Tuesday, January 29, 2013

song of the moment - terra firma

song of the moment
terra firma
the daylights




i fell asleep watching the earth quake
slept for a week, woke with a headache

woah
everything's spinning
woah
have i lost my way?
woah
terra firma
i remember what it's like
when we were young
innocent times on steady ground

two hands on the wheel trying to push through
you're the city on a hill i keep coming back to
oh

woah
everything's spinning
woah
have i lost my way?
woah
terra firma
i remember what it's like
when we were young
innocent times on steady ground

woah
everything's spinning
woah
how'd i end up here?
woah
terra firma
i remember what it's like
when we were young
innocent times on steady ground

i remember what it's like
when we are young
innocent times on steady ground

----
Oh, Svend...



Saturday, January 26, 2013

song of the moment - belong

song of the moment
belong
cary brothers




wake up lonely with you by my side
one more night it doesn't feel
there are movies playing in your eyes
you dream of our fortunes
but you're wrong
i don't belong to you

the moon is the only friend i have outside
one more drink and i'll be healed
i told you the words and then knew it was a lie
i wish i could offer an appeal
you're wrong
i don't belong
but you're wrong
i don't belong to you

what i'd give for that
first night when you were mine
you were mine
tried with all that i
have to keep you alive
alive

i wasn't taught this way
with a thousand things to say
i was born with a broken heart
what i'd give for that first night
you were mine

so i'll put this cigarette to bed
pull some sheets from off your side
i put my arm around you safe in the night
still dreaming of fortune
but you're wrong
i don't belong
you’re wrong
i don't belong
you’re wrong
i don't belong
i don't belong
i don't belong



Saturday, January 19, 2013

song of the moment - a soft place to land

song of the moment
a soft place to land
kathleen edwards





calling it quits
you think this is easy
i swear i hurt
you call in the jury
call it a catch
without any strings attached

well i'm looking for a soft place to land
the forest floor
the palms of your hands
i'm looking for a soft place to land

i call it an ace
you've gotta believe me
but you're calling me names
and not to my face
but you're calling my spade
a bluff without calling it off

i'm looking for a soft place to land
the forest floor
the palms of your hands
i'm looking for a soft place to land

call me in the night
i don't mind
i don't care
i can't sleep

call me in the day
in my car
on my way

call me by my name
all i want is to hear you say

i'm looking for a soft place to land
the forest floor
the palms of your hands
i'm looking for a soft place to land
the forest floor
the palms of your hands
the palms of your hands
the palms of your hands



Wednesday, January 16, 2013

song of the moment - hey jupiter

song of the moment
hey jupiter
tori amos


original version




no one's picking up the phone
guess it's me and me
and this little masochist
she's ready to confess
all the things that i never thought
that she could feel and

hey jupiter
nothing’s been the same
so are you gay
are you blue
thought we both could use a friend to run to
and i thought i wouldn’t have to be with you
as something new

sometimes i breathe you in
and i know you know
and sometimes you take a swim
found your writing on my wall
if my heart’s soaking wet
boy your boots can leave a mess

hey jupiter
nothings been the same
so are you gay
are you blue
thought we both could use a friend to run to
and i thought you wouldn't have to keep
with me
hiding

oooh…
yes

thought i knew myself so well
all the dolls i had
took my leather off the shelf
your apocalypse was fab
for a girl who couldn't choose between
the shower or the bath

and i thought i wouldn't have to be
with you
a magazine

oooh…
yes

no one's picking up the phone
guess it's clear he's gone
and this little masochist
is lifting up her dress
guess i thought i could never feel the things i feel

hey jupiter
nothings been the same
so are you gay
are you blue
thought we both could use a friend to run to

hey jupiter
nothings been the same
so are you safe
now we’re through
thought we both could use a friend to run to

hey jupiter





dakota version (whatever that means)
music video



---
"Your apocalypse was fab."
I adore this woman.



Sunday, January 13, 2013

song of the moment - turn on billie

song of the moment
turn on billie
the pierces




when i woke up this afternoon
i knew i felt uneasy.
but no matter what i'd do
nothing seemed to please me.
i couldn't get out of my head
that little fight we had last night.
though i would much rather be dead
than admit to myself
that you were right.
oh, oh, oh, oh

don't be silly,
turn on billie.
she's singing us to sleep
so we can dream our lives away.
and if we wake up in full makeup,
we'll paint the town blue
'cause baby, red is so passe.

now don't look at me that way.
you know i just can't take it.
and no matter what they say
i know that we will make it.
cause when we are good, we're grand
but when we're bad we are very bad.
but i stick around 'cause the love
that you're giving me is the best
i've ever had.
oh, oh, oh, oh

don't be silly,
turn on billie.
she's singing us to sleep
so we can dream our lives away.
and if we wake up in full makeup,
we'll paint the town blue
'cause baby, red is so passe.

and it's funny to me,
the way that things have worked out.
there's no doubt (in my mind)
that you can't recall
what this all was about.
so let's give it up.

love me sweetly and completely
come and sit beside me
'cause you know i need you near.
when you're wheelin'
with that feelin'
we'll paint the town pink
'cause baby, red is so last year.

don't be silly,
turn on billie.
she's singing us to sleep
so we can dream our lives away.
and if we wake up in full makeup,
we'll paint the town blue
'cause baby, red is so passe.

la ta da da…

Monday, January 7, 2013

song of the moment - four winds

song of the moment
four winds
bright eyes





your class, your caste, your country, sect, your name or your tribe
there's people always dying trying to keep them alive
there's bodies decomposing in containers tonight
in an abandoned building where
squatters made a mural of a mexican girl
with fifteen cans of spray paint and a chemical swirl
she's standing in the ashes at the end of the world
four winds blowing through her hair

but when great satan's gone... the whore of babylon...
she just can't sustain the pressure where it's placed
she caves

the bible's blind, the torah's deaf, the qur'an's mute
if you burned them all together you'd get close to the truth still
they're pouring over sanskrit on the ivy league moons
while shadows lengthen in the sun
cast all the school and meditation built to soften the times
and hold us at the center while the spiral unwinds
it's knocking over fences crossing property lines
four winds, cry until it comes

and it's the sum of man slouching towards bethlehem
a heart just can't contain all of that empty space
it breaks. it breaks.
it breaks.

well i went back by rented cadillac and company jet
like a newly orphaned refugee retracing my steps
all the way to cassadaga to commune with the dead
they said, "you'd better look alive"
and i was off to old dakota where a genocide sleeps
in the black hills, the badlands, the calloused east
i buried my ballast. i made my peace.
heard four winds, leveling the pines

but when great satan's gone... the whore of babylon...
she just can't remain with all that outer space
she breaks. she breaks. she caves. she caves.


Friday, January 4, 2013

song of the moment - everyday

song of the moment
everyday
toby lightman





everyday is a struggle between what i wanna say
and what i should keep to myself
and the words that manage to leave my lips
don't hurt me, but they hurt everyone else

so i find myself in need of a pause
i'm not sure why, but i think that it's because
of this desire to be what others want me to be
which is nothing close to me

but i'll see better when the smoke clears
when the smoke clears inside my head
and i can listen when the screaming doesn't repeat everything i've said
all that remains me and who i am at the end of the day
and this happens everyday

everyday is a battle between what i wanna know
and what i don't wanna figure out
and everything in between in these thoughts of mine
that you know i can't live without

so i find myself in need of a pause
i'm not sure why, but i think that it's because
of this desire to be what others want me to be
which is nothing close to me

but i'll see better when the smoke clears
when the smoke clears inside my head
and i can listen when the screaming doesn't repeat everything i've said
all that remains me and who i am at the end of the day
and this happens everyday

but i'll see better when the smoke clears
when the smoke clears inside my head
and i can listen when the screaming doesn't repeat everything i've said
all that remains me and who i am at the end of the day
and this happens everyday
this happens everyday
and this happens everyday



Tuesday, January 1, 2013

song of the moment - the world is


song of the moment
the world is
matthew ryan


this is an invisible song
from an invisible man
lost in the wilderness
of a static avalanche

i started out with wonder
with air on my teeth
careful what you wish for
there's something underneath

because the world
is held together
with lies and promises
and broken hearts
and brand new days
for you to start
all over again
all over again
all over again

she's standing in the doorway
she's taking off my shirt
no one could have told me
one day this would hurt

i'm moving through manhattan
in the back seat of a cab
and all that ever happens
that's all we'll ever have

'cause the world
is held together
with lies and promises
and broken hearts
and brand new days
for you to start
all over again
all over again
all over again

now some will say it's maudlin
and some will say bullshit
but there's no living without living
and the living shows you this

that the world
is held together
with lies and promises
and broken hearts
and brand new days
for you to start
all over again
all over again
all over again

let me know if the links don't work

so i can give a stern talking to, or maybe even fix them
(depends on how much coffee i've had)