Artist- Court Yard Hounds featuring Jakob Dylan
Song of the day- See you in the Spring
My Dixie Chicks love continues with today's song and my most favorite tune off the spin off album. I like to think it encompasses my bittersweet love for both Chicago and Texas and seems an appropriate song as I head back to the windy city from the lone star state and back to the the harsh reality of winter, school, and also much that I've missed. So here's to two places I love and can't seem to stay at for too long.
Cold Chicago nights
Chains on tires
You're diggin' out snow
That wind, it just ain't right
I made up my mind
I'm headin' home
Well babe, can't you give it time?
I'll keep you warm at night
This town is all I know
And I could see you in my life
Stay inside (I can't go outside)
Just please don't go (so I gotta go)
'Cause baby, your Winter is nothing but prison
It drives me away
And maybe, come Summer, then we'll be together
Our time will come again
'Til then I'll see you in the Spring
Ah, so don't throw it all away
Throw it all away…
The end of Spring and June arrives
Won't you take a flight?
Come down to San Antone
That heat, feels like I'm on fire
No, it just ain't right
It makes me sweat at night
I'd rather be alone
(It's just not right…it's just not right to be so alone)
'Cause baby, your Summer is nothing but prison
It drives me away
And maybe, come Winter, we can't be together
But love will come again
'Til then I'll see you in the Spring
Ah, so don't throw it all away
Throw it all away
You know I live just to see your eyes
I'll meet you half way
I'll meet you half way by the runaway sign
(Makes me fall when for me you'll find a way,
I'll find you baby)
'Cause baby, your Winter is nothing but prison
It drives me away
And maybe, come Summer, we can't be together
Our time will come again
When I'll see you in the Spring
Ah, so don't throw it all away
Ah, don't throw it away
Ah, so don't throw it all away… throw it all away
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
But I, I could never follow
Artist- Dixie Chicks
Song of the day- Taking the long way
There are many songs I'm pretty positive are just about me, which like I've always said means everyone feels that way and therefore it's a well written song. Today's song is one of them. My dad has always joked with me that I don't know how to do anything easy. If there is a harder or longer way to do something I'll find it. And like a good daughter I have surpassed that potential by always taking the long way around in life. Whether it was moving, jobs, education, "finding myself", God, and on and on has always been my own unique aka very different than the usual way. Don't ask me why this is because even when I try to fight it I'm pretty sure it's just how God made me. He has a sense of humor that way, which might laugh me all the way into college debt for the rest of my life, but at least I'll be laughing and living the only way I know how, the way God leads me. So here's to you wayward travelers may you keep on your path, no matter where it leads or how long it takes you to get there.
My friends from high school
Married their high school boyfriends
Moved into houses in the same ZIP codes
Where their parents live
But I, I could never follow
No I, I could never follow
I hit the highway in a pink RV with stars on the ceiling
Lived like a gypsy
Six strong hands on the steering wheel
I've been a long time gone now
Maybe someday, someday I'm gonna settle down
But I've always found my way somehow
By taking the long way
Taking the long way around
Taking the long way
Taking the long way around
I met the queen of whatever
Drank with the Irish and smoked with the hippies
Moved with the shakers
Wouldn't kiss all the asses that they told me to
No I, I could never follow
No I, I could never follow
It's been two long years now
Since the top of the world came crashing down
And I'm getting' it back on the road now
But I'm taking the long way
Taking the long way around
I'm taking the long way
Taking the long way around
The long
The long way around
Well, I fought with a stranger and I met myself
I opened my mouth and I heard myself
It can get pretty lonely when you show yourself
Guess I could have made it easier on myself
But I, I could never follow
No I, I could never follow
Well, I never seem to do it like anybody else
Maybe someday, someday I'm gonna settle down
If you ever want to find me I can still be found
Taking the long way
Taking the long way around
Taking the long way
Taking the long way around
Song of the day- Taking the long way
There are many songs I'm pretty positive are just about me, which like I've always said means everyone feels that way and therefore it's a well written song. Today's song is one of them. My dad has always joked with me that I don't know how to do anything easy. If there is a harder or longer way to do something I'll find it. And like a good daughter I have surpassed that potential by always taking the long way around in life. Whether it was moving, jobs, education, "finding myself", God, and on and on has always been my own unique aka very different than the usual way. Don't ask me why this is because even when I try to fight it I'm pretty sure it's just how God made me. He has a sense of humor that way, which might laugh me all the way into college debt for the rest of my life, but at least I'll be laughing and living the only way I know how, the way God leads me. So here's to you wayward travelers may you keep on your path, no matter where it leads or how long it takes you to get there.
My friends from high school
Married their high school boyfriends
Moved into houses in the same ZIP codes
Where their parents live
But I, I could never follow
No I, I could never follow
I hit the highway in a pink RV with stars on the ceiling
Lived like a gypsy
Six strong hands on the steering wheel
I've been a long time gone now
Maybe someday, someday I'm gonna settle down
But I've always found my way somehow
By taking the long way
Taking the long way around
Taking the long way
Taking the long way around
I met the queen of whatever
Drank with the Irish and smoked with the hippies
Moved with the shakers
Wouldn't kiss all the asses that they told me to
No I, I could never follow
No I, I could never follow
It's been two long years now
Since the top of the world came crashing down
And I'm getting' it back on the road now
But I'm taking the long way
Taking the long way around
I'm taking the long way
Taking the long way around
The long
The long way around
Well, I fought with a stranger and I met myself
I opened my mouth and I heard myself
It can get pretty lonely when you show yourself
Guess I could have made it easier on myself
But I, I could never follow
No I, I could never follow
Well, I never seem to do it like anybody else
Maybe someday, someday I'm gonna settle down
If you ever want to find me I can still be found
Taking the long way
Taking the long way around
Taking the long way
Taking the long way around
Monday, December 27, 2010
hold on not my fairy tale you're trying to start
Artist- Kings of Leon
Song of the day- King of the Rodeo
I fell in love with Kings of Leon one hot summer day at Lollapalooza several years back when I was searching for a bathroom (which is about 65% of my life) and heard Caleb Followill's voice over a hill. And let me tell you I hold my bladder for very little, but there is something more to this obvious rock band, besides the dreaminess. And lately I've been playing this older tune of theirs on repeat. I don't know if I find it extra charming whilst in Texas or the riff is just too good. And the video makes me miss my southern childhood and square dancing, though I do not miss Followill's long locks and find air bull riding to be quite disturbing. And though I am quite the opposite of a lot of Texans, I am secretly sad I was never a cowgirl king of the rodeo.
He's so purity, a shaven and a mourning,
and standing on a Pigeon toe, in his dissarray
Straight in the picture pose,
he's coming around to meet you
And screaming like a battle cry, its more if i stay
Me and your cold, Driving in the snow,
let the good times roll, let the good times roll
Cowgirl king of the rodeo, let the good times roll,
let the good times roll
How dare you some to me like withnail for a favor,
hold on not my fairy tale you're trying to start
Take off your overcoat, you're staying for the weekend,
and swaying like a smokey grey, a drink in the park
Good time to roll on.
Song of the day- King of the Rodeo
I fell in love with Kings of Leon one hot summer day at Lollapalooza several years back when I was searching for a bathroom (which is about 65% of my life) and heard Caleb Followill's voice over a hill. And let me tell you I hold my bladder for very little, but there is something more to this obvious rock band, besides the dreaminess. And lately I've been playing this older tune of theirs on repeat. I don't know if I find it extra charming whilst in Texas or the riff is just too good. And the video makes me miss my southern childhood and square dancing, though I do not miss Followill's long locks and find air bull riding to be quite disturbing. And though I am quite the opposite of a lot of Texans, I am secretly sad I was never a cowgirl king of the rodeo.
He's so purity, a shaven and a mourning,
and standing on a Pigeon toe, in his dissarray
Straight in the picture pose,
he's coming around to meet you
And screaming like a battle cry, its more if i stay
Me and your cold, Driving in the snow,
let the good times roll, let the good times roll
Cowgirl king of the rodeo, let the good times roll,
let the good times roll
How dare you some to me like withnail for a favor,
hold on not my fairy tale you're trying to start
Take off your overcoat, you're staying for the weekend,
and swaying like a smokey grey, a drink in the park
Good time to roll on.
Sunday, December 26, 2010
I guess the winter makes you laugh a little slower Makes you talk a little lower about the things you could not show her
Artist- Counting Crows
Song of the day- Long December
I wanted to make sure I got this most excellent song in before December ends. Oh Counting Crows how you make me miss Hollywood, the ocean and actually enjoy dreadlocks. As we hit the end of the year and prone to look back on the year maybe all the times aren't great ones, or worse, maybe we see all the times we weren't great. But the great thing about time is it keeps moving and there is a whole year ahead of us for things to get better, more chances for us to be better, to say things we didn't or take back what we did, to forgive when we couldn't or ask for it, more times and memories to have and share and hold onto. Or see the ocean, it feels like I haven't seen it in a while either.
A long December and there's reason to believe
Maybe this year will be better than the last
I can't remember the last thing that you said as you were leaving
Oh the days go by so fast
And it's one more day up in the canyons
And it's one more night in Hollywood
If you think that I could be forgiven
I wish you would
(Na na na, etc. yeah)
The smell of hospitals in winter
And the feeling that it's all a lot of oysters, but no pearls
All at once you look across a crowded room
To see the way that light attaches to a girl
And it's one more day up in the canyons
And it's one more night in Hollywood
If you think you might come to California
I think you should
(Na na na, etc. yeah)
Drove up to Hillside Manor sometime after 2 a.m.
And talked a little while about the year
I guess the winter makes you laugh a little slower
Makes you talk a little lower about the things you could not show her
And it's been a long December and there's reason to believe
Maybe this year will be better than the last
I can't remember all the times I tried to tell myself
To hold on to these moments as they pass
And it's one more day up in the canyon
And it's one more night in Hollywood
It's been so long since I've seen the ocean
I guess I should
(Na na na, etc. yeah)
Song of the day- Long December
I wanted to make sure I got this most excellent song in before December ends. Oh Counting Crows how you make me miss Hollywood, the ocean and actually enjoy dreadlocks. As we hit the end of the year and prone to look back on the year maybe all the times aren't great ones, or worse, maybe we see all the times we weren't great. But the great thing about time is it keeps moving and there is a whole year ahead of us for things to get better, more chances for us to be better, to say things we didn't or take back what we did, to forgive when we couldn't or ask for it, more times and memories to have and share and hold onto. Or see the ocean, it feels like I haven't seen it in a while either.
A long December and there's reason to believe
Maybe this year will be better than the last
I can't remember the last thing that you said as you were leaving
Oh the days go by so fast
And it's one more day up in the canyons
And it's one more night in Hollywood
If you think that I could be forgiven
I wish you would
(Na na na, etc. yeah)
The smell of hospitals in winter
And the feeling that it's all a lot of oysters, but no pearls
All at once you look across a crowded room
To see the way that light attaches to a girl
And it's one more day up in the canyons
And it's one more night in Hollywood
If you think you might come to California
I think you should
(Na na na, etc. yeah)
Drove up to Hillside Manor sometime after 2 a.m.
And talked a little while about the year
I guess the winter makes you laugh a little slower
Makes you talk a little lower about the things you could not show her
And it's been a long December and there's reason to believe
Maybe this year will be better than the last
I can't remember all the times I tried to tell myself
To hold on to these moments as they pass
And it's one more day up in the canyon
And it's one more night in Hollywood
It's been so long since I've seen the ocean
I guess I should
(Na na na, etc. yeah)
Saturday, December 25, 2010
Happy golden days of yore Faithful friends who were dear to us Will be near to us once more
Artist-Judy Garland
Song of the day- Have yourself a Merry Little Christmas
A think the best song to wrap up my holiday blogs is filled with a little bit of remembrance, a little bit of appreciation, a little bit of sadness, a little bit of class and a little bit of crazy only Judy Garland can provide. I hope today has brought you much joy and love. Have yourself a Merry Little Christmas! Now back to my "A Christmas Story" marathon (I've seen the frozen tongue to pole seen 6 times today) and eating, I haven't eaten in twenty minutes so it's about time to start again.
Judy Garland-Have Yourself A Merry Little Christma… - MyVideo
Have yourself a merry little Christmas
Let your heart be light
Next year all our troubles will be
out of sight
Have yourself a merry little Christmas
Make the yule-tide gay
Next year all our troubles will be
miles away
Once again as in olden days
Happy golden days of yore
Faithful friends who were dear to us
Will be near to us once more
Someday soon, we all will be together
If the Fates allow
Until then, we'll have to muddle through somehow
So have yourself a merry little Christmas now.
Song of the day- Have yourself a Merry Little Christmas
A think the best song to wrap up my holiday blogs is filled with a little bit of remembrance, a little bit of appreciation, a little bit of sadness, a little bit of class and a little bit of crazy only Judy Garland can provide. I hope today has brought you much joy and love. Have yourself a Merry Little Christmas! Now back to my "A Christmas Story" marathon (I've seen the frozen tongue to pole seen 6 times today) and eating, I haven't eaten in twenty minutes so it's about time to start again.
Judy Garland-Have Yourself A Merry Little Christma… - MyVideo
Have yourself a merry little Christmas
Let your heart be light
Next year all our troubles will be
out of sight
Have yourself a merry little Christmas
Make the yule-tide gay
Next year all our troubles will be
miles away
Once again as in olden days
Happy golden days of yore
Faithful friends who were dear to us
Will be near to us once more
Someday soon, we all will be together
If the Fates allow
Until then, we'll have to muddle through somehow
So have yourself a merry little Christmas now.
Friday, December 24, 2010
Breath of Heaven Hold me together Be forever near me
Artist- Amy Grant
Song of the day- Breath of heaven
My most favorite christmas album comes from Amy Grant. I'm not saying it's the most artistically sound but it reminds me of sitting in the dark under the list christmas tree with my mom after we decorated it and how peaceful it was. It also reminds me of Christmas Eve and our church candlelight service where one of the my friends I grew up with the most amazing voice would sing this song. Even though I've heard her sing it many times it never gets old and still gives me goose bumps. I like how it humanizes The Christmas Story, that it gets behind the emotions of one young girls heart who doesn't understand so many things but keeps going regardless. The human spirit trusting in something when they can't do it themselves. Kind of a miracle. Merry Christmas Eve everybody.
I have traveled
Many moonless night
Cold and Weary
With a babe inside
And I wonder
What I've done
Holy Father
You have come
Chosen me now
To carry your son
I am waiting
in a silent prayer
I am frightened
by the load i bear
In a world as cold as stone
Must I walk this path alone
Be with me now
Be with me now
[chorus:]
-----------------------------------
Breath of Heaven
Hold me together
Be forever near me
Breath of Heaven
Breath of Heaven
Lighten my darkness
Pour over me, your holyness
For your holy Breath of Heaven
-----------------------------------
Do you wonder
As you watch my face
If a wiser one, should of had my place
But I offer-all I am
For the mercy-of your plan
Help me be strong
Help me be
Help me
Song of the day- Breath of heaven
My most favorite christmas album comes from Amy Grant. I'm not saying it's the most artistically sound but it reminds me of sitting in the dark under the list christmas tree with my mom after we decorated it and how peaceful it was. It also reminds me of Christmas Eve and our church candlelight service where one of the my friends I grew up with the most amazing voice would sing this song. Even though I've heard her sing it many times it never gets old and still gives me goose bumps. I like how it humanizes The Christmas Story, that it gets behind the emotions of one young girls heart who doesn't understand so many things but keeps going regardless. The human spirit trusting in something when they can't do it themselves. Kind of a miracle. Merry Christmas Eve everybody.
I have traveled
Many moonless night
Cold and Weary
With a babe inside
And I wonder
What I've done
Holy Father
You have come
Chosen me now
To carry your son
I am waiting
in a silent prayer
I am frightened
by the load i bear
In a world as cold as stone
Must I walk this path alone
Be with me now
Be with me now
[chorus:]
-----------------------------------
Breath of Heaven
Hold me together
Be forever near me
Breath of Heaven
Breath of Heaven
Lighten my darkness
Pour over me, your holyness
For your holy Breath of Heaven
-----------------------------------
Do you wonder
As you watch my face
If a wiser one, should of had my place
But I offer-all I am
For the mercy-of your plan
Help me be strong
Help me be
Help me
Thursday, December 23, 2010
You're a bad banana with a greasy black peel
Artist- Thurl Ravenscroft
Song of the day- You're a mean one Mr. Grinch
To this day I can't celebrate Christmas without seeing the original cartoon version of my fav Dr. Seuss book and luckily tonight it was on TV so I'm officially allowed to move forward in my Christmas celebrations. It encompasses my fascination with cruelty and the power of love and that maybe sometimes it can be more than an optimistic hope that kindness and love can actually grow a heart three sizes. That you can believe, especially this time of year that a magic like this can not only occur in cartoons but real life too. My hope is that you feel that power today and your heart or better still you are the cause of someone else's heart growing three sizes today.
You're a mean one Mr Grinch
You really are a heel
You�re as cuddly as a cactus
You're as charming as an eel
Mr. Grinch
You�re a bad banana with a greasy black peel
You're a monster Mr. Grinch
Your Hearts an empty hole
Your brain is full of spiders
You�ve got garlic in your soul Mr. Grinch
I wouldn�t touch you with a
39 and a half Foot pole
You�re a vile one Mr. Grinch
You have termites in your smile
You have all the tender sweetness of a seasick crocodile
Mr. Grinch
Given the choice between the two of you
I�d take the a seasick crocodile
You�re a foul one Mr. Grinch
You�re a nasty wasty skunk
Your heart is full of unwashed socks,
Your soul is full of gunk
Mr. Grinch
The 3 words that best describe you, are as follows, and I quote
Stink, Stank, Stonk
You�re a rotter Mr. Grinch
You�re the king of sinful sots
Your hearts a dead tomato splotched with moldy purple spots
Mr. Grinch
Your sole is an appalling dump heap
Overflowing with the most disgraceful
Assortment of deplorable rubbish
Imaginable, mangled up in tangled up knots
You nauseate me, Mr. Grinch
With a nauseous super naus
You�re a crooked jerky jockey and,
you drive a crooked horse
Mr. Grinch
You�re a 3 Decker sour kraut and toad stool sandwich
With arsenic sauce!
Song of the day- You're a mean one Mr. Grinch
To this day I can't celebrate Christmas without seeing the original cartoon version of my fav Dr. Seuss book and luckily tonight it was on TV so I'm officially allowed to move forward in my Christmas celebrations. It encompasses my fascination with cruelty and the power of love and that maybe sometimes it can be more than an optimistic hope that kindness and love can actually grow a heart three sizes. That you can believe, especially this time of year that a magic like this can not only occur in cartoons but real life too. My hope is that you feel that power today and your heart or better still you are the cause of someone else's heart growing three sizes today.
You're a mean one Mr Grinch
You really are a heel
You�re as cuddly as a cactus
You're as charming as an eel
Mr. Grinch
You�re a bad banana with a greasy black peel
You're a monster Mr. Grinch
Your Hearts an empty hole
Your brain is full of spiders
You�ve got garlic in your soul Mr. Grinch
I wouldn�t touch you with a
39 and a half Foot pole
You�re a vile one Mr. Grinch
You have termites in your smile
You have all the tender sweetness of a seasick crocodile
Mr. Grinch
Given the choice between the two of you
I�d take the a seasick crocodile
You�re a foul one Mr. Grinch
You�re a nasty wasty skunk
Your heart is full of unwashed socks,
Your soul is full of gunk
Mr. Grinch
The 3 words that best describe you, are as follows, and I quote
Stink, Stank, Stonk
You�re a rotter Mr. Grinch
You�re the king of sinful sots
Your hearts a dead tomato splotched with moldy purple spots
Mr. Grinch
Your sole is an appalling dump heap
Overflowing with the most disgraceful
Assortment of deplorable rubbish
Imaginable, mangled up in tangled up knots
You nauseate me, Mr. Grinch
With a nauseous super naus
You�re a crooked jerky jockey and,
you drive a crooked horse
Mr. Grinch
You�re a 3 Decker sour kraut and toad stool sandwich
With arsenic sauce!
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