"Behold a Lady" by Outkast

Sophistifunk, aristocats
Distinguished stars, clean up your acts
Pull up your pants, ladies and gents
Please, act like you got some sense
You know what I really wanna know?
Where do all the good girls go?
What club they lead at?

Behold a lady
I see you standing on the wall
Clap, clap... you deserve it all
Candy-coated unicorns are quite hard to find
The classic lady, a rare breed indeed
Is that make and model discontinued?

Yo' mama's old fashioned, yo' daddy don't play
You'll always be this lovely
'Cause they raised you that way
Hallelujah! Thank ya Jesus! Thank ya Lord!
Thank ya Jesus! Thank ya Lord!
Thank ya Jesus! Thank ya Lord!

"Anne" by John Frusciante

Anne you can't hide
You know we'll find you
It's a matter where pride flies out the window
I never got the weight off the ground
I just forgot what's up and what's down
How many get the way I feel now
There's no regret, There's just the sense that
Nothing is going my way
There's so much that happened today
The gods of the city have called my name
It means more to them than it means to me somehow
I left my body, I left my fate
But is so hard to keep away now
Nothing is final because it seems all the while
There wasn't anything for me
I always faked my smile
There's so many careless angels responsible for me
They give me disease
They give me a pain in my neck to feed off me
Saying pay us the cost and we'll be gone
They shut my eyes and i can't see now
These are the times I was scared of
These are the fates I pushed out of the way
Now they come back here and haunt me
It's plain to see who the winner and loser will be

"Zero Chance" by Soundgarden

I think I know the answer
I stumbled on and all the world fell down
And all the sky went silent
Cracked like glass and slowly
Tumbled to the ground
They all say if you look hard
You’ll find your way back home
Born without a friend
And bound to die alone

I’m thinking of your highness
And crying long upon the loss
I’ve found
And on the plus and minus
zero chance of ever
Turning this around

Why doesn’t anyone believe
In loneliness
Stand up and everyone will see
Your holiness

"Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground" by The White Stripes

Dead leaves and the dirty ground,
When I know you're not around,
Shiny tops and soda pops,
When I hear this mega sound,
30 notes in the mailbox,
When I tell you that I'm coming home,
And I think I'm going to stick around
For a while so you're not alone.

If you can hear a piano fall,
You can hear me coming down the hall
If i could just hear your pretty voice
I don't think I need to see at all
Soft hair and a velvet tongue
I want to give you what you give to me
And every breath that is in your lungs
Is a tiny little gift to me

I didn't feel so bad until the sun went down
Then I come home, no one to wrap my arms around

Well any man with a microphone
Can tell you what he loves the most
And you know why you love at all
If you're thinking of the holy ghost

"Cygnus... Vismund Cygnus" by The Mars Volta

The ocean floor is hidden
From your viewing lens
A depth perception
Languished in the night
All my life,I’ve been
Sewing the wounds
But the seeds sprout
A lachrymal cloud

My nails peel back
When the taxidermist ruined
Goose stepped the freckling impatience
All the brittle tombs
Five hundred little q’s
I’m splitting hairs to
Match the faces

All night I’ll hunt for you
Let me show you what I mean
Sangre sonando de rabia naci.

Now this train don’t lie
An abortion that survived
A lineage of
Bastard mastacation
All the severed proof
Talons scratch my suit
These are the feathers
That replace them

"Checkin' Out the Rivalry" by Del The Funky Homosapian

I got 32 megs of rhymes to make you beg,
Another peg in the wall, I'm all of the keg,
For the narrow minded you're gonna find it wide open
The spoken word is never deterred, MC's compulsive lighters,
Consults with fighters of the hip hop press to get tighter
You need to be ashamed, no style, no name,
No continuity with all of your foolery,
Go back to the drawing board,
Make sure you're all insured,
Before you go to war with the warlord
You sound contrived, far from alive,
I try to survive in the world that wants my hide,
Your taunts collide with pride and silence for real
I couldn't be fake, it wouldn't be great,
I don't fall from grace I leave you all disgraced
Get a taste of Del and make your brain swell
Well I never fall off so call off your crew
They circle round like sharks that chew,
But you blew out the water before the slaughter commences
Upon my rhyme secure from four dimensions,
I'm pure in intention with cybernetic extensions
From my nose and lip, conductors,
They rupture your dreams and aspirations,
I'm being down with the Hiero amalgamation

"Brother" by Alice in Chains

Frozen in the place I hide
Not afraid to paint my sky with
Some who say I've lost my mind
Brother try and hope to find

You were always so far away
I know that pain so don't you run away
Like you used to do

Roses in a vase of white
Bloodied by the thorns beside the leaves
That fall because my hand is pulling them hard as I can

You were always so far away
I know that pain and I won't run away
Like I used to do