which I am sure was not even an idea in their creators minds when I first read this list. From this list I would think the somebody really like Peter Mulvey.
“There’s an ache in every corner of the heart for the ones who are miles away.” – Peter Mulvey 
“I believe this coast is killing me. If I didn’t dream, I’d be dead.” – Peter Mulvey
“And then I tell you, ‘You know honey, love doesn’t know distance.’ And you turn around and look and me and say, ‘Yeah, but my arms do.’ ” – Melissa Ferrick
“With a white knuckle grip on the center of your soul…I have the same grip on your heart.” – Peter Mulvey
“I tend to focus on the darker side…I forget there ever was light.” – Edie Carey
“How could you do nothing…and say ‘I’m doing my best’?” – Ani DiFranco
“Is simplicity best…or simply the easiest?” – Depeche Mode – Judas
“The world owes me nothing…and we owe each other the world.” – Ani DiFranco – Joyful Girl
“I’ve got the strength to move but…why should I?”- Letters To Cleo – I Got Time
“Everybody’s trying not to be just like everybody, and I don’t want to be like that.” – Jim’s Big Ego – Someday Cafe
“Sometimes life on life’s terms means that I do not get to win”- Melissa Ferrick
“When night falls, it scrapes its knees”- Sarah Slean – I Want to be Brave
“Without hope you cannot start the day”- Yes – Without Hope You Cannot Stay the Day”
“Help me to learn songs of joy instead of “burn, baby, burn.” - Paul McCartney – Pipes of Peace
“Once again I play midwife to my dreams…and I’m…also moaning on the table.” – Peter Mulvey (I cant find this one if anyone knows what song this from let me know.)
“Cause I was taught that love grows…so why does it always seem to fade on me?” – Melissa Ferrick
“If beauty is ugly…then ugliness is king.” – Janis Ian
“It’s like when you’re swimming in the ocean…and the bottom becomes the top…and you don’t realize that the whole time…you have been swimming down for air.”- Melissa Ferrick
“I lose my heart without looking down, they could be Sarah, Chloe, or Clyde…and I suspect the question’s been going around as to whether I’ll ever decide.” – Edie Carey
“…I’ll never be a woman of extremes…I’ve never been the worst, and I’ll never be the best…but that’ll never stop me or my dreams.” – Edie Carey 
“She’s recruiting sympathy like it’s an army..as the front lines fall she brings new lines up.” – Martina Sorbara – This Ship
“Last night your shoulder bare and warm beneath my hand…oh I love you, breath and bone” – Peter Mulvey (possibly inaccurate, hit me live and I scrambled to write it down.) ( I can’t find this one either)
“And I make a really good lover when there’s a clear path to the door…Make a really good listener when I can’t talk no more… I make a really good friend when there’s an end in sight… I make a really good wrong to your right” – Kris Delmhorst
“She’s a summer storm, and I’m a hurricane…one just blows through town..one blows the town away” – Fred Eaglesmith
“And I know it’s hard to know the truth…so we live with points of view.” – Mary Gauthier
“Well, I know I’m not beautiful and I’ll never be tall and thin. But these things mean so much when you feel with your eyes and not from within.” – Lori McKenna
“People will always be tempted to wipe their feet on anything with ‘Welcome’ written on it.” – XTC
“What’s the sense in being so sensitive? Can I trade this thin skin for a shell?” – Sarah Harmer
“Faith has no weight….Doubt, now there’s the burden”-Ellis Paul
“We leave the cursed city the same way we come in…we trace the roads…on the way out we shed our certainties like clothes .” – Peter Mulvey
“Changes aren’t permanent, but change is.” – Rush
“What doesn’t kill you will make you stronger…I’m not dead yet so I must be stronger” – The Nields
“You can’t tell your heart how to feel…you can only get out of the way.” – Melissa Ferrick
“When your dream comes true…you’re out one dream.” – The Nields
“You take the weight of a heavy notion and I’ll take the weight from coast to ocean. And that’s why the ride is light, it’s all right” – Letters to Cleo
“The hardest words are spoken softly.” – This Mortal Coil
“I make a really bad clothesline so don’t pin your hopes on me” – Kris Delmhorst.
“If fashion is your trade…then when you’re naked…I guess you must be unemployed.” – Pulp
“But the truth is I can no more stop dreaming than I can make them all come true.” – Cry Cry Cry (yes, I know it’s a cover)
“I scratch yours and you stab mine.” – Danny Michel
“Maybe we’re only as sick as our secrets, and maybe our secrets are all that we own.” – Peter Mulvey
“There is no mystery to be revealed…and so we tell the truth and then run.” – The Story
“Your heart is the big box of paints, and others the canvas were dealt.” – XTC
“It’s better to have fallen in love than never to have fallen at all.” – Dar Williams
“I was reading on the bathroom wall…’tomorrow has been cancelled due to lack of interest.’ ” – Pamela Means
“Dreams are like water…colorless…and dangerous.” – This Mortal Coil
“I’ve had enough thunder and mortar…and tragedy” – Peter Mulvey
“Pray your gods who hold you by your fear…for they are quick and ruthless punishers.” – Toad the Wet Sprocket
“There’s no such thing as an atheist on the 32nd floor.” – Eddie From Ohio
“True revolutionaries never bomb buildings.” – Dan Bern
“Without silence, words lose their meaning and without listening, the speaking cannot heal.” – Christopher Williams
“Well man created the cardboard box to sleep in it. And man converted the newspaper to a blanket. Well you have to admit that he’s come a long way since swinging about in the trees.” – XTC
“The highway takes its toll, the green light flashes go…it’s welcome to Ohio” – Richard Shindell
“And now we count the ways to leave the burning sameness of these days.” – Jennifer Kimball
“If you got something to talk about, why don’t you raise your voice?” – Pamela Means
“And I am not as strong as the days are long” – Tory Cassis
“You can’t kill hope with a gun.” – The Kennedys
“I’m long on good intentions, I’ve got zero tolerance for pain.” – Peter Mulvey
“And after it rains there’s a rainbow…and all of the colors are black. It’s not that the colors aren’t there..it’s just imagination they lack.” – Paul Simon
“A million years of evolution, we get Danny Quayle” – Oingo Boingo
“What kind of people make a city where you can’t see the sky and you can’t feel the ground?” – Dar Williams
“Too many people think they’re misunderstood every time somebody disagrees with them.” – Jess Klein
“Out here it’s so quiet, you can hear your heart talking. If by chance it tells you which way to go…start walking.” – Peter Mulvey
“I saw men with dreams like the ones I’d had beg for quarters outside the 7-11 ’til it got so they didn’t affect me any more than the mailboxes I passed. Except sometimes I put something in the mailbox.” – Dan Bern
“Gone are the days of the hero, there’s nothing left but the one and the zero, and which one are you?” – Peter Mulvey
“There is no currency in good intentions.” – Christopher Williams
“A wise man once said ‘I’m not an optimist, but I am a prisoner of hope.’ ” – Jess Klein
“This little town fights the end of the day by throwing light into the sky.” – Christopher Williams
“Back in your old yard, the tree from your childhood is thinking about you…shivers a sigh.” – Peter Mulvey
“If I were a baker, I’d bake a loaf of bread. But all I need sustaining me is the world inside my head.” – Pamela Means
“Nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight. Gotta kick at the darkness ’til it bleeds daylight.” – Bruce Cockburn
“Some people think I’m neurotic and all, but I’m not. I just like to think about things over and over and over and over again.” – Eddie From Ohio
“You are a highway with no exits…they say she drove all over you.” – Jennifer Kimball
“Tell me I’m the one you’ve waited for all your life – Melissa Ferrick
“It’s a man’s world, but a woman put him in it…and the hand that rocks the cradle is the mother of us all.” – Patty Larkin
“And I don’t know whether I believe in me, but I still believe in my friends.” – The Nields
“Maybe brutal truth will win out over kindness in the blink of an eye.” – Peter Mulvey
“A word like ‘tomorrow’ wears things out. It’s hard enough to get what’s yours for now.” – This Mortal Coil – Mr SomeWhere
“My stomach’s waging war with me, scars resemble memory.” – Pamela Means
