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15.  Fate Day by Day - Mieka Pauley

I don't need some crystal ball
For all its mystique, it's just glass
And to see right through is to see nothing at all
And all the while, the right moments pass

And I'll take fate, I'll take fate
On a day by day basis
I will not wait, I will not wait
For what the world may not create
I'll take fate day by day

The only future we can foresee
Is just what our minds project
So when he crept into the back of my mind
In the face of fate, who was I to object?

And I'll take fate, I'll take fate
On a day by day basis
I will not wait, I will not wait
For what the world may not create
I'll take fate day by day

I focused on the embers that just fade with time
Hoping for a spark from a fire that won't revive
Believing in a fate that left me only one
In lamenting loss of fire, I overlooked the sun

And I'll take fate, I'll take fate
On a day by day basis
I will not wait, I will not wait
For what the world may not create
I'll take fate day by day

16. Prophecy - Remy Zero

Consider this a sign.
This is a train in the night
And now it's time for you to go
You know you've had a healthy life, boy.
You walk this world like you're a ghost
Your hands are coming through the needles
Sick of your tragic and the evils
I am the keeper of the songs of everyone
Look into the sun and see your soul is dying
Used to feel the faith, but now you're tired of trying
Should have left alone what you have stolen from everyone
How are you feeling?
Seem a little sick to me now
This is a coming of the times
You are a witness to the movement
If all you're seeing is your lies
You had your chance, but now you've blown it.
You want this world so you can own it
I am the keeper of the songs of everyone
Look into the sun and see your soul is dying
Used to feel the faith, but now you're tired of trying
Should have left alone what you have stolen from everyone
How are you feeling?
You seem a little sick to me
From the light on high
A chance to change your fate
Forgiveness falling down
On those who chose to wait
Remember the time
Find yourself home again
Deep within your life
Find yourself a home again find yourself home again
It's a choice
You have chosen your own
In the old days
When the world was young and bright
If you raise the mask, who will lead us home tonight
Look into the sun and see your soul is dying
Used to feel the faith, but now you're tired of trying
Should have left alone what you have stolen from everyone
How are you feeling?
Look into the sun and see your soul is dying
Used to feel the faith, but now you're tired of trying
Should have left alone what you have stolen from everyone
How are you feeling?
Seems a little sick
It seems a little sick
It seems a little sick to me now

17. Corduroy - Pearl Jam

The waiting drove me mad...you're finally here and I'm a mess
I take your riches back...can't let you roam inside my head
I don't want to take what you can give...
I would rather starve than eat your bread...
I would rather run but I can't walk...
Guess I'll lie alone just like before...

I'll take the varments back...oh, and I must refuse your test
Push me and I will resist...this behavior's not unique
I don't want to hear from those who know...
They can buy, but can't put on my clothes...
I don't want to limp for them to walk...
Never would have known of me before...
I don't want to be held in your debt...
I'll pay it off in blood then I'll be wed...
I'm already cut off and I'm dead...
I'll end up alone like I began...

Everything has chains, absolutely nothing's changed
Take my hand, not my picture, spilled my tincture

I don't want to take what you can give...
I would rather starve than eat your breast...
All the things that others want for me...
Can't buy what I want because it's free...  (2x)
Can't be what you want because I'm...

I ain't s'posed to be just fun
Oh, to live and die, let it be done
I figure I'll be damned, all alone like I began...

18. Waltz #2 - Elliott Smith


First the mic then a half cigarette,
Singing Cathy's clown,
That's the man she's married to now,
That's the girl that he takes around town,
She appears composed , so she is I suppose,
Who can really tell,
She shows no emotion at all,
Stares into space like a dead china doll.

I'm never gonna know you now,
but I'm gonna love you anyhow.

Now she's done and they're calling someone
Such a familiar name,
I'm so glad that my memory's remote,
Cos I'm doing just fine
hour to hour note to note,
Here it is the revenge to the tune,
You're no good,
You're no good, you're no good,
you're no good,
Can't you tell that it's well understood.

I'm here today and expected to stay
on and on and on,
I'm tired,
I'm tired.

Looking out on the substitute scene,
Still going strong,
XO mom,
It's okay, its alright, nothing's wrong,
Tell Mr. Man with impossible plans
To just leave me alone,
In the place where I make no mistakes,
In the place where I have what it takes.

19, Photograph - Weezer


If you want it, you can have it
But you've got to learn to reach out there and grab it

'Cause everybody wants some love
Shooting from the stars above
And though my heart will break
There's more that I could take
I could never get enough

If you need it, you should show it
'Cause you might play so monastic that you blow it

'Cause everybody wants some, ooh
Something they can barely know
And though my heart will break
There's more than I can take
I could never let it go

It's in the photograph
It's in the photograph
It's in the photograph of love

'Cause everybody wants a dream
Something they can barely see
And though my heart will break
There's more than I can take
I could never let it be

It's in the photograph
It's in the photograph
It's in the photograph of love

If you blew it, don't reject it
Just sit drawing up the plans and re-erect it

20. Sincerely, Me - Better Than Ezra

I can still recall
The way you looked that fall
In your favorite dress
The day before you left
And since that time
I wrote a simple rhyme

And I miss you and the things you do
The time we had, the good and bad
The day we met that I can't forget
Signed Sincerely, Me

Are you cross at your loss?
But could you be more obsessive
If I'd given you the chance
But since you asked, a reply but it's the last

And I miss you and the things you do
The love you fake, the heart you break.
The buzz you caught, and the times we fought
Signed Sincerely, Me.
Oh, my God, and don't forget P.S.
I moved away to a new address
It's far away and I think it's best
Signed Sincerely, Me.

Why can't it be like it was?
The rain falls, the summer ends.
Why can't it be like it was?
You always said you'd never go away.

And I confess, I was such a mess
I drove for fifteen hours
On this nasty Greyhound bus
Yes, I've returned.
(You'd think that I would have learned.)

But I miss you and the things you do
The times we had, the good and bad
The day we met that I can't forget
Signed Sincerely, Me

Could you really be a bitch like that?
Broke my door when you stole the cat.
Someone said that you even laughed
Signed Sincerely, Me

Why can't it be like it was?
The rain falls, the summer ends.
Why can't it be like it was?
You always said you'd never go away.

And I miss you...

The hope you give.
The life you live.
The cross you bear.
The way you swear.
The face you make
When you masturbate.
Our bed in the moonlight.
And the night we fought
You were so distraught.
And the lies I denied
Even when you cried,
God knows I apologize,
Signed Sincerely, Me.

Why can't it be like it was?
The rain gone, the sun returns.
Why can't it be like it was?
You always said you'd never go away.
You'd never go away.
You'd never go away.

Signed Sincerely, Me.

21. My Baby Loves A Bunch of Authors - Moxy Fruvous

Well you should see my story reading baby, you should hear the things that she says,
She says "Hon, drop dead, I'd rather go to bed with Gabriel Garcia Marquez."
Uhh-huh!
Cuddle up with William S. Burrows, leave on the light for Bell Hooks,
I've been flirtin' with Pierre Burton 'cause he's so smart in his books

I like to go out dancing,
My baby loves a bunch of authors
My heart's so broke and bleedin'
Baby's just sitting there doing some reading

So I started watching some TV, played my new cd player too,
She said: "Turn it off or I'll call the cops and I'll throw the book at you."
All this arguing made me get dizzy, called my doctor to come have a look
I said: "Doctor hurry!" He said:
"Don't worry, I'll be over when I finish my book"

I like to go out dancing,
My baby loves a bunch of authors
We've been livin in hovels
Spendin' all our money onbrand new novels

So I got myself on a streetcar and it drove right into someone,
You know the driver said:
"I was lookin' straight ahead!"
But he was reading the Toronto Sun
"So?"
So my honey and me go to a counsellor to help figure out what we need
She said: "We'll get your love growing,
but before we get going, here's some books I'd like you to read."

I like to go out dancing,
My baby loves a bunch of authors
Lately we've had some fricton
'Cause my baby's hooked on
short works of fiction

So we split and went to a party, some friends my girl said she knew
But what a sight 'cause it's authors night and the place looks like a who's who

Now I'm pounding the ouzo  with Mario Puzo
Who's a funny fella?    W.P. Kinsella
Who brought the cat    Would Margeret Atwood?
Who needs a shave?  He's Robertson Davies!

Ondaatje started a food fight, salmon mousse all over the scene
Spilled some dressing on Doris Lessing, these writer types are a scream!
I like to go out dancing,
My baby loves a bunch of authors
We'll be together for ages
Eatin' and Sleepin' and
Eatin' and Sleepin' and
Eating and Sleeping und
Turnin' pages.
Yeah!

22. Tribute - Tenacious D

This is the greatest and best song in the world
Tribute

Long time ago, me and my brother Kyle, here
We was hitchhiking down a long and lonesome road
All of a sudden, there shined a shiny demon in the middle of the road, and he said:
"Play the best song in the world, or I'll eats your souls"

Well, me and Kyle, we looked at each other, and we each said, "OK"

And we played the first thing that came to our heads,
just so happened to be the best song in the world,
it was the best song in the world.
Look into my eyes and it's easy to see one and one make two,
two and one make three. It was destiny

Once every hundred thousand years or so,
when the sun doth shine and the moon doth blow,
and the dust doth glow.

Needless to say, the beast was stunned,
a WHIP! CRACK! with his whippy-tail, and the beast was done.
He asked us, "[SNORT!] Be you angels?",
And we said "Nay!, we are but men ROCK!"

This is not the greastest song in the world
This is just a tribute
Couldn't remember the greatest song in the world, NO!
This is just a tribute, Whoa
To the greateast song in the world

--melodic rambling---

And the peculiar thing my friends, the song we sang
that fateful night didn't actually sound anything like this song
This is just a tribute
You gotta believe it
And I wish you were there
It's just a matter of opinion

-- more rambling and general incoherence --

All right
All right
Shot Shot – Gomez
Murray – Pete Yorn
San Tropez – Pink Floyd
Bubble Toes – Jack Johnson
Lights Are Changing – Mary Lou Lord
Shoe Box – Barenaked Ladies
If It Feels Good Do It – Sloan
The Boxer – Carbon Leaf
Nineteen – Old 97’s
Blackbird – Sarah McLachlan
Poor Misguided Fool - Starsailor
Laid – James
Don’t Know Why – Norah Jones
My Stupid Mouth – John Mayer
Vegas Two Times – Stereophonics
Sea of No Cares – Great Big Sea
Fell In Love With A Girl – The White Stripes
Side – Travis
Sweetness – Jimmy Eat World
Basement Apt. – Sarah Harmer
Angels of the Silences – Counting Crows
Last Stop: This Town - Eels
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