Valentine's Day Looms Ever Closer...post anti-lovesongs here:

[CanuckAmok]

"Why Bother?" - Weezer

I know I should get next to you
You've got a look that made me think you're cool
But it's just sexual attraction
Not something real so I'd rather keep wackin'

Why bother? It's gonna hurt me
It's gonna kill when you desert me
This happened to me twice before
Won't happen to me anymore

I've known a lot of girls before
What's the harm in knowing one more?
Maybe we could even get together
Maybe you could break my heart next summer

Why bother? It's gonna hurt me
It's gonna kill when you desert me
This happened to me twice before
Won't happen to me anymore

It's a crying shame I'm all alone
Not with you, nor her, nor anyone
Won't you knock me on my head?
Crack it open let me out of here

Why bother? It's gonna hurt me
It's gonna kill when you desert me
This happened to me twice before
Won't happen to me anymore

Why bother (why bother)
It's gonna hurt me (it's gonna hurt me)
It's gonna kill when (why bother)
You desert me (it's gonna hurt me)
Why bother (why bother)
It's gonna hurt me (it's gonna hurt me)
Why bother?
It's gonna hurt me


"Poptones" - Public Image Ltd.

Drive to the forest in a japanese car
The smell of rubber on concrete tar
Hindsight done me no good
Standing naked in the back of the woods
The cassette played poptones
I can't forget the impression you made
You left a hole in the back of my head
I don't like hiding in this foliage and peat
It's wet and I'm losing my body heat
The cassette played poptones
This bleeding heart
Looking for bodies
Nearly injured my pride
Praise picnicking in the British countryside
Poptones


"Jealous Again" - Black Flag

You're jealous again
No, she's just a friend
Why can't I do anything without being yelled at?
Always on the phone
Never leave me alone
Why don't you just tell me what you want from me
Said I'll never leave you, No I'll never leave you
It's not the end, No it's not the end
I won't beat you up
But I won't push you around
Because if I do that the cops would grab me for doin' it
I want to go and have some fun
Go where the action is
Who the hell are you to tell me who my friends are
Said I'll never leave you,
No I'll never leave you
It's not the end,
No it's not the end
Said I'll never leave you,
No I'll never leave you
It's not the end,
No it's not the end
You're jealous again
You're jealous again
You're jealous again and again and again and again and again and again and again.



"Fiction Romance" - Buzzcocks

A fiction romance
I love this love story
That never seems to happen in my life
A fiction romance
All love and glory
That never seems to happen in my life

Dreams of love and dreams of pain
And dreams again again again
A gain which can be yours just by taking hold
Dreams that I can realize
Are quite contained within your eyes
Say fiction romance is not so old

A fiction romance
The love of the ages
That never seems to matter in my life
A fiction romance
On magazine pages
That never seems to feature in my life

Dreaming scheming unaware
That quite somewhere some unaware folk
Are not thinking 'bout what they have been told
Something strange is happening to
The way I see the world I view
That fiction romance is not sold

As a fiction romantic
I never expected
All these things to happen in real life
And no fiction romantic
Could ever've predicted
All the things that happen in my life

When I don't know what to do
I just think about me and you
If I was a little stronger then I'd be bold
Something strange is happening to me
I don't know what these shivers mean to you
Is this fiction romance getting hold

Fiction romance
Fiction romance
Fiction romance
Fiction romance
Fiction romance
Fiction romance
Fiction romance
Fiction romance

Fiction romance
Fiction romance
Fiction romance
Fiction romance
Fiction romance
Fiction romance
Fiction romance
Fiction romance

[Spider Jerusalem]

1. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, "I Let Love In"

Despair and Deception, Love's ugly little twins
Came a-knocking on my door, I let them in
Darling, you're the punishment for all of my former sins

I let love in
I let love in

The door it opened just a crack, but Love was shrewed and bold
My life flashed before my eyes, it was a horror to behold
A life-sentence sweeping confetti from the floor of a concrete hole

I let love in
I let love in


Well I've been bound and gagged and I've been terrorised
And I've been castrated and I've been lobotomised
But never has my tormenter come in such a cunning disguise

I let love in
I let love in

O Lord, tell me what I done
Please don't leave me here alone
Where are my friends?
My friends are gone

O Lord, tell me what I done
Please don't leave me here alone
Where are my friends?
My friends are gone

I let love in
I let love in

So if you're sitting all alone and hear a-knocking at you door
and the air is full of promises, well buddy, you've been warned
Far worse to be Love's lover than the lover that Love has scorned

I let love in
I let love in

[CanuckAmok]

2. Mr. Cave deserves his own thread:

"The Kindness of Strangers"

They found Mary Bellows cuffed to the bed
With a rag in her mouth and a bullet in her head
O poor Mary Bellows
She'd grown up hungry, she'd grown up poor
She left her home in Arkansas
O poor Mary Bellows
She wanted to see the deep blue sea
She travelled across Tennessee
O poor Mary Bellows
She met a man along the way
He introduced himself as Richard Slade
O poor Mary Bellows
Poor Mary thought that she might die
When she saw the ocean for the first time
O poor Mary Bellows
She checked into a cheap little place
Richard Slade carried in her old suitcase
O poor Mary Bellows
"I'm a good girl, sir", she said to him
I couldn't possibly permit you in
O poor Mary Bellows
Slade tipped his hat and winked his eye
And turned away without goodbye
O poor Mary Bellows
She sat on her bed and thought of home
With the sea breeze whistling all alone
O poor Mary Bellows
In hope and loneliness she crossed the floor
And undid the latch on the front door
O poor Mary Bellows
They found her the next day cuffed to the bed
A rag in her mouth and a bullet in her head
O poor Mary Bellows
So mothers keep your girls at home
Don't let them journey all alone
Tell them this world is full of danger
And to shun the company of strangers
O poor Mary Bellows
O poor Mary Bellows



"Henry Lee"

Get down, get down, little Henry Lee
And stay all night with me
You won't find a girl in this damn world
That will compare with me
And the wind did howl and the wind did blow
La la la la la
La la la la lee
A little bird lit down on Henry Lee
I can't get down and I won't get down
And stay all night with thee
For the girl I have in that merry green land
I love far better than thee
And the wind did howl and the wind did blow
La la la la la
La la la la lee
A little bird lit down on Henry Lee
She leaned herself against a fence
Just for a kiss or two
And with a little pen-knife held in her hand
She plugged him through and through
And the wind did roar and the wind did moan
La la la la la
La la la la lee
A little bird lit down on Henry Lee
Come take him by his lilly-white hands
Come take him by his feet
And throw him in this deep deep well
Which is more than one hundred feet
And the wind did howl and the wind did blow
La la la la la
La la la la lee
A little bird lit down on Henry Lee
Lie there, lie there, little Henry Lee
Till the flesh drops from your bones
For the girl you have in that merry green land
Can wait forever for you to come home
And the wind did howl and the wind did moan
La la la la la
La la la la lee
A little bird lit down on Henry Lee

[General Zod]

3. " Love Will Tear us Apart" Joy Division

When the routine bites hard
And ambitions are low
And the resentment rides high
But emotions won’t grow
And we’re changing our ways,
Taking different roads
Then love, love will tear us apart again

Why is the bedroom so cold
Turned away on your side?
Is my timing that flawed,
Our respect run so dry?
Yet there’s still this appeal
That we’ve kept through our lives
Love, love will tear us apart again

Do you cry out in your sleep
All my failings expose?
Get a taste in my mouth
As desperation takes hold
Is it something so good
Just can’t function no more?
When love, love will tear us apart again

[mark414]

4. You're Breakin' My Heart by Nilsson

You?re breakin? my heart
You?re tearing it apart so fuck you

All I want to do is have a good time now I?m blue
You won?t boogaloo,
Run down to Tramps, have a dance or two, ooohhh
You?re breakin? my heart,
You?re tearing it apart but fuck you

You?re breakin? my heart
You?re tearing it apart, boo-hoo

You stepped on my ass
You?re breakin? my glasses too
You won?t drive my car, might be a star
I?ve had enough of you
I?m goin? insane
There?s no one to blame so fuck you

Instrumental break #1

You can?t have your way
There?s nothing left to say
There?s nothing left to do, ooooohhh
You?re breakin? my heart
You?re tearing it apart so fuck you

Instrumental break #2

You gotta have your way
There?s nothing left to say
There?s nothing left to do, ooooowww
You?re breakin? my heart
You?re tearing it apart but I love you

[tishaLA]

5. "Down With Love"

(Lyrics by E.Y. Harburg/Music by Harold Arlen)

Down with love with flowers and rice and shoes
Down with love the root of all midnight blues
Down with things that give you that well-known pain
Take that moon
Wrap it in cellophane

Down with love let's liquidate all it's friends
Like moon, June, roses and rainbow's ends
Down with songs that moan about night and day
Down with love
Take it away, away

Take it away, take it away
Give it back to the birds and bees and the Viennese
Down with eyes romantic and stupid
Down with sighs, down with cupid
Brother let's stuff that dove
Down with love

Down with love liquidate all it's friends
Like moon, June, roses and rainbow's ends
Down with songs that moan about night and day
You are the one...
And I don't stand a chance with a ghost like you
Ah, the promised kiss of Spring is here...
What does my heart go dancin' overhead...
On the ceiling near my bed...
We go now...
Because I talk to the trees, but they don't listen to me
I tell them: You say either - I say i-ther
You say neither, I say neither - I say ni-ther
Either, i-ther neither, ni-ther
Let's call the whole thing off!

Take it away, take it away
Give it back to the birds and the bees and the Viennese
Down with eyes romantic and stupid
Down with sighs, down with cupid
Brother let's stuff that dove...
Down, down, down I go
Around and around I go
In a spin
Hating the spin, I'm in!
What is this thing...
What is this thing called love?

[Seabiscuit]

6. "What's Love Got To Do With It?"

screw it - you've all heard the lyrics too many times... :)

[Squeech]

7. Uh, remember this?

Went to a party
I danced all night
I drank 16 beers
And I started up a fight

But now I am jaded
You're out of luck
I'm rolling down the stairs
Too drunk to fuck

Too drunk to fuck
Too drunk to fuck
Too drunk, to fuck
I'm too drunk, too drunk, too drunk
To fuck

I like your stories
I love your gun
Shooting out truck tires
Sounds like loads and loads of fun

But in my room
Wish you were dead
You ball like the baby
In Eraserhead

Too drunk to fuck
Too drunk to fuck
Too drunk, to fuck
It's all I need right now
Too drunk to fuck

Too drunk to fuck
Too drunk to fuck
Too drunk, to fuck
I'm sick soft gooey and cold
Too drunk to fuck

I'm about to drop
My head's a mess
The only salvation is
I'll never see you again

You give me head
It makes it worse
Take out your fuckin' retainer
Put it in your purse

I'm too drunk to fuck
You're to drunk to fuck
Too drunk to fuck
It's all I need right now Oh baby
I'm melting like an ice cream bar
Oh baby

And now I got diarrhea
Too drunk to fuck
Yeah, Yeah
Yeah, Yeah
Yeah, Yeah
Oooohhh

(Dead Kennedys)