The ‘Time To Fucking Go To Sleep’ playlist. I was gonna write a little thing about each song but I figured I’d just quote my favorite lyrical sections. You know, take the easy way out.
STORNOWAY – ‘Long Distance Lullaby’
“I’ve got my friends but I can’t really talk to them like I can talk to you, remember how we used to stay up very very late and smoke and listen, did I say how much I miss you?”
SMOKING POPES – ‘Letter To Emily’
“I believe their are lost hearts everywhere, searching hard just to find home somewhere”.
CHEAP GIRLS – ‘Pure Hate’
“You’ve got 20 dollars that says I’m full of shit, let’s put it on a receipt spike and lets spend the last of me”.
THE LEMONHEADS – ‘The Outdoor Type’
“I can’t go away with you on a rock climbing weekend, what if something’s on tv and it’s never on again? It’s just as well I’m not invited I’m afraid of heights. I lied about being the outdoor type”.
LUCERO – ‘Darby’s Song’
“loved your momma more than she loved me, when you were born I was far from Tennessee, I came back home to hold you close to me, now I’m here for you”.
MANCHESTER ORCHESTRA – ‘I Can Feel A Hot One’
“I’m but a clean man, stable and alone man, make it so I won’t have to try, the faces always stay the same,s o I face the fact that I’m just fine I said that I’m just fine”.
THE MOUNTAIN GOATS – ‘Hast Thou Considered the Tetrapod’
“But I do wake you up and when I do you blaze down the hall and you scream, I’m in my room with the headphones on deep in the dream chamber and then I’m awake and I’m guarding my face, hoping you don’t break my stereo cause it’s the one thing that I couldn’t live without and so I think about that and then I sorta black out”.
PAUL BARIBEAU – ‘Wild Eyes’
“Heard all the rumors about you, how you dropped out of high school, with your beat up black converse and your broken front tooth, let them talk all they want, I don’t care anymore, cause I’ve never seen wild eyes like yours”.
MURDER CITY DEVILS – ‘Press Gang’
“He should have kept his mouth shut, he shouldn’t have left that ship, don’t go drinking down by the docks, you don’t know if you’ll wake up”.
SAVES THE DAY – ‘She’
No one can say her name, now she sits and sings, something about my dreams, hours go by before she looks at me, she breaks my heart as I open my eyes to drink melon sky”.
OKKERVIL RIVER – ‘Westfall’
“When I was younger, handsomer and stronger, I felt like I could do anything, but all of these people, making all these faces, didn’t seem like my kith and kin.”
GREG BARNETT