Something’s coming, but nothing ever does

Lollapalooza Edition
Artist- The Paines of Being pure at heart
Song of the day- Say No to Love

The over dramatic feeling of adolescents oozes out of today's band which should be obvious even with just the band's name. And I embrace it 100%. They write musical teen anthems like today's song about being stuck in a situation you don't want but don't know anything else to do when you're still stuck in your small town and can't picture a world bigger than that but have a hope inside you of something more. It most likely plays in all of our coming of age stories. So for looking back or looking forward, let's get a little over dramatic about it.



Yeah I’m looking for you

and I know you’ll be found

with the parking lot kids,

with the loneliest crowd

And his heart’s on his sleeve



and your hand’s on the wheel

trying hard not to say

what you just don’t feel -

yeah you just don’t feel



Now you’re looking away

could you plan an escape

from the places you’ve known,

where they know your mistakes?



And you wish he would stop

and you wish you weren’t steel

should you try to do something

that you just don’t feel?



Something’s coming,

but nothing ever does

Something’s coming

you better say no to love



When everything he says is wrong

and all you want to feel is “gone”

go on



When everything he does is wrong

and all you want to feel is “gone”

go on

She was the promise that you would've sworn And no matter what you say, it's never gonna come back

Artist- The Pains of being pure at heart
Song of the day- Heart in your Heartbreak

Even though I immediately loved this band's name and knew I would instantly relate to their music having my own long list of all the pains that come with being pure of heart, jamming out to their new album at my friend Blake's house sealed the musical deal. It's a nice mix of enough rock, enough angst, enough retro throwback, enough dorkiness, and enough dancyness to please this pure heart. I especially enjoyed today's song as it captures that interesting feeling you get when it completely feels like your world is falling apart, no longer will be the same, but to everyone else around it's business as usual. And as my own personal catastrophizer in my head, I'm way too familiar with this feeling. So if you're having one of those everything is crashing down around you but no one sees moments, this one's for you and your pure heart.



Take a look around when you're going down
Cuz you'll never feel so high
As when you hid in her arms in the sky and the world slept

And there's no use to say just how much it kills
When it still kills all the same
Every thought of her name like a hand to an open flame

Chorus
She was the heart in your heartbreak
She was the miss in your mistake
And no matter what you take,
you're never going to forget
She was the tear in a rainstorm
She was the promise that you would've sworn
And no matter what you say,
it's never gonna come back

An ambulance goes by, and you wonder why
It never stops when you want it to
It never stops when you need it to take you away

And your friends don't understand that the world could end,
And it would feel no worse than this
Every thought of the look in her eye
Like a cold California sky

Chorus
She was the heart in your heartbreak
She was the miss in your mistake
And no matter what you take,
you're never going to forget
She was the tear in a rainstorm
She was the promise that you would've sworn
And no matter what you say,
it's never gonna come back

guitar solo

And no matter what you pray,
It's never gonna take the pain away
And even if she'd stay you know it's wrong
And no matter what you pray,
it's never gonna take the pain away
Cuz even if she'd stay, you know she's gone