Saturday, April 30, 2011

I want to start fresh, like a baby in a sink Scrub away all these thoughts that i think of you

Artist- Ingrid Michaelson
Song of the day- Starting Now

It seems that I can't get away from babies on the brain this quarter. I constantly study them, listen to my friends wanting them, constantly read and watch and sometimes help them come out and stay alive and it's weird and gross and scary and fantastic and painful and did I mention weird? But I can't get over the fascination of watching someone's story begin, the actual beginning and being scared for them and everything they will face in their story but also jealous of them, in my constant starting overs in life, to get a chance to actually go back to that time where you were fully ignorant and fully content and safe and didn't know all the mistakes you'd make, all the time's you'd be hurt and all the adventure ahead of you that you don't know to be afraid of yet. All that junk is what makes up life though, I'm not denying that, but it has made me appreciate the beginning more. To all your beginnings, old ones and the one's starting now, this one's for you.




I want to crawl back inside my mother's womb
I want to shut out all the lights in this room
I want to start fresh, like a baby in a sink
Scrub away all these thoughts that i think of you

So life moves slowly when you're waiting for it to boil
Feel like i watch from 6 feet under the soil
Still want to hold you and kiss behind your ears
But i re count the countless tears that i lost for you

But before you finally go there's one thing you should know: That I promise -

Starting now I'll never know your name
Starting now I'll never feel the same
Starting now I wish you never came into my world.

I want to crawl back inside my bed of sin
I want to burn the sheets that smell like your skin
Instead I'll wash them just like kitchen rags with stains
Spinning away every piece that remains of you.

But before you finally go there's one thing you should know: That I promise -

Starting now I'll never know your name
Starting now I'll never feel the same
Starting now I wish you never came into my world.

It's my world, it's not ours anymore
It's my world, it's not ours anymore

Starting now I'll never know your name
Starting now I'll never feel the same
Starting now I wish you never came into my world.
I want to crawl back inside my mother's womb
I want to shut out all the lights in this room
I want to start fresh, like a baby in a sink
Scrub away all these thoughts that i think of you

So life moves slowly when you're waiting for it to boil
Feel like i watch from 6 feet under the soil
Still want to hold you and kiss behind your ears
But i re count the countless tears that i lost for you

But before you finally go there's one thing you should know: That I promise -

Starting now I'll never know your name
Starting now I'll never feel the same
Starting now I wish you never came into my world.

I want to crawl back inside my bed of sin
I want to burn the sheets that smell like your skin
Instead I'll wash them just like kitchen rags with stains
Spinning away every piece that remains of you.

But before you finally go there's one thing you should know: That I promise -

Starting now I'll never know your name
Starting now I'll never feel the same
Starting now I wish you never came into my world.

It's my world, it's not ours anymore
It's my world, it's not ours anymore

Starting now I'll never know your name
Starting now I'll never feel the same
Starting now I wish you never came into my world.

Friday, April 29, 2011

And please allow me to be your anti- depressant, I too, am prescribed as freely As any decongestant

Artist- The Wombats
Song of the day- Anti-D

My friend Blake turned me on to the fantasticness of The Wombats and this new song of theirs. And I do love songs about medical drugs I know cuz it makes me feel smart. And we all know how much I already love depressing songs that sound peppy. But I think the video and song give an interesting picture on the subject. Of being in all black and slow motion when the world is colorful and kinda bizarre all around you. And spending some time in a mind and around minds that struggle with this and other issues, I do find them to be some of the most intuitive and compassionate people which is what the chorus of the song makes me think of. The whole song about a guy who's depressed wanting to be the thing that stops depression for someone else instead of drugs. Empathy is an interesting thing that makes me pretty happy to be human. Plus violins and rock music, hurray!



Please allow me to be your anti- depressant,
I too, am prescribed as freely
As any decongestant

We kick back and let the pills do the talking
People hear a distinct rattle when we’re walking
Then there’s the extra two stone that’s our only guarantee

Our vivid dreams are just like big production movies
They get entangled well within our daily routines
So please re-think or use my dream-on strategy

And please allow me to be your anti- depressant,
I too, am prescribed as freely
As any decongestant

Its hard to smile when your as flattened as a pancake
The only tears come from our heads when we concentrate
Perhaps I'm being unjust or perhaps you agree

Still I've thrown away my citalopram
I need more than what was in those forty miligrams
So cast away with the doctors plans

And please allow me to be your anti- depressant,
I too, am prescribed as freely
As any decongestant

Still I’ve thrown away my citalopram
Although I felt as grim as the reaper man
So cast away with the doctors plans
Like me

Thursday, April 28, 2011

And my legs tremble from strain But by the finish line I am drained

Artist- Sea Wolf
Song of the day- Middle Distance Runner

Sometimes I'll hear the first 3 seconds of a song for the first time and know that I will a)love it. and b)it will be exactly the song I need at that moment. And not just in melody but feel and content is everything I feel and I'll get that hair on the back of the neck feeling like how did the universe know? That's what happened with today's song after a long day, after a long week of midterm studying and being burnt out and having that wanting to give up feeling. When you don't do as good at something as you wanted whether school, relationships, work, working with others or even life and you think I'm tired maybe this is just as far as I'm supposed to get. maybe I'm not supposed to finish the race or finish best. It's when you need someone to run to you instead of being the run who runs. And that's kind of a beautiful thing I think. So if your tired and can't quite run at the moment listen to this while your waiting on someone to run to you.

Backstage Sessions : Sea Wolf - Middle Distance Runner from Hard to Find a Friend on Vimeo.




Well I'm so sad tonight
And the words won't come out right
It's been a long day on the track
And its stamina that I lack

So won't you run to me tonight?
Tonight we could pretend that we're just lovers
But I'll only ever be a middle distance runner

Well my heart is beating hard
And I'm off with a shot at the start
And my legs tremble from strain
But by the finish line I am drained

So won't you run to me tonight?
Tonight let's not talk about next summer
Cause I'll only ever be a middle distance runner

Well I'm so proud tonight
Of the woman you've become
And I'm just too tired to fight
So my darling, I'll succumb

But you'll have to run to me tonight
Tonight I will love you forever
But I'll only ever be a middle distance runner

Saturday, April 23, 2011

I wear this crown of thorns upon my liar's chair full of broken thoughts I cannot repair

Artist- Johnny Cash
Song of the day- Hurt

I saw today's video one Easter Sunday several years ago and still have a hard time finding a song that better sums up the "why" of Easter for me. Being a big fan of Mr. Cash stems not only from his musical talent but his entire story. It's like that bible verse of gaining the whole world and forfeiting your soul, what is it worth? Cash gained possibly everything possible one could ask for, fame, money, security, love, adventure, power, talent, dreams fulfilled, respect earned, treasures beyond treasures, but what was it worth? It didn't bring him that thing we all assume these things will. It does the opposite sometimes and leaves you emptier than you realized anything could. And when you come to that realization, that you've lived your whole life for yourself, that you are not as great as you think you are but selfish and how hurtful selfishness can be, it's humanities greatest sin. Our needs over others, our needs over the earth's, our needs over God's, me, me, me. And on a day that God looked at us in our selfishness and gave up his own self to save us from the bondage of our own selfishness that leads to so much more pain inflicted on others and back on ourselves, there is no greater picture of redemption or of grace. Today's song doesn't tell the story of Easter, but how it effects one human life. Happy Easter everybody.



I hurt myself today
to see if I still feel
I focus on the pain
the only thing that's real
the needle tears a hole
the old familiar sting
try to kill it all away
but I remember everything
what have I become?
my sweetest friend
everyone I know
goes away in the end
and you could have it all
my empire of dirt

I will let you down
I will make you hurt

I wear this crown of thorns
upon my liar's chair
full of broken thoughts
I cannot repair
beneath the stains of time
the feelings disappear
you are someone else
I am still right here

what have I become?
my sweetest friend
everyone I know
goes away in the end
and you could have it all
my empire of dirt

I will let you down
I will make you hurt

if I could start again
a million miles away
I would keep myself
I would find a way

Thursday, April 21, 2011

We won't be afraid to be happy It's not so easy feeling everything We were so ready for the fall

Artist- The submarines
Song- Birds

So yesterday I dragged myself out of bed having little sleep, almost ran into a man profusely bleeding from his face at the train stop, train broke, had to move seats when a passenger kept "mistaking" my thigh for an hand rest, tried not to fall asleep during 8hrs of class, cooked a ham for 2.5 hours then watched it shrivel in my hands and shattered off part of my bike on a way to this concert. But I knew the power of the Submarines, and as they played this song, their positivity bled through my ears and I was re convinced that man, life is great, people can be quite adorable and music might just solve anyone's issues. Usually I find this kind of optimism in music annoying, and have never been able to write a song that at least wasn't a hint of depressing, but they are so genuine and thoughtful in their music you almost have to believe them, that even with all the crap of life, there's reasons life can be great and reasons to sing about it being great. And today as I celebrated Easter with some dear friends I knew that the submarines were right. There are far worse things than my annoying day people have to face, we all have our dark days, our dark stories. And though I might find that more artistic, there is so much beauty and need for celebration in life. There's a need to cherish it, cherish those moments, cherish those people, that's something to sing about.



Sometimes I ask how could it be
Someone like you would want someone like me
And I'm here waiting on your love
I've been lying awake at night
Listening to the birds singing in the dark
And I'm still waiting on your love

We could be holding on tighter
Had to learn to let go as we got higher

Oh no oh no don't go
I want to take you home tonight
Our love our love our love
Hey what if everything's all right

If the morning comes at all
I'll dress you up like you're my paper doll
And take you everywhere I go

We won't be afraid to be happy
It's not so easy feeling everything
We were so ready for the fall

If we could only surrender let it in
We'd never have to ask what we were missing

Oh no oh no don't go
I want to take you home tonight
Our love our love our love
Hey what if everything's all right

We could be holding on tighter
Had to learn to let go as we got higher
We could be holding on tighter

Oh no oh no don't go
I want to take you home tonight
Our love our love our love
Hey what if everything's all right

Sunday, April 17, 2011

Am I underground Or am I in between

Artist- Phantogram
Song of the day- When I am Small

I know I've found a good song when I can run under an 8min mile, and with these short legs and laziness let me tell you it's quite an accomplishment. And thanks to MTV U I found this little gem of a jam out and got to work on my sprints. It's a nice mix of dark, piano and electronica which I must say I am growing accustom to. Plus it sums up my emotion about a heavy load of work ahead of me that I'm only scratching the surface of and know it's about to explode in my face. It's like I'm at the soft piano doomed filled melody part and any second now the bass is going to kick in and I gotta be off an running to try and keep up with an anmanagable workload...sick of a grad student complaining yet? well if you are at the starting line, desperate to outrun the impending messiness of life, this one is for you and your sprints!



Lucy's underground
She's got a mouth to feed
Am I underground
Or am I in between
Lucy's underground
She's got a mouth to feed
Am I underground
Or am I in too deep

Show me love
Who's got your hand on the button of
Showin' love
You've got your hand on the button of

Oh oh oh oh oh

Lucy's underground
She's never coming back
Am I still alive
Or has the life gone bad

Take me underground
Take me all the way
And bring me to the fire
Throw me into the flames

So show me love
Who's got your hand on the button of
Showin' love
You've got your hand on the button of

I would rather die
I would rather die
Than to be with you

Oh oh oh oh oh

Saturday, April 16, 2011

All the black inside me Is slowly seeping from the bone

Artist- Kings of Leon
Song of the day- Pyro

It has been quite a while since a video has given me goosebumps but as I was watching today's song at the gym I almost had to stop running because there was something about this song and this story that shook me to the core. And it's hard to explain why because on the surface it's just some skeezy bar where the band plays. But it's like in a place, a dark undercurrent of life we never talk about but know exists. That somewhere right now these people, the homeless, the wasted, the people whose harsh life you can see on their face, the abusers, the child molesters, the "whores", the unwanted, the forgotten, there always there in the background but here you have to look right at them so intricate and slowly you see the darkness in them and the humanity. But it wasn't till the end of the video, where I understood the point, because I wasn't expecting it. It's the other part of life we choose not to think about. The end of it. Whatever you believe it ends somehow. And growing up in a christian private school I"ve been fascinated, horrified, and mostly chose to ignore how it will all end. The rapture, the apocalypse, the end of our life or every life the whatever you wanna call it won't happen when we expect it but maybe we'll just be sitting at home or in a bar or getting our ass kicked. On the surface it may not be a big deal, but the human spirit, the what comes next, that shakes you to the core.



Single book of matches,
Gonna burn what's standing in the way.
Roaring down the mountain,
Now they're calling on the fire brigade.
Bury all the pictures,
and tell the kids that I'm okay.
If'n I'm forgotten,
You'll remember me for today.

I won't ever be your cornerstone.
I...

All the black inside me
Is slowly seeping from the bone.
Everything I cherish
Is slowly dying, or it's gone.
Little shaken babies
And drunkards seem to all agree,
Once the show gets started,
It's bound to be a sight to see.

I won't ever be your cornerstone.
I don't wanna be here holding on.
I won't ever be your cornerstone.
I...

Watch her roll,
Can you feel it?
Watch her roll,
Can you feel it?

Watch her roll,
Can you feel it?
Watch her roll,
Can you feel it?

I won't ever be your cornerstone.
I don't wanna be here holding on.
I won't ever be your cornerstone.
I...

Friday, April 15, 2011

It just isn't right I've been two thousand miles Down a dead-end road

Artist- Faith Hill
Song of the day- Let me let go

Ever since my friend Kelly started randomly singing this in my ear for no reason during class I haven't been able to get it out of my head, mostly because it reminded me of how much I loved this song. And how country music can do many things badly (like writing a patriotic song) but does so many things well like male/female harmonies. Faith Hill and Tim McGraw kind of made it an art form, but it's a lovely country constant and light male vocals like Vince Gil on backup adds this beautiful sensitivity to the melody. And being the type of person that forgives easily but struggles to let go of anything, this song is a constant anthem. I can't tell you the number of times I wanted to be over something, to stop being mad to stop being sad to even stop caring cuz it just takes a toll on you, but you can't do it, it's like it won't let go of you.

How do you do it? then you might ask well, being not great at it I am probably the wrong person. But when I was in high school we had to keep journals and we had to name them. Mine was called "let go and let god" which hindsight is utterly emberressing, kinda hilarious, and well true. And I hate christian cliches because too many people say them which makes them annoying and then almost untrue, but there's a wisdom behind it. It reminds me of being in "missionary school" and how they told us it was important to pray for "a heart for the people" we were going to encounter because if you don't honestly love them just as much as God does then what we say won't matter to them or us. And I thought it was kinda silly till I did it. And only believed it till I felt the difference from just liking people to really having a heart for them is shocking and overwhelming. But I had to ask for it over and over, like when I would first enter the hospital after having a phobia of it for years and praying everyday as I walked in the door that I wouldn't kill anyone and I wouldn't screw up. It took about 9 months later that I actually felt comfortable comfortable without wanting to puke. What does this rant have to do with poor Faith Hill and not being able to let go? It's part of those things we can't carry, and it takes persistence in continually giving them up till one day you keep walking through it without the desire to puke and perhaps with a heart bigger than you expected it could ever get. If you are in need of some letting go that is holding on strong, this one's for you!

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I thought it was over, baby
We said our goodbyes
But I can't go a day without your face
Goin' through my mind

In fact, not a single minute
Passes without you in it
Your voice, your touch, memories of your love
Are with me all of the time

Let me let go, baby
Let me let go
If this is for the best
Why are you still in my heart
Are you still in my soul
Let me let go

I talked to you the other day
Looks like you make your escape
You put us behind, no matter how I try
I can't do the same

Let me let go, baby
Let me let go
It just isn't right
I've been two thousand miles
Down a dead-end road

Let me let go, darlin', won't you
I just gotta know, yeah
If this is for the best
Why are you still in my heart
Are you still in my soul
Let me let go

The lights of this strange city are shinin'
But they don't hold no fascination for me
I try to find the bright side, baby
But everywhere I look
Everywhere I turn
You're all I see

Let me, let me let go, baby, won't you
Let me let go
It just isn't right
I've been two thousand miles
Down a dead-end road

Oh, let me let go, darlin', won't you
I just gotta know
If this is for the best
Why are you still in my heart
Yeah, you're still in my soul, let me let go
Let me let go, let me let go

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

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

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

On my way back home, by chance I thought of All my favorite songs, where I'd gone wrong

Artist- Band of Horses
Song of the day- On my way back home

So recently I've started watching the show "Parenthood" because well I do everything my sister tells me to and once I got Hulu Plus I ran out of reasons not to be watching it. Luckily my sister is usually right about such pop culture things and when I heard this song at the end of an episode I thought it not only appropriate for a family driven show but also fit with my mood of missing my family and having that place to come home to. It also does an excellent job of describing how the mind wonders on long drives as you make your way back home, of the craziness of life, your own mishaps, successes, if you made the most of the time given to you that day all slip through your mind as you go back home to rejuvenate yourself just to take on another day, hopefully succeeding more than failing.



On my way back home, by chance I thought of
All my favorite songs, where I'd gone wrong
The only words that I could think of
I'm pissing my life away in the form of a song
On my way back home

Every step, a victory it was
I was cheating death, just in time I woke
My memories start to wander off
Come to me, the remembrance of
On my way back home

I came in this way and here now I'll stay
If the unknown have to wait one more day
There's often times that it comes out wrong
But luckily I, I got a mind to know
On my way back home

Sunday, April 10, 2011

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

Saturday, April 9, 2011

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

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

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

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

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)

Monday, April 4, 2011

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

Sunday, April 3, 2011

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

Friday, April 1, 2011

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