Indie Rock 1988-1998

She colorblind tired eyes, her hallway aching
She'll never move him, likes it that way
He's just a walker and he'll never stop walking away
It's not too soon he said and it's not too soon at all
And you might as well be dead he said
If you're afraid to fall, I said, I know her
She said, why do you stare so hard
Wrapped up like a doll in bad dreams and broken arms
Make these old bones shiver
It's not too soon he said and it's not too soon at all
And you might as well be dead he said
If you're afraid to fall, I said, I know her
The last time I saw you
You were standing in the dark
And with a freezing face
I watched you fall apart
It's not too soon he said, it's not too soon at all
You might as well be dead he said
If you're afraid to fall
I said, done your time, been in your place
I couldn't look you in the face and tell you
That it turns me on, it makes my stomach turn
I know, I know her

Songwriters: Tanya Donelly
Not Too Soon lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group

Top this
Da-da...
Tripping
I walk to where he's sitting
It's all salty salty
He knows It's good, it's real, it's pretty
It's all salty Timmy
It's all salty Timmy
It's all salty Timmy
He said Doe Doe Doe
Dared leave
We've burned the field completely
Ahhh... last light
I feel it's real, it's pretty
It's all salty Timmy
It's all salty Timmy
It's all salty Timmy
He said Doe Doe Doe

Songwriters: Kim Deal / Ray Halliday
Doe lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC

Soft as snow but warm inside
Penetrate you cannot hide
Feeling lost forever
Really need you
Feeling dark and feeling true
This is all I ever knew
Soft as skin in leather
And I whisper 'you'
Harder you come down on me
Sink away, you look happily
Secrets keep forever
They're undressing me
Come inside, it's warm in here
Better now to have no fear
Carried on a wave
Where it can lead you
Touch your head, then your hair
Softer, softer everywhere
Fingertips are burning
Can I touch you there
Soft as velvet eyes can see
Bring me close to ecstasy
High away to heaven
And I'm coming too
Float now coming down on me
Handed you what I cannot see
Feel the big happy, you're exploding me
Soft as snow and warm inside
Penetrate then redivide
Slip away forever
Do we need you

Songwriters: Kevin Shields / Colm O'ciosiog
Soft as Snow (But Warm Inside) lyrics © Kobalt Music Services Ltd Kms

I am a scientist - I seek to understand me
All of my impurities and evils yet unknown
I am a journalist - I write to you to show you
I am an incurable
And nothing else behaves like me
and I know what's right
But I'm losing sight
Of the clues for which I search and choose
To abuse
To just unlock my mind
Yeah, and just unlock my mind
I am a pharmacist
Prescriptions I will fill you
Potions, pills and medicines
To ease your painful lives
I am a lost soul
I shoot myself with rock & roll
The hole I dig is bottomless
But nothing else can set me free
and I know what's right
But I'm losing sight
Of the clues for which I search and choose
To abuse
To just unlock my mind
Yeah, and just unlock my mind
I am a scientist - I seek to understand me
I am an incurable and nothing else behaves like me
Everything is right
Everything works out right
Everything fades from sight
Because that's alright with me

Songwriters: Robert E Pollard Jr
I Am a Scientist lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC

This is why events unnerve me
They find it all, a different story
Notice whom for wheels are turning
Turn again and turn towards this time
All she asks is the strength to hold me
Then again the same old story
Word will travel, oh so quickly
Travel first and lean towards this time
Oh, I'll break them down, no mercy shown
Heaven knows it's got to be this time
Watching her, these things she said
The times she cried
Too frail to wake this time
Oh, I'll break them down, no mercy shown
Heaven knows, it's got to be this time
Avenues all lined with trees
Picture me and then you start watching
Watching forever
Forever
Watching love grow, forever
Letting me know, forever

Songwriters: Bernard Sumner / Ian Kevin Curtis / Peter Hook / Stephen Paul David Morris
Ceremony lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group

Holy man tiptoed his way across the Ganges
The sound of magic music in his ears
Videoed by a bus load of tourists
Shiny shellsuits on and drinking lemonade
Now, I've got a funny feeling which I bought mail order
From a man in a tee-pee, California
He said he once was the great game show performer
Then he blew all his money away
Blew it all away
So take me home, don't leave me alone
I'm not that good, but I'm not that bad
No psycho killer, hooligan guerilla
I dream to riot, oh you should try it
R. E. Perot, get gold card soul
My joy of life is on a roll
And we'll all be the same in the end
'Cause then you're on your own
Then you're on your own
Well, we all go happy day glow in the disc
The sound of magic music in our brains
Someone stumbles to the bathroom with the horrors
Says Lord, give me time, for I've jumped into space
I'm in outer space
So take me home, don't leave me alone
I'm not that good, but I'm not that bad
No psycho killer, hooligan guerilla
I dream to riot, oh you should try it
R. E. Perot, get gold card soul
My joy of life is on a roll
And we'll all be the same in the end
'Cause then you're on your own
So take me home, don't leave me alone
I'm not that good, but I'm not that bad
No psycho killer, hooligan guerilla
I dream to riot, oh you should try it
R. E. Perot, get gold card soul
My joy of life is on a roll
And we'll all be the same in the end
'Cause then you're on your own
Then you're on your own
Then you're on your own
Then you're on your own

Songwriters: Damon Albarn / David Rowntree / Graham Coxon / Steven Alexander James
On Your Own lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner Chappell Music, Inc, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.

My best friend knows this old guy who
Who keeps a picture in his shoe
He takes it out after a spell
Says, see
Shouldn't stare that way so long baby
Stare holes into the walls
My dress hangs here for you to wear out
I walked in beauty too, till I met you
Here hangs this chain
This thing this old girl keeps
We got it easy
So why do you stare that way so long
Stare holes into the walls
We're all honey
Dripping through the honey chain
And lay our lives down
Down and pretty
In the honey chain
Please don't stare that way so hard baby
Stare holes

Songwriters: Tanya Donelly
Honeychain lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group

[Verse 1]
Why is it every time I think about you
Something that you have said or implied makes me doubt you?
Then I look into your cynical eyes and I know it
As if it never meant anything to me

[Chorus]
Parallel lines on a slow decline—tractor rape chain
Better yet, let's all get wet on the tractor rape chain
Speed up, slow down, go all around in the end

[Verse 2]
In the first place, it's probably just paranoia
But there's a ghost in my room and he says I better run
It's a thing I know, it's a thing I believe in
Won't you tell it to go away?

[Chorus]
Parallel lines on a slow decline—tractor rape chain
Better yet, let's all get wet on the tractor rape chain
Speed up, slow down, go all around in the end
Speed up, slow down, go all around in the end
Speed up, slow down, go all around in the end

I'm gonna keep my heart safe
In a special place
I'm gonna lock myself up
A hundred miles away
I don't want to do,
What I did today
I'm gonna get a new world
Made out of paper stones
And in my plastic house
I'll never be alone
I don't want to do, I want to go...
Yeah, yeah, I want to go
Yeah, yeah, I want to go
I want to disappear
And have no sense of time
And I've got a little secret here
And I use it every night
I don't want to do, I want to go...
Yeah, yeah, I want to go
Yeah, yeah, I want to go

Songwriters: Isabel Monteiro
Solitary Party Groover lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group

She's not a girl who misses much
Do do do do do do, oh yeah
She's well-acquainted with the touch of the velvet hand
Like a lizard on a window pane
The man in the crowd with the multicolored mirrors
On his hobnail boots
Lying with his eyes while his hands are busy
Working overtime
A soap impression of his wife which he ate
And donated to the National Trust
I need a fix 'cause I'm going down
Down to the pits that I left uptown
I need a fix 'cause I'm going down
Mother Superior jumped the gun
Mother Superior jumped the gun
Mother Superior jumped the gun
Mother Superior jumped the gun
Mother Superior jumped the gun
Mother Superior jumped the gun
Happiness is a warm gun (bang, bang, shoot, shoot)
Happiness is a warm gun, momma (bang, bang, shoot, shoot)
When I hold you in my arms (ooh, oh, yeah)
And I feel my finger on your trigger (ooh, oh, yeah)
I know nobody can do me no harm (ooh, oh, yeah)
Because
Happiness is a warm gun, yes it is (bang, bang, shoot, shoot)
Happiness is a warm, yes it is, gun (happiness, bang, bang, shoot, shoot)
Well, don't you know that happiness is a warm gun momma?
(Happiness is a warm gun, yeah)

Songwriters: John Lennon / Paul McCartney
Happiness Is a Warm Gun lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC

Keep coming now
Possessed of nothing more than Hell
Before I can speak
My world is wishing me asleep
Weigh me down
And when the darkness comes around
Repeating heads
Remember nothing I have said
Where are you
Come back again I want you to
'Not now girl' you say
But I was born to lose my breath

Songwriters: Bilinda Butcher / Kevin Shields
Lose My Breath lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.

I'm gonna dig myself a hole
And get my head inside
I'm gonna keep my eyes closed
Feel my heart dripping by
Life can be so ordinary
I did try to make mine good
But I've made so many mistakes
Down in my youth
Down in my youth
Down in my youth
Down in my youth
Welcome to my house
We'll play for a while
Can't you see
There's a ghost by my side?
I'm gonna dig myself a hole
And get my head inside
I'm gonna keep my eyes closed
Feel my heart dripping by
Life can be so ordinary
I did try to make mine good
But I've made so many mistakes
Down in my youth
Down in my youth
Down in my youth
Down in my youth
Welcome to my house
We'll play for a while

Songwriters: Isabel Monteiro
Fader lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group

A heart that's full up like a landfill
A job that slowly kills you
Bruises that won't heal
You look so tired, unhappy
Bring down the government
They don't, they don't speak for us
I'll take a quiet life
A handshake of carbon monoxide
And no alarms and no surprises
No alarms and no surprises
No alarms and no surprises
Silent, silent
This is my final fit
My final bellyache
With no alarms and no surprises
No alarms and no surprises
No alarms and no surprises, please
Such a pretty house
And such a pretty garden
No alarms and no surprises (get me out of here)
No alarms and no surprises (get me out of here)
No alarms and no surprises, please (get me out of here)

Songwriters: Colin Charles Greenwood / Edward John O'Brien / Jonathan Richard Guy Greenwood / Philip James Selway / Thomas Edward Yorke
No Surprises lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc

You're it
No, you're it
Hey, you're really it
You're it
No, I mean it, you're it
Say it
Don't spray it
(Spirit desire)
Face me
(Spirit desire)
Don't displace me
(Spirit desire)
We will fall
Miss me
Don't dismiss me
Spirit desire
Spirit desire
Spirit desire
Spirit desire
We will fall
Spirit desire
We will fall
Spirit desire
Spirit desire
Spirit desire
We will fall
Spirit desire
We will fall
Everybody's talking 'bout the stormy weather
And what's a man do to but work out whether it's true
Looking for a man with a focus and a temper
Who can open up a map and see between one and two
Time to get it, before you let it get to you
Here he comes now, stick to your guns and let him through
Everybody's coming from the winter vacation
Taking in the sun in a exaltation to you
You come running in on platform shoes
With Marshall stacks to at least just give us a clue
Ah, here it comes, I know it's someone I knew
Teenage riot in a public station
Gonna fight and tear it up in a hyper nation for you
Now I see it, I think I'll leave it out of the way
Now I come near you and it's not clear why you make the away
Looking for a ride to a secret location
Where the kids are setting up a free-speed nation, for you
Got a foghorn and a drum and a hammer that's rockin'
And a cord and a pedal and a lock, that'll do for now
It better work out, I hope it works out my way
'Cause it's getting kind of quiet in my city ahead
It takes a teen age riot to get me out of bed right now
You better look it, we're gonna shake it up to him
He acts the hero, we paint a zero on his hand
We know it's down, we know it's bound too loose
Everybody's sound is 'round it
Everybody wants to be proud to choose
So who's to blame for the stormy weather
You're never gonna stop all the teenage leather and booze
It's time to go 'round, a one man showdown, teach us how to fail
We're off the streets now and back on the road, on the riot trail

Songwriters: Sonic Youth
Teen Age Riot lyrics © Sonik Tooth Music

I don't have to sell my soul
He's already in me
I don't need to sell my soul
He's already in me
I wanna be adored
I wanna be adored
I don't have to sell my soul
He's already in me
I don't need to sell my soul
He's already in me
I wanna be adored
I wanna be adored
Adored
I wanna be adored
You adore me
You adore me
You adore me
I wanna, I wanna
I wanna be adored
I wanna, I wanna
I wanna be adored
I wanna, I wanna
I wanna be adored
I wanna, I wanna
I gotta be adored
I wanna be adored

Songwriters: Ian George Brown / John Squire
I Wanna Be Adored lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group