Dave Matthes
In the hours waking, when we're still all still, and you can hear the floorboards creaking, and you can feel the shades blow in, the night we slept with, we'll never kiss like that again. Our lips, will sever, our memories, will dissipate, and our shadows will be swallowed by the sky.
— Dave Matthes
I see things in windows and I say to myself that I want them. I want them because I want to belong. Furthermore, I want to be liked by more people, I want to be held in higher regard than others. Furthermore, I want to feel valued, so I say to myself to watch certain shows. Furthermore, I watch certain shows on the television, so I can participate in dialogues and conversations and debates with people who want the same things I want. Furthermore, I want to dress a certain way, so certain groups of people are forced to be attracted to me. Furthermore, I want to do my hair a certain way with certain styling products and particular combs and methods so that I can fit in with the In-Crowd. Furthermore, I want to spend hours upon hours at the gym, stuffing my body with what scientists are calling 'superfoods', so that I can be loved and envied by everyone around me. Furthermore, I want to become an icon on someone's mantle. Furthermore, I want to work meaningless jobs so that I can fill my wallet and parentally-advised bank accounts with monetary potential. Furthermore, I want to believe what's on the news so that I can feel normal along with the rest of forever. Furthermore, I want to listen to the Top Ten on Q102, and roll my windows down, so others can hear it and see that I am listening to it, and enjoying it. Furthermore, I want to go to church every Sunday, and pray every other day. Furthermore, I want to believe that what I do is for the promise of a peaceful afterlife. Furthermore, I want rewards for my 'good' deeds. Furthermore, I want acknowledgment and praise. And I want people to know that I put out that fire. I want people to know that I support the war effort. I want people to know that I volunteer to save lives. Furthermore, I want to be seen and heard and pointed at with love. Furthermore, I want to read my name in the history books during a future full of clones exactly like me. The mirror, I've noticed, is almost always positioned above the sink. Though the sink offers more depth than a mirror, and mirror is only able to reflect, the sink is held in lower regard. Lower still is the toilet, and thought it offers even more depth than the sink, we piss and shit in it. I want this kind of architectural details to be paralleled in my every day life. I want to care more about my reflection, and less about my cleanliness. Furthermore, I want to be seen as someone who lives externally, and never internally, unless I am able to lock the door behind me. Furthermore, I want these things, because if I didn't, I would be dead in the mirrors of those around me. Furthermore, I would be nothing. Furthermore, I would be an example. Sunken, and easily washed away.
— Dave Matthes
I've always felt that distant train whistles heard in the dead of night are the universe's way of letting us know the best days are neither ahead nor behind us...they're happening right now, cradled in the palms of our hands. But that doesn't change the fact that the whiskey, weed, and romance eventually runs out, and the night will soon turn to day.
— Dave Matthes
Let me ask you this: How many days do you have left, if any, in the life you promised for yourself yesterday?
— Dave Matthes
Life will hack off your head and shit down your neck every chance it gets. I've found that consuming drugs and booze, listening to music and always having an excuse in the best way to tip the scales.
— Dave Matthes
Lovecraft says he knows about tentacles but that motherfucker never bedded a girl from West Chester and survived She was a toothache that one and she tasted like crackthe the best thing about her was if I was ever hungry could always make a meal out of whatever was making rest at the corners of her mouth can't remember her names is the case with most of them then again I can't remember how many donuts I ate this morning or how many beers I'll drink tonight, tomorrow
— Dave Matthes
Music is the love child birthed from the boundless freedom found in dreams and the rapturous opposition faced in life; for that, we should be so grateful for both the light and the dark.
— Dave Matthes
...people who don't live at least a little bit in fear, have nothing left to live for.
— Dave Matthes
People will drive by their high school ten years down the road, just so they can pretend that thinking "not much has changed" is actually true. When really, everything has changed. The air smells the same, but the roads have cracked more. The roads have cracked so much they now look like the skin on a crocodile's back. And all the fields, green in the summers, golden in the autumns, have all been paved over with new reasons to never come back.
— Dave Matthes
Plans never go as planned, ever; that’s just how life is. People spend way too much time dreaming about a future they should be having more nightmares warning them against. But that doesn't mean you should let those bad dreams scare you away; all those nightmares want is respect. If you give them that, they’ll give you the space you need. Unless, of course, they’re the type of nightmares that have an appetite, then you’re fucked.
— Dave Matthes
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