Author: Munro Stewart

Are you looking for peace of mind? You won't find it in your status line.

Contact High - Allen Stone

Are you looking for peace of mind?
You won't find it in your status line
What are you trying to prove?
Whose mountain are you trying to move?

I fell for it, too, yeah
Whatever keeps you occupied
Whatever gives you contact high
Whatever keeps you busy, baby
Will never make you satisfied

Are you looking for security
Validation or identity?
You won't find it in things
The more you got, oh, the less you see, yeah

I've been all over the world, yeah
I've dug for diamonds and I've dove for pearls
And the real treasure that we all seek
Is hiding in plain sight of me, oh

We used to wait for it, now we're screaming sing the chorus again.

We Used To Wait - Arcade Fire

I used to write
I used to write letters, I used to sign my name
I used to sleep at night
Before the flashing light settled deep in my brain

Now our lives are changing fast
Now our lives are changing fast
Hope that something pure can last
Hope that something pure can last

Now it seems strange
How we used to wait for letters to arrive
But what's stranger still
Is how something so small can keep you alive

We used to wait for it
Now we're screaming sing the chorus again
We used to wait for it
Now we're screaming sing the chorus again

I'm always left of center and that's right where I belong. I'm the random minor note you hear in major songs.

I Like That - Janelle Monae

A little crazy, little sexy, little cool
Little rough around the edges but I keep it smooth
I'm always left of center and that's right where I belong
I'm the random minor note you hear in major songs

And I like that
I don't really give a fuck if I was just the only one
Who likes that
I never like to follow, follow all around and chase the sun

Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone? They paved paradise, put up a parking lot.

Big Yellow Taxi - Joni Mitchell

They took all the trees
Put 'em in a tree museum
Then they charged the people
A dollar and a half just to see 'em

Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone?
They paved paradise
Put up a parking lot

When I say infinity I mean now. Kiss the one you are right now.

Spud Infinity - Big Thief

What's it gonna take?
What's it gonna take?
What's it gonna take?
To free the celestial body

When I say celestial
I mean extra-terrestrial
I mean accepting the alien you've rejected in your own heart

When I say heart, I mean finish
The last one there is a potato kinish
Baking too long in the sun of Spud Infinity

When I say infinity I mean now
Kiss the one you are right now
Kiss your body up and down, other than your elbows

'Cause as for your elbows they're on their own
Wandering like a rolling stone
Rubbing up against the edges of experience

They want me to be this picture-perfect girl, in a little picture-perfect world. You won't bring me down.

Ego - Bibi Bourelly

They want me to be this picture-perfect girl
In a little picture-perfect world
But I cuss when I talk, and I lean when I walk
And I've been through some shit and I've gained and I've lost

And all of the teachers used to keep me after the class
Behind the school bleachers suckin' on cigarettes
I'm out of the norm since the day I was born
And I put this on life, I won't ever conform

You won't bring me down, down, d-d-down
Down, d-d-down, down, d-d-down

And what's a song without you, when every song I write is about you?

Ran - Future Islands

Ingest, where it goes, nobody sees but me
So perfect and so sweet
But the rest, feels incomplete
Like the rabbit's foot I keep
In the locket, with no key

And I can't take it, I can't take this world without
This world without you
I can't take it, I can't take it on my own
On my own

And what's a song without you?
When every song I write is about you
When I can't hold myself without you
And I can't change the day I found you