THE WHITE STRIPES
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you would play and have fun by yourself and then you saw other children playing and you climbed your fence and wente to play with them and it was fun then your smiles became dependent on theirs and stories you heard then of a monkey that only wants to see red so destroys things that are not red i dream of him exploding my motor so that i wont see red everytime i drive down the street my car starts breaking down on me and i write this down but nothings changed only i change or hope to chenge. sometimes its hard to tell if you are really in love or blinded and maybe you should change yourself and stop wasting your time maybe one day it will be the end of the world with shrieks outside your door and it will be too late others do secret things in their space where they live or where a straw boss called their name out and they wished they were invisible and all of the coffee breaks in the world wont help you and social interaction will only fake you there is sometimes nothing that you can do so what are you supposed to think?
when people call you, look at you, say they are comming over do you thiunk that they are like little children trying to have fun untill someone gets ofended or someone talks bad about someone who isnt there or maybe you are happy until someone you love is in the hospital or is far away from talking to people you don't know or on a boat under perfect darkened starry skies all alone you wish you could be there with them and you wish that two people could really be happy with other it was easier when you were a child and everything that is happy and fun now is an attempt at recreating your backyard when you first saw others and dreamt that with them you could be happier than tou were alone.
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THE STIJL
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When ideas become too complicated, and the pursuit of perfection is misconstrued as a need for excess. When there is so muck involved that individual componets cannot be discerned. When it is hard to break the rules of excess, then new rules need to be established. It descends back to the beginnig where the construction of things visual or aural is too uncomplicated to not be beautiful. But this is done in the knowledge that we can only become simple to a point and there is nowhere else to go. There are definite natural things which cannot be broken down into lesser components. Even if the goal of achieving beauty from simplicity is aesthetically less exciting it may force the mind ti acknowledge the simple components that make the complicated beautiful.
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WHITE BLOOD CELLS
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Holding these truth to be judged forever - the mark, the string, the skin and the vibration all set and aiming to please. This sister with her hands, and this brother with his knees. The slide is in the pocket and this neighborhood is showing up more than that. Our friends aren't here to hepl, but maybe that's the best they could give. An old song is also best but sometimes too easy. "How else can we help you?", the brother said, and the sister replied "I don't know." The south is there and always will be. The north is home wether it's friendly or not. Something's going to let us know that these are the good days to remember, after children take up our time and take our place. But pride and heppiness are always the same distance from our hands.
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ELEPHANT
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THIS ALBUM is dedicated to, and is for, and about the death oh the sweetheart. In a social plane, impossible to exist, and in memories, past defeating present. We mourn the sweetheart's loss in a disgusting world of opportunistic, lottery ticket holders caring about nothing that is long term, only the cheap thrill, the kick, the for the moment pleasure, the easy way out, the bragging rights and trophy holding. The tjirteen year old tattoo, the hard attitude, devil may care, dont call your parents, drink, insult, thank only yourself, and blame the rest if you don't get yours. Gone to the ether, gone to your mother's hope chest, laughs in the boot of the rocker, the trunk of the car, and they get your money, they've got a new friend, they wont be told they are wrong.
BURN BABY burn, take the trash to the living room, laugh at the sweetherart, you and your friend can kill it if televisions aim is bad, break it, hard or die. It keep going, you're not wrong, don't worry about it, what matters? You're having fun right? Break the rules rebel, break them hard, help yourself. Make yourself at home, turn on the video games, don't bother to contact, gorge yourself, it's all here for you, take your sweet time, if you're confronted by it, blow it off and get paid quick. This is what it's all about, and we're with you baby, take my bite as high support, take my argument as just something that's my problem, you don't need this, you need to please yourself. The Dream is alive and well, and we don't want to wake up from it. Ethics, morals, spirits, breakfast cereals.
HONESTY IN bloom, heart on sleeve, life ever exposed and safe, Courtesy to them, and all you know, cinnamom and cider mills past last night's drenched roof shingeles, down and cotton covered breath, out in the open with nothing to hide, mention of soft paper and pine, soda powder and brown paper bags, angora and hound's tooth, youth and canvas, fresh color, blind chance and forward stumble, scarlet mood, and white ivory shimmering laugh, safe in mind and comfort in home, absent of flies and anger, blankets of you own, peaches in cellar, subtle hair and skin, sand and leaf, felt napkin and clothing line, warm air from heating vent, show on ground, reunions of sane unforced presence, motherly intervention help in suspense, enrapture holy sight, reception in halls, your Sunday go to meeting, your helping hand, your summersault, your attic, your home and your preservations, so simple, so untouched, this is as wise as raven and easy to trust, yet have they known, and yet may they wonder, with words and thought and thorn, this spirit and persona under.
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GET BEHIND ME SATAN
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There once was a story i wanted to tell, but i assumed it was one you all knew too well, maybe i was wrong, was wondering how clear we were gonna say it. How to keep us all interested enoughy to not drift off and start fantasizing about romantic things. But then again, what about those things books, and in movies? are they real? does anybody care? you ride the bus, don't you? ain't nobody ever bumped into you before? was it an accident? Lotta, questions, rhett and scarlett, what they are? can't be true love, but there are others. Unrequited is a word too. It is in the dictionary, after truth i believed. Everyday life somo others i guess look as at romantic, but wath about us people? are those elements impossible for us to experience? do you know and welcome the idea of true love, staging, destiny, mis en scene, hope for internal completion?everyone's talking about their hurt and their rage on the radio, and the armchair judge is the family bible in prime time today, what reality is fake? then drama is superficial and not admired, the judge and the apology is shallow, love is put aside. I think there's one truth, with no subjectivity. And in the comer is a booth with some productivity, under my arm is a device with conductivity and i gave it to you. No Leassons, o.k? the city i live in it ain't no different man! your sidewalk has less cracks in it? how spoiled we are right! funny, funny, funny, but you must have bought a book, and it is a reality to hold in your tought, let's put it together though. We know not to kill after seeing a murder on the screen, but do we know not to love when we see two fulfilled? your morning can go however you want in, no one owes you breakfast for example. No one owes you a ride, and you know damn well you could walk there if you wanted to, and you know too that you could have wath you need. To give is true and admirable too, but to be taken from is loss and and totally false. Imagine that you are being taken from, wath faith is tested? what hope is wuthering? what angel was persecuted who worked so hard at something never to archieve it? Prove it to me and what child who was innocent was pushed to the ground never to get up again? where's he/she at right now? Where's a starbucks when you need one? am i in destiny, am i in my kitchen? you're the book dammit, you are the morning. Don't deny yourself with this duty-woman! don't damn yourself with a painted smile on skull-man put it on the table, and don't deny whatever it is. Do yourself a favor and breathe real, get it ? funny, were all still here man. Nobody left, and it's add because the more you deny it, the funnier it gets. Three kids are playing on the playground, and one turns to the others and says "are they making us go to school or are we learning for the sake of beautiy?" the other kids love this idea, and they laugh and pass notes about it for days. So we all know the right thing to do, and we all root for the underdog in the book, we can't help it! kick yourself off the island. She is her. He is us. The underdog wins the book, and in real - life? Not just in some sports game, you know, but - hey wouldn't it be nice if every sports team, was only allowed to have team members from its own city? no trading, evil can be funny. Rightoursness is a barrel of laughs too, come on, we all know! it's a new century, no sarcasm kids. Boy these kids can take! how bout take the tongues out of the cheeks? no blasphemy, no talking under your breath. Tell me what you want, and we can get it together. I'm bot kidding. They wrote the books to share with you what they assumed could be. They made the films to explore what you didn't get to do at work today. And they wrote the songs to fill in the gops between being some place, and getting there. But it no means, it can't be. You're probably already there, just admit it. Just say it, then you'll get it, stay the truth, and hold with this word behind tooth, to know that truth pushes truth forwad, and to be taken is to be help, and to be stolen from is to lose what truth you deserve, pretending this is pretending to play with no audience but yourself, the options are sometimes not options at all, but distractions or templantions to vive for something or someone alse instead of yourself, breathing can't be taken, the fact can't be shoken, and the truth is still waiting always for you. I think we're gonna be ok.
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ICKY THUMP
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“I saw an image of someone I once knew today and it made me write down my first impressions, I don’t normally tend to do that, guess that makes me and impressionist.
I don't normally tend todo that. Guess that makes me an impressionist:
Looks like there’s a storm coming
Looks like somebody told you to smile
Looks like your waiting there for someone
Looks like you’ll be waiting there for a while
Guess you’d rather not think about it much
Guess you’d rather not think about much at all
Guess you know just what they like
Guess you don’t know much at all
Feels like your just passing the time, sometimes
Feels like your were never really a friend of mine
Feels like ghosts do walk among us
And I guess it looks as it feels
I do like impressions though, I once saw a man completely impersonate another man who was not unlike himself if you actually thought about it. Which I did. “Who would have thought” needs a question mark at the end of it, doesn’t it? A lot of those symbols a the end of things bother me, actually I can’t be bothered. They make a symbol in sheet music when the write wants you to keep playing till the cows come home, but I forget what’s it’s called. I like that idea though. Playing until someone “decides” it’s time to stop based on the feel of the room. What’s the longest it could go on? I imagine that every time I see that symbol. What if there was a room that had just the right vibe in it, just the right amount of energy to push, and inspire, and invigorate a conductor and her entire orchestra, to hold that last note until…they couldn’t even remember they held it that long? When there’s a world record for something, it’s an extreme thing. How big is the biggest of it’s kind? And how did it get to the point where the conditions called for something so massive to be constructed? It’s baffling, Beautiful though. Icky thump."
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