The doors are open, the wind is really blowing The night sky is changing overhead

Artist- Tegan and Sara
Song of the day- Closer

After coming off the high and freezing low (temperature) of visiting old great friends it's hard to face the real world and you are left looking forward to the next time you can be with friends again because the days get a little more adventurous, moments are filled with a little more laughter and the nights are a little more electric. Every time I think of hanging with my best pals today's song pops in my head. Though the thought of a Tegan and Sara dance album filled me with fear and dread of a girls go to emo musicality, I was more than relieved to hear such grand upbeat ditties and concluded that the twins can pretty much do it all. And though partying with those close to you may not always look like a karaoke, fort slumber party with awesome makeovers, PDA and trampolines, the delightful feels in my heart are still the same, even when my toes freeze off due to ridiculous winter vortexes. So for all those closest to you who make your nights electric and days worth looking forward to, this one's for you.



All I want to get is a little bit closer
All I want to know is, can you come a little closer?

Here comes the breath before we get a little bit closer
Here comes the rush before we touch, come a little closer

The doors are open, the wind is really blowing
The night sky is changing overhead

It's not just all physical
I'm the type who won't get oh so critical
So let's make things physical
I won't treat you like you're oh so typical
I won't treat you like you're oh so typical

All you think of lately is getting underneath me
All I dream of lately is how to get you underneath me

Here comes the heat before we meet a little bit closer
Here comes the spark before the dark, come a little closer

The lights are off and the sun is finally setting
The night sky is changing overhead

It's not just all physical
I'm the type who won't get oh so critical
So let's make things physical
I won't treat you like you're oh so typical

I want you close, I want you
I won't treat you like you're typical
I want you close, I want you
I won't treat you like you're typical

Here come the dreams of you and me
Here come the dreams
Here come the dreams of you and me
Here come the dreams

It's not just all physical
I'm the type who won't get oh so critical
So let's make things physical
I won't treat you like you're oh so typical

I want you close, I want you
I won't treat you like you're typical
I want you close, I want you
I won't treat you like you're typical

I won't treat you like you're typical
I won't treat you like you're typical

All I want to get is a little bit closer
All I want to know is, can you come a little closer?

I'm capsized, staring on the edge of safe

Artist- Tegan and Sara
Song of the day- The Con

At any given moment I believe there is a 64% chance I feel like a Tegan and Sara song. In fact I consistently felt like the entire The Con album after the first two years of it's release. It is forever on my top ten album list and usually on my emotional feelings via song list in heavy rotation. And I'm pretty sure this last quarter of school the percentile will only increase. I'm not saying they only have stressed out songs, but I just can't think of any other non angst type song of theirs at the moment. I feel like I, and pretty much everyone I'm in current contact with is being hit at every angle with death, mourning, sadness, doubt, anger, pressure, fear, exhaustion, worry, am I leaving anything out? oh probably, maybe like all the good and loving awesome stuff that is also happening but tends to get lost in the mess. That's why I like today's song. Similar to my ever annoying logic, their songs seem to always be fully aware of every emotion even the ridiculous ones and the one's you can't quite see but you know you need to be encircled and taken down by the people that care about you and the things that you love and that truly matter, you sometimes need to get your butt kicked into perspective so you can get out of your "con" funk and put on a different tune..more Marvin Gaye or "walkin on sunshine" esque type tune. But I do always appreciate the Tegan and Sara songs in my life till I can get back to walking on sunshine. If you're in a similar soundtrack, this one's for you.


Tegan and Sara - The con by shane707

I listened in
Yes I'm guilty of this
You should know this
I broke down and wrote you back
Before you had a chance to
Forget forgotten
I am moving past this giving notice
I have to go
Yes I know the feeling,
Know you're leaving
Calm down, I'm calling you to say
I'm capsized, staring on the edge of safe
Calm down, I'm calling back to say
I'm home now
I'm coming around, I'm coming around
Nobody likes to but I really like to cry
Nobody likes me
Maybe if I cry
Spelled out your name and lists the reasons
Faint of heart
Don't call me back
I imagine you when I was distant
Not insistent
I followed suit and laid out on my back imagine that
A million hours left to think of you
And think of that
Calm down, I'm calling you to say
I'm capsized, staring on the edge of safe
Calm down, I'm calling back to say
I'm home now
I'm coming around, I'm coming around
Nobody likes to but I really like to cry
Nobody likes me
Maybe if I cry
Encircle me, I need to be, taken down
Encircle me, I need to be, taken down
Encircle me, I need to be, taken down
Nobody likes to
But I really like to cry
Nobody likes me
Maybe if I cry
Nobody [x9]
Encircle me, I need to be, taken down

What rushes into my heart and my skull, I can’t control Think about it, feel it in my bones

Artist- Tegan & Sara
Song of the day- "Feel it in my bones"

As I study for my very last final of the summer, I keep getting distracted by the freedom I'm about to have I can just taste it! Summer is almost over though just about to start for me beginning with finally getting to see this unbelievable band on wednesday. Tegan and Sara always leave this ache in the pit of my stomach that I just can't get enough of. This song specifically, reminds me of conversations I used to have with some of my christian friends when we'd talk about the "call" or plan God had for us, the "where" or "who" God was leading us to. Some people had such great passion for a specific country like Africa or a specific culture or need, the enslaved or working with kids, etc. And I always wondered what mine was. I grew up being too scared to leave my own house sometimes to being slowly pushed more out of my comfort zone and it's cuz God changed my heart. I went from being too scared to touch people, being uncomfortable at the sight of tears or pain to craving the moments when god could use these stupid little hands and stupid little words to brighten the darkness or try and mend what is so easily broken. It's an ache I feel in my bones all the time and not just for one group. Cuz pain or sadness isn't saved for one group of people but every single person at different times in their life. I'm not trying to say I'm this amazing heartless person, cuz I'm still all about my needs my wanting to not study and demanding you to like my music, and on and on...but we all have that ache to do something and maybe you've been ignoring yours or haven't found yours yet. If so let this song sharpen your dull pains till you find your calling.



Blow by blow, I didn't see it coming
Blow by blow, sucker punch
Rushes in
Here to stay
Rushes in
You are here to stay

What rushes into my heart and my skull, I can’t control
Think about it, feel it in my bones
What rushes into my heart and my skull, I can’t control

I feel you in my bones
You’re knocking on my windows
You’re slow to letting me go
And I know this feeling oh, so
This feeling in my bones

Left hook, I didn’t see it coming
Left hook, you’ve got dead aim
Rushes out
Run away
Rushes out
You always run away

What rushes into my heart and my skull, I can’t control
Think about it, feel it in my bones
What rushes into my heart and my skull, I can’t control

I feel you in my bones
You’re knocking on my windows
You’re slow to letting me go
And I know this feeling oh, so
This feeling in my bones

I feel you in my bones
You’re knocking on my windows
You’re slow to letting me go
And I know this feeling oh, so
This feeling in my bones

I feel it in my bones
At night my skull feels pressure
I feel it in my bones
I feel it in my skull

I feel you in my bones
You’re knocking at my windows
You’re slow to letting me go
And I know this feeling oh, so
This feeling in my bones

I take a breath, take a breath with me blow by blow
I take a break, take a break, tell me you are here to stay
I take my heart out of my chest,
I just don’t need it anymore
Take my head out of the game,
I just don’t need it anymore

Take a breath, take a breath with me blow by blow
Take a break, take a break, from me you are here to stay
I take my heart out of my chest,
I just don’t need it anymore
Take my head out of the game,
I just don’t need it anymore

I feel you in my bones
You’re knocking on my windows
You’re slow to letting me go
And I know this feeling oh, so
This feeling in my bones