"Set the Fire to the Third Bar" - Snow Patrol


I find the map and draw a straight line
Over rivers, farms, and state lines
The distance from 'A' to where you'd be
It's only finger-lengths Jobby that I see
I touch the place where I'd find your face
My finger in creases of distant dark places

I hang my coat up in the first bar
There is no peace that I've found so far
The laughter penetrates my silence
As drunken men find flaws in science

Their words mostly noises
Ghosts with just voices
Your words in my memory
Are like music to me

I'm miles from where you are,
I lay down on the cold ground
I, I pray that something picks me up
And sets me down in your warm arms

After I have travelled so far
We'd set the fire to the third bar
We'd share each other like an island
Until exhausted, close our eyelids
And dreaming, pick up from
The last place we left off
Your soft skin is weeping
A joy you can't keep in

I'm miles from where you are,
I lay down on the cold ground
And I, I pray that something picks me up
and sets me down in your warm arms





I've been in Puerto Rico for a month, and my boyfriend sent me this song the other day. And it pretty much summed up everything. Cheesy right? I find myself totally okay with it.

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Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you!

Four Strong Winds

Four strong winds that blow lowly,
Seven seas that run high,
All those things that don't change, Come what may.
but our good times are all gone,
And I'm bound for moving on.
I'll look for you if I'm ever back this way.

Think I'll go out to Alberta,
Weather's good there in the fall.
I got some friends that I can go a'working for,
Still I wish you'd change your mind
If I asked you one more time,
But we've been through that a hundred times or more.

Four strong winds that blow lowly,
Seven seas that run high,
All those things that don't change, Come what may.
but our good times are all gone,
And I'm bound for moving on.
I'll look for you if I'm ever back this way.

If I get there before the snow flies,
And if things are looking good,
You could meet me if I send you down the fare.
But by then it would be winter
there ain't much for you to do
And the winds sure can blow cold way out there

Four strong winds that blow lonely,
Seven seas that run high,
All those things that don't change, Come what may.
but our good times are all gone,
And I'm bound for moving on.
I'll look for you if I'm ever back this way.

Written by Ian Tyson and sung by many, I like Neil Young's version the best.

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^ props for reviving this thread. 'tis a good one.

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V.T.W. 1/11/61-11/30/10

i didn't make this, but i can tell you who did.

*sigh* I love this song. it's so very true.

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Married Edmund Pevensie January 5th, 2008

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Skid Row - Wasted Time

You and I together in our lives
Sacred ties would never fray
Then why can�t I let myself tell lies
And watch you die every day

I think back to the times
When dreams were what mattered
Tough talking youth naivete

You said you never let me down
But the horse stampedes and rages
In the name of desperation

Is it all just wasted time
Can you look at yourself
When you think of what
You left behind

Is it all just wasted time
Can you live with yourself
When you think of what
You left behind

Paranoid delusions they haunt you
Where�s my friend I used to know
He�s all alone
He�s buried deep within a carcass
Searching for a soul

Can you feel me inside your heart
As it�s bleeding
Why can�t you belive you
can�t be loved

I hear you scream in agony
And the horse stampedes and rages
In the name of desperation

Is it all just wasted time
Can you look at yourself
When you think of what
You left behind

Is it all just wasted time
Can you live with yourself
When you think of what
You left behind

You said you never let me down
But the horse stampedes and rages
In the name of desperation

Is it all just wasted time
Can you look at yourself
When you think of what
You left behind

Is it all just wasted time
Can you live with yourself
When you think of what
You left behind

The sun will rise again
The earth will turn to sand
Creation�s colors seem to fade to grey
And you�ll see the sickly hands of time
Will write your final rhyme
And end a memory

I never thought you'd let it get
this far, boy

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Will be going to London on March of the 30th

the chorus makes me want to cry. i hesitate to say i'm in love, but, if i am, i don't want to be anymore. it's complicated and whatever. but this song is amazing either way...*sigh*

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V.T.W. 1/11/61-11/30/10

i didn't make this, but i can tell you who did.

I wish I was your favorite girl,
I wish you thought I was the reason you are in the world.
I wish my smile was your favorite kind of smile
I wish the way that I dressed was your favourite kind of style.

I wish you couldn't figure me out,
But you always wanted know what I was about.
I wish you'd hold my hand when I was upset,
I wish you'd never forget the look on my face when we first met.


I know this is an unrequited love song, but I feel these exact lyrics fit for a father figure of mine. They mean a lot, honestly. Because I know I'm not his favorite, and I wish I were, however selfish that may be.

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Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you!

Wow. I really like that. what song is it?

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Married Edmund Pevensie January 5th, 2008

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VITAM AETERNO; an original creature roleplay

It's The Nicest Thing by Kate Nash. One of my favorite songs of all time.

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Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you!

Jason Mraz - If It Kills Me

How long can I go on like this,
Wishing to kiss you,
Before I rightly explode?
And this double life I lead ain't healthy for me,
In fact it makes me nervous.
If I get caught I could be risking it all.
Well baby, there's a lot I miss in case I'm wrong.


Long story short, basically. This one verse of the song just sums up everything.

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Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you!

Iiiiiiiieeeeeee
Icky thump
Who'da thunk?
Sittin' drunk on a wagon to Mexico.
Ah well,
What a chump
Well my head got a bump
When I hit it on the radio.
Redhead señorita
Looking dead
Came and said
"need a bed?"
En Español.
I said
"gimme a drink a water,
I'm gonna 'sing around the collar'
And I don't need a microphone."
Icky thump
with a lump in my throat
Grabbed my coat
And I was freaking
I was ready to go!
And I swear
Besides the hair
She had one white eye,
One black(nk) stare
Lookin' up
Lyin' there.
On the stand
near her hand
Was a candy cane
Black rum, sugar cane,
Dry ice (and) something strange.

La la, la la la la la la la la la laaa laaa laaa


White Americans, what?
Nothing better to do?
Why don't you kick yourself out?
You're an immigrant too?
who's usin' who?
What should we do?
Well you can't be a pimp
And a prostitute too
Icky thump, handcuffed to a bunk
Robbed blind
Looked around
And there was nobody else
Left alone
I hit myself with a stone
Went home
And learned how to clean up after myself


Icky Thump by the White Stripes

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"Holmes is a little too scientific for my tastes -- it approaches to cold-bloodedness"

"Gott Sein '04" by Megaherz

Dein reich kommt nicht
und dein Wille geschieht nicht
Nicht im Himmel
und auf Erden sowieso nicht
Es ist nicht leicht, ein Gott zu sein

Sing Hallelujah! Sing Hallelujah!

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Still happily married to Sean Bean! (05-Feb-2010)

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Chase a couple hearts, we could leave 'em in shreds
Meet me in the gutter, make the devil your friend
Just remember what I said, cause it isn't over yet

Get.Lost.In.The.Dark.To.Find.Yourself
-sig by Loafers-

Fireflies by Owl City

'Cause I'd get a thousand hugs
From ten thousand lightning bugs
As they tried to teach me how to dance

A foxtrot above my head
A sock hop beneath my bed
A disco ball is just hanging by a thread

My favorite par.

Would you believe me if I told the reasons why,
You can't rest and drink yourself to sleep at night?
Not like it matters you can't escape don't even try,
We'll speak what no one knows.

"Oh, I've got to get to sleep."

You lie awake and you hope it's all in your head,
You're counting teeth with your tongue,
"Are they all there?"
There's no relief in the dark from what isn't there,
But you don't feel alone.

We are the ones you should be fearing,
Come in the night and take your teeth away,
Now sew up your mouth and go to sleep because,
We'll be there soon to break,
Your heart and spite your face.

Now they're finally here and you know what they're looking for,
With their empty grins they proceed in taking what you owe,
And you move your lips but the words they just fall to the floor,
So this is how it ends?
Crawl to the mirror and see all that you've become,
A grim reflection of all the things that you have done,
You try to weep but no tears have or will ever come,
So this is who you are?

We are the ones you should be fearing,
Come in the night and take your teeth away,
Now sew up your mouth and go to sleep because,
We'll be there soon to break,
Your heart and spite your face.

All the stars will burn out sometime,
We hang by our own rope,
All the stars will burn out sometime,
We suffer from inward growth.

We are the ones you should be fearing,
Come in the night and take your teeth away,
Now sew up your mouth and go to sleep because,
We'll be there soon to break,
Your heart and spite your face.

- "The Ones" by Aesthetic Perfection

My friend admits that this song reminds her of me...

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Still happily married to Sean Bean! (05-Feb-2010)