day 16: part dos

oh, hey tv on the radio! i think i like you, i think you're growing on me

day 16:

i really like this song. the music is tranquil, and harmonious, very characteristic of the weepies, but i also reallyyy like the lyrics. i was just talking to my friend about the last line of mary oliver's poem, In Blackwater Woods : "to live in the world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go." well, this song reminds me of this poem.. i feel a connection between the two, like a big circle/cycle/they-go-to-get-her. i don't really know that, but hearing it as i was sitting in my warm bed trying to figure out how to do my geology homework, something clicked, and i got a really bitter sweet vibe from this song. i like it. listen to it. here are the lyrics:

"World Spins Madly On"

Woke up and wished that I was dead
With an aching in my head
I lay motionless in bed
I thought of you and where you'd gone
and let the world spin madly on

Everything that I said I'd do
Like make the world brand new
And take the time for you
I just got lost and slept right through the dawn
And the world spins madly on

I let the day go by
I always say goodbye
I watch the stars from my window sill
The whole world is moving and I'm standing still

Woke up and wished that I was dead
With an aching in my head
I lay motionless in bed
The night is here and the day is gone
And the world spins madly on

I thought of you and where you'd gone
And the world spins madly on.

day 15:

"yes!!! you're right! it's just like christmas. that's why i love christmas because it feels like getting into a band which is the same thing as falling in love which is the same thing as christmas which is why brad pitt says to angelina jolie in mr & mrs smith, when angelina asks "what did you think of me the first time you saw me" he responds "i thought you looked like christmas morning." which is why they danced to mondo bongo by joe strummer and the mescaleroes in the opening scene, which is why it's hot. which pretty much brings it full circle i think. one more circle though: i always remember how you said hippie hippie hoorah made you feel like "something really good was about to happen" which is just perfect. like love and sex and the night before christmas and life, potential energy dude we're just potential energy. careful with the coffee now"

fucking love this

day 14:

I've been sleeping for 40 days and
Yeah, I know that I'm sleeping
Cause this dream's too amazing
She got gold doorknobs
where her eyes used to be yeah
One turn and I learned
What it really means to see, yeah

Oooh it's the magical mystery kind
Ooh must be a lie
Bye bye to the too good to be true kind of love
Oooooh I could die
Oooooh now, I could die

Now I've been sleeping for 60 days and
Nobody better pinch me
Bitch I swear, go crazy
She got jumper cable lips
She got sunset on her breath
I inhaled just a little bit
Now I got no fear of death

Oooh it's the magical mystery kind
aah It ain't no lie
Bye bye to the too good to be true kind of love
Oooooh I could die
Oooooh now, I could die

WOW there is a lot of love in this song.

day 13:

day 12:

why are arcade fire so good?

could it be the lyrics, that sound so whole, and thoughtful, and not like they were made to be a month-long trendy pop song. they are so fucking good. i was casually listening to "keep the car running" and when i heard the 3rd line down from below, i was just like WOWW who writes about animal heaven?! this is great! they are so original and win butler's voice is so suave and somehow rough at the same time. i really dig it.

If some night I don’t come home,
Please don’t think I’ve left you alone.
The same place animals go when they die,
You can’t climb across a mountain so high.
The same city where I go when I sleep,
You can’t swim across a river so deep.
They know my name 'cause I told it to them,
But they don’t know where
And they don’t know
When It’s coming, Oh! when is it coming?

day 11:

"Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion's starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don't see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it's always there - fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge - they were all messages of love. If you look for it, I've got a sneaking suspision love actually is all around." -Love Actually