|| a line a day ||

“The future is not what it used to be.”

Black Gold.
From The Foals’ Total Life Forever

“What good is a photograph of you?”

A Photograph Of You.
From Depeche Mode’s A Broken Frame

“Words are the worst way to say
what I have to say.”

This Day Next Year.
From Karate’s Unsolved

“We made the moon our mirrorball,
the streets an empty stage.”

Mirrorball.
From Elbow’s The Seldom Seen Kid

“We sit here stranded,
though we’re all doin’ our best to deny it.”

Visions Of Johanna.
From Bob Dylan’s Blonde On Blonde

“How much more can we stand to stay
before clouds complain,
soaked to that critical stage
with the overdressed words
of the well-meaning vague.”

The Lived-But-Yet-Named.
From Karate’s Unsolved

“Mothers, stop looking for your sons in the woods,
because you will find them on CNN.”

Small Fires.
From Karate’s Unsolved

“Violence is so, so slow,
and patience will do us in.”

Small Fires.
From Karate’s Unsolved

“I always fall in love with an open door,
or the horizon on an endless sea,
as I look around the ones
who are standing right in front of me.”

My Mirror Speaks.
From Death Cab For Cutie’s Open Door EP

“My old clothes don’t fit like they once did,
so they hang like ghosts of the people I have been.”

You Can Do Better Than Me.
From Death Cab For Cutie’s Narrow Stairs