Quote of the Day— [O] by Damien Rice

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The word Poignant & Heartfelt doesn’t even begin to describe how heartstring tugging it really is to me for the effort you put out on this.

Your voice’s a deadly weapon, melody’s a method of execution, and the songs are practically a dark cage that captures all emotions of heartbreak.

Killing me softly with your songs

Nevertheless, I absolutely love it, the joy of deep wallowing.

Such as these,

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Delicate
So why do you fill my sorrow/ With the words you borrowed/ From the only place you know?
And why do you sing Hallelujah/ If it means nothing to you/ Why do you sing with me at all?

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Volcano
Don’t hold yourself like that/ You’ll hurt your knees.
I kissed your mouth and back/ And that’s all I need.
Don’t build your world around volcanoes melt you down.
What I am to you is not real.
What I am to you/ You do not need.
What I am to you is not what you mean to me.
You give me miles and miles of mountains/ And I’ll ask for the sea.

Don’t throw yourself like that in front of me.
I kissed your mouth and back/ Is that all you need?
Don’t drag my love around volcanoes melt me down.

What I give to you/ Is just what I’m going through/ This is nothing new/ No no just another phase of finding what I really need/ Is what makes me bleed/ But like a new disease/ Lord/ She’s still too young to treat.

You do not need me.

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The Blower's Daughter
And so it is/ Just like you said it would be/
Life goes easy on me/ Most of the time.
And so it is/ The shorter story/
No love no glory/ No hero in her sky.

I can't take my eyes off of you
I can't take my eyes off of you
I can't take my eyes off of you
I can't take my eyes off of you
I can't take my eyes off of you
I can't take my eyes...

And so it is/ Just like you said it should be/
We'll both forget the breeze/ Most of the time.
And so it is/ The colder water/
The blower's daughter/ The pupil in denial.

I can't take my mind off of you
I can't take my mind off of you
I can't take my mind off of you
I can't take my mind off of you
I can't take my mind off of you
I can't take my mind...
My mind...my mind...
'Til I find somebody new.

Did I say that I loathe you?
Did I say that I want to/
Leave it all behind?

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Cannonball
Still a little bit of your taste in my mouth.
Still a little bit of you laced with my doubt.
Still a little hard to say what's going on.

Still a little bit of your ghost, your witness.
Still a little bit of your face I haven't kissed.
You step a little closer each day/
That I can't say what's going on.

Still a little bit of your song in my ear.
Still a little bit of your words I long to hear.
You step a little closer to me/
So close that I can't see what's going on.

So it's not hard to fall/ When you float like a cannonball.

So come on courage/ Teach me to be shy,
'Cause it's not hard to fall/ And I don't wanna scare her.
It's not hard to fall/ And I don't wanna lose.
It's not hard to grow/ When you know that you just don't know.

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Older Chests
And we (always) seem to need the help/ Of someone else/
To mend that shelf/ (of) Too many books/
Read me your favourite line.

Some things in life may change/
And some things/ They stay the same.

Like time, there's always time/ On my mind.
So pass me by/ I'll be fine/ Just give me time.

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Amie
Amie come sit on my wall & read me a story of 'O'.
Tell it like you still believe/ That the end of the century/
Brings a change for you and me.

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Cheers Darlin'
Cheers darlin'
Here's to you and your lover boy.
Cheers darlin'
I got years to wait around for you.
Cheers darlin'
I've got your wedding bells in my ear.
Cheers darlin'
You gave me three cigarettes to smoke my tears away.

And I die/ When you mention his name.
And I lied/ I should have kissed you/
When we were runnin' in the rain.

What am I darlin'?
A whisper in your ear?
A piece of your cake?
What am I, darlin?
The boy you can fear?
Or your biggest mistake?

Cheers darlin'
Here's to you and your lover man.
Cheers darlin'
I just hang around and eat from a can.
Cheers darlin'
I got a ribbon of green on my guitar.
Cheers darlin'
I got a beauty queen/
To sit not very far from me.

I die when he comes around/ To take you home.
I'm too shy/ I should have kissed you/ When we were alone.

What am I darlin'?
A whisper in your ear?
A piece of your cake?
What am I, darlin?
The boy you can fear?
Or your biggest mistake?

Oh what am IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII? What am IIIIIIIIIIIIIIII darlin'?
I got years to wait...

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Cold Water
Cold, cold water surrounds me now/
And all I've got is your hand.
Lord, can you hear me now?
Lord, can you hear me now?
Lord, can you hear me now?
Or am I lost?

Am I lost with you?
Am I lost with you?
Am I lost with you?

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I Remember
I remember it well.
The first time that I saw/ Your head around the door/
'Cause mine stopped working.

I remember it well.
There was wet in your hair/ I was stood in stare/
And time stopped moving.

I want you here tonight/ I want you here.
'Cause I can't believe what I found.
I want you here tonight want you here.
Nothing is taking me down, down, down...

Except you my love. Except you my love...


Come all ye lost/ Dive into moss/
And hope that my sanity covers the cost/
To remove the stain of my love/ In paper mache.

Come all ye reborn/ Blow off my horn/
I'm driving real hard.
This is love, this is porn.
God will forgive me/ But I, I whip myself in scorn, scorn.

I wanna hear what you have to say about me/
Hear if you're gonna live without me/
I wanna hear what you want.
I remember December.

What the hell do you want?

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Eskimo
Tiredness fuels empty thoughts/ I find myself disposed.
Brightness fills empty space/ In search of inspiration.

Rain it wets muddy roads/I find myself exposed.
Tapping doors, but irritate/In search of destination.

Harder now with higher speed/ Washing in on top of me.

So I look to my Eskimo friend
I look to my Eskimo friend
I look to my Eskimo friend
When I'm down, down, down.

kosketa minua - Touch me/
älä käsilläsi - Not with your hands/
vaan niin että tunnen sinut - But the way I can feel you.

kosketa minua - Touch me/
älä käsilläsi - Not with your hands/
mutta sielussasi - But within your soul.

minä kaipaan eskimo-ystävääni - I look to my Eskimo friend.

When I'm down, down, down.
When I'm down, down, down.

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The Professor & La Fille Danse
Well I don't know if I'm wrong/ ‘Cause she's only just gone.
Here's to another relationship/ Bombed by my excellent breed of gamete disease.
I'm sure when I'm older I'll know what that means.

Cried when she should and she laughed when she could.
Here's to the man with his face in the mud/
And an overcast play just taken away/
From the lover's in love at the centre of stage yeah.

Loving is fine if you have plenty of time/
For walking on stilts at the edge of your mind yeah.
Loving is good if your dick's made of wood/
And the dick left inside only half understood her.

What makes her come/ What makes her stay?
What make the animal run, run away? Yeah.
What makes him stall/What makes him stand?
And what shakes the elephant now?
And what makes a man?
I don't know, I don't know, I don't know/
No I don't know you any more/
No, no, no, no...

I don't know if I'm wrong/ 'Cause she’s only just gone/
Why the fuck is this day taking so long?
I was a lover of time and once she was mine.
I was a lover indeed, I was covered in weed.

Cried when she should and she laughed when she could.
Well closer to god is the one who's in love/
And I walk away cause I can/
Too many options may kill a man.

Loving is fine if it's not in your mind/
But I've fucked it up now, too many times.
Loving is good if it's not understood/
Yeah, but I'm the professor/
And feel that I should know.

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Lonelily
In a way I felt you were leaving me/
I was sure i wouldn't find you at home.
And you let me down/
You could've knocked off the evening/
But you lonelily let him push under your bone.

You let me down/ It's no use deceiving/ Neither of us wanna be alone.

In a way I lost all I believed in/
And I never found myself so low.
And you let me down/
You could've called if you'd needed/
But you lonelily got yourself locked in instead.

And you let me down.
It's one thing being cheated/
But you took him all the way through your bed.

And now you're coming home/
And I'm trying to forgive.
You're coming home/
And I'm trying to forget.
You're coming home/
And I'm trying to move on.
You're coming home/
And you haven't called yet.

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Woman Like A Man
You wanna get boned/
You wanna get stoned/
You wanna get a room like no one else.
You wanna be rich/
You wanna be kitsch/
You wanna be the bastard of yourself.
You wanna get burned/
You wanna get turned/
You wanna get fucked inside out.
You wanna be ruled/
You wanna be fooled/
You wanna be a woman like a man like a woman like a man.

(I’ll get a cheaper ticket next time)
(Really wasn’t worth the ride)

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Moody Mooday
Mooday (It's got me)
Baby, why d'you have to leave/
Something up your sleeve/
Baby, I find it hard to breath.

Baby, why d'you have to leave/
Why d'you have to break free/
Why d'you have to go.

Baby, why d'you have to run/
Looking after number one.

Something you're afraid to show?
Someone else you'd rather phone?

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Such a perfect soundtrack for wrists-slitting.

Don’t you think so?