my favourite quotes of Peter Murphy...

"the clock cannot be turned with remorseful yearns"
-from Time Has Got Nothing To With It

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"hot tears flow as she recounts her favourite worded token
forgive me please for hurting so, don't go away heart broken no"
-from Marlene Dietrich's Favourite Poem

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"love me, hold me, keep from harm"
-from Keep From Harm

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"you're the source of what you call weird pop"
-from the Movement Of Fear

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"One day you will be the one
to say I'm sick of empty fun"
-from Shy

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"does God the word make you reel
and I mean, real"
-from Socrates the Python

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"I shout to time that nothing stays
nothing lasts and damn to change"
-from Blind Sublime

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"it's here I'll be with you"
-from I'll Fall With Your Knife

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"Shoes in my room
thrown in disgust
at how I fall
to my worst
of course you say
you don't understand"
-from Crystal Wrists

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"forget your preset mind"
-from Rollcall

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"if you fall now it could be forever
I'm telling you the line is thin now
I've told you before this hate is a sin"
-from Subway

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"I think about you all day
calling the sacred first
rolling sunlit day give me what I thirst"
-from the Sweetest Drop

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"I'm not asking for worship or lazy sleazy thoughts"
-from Shy

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"there is no middle ground, or that's how it seems, for us to walk or to take
imstead we tumble down, either side left or right, to love or to hate"
-from A Strange Kind Of Love

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"hey men how will you feel when all you have and all you own
is your only true friend"
-from The Line Betwwen The Devil's Teeth

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"hell is not the fire, hell is your belief in yourself as the higher"
-from Dragnets Drag

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"was it a lie?
was it the truth?
does your blue heart turn away
as you hit the roof?"
-from Blue Heart

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...more to come...