the cure, nine inch nails, everything but the girl
alt.end
...yeah it's a big bright beautiful world
just the other side of the door
six billion beautiful faces
but i saw them all before...
hurt
...if i could start again
a million miles away
i would keep myself
i would find a way...
frost and fire
...and if i didn't have the fire to struggle
i could freeze your shoes
when you say you wouldn't change a day
makes me wonder where I went astray
satisfied with things that leave me tired
we're as unlike as frost and fire...
alt.end
yeah it's a big bright beautiful world
just the other side of the door
six billion beautiful faces
but i saw them all before...
no this is not about running out on you
not a case of right or wrong
it's only that it's over and done for me
it's already been and gone
and i don't want another go around - i don't want to start again
no i don't want another go around - i want this to be the end
i want this to be the end - i don't want to start again
i want this to be the last thing we do
it for me and you...
for all my dreams came true
yeah i know i should care if you come with me
yeah and i should care if you go
really should care about your love or your hate of me
yeah i should care... but I don't
and it's not about giving up on you
it's not a case of do or die
it's simply that it's over and out for me
there's no more room inside
and i don't want another run around - i don't want to start again
no i don't want another run around - i want this to be the end
i want this to be the end - i don't want to start again
i want this to be the last thing we do
it for me and you...
yeah it's a big bright beautiful world out there
just the other side of this door
six billion beautiful faces await
but i saw it all before...
no this is not about running out on you
not a case of right or wrong
it's only that it's over and done for me
it's already been and gone
and i don't want another go around - i don't want to start again
no i don't want another go around - i want this to be the end
i want this to be the end - i don't want to start again
i want this to be the last thing we do - this to be it for me and you
this to be the last we go through
this to be the end
for all my dreams came true
hurt
i hurt myself today
to see if i still feel
i focus on the pain
the only thing that's real
the needle tears a hole
the old familiar sting
try to kill it all away
but I remember everything
what have i become?
my sweetest friend
everyone i know
goes away in the end
you could have it all
my empire of dirt
i will let you down
i will make you hurt
i wear this crown of shit
upon my liar's chair
full of broken thoughts
i cannot repair
beneath the stains of time
the feelings disappear
you are someone else
i am still right here
what have i become?
my sweetest friend
everyone i know
goes away in the end
and you could have it all
my empire of dirt
i will let you down
i will make you hurt
if i could start again
a million miles away
i would keep myself
i would find a way
frost and fire
you take the name of a man you hardly know
and then you grow up and that name has to go
married with kids and they don't want to know
about the dreams you had let go
you're still waiting for a knight in shining armour
to steal you against your will
and while you're waiting and doing no harm
you know there's plenty of time to kill
and when you claim you wouldn't change a day
makes me wonder where i went astray
happy with things that leave me tired
we're as unlike as frost and fire
and now yourself you start to see in me
pictures of things you could've been
torches i find i am bearing for you
when you know you could've carried them too
we give up so easily what little they leave us to lose
and if i didn't have the fire to struggle
i could freeze your shoes
when i say i couldn't live that way
you must wonder where i went astray
happy with things that leave me tired
we're as unlike as frost and fire
Comments
i'm not sure how to interpret this post...help me? interesting combination.
Posted by: jenn | June 16, 2005 08:08 PM
itunes' autofill feature coughed up these three songs last time i filled my shuffle.
i'd forgotten how much i liked the cure's alt.end. both the NIN and Johnny Cash versions of Hurt were included; i like both for very different reasons. everything but the girl's frost and fire reminded me of a girl i dated back in the day.
Posted by: sams | June 17, 2005 06:33 AM
thanks. i agree with you on Hurt - god that j.c. version can almost make you cry it's so heart-wrenching, whereas the NIN version is more of an angry hurt. i love them both too. alt.end, good song. and now i'll go to work figuring out which girl from back in the day the last one applies to...thx for the insight...
Posted by: jenn | June 17, 2005 07:04 AM