the word studio notebook

I'm a freelance writer, designer, and game developer. My name is Will Hindmarch, and this is a casual notebook I keep on the web.

Posts tagged lyrics

Apr 12 '12
She said ‘the future wasn’t built to last.’
— “Crash Premonition,” Vector Lovers

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Feb 2 '12
Don’t you know / the lengths i would go / to be anyone that you wish i would

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Jan 23 '12
And everything heals, given time / And everything dies, given time.
— The Builders and The Butchers, “Golden and Green”

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Jun 18 '11
i played video games in a drunken haze
i was seventeen years young
hurt my knuckles punching the machines
the taste of scotch rich on my tongue
and then Cathy showed up
and we hung out
trading swigs from a bottle
all bitter and clean
locking eyes
holding hands
twin high maintenance machines
i am going to make it through this year
if it kills me
i am going to make it though this year
if it kills me
— The Mountain Goats, “This Year”

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Jun 3 '10

There’s an island hidden in the sound
Lapping currents lay your boat to ground
Affix your barb and bayonet
The curlews carve their Arabesques
And sorrow fills the silence all around
Come and see

There’s a harbor lost within the reeds
A jetty caught in over-hanging trees
Among the bones of cormorants
No boot mark here nor finger prints
The rivers roll down to a soundless sea
Come and see
Come and see

The tides will come and go
With this bare waking eye
Who rose like the wind
Though we know for sure
Amidst this fading light
We’ll not go home again
Come and see
Come and see

In the lowlands, nestled in the heat
A briar cradle rocks it’s babe to sleep
Its contents watched by Sycorax
And patagon in paralax
A foretold rumbling sounds below the deep
Come and see
Come and see

The tides will come and go
Witnessed by no waking eye
Who rose like the wind
Though we know for sure
Amidst this fading light
We’ll not go home again
Come and see
Come and see

— The Decemberists, “The Island”

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