Songs I wish that I had written (Vol.1)

Sometimes someone's artist statement speaks to you so clearly it's as if it was plucked directly from your own subconscious, or is so pure that you become wildly envious that you weren't clever enough to think of it first. Here's a look at three songs I wish I had written, their lyrics and live performances by their creators. 

Final Fantasy- Please Please Please

Owen Pallett (aka Final Fantasy) is so painfully talented that it hurts. I wish I'd written Please Please Please  because it's such a heartbreakingly plaintive cry against those whom you've loved and have done you wrong. It's about trying to return to that bed one time too many. It appeared on the Final Fantasy album ... Has a Good Home along with the equally brilliantand tender track The Chronicle of Sarnia.

Ask yourself, are you a slut? 
- No you're not! 
Did you forget how much you are worth 
- It's a lot! 
Do you remember when we used do it all for free? 

Your head is shouting 
Please please please, 
please please please 

Don't let your cock do all the work 

Where did you bottle up 
the gentleman, the gentleman? 
Where did you bottle up 
the gentleman, the gentleman? 

Where did you bottle up 
the gentleman, the gentleman? 
Where did you bottle up 
the gentleman, the gentleman? 

give me your hands, give me your hands 
give me your hands, give me your hands 

Your head is shouting 
Please please please, 
please please please 

Don't let your cock do all the work 
all the work 

All those around you 
Please please please, 
please please please 

What can you do to shut us up, 
shut us up? 

You are like a shut-in on the prowl 
Everyday is like your first night off, 
- since your bail. 
but we will never write you off. 

Your head is shouting 
Please please please, 
please please please 

- Please please please! 

Don't let your cock do all the work 

- Please please please! 

All those around you 
Please please please, 
please please please 

- Please please please! 

What can you do to shut us up? 

- Please please please! 

We will never write you off 
We will never write you off 
We will never write you off 
We will never write you off 
We will never write you off 

- Please please please! 

We will never write you off 
We will never write you off 
We will never write you off 
We will never write you off 
We will never write you off 

Rufus Wainwright- Going To  A Town

Holy fuck this song is so perfect that I don't have words. It's such a solid statement to the last 8 years of American Politics (the Bush Years) . It was the lead single from Rufus' fifth studio album Release the Stars. 

I'm going to a town that has already been burnt down
I'm going to a place that has already been disgraced
I'm gonna see some folks who have already been let down
I'm so tired of America

I'm gonna make it up for all of The Sunday Times
I'm gonna make it up for all of the nursery rhymes
They never really seem to want to tell the truth
I'm so tired of you, America

Making my own way home, ain't gonna be alone
I've got a life to lead, America
I've got a life to lead

Tell me, do you really think you go to hell for having loved?
Tell me, enough of thinking everything that you've done is good
I really need to know, after soaking the body of Jesus Christ in blood
I'm so tired of America

I really need to know
I may just never see you again, or might as well
You took advantage of a world that loved you well
I'm going to a town that has already been burnt down
I'm so tired of you, America

Making my own way home, ain't gonna be alone
I've got a life to lead, America
I've got a life to lead
I got a soul to feed
I got a dream to heed
And that's all I need

Making my own way home, ain't gonna be alone
I'm going to a town
That has already been burnt down

LIZ PHAIR- Fuck and Run

There is a shockingly old fashioned romantic deep inside me and this song encapsulated 

my teenage years better than anything before or since. 

From her classic proper debut album Exile in Guyville, Fuck and Run is as emotionally 

resonate now as it was 15 years ago

- except I wake up next to the same guy everyday now and neither of us run away.

I woke up alarmed
I didn't know where I was at first
Just that I woke up in your arms
And almost immediately I felt sorry
'Cause I didn't think this would happen again
No matter what I could do or say
Just that I didn't think this would happen again
With or without my best intentions
And whatever happened to a boyfriend
The kind of guy who tries to win you over?
And whatever happened to a boyfriend
The kind of guy who makes love 'cause he's in it?

And I want a boyfriend
I want a boyfriend
I want all that boring old shit like letters and sodas
Letters and sodas

You got up out of bed
You said you had a lot of work to do
But I heard the rest in your head
And almost immediately I felt sorry
'Cause I didn't think this would happen again
No matter what I could do or say
Just that I didn't think this would happen again
With or without my best intentions

And I want a boyfriend
I want a boyfriend
I want all that stupid old shit like letters and sodas

And I can feel it in my bones
I'm gonna spend another year alone
It's fuck and run, fuck and run
Even when I was seventeen
Fuck and run, fuck and run
Even when I was twelve

And I can feel it in my bones
I'm gonna spend my whole life alone
It's fuck and run, fuck and run
Even when I was seventeen
Fuck and run, fuck and run
Even when I was twelve

You almost felt bad
You said that I should call you up
But I knew much better than that
And almost immediately you felt sorry
'Cause you didn't think this would happen again
No matter what you could do or say
Just that you didn't think this would happen again
Without or without your best intentions

And whatever happened to a girlfriend
The kind of chick who tries to win you over?
And whatever happened to a girlfriend
The kind of chick who makes love 'cause she's in it?

And you want a girlfriend
You want a girlfriend
You want all that boring old shit like letters and sodas
Letters and sodas
Letters and sodas
Letters and sodas