Drop the Needle

Jonathan Leder

You came out from the country

Wearing momma's clothes

You were born in the city

Daddy's dominos

You need a record you can move to

Well we got one

Drop the needle

We are playing for an audience of one

- Cold War Kids

The Last Thing I saw Was Night

Photographer unknown

Take my name from me and make it a verb. Think of me when you run out of money. Remember me when you fall in the sidewalk. Mention me when they ask you what happened. I am everywhere under your feet.

- Luc Sante

Journey

Sita Marie

A Person is only a metaphore for the place he wants to go.

- Akim Ali

Today Is the Day We Must Come Alive

Camilla Akrans

We’re gonna build big, dumb blanket forts
To keep out the cynics
And if you get hurt in the construction,
Then we have a reindeer in the lobby that will hold you
- Derrick Brown

Full and Heavy

The hospitals are full and overflowing
With people cutting God from their insides
- Anis Mojgani

Muezzin

David Bellamere

You hopped into bed,

But your hymen is on the table.

Never mind, Allah be praised.

There is more than one way to skin a cat.

Peel an orange and feed its slices to me.

I have a minaret, get hold of its charms,

Be my muezzin,

While the rainIs pouring out in the street

And folks are keeping indoors

For their prayers.
- Murat Nemet-Nejat

Black Coffee

Fringe S02E20

I'm feeling mighty lonesome

Haven't slept a wink

I walk the floor and watch the door

And in between I drink

Black coffee

Love's a hand me down brew

I'll never know a Sunday

In this weekday room

I'm talking to the shadows from 1 o'clock til 4

And lord, how slow the moments go

When all I do is pour

Black coffee

Since the blues caught my eye

I'm hanging out on Monday

My Sunday dreams to dry

Now a man is born to go a lovin'

A woman's born to weep and fret

To stay at home and tend her oven

And drown her past regrets

In coffee and cigarettes

I'm moaning all the morning and mourning all the night

And in between it's nicotine

And not much heart to fight

Black coffee

Feelin' low as the ground

It's driving me crazy just waiting for my baby

To maybe come around

I'm waiting for my baby

To maybe come around

My nerves have gone to pieces

My hair is turning gray

All I do is drink black coffee

Since my man's gone away

- Black Coffee

One Day I'll Come Home

Geoff Benzing

From town to town and state to state

There’s people everywhere that try to capture us

We stole the cash and left our names

And almost slipped in Indianapolis

The rain it fell, the story went on

The rain it fell, and we got gone

Poughkeepsie, hang up the telephone

Won’t answer your phone calls no more

New York quit callin’, New York leave me be

Changing the plans that I’ve been setting on

I’m scared by the way that my life is getting gone

Carolina one day I’ll, someday I’ll come home

- The Avett Brothers

Past the Edges

The sea’s utter lust eats at the shores of my skin.
Here at last I can be lonely.
The sky has spilled all its secrets
And the crabs have gathered them to their caves.
The horizon drags my own secrets out with the tide,
Out beyond the islands
To where the world tapers.
Here I believe the world has an end,
That if I swim out far enough
I’ll plunge with all the fish across the brink
And fall through thickets of stars.
Even the universe, they say, has walls.
Out beyond the twilight’s keeping a door lies open.
I’d like to stand there with my back to all the light,
Looking out,
Then take a step.

- The Book of Flying, Keith Miller

No One Noticed

“She dropped drinking. No one noticed. She could gut a nun with a bread knife tonight and no one would notice”
- Judgment of Tears, Kim Newman

Sanding Down the Edges

Photographer unknown

"After a while you get kind of used to living in a state of weariness. It may be physical but it starts to feel existential."
- Raines, S01E03