When forever's over I won't remember how much I loved you anymore

Artist- Alison Krauss
Song of the day- Forget about it

My last ditch effort to try and conform you to all things Alison Krauss might make you a bit forgetful, but I like to think she's hard to disappear from your ears. This album might have converted my entire family into Krauss followers so hopefully it will do the same and you will be in line with me Tuesday for the new album. Having perhaps one of the greatest "being forgotten" complexes around this song always seems to make me smile a bit on the inside as I realize I've tried to solve many of my issues by ditching just when things might get too deep or complicated or a hint of feeling overlooked cuz at least the memories would still be good ones. Dr. Drew might have alot to say to me, but for right now I'd rather listen to one last Krauss song.



Forget about it
I'm admittin' I was wrong
And I'll just take what's mine
And broken right out the door

Forget about it
I'll split and I'll be gone
And you'll have memories
You'll find hard to ignore

'Cause after all
I'll see you sometime
Maybe when I can't recall
How you drove me crazier

Forget about it
When forever's over
I won't remember how much
I loved you anymore

Forget about it
Put me out of your head
Now that you're free and easy
Out there on the town

Forget about it
When you're lying in bed just wishing
I was there to lay you down

'Cause after all
I'll see you sometime maybe
When you will recall
How I drove you crazier

Forget about those starlit nights
Laying by the fireside
Holding you tight
I can't remember when I felt so right
So just forget about it

Forget about it
When you see me on the street
Don't wink, don't wave
Don't try to tease me with your smile

Forget about it
If we chance to meet somewhere
Don't think it's cause I'm trying to reconcile

'Cause after all
I'll see you sometime maybe
When I can't recall
How you drove me crazier

Forget about those starlit nights
Laying by the fireside
Holding you tight
I can't remember when I felt so right
So just forget about it

And I know this Is just a beautiful illusion A case of the confusion

Artist- Alison Krauss and Union Station
Song of the day- If I didn't know any better

So I'm not saying today's song is my favorite Krauss song, but I'm not saying it's not. Written by another fantastic artist, Mindy Smith, I can't exactly say why i love it so much but I do. I suppose it has something to do with the hint of sadness it still carries, having a completely confused heart, not knowing what to trust, but Krauss sings it with a hint of a smile behind it all. That smile that carries both fear and intrigue about the unknown, unknown love, unknown future, unknown everything that even when you don't know any better your heart pulls you forward. It's kinda scary and kinda nice at the same time. If you are looking for something scary and nice, today's song is for you.



I turned around
Before I could run
I found you already settled down
In the back of my mind
I know this is just a customary fever
The moon is a deceiver
That will leave you running blind

Your heart is pullin'
If I didn't know any better
I'd be fallin' deeper and deeper it's true
I'd hear it callin'
If I didn't know any better
And I'd be in love with you

Didn't want to
Look in the eyes of the one that
I would be drawn to
I'm a moth lost in a fire
And I know this
Is just a beautiful illusion
A case of the confusion
Between love and desire

Your heart is pullin'
If I didn't know any better
I'd be fallin' deeper and deeper it's true
I'd hear it callin'
If I didn't know any better

And I'd be in love
When the flame burns out
And finally settles down
You'll forget
I ever came around

Your heart is pullin'
If I didn't know any better
I'd be fallin deeper and deeper it's true
I'd hear it callin'
If I didn't know any better
And I'd be in love with you

I turned around
Before I could run
I found you already settled down
In the back of my mind

It would be fun To be certain that I'm the one

Artist- Alison Krauss
Song of the day- This time the dream's on me

This is on my list of songs to one day dance to in a fancy black dress if I ever become a sophisticated adult though it is oh so depressing yet classy. As I read the comments under the video on youtube I liked how someone described it as encompassing the kind of emptiness that turns the stomach when remembering, yet somehow reassures you that the experience was worth it. It kinda sounds awful but when listening to Krauss' impeccable version it makes it somehow lovely....though I have no idea what is up with the beginning of the video which is creeping me out. So whether your dreams are causing your stomach to turn or smile nostalgically or make you want a to wear fancy clothes, this dream is on me.



Somewhere, someday
We'll be close together, wait and see
Oh by the way,
This time the dream's on me

You take my hand
and you look at me adoringly
But as things stand
This time the dream's on me

It would be fun
To be certain that I'm the one
To know that I, at least, supply the shoulder you cry upon

To see you through
Till you're everything you want to be
It can't be true, but
This time the dream's on me

(bridge)

It would be fun
To be certain that I'm the one
To know that I, at least, supply the shoulder you cry upon

To see you through
Till you're everything you want to be
It can't be true, but
This time the dream's on me

I'm hung up on all my doubt, trying to sort the whole thing out

Artist- Alison Krauss
Song of the day- Maybe

As the days seem to progress faster each day, decisions about my future begin to haunt me more and more till I panic and want to stay in bed all day. At this point I see a horizon of possibilities which would be very grand if I wasn't so indecisive and continually going back and forth in my head on maybe I should do this, maybe this would be best, maybe I can do this, am I strong enough for this, till on and on and my answers keep being I just don't know. So today's song seem quite appropriate for my current mindset. So if you are swimming in a sea of maybes today, this one's for you.



Yesterday the odds were stacked in favor of my expectations
Lying above the rest, never falling from the nest
Tuesday came and went and now I'm in a little situation
Maybe it's for the best, I can live alone I guess

Maybe I can stand alone
Maybe I'm strong as stone
Even though the bird has flown
Maybe he'll fly on home

Forgive me if I'm keeping you apart from better conversation
I'm hung up on all my doubt, trying to sort the whole thing out
Tell me that I'm smart enough to deal with all the information
Spinning inside my head, every word he ever said

Maybe I can stand alone
Maybe I'm strong as stone
Even though the bird has flown
Maybe he'll fly on home

(repeat chorus)

don't you weep pretty baby

Artist- Alison Krauss, Gillian Welch and Emmylou Harris
Song of the day- Didn't leave nobody but the baby

Having my pediatric and labor and delivery clinical rotation, I got babies on the brain and well if I could learn how to sing this song like these three folk goddesses I think I might be able to heal every sick child in my path or at the very least stop them from crying. Besides being an excellent movie musical, the Cohen Brothers created one of the greatest soundtracks of all time in "O Brother Where Art Though?" thanks to using the powerhouses of contemporary folk icons like today's artists. This lullaby I think can calm every kind of soul, but rocking a sick, abandoned, abused or scared baby, in the hospital is when I really wish I could heal every child in my path. So to the lost soul or the one's holding them, this one's for you



go to sleep little babe
go to sleep little babe

your momma's gone away and your daddy's gonna stay
didn't leave nobody but the baby

go to sleep little babe
go to sleep little babe

everybody's gone in the cotton and the corn
didn't leave nobody but the baby

you're a sweet little babe
you're a sweet little babe

honey in the rock and the sugar don't stop
gonna bring a bottle to the baby

don't you weep pretty babe
don't you weep pretty babe

she's long gone with her red shoes on
gonna need another loving babe

go to sleep little babe
go to sleep little babe

you and me and the devil makes three
don't need no other lovin' babe

go to sleep little babe
go to sleep little babe

come lay bones on the alabaster stones
and be my everlovin' baby

They all say it I'll say it too

Artist- Alison Krauss & Union Station
Song of the day- New Favorite

I had every intention of posting "this one's for the girls" by Martina McBride after my roommate and I were watching the ACM awards and noticed a many 90s country icons attempting to make their comeback. And though there is a special place in my heart for the early 90s country and the few years I decided I liked country music, the embarrassing cheesiness that were the majority of 90s country music videos and well content as I re listened to the lyrics, still a good time however. Yet, what will hold the test of time is my all time favorite vocalist. And since her new long awaited (mostly by me) album with her band comes out in a week, I thought I would attempt my most daring week of blog themes yet, to one Alison Krauss, to see if in about 7 days I can convince you of her greatness and thus make you buy the album. So the first song is my favorite type (and one you might be hearing alot this week) of Krauss song, the totally depressing but how pretty and sad is my voice songs. And as I battle with a chronic case of people pleasing, needing to be liked the most and everyone's favorite, well I appreciated this song on many levels. So for all the old favorites out there, this one's for you.



New Favorite
They all say it
I'll say it too
You've got a new favorite

You're old standby
your right hand guy
is nothing new
you've got a new favorite

Why do you lie about love?
I saw the light go out

(interlude)

And should I go
you won't say so
I know its true
I know you've got a new favorite
I know you've got a new favorite

You've got a new favorite

You see the smile that's on my mouth It's hiding the words that don't come out

Artist- Brandi Carlile
Song of the day- The story

So I just watched this week's "musical" Grey's Anatomy, and like many millions of American viewers, I can't seem to stop talking about how weird it was. And how much it didn't work and how uncomfortable it made people. It made Kids Inc. seem like a musical masterpiece (which it was) but I'm so baffled by it I literally can't stop talking about it to people who don't even watch it and maybe soon strangers...which perhaps was their plan all along, if so well played Grey's. The only admiral go for musical synergy might be found in the end song, which luckily a Tony award winner sang, it actually fit with what was going on and well it's just a damn good song and I must admit the show version did make me realize how extra amazing the lyrics are. So whether you are hit by a truck get neurological damage and start hearing people sing to you, or just need a wailing jolt of musical emotion, this one's for you.



All of these lines across my face
Tell you the story of who I am
So many stories of where I've been
And how I got to where I am
But these stories don't mean anything
When you've got no one to tell them to
It's true...I was made for you
I climbed across the mountain tops
Swam all across the ocean blue
I crossed all the lines and I broke all the rules
But baby I broke them all for you
Because even when I was flat broke
You made me feel like a million bucks
You do
I was made for you
You see the smile that's on my mouth
It's hiding the words that don't come out
And all of my friends who think that I'm blessed
They don't know my head is a mess
No, they don't know who I really am
And they don't know what
I've been through like you do
And I was made for you...
All of these lines across my face
Tell you the story of who I am
So many stories of where I've been
And how I got to where I am
But these stories don't mean anything
When you've got no one to tell them to
It's true...I was made for you