grace

"Nothing comes easily
Fill this empty space
Nothing is like it was
Turn my grief to grace"

- Kate Havnevik

whistle for the choir

"So if you're crazy, I don't care. You amaze me."

- The Fratellis

I hope there are men in the world who really feel this way, or I am out of luck.

i won't be left

"I won't scream in my head and let it isolate me."

- Tegan and Sara

This is another one I have to remember all the time. I think I go back and forth between overanalyzing and thinking WAY too much, and being entirely carefree (/ a little clueless). Such is life. But I have noticed that the time I am the most in my head, I am the most lonely.
"For every state of mind, left to itself, every shutting up of the creature in the dungeon of its own mind-- is, in the end, Hell..." - C.S. Lewis

behind the sea

"And we're all too small to talk to God.
Yes, we're all too smart to talk to God."

- Panic at the Disco

Okay, I cannot pretend to understand this band's lyrics. And I realize that a large part of this song is them screaming, "waves of wooden legs," but I still think there is something there.
I love that these lines kind of contradict each other. On the one hand, who are we to talk to something as big as God? On the other hand, we tiny little creatures think we have everything figured out and we are way beyond consulting something divine. If I get anything out of this song and all its craziness, it's making fun of humans for ever thinking we have it figured out. Maybe the lyricist would make fun of me for thinking I've found meaning.
It's so tempting to live life as if I am in control, as if I'm too smart to talk to God. But in the end I know that my wisdom is only foolishness from an eternal perspective.





Or maybe whoever wrote this just took too many hits. Either way, I'd like to thank Katie Purcell for introducing me to this delightfully weird album.

best for last

"I'd like to hear the words roll out of your mouth finally,
say it's always been me"

- Adele

I like the simplicity of her words with that sugary voice. Yum. Also, I am just feeling this song today. Like I could get a gospel choir together and dance it out.

upward over the mountain

"May the sunrise bring hope where it once was forgotten"

- Iron & Wine

Lyrics submitted by Cory Saul; thank you very much for the hypnotic mellow songs. Hope you don't mind that the line that stood out to me in this one was the silver-lined one.

crooked teeth

"At night, the sun in retreat
made the skyline look like crooked teeth
in the mouth of a man who was devouring us both"

- Death Cab for Cutie

sort of

"My love's too big for you, my love."

- Ingrid Michaelson



Bonus lyric:

"Baby, you've got the sort of laugh that waters me
and makes me grow tall and strong and proud,
then flattens me."

missed the boat

"Looking toward the future,
we were begging for the past.
We knew we had the good things,
but those never seem to last.
Oh please, just last."

- Modest Mouse

This song is one of my favorites. It's not really the lyrics, but that spiral-y guitar and those shell-sounding shakers. They sound like one of those instruments you have to make at summer camp and your parents have to pretend they like. Anyway, this song reminds me of gray days at the beach. It's not quite that sunny thing you signed up for, but it's beautiful (maybe even more so?) in its bleakness.

lost in the world

"You're my lies, you're my truth
you're my war, you're my truce
you're my questions, you're my proof
you're my stress and you're my masseuse"

- Kanye West



Thanks, Cory!

hiding my heart

"I wish I could lay down beside you when the day is done
and wake up to your face against the morning sun.
But like everything I've ever known, you'll disappear one day.
So I spend my whole life hiding my heart away."

- Adele

hotel song

"Cigarettes and lies,
I am a child. It's too soon."

- Regina Spektor

Sorry I have been a terrible blogger lately. Things are gonna change around here. Eh, probably. At least until I go on another computer fast. I believe this song is another classic from Josie Biteng. The typography on this video is pretty cool too.
And about the lyric, I'm not feeling deep enough to analyze at the moment. Actually it's pretty self explanatory...p.s. it took me like three minutes to remember the phrase "self explanatory," and it still sounds weird to me. Don't you love when your brain stops functioning?

i can change

"Love is a murderer,
but if she calls you tonight
everything is all right"

- LCD Soundsystem

I like a lot of the lyrics in this song, even though I hate them. It's pretty stupid trying to change to fit another person, to beg someone to want you. But I know I have felt that way before and probably most humans have. Thanks to Cory Saul for introducing me to this one.

the world you love

"I fall asleep with my friends around me.
Only place I know, I feel safe.
I'm gonna call this home."

- Jimmy Eat World

headfirst slide into cooperstown on a bad bet

"I don't just want to be a footnote in someone else's happiness"

- Fall Out Boy

This one is for my wonderful roomies (and quasi-roomies) at Loma. I will never forget the day Katie introduced us to this epic song with her intense lip synching routine. From that moment, it was irresistible. Every time I hear the opening of this song, I get a little giddy. It's the kind of song that makes me feel like Christmas is coming.
And for the Fall Out Boy haterz: learn the lyrics, take a drive playing this song at top volume, and attempt Patrick Stump's vocal gymnastics. If you're still not impressed, I guess you're a lost cause.