I've had a long, long love affair with song lyrics. I'm always amazed when a songwriter manages to nail down some vague emotion through the simplest of words matched up with the perfect melody. So for today's
I present:
Thirteen Lines of Lyrical Loveliness
1) "ransom notes keep falling out your mouth / midsweet talk, newspaper word cut-outs / speak no, feeling no, i don't believe you / you don't care a bit" - Hide & Seek, Imogen Heap
2) "and i act like i have faith and like that faith never ends / but i really just have friends" - My Friends, Dar Williams
3) "and so it is, just like you said it would be / life goes easy on me / most of the time" - The Blower's Daughter, Damien Rice
4) "so we bottled and shelved / all our regrets / let them ferment and came back to our senses" - Mistakes We Knew We Were Making, Straylight Run
5) "watch you spin around in your highest heels / you are the best one of the best ones / we all look like we feel" - Stolen, Dashboard Confessional
6) really, the entire song "A Comet Appears" by The Shins is lyrically amazing, but in particular: "one hand on this wiley comet / take a drink just to give me some weight / some uber man i would make / i'm barely a vapor" and "we can blow on our thumbs and posture / but the lonely are such delicate things"
7) "the stars are blazing like rebel diamonds cut out of the sun / when you read my mind" - Read My Mind, The Killers
8) "a trace of me / it floats in my periphery / and ever time i turn to see / it goes" - Prison Food, Ben Folds
9) "and it's not a cry you can hear at night / it's not somebody who's seen the light / it's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah" - Hallelujah, Various Artists (but my favorite is Rufus Wainwright)
10) "i've fallen so far / for the people you are / i just need your star for a day" - Fly, Nick Drake
11) "i went because you said you'd be there / a box of candy, smoke in your hair / explain it to me again and again / like i care / ba ba ba ba ba" - Bruised, The Bens
12) "tears and fears and feeling proud / to say i love you right out loud" - Both Sides Now, Joni Mitchell
13) "butterflies are passive aggressive / and put their problems on the shelf / but they're beautiful" - In Other Words, Ben Kweller
and wasn't that an excellent way for me to waste 1.5 hours?
2) "and i act like i have faith and like that faith never ends / but i really just have friends" - My Friends, Dar Williams
3) "and so it is, just like you said it would be / life goes easy on me / most of the time" - The Blower's Daughter, Damien Rice
4) "so we bottled and shelved / all our regrets / let them ferment and came back to our senses" - Mistakes We Knew We Were Making, Straylight Run
5) "watch you spin around in your highest heels / you are the best one of the best ones / we all look like we feel" - Stolen, Dashboard Confessional
6) really, the entire song "A Comet Appears" by The Shins is lyrically amazing, but in particular: "one hand on this wiley comet / take a drink just to give me some weight / some uber man i would make / i'm barely a vapor" and "we can blow on our thumbs and posture / but the lonely are such delicate things"
7) "the stars are blazing like rebel diamonds cut out of the sun / when you read my mind" - Read My Mind, The Killers
8) "a trace of me / it floats in my periphery / and ever time i turn to see / it goes" - Prison Food, Ben Folds
9) "and it's not a cry you can hear at night / it's not somebody who's seen the light / it's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah" - Hallelujah, Various Artists (but my favorite is Rufus Wainwright)
10) "i've fallen so far / for the people you are / i just need your star for a day" - Fly, Nick Drake
11) "i went because you said you'd be there / a box of candy, smoke in your hair / explain it to me again and again / like i care / ba ba ba ba ba" - Bruised, The Bens
12) "tears and fears and feeling proud / to say i love you right out loud" - Both Sides Now, Joni Mitchell
13) "butterflies are passive aggressive / and put their problems on the shelf / but they're beautiful" - In Other Words, Ben Kweller
and wasn't that an excellent way for me to waste 1.5 hours?
10 comments:
great post..
my 13 is up at
http://momworksathome.blogspot.com
Cool TT, Welcome to Thursday Thirteen. It is one of my favorite posts to do each week.
My 10th TT is up.
Wonderful TT! I love The Killers!
Thanks for stopping by my TT!
Great list! Number 12 is among my (hundreds of) favorite songs. Welcome to TT.
This is a very refreshing T13 post :-) The power of wonderful lyrics can sometimes simply capture you.
Thanks for stopping by.
*"tears and fears and feeling proud / to say i love you right out loud" - Both Sides Now, Joni Mitchell*
Thanks for reminding me of this one!!
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