Thinking about writing it down seems pretentious And helplessness may be the word they nail to my name

Artist- Sondre Lerche
Song of the day- Stupid Memory

I continue my concert addiction by getting tickets to two more shows during one of several panicked study breaks today. Today's Artist is one of the concerts because his Norwegian lovliness and clear blue eyes seems to just make life better. And as I begin my first of many finals tomorrow after days of studying I am scared to realize I now must rely on my stupid memory that is really good at remembering a crap full of musical knowledge and the unimportant goals for my summer, and somehow refuses to remember insulin onset, peaks or duration or what 6 year old's blood pressure should be. So till I am able to focus on only musical lovliness and the various mojitos I want to try this summer, I'll take this musical break instead. So to all our amazing, distracted memories, this one's for you.



All alone in pink
All the carpets fade to grey
Amplifiers burst out the deal that I have made
What's there to say I cannot say by myself?

Thinking about writing it down seems pretentious
And helplessness may be the word they nail to my name
In a while

Stupid memory
Must you bring up these things?
Stupid memory
Can I forget all of that?
All of that crap

All embarrassment
In addition to the talk
In each crowded court there's a spot where I fall in love and short
on public demand
There are no words they can't hear

Stupid memory
Must you bring up these things?
Stupid memory
Can I forget all of that?
All of that crap

I think I forced a smile upon her mouth
I know I dreamt that, hollowness aside
everyone's a winner if the stadium is right
But rarely anything good comes out

Oh yo!
Memory!
Must you bring up these things?
Only stupid words
Make me forget all of that
Stupid memory
Can I forget all that crap?
Stupid memory
Can I forget all of that?

Love so real, but it was far too much For a boy like me, with a worried mind to leave you, i had to close my eyes

Artist- Ray Lamontagne
Song of the day- Please

So there are several reasons I haven't posted songs lately, the biggest being the down poor of exams and living and breathing studying at the library for what seems like an eternity. And the other is the increased likely hood of me just posting a flood of of Lykke Li songs as I get obsessed with a new one daily...the later will probably inevitably happen anyway. But as my emotional battle between loving music / going to concerts (there has already been an attempted intervention this week) / and maintaining being a student continues, my current dilemma is seeing this fantastic musician the night before my last exam. Possibly the biggest mistake of my life? well that would be just dramatic. And as important as grad school is, and how I might live to regret the decision / change my mind at the last minute, I feel as though my mental stability in the last weeks of finals has solely been maintained through music. So as this is the last thing I heard him play live, it seemed appropriate for my current predicament and also my mind frame of hitting a wall of desperation to the academic gods or well just my God to drag me through the process yet again...I always seem to end up down on my knees by the end of a quarter just simpling asking, please get me through it. If your in this same rocking boat, this one's for you.



Come to me, with a gentle touch,
Love so real, but it was far too much
For a boy like me, with a worried mind
to leave you, i had to close my eyes

Won't need to say please,
baby i can say please,
I won't need to get down on my knees,
baby i can get down on my knees,
I can say... please

My will was strong, but my legs were weak,
I could not walk and i could not speak,
And the love you gave, was some way down south,
Baby i was born just to kiss you mouth,

Won't need to say please,
Baby I can say please,
I won't need to get down on my knees,
Baby i can get down on my knees,
I can say... please

So you became bored of me,
And i became bored of you,
I had no choice but to lie to you, ya see
But i told you the truth, baby you would have set me free

Won't need to say please,
Baby I can say please,
I won't need to get down on my knees,
Baby i can get down on my knees,
I can say... please,
I can say please, i can make it... please
Oh no I ain't afraid to beg.... please please please please
Down on my knees
Baby please, please...

Leave all our hopelessnesses aside (if just for a little while) Tears stop right here

Artist- Imogen Heap
Song of the day- Just for now

I was recently discussing the fantasticness that is Imogen Heap and how after I saw this video it floored me how she could create a song with mostly just her voice and clapping! Plus this song is kind of how I'm dealing with life right now, trying to get through things that I just wanna get out of by trying to enjoy little breaks of moments, the just for nows, in between the bumpy ride. It feels like pulling teeth and frantic most of the time but if you can grab those moments that get your through and be able to pause, drop all the crap you're dealing with and take break, perhaps a clap break with me and Imogen, it might help.



(Just for now) (x6)

It's that time of year,
Leave all our hopelessnesses aside (if just for a little while)
Tears stop right here,
I know we've all had a bumpy ride (I’m secretly on your side)

How did you know?
It's what I always wanted,
You can never have too many of these
Will ya quit kicking me under the table?
I'm trying, will somebody make her shut up about it?
Can we settle down please?

It's that time of year,
Leave all our hopelessnesses aside (if just for a little while)
Tears stop right here,
I know we've all had a bumpy ride (I’m secretly on your side)

Lie down
Deep breaths
Count to ten
Nod your head
(sniff sniff)

I think something is burning,
Now you've ruined the whole thing
Muffle the smoke alarm
Whoever put on this music
Had better quick, sharp, remove it
Pour me another
Oh, don't wag your finger at me

It's that time of year,
Leave all our hopelessnesses aside (if just for a little while)
Tears stop right here,
I know we've all had a bumpy ride (I’m secretly on your side)

Will ya get me outta her, Get me outta here, Get me outta here (repeats til end)
Just for now
Just for now.

How will you know if you found me at last 'Cause I'll be the one, be the one, be the one With my heart in my lap

Artist- Neko Case
Song of the day- I wish is was the moon

When I'm strung out, over exhausted and about to hit my limit on stress there are a few things that have the ability to chill me out. Most of those things can be found at my friend Blake's house and usually include Blake, delicious food, cocktails, guitar playing and Neko Case. I somehow am able to forget the amount of pressure I am under and can be transported to a peaceful happy place far far away, like the moon. So if you are like me and am so tired, this one is for you. I hope you find your chill.



Chimney falls and lovers blaze
Thought that I was young
Now I've freezing hands and bloodless veins
As numb as I've become

I'm so tired
I wish I was the moon tonight

Last night I dreamt I had forgotten my name
'Cause I had sold my soul but awoke just the same
I'm so lonely
I wish I was the moon tonight

God blessed me, I'm a free man
With no place free to go
I'm paralyzed and collared-tight
No pills for what I fear

This is crazy
I wish I was the moon tonight

Chimney falls and lovers blaze
Thought that I was young
Now I've freezing hands & bloodless veins
As numb as I've become

I'm so tired,
I wish I was the moon tonight

How will you know if you found me at least
'Cause I'll be the one, be the one, be the one
With my heart in my lap
I'm so tired, I'm so tired
I wish I was the moon tonight

Having troubles telling how I feel But I can dance, dance and dance

Artist- Lykke Li
Song of the day- Dance, Dance, Dance

Two things I learned tonight. Lykke Li puts on an amazing show. And Lykke Li is as she puts it in this song shy, shy, shy but can dance, dance, dance. After seeing three concerts almost back to back in the last few days it's interesting what you can learn about a person, especially artists who actually puts their souls on display to perfect strangers for about two hours a night. It is what I love about live music and the idea of live performing and what terrifies me about it. As a shy / fairly private person myself I can understand the appeal and the need to connect with people in a way you can't in normal life. What I write in a song I could never actually admit to in regular conversation but sharing it with a crowd of people is both horror and like a therapeutic release. And in the past couple days I"ve seen musicians get a high from it, become used to it, and both shy away and reveal everything at the same time. Because when it comes down to it, there are some things you can't say, but some things you can only dance, or you know, play a kazoo to. So for all the things you shy, shy, shy away from, this is for you.



Having troubles telling how I feel
But I can dance, dance and dance
Couldn't possibly tell you how I mean
But I can dance, dance, dance
So when I trip on my feet
Look at the beat
The words are, written in the sand
When I'm shaking my hips
Look for the swing
The words are, written in the air
Dance
I was a dancer all along
Dance, dance, dance
Words can never make up for what you do
Easy conversations, there's no such thing
No I'm shy, shy, shy
My hips they lie 'cause in reality I'm shy, shy, shy
But when I trip on my feet
Look at the ground
The words are, written in the dust
When I'm shaking my hips
Look for the swing
The words are written in the air
Dance
I was a dancer all along
Dance, dance, dance
Words can never make up for what you do
Dance, dance, dance

all I can do is make other’s bleed a prideful ego fire I’m eager to feed

Artist- The Lonely Forest
Song of the day- Woe is me...I am Ruined

So I have a new band crush. After they played this as their first song I knew I had fallen in love, and not just because the lead singer looks like and unfamous Jake Gyllenhaal. They have the vocals and cleaver writing of a young Death Cab but a newness and innocence of a band starting out and from a small island off of Washington state. Plus self deprecating rock? My favorite. And as I go to my last pediatric clinical tomorrow I can't help but think of how this song kinda explains my growing relationship with kids this past six months, from singing to toddlers as they whack my guitar and cry, my attempt at assessing little Hondurans as they scream at the site of me, me playing with a chronically ill kid for hours or attempting to give them a bath as they refuse to sit still or shriek like I"m torturing them, or being one of the first people to ever hold a brand new living person in the world...sometimes it's horrifying, sometimes they look at me and cry as I do things that seem to hurt them or make them bleed all in the name of making them feel better which they just can't understand, but sometimes it's the greatest thing I know I'll ever do.



he gripped my hand like a vice because
I stole her, a fox from a wolf
it seems to me we’re one in the same man
we both have fallen short
time and time again

and...
all I can do is make other’s bleed
a prideful ego fire I’m eager to feed
and they say I’m a good guy
and they say I’m a good guy

can you meet me in that place
when I’m too ashamed to show my face?

and...
all I can do is make others bleed
a prideful ego fire I’m eager to feed
and they say I’m a good guy
and they say I’m a good guy

But I couldn't think Of anywhere I would've rather been To watch it all burn away

Artist- Death Cab For Cutie
Song of the day- Grapevine Fires

Before I make you overdose on Death Cab I wanted to sneak in one last song in celebration and you know in case the world ends. And usually apocalypses are on the top of my being terrified list but even though I'm finding it doubtful anyhow, I seem surprisingly ok with it. I'm not confident in most things but I am confident with me and god. He knows me too well and takes me in all the same so really pretty ok with hanging with him for you know, ever, or waiting and hanging with some people down here that I kinda love alot too. So whether there is a biblical rapture, zombie apocalypse or just another boring day my mood about it, at least for now, is pretty much like this song, so it seemed appropriate. Wherever you may be tomorrow or wherever you may go, this one's for you...And plus this song is about Ben Gibbard hanging out with Johnathan Rice aka the love of my musical life so of course I'd end on this!



When the wind picked up, the fire spread
And the grapevine seemed left for dead
And the northern sky looked like the end of days
The end of days

And a wake-up call to a rented room
Sounded like an alarm of impending doom
To warn us it's only a matter of time
Before we all burn
Before we all burn
Before we all burn
Before we all burn

Bought some wine and some paper cups
Near your daughter's school when we picked her up
And drove to a cemetery on a hill, on a hill

We watched the plumes paint the sky gray
She laughed and danced through the field of graves
And there I knew it would be all right
That everything would be all right
Would be all right
Would be all right
Would be all right
Would be all right

And the news reports
On the radio said it was getting worse
As the ocean air fanned the flames
But I couldn't think
Of anywhere I would've rather been
To watch it all burn away
Burn away
Burn
Burn
Burn
Burn
Burn
Burn

And the firemen worked in double shifts
With prayers for rain on their lips
And they knew it was only a matter of time

Cause your heart was dying fast, and you didn't know what to do

Artist- Death Cab For Cutie
Song of the day- Cath

I'm deeming this bright sunny day off clinical Death Cab for Cutie day because in less than 7 hours I will get to enjoy this awesomeness first hand in a tiny venue that I can bike to. Awe some days the starts do align. Sure today's song is kinda sad but still catchy and makes me wanna break up a wedding just to sing it...ok not really...probably. Anyway for everyone who deserves better but is settling today, this one's for you. Enjoy that bright and sunny day, you deserve it!



Cath, she stands with a well-intentioned man
But she can't relax with his hand on the small of her back
And as the flashbulbs burst
She holds a smile like someone would hold a crying child

And soon everybody will ask what became of you
'Cause your heart was dying fast, and you didn't know what to do

Cath, it seems that you live in someone else's dream
In a hand-me-down wedding dress
Where the things that could have been are repressed
But you said your vows, and you closed the door
On so many men who would have loved you more

And soon everybody will ask what became of you
'Cause your heart was dying fast, and you didn't know what to do

The whispers that it won't last roll up and down the pews
But if their hearts were dying that fast,
They'd have done the same as you
And I'd have done the same as you

Oh, all that I know, There's nothing here to run from

Artist- Coldplay
Song of the day- Don't panic

I think it's important to set goals for the day and I think the title of this song is nice goal to have nearing the end of a quarter. So I think more than getting all my work done, going to the gym or remembering the list of things I promised to do today, I'll work on this first and see what happens. How? Might you ask can this be done? Well I'm gonna start by singing this song under my breath all day, so if you happen to hear me mumbling a tune under my breath or suddenly pulling out a harmonica you'll know why. If you need a reason not to panic, this one's for you!






Oh, we're sinking like stones,

All that we fought for,

All those places we've gone,

All of us are done for.



We live in a beautiful world,

Yeah we do, yeah we do,

We live in a beautiful world,

Oh, we're sinking like stones,

All that we fought for,

All those places we've gone,

All of us are done for.



We live in a beautiful world,

Yeah we do, yeah we do,

We live in a beautiful world.



Oh, all that I know,

There's nothing here to run from,

And there, everybody here's got somebody to lean on.

in a world too unreal to behold Your innocence has faded Faded all your blues to gray Your skin has bruised through moving days

Artist- Tilly and the wall
Song of the day- Lost Girls

I was trying to think of a song that could materialize the mood I was in and then I recalled one of my most fav songs by my favorite band to see live and who I haven't seen live in about 6 years, alas. There's a longing, a sweetness, a fear, a running away and being trapped sensation all rolled into one. Those most of this sounds awful there's a reason it is one of my favorites and makes me happy when I hear it. I think it has alot to do with all the joy the band brings to their music even when they write melancholy tunes. That you know the joy is out there even when you feel a bit lost at the moment. So if you're feeling a bit lost this one's for you...



Girl, I know the hall looks dark
& the storm it seems so scary
Your face lit up on beats of lightning
you start, you start running
& your eyes are like screaming
& since there is no end and no beginning
You will run
You will run
You will run

Girl, I know the woods look dark
& the trees they seem so deadly
The girls around you are so frightened
& you start, you start to panic
& the courage starts to vanish
& the world, it really is on fire
& it burns
& it burns
& it burns
& it burns

vivian, your life is told through 19 thousand pages
in a world too unreal to behold
Your innocence has faded
Faded all your blues to gray
Your skin has bruised through moving days
Glue is peeling back away
Curling, cracking, painted

Girl youve been rolled up in colorful carpets
Your blood is rushing, look around you
you're froze, you're frozen quiet
& your eyes, they are widened
Room unfurnished, no light for nightfall
just rugs for rolling you up
you know you can't get up
when you do, you swear you will run
You will run
You will run
You will run

No one will ever save you
If no one can ever find you
No one will ever save you
If no one can ever find you
Lost girls
Lost girls
Lost girls
Lost girls

I keep forgettin' things will never be the same again

Artist- Michael McDonald
Song of the day- I keep forgetting

On the eve of my sister's birth I could not resist posting what I think is the greatest photo montage I've ever put together mostly thanks to McDonald's slick grooves. Celebrating a young woman's love of food, loading the dishwasher,eclectic toys of childhood past, and a growing complex fashion sense. Sure you might not know my sister or the interesting child she was, but since that is your loss I thought it was important to dazzle the world with some of her magnificents. To a sister I can never forget all the love, knowledge, adventure and apparently affectionate kisses she has given me (sometimes against my will), this one is for you, again, so you will never forget. Happy Birthday!

I keep forgetting from megan clinard on Vimeo.

(chorus)
I keep forgettin'
we're not in love anymore
I keep forgettin'
things will never be the same again
I keep forgettin'
how you made that so clear
I keep forgettin'

Everytime you're near
Everytime I see you smile
Hear your "hello"
Saying you can only stay a while

Hey, I know that
it's hard for you
To say the things
that we both know are true
But tell me how come (I)

(chorus)

Everytime I hear
How you never want
to live a lie
How it's gone to far
And you don't have
to tell me why

Why you're gone and
the game is through
If this is what's real
if this is what's true
Tell me how come (I)

(Keep forgettin'
we're not in love anymore)
Baby

If you smile through your fear and sorrow Smile and maybe tomorrow You'll see the sun come shining through for you

Artist- Nat King Cole
Song of the day- Smile

After my friend Suzanne posted a link on my facebook about the powers of smiling, it got me thinking about this song. A song I've already carved out as my funeral song during a moving photo montage mixing positivity and sadness, awe not a dry eye in the house! But I digress and am overly morbid. It is quite amazing what smiling has done for my life both my own and from others. If you have time to watch the link below you will find it hard not to agree. Smiling can turn a day around, can make people think you are much more charming than you are, can make you happier, can hide what is really going on inside you, can ease a tense situation, can make people think you are quite strange, but often will make people smile back regardless. And what I hope at the very least in my life is to have made people who weren't smiling, smile. Because when I think of all the people in the world who make me smile, I do get happier, and can't help but smile more, which according to this smart man makes me more attractive, smarter, and I will live longer...so I guess my moving montage will have to wait. But I'm pretty sure you need a smile today, so this one's for you.





Smile though your heart is aching
Smile even though it's breaking
When there are clouds in the sky, you'll get by
If you smile through your fear and sorrow
Smile and maybe tomorrow
You'll see the sun come shining through for you

Light up your face with gladness
Hide every trace of sadness
Although a tear may be ever so near
That's the time you must keep on trying
Smile, what's the use of crying?
You'll find that life is still worthwhile
If you just smile

You were just always talking about changing. What if I was the same then, the same I always was

Artist- The Airborne Toxic Event
Song of the day- Changing

I tried to post this most excellent ditty a few days ago but the blogisphere hated me, almost as much as I hate myself for not snagging a ticket to this concert as seeing them live is at the top of my most favorite things to do list! Alas, I shall just have to appreciate their new album beginning with this first release. It has been stuck in my head lately thanks to the clever guitar hook and lyrics and well did I mention how great this band is? But I also can't escape the thought of change lately, how I keep having to make choices that will change my current existence, how much I've changed and how much I've been wondering if I've actually changed or just the same in the end? We evolve, we move around but are we actually better versions of ourselves, or different versions, or just the same in different places when it comes down to it. Sometimes it's tough to tell, so I think I'll just enjoy some dance troop jives instead. For all of you changing or the same man, this one's for you.



All these buckets of rain, I’ve heard enough about. You say that I lied.
I am a gentleman didn’t I ask for a place I could stay What were we both thinking
The next part just got in the way. You were just always talking about changing.
What if I was the same then, the same I always was

All these things that you say, like I’ll forget about the mind-numbing games that you play.
I am a gentleman, didn’t I pay for every laugh every dime, every bit every time and then you feed me some line.
I won’t hear one more word about changing.
Guess what I am the same man, same that I’ve always been.

Days pass and turn into weeks, when we don’t even speak. We just lay wide awake and pretend we’re asleep.
You go home alone and you’re checking your phone and you’re looking at me like I’m something you own.

All these buckets of rain, you can’t forget about it, you say I never tried.
I am a gentleman, didn’t I answer every time that you call, pick you up when you fall
But you never listen at all
You were just always talking about changing.
Guess what I am the same man.

What I've got they used to call the blues Nothin' is really wrong Feelin' like I don't belong

Artist- The Carpenters
Song of the day- Rainy Days and Mondays

After trading stressed out sob stories with my dear gay soulmate Paul on my back porch (or what I like to call the only place my phone will work) post the rainstorm tonight, this song came to mind. Not only because of the blues, but also we share many an eclectic passion including but not limited to our love of this and other sad songs by this tragic/weird brother sis duo. And after relistening to the lyrics I have an even greater appreciation for the songwriting, it's not really a feel sorry for me song, but the peculiarity of sadness and how it can spur from life's stresses or also come and go that you have no control over it sometimes, you don't know what is wrong with you and totally pointless things like rain or mondays can make you blue. And usually in any situation not matter the source, you just wanna find someone who loves you. So for all the one's who love you, this one's for you.



Talkin' to myself and feelin' old
Sometimes I'd like to quit
Nothing ever seems to fit
Hangin' around
Nothing to do but frown
Rainy Days and Mondays always get me down.
What I've got they used to call the blues
Nothin' is really wrong
Feelin' like I don't belong
Walkin' around
Some kind of lonely clown
Rainy Days and Mondays always get me down.
Funny but it seems I always wind up here
with you
Nice to know somebody loves me
Funny but it seems that it's the only thing to do
Run and find the one who loves me.
What I feel has come and gone before
No need to talk it out
We know what it's all about
Hangin' around
Nothing to do but frown
Rainy Days and Mondays always get me down.

And let go And rise again You're not done yet I know

Artist- Everest
Song of the day- Let go

Someone told me this quarter that the stress would get so intense that I'd probably see the worst of people's personalities, including my own. And while it sounds rather dramatic and I haven't witnessed any homicides or crazed rampages (yet) I am seeing the stress takes it's tole on many a people, including myself. Where you wanna give up in doing your best and just try to get by and then feeling like you're failing because of it. And after hearing this song tonight, it made me start to look at things a bit differently, that its not so much about the giving up on yourself and what you thought you'd be capable of, but more the letting go. The letting go of being so hard on yourself, of trying to control what is out of your hands whether you like it or not, the letting go of the outcome knowing whatever happens will lead to where you're supposed to be, even if it's not what you expected doesn't mean it can't be as good or possibly better than what you had planned. Now this passing optimism could disappear at any moment but while I'm thinking of it, why not let go? And know you'll make it, know it'll be alright, know that even if it won't you'll rise again!

Everest - Let Go from The General Assembly on Vimeo.

May I come in?
My old friend
You're looking thin
Do you feel alright?
There's somethin'
I wanna say
Tonight
Let Go

Chorus:
Oh I know we're gonna make it tonight
Tomorrow will be alright
Let Go
Let Go
And I know we're gonna make it tonight
Tomorrow will be alright
Let Go
Let Go

So take a breath
My dear friend
Take it slow
And let go
And rise again
You're not done yet
I know
Let Go

Chorus 2X

They crowd your bedroom like some thoughts wearing thin Against the walls against your rules against your skin

Artist- Passion Pit
Song of the day- Sleepyhead

After a day of dealing with fussy exhausted kids when all I wanted to do was jump in the crib with them and take a nap, today's song with it's high pitched indian like falsettos reminding me of infant cries, scattered electronica as my jumbled brain, and well the general sleepyhead feel of the whole song sums up my day and perhaps a few others out there. So to you other sleepyheads out there, this one's for you



And everything is going to the beat
And everything is going to the beat
And everything is going

And you said
It was like fire around the brim
Burning solid
Burning thin the burning rim
Like stars burning holes right through the dark
Flicking fire like saltwater into my eyes
You were one inch from the edge of this bed
I drag you back a sleepyhead, sleepyhead

They couldn't think of something to say the day you burst
With all their lions and all their might and all their thirst
They crowd your bedroom like some thoughts wearing thin
Against the walls against your rules against your skin
My beard grew down to the floor and out through the doors
Of your eyes but go in disguise like a sleepyhead, sleepyhead

Go ahead

Now here I go again, I see the crystal vision I keep my visions to myself

Artist- Fleetwood Mac
Song of the day- Dreams

Just when I decide to stop watching glee out of annoyance and bad story lines, they devote an entire episode to one of the greatest bands of all time and just maybe the greatest album. I had a young education on Fleetwood Mac thanks to my father and could sing most of the album "rumours" before I think I knew what a rumour was. And similar to my friend Morgan who's long lost dream is to be roommates with Stevie Nicks so she can brush her hair and be taught how to twirl properly, my affection for the band and all it's drama runs deep to peculiarly deep. They are masters of their craft both musically with Lindsey Buckingham's insane guitar abilities, and their songwriting both intense, relatable and catchy. I think if I had to choose only one album to listen to for the rest of my life, it just might be this one...or a live concert version so I can throw in "rhinannon" and some 80s fleetwood mac. I don't even know what to say about today's song cuz it says so much on it's own. It's a song about losing something and getting through it, but it's a song about so much more, it often has been the song that does get me through it. So if you need some getting through, this one's for you.



Now there you go again
You say you want your freedom
Well who am I to keep you down
It's only right that you should play it the way that you feel it
But listen carefully to the sound of your loneliness
Like a heartbeat, drives you mad
In the stillness of remembering
What you had, and what you lost
what you had, and what you lost

Chorus:
Thunder only happens when it's raining
Players only love you when they're playing
They say, women, they will come and they will go
When the rain washes you clean you'll know
You'll know

Now here I go again, I see the crystal vision
I keep my visions to myself
It's only me who wants to wrap around your dreams and
Have you any dreams you'd like to sell,
Dreams of Loneliness, like a heartbeat drives you mad
In the stillness of remembering
What you had, And what you lost
What you had, oh what you lost

Thunder only happens when it's raining
Players only love you when they're playing
They say, women, they will come and they will go
When the rain washes you clean you'll know

Oh thunder only happens when it's raining
Players only love you when they're playing
They say, women, they will come and they will go
When the rain washes you clean you'll know
You'll know
You will know
Oh oh oh you'll know

Superboy and the Invisible Girl... Son of steel and daughter of air. He's a hero, a lover, a prince? She's not there.

Artist- cast "Next to Normal"
Song of the day- Suberboy and the invisible girl

Though I have an avid love of musical theater, it is often difficult for songs to stand alone in a usual song context. And though the same might be said to today's song, I am most recently obsessed with this musical "Next to Normal" after seeing it last night and can't stop listening to the music. A story based on family relationships, mental issues, secrets and being bi-polar how could I not love this musical? The moment this song began I was hooked and not just because I like superheroes, though it doesn't hurt. I've always related to the invisible girl, thought not the Fantastic Four Jessica Alba version, blek, but growing up I thought that maybe I actually had the power of invisibility and then realized being ignored was not the same as a super power. But I began to try and use it as one, because it is amazing what people reveal about themselves if you stay quiet enough to listen, if you stand off and watch interactions of people, you find out who they are, being invisible you can often see people so clearly. But eventually this super power isn't enough and you want the be the superhero that can fly, that can save, that could be who people see and look to and wish would appear. So far all you invisible or supers, this one's for you.



Natalie:
Superboy and the Invisible Girl...
Son of steel and daughter of air.
He's a here, a lover, a prince?
She's not there.

Superboy and the Invisible Girl...
Everything a kid ought to be.
He's immortal, forever alive?
Then there's me.

I wish I could fly
And magically appear
And disappear.
I wish I could fly
I'd fly far away from here.

Superboy and the Invisible Girl...
He's the one you wish would appear.
He's your here, forever your son?
He's not here.
I am here.

Diana:
You know that's not true.
You're our little pride and joy,
Our perfect plan.
You know I love you...
I love you as much as I can.

Natalie:
Take a look at the Invisible Girl...
Here she is, clear as the day.
Please look closely and find her before
She fades away.

Natalie & Gabe:
Superboy and the Invisible Girl...
Son of steel and daughter of air.
He's a here, a lover, a prince--
She's not there...
She's not there...
She's not there...
She's not there.