Gosh I'm in a sappy mood today

Maria Taylor ~ Song Beneath the Song

Jack Johnson ~ Cocoon

based on your smile im betting all of this might be over soon but youre bound to win because if im betting against you, i think id rather lose but this is all that i have, so please take whats left of this heart, and use please use only what you really need you know i only have so little, so please mend your broken heart and leave i know its not your style and i can tell by the way that you move its real real soon but im on your side and i dont want to be your regret, id rather be your cocoon but this is all that you have, so please let me take whats left of your heart, and i will use i swear ill use only what i need i know you only have so little, so please let me mend my broken heart you said this was all you have and its all i need but blah blah blah because it fell apart i guess its all you knew and all i had but now we have only confused hearts i guess all we have is really all we need so please lets take these broken hearts, and use lets use only what we really need you know we only have so little, so please take these broken hearts and leave

Au Revoir Simone ~ Lucky One

A dream of togetherness
Turned into a brighter mess
A faint sigh my spoken best
Now, now

Make way for the simple hours
No finding the time it’s ours
A fate or it's a desire
I know

So I was the lucky one
Reading letters, not writing them
Taking pictures of anyone
I know

So let the sun shine
So let the sun shine
So let the sun shine
Let it come
To show us that tomorrow is eventual
We know it when the day is done

So let the sun shine
So let the sun shine
So let the sun shine
Let it come
To show us that tomorrow is eventual
We know it when the day is done

So let the sun shine
So let the sun shine
So let the sun shine
Let it come
To show us that tomorrow is eventual
We know it when the day is done

Ben Lee is my new musical crush

Nine Inch Nails ~ Only

Let me disclaim this post: I left class on this gorgeous day and when I got in the car this song was playing. I blasted it with the windows down riding over the Key bridge. I don't like this group, and it's even more ironic because I posted about my dislike a few days ago...

The lyrics don't pertain to my life in anyway, and it felt more like a hard-core feel good anthem than a you-suck-and-I'm-broken song. I'd like it better it the lyrics were more "sunshiny".

Jehro ~ Everything

I got a few CDs I'm very excited about today:


My mom turned me on to Sparklehorse. I haven't listened to the whole CD yet, but I already like the sound of it. It's easy to get into, and I feel like I want to sit down and read the lyrics of most of the songs.
I loved Yusuf Islam back when his name was Cat Stevens. In fact, his best of album was one of the first tapes (yes tape) I ever owned. What I like about this album is that it retains all of the simplicity I used to love, but sheds a lot of the false naivete that even as an 11 year old I knew better than to trust.
One thing I love about both music and book stores is browsing. After I picked out the two CDs I was looking for, I strolled around picking up any interesting looking CDs. This was the only one worthy of making it to the checkout counter. I must say I'm very excited about listening to it.

Snow (Hey Oh) - Red Hot Chilli Peppers

La Corrida ~ Francis Cabrel

Tonight I finally understood the lyrics to this song. I have been listening and loving it for years, but until now I struggled to understand it's deeper meaning in relation to my life.

The lyrics are inside, but to briefly sum it up, it's a story about a bull in a corrida wondering what he is doing and why he has to defend himself against the torreadors.

Lately, I have been struggling to come to terms with what I am doing and where I am headed. Often, my current situation feels as surreal, and sometimes even as fatal, as the bullring feels to the bull. What so many others take seriously, I can't begin to concentrate on because it all appears too forced, not real. While I long for my "Andalucia", the bullring and all it's expectations hold me in and I am forced to dance the steps of a song I have not chosen.

(Lyrics inside)

All I Want ~ Jehro

Oh she is watching me,
And her eyes they flow,
With fond and tender pain,
I know,
Fate laid out a road,
We have walked alone
(And) yet we meet again,
Now I know finally,
I've never been alone,
I just couldn't see,
That like,
The swirling of the sea,
Lies a mistery,
That brings me back to you,
Oh, We put round our world,
Chains that we denied,
Yes we dreamed that we,
Were free,
And this was our downfall,
With no place to go,
We drift eternally,
Now,
I know finally,
I've never been alone,
I just couldn't see,
That like,
The swirling of the sea,
Lies a mistery,
That brings me back to you.

George Michael ~ Please Send Me Someone (Anselmo's Song)

Fistful of love by Antony and the Johnsons

Powered by CastpostI was lying in my bed last night staring
At a ceiling full of stars
When it suddenly hit me
I just have to let you know how I feel
We live together in a photograph of time
I look into your eyes
And the seas open up to me
I tell you I love you
And I always will
And I know you can't tell me
I know you can't tell me

So I'm left to pick up
The hints, the little symbols of your devotion
So I'm left to pick up
The hints, the little symbols of your devotion

And I feel your fists
And I know it's out of love
And I feel the whip
And I know it's out of love
And I feel your burning eyes burning holes
Straight through my heart
It's out of love
It's out of love

I accept and I collect upon my body
The memories of your devotion
I accept and I collect upon by body
The memories of your devotion

And I feel your fists
And I know it's out of love
And I feel the whip
And I know it's out of love
And I feel your burning eyes burning holes
Straight through my heart
It's out of love, ooh hoo
It's out of love

Give me a little bit serious love
Give me a little full love
Be full of love

Fists, fists, fists full of love...

Habanera

L'Amour est un oiseau rebelle
Que nul ne peut apprivoiser
Et c'est bien en vain qu'on l'appelle,
S'il lui convient de refuser.

Rien n'y fait, menace ou prière,
L'un parle bien, l'autre se tait;
Et c'est l'autre que je préfère
Il n'a rien dit; mais il me tient.

L'Amour est un oiseau rebelle
L'Amour
Que nul ne peut apprivoiser
L'Amour
Et c'est bien en vain qu'on l'appelle
L'Amour
S'il lui convient de refuser
L'Amour

L'Amour est enfant de Bohême,
Il n'a jamais, jamais connu de loi,
Si tu ne m'aime pas, je t'aime,
Si je t'aime, prend garde à toi!

(Prends garde à toi)
Si tu ne m'aime pas si tu ne m'aimes pas je t'aime
(Prends garde à toi)
Mais si je t'aime si je t'aime prends garde à toi!

David Kitt - Sweet Summer Morning

It took me a while to choose a song from David Kitt to put up here because I simply love them all. I am still not sure I picked the right one, but at least it accurately describes how I feel this very moment...


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"Une pyramide de baisers,
Une tempête d'amitié,
Une vague de caresses,
Un cyclone de douceur,
Un océan de pensées."

~ MC Solaar

On the Radio - Regina Spektor

This is how it works
You're young until you're not
You love until you don't
You try until you can't
You laugh until you cry
You cry until you laugh
And everyone must breathe
Until their dying breath

No, this is how it works
You peer inside yourself
You take the things you like
And try to love the things you took
And then you take that love you made
And stick it into some
Someone else's heart
Pumping someone else's blood
And walking arm in arm
You hope it don't get harmed
But even if it does
You'll just do it all again



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