Ask Her For Adderall

Jonathan Leder

If she happens to suggest a love based on trust and respect

Tell her I've been wasted since last week

If she wants to stop on by, tell her that I almost died

Tell her I ain't seeing people yet

But see if she'll send cigarettes

- The Hold Steady

Ordinary

“I didn’t feel connected to the ground I walked on. I didn’t feel like I was sitting on the chair I was sitting on. When I was eating, I felt that I wasn’t eating food.”

- This American Life, "Welcome to America"

Enough

Martin Engelbrecht

I am still waiting for the sun to come up

I don't care if it ever does

I am warm enough

- Mojgani

Strawberry Wine

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Marty was a kid when he learned to steal boats

His dad was a deejay on the radio

He fell in to a life of riverboat crime

Now has the man you see in prison

If you want strawberry wine

- Ryan Adams

Any Mountain

The mouth is an orchard, the teeth cherries,
Your lips, a monastery, your kiss, a rosary,
Your voice, a big man I would follow over any mountain

- Anis Mojgani

Secret

Helmut Newton

“With a secret like that, at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not.”
- Water For Elephants, Sara Gruen

Sorrow

Sita Marie

“I don’t know what darkness got into him that couldn’t shake itself out.”
- Anis Mojgani

The Cure For Death by Lightning

The Cure For Death by Lightning cover art

“Coyote Jack was scared: of men, of town, of noisy cars, the occasional planes overhead, of small transactions with store clerks, the meaning of scratchy letters on paper, of church people and God, Indians and women, the sound of the human voice.” - The Cure For Death by Lightning, Gail Anderson-Dargatz

In Plain Sight

Mary: [on phone] I think my mom is a hooker.

Marshall: ...

Mary: Did you hear what I said?

Marshall: Does this mean you're going to be late?

Mary: I just saw my mom duck into an alley dressed like a hooker.

Marshall: Doesn't your mom always kinda dress like a...?

- In Plain Sight, S03E11