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so this is how life is

"somewhere in middle america get right to the heart of matters, it's the heart that matters more, i think you'd better turn your ticket in, and leave your money at the door" (counting crows)


"yeah i'd like to go to all the pretty parties where all the pretty people go, and i aint really all that pretty, but nobody will know, because everyone loves you when you're a star, and nobody questions what it takes to go this far, life is a sleazy stranger and this is his favorite bar" (ani difranco)


"for the countless, confused, misused, strug out ones and worse, and for every hung up person in the whole wide universe, we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing" (bob dylan)


"i want somebody who sees the pointlesness but keeps the purpose in mind. i want somebody who has a tortured soul, some of the time, i want somebody who'd like to put out for me or put me out of my misery, or maybe just put it all to words and make me go 'i never heard it that way before'" (ani difranco)


"so many sheep i keep counting, sleepless and embarassed about the way that i feel, trying to make mole hills out of mountains, building a base camp at the bottom of a really big deal" (ani difranco)


"love, peace, harmony, oh very nice, very nice. but maybe in the next world" (the smiths)


"yes my guard stood hard when abstract threats too noble to neglect decieved me into thinking i had something to protect, good and bad, i define these terms quite clear, no doubt, somehow, oh, but i was much older than, i'm younger than that now" (bob dylan)


"on a morning beautific in it's indian summer breeze, on the day america fell to it's knees, after strutting around for a century without saying thank you, or please" (ani difranco)


"generally my generation wouldn't be caught dead working for the man, and generally i agree with them, trouble is you gotta have yourself an alternate plan" (ani difranco)


"i guess the winter makes you laugh a little slower, makes you talk a little lower about the things you could not show her" (counting crows)


"cause take away our playstations and we are a third world nation, under the thumb of some blue blood royal son, who stole the oval office in the phony election" (ani difranco)


"february was so long that it lasted into march and found us walking a path alone together. you stopped and pointed and you said: 'that's a crocus' and i said 'whats a crocus?' and i said 'it's a flower.' i tried to remember but i said 'what's a flower?' you said 'i still love you'" (dar williams)


"socialism, hypnotism, patriotism, materialism, fools making laws for the breaking of jaws, and the sound of the keys as they clink..but theres no time to think" (bob dylan)


"and we hold these truths to be self evident:
1. george w. bush is not president
2. america is not a true democracy
3. the media is not fooling me."
(ani difranco)


"running around seems whats wrong with the world. don't lose the dreams inside your head, they'll only be there til you're dead, dream" (dave matthews band)


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