dont harsh on my mellow

"I can see the terror of it, and I can see the lure." --Anne Rice, The Witching Hour

"Yes, I do believe there is a violent thing inside of me." --Everclear, White men in black suits "I try to keep her on a short leash/ I try to calm her down/ I try to cram her back in my mouth.../ Can't fight the Seether,/ I can't see her til i'm foaming at the mouth." --Veruca Salt, Seether

"Tried to save a place from the cuts and the scratches/ Tried to overcome the complications and the catches/ Now nothing ever comes and the sun doesn't shine all day/ Tried to save myself but myself keeps slipping away." --NiN, Into the Void

"I lie just to be real./ I'd die just to feel./ Why do the same old things keep on happening?/ Because beyond my hope, there are no reasons." --Smashing Pumpkins, Tales of a scorched earth

"If I need assistance than I must be incapable."/ "I would starve myself and still it would not come." --Alanis Morrissette, Would not Come

"Well, i got bones beneath my skin, mister/ There's a skeleton in every man's house./ Beneath the blood and flesh and love that hangs on everyone/ Is a dead man trying to get out." --Counting Crows, Perfect Blue Buildings

"Somebody get me out of here,/ I'm tearing at myself." --Garbage, Medication

"And i rot in my skin,/ As a piece of me dies every day./ I know i'm nothing." --Smashing Pumpkins, Ugly

"I want you to pay me for my beauty,/ I think it's only right/ Cuz i've been paying for it/ All of my life." --Ani DiFranco, Letter to John

"I'm scared.  No wait.  Don't comfort me.  You don't know." --Anne Rice, The Witching Hour

"Pink ribbon scars/ Will never forget/ I tried so hard/ To cleanse these deep wants/ My angel wings/ Were bruised and restrained" --Smashing Pumpkins, Today

"I do these things because they are floating on the surface of the darkness in which I drown, and I would not descend without a finer understanding." --Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

"I can't shake this feeling from my head./ There's a devil sleeping in my bed./ He's watching me from across the way./ I cannot make this feeling go away./ And I know it's not the good thing, and I know it's not the right thing/ But kinda I want to." --NiN, Kinda I want to

"You ought to take your medication every day/ Be a good dog living life in a wonderful way/ Tell me why/ You want to be blind/ I don't wanna be../ Normal like you/ I know now, every day, I get closer to the place inside/ Where I can be normal too... I will never be normal like you" --Everclear, Normal like you

"Self-injury is a sign of distress not madness. We should be congratulated on having found a way of surviving." -Cory Anderson

"How will you know I am hurt/ How can i share my pain/ To wear it on my body/ Tells what words cannot explain." -C. Blount

"People dislike alcoholics, but they still drink at parties. People sit in non-smoking sections in restaurants, but still enjoy the occasional nicotine jolt. People have strong feelings against self-injurers, but they also take all their emotions out on other people." -Emily

"Tell me that you don't take that blade and drag it across your skin, and pray for the courage to press down." -Girl, Interrupted [movie version]

"I have spent nights with matches and knives,/ leaning over ledges only two flights up./ Cutting my heart, burning my soul, nothing left to hold./ Nothing left but the blood and the fire." -"Blood and Fire," Indigo Girls

"The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain." -Karl Marx

"... Delia's arms were inscribed with a grid of self- inflicted wounds, an intricate text of self-loathing..." -"Brightness Falls," Jay McInerney

"I hurt myself today/ To see if I still feel/ I focus on the pain/ The only thing that's real/ The needle tears a hole/ The old familiar sting/ Try to kill it all away/ But I remember everything." -"Hurt," NIN

"Cut my life into pieces/ I've reached my last resort, suffocation, no breathing/ Don't give a fuck if I cut my arm bleeding/ Would it be wrong, would it be right/ If I took my life tonight, chances are that I might/ Mutilation out of sight and I'm contemplating suicide." -"Last Resort," Papa Roach

"ah...don't even think about gettin' inside/ Voices in me head...ooh, voices/ I got scratches, all over my arms/ One for each day, since I fell apart." Footsteps," Pearl Jam

"I drew the blade across my wrist to see how it would feel./ I looked into the future, there was nothing to reveal." -"Round and Round," Strawbs

"Inside my skin, there is this space, /It twists and turns, it bleeds and aches..." -Jewel-

Good parenting does not produce children who self-injure Cutting:Understanding and Overcoming Self-Mutilation by Steven Levenkron

I'm living but I'm feeling numb. Can see it in my stare. I wear a mask so falsely numb and I don't know who I am. This mortal coil - Tarantula

yes, I think it's safe to say / I feel good about the sin / that I inflict on my own skin. / I pay money to cut and burn pictures / like lessons that I need to learn./ I see faces on the ceiling./ I see them move and i hear them singing. / I lay down laughing here by myself / and think about the time that I spent in hell. / "When it all goes wrong again" - Everclear

There's no joy without the pain. It's the pain that makes us strong "Mistaken" by Save Ferris

"When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wrong." - Ani Difranco: My IQ

  i wonder whos gonna be president, tweedle dumb or tweedle dumber - Ani Difranco: Fuel

  maybe i should put a bucket over my head and a marshmallow in each ear and stumble around for another dum-dum week for another hum-drum hit song to appear... - Ani Difranco: Fuel

  art may imitate life but life imitates tv - Ani Difranco: Superhero

  i'm recording our history now on the bedroom wall, and when we leave the landlord will come and paint over it all - Ani Difranco: Both Hands

  When I say "You sucked my brain out", the english translation is "I am in love with you, and it is no fun". But I don't use words like love, cuz words like that don't matter. But don't look so offended, you know you should be flattered. - Ani Difranco: Nepolian

  and i am watching you chest, rise and fall like the tides of my life and the rest of it all and your bones have been my bedframe and your chest has been my pillow, im waiting for sleep to offer up the deep with both hands, oh with both hands Ani Difranco: Both Hands

Sleep walking throught the all night drugstore, baptized in flourescent light. I found religion in the greeting card aisle, and now I know Hallmark was right. - Ani Difranco: Superhero

  When I look around I think this, this is good enough. And I try to laugh at whatever life brings. Cuz when I look down I just miss all the good stuff and when I look up I just trip over things. - Ani Difranco:Two Little Girls (?)

  I don't care if they eat me alive, I've got better things to do then survive - Ani Difranco: Swan Dive

  Some people wear their smiles like a disguise thoses people who smile alot watch their eyes I know cause I'm like that alot you think everythings ok and it is till its not - Ani Difranco:

  but life on the outside ain't easy, no sequins, no elephants, no parading around, yeah, the tent goes up, and the tent comes down and they're stuck in this fucking town - Ani Difranco: Freakshow

  ...when we fight cold wind blows our way, but we can learn how to bend, how to sway and say I, I think I understand what all this fighting is for.. - Ani Difranco:

  ...when we fight cold wind blows our way but we can learn like the trees-how to bend, how to sway and say I, I think I understand... - Ani Difranco:

  some people wear their heart up on their sleeve, i wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot. - Ani Difranco:

  You won't see me surrender, you won't hear me confess, 'cause you left me with nothing, but I;ve worked with less... - Ani Difranco: Done Wrong (?)

  I do it for the joy it brings, cause I'm a joyful girl. Cause the world owes us nothing, we owe each other the world. - Ani Difranco: Joyful Girl

  Growing up it was just me and my mom against the world and all my sympahties were with her when I was a little girl. Now I've seen both my parents play out the hands that they were dealt and as each year goes by I know more about how my father must have felt. I just want you to understand that I know what all the fighting was for and baby I just want you to understand that I'm not angry anymore. No I'm not angry anymore. - Ani Difranco:

  The one person who really knows me best says I'm like a cat, the kind of cat that you just can't pick up and throw into your lap. Yeah the kind who doesn't mind being held only when it's her idea. Yeah the kind who feels what she decids to feel when she's good and ready to feel it. Now I am prowling through the backyard and I am hiding under the car and I've gotten out of everything I've gotten into so far and I eat when I am hungry and I travel alone. Just outside the glow of the house is where I feel most at home. - Ani Difranco:

  I have something to prove, as long as I know there's something that needs improvement, and you know that everytime I move, I make a woman's movement. - Ani Difranco: (Album: Not A Pretty Girl)

  Maybe you can keep me from ever being happy, but you're not gonna stop me from having fun - Ani Difranco: Gravel

  You know, art is the reason i get up in the morning, but my definition ends there, it doesn't seem fair that im living for something i can't even define, and there you are right there in the mean time. - Ani Difranco: Out of Habit

  Any tool is a weapon if you hold it right - Ani Difranco: Fourth of July (?)

  Why do our kids have to show us what gun control is all about? - Ani Difranco: To The Teeth

  Whenever I say something they find hard to hear, they chalk it up to my anger and never to their own fear. - Ani Difranco: Not A Pretty Girl

  If the mattress was a table top and the bed sheet was a page we'd be written out like a couple of question marks my convex to your concave and we'd be lying here at the end of a sentence that asks, are you ready now? - Ani Difranco: Angel Food(?)

  I always wanted to be commander in chief of my one woman army - Ani Difranco: Not So Soft

  Art is why i get up in the morning but my definition ends there. You know i don't think its fair that I'm living for something i can't even define. - Ani Difranco: Out of Habit

  i pledge allegiance to the flag of the multi national corporations and to the profit for which they stand one interlocking directorate under no home government divisible for monopoly and cheap labor for all - Utah Phillips: Stupid's Pledge

  How come on the condom dispensers it has a little picture of birds flying over a pretty mountain. They use sex to sell everything else... why don't they use sex to sell condoms? - Jeff Carnegie, In Humor/Dark Humor