I don't want a lot for Christmas There's just one thing I need

Artist- Olivia Olson
Song of the day- All I want for Christmas

I'm back online just in time for the holiday season to be in full swing, which of course means my holly jolliness is bursting at the seems...which of course means this song of the day blog is being decked with holiday cheer to ring in the festivities. I personally know its officially that time of the year when my holiday movie watching begins and today's song is one of the best most recent musical moments in cheery cheezy christmas guilty pleasure which I most likely will enjoy tonight! So here's the beginning of my christmas list to get you in the holiday spirit!


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I don't want a lot for Christmas
There's just one thing I need
I don't care about the presents
Underneath the Christmas tree
I just want you for my own
More than you could ever know
Make my wish come true
All I want for Christmas is...
You

I don't want a lot for Christmas
There's just one thing I need
I don't care about the presents
Underneath the Christmas tree
I don't need to hang my stocking
There upon the fireplace
Santa Claus won't make me happy
With a toy on Christmas day
I just want you for my own
More than you could ever know
Make my wish come true
All I want for Christmas is you
You baby

I won't ask for much this Christmas
I don't even wish for snow
I'm just gonna keep on waiting
Underneath the mistletoe
I won't make a list and send it
To the North Pole for Saint Nick
I won't even stay awake to
Hear those magic reindeers click
'Cause I just want you here tonight
Holding on to me so tight
What more can I do
Baby all I want for Christmas is you
Ooh baby
All the lights are shining
So brightly everywhere
And the sound of children's
Laughter fills the air
And everyone is singing
I hear those sleigh bells ringing
Santa won't you bring me the one I really need
Won't you please bring my baby to me...

Oh I don't want a lot for Christmas
This is all I'm asking for
I just want to see my baby
Standing right outside my door
Oh I just want you for my own
More than you could ever know
Make my wish come true
Baby all I want for Christmas is...
You

Strange how heavy my heart is Strange how dark it is tonight

Artist- Grace Potter and the Nocturnals
Song of the day- One short night

Since I heard Grace Potter's voice I've been waiting for the moment I'd like her music cuz her current pizazz and over abundance of sparkly double entendres in her newest singles have left me more annoyed than impressed. However put her in a living room jam session and her musical skills just blow me out of the water. Today's song finally gave me that southern raspyness and country longing that makes me wish I was as badass as one non-flared Potter. And since I will be away from my computer one whole week...I know I'm not sure how I'll survive either?! Let me leave you on a high note. May you have a fatty, delicious Thanksgiving and remember all the things you have to be thankful for and how all the things you aren't as thankful for can make for a fantastic heart aching diddy. Till our next jam session, have a good one!



One short night with a stranger
One full moon over my head
One false move and it's over
So I always think of what we said, my baby

Strange how heavy my heart is
Strange how dark it is tonight
Strange the way this all started
I guess I'm losing track of wrong and right

And as the lights go dim
I lie down with him
And as I'm lying there
I can only smell your hair

It's like your across the hall
With your ear glued to the wall
And as I move to let him in I can
Feel you crawl under my skin

And I can feel you from the inside
Prowling like a devil that I try to hide
I can feel your heart beating
Closer than the poison of my pride

Caught up in a moment
I thought I'd feel no shame because I
Didn't have tell you lies
When the daylight came but now
Down goes that silver tear
Down goes my golden year
Down we go in a water slide
That's made up of the tears I've cried

And I can feel you from the inside
Prowling like a devil that I try to hide
I can feel your heart beating
Closer than the poison of my pride

I can feel you, you're touching me
I look at him but it's you I see, baby
I can feel your heart beating
Closer than the poison of my pride

One short night
One short night

There i go Stuck inside a shell And you're living on the other side

Artist- Neon Trees
Song of the day- In next room

As I begin my hunt for good travel music I stumbled upon this band's version of a Justin Bieber song, and well if you can win me over through a Bieber song, this is an impressing feat in itself, but add a too cool for school mohawk and girl drummer and I just might be hooked....especially if you make me want to unironically snap like today's song does. So here's to upcoming holiday travel, hotel rooms dance parties, and the music that will carry us through it all.



There you go
Messin' with my mind
I am usually better when I lie
There i
Go
Stuck inside a shell
And you're living on the other side
A lovers carousel
If you only
Knew
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
I lose control
When I hear your body move
Through the walls
In the next room
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
I lose control
When I hear your body move
And
I'm dying to break through
To the next room
You make love to everything you touch
It's a
Natural reaction
It's a sensual attraction
You play me like I am made of strings
I'm the violin,
A melody
I want your lips to sing
If you only knew
How hard it is to handle
How bad
I want a scandal
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
I lose control
When I hear your body move

Through the walls in the next room
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
I lose control
When I hear your
Body move
And I'm dying to break through
To the next room
Tell me 'my world revolves
Around you'
Tell me 'boy I can't live without you'
Tell me 'you're losing sleep tonight'
Cuz
I'll tell you straight
I'll never wait
I won't take
No no no no no no no no
Oh I lose control

When I hear your body move
When I hear your body move
Ohhhoohhhhhh
My heart
You stole
Every time your body moves
I'm just dying to break through
To the next room

When the morning comes

Artist- Ok Go
Song of the day- This too shall pass

so if you're anything like me whenever something bad has happened, or I'm in a bad mood or or just a funk, when people say "it'll get better" or "stop being down" or "this too shall pass" I tend to feel worse or have a new desire to punch them in the face...except when it's in song and I am distracted by clever inventions and paint splatter, then I will believe it. I'll pretty much believe anything in a well written song or being covered in paint. That's just driving home a good point. So if anybody out there needs to be told it's gonna get better or it'll pass, don't worry let me have someone demonstrate it instead:



You know you can't keep letting it get you down
And you can't keep dragging that dead weight around
Is it really all that much to lug around
Better run like hell when you hit the ground

When the morning comes
When the morning comes

Can't stop those kids from dancing but why would you want to
Especially when you are already getting good?
'Cause when your mind don't move then your knees don't bend
But don't go blaming the kids again

When the morning comes
When the morning comes
When the morning comes

When the morning comes
When the morning comes
When the morning comes

Let it go, this too shall pass
Let it go, this too shall pass

(Let it go, this too shall pass)
You know you can't keep letting it get you down
No, you can't keep letting it get you down

(Let it go, this too shall pass)
Oh, is it really all that much to lug around
And you can't keep letting it get you down

When the morning comes
Oh, you can't keep letting it get you down
No, you can't keep letting it get you down
(When the morning comes)

Oh, you can't keep letting it get you down
No, you can't keep letting it get you down
(When the morning comes)

Oh, you can't keep letting it get you down
No, you can't keep letting it get you down
(When the morning comes)

Oh, you can't keep letting it get you down
No, you can't keep letting it get you down
(When the morning comes)

I could be more to you But there are things that line my path That I just had to do

Artist- First Aid Kit
Song of the day- Ghost town

I've spent the night collecting songs for me to learn to help pass time and keep sanity for an upcoming trip while I listened to this album and mostly this song on repeat. I love this version of the song in the back of a car and how much I would love for my 7hour bus ride in the back roads of Honduras to sound like this, and knowing how much it won't...or if I'll even be able to pick up a musical instrument highly medicated on airplane pills. But if my life was an indie film I think this song would play as the credits rolled, or at the very least during a poignant montage where I "learn something." This song is my favorite kind of song and sound and one I will probably spend most of my life trying to replicate in my own writing. Till then maybe I'll just listen to this for 7hours instead.




All of these ghost towns I keep travelling through
All of these traffic signs and lonesome bars blind the view
I swear I can be better
I could be more to you
But there are things that line my path
That I just had to do

If you've got visions of the past
Let them follow you down
They'll come back to you some day
And I found myself attached to this railroad track
But I'll come back to you some day
To you
To you
To you
Some day

And I remember how you told me all you wanted to do
That dream of Paris in the morning or a New York window view
I can see it now you're married and your wife is with a child
And you're all laughing in the garden and I'm lost somewhere in your mind

If you've got visions of the past
Let them follow you down
They'll come back to you some day
And I found myself attached to this railroad track
But I'll come back to you some day
To you
To you
To you
Some day

Maybe I should just turn around
Walk away
For no matter how much I really do want to stay
You know I can when it's too late

Oh I've found myself attached to this railroad track
I'll come back to you some day
To you
To you
To you
Some day

I'm never gonna dance again The way I danced with you

Artist- George Michael
Song of the day- Careless Whisper

So one of my greatest friends / musical companions is currently karaoke-ing in LA at our fav haunt with some of the cast of glee. And being the most fantastic friend that she is, she's been giving me a play by play or what I like to call rubbing it in my face for the past two hours as I sit on the couch in my pajamas watching New Moon and trying to not hate life. So today's song goes out to you, Original, just one of our many go to duet numbers. May you bring stars to their knees through your song and dance skills...but just remember guilty feet have got no rhythm.



I feel so unsure
As I take your hand and lead you to the dance floor
As the music dies, something in your eyes
Calls to mind a silver screen and all those sad goodbyes

I'm never gonna dance again
Cause guilty feet have got no rhythm
Though it's easy to pretend
I know you're not a fool

I should have known better than to cheat a friend
And waste the chance that I'd been given
So I'm never gonna dance again
The way I danced with you

Time can never mend
The careless whispers of a good friend
To the heart and mind
Ignorance is kind
And there's no comfort in the truth
Pain is all you'll find

I'm never gonna dance again
Cause guilty feet have got no rhythm
Though it's easy to pretend
I know you're not a fool

I should have known better than to cheat a friend
And waste the chance that I'd been given
So I'm never gonna dance again
The way I danced with you

Tonight the music seems so loud
I wish that we could lose the crowd
Maybe it's better this way
We'd hurt each other with the things we want to say

We could have been so good together
We could have lived this dance forever
But now who's gonna dance with me?
Please stay

I'm never gonna dance again
Cause guilty feet have got no rhythm
Though it's easy to pretend
I know you're not a fool

I should have known better than to cheat a friend
And waste the chance that I'd been given
So I'm never gonna dance again
The way I danced with you

All I have is too much time To understand One can only love Life until its ending

Artist- Ra Ra Riot
Song of the day- Dying is fine

so today I had my "end of life" lecture right after taking my last final. then i found out my cat died and well then I found this song so it felt kind of appropriate. There isn't really a lot of great dying dance songs out there so I commend ra ra riot for giving me one. so this one's for you pepper.




To settle our thoughts
Never minding what for
nothing of a harm to dread
On my mind
Tell me what belies
Tell me what I could have
Oh
Tell me what for

No more of this living dying
Just scientific analyzing
Forgive us oh life
The sin of

Death oh baby
You know that dying is fine but maybe
I wouldn't like death if death were good
Not even if death were good

Is this it
Maundering about and
All I have is too much time
To understand
One can only love
Life until its ending
Oh
And I can't forget

No more of this living dying
Just scientific analyzing
Forgive us oh life
The sin of

Death oh baby
You know that dying is fine but maybe
I wouldn't like death if death were good
Not even if death were good

And I never wanted anything from you Except everything you had And what was left after that too

Artist- Florence + The Machine
Song of the day- Dog days are over

Tomorrow if I pass my final, I will have completed my first year of nursing school and be half way done with my masters program. And like many of my fellow cohort I am currently too exhausted to express any kind of emotion, be it stress or excitement. So I thought I shall prematurely celebrate just a bit to get my energy flowing for one more test and the party started for a well deserved break! So here's a little Florence + the machines: to being half way through and hopefully making it another year, cheers!



or if you like babies...


Happiness / hit her / like a train on a tra-ck
Coming towards her / stuck still / no turning ba-ck
She hid around corners / and she hid under beds /
She killed it with kisses and from it she fl-ed /
With e-very bubble she sank with a drink /
And wa-shed it away down the kitchen sink.

The dog days are over
The dog days are done
The horses are comin' so you better run

Run fast for your mother; run fast for your father /
Run for your children all your sisters and brothers /
Leave all your love and your longing behind.
You can't carry it with you / if you want to survive

The dog days are ove-r /
The dog days are do~ne /
Can you hear the horse-s/
'Cos here they come

And I- never wanted /
anything from yo-u /
Except /
e-verything / you had
And / what was left after that too / Oh!

Happiness / hit her / like a bullet in the ba-ck
Struck from /a great height

By someone /who should have known be-tte-r / than tha-t

The dog days are ove-r /
The dog days are do~ne /
Can you hear the horses /
'Cos here they co-me

Run fast for your mother / run fast for your father
Run for your children all your sisters and brothers
Leave all your love and your longing behind
You can't carry it with you / if you want to survive

The dog days are ove-r /
The dog days are do~ne /
Can you hear the horse-s/
'Cos here they co-me/

The dog days are ove-r /
The dog days are do~ne /
The horse-s are co-min'
So you'd better ru-n /

The dog days and over-r /
The dog days are do~ne /
The horse-s are co-mi -n' /
So you'd better ru--n

and she took the time to believe in to believe in what she said

Artist-Sharon Van Etten
Song of the day- Love more

I'm sleepy and content. Today's song makes me feel even more sleepy and content. And crazy harmonies are just plain enjoyable. And also you should know who Sharon Van Etten is, I've known who she is for bout 20min and am pretty blown away already.



chained to the wall of our room
yeah you chained me like a dog in our room
i thought that's how it was
i thought that we were fine
then the day was night
you were high you were high when i was doomed
and dying for with no light with no light

tied to my bed
i was younger then
i had nothing to spend but time on you
but it made me love it made me love it made me love more
it made me love it made me love it made me love more

do what you said the words she said left out
over unto the sky where i'll soon fly
and she took the time
to believe in to believe in what she said
and she made me love she made me love she made me love more
she made me love she made me love she made me love more

I feel joy, I feel pain, 'cause it's still the same

Artist- Real MCoy
Song of the day- Another night

You know what makes studying for finals slightly more tolerable? dance breaks, I can't stress this enough, I'm pretty sure this applies to most of life stresses and when finishing a good 12hours of school and studying today my friend mo found today's song most appropriate for celebration and so do I. So for all you other studiers or burned outs or sick or tired or ready to dance, here's an oldie but a goody.



Another night, another dream, and always you
It's like a vision of love that seems to be true
Another night, another dream, and always you
In the night I dream of a love so true

Just another night, another vision of love
You feel joy, you feel pain
'Cause nothing will be the same
Just another night, it's all that it takes
To understand the difference between
lovers and fakes, oh baby

I talk, talk, I talk to you
In the night in your dream of love so true

I talk, talk, I talk to you
In the night in your dream of love so true

In the night, in my dreams
I'm in love with you
'Cause you talk to me, like lovers do
I feel joy, I feel pain, 'cause it's still the same
when the night is gone I'll be alone

Another night, another dream, and always you
It's like a vision of love that seems to be true
Another night, another dream, and always you
In the night I dream of a love so true

Just another night, another dream
Another vision of love,
And we are here to set you free
I am the lover, your lover
Hey, sister, let me cover your body with my loving
Is my loving just a number?

Vision of love that seems to be true
we will do all the things that only lovers do

Vision of love that seems to be true
we will do all the things that only lovers do

In the night, in my dreams
I'm in love with you
'Cause you talk to me, like lovers do
I feel joy, I feel pain, 'cause it's still the same
when the night is gone I'll be alone

Another night, another dream, and always you
It's like a vision of love that seems to be true
Another night, another dream, and always you
In the night I dream of a love so true

I talk, talk, I talk to you
In the night in your dream of love so true

I talk, talk, I talk to you
In the night in your dream of love so true

In the night, in my dreams
I'm in love with you
'Cause you talk to me, like lovers do
I feel joy, I feel pain, 'cause it's still the same
when the night is gone I'll be alone

Another night, another dream, and always you
It's like a vision of love that seems to be true
Another night, another dream, and always you
In the night I dream of a love so true

I am giving up on making passes and I am giving up on half empty glasses and I am giving up on greener grasses I am giving up

Artist- Ingrid Michaelson
Song of the day- Giving up

So sometimes or some might say all the time I over think things. And today's song kinda reminded me of my favorite past time and or being my own worst enemy. Plus it's such a dang sweet tune so please enjoy some dang sweetness



What if we stop having a ball?
What if the paint chips from the wall?
What if there's always cups in the sink?
What if I'm not what you think I am?

What if I fall further than you?
What if you dream of somebody new?
What if I never let you win, chase you with a rolling pin?
Well what if I do?

I am giving up on making passes and
I am giving up on half empty glasses and
I am giving up on greener grasses
I am giving up

What if our baby comes home after nine?
What it your eyes close before mine?
What if you lose yourself sometimes? Then I'll be the one to find you
Safe in my heart

I am giving up on making passes and
I am giving up on half empty glasses and
I am giving up on greener grasses
I am giving up

I am giving up
I am giving up
I am giving up on greener grasses

I am giving up for you
I am giving up for you
I am giving up

As you stand, under the bar lights. And the band plays some song about forgetting yourself for a while.

Artist- The Airborne Toxic Event
Song of the day- Sometime around midnight

So i've been jonsin for some major live music and it got me missing one of my fav live bands to see, the airborne toxic event who I saw along with many of my all time favorite bands and my most favorite place in the world, Spaceland. I just recently discovered that my most favorite place in the world will soon no longer exist which breaks my musical heart into little tiny pieces. I loved that dingy LA bar down my winding silverlake street and its smoking room and tacky curtains and seated pac man game, and being poked by pool cubes, watching bands roll joints, covering bands and them actually knowing me, stalking bands while my friends past out on booths, being on the list of sold out shows, trying to pick up boys in caps, or convince drummers to go to house of pie, standing 3 hours for life changing music and on and on and I'm sad. So spaceland, this one is for you.



And it starts, sometime around midnight.
Or at least that’s when you lose yourself
for a minute or two.
As you stand, under the bar lights.
And the band plays some song
about forgetting yourself for a while.
And the piano’s this melancholy soundtrack to her smile.
And that white dress she’s wearing
you haven’t seen her for a while.

But you know, that she’s watching.
She’s laughing, she’s turning.
She’s holding her tonic like a cross*.
The room’s suddenly spinning.
She walks up and asks how you are.
So you can smell her perfume.
You can see her lying naked in your arms.

And so there’s a change, in your emotions.
And all these memories come rushing
like feral waves to your mind.
Of the curl of your bodies,
like two perfect circles entwined.
And you feel hopeless and homeless
and lost in the haze of the wine.

Then she leaves, with someone you don’t know.
But she makes sure you saw her.
She looks right at you and bolts.
As she walks out the door,
your blood boiling
your stomach in ropes.
Oh and when your friends say,
“What is it? You look like you’ve seen a ghost.”

Then you walk, under the streetlights.
And you’re too drunk to notice,
that everyone is staring at you.
You just don’t care what you look like,
the world is falling around you.

You just have to see her.
You just have to see her.
You just have to see her.
You just have to see her.
You just have to see her.
You know that she’ll break you in two.

So she’ll ride this ride as far as it can go

Artist- Trisha Yearwood
Song of the day- Walk away joe

The CMAs are on tonight and though I am not watching them it did get me in the country mood. It reminded me of earlier today when I rejected spicy red peppers on my pizza and my friend Jaime retorted in disgust, "what kind of Texan are you?" Welp, I'm the kinda Texan that hates spicy food, never owned wranglers, runs from refried beans, has only spurts of an accent, uses what my friend Blake calls "fake southern manners", never roped a cow and doesn't watch the CMAs. But I'm also the kind of Texan that loves meat, sunsets,southern charm, two stepping, saying "y'all" and appreciates GOOD country music. Like Trisha Yearwood. Now this is a classic country tail without the beer or pickup truck references. And also I just realized Matthew McConaughey is the walk away Joe! You can't get more country than that! So here's a little of my southern side for your liking. Y'all come back now ya here!



Momma told her baby, girl take it real slow
Girl told her momma hey I really gotta go
He’s waitin’ in the car
Momma said girl you won’t get far
Thus are the dreams of an average jane
Ninety miles an hour down a lovers lane
On a tank of dreams
Oh if she could’ve only seen
But fate’s got cards that it don’t want to show
And that boy’s just

A walkaway joe
Born to be a leaver
Tell you from the word go, destined to deceive her
He’s a wrong kinda paradise
She’s gonna know it in a matter of time
That boy’s just a walkaway joe

Now just a little while into abilene
Pulls into a station and he robs it clean
She’s waitin’ in the car
Underneath the texaco star
She only wanted love didn’t bargain for this
She can’t help but love him for the way he is
She’s only seventeen
And there ain’t no reasoning
So she’ll ride this ride as far as it can go
Cause that boy’s just

A walkaway joe
Born to be a leaver
Tell you from the word go, destined to deceive her
He’s a wrong kinda paradise
She’s gonna know it in a matter of time
That boy’s just a walkaway joe

Somewhere in a roadside motel room
Alone in the silence she wakes up too soon
And reaches for his arm
But she’ll just keep reachin’ on
For the cold hard truth revealed what it had known
That boy’s just

A walkaway joe
Born to be a leaver
Tell you from the word go, destined to deceive her
He’s a wrong kinda paradise
She’s gonna know it in a matter of time
That boy’s just a walkaway joe

Do you still feel the pain of the scars that won't heal Your eyes have died but you see more than I

Artist- Elton John
Song of the day- Daniel

As I was working on papers tonight this song popped up on some British oldies station I was listening to on itunes and well big surprise I love Elton John and have no deep meaningful reason for picking this song other than this is superb writing mixed with pop that I think most pop music lacks these days. So enjoy some good oldies pop and his outfit cuz lord knows I luv both!



Daniel is travelling tonight on a plane
I can see the red tail lights heading for Spain
Oh and I can see Daniel waving goodbye
God it looks like Daniel, must be the clouds in my eyes

They say Spain is pretty though I've never been
Well Daniel says it's the best place that he's ever seen
Oh and he should know, he's been there enough
Lord I miss Daniel, oh I miss him so much

Daniel my brother you are older than me
Do you still feel the pain of the scars that won't heal
Your eyes have died but you see more than I
Daniel you're a star in the face of the sky

Daniel is travelling tonight on a plane
I can see the red tail lights heading for Spain
Oh and I can see Daniel waving goodbye
God it looks like Daniel, must be the clouds in my eyes
Oh God it looks like Daniel, must be the clouds in my eyes

Baby, why'm I worried now, did someone make a fool of me? 'fore I could show 'em how it's done

Artist- Neko Case
Song of the day- Middle Cyclone

Why is Neko Case so awesome? I ponder this question often, especially when she writes songs like this that make you just go, "yes. totally." And is pretty, and simple but incredibly complex at the same time and can use a music box in a total non ironic or overly themed way. It gives it that sad adult lullabye feel, reminiscent of ones your mom used to sing to you and then you realized later there were about depressing subjects like babies being rocked on treetops only to fall from them do to being windy. how is that comforting? I have no idea, but it is, just like Neko Case. So here's some depressing but true comfort for you today



Baby, why'm I worried now,
did someone make a fool of me
'fore I could show 'em how it's done?
Can't give up actin' tough,
it's all that I'm made of.
Can't scrape together quite enough
to ride the bus to the outskirts
of the fact that I need love.

There were times that I tried,
one for every glass of water
that I spilled next to the bed,
wretching pennies in a boiling well
in a dream that it once becomes
a foundry of mute and heavy bells.
They shake me deaf and dumb
say, "Someone made a fool of me
'fore I could show 'em how it's done."

It was so clear to me
that it was almost invisible.
I lie across the path waiting,
just for a chance to be a spiderweb
trapped in your lashes.
For that, I would trade you my empire for ashes.
But I choke it back, how much I need love...

I feel it all I feel it all The wings are wide the wings are wide Wild card inside wild card inside

Artist- Feist
Song of the day- I feel it all

With finals on my back I feel I have no moment to spare, including blog writing. Yet I needed a little blast of energy to keep me going and was reminded of this awesome video and the kid inside me who bought and stashed years of fireworks hoping to make this video come true...I'm pretty sure I have a few black cats and roman candles still hidden in my bedroom somewhere in texas. Besides explosive this is still my fav Feist songs cuz it may just be too relatable for my liking, as it makes me want to dance around and bang on trash cans as well. So here's a little fire under your feet if you're like me and need help getting through the next two weeks!




I feel it all I feel it all
I feel it all I feel it all
The wings are wide the wings are wide
Wild card inside wild card inside

Oh I'll be the one who'll break my heart
I'll be the one to hold the gun

I know more than I knew before
I know more than I knew before
I didn't rest I didn't stop
Did we fight or did we talk

Oh I'll be the one who'll break my heart
I'll be the one to hold the gun

I love you more
I love you more
I don't know what I knew before
But now I know I wanna win the war

No one likes to take a test
Sometimes you know more is less
Put your weight against the door
Kick drum on the basement floor
Stranded in a fog of words
Loved him like a winter bird
On my head the water pours
Gulf stream through the open door
Fly away
Fly away to what you want to make

I feel it all, I feel it all
I feel it all I feel it all
The wings are wide, the wings are wide
Wild card inside, wild card inside

Oh I'll be the one to break my heart
I'll be the one who'll break my heart
I'll be the one who'll break my heart
I'll end it thought you started it

The truth lies
The truth lied
And lies divide
Lies divide

Start the two way monologues that speak your mind Start the two way monologues with words that rhyme

Artist- Sondre Lerche
Song of the day- Two Way Monologue

I was in the mood for dreaminess and good guitar playing which can be summed up in one of my top loves, Sondre Lerche. His string skills are just, well, sick and I can't seem to swoon enough in his presence. Today's song is one of my favs of his and I kinda like what it says about communication, and also when he throws in weird phrases that might make more sense in a different language but not so much in english like, "optionless and turkey-free"?? Oh the swedish, so adorably confusing...come to think of it I might not understand this song at all?! oh well. Here's a tune out there for you who are like me and feel a bit tangled in our words, whether via annoying job at work, rough draft rewrites, reaching out for help, attempting to write a blog or plain old communication skills, this one's for you.



Mum
All the other options that you had in mind starve me
'Cause I'm optionless and turkey-free and blind

Pa
Won't you listen and I'll let you in on this
Blind me!
As you listen I'll reduce advice to dust
Oh no!
I shouldn't have to spell my name

Ma!
If it's worth the made up smiles, the quiet fights
Oh mother!
It is hard not to look in the mirror's eye
I have come to this while you have come along
So it's alright if you change your mind the other way around again
I shouldn't have to spell my name

So start the two way monologues that speak your mind
We're talking two way monologues with words that rhyme

We
can't reclaim the shirts we threw away last twirl
Uncurl the note-in-pocket, personal brochures that dust
Machine-washed, that's how paper rusts

Days you spend wanting some of Michael Landon's grace
strike back, now they shape your life as stony as his face
Oh no! I shouldn't have to spell his name

So start the two way monologues that speak your mind
Start the two way monologues with words that rhyme
Start the two way monologues that speak your mind
We're talking two way monologues

We were chasing rabbits on the hill
And that prairie-life was great, but never real
'Cause we never saw no rabbits out there, ever, no, not once
All we did was put a fire up and watch it burn for months
And I miss the sound of stairs and walls and maladjusted doors
and too little space for holding all the soldiers and the war

You say love is a hell you cannot bear And I say gimme mine back and then go there - for all I care

Artist- Fiona Apple
Song of the day- Sleep to dream

So minus the kinda looking / acting like a coke addict, Fiona Apple rocks and is amazing at lyrically and vocally kicking major butt. I recently had a revisited sing along to her first album and forgot how much I ate up every word, including this song which is tonight's anthem as i attempt to sleep and not fidget around my room and pick at the floor...yeah she's a quirky one. So here's to you fellow sleepy heads out there may you go to sleep to dream, or not if you're a total bad ass like some.



I tell you how I feel, but you don't care
I say tell me the truth, but you don't dare
You say love is a hell you cannot bear
And I say gimme mine back and then go there - for all I care

I got my feet on the ground
And I don't go to sleep to dream
You got your head in the clouds
And you're not at all what you seem
This mind, this body
And this voice cannot be stifled by your deviant ways
So don't forget what I told you
Don't come around, I got my own hell to raise

I have never been so insulted in all my life
I could swallow the seas to wash down all this pride
First you run like a fool just to be at my side
And now you run like a food
But you just run to hide, and I can't abide

I got my feet on the ground
And I don't go to sleep to dream
You got your head in the clouds
And you're not at all what you seem
This mind, this body
And this voice cannot be stifled by your deviantways
So don't forget what I told you
Don't come around, I got my own hell toraise

Don't make it a big deal, don't be so sensitive
We're not playing a game anymore
You don't have to be so defensive
Don't you plead me your case, don't bother to explain
Don't even show me your face, ''cause it's a crying shame
Just go back to the rock from under which you came
Take the sorrow you gave and all the stakes you claim -
And don't forget the blame

I got my feet on the ground
And I don't go to sleep to dream
You got your head in the clouds
And you're not at all what you seem
This mind, this body
And this voice cannot be stifled by your deviant ways
So don't forget what I told you
Don't come around, I got my own hell to raise

Another head aches, another heart breaks I am so much older than I can take

Artit- The Killers
Song of the day- All these things that i've done

I have a vague memory of singing this at the top of my lungs whilst holding an egg shaker and pounding it on a couch last saturday, apparently i was really feeling it. As i should cuz a-the killers rule b-mustaches rule c-in a time of finals and freak out it seems like a nice "go getter" song. So this one goes out to anyone else out there hitting a time of busyness, stress, freakouts or just enjoys a good mustache.







When there's nowhere else to run
Is there room for one more son
One more son
If you can hold on
If you can hold on, hold on
I wanna stand up, I wanna let go
You know, you know - no you don't, you don't
I wanna shine on in the hearts of men
I want a meaning from the back of my broken hand

Another head aches, another heart breaks
I am so much older than I can take
And my affection, well it comes and goes
I need direction to perfection, no no no no

Help me out
Yeah, you know you got to help me out
Yeah, oh don't you put me on the blackburner
You know you got to help me out

And when there's nowhere else to run
Is there room for one more son
These changes ain't changing me
The cold-hearted boy I used to be

Yeah, you know you got to help me out
Yeah, oh don't you put me on the blackburner
You know you got to help me out
You're gonna bring yourself down
Yeah, you're gonna bring yourself down
Yeah, you're gonna bring yourself down

I got soul, but I'm not a soldier
I got soul, but I'm not a soldier
...

Yeah, you know you got to help me out
Yeah, oh don't you put me on the blackburner
You know you got to help me out
You're gonna bring yourself down
You're gonna bring yourself down
Yeah, oh don't you put me on the blackburner
Yeah, you're gonna bring yourself down

Over and out, last call for sin
While everyone's lost, the battle is won
With all these things that I've done
All these things that I've done
If you can hold on
If you can hold on

I was feeling sad Can't help looking back

Artist- Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Song of the day- Runaway

So I'm in the process of realizing I haven't studied all night for my quiz tomorrow and should really get on that so I"m just gonna quote my friend Mo right now and say "drop what you're doing and listen to 'runaway' by the yeah yeah yeahs. Just do it!" And he's right it is amazing and I would like to run run runaway from this studying right now cuz I've lost lost lost my mind and didn't do it tonight. So while I go learn about spinal chord and brain issues, please enjoy some awesomeness for me.



I was feeling sad
Can't help looking back
Highways flew by
Run, run, run away
No sense of time
Want you to stay
Want keep you inside

Run, run, run away
Lost, lost, lost my mind
Want you to stay
Want you to be my prize

Run, run, run away
Lost, lost, lost my mind
Want you to stay
Want you to be my prize

I was feeling sad
Can't help looking back
Highways flew by
Run, run, run away

No sense of time
Want you to stay
Want keep you inside

All along, not so strong without these open arms
Hold on tight
All along, not that strong without these open arms
Lie beside
All along, not so strong without these open arms
Ride beside

Run, run, run away
Lost, lost, lost my mind
Want you to stay
Want you to be my prize

Run, run, run away
Lost, lost, lost my mind
Want you to stay
Want you to be my prize