Sweet dreams till sunbeams find you Sweet dreams that leave all worries behind you. But in your dreams, whatever they be Dream a little dream of me

Favorite: All time song
Artist: Mama Cass
Song of the day: Dream a little Dream of me

Though sure it may have actually taken over a year, I thought it only fitting to finish off my 365 days of music on the last day of the year with my favorite all time song. I don't quite know what makes this song so special? It has the voice, the melancholy melody, and that hint of how I always feel in poetic lyrics that make it the song I always have in the back pocket of my mind. And hey it also makes a pretty good ending song. This blog has been quite a gift for me and my rants, music obsessions and therapeutic thoughts. I hope at the very least it got the chance to soundtrack on of your days. Happy New Year listeners. This one's for you.



Stars shining bright above you;
Night breezes seem to whisper æ…– love you?
Birds singing in the sycamore tree.
Dream a little dream of me.

Say nighty-night and kiss me;
Just hold me tight and tell me you'll miss me.
While I'm alone, blue as can be,
Dream a little dream of me.

Stars fading but I linger on, dear---
Still craving your kiss.
I'm longing to linger till dawn, dear,
Just saying this...

Sweet dreams till sunbeams find you---
Sweet dreams that leave all worries behind you.
But in your dreams, whatever they be,
Dream a little dream of me.

Stars fading but I linger on, dear---
Still craving your kiss.
I'm longing to linger till dawn, dear,
Just saying this...

Sweet dreams till sunbeams find you---
Sweet dreams that leave all worries far behind you.
But in your dreams, whatever they be,
Dream a little dream of me.

The stars are brightly shining

Favorite: Day of the Year
Artist: The Parson Red Heads
Song of the Day: Oh Holy Night

As I sit in my Texas home watching christmas movies, wrapping presents, seeing snow fall out my window and getting ready for my favorite night of the year it's easy to forget the trials of the past year and easier to dwell on the present and joys and celebration the night represents. Today's song usually brings me to tears every time I hear it, but I also love this twangy version by the adorable Parsons and sums up my current holiday happiness. Merry Christmas Eve to you and yours!

It's not about hanging on It's making my deal with God If I could call one last truce We've given it all we've got

Not My Favorite: pre test songs
Artist: Brandi Carlile
Song of the day:The Heartache can wait

So I have also noticed throughout the year my song moods tend to fit wherever I am school wise, and I had hoped this would be over once I graduated but with one last impending test I'm not quite through my melodic hurtle yet. I awoke singing this song in my head and not just because it's a fantastic christmas song, but also because my subconscious is doing everything in it's power to stop me from fully panicking. The heartache can wait just might be my current christmas anthem as I try to not give in to my own worst enemy of worry. So here's to those just holding on this holiday season and searching for one more chance to be inspired. This one's for you.



You're talking about leaving

It's right about Christmas time

Thinking about moving on

I think I might die inside



I'm thinking about years gone by

I'm thinking about church at midnight

I'm thinking about letting go

I think that might finally be alright



But this is where we shine



Silver bells and open fire

And songs we used to sing

One more chance to be inspired

Is what I'm offering if love is not enough

Then stay with me because

The heartache can wait



It's not about hanging on

It's making my deal with God

If I could call one last truce

We've given it all we've got



Then I'm gonna catch my breath

And make it a long December

If we've got nothing left

This could be worth remembering

With a smile upon my face



Silver bells and open fire

And songs we used to sing

One more chance to be inspired

Is what I'm offering if love is not enough

Then stay with me because



Silver bells and open fire

And songs we used to sing

One more chance to be inspired

Is what I'm offering if love is not enough

Then stay with me because

The heartache can wait

May all your troubles soon be gone Oh, Christmas lights, keep shinin' on

Favorite: Holiday
Artist: Coldplay
Song of the day: Christmas lights

I don't really mean to always do what my sister tells me to but she tends to just have this power over me...and that power is usually her good taste. With only a few songs left in my blog I wasn't going to focus too much on christmas songs, but seeing as it is my fav holiday it is difficult to resist. Even more difficult when Coldplay writes such a great holiday song, it's exactly how I'm feeling, and my sister tells me to post it. But as I'm spending the holidays in the library trying not to stress about taking a test that determines my future and keeps being described as the "most important test of my life" the chirsmas spirit seems to be sucked right out of my soul and as I'm waiting for this impending snow to fall, it doesn't really feel like christmas at all. I actually keep forgetting it's christmas. But even if i'm fortified in my own humbug reality, it's hard to escape the magic of the holiday just around the corner. Just walking into a store full of christmas music, the streets lined with decorations, a church merrily celebrating advent, and the lights at night. When the lights turn on tends to ignite the christmas spirit in me and has always been my favorite activity (minus eating mexican food for christmas eve) during the holidays. Candle light service and looking at christmas lights on all the houses carries that unspeakable magic and joy from childhood. May you find the holiday joy in your own christmas lights, or coldplays.


Christmas night, another fight
Tears, we cried a flood
Got all kinds of poison in
Of poison in my blood

I took my feet to Oxford Street
Trying to right a wrong
Just walk away, those windows say
But I can't believe she's gone

When you're still waiting for the snow to fall
Doesn't really feel like Christmas at all

Up above, candles on air flicker
Oh, they flicker and they float
And I'm up here holdin' on
To all those chandeliers of hope

Like some drunken Elvis singin'
I go singin' out of tune
Sayin' how I always loved you, darlin'
And I always will

Oh, when you're still waiting for the snow to fall
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It doesn't really feel like Christmas at all
Still waiting for the snow to fall
It doesn't really feel like Christmas at all

Those Christmas lights light up the street
Down where the sea and city meet
May all your troubles soon be gone
Oh, Christmas lights, keep shinin' on

Those Christmas lights light up the street
Maybe they'll bring her back to me
And then all my troubles will be gone
Oh, Christmas lights, keep shinin' on

Oh, Christmas lights, light up the street
Light up the fireworks in me
May all your troubles soon be gone
Those Christmas lights keep shinin' on

I wanna settle down Baby there's no need to run I'll love you well

Favorite: Dance
Artist: Kimbra
Song of the day: Settle Down


Also reflecting on a year of songs, my favorite discovery was learning to embrace my dance and love of dance music. Amidst the empty beats and excessive electronica to cover up bad singing, certain artists out there have taken the club sound into their own creative hands and made it a genre worth reckoning with and if you don't believe me check out Robyn and her Grammy nominated self on SNL tonight. As a music listener known for her enjoyment of the darker mood side, it's always a happy surprise to discover a tune that I can't help busting a move to every time it comes on. This happened when discovering Kimbra and today's song. The mere beginning "boom bas" bring a smile to my face and my shoulder's can't be stopped once the clapping chime's in (as we know I'm a sucker for a good clap!). And any artist that can turn the female obsession of settling down into a little girl dance off just might be a genius and at the very least became my hero while dancing as scary dolls are being set on fire. I can't even grasp all the symbolism but my phobia of doll heads appreciates it. That is why I love dance and dance songs, they can be about anything, happy, sad, frustrating, excited why limits these emotions to just one genre? When you can settle down with dance.



I wanna settle down
I wanna settle down
Won't you settle down with me?
Settle down

We can settle at a table..
A table for two
Won't you wine and dine with me?
Settle down

I wanna raise a child
I wanna raise a child
Won't you raise a child with me...
Raise a child

We'll call her Nebraska
Nebraska Jones
She'll have your nose
Just so you know

I wanna settle down
I wanna settle down
Won't you settle down with me?
Settle down

Run from Angela Vickers
I saw her with you
Monday morning small talking on the avenue
She's got a fancy car
She wants to take you far
From the city lights and sounds deep into the dark

Star so light and star so bright
First star i see tonight!
Star so light and star so bright
Keep him by side!

I wanna settle down
I wanna settle down
Baby there's no need to run
I'll love you well
I wanna settle down
It's time to bring you down
On just one knee for now
Lets make our vows

And I don't even need your love But you treat me like a stranger and that feels so rough

Favorite: Suggestions
Artist: Gotye featuring Kimbra
Song of the day: Somebody that I used to know

So reflecting over a year of music blogging, my favorite part about having a blog is shockingly not an outlet for my own psychosis in song, but the bundle of new songs I've been introduced to while on my music of the day hunt, but also from people who know my passion for good music and keep introducing me to better and better things. The most recent came from my friend Tim in today's song. I not only appreciate the use of curly hair, body paint and a good duet, but the power of angst and art mixed together. These two artist make it work seamlessly and caused me to become instantly obsessed. Which is everything I look for in new artists so keep sending them my way!

One thing that has become hardest growing up is the people in your life, how they form so much of who you are but time changes you move away or move on and the people you were once so close to, who once knew you better than you knew yourself can become just people that you used to know. It took me a while and several moves to realize this and perhaps is a big reason why I became reluctant to move again so soon. It makes me want to live more in the here and now and appreciate what/who i have currently in my life, before I have to go and cover myself in paint to get over them. If you're in need of a paint job, this one's for you.





[Gotye:]
Now and then I think of when we were together
Like when you said you felt so happy you could die
Told myself that you were right for me
But felt so lonely in your company
But that was love and it's an ache I still remember

You can get addicted to a certain kind of sadness
Like resignation to the end, always the end
So when we found that we could not make sense
Well you said that we would still be friends
But I'll admit that I was glad that it was over

But you didn't have to cut me off
Make out like it never happened and that we were nothing
And I don't even need your love
But you treat me like a stranger and that feels so rough
No you didn't have to stoop so low
Have your friends collect your records and then change your number
I guess that I don't need that though
Now you're just somebody that I used to know

Now you're just somebody that I used to know
Now you're just somebody that I used to know

[Kimbra:]
Now and then I think of all the times you screwed me over
But had me believing it was always something that I'd done
And I don't wanna live that way
Reading into every word you say
You said that you could let it go
And I wouldn't catch you hung up on somebody that you used to know

[Gotye:]
But you didn't have to cut me off
Make out like it never happened and that we were nothing
And I don't even need your love
But you treat me like a stranger and that feels so rough
And you didn't have to stoop so low
Have your friends collect your records and then change your number
I guess that I don't need that though
Now you're just somebody that I used to know

Somebody
(I used to know)
Somebody
(Now you're just somebody that I used to know)

Well, I crippled your heart a hundred times And still can't work out why

Favorite: Stolen band
Artist: Frightened Rabbit
Song of the Day: Modern Leper

I've stolen many things from my sister...DVDs, clothes, cities, part of a personality, but often prided myself on my own favorites in music. However, when returning from oversees a few years ago my sister dumped a load of new artists on me which included today's artist. Now I am obsessed with music, clearly to a sometimes ridiculous extent waiting hours before a concert to be front row and becoming googly eyed just talking about fav musicians and the only time I've ever seen my sister come smidgen close to this ounce of ridiculousness (minus coldplay obviously) is for Frightened Rabbit. I've pushed and pulled my way to the front, stood dumbfounded at the sight of them alongside her. And happily so. For today's song was the first of theirs and any song I became obsessed with when returning from a hiatus of music and seeing them live only caused an obsession with every song. The lyrics are smart, the energy is high and the band is dreamy. So yes this is my favorite stolen band, but to be fair I'm pretty sure she stole them from somebody else. So I guess you are allowed to steal them too.



A cripple walks amongst you
All you tired human beings
He's got all the things a cripple has
Not working arms and legs
And vital parts fall from his system
And dissolve in Scottish rain
Vitally he doesn't miss them
He's too fucked up to care
Well, is that you in front of me?
Coming back for even more of exactly the same
You must be a masochist to love a modern leper
On his last leg
On his last leg
Well, I crippled your heart a hundred times
And still can't work out why
You see, I've got this disease I can't shake
And I'm just rattling through life
Well, this is how we do things now
Yeah, this is how the modern stay scared
So I cut out all the good stuff
Yeah, I cut off my foot to spite my leg
Well, is that you in front of me?
Coming back for even more of exactly the same
You must be a masochist to love a modern leper
On his last leg
Well, I am ill
But I'm not dead
And I don't know which of those I prefer
Because that limb which I have lost
Well, it was the only thing holding me up
Holding me up
Well, I'm lying on the ground now
Walking through the only door
Well, I have lost my eyesight
Like I said I would
But I still know
And that is you in front of me
And you are back for even more of exactly the same
Well, are you a masochist to love a modern leper
On his last leg
And you are not ill
And I'm not dead
Doesn't that make us the perfect pair?
Just you and me
We'll start again
And you can tell me all about what you did today
What you did today

Favorite: Emotional Songs
Artist: Brandi Carlile
Song of the day: That Year

Now after a year of song blogging you know I like emotionally deep songs, the closer I am to crying the better. It might have something to do with my passive personality that likes to hold it all in as much as I can which either eventually turns into weird outbursts or ugly public crying, but more hopefully finds an outlet in these types of songs. The lists of artists who master this could go on forever, but recently seeing a back to back acoustic show (thanks to my amazing friend Sean) I don't think any artist I have seen live creates that type of raw emotion in every single song she writes and sings. I've been in a constant goose bump state for the past 48hours because of it. It is the type of "self centered" writing that makes me want to hear ever person's song in the world, because it's so revealing so telling in who that person is deep down. Too bad we all don't know how to share our own songs like this. But if you are in the need of some goose bumps as an outlet for your own story or a strangers, get ready to shiver.



I must have been sleeping,
I must have been drinking,
I havent been dreaming about you for years.
There was a sharp turn and a sunburn
I was too cool for high school that year.

Must have have been new years, no one invited you,
You took things too far but i missed you
And your antics. you were lonesome and
Blue-eyed and so special to us.

You should have taken a long break
Instead of a long drop from a high place.
Ten years i never spoke your name.
Now it feels good to say it. your my friend again.

Said he forgave you, i said i hated you,
He was the bigger man, i was sixteen.
All the innosence it took well
I guess you finally made the year book. that year.
That year.

You should have taken a long break
Instead of a long drop, instead of a leap of faith,
Ten years i never spoke your name,
Now it feels good to say it youre my friend again.

I was angry
I was a daughter
I was a baptist
I was wrong