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.