Alison Mosshart - The Kills"And I know you have a heavy heart, I can feel it when we kiss
So many men stronger than me have thrown their backs out trying to lift it
But me I'm not a gamble, you can count on me to split
The love I sell you in the evening by the morning won't exist
You're looking skinny like a model with your eyes all painted black
Just keep going to the bathroom, always say you'll be right back
Well, it takes one to know one, kid, I think you've got it bad
But what's so easy in the evening by the morning's such a drag."
So many men stronger than me have thrown their backs out trying to lift it
But me I'm not a gamble, you can count on me to split
The love I sell you in the evening by the morning won't exist
You're looking skinny like a model with your eyes all painted black
Just keep going to the bathroom, always say you'll be right back
Well, it takes one to know one, kid, I think you've got it bad
But what's so easy in the evening by the morning's such a drag."
Bright Eyes - Lua
These are my favourite sad song lyrics - how good are they?! I've seen Bright Eyes play a couple of times, and there is something about his depressing junkie songs that I get addicted to and have to play again and again.
One of my favourite interviews with Cat Power in iD started out something like this: this is a girl that has kissed far too many boys, smoked far too many cigarettes and drunk waaay too much whisky.Now? Her voice is half velvet, half gravel, and all magically rusty. That's not from the interview, but that's what black eyes make me think of.
