Lyrics That Speak to Me (Somebody)

Filed in Music by Jumapili Ikuseghan on October 4, 2009 • 0 Comments

This is an old post by someone else and I have not seen it online in forever. I thought I would repost it and if anyone knows who the original poster is let me know so I can give credit. It is because of this post I found Melissa Ferrick and became a lover of the angry lesbian music. I do personally think she is angry but that is what my friends call it. I have extended the post a bit by linking to the artists websites as well as the song on

“There’s an ache in every corner of the heart for the ones who are miles away.” – Peter Mulvey

“I believe this coast is killing me. If I didn’t dream, I’d be dead.” – Peter Mulvey

“And then I tell you, ‘You know honey, love doesn’t know distance.’ And you turn around and look and me and say, ‘Yeah, but my arms do.’ ” – Melissa Ferrick

“With a white knuckle grip on the center of your soul…I have the same grip on your heart.” – Peter Mulvey

“I tend to focus on the darker side…I forget there ever was light.” – Edie Carey

“How could you do nothing…and say ‘I’m doing my best’?” – Ani DiFranco

“Is simplicity best…or simply the easiest?” – Depeche Mode

“The world owes me nothing…and we owe each other the world.” – Ani DiFranco

“I’ve got the strength to move but…why should I?”- Letters To Cleo

“Everybody’s trying not to be just like everybody, and I don’t want to be like that.” – Jim’s Big Ego

“Sometimes life on life’s terms means that I do not get to win”-Melissa Ferrick

“When night falls, it scrapes its knees”- Sarah Slean – I Want to be Brave

“Without hope you cannot start the day”- Yes – Without Hope You Cannot Stay the Day”

“Help me to learn songs of joy instead of “burn, baby, burn.” – Paul McCartney

“Once again I play midwife to my dreams…and I’m…also moaning on the table.” – Peter Mulvey (I can’t find this one if anyone knows what song this from let me know.)

“Cause I was taught that love grows…so why does it always seem to fade on me?” – Melissa Ferrick

“If beauty is ugly…then ugliness is king.” – Janis Ian – Murdering Stravinsky

“It’s like when you’re swimming in the ocean…and the bottom becomes the top…and you don’t realize that the whole time…you have been swimming down for air.”- Melissa Ferrick

“I lose my heart without looking down, they could be Sarah, Chloe, or Clyde…and I suspect the question’s been going around as to whether I’ll ever decide.” – Edie Carey

“…I’ll never be a woman of extremes…I’ve never been the worst, and I’ll never be the best…but that’ll never stop me or my dreams.” – Edie Carey

“She’s recruiting sympathy like it’s an army..as the front lines fall she brings new lines up.” – Martina Sorbara – This Ship

“Last night your shoulder bare and warm beneath my hand…oh I love you, breath and bone” – Peter Mulvey (possibly inaccurate, hit me live and I scrambled to write it down.) ( I can’t find this one either)

“And I make a really good lover when there’s a clear path to the door…Make a really good listener when I can’t talk no more… I make a really good friend when there’s an end in sight… I make a really good wrong to your right” – Kris Delmhorst

“She’s a summer storm, and I’m a hurricane…one just blows through town..one blows the town away” – Fred Eaglesmith

“And I know it’s hard to know the truth…so we live with points of view.” – Mary Gauthier

“Well, I know I’m not beautiful and I’ll never be tall and thin. But these things mean so much when you feel with your eyes and not from within.” – Lori McKenna

“People will always be tempted to wipe their feet on anything with ‘Welcome’ written on it.” – XTC

“What’s the sense in being so sensitive? Can I trade this thin skin for a shell?” – Sarah Harmer

“Faith has no weight….Doubt, now there’s the burden”-Ellis Paul

“We leave the cursed city the same way we come in…we trace the roads…on the way out we shed our certainties like clothes .” – Peter Mulvey

“Changes aren’t permanent, but change is.” – Rush

“What doesn’t kill you will make you stronger…I’m not dead yet so I must be stronger” – The Nields

“You can’t tell your heart how to feel…you can only get out of the way.” – Melissa Ferrick

“When your dream comes true…you’re out one dream.” – The Nields

“You take the weight of a heavy notion and I’ll take the weight from coast to ocean. And that’s why the ride is light, it’s all right” – Letters to Cleo

“The hardest words are spoken softly.” – This Mortal Coil

“I make a really bad clothesline so don’t pin your hopes on me” – Kris Delmhorst.

“If fashion is your trade…then when you’re naked…I guess you must be unemployed.” – Pulp

“But the truth is I can no more stop dreaming than I can make them all come true.” – Cry Cry Cry (yes, I know it’s a cover)

“I scratch yours and you stab mine.” – Danny Michel

“Maybe we’re only as sick as our secrets, and maybe our secrets are all that we own.” – Peter Mulvey

“There is no mystery to be revealed…and so we tell the truth and then run.” – The Story

“Your heart is the big box of paints, and others the canvas were dealt.” – XTC

“It’s better to have fallen in love than never to have fallen at all.” – Dar Williams

“I was reading on the bathroom wall…’tomorrow has been cancelled due to lack of interest.’ ” – Pamela Means

“Dreams are like water…colorless…and dangerous.” – This Mortal Coil

“I’ve had enough thunder and mortar…and tragedy” – Peter Mulvey

“Pray your gods who hold you by your fear…for they are quick and ruthless punishers.” – Toad the Wet Sprocket

“There’s no such thing as an atheist on the 32nd floor.” – Eddie From Ohio

“True revolutionaries never bomb buildings.” – Dan Bern

“Without silence, words lose their meaning and without listening, the speaking cannot heal.” – Christopher Williams

“Well man created the cardboard box to sleep in it. And man converted the newspaper to a blanket. Well you have to admit that he’s come a long way since swinging about in the trees.” – XTC

“The highway takes its toll, the green light flashes go…it’s welcome to Ohio” – Richard Shindell

“And now we count the ways to leave the burning sameness of these days.” – Jennifer Kimball

“If you got something to talk about, why don’t you raise your voice?” – Pamela Means – Speak

“And I am not as strong as the days are long” – Tory Cassis

“I’m long on good intentions, I’ve got zero tolerance for pain.” – Peter Mulvey

“And after it rains there’s a rainbow…and all of the colors are black. It’s not that the colors aren’t there..it’s just imagination they lack.” – Paul Simon

“A million years of evolution, we get Danny Quayle” – Oingo Boingo

“What kind of people make a city where you can’t see the sky and you can’t feel the ground?” – Dar Williams

“Too many people think they’re misunderstood every time somebody disagrees with them.” – Jess Klein

“Out here it’s so quiet, you can hear your heart talking. If by chance it tells you which way to go…start walking.” – Peter Mulvey

“I saw men with dreams like the ones I’d had beg for quarters outside the 7-11 ’til it got so they didn’t affect me any more than the mailboxes I passed. Except sometimes I put something in the mailbox.” – Dan Bern