big dreams

Mike Doughty (Soul Coughing) - No Peace, Los Angeles

ice cracking
fickle junkie
your girl calls
where have you been last night?
loverboy
where you been hiding?

no peace,
los angeles

coming down
wilshire boulevard
blurry stream of light
radio
road sign
and you are more awake
than is possible

and the true dope on salvation is
two weeks in a clinic
and a public testimonial
you tell them kids
tell them not to hurt themselves
speeding out from who you are

do this for the remembrance of me

Jon Brion - Little Person (Synecdoche, NY soundtrack)

I’m just a little person,
One person in a sea
Of many little people
Who are not aware of me.

I do my little job
And live my little life,
Eat my little meals,
Miss my little kid and wife.

And somewhere, maybe someday,
Maybe somewhere far away,
I’ll find a second little person
who will look at me and say,

“I know you
You’re the one I’ve waited for.
Let’s have some fun.”

Of Montreal - Knight Rider

Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - Rappaport’s Testament

I never gave up, I never gave up
I crawled in the mud but I never gave up

Rage Against The Machine - The Ghost of Tom Joad

and the highway is alive tonight,
nobody’s foolin’ nobody as to where it goes.
i’m sittin’ down here in the campfire light
with the ghost of old tom joad.

now, tom said: “ma, whenever ya see a cop beatin’ a guy,
wherever a hungry new born baby cries,
wherever there’s a fight against the blood and hatred in the air —
look for me, ma —
i’ll be there.

wherever some-body’s strugglin’ for a place to stand,
for a decent job or a helpin’ hand,
wherever somebody is strugglin’ to be free —
look in their eyes ma,
you’ll see me.