Charlemagne

^YES! I love those lyrics. My favorite song off that Rearrange Beds album. One correction though...the line is "I didn't reply to your letter 'cause (I'm not here yet)"

And Days and Days is one of my top 3 favorite songs ever. You new person have exceptionally amazing taste.

Makes me want to post some of my favorite Tegan and Sara lyrics:

Clever Meals

They aren't desperate for love and affection
They're desperate for you
And as they sit out there all sly and sure
does anyone feel as they do

I'm quite sure we'll find one another
In a place better than this
A time filled with us
And we'll send up our shooting stars and comets
And we'll make our little gestures
we'll make our little comments

This song is my anthem and it makes up my ideals
And who I am has benefited from my
cleverly planned meals
I'm stripped and vital and I see rules that almost fit
And if I voice my opinion will you stay and sit
And as I stand here screaming in despair
I say yes this is my life and yes you should care
This song is my anthem and it makes up my ideals
And who I am has benefitted from my
cleverly planned meals

Hardly happy at all and I'm ready to take the fall
We pay for the stupid things we've done where I come from
Can you sit through this or is it too deep
Will you ever use common sense it comes pretty cheap
And if I speak more clearly if I make more sense
Will you shut your mouth you won't come across so dense
close your eyes and then you free your mind
You're free to fly

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Charlemagne had eyes like a lover, but last winter there was weather and his eyes they iced right over.

My Last.fm

Nine Black Poppies

A recent favorite:

I've left a trail of myself every place that I've been through
And going bald is the most manly thing I'm ever gonna do
I'll tell the Earth "Thanks for the hair, thanks for the skin, thanks for the bone.
Though I now slowly give it back, I still appreciate the loan."
Just tell me that you like me in the same sentence as a mountainside
'Cause it would be such a relief to be objectified

'Cause, who says it's so important to sort through these thoughts of ours
Maybe that's why we love to try to see ourselves from the outside
In photographs and videos and diaries and mirrors
'Cause it would be such a relief to be objectified

And the closest that I ever got still seems to leave a lot to go
But the horizon seems to be a place that nobody can know
Looking forth and looking back, our vision can't extend
Beyond the quaint vanishing points our bodies recommend
And I'll help you move some furniture somewhere it's never been before
But the room's so small the dresser drawer won't let us get back out the door
Just tell me that you like me in the same sentence as a building
It would be such a relief to see I'm just a natural thing

We're only boats and the boats are only empty
And you can't blame an empty boat that's on a river to the sea
You can't blame a billion boats without a sail, without a sailor
And that's how we look in photographs and diaries and mirrors
And the ants turn into plants and the plants turn into ants
And children are clumsy people and old people are rotting children
And I still don't have a cell phone but this seashell gets reception
And the ocean won't stop calling and I want a restraining order
Just tell me that you like me in the same sentence as a building
It would be such a relief to see I'm just a natural thing
We're just a natural thing
Just like anything

-Jeffrey Lewis

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Like carnivores to carnal pleasures, so were we to desperate measures...

someonecompletelyrandom

I agree that the Pixies have some really great, surreal, violent and funny lyrics all wrapped up into one package. I much perfer the lyrics on Doolittle and Surfer Rosa, however.