The End Of An Album

[Strat]

How do you say I'm lonely to
An answering machine?
The message is very plain
Oh, I hate your answering machine

[j's brain]

Oh the time has come
And you know that you're the only one
To say O.K.
But you're motoring
You're motoring

[bune]

This Kansas wheat won't break us
And another drink won't make us free
The oven's wide open, hold your breath and see.
Hold your breath and see . . .

[washing machine]

I've always enjoyed how "Heather Angel" closes out A Thousand Leaves. It's one of the more unsettling Sonic Youth songs I've ever heard, which is precisely why I like it punctuating the end of an album that, at times, sounds beatific. Hell, even the song itself starts off as a a lullaby before splitting itself open and pouring out it's chaotic, abrasive cacophony all over the room.

[bodysnatcher]

Do you ever think that you actually would kill yourself?
"Well, if I have thought about....we all...we all do...., yes, I believe I would"

[zeb]

Don't let me die in a hospital, I'll save the big one for the last time we make love
Insert here a sentiment re: our golden years
All cause I went to the store one day
"Seen you around, what's your name?"

[VinylGuy]

There must be something else
There must be something good
Far away

[LetMeSleep]

The difference in Mark's lyrics from album 1 to 2 was massive in positivity

I slam in sideways through the door.
Sleek, but not sober.
Something in me open, unfinished.
I pull the sheet back off your unconscious form.
Shed the liquor from my coke bottle.
I get what i came for.
I find closure, i achieve [ ? ]
I take the matches from my pocket.
Yeah, i strike one.
I count to ten.
And i let the matches fall.
I let the matches fall.

When I see you walking all mad up ahead
You turn around surprised
I pull along side you, kick open the door
You turn to me and smile and then, boy do I feel good

And if the loving don't kill us
Then we won't wanna die

[Simple Torture]

This was/is a great thread.

[Kevin Davis]

"Ashes and diamonds, foe and friend
We were all equal in the end."
- Pink Floyd, "The Final Cut"

[zeb]

Could I ever find in you again
Things that made me love you so much then
Could we ever bring 'em back once they have gone
Oh, Caroline no

[i got bugs]

"There is no dark side of the moon really. Matter of fact it's all dark."

[knee tunes]

The branches spell "Alice"
and I belong only to you.

[evenslow]

And you love me till my heart stops
Love me till I'm dead
Eyes that light up, eyes look through you
Cover up the blank spots
Hit me on the head
Ah oooooooooooooooooh

[ABNorman]

Divers as a whole deals with a lot of ideas around time, so it ends with:

White star, white ship–Nightjar, transmit: transcend!
White star, white ship–Nightjar, transmit: transcend!
White star, white ship–Nightjar, transmit: trans-

And then begins:

-sending the first scouts over
Back from the place beyond the dawn:
Horse, bear your broken soldier
Eyes frozen wide at what went on

[zeb]

I've always found the link between the last song and first song of an album fascinating.

[ridleybradout]

If you think this is over then you're wrong

Like I'm falling out of bed from a long and weary dream
Finally I'm free of all the weight I've been carrying

When I ask you again
Wake me up, wake me up

[McParadigm]

"Ashes and diamonds, foe and friend
We were all equal in the end."
- Pink Floyd, "The Final Cut"

Hearts.

[matt reeder]

And in the end...the love you take...is equal to the love you make.

[bune]

This was/is a great thread.

The jump from 13 to 16 though...I was like "Hey, someone else likes that song! Oh wait, that's me."