20 quotes
On tour I'm so invisible to myself, it's just one task after another.
One, two, three, four, five, six, nine, and ten
Money can't buy you back the love that you had then.
The Reminder (2007)
Ooh, I'll be the one who'll break my heart
I'll be the one to hold the gun.
The Reminder (2007)
No one likes to take a test
Sometimes you know more is less.
The Reminder (2007)
It may be years until the day
My dreams will match up with my pay.
Let It Die (2004)
The tragedy starts from the very first spark
Losing your mind for the sake of your heart
The saddest part of a broken heart
Isn't the ending so much as the start.
Let It Die (2004)
Oh, oh, oh
You're changing your heart
Oh, oh, oh
You know who you are.
The Reminder (2007)
Because there's just so much in a day now, I keep writing in much more abstract terms, like I don't try to write about what happened anymore. It would be impossible.
One Two Three Four
Tell me that you love me more
Sleepless, long nights
That was what my youth was for Old teenage hopes are alive at your door
Left you with nothing
But they want some more.
The Reminder (2007)
I know more than I knew before
I didn't rest I didn't stop
Did we fight or did we talk.
The Reminder (2007)
I got a man to stick it out
And make a home from a rented house
And we'll collect the moments one by one
I guess that's how the future's done.
Let It Die (2004)
Don't you wish that we could forget that kiss
And see this for what it is
That we're not in love
Let It Die (2004)
The cold heart will burst
If mistrusted first
And a calm heart will break
When given a shake
The Reminder (2007)
The truth lied
And lies divide
Lies divide
The Reminder (2007)
Sweet heart, bitter heart
Now I can't tell you apart
Cozy and cold
Put the horse before the cartThose teenage hopes
Who have tears in their eyes
Too scared to own up
To one little lie.
The Reminder (2007)
Old dirt road (Mushaboom)
Knee deep snow (Mushaboom)
Watching the fire as we grow (Mushaboom)
Let It Die (2004)
I'm a stem now
Pushing the drought aside
Opening up
Fanning my yellow eye
On the ferry
That's making the waves wave
Illumination
This is how my heart behaves.
The Reminder (2007)
I know I'm sane
I don't give a care for the crown or the shield
I will not protect you or happily yield
To the one who makes me come undone
Monarch (Lay Your Jewelled Head Down) (1999)
By nature of me being the one singing it and writing it there is always an innate bit of autobiography there ... but I think I learned years ago that you don't get songs that have that long stride and that pivot-hinge ability if it's too much diary entry.
Helping the kids out of their coats
But wait the babies haven't been born
I'm unpacking the bags and setting up
And planting lilacs and buttercups
But in the meantime I've got it hard
Second floor living without a yard.
Let It Die (2004)