Wednesday, 20 April 2011

How did we wind up this way?

"Absolutely (Story of a Girl)" by Nine Days

"This is the story of a girl
Who cried a river and drowned the whole world
And while she looks so sad in photographs
I absolutely love her
When she smiles

How many days in a year
She woke up with hope but she only found tears
And I can be so insincere
Making her promises never for real
As long as she stands there waiting
Wearing the holes in the soles of her shoes
How many days disappear
When you look in the mirror
So how do you choose

Your clothes never wear as well the next day
And your hair never falls in quite the same way
You never seem to run out of things to say

This is the story of a girl
Who cried a river and drowned the whole world
And while she looks so sad in photographs
I absolutely love her
When she smiles

Now how many lovers would stay
Just to put up with this shit day after day
How did we wind up this way
Watching our mouths for the words that we say
As long as we stand here waiting
Wearing the clothes or the soles that we choose
How do we get there today
When we're walking too far for the price of our shoes

Your clothes never wear as well the next day
And your hair never falls in quite the same way
But you never seem to run out of things to say

This is the story of a girl
Who cried a river and drowned the whole world
And while she looks so sad and lonely there
I absolutely love her
When she smiles

Well, your clothes never wear as well the next day
And your hair never falls in quite the same way
You never seem to run out of things to say

This is the story of a girl
Who cried a river and drowned the whole world
And while she looks so sad in photographs
I absolutely love her

This is the story of a girl
Her pretty face she hid from the world
And while she looks so sad and lonely there
I absolutely love her

This is the story of a girl
Who cried a river and drowned the whole world
And while she looks so sad in photographs
I absolutely love her
When she smiles
When she smiles"




This has been quite the week so far. I went to the poppy festival and it was really fun, but I got a pretty bad sunburn. D: It's ok, though, it was totally worth it. I've been so busy. With half of my family disabled it is now, more than ever, my job to keep the house kept up and the yard looking well. I definitely don't want a sanction from the fire marshals. lol I'm practically running this house on my own... and yet, my mother still gets angry at me for taking lunch into my room so that I can multitask... /sigh. hahaha. It's all one big joke, I can't wait to get back to a world that makes sense. someday, someday.

Nostalgia days has me remembering how things were and has me realizing how far I've come, or rather, how much things have changed. It's not necessarily bad, or good for that matter, it just is. It has made me realize that I am capable of so much more than what I am reaching for these days, now I just have to reach higher.





--as always

Tuesday, 19 April 2011

Just go ahead, now

"Two Princes" by Spin Doctors

"One, two princes kneel before you
That's what I said, now
Princes, princes who adore you
Just go ahead, now
One has diamonds in his pockets
And that's some bread, now
This one said he wants to buy you rockets
Ain't in his head, now

This one he's got a princely racket
That's what I said, now
Got some big seal upon his jacket
Ain't in his head, now
You marry him, your father will condone you
How 'bout that, now
You marry me, your father will disown you
He'll eat his hat, now

Marry him or marry me
I'm the one that loved you, baby can't you see
I ain't got no future or family tree
But I know what a prince and lover ought to be
I know what a prince and lover ought to be

Said if you want to call me baby
Just go ahead, now
And if you would like to tell me maybe
Just go ahead, now
And if you want to buy me flowers
Just go ahead, now
And if you would like to talk for hours
Just go ahead, now

Said one, two princes kneel before you
That's what I said, now
Princes, princes who adore you
Just go ahead, now
One has diamonds in his pockets
And that's some bread, now
This one, he wants to buy you rockets
Ain't in his head, now

Marry him or marry me
I'm the one that loved you, baby can't you see
I ain't got no future or family tree
But I know what a prince and lover ought to be
I know what a prince and lover ought to be

Said if you want to call me baby
Just go ahead, now
And if you would like to tell me maybe
Just go ahead, now
And if you want to buy me flowers
Just go ahead, now
And if you would like to talk for hours
Just go ahead, now

And if you want to call me baby
Just go ahead, now
And if you would like to tell me maybe
Just go ahead, now
And if you would like to buy me flowers
Just go ahead, now
And if you would like to talk for hours
Just go ahead, now

If you want to call me baby
Just go ahead, now
And if you'd like to tell me maybe
Just go ahead, now
And if you want to buy me flowers
Just go ahead, now
And if you'd like to talk for hours
Just go ahead, now

Oh baby! Just go ahead now
Oh! Just go ahead now
Oh, your majesty!
Just go ahead now
C'mon forget the king who... marry me!
Just go ahead now
Come on, come on, come on
Just go ahead now
Go ahead now
Just go ahead now"


Hahahahaha. This song is hilarious!


--as always

Monday, 18 April 2011

You say we've got nothing in common

"Breakfast at Tiffany's" by Deep Blue Something

"You say we've got nothing in common
No common ground to start from
And we're falling apart
You'll say the world has come between us
Our lives have come between us
Still I know you just don't care

And I said what about "Breakfast at Tiffany's?"
She said, "I think I remember the film.
And as I recall, I think we both kinda liked it."
And I said, "Well, that's the one thing we've got."

I see you - the only one who knew me
And now your eyes see through me
I guess I was wrong
So what now?
It's plain to see we're over
And I have when things are over
When so much is left undone

And I said what about "Breakfast at Tiffany's?"
She said, "I think I remember the film.
And as I recall, I think we both kinda liked it."
And I said, "Well, that's the one thing we've got."

You say we've got nothing in common
No common ground to start from
And we're falling apart
You'll say the world has come between us
Our lives have come between us
Still I know you just don't care

And I said what about "Breakfast at Tiffany's?"
She said, "I think I remember the film.
And as I recall, I think we both kinda liked it."
And I said, "Well, that's the one thing we've got."

And I said what about "Breakfast at Tiffany's?"
She said, "I think I remember the film.
And as I recall, I think we both kinda liked it."
And I said, "Well, that's the one thing we've got."

And I said what about "Breakfast at Tiffany's?"
She said, "I think I remember the film.
And as I recall, I think we both kinda liked it."
And I said, "Well, that's the one thing we've got.""


A classic.

--as always

Sunday, 17 April 2011

You've got the music in you

"You Get What You Give" by New Radicals

"One, two, one, two three, oh!

Wake up kids
We've got the dreamer's disease
Age fourteen, we got you down on your knees
So polite, we're busy still saying please

Frienemies, who when you're down ain't your friend
Every night we smash their Mercedes-Benz
First we run and then we laugh till we cry

But when the night is falling
You cannot find the light (light)
If you feel your dreams are dying
Hold tight

You've got the music in you
(Don't let go) You've got the music in you
(One dance left) The world is gonna pull through
(Don't give up) You've got a reason to live
(Can't forget) We only get what we give

I'm coming home, baby
You're tops
Give it to me now

Four AM, we ran the Miracle Mile
We're flat broke, but hey we do it in style
The bad rich
God's flying in for your trial

But when the night is falling
You cannot find a friend (friend)
You feel your tree is breaking
Just then

You've got the music in you
(Don't let go) You've got the music in you
(One dance left) The world is gonna pull through
(Don't give up) You've got a reason to live
(Can't forget) We only get what we give

This whole damn world can fall apart
You'll be ok, follow your heart
You're in harms way, I'm right behind
Now say you're mine

You've got the music in you
(Don't let go) You've got the music in you
(One dance left)The world is gonna pull through
(Don't give up)You've got a reason to live
(Can't forget)We only get what we give
(Don't let go) I feel the music in you

Fly high, high
What's real can't die
You only get what you give
You gonna get what you give

(Don't give up)
Just dont be afraid to leave
Health insurance rip off lying
FDA big bankers buying
Fake computer crashes dining
Cloning while they're multiplying
Fashion shoots with Beck and Hanson
Courtney Love and Marilyn Manson
You're all fakes

Run to your mansions
Come around
We'll kick your ass in

Don't let go
One dance left
Don't give up
Can't forget
Don't"



Well, someone was pissed... and is probably a creeper, who may or may not be on drugs...












--as always

Saturday, 16 April 2011

All sane and logical

"Inside Out" by Eve 6

"I would swallow my pride
I would choke on the rinds
But the lack there of would leave me empty inside
Swallow my doubt
Turn it inside out
Find nothing but faith in nothing
Want to put my tender heart in a blender
Watch it spin 'round to a beautiful oblivion
Rendezvous, then I'm through with you

I burn, burn like a wicker cabinet
Chalk white and oh so frail
I see our time has gotten stale
The tick tock of the clock is painful
All sane and logical
I want to tear it off the wall
I hear words in clips and phrases
I think sick like ginger ale
My stomach turns and I exhale

I would swallow my pride
I would choke on the rinds
But the lack there of would leave me empty inside
I would swallow my doubt
Turn it inside out
Find nothing but faith in nothing
I want to put my tender heart in a blender
Watch it spin around to a beautiful oblivion
Rendezvous, then I'm through with you

SoCal is where my mind states
But it's not my state of mind
I'm not as ugly, sad as you
Or am I origami?
Folded up and just pretend
Demented as the motives in your head

I would swallow my pride
I would choke on the rinds
But the lack there of would leave me empty inside
I would swallow my doubt
Turn it inside out
Find nothing but faith in nothing
I want to put my tender heart in a blender
Watch it spin around to a beautiful oblivion
Rendezvous, then I'm through with you
(Rendezvous)

I alone am the one you don't know you need
Take heed, feed your ego
Make me blind when your eyes close
Sink when you get close
Tie me to the bedpost

I alone am the one you don't know you need
You don't know you need me
Make me blind when your eyes close
Tie me to the bedpost

I would swallow my pride
I would choke on the rinds
But the lack there of would leave me empty inside
Swallow my doubt
Turn it inside out
Find nothing but faith in nothing
Want to put my tender heart in a blender
Watch it spin around to a beautiful oblivion
Rendezvous, then I'm through
Now I'm through with you

Through with you

Rendezvous, then I'm through with you"





So, the poppy festival is this weekend. Hunter and I are going tomorrow. :) I'm actually really excited about it. There aren't going to be any real poppies there, though, at least I don't think there will be... which seems a bit counter-intuitive considering the name of the event. Just saying. I am really liking the warmer weather. It means I get to break out my favorite type of clothes. :D







Also, this song gets stuck in my head like none other...




--as always

Friday, 15 April 2011

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end

"Closing Time" by Semisonic

"Closing time, open all the doors and let you out into the world
Closing time, turn all of the lights on over every boy and every girl
Closing time, one last call for alcohol, so finish your whiskey or beer
Closing time, you don't have to go home, but you can't stay here

I know who I want to take me home
I know who I want to take me home
I know who I want to take me home
Take me home

Closing time, time for you to go out to the places you will be from
Closing time, This room won't be open till your brothers or your sisters come
So gather up your jackets, and move it to the exits
I hope you have found a friend
Closing time, every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end
Yeah

I know who I want to take me home
I know who I want to take me home
I know who I want to take me home
Take me home

Closing time, time for you to go out to the places you will be from

I know who I want to take me home
I know who I want to take me home
I know who I want to take me home
Take me home

I know who I want to take me home
I know who I want to take me home
I know who I want to take me home
Take me home

Closing time, every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end"





I feel like I hear the beginning to the song ALL THE TIME. It's crazy. It never is this song, though. Oh nostalgia....






--as always

Thursday, 14 April 2011

First class and fancy free

"She's So High" by Tal Bachman

"She's blood, flesh and bone
No tucks or silicone
She's touch, smell, sight, taste and sound

But somehow I can't believe
That anything should happen
I know where I belong
And nothing's gonna happen
Yeah, yeah

'Cause she's so high
High above me, she's so lovely
She's so high
Like Cleopatra, Joan of Arc, or Aphrodite
She's so high
High above me

First class and fancy free
She's high society
She's got the best of everything

What could a guy like me
Every really offer?
She's perfect as she can be
Why should I even bother?

'Cause she's so high
High above me, she's so lovely
She's so high
Like Cleopatra, Joan of Arc, or Aphrodite
She's so high
High above me

She comes to speak to me
I freeze immediately
'Cause what she says sounds so unreal

'Cause somehow I can't believe
That anything should happen
I know where I belong
And nothing's gonna happen
Yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah

'Cause she's so high
High above me, she's so lovely
She's so high
Like Cleopatra, Joan of Arc, or Aphrodite
She's so high
High above me"


OH MY GOSH, this song. That is all.



--as always

Wednesday, 13 April 2011

If there's a reason, it's lost on me

"Never Let You Go" by Third Eye Blind

"There's every good reason
For letting you go
She's sneaky and smoked out
And it's starting to show

I never let you go
I never let you go
I never let you go
I never let you turn around, your back on each other
That's a good idea, break a promise to your mother
Turn around, your back on each other

You say that I've changed
Well maybe I did
But even if I changed
What's wrong with it

I never let you go
I never let you go
I never let you go
I never let you turn around, your back on each other
That's a good idea, break a promise to your mother
Turn around, your back on each other

And all our friends are gone and gone
And all the time moves on and on
And all I know is it's wrong, it's wrong
And all I know is it's wrong, it's wrong, it's wrong, it's wrong
If there's a reason, it's lost on me
Maybe we'll be friends, I guess we'll see

I never let you go
I never let you go
I never let you go
I never let you g0
Turn around, your back on each other
That's a good idea, break a promise to your mother
Turn around, let's turn on each other
Good idea, break a promise to your mother
Turn around, your back on each other
That's a good idea, break a promise to your mother
Turn around, your back on each other
What a good idea...

I remember the stupid things, the mood rings, the bracelets and the beads
Nickels and dimes, yours and mine, did you cash in all your dreams
You don't dream for me, no. (Goodbye, goodbye) You don't dream for me, no
But I still feel your pulse like sonar from the days in the waves
That girl is like a sunburn, I would like to say
That girl is like a sunburn, I would like to say
She's like a sunburn
She's like a sunburn"


--as always

Tuesday, 12 April 2011

I won't worry my life away

"The Remedy" by Jason Mraz

"Well I saw fireworks from the freeway
And behind closed eyes I cannot make them go away
'Cause you were born on the Fourth of July, freedom ring
Well, something on the surface, it stinks
I said something on the surface
Really kind of makes me nervous
Who say that you deserve this
And what kind of god would serve this
We will cure this dirty old disease
Well, if you gots the poison, I've gots the remedy

The remedy is the experience
It is a dangerous liaison
I says the comedy is that it's serious
This is a strange enough new play on words
I said the tragedy is how you're gonna spend
The rest of your nights with the light on
So shine the light on all of your friends
Well, it all amounts to nothing in the end
I, I won't worry my life away
I, I won't worry my life away

Well, I heard two men talking on the radio
In a cross fire kind of new reality show
Uncovering the ways to plan the next big attack
Where they were counting down the ways to stab
The brother in the be right back after this
The unavoidable kiss with the minty fresh death breath
That's sure to outlast this catastrophe, dance with me
'Cause if you gots the poison, I've gots the remedy

The remedy is the experience
It is a dangerous liaison
I says the comedy is that it's serious
This is a strange enough new play on words
I said the tragedy is how you're gonna spend
The rest of your nights with the light on
So shine the light on all of your friends
When it all amounts to nothing in the end
I, I won't worry my life away
And I won't, I won't, I won't, I won't worry my life away

When I fall in love I take my time
There's no need to hurry when I'm making up my mind
You can turn off the sun, but I'm still gonna shine
And I'll tell you why

Because the remedy is the experience
It is a dangerous liaison
I says the comedy is that it's serious
This is a strange enough new play on words
I said the tragedy is how you're gonna spend
The rest of your nights with the light on
So shine the light on all of your friends
When it all amounts to nothing in the end
I, 'cause I won't, I won't worry my life away
I won't, I won't, I won't worry my life away
I won't worry my life
I, I won't, I won't worry my life away
'Cause I won't, and I won't, and I won't worry my life away
I won't, I won't, I won't worry my life away"




I think everyone my from this era nostalgias when they hear this song. Also, this song has horrible grammar. really.



--as always

Monday, 11 April 2011

What you feel is what you are and what you are is beautiful

Nostalgia! Nostalgia Everywhere!!!

All these songs make me nostalgia and nostalgia hard. I'll post one a day for the next ten days. Maybe they'll make you nostalgia too. :)



"Slide" by The Goo Goo Dolls

"Could you whisper in my ear
The things you wanna feel
I'd give you anything
To feel it coming

Do you wake up on your own?
And wonder where you are
You live with all your faults

I wanna wake up where you are
I won't say anything at all
So why don't you slide

Yeah, I'm gonna let it slide

Don't you love the life you killed
The priest is on the phone
Your father hit the wall
Your ma disowned you

Don't suppose I'll ever know
What it means to be a man
Something I can't change
I'll live around it

I wanna wake up where you are
I won't say anything at all
So why don't you slide
Ooh, slide

And I'll do anything you ever dreamed to be complete
Little pieces of the nothing that fall
Oh May, put your arms around me
What you feel is what you are and what you are is beautiful
Oh May, do you wanna get married or run away?

And I'll do anything you ever dreamed to be complete
Little pieces of the nothing that fall
Oh May, put your arms around me
What you feel is what you are and what you are is beautiful
Oh May, do you wanna get married or run away?

I wanna wake up where you are
I won't say anything

(Yeah, slide)
And I'll do anything you ever dreamed to be complete
(Yeah, slide)
Little pieces of the nothing that fall

(Yeah, slide)
And I'll do anything you ever dreamed to be complete
(Yeah, slide)
Little pieces of the nothing that fall

(Yeah slide between the sheets)
(Of all the beds you never knew)
Why don't you slide into my room
Just slide into my room
We'll run away, run away, run away"



--as always

Thursday, 7 April 2011

And all I can taste is this moment

"Iris" by The Goo Goo Dolls

"And I'd give up forever to touch you
'Cause I know that you feel me somehow
You're the closest to heaven that I'll ever be
And I don't want to go home right now

And all I can taste is this moment
And all I can breathe is your life
And sooner or later it's over
I just don't want to miss you tonight

And I don't want the world to see me
'Cause I don't think that they'd understand
When everything's made to be broken
I just want you to know who I am

And you can't fight the tears that ain't coming
Or the moment of truth in your lies
When everything feels like the movies
Yeah, you bleed just to know you're alive

And I don't want the world to see me
'Cause I don't think that they'd understand
When everything's made to be broken
I just want you to know who I am

And I don't want the world to see me
'Cause I don't think that they'd understand
When everything's made to be broken
I just want you to know who I am

And I don't want the world to see me
'Cause I don't think that they'd understand
When everything's made to be broken
I just want you to know who I am
I just want you to know who I am
I just want you to know who I am
I just want you to know who I am"




Sometimes I feel like this. Like I don't want to come out of my shell, like I only want to be around a few people at a time. As if there were less risk that way, with fewer people around. I think I find it hard to be open with people; it's hard to let the inside out. Part of it is the way I was raised, or rather the the results of the way I was raised: where it was emotionally safer to be alone and introverted. The other part is circumstance and conditioning from my life experiences. I've been working on it, though. I think I've become much better at sharing my inner self with others. :)



--as always