Blue Lips

I love Regina Spektor so so much. I just can't get over her songwriting skills. She's so fucking awesome.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqQXJ16mzrk

He stumbled into faith and thought,
"God, this is all there is?"
The pictures in his mind arose,
And began to breathe.
And all the gods and all the worlds
Began colliding on a
Backdrop of
Blue.

Blue lips,
Blue veins.

He took a step, but then felt tired.
He said, "I'll rest a little while."
But when he tried to walk again,
He wasn't a child.
And all the people hurried past,
Real fast,
And no one ever smiled.

Blue lips,
Blue veins.
Blue,
The color of our planet from far, far away.
Blue lips,
Blue veins.
Blue,
The color of our planet from far, far away.

He stumbled into faith and thought,
"God, this is all there is?"
The pictures in his mind arose,
And began to breathe.
And no one saw, and no one heard.
They just followed the lead.
The pictures in his mind awoke,
And began to breed.

They started out beneath the knowledge tree.
Then they chopped it down to make white picket fences,
And, marching along the railroad tracks,
They smile real wide for the camera lenses.
They made it past the enemy lines
Just to become enslaved in the assembly lines.

Blue lips,
Blue veins.
Blue,
The color of our planet from far, far away.
Blue lips,
Blue veins.
Blue,
The color of our planet from far, far away.
Blue,
The most human color.
Blue,
The most human color.
Blue,
The most human color...
Blue lips,
Blue veins.
Blue,
The color of our planet from far, far away.

Space Oddity

Space Oddity by David Bowie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D67kmFzSh_o


So to continue my space themed music - this one's just....such a classic. Oh my. Love Bowie.

Ground Control to Major Tom
Ground Control to Major Tom
Take your protein pills and put your helmet on

(Ten, Nine, Eight, Seven, Six, Five, Four, Three, Two, One, Liftoff)

Ground Control to Major Tom
Commencing countdown, engines on
Check ignition and may God's love be with you

This is Ground Control to Major Tom
You've really made the grade
And the papers want to know whose shirts you wear
Now it's time to leave the capsule if you dare

This is Major Tom to Ground Control
I'm stepping through the door
And I'm floating in a most peculiar way
And the stars look very different today
For here
Am I sitting in a tin can
Far above the world
Planet Earth is blue
And there's nothing I can do

Though I'm past one hundred thousand miles
I'm feeling very still
And I think my spaceship knows which way to go
Tell my wife I love her very much she knows

Ground Control to Major Tom
Your circuit's dead, there's something wrong
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you....

Here am I floating round my tin can
Far above the Moon
Planet Earth is blue
And there's nothing I can do.

Don't Cry Out

Don't Cry Out by Shiny Toy Guns

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nw6b6tLY8RA


This....is my most favorite song in the world. It is so....just everything about it is perfect, in my opinion. It hits that spot just below the heartstrings in exactly the right way, any and every time I listen to it. I love. This song. With all my mind and soul.

I don't get you
I can't forget what you've forgotten
All along
I've never been so alone

Don't cry out
Cease fire

I was pretending
Your secret kiss of confidence
Was my escape
The perfect game to play

Don't cry out
Cease fire

Ten nine eight and I'm breaking away
I'm all dressed up and I'm ready to play
Seven six five four and I'm all over you
Counting three two one and I'm having fun

Your fascination
With naked walls of silk and skin
With no conditions
I needed you to notice
That's all I wanted

Don't cry out
Cease fire

Ten nine eight and I'm breaking away
I'm all dressed up and I'm ready to play
Seven six five four and I'm all over you
Counting three two one and I'm having fun
Ten nine eight and I'm breaking away
I'm all dressed up and I'm ready to play
Seven six five four and I'm all over you
Counting three two one and I'm having fun
Ten nine eight and I'm breaking away
I'm all dressed up and I'm ready to play
Seven six five four and I'm all over you
Counting three two one and I'm having fun
Ten nine eight and I'm breaking away
I'm all dressed up and I'm ready to play
Seven six five four and I'm all over you
Counting three two one and I'm having fun...

You Are the Moon

You Are the Moon by The Hush Sound

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0yccAsWTOY


Shadows all around you as you surface from the dark
Emerging from the gentle grip of night's unfolding arms
Darkness, darkness everywhere, do you feel all alone?
The subtle grace of gravity, the heavy weight of stone

You don't see what you possess, a beauty calm and clear
It floods the sky and blurs the darkness like a chandelier
All the light that you possess is skewed by lakes and seas
The shattered surface, so imperfect, is all that you believe

I will bring a mirror, so silver, so exact
So precise and so pristine, a perfect pane of glass
I will set the mirror up to face the blackened sky
You will see your beauty every moment that you rise

Rocketship

Rocketship by Shiny Toy Guns


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNb0QEgsUv8


ASDLJFASDJFOIWEOISJDJADLJFAF love this song. This is Shiloh and I's song. This song is happiness compressed in an MPEG file. This song has its own dance routine and a pink sparkley rocketship of love in the corner of an apartment in Montreal.


Can we get away?
Far away...
Let's leave this place
Will you come with me?
Are you down...
To turn your world around
Its you and me tonight...
Leave it all behind

Let's go for a ride...

Say goodnight to gravity
Hold on to me...
The passing stars light the way
The future's here today
Its you and me tonight
Leave it all behind...

In my rocketship
We'll leave the light of day
Staying on then turning away
There's no tomorrow
Just today...
Together we will follow
...fly away
Never mind tomorrow
...just today

Let's go for a ride
It's you and me tonight
Let's go for a ride
Leave it all behind
Let's go for a ride

Major Tom (Coming Home)

Major Tom (Coming Home) by Peter Schilling


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NiOZMlD9TA



Originally done in German, he translated it into English for this 1983 version. And several others. But this is my favorite of them all (though the German one's pretty good too). I. Love. This. Song.

Shiny Toy Guns also did a cover of this. I only found out about that tonight, which is odd considering how much I adored them at one point and would have known months before it was released. Guess I'm just not the fan I used to be, just like they aren't the band they used to be with Carah gone now.


Standing there alone,
the ship is waiting.
All systems are go.
"Are you sure?"
Control is not convinced,
but the computer
has the evidence.
No need to abort.
The countdown starts.

Watching in a trance,
the crew is certain.
Nothing left to chance,
all is working.
Trying to relax
up in the capsule
"Send me up a drink."
jokes Major Tom.
The count goes on...

4, 3, 2, 1
Earth below us
drifting, falling.
Floating weightless
calling, calling home...

Second stage is cut.
We're now in orbit.
Stabilizers up,
runnning perfect.
Starting to collect
requested data.
"What will it affect
when all is done?"
thinks Major Tom.

Back at ground control,
there is a problem.
"Go to rockets full."
Not responding.
"Hello Major Tom.
Are you receiving?
Turn the thrusters on.
We're standing by."
There's no reply.

4, 3, 2, 1
Earth below us
drifting, falling.
Floating weightless
calling, calling home...

Across the stratosphere,
a final message:
"Give my wife my love."
Then nothing more.

Far beneath the ship,
the world is mourning.
They don't realize
he's alive.
No one understands,
but Major Tom sees.
"Now the light commands
this is my home,
I'm coming home."

Earth below us
drifting, falling.
Floating weightless
coming home...
Earth below us
drifting, falling.
Floating weightless
coming, coming
home...
home.....

A Perfect Sonnet

A Perfect Sonnet by Bright Eyes. It is, indeed, perfect. Possibly one of my top 5 all time favorite I-can't-choose-which-I-like-more songs, lyrically. First heard it in summer of 2006 at my uncle's house in Connecticut one lonely night when I was up late tyring to get a little freedom. Loved it then. Still love it now. I really want to listen to more of Bright Eyes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXYM6-X8c3o&feature=PlayList&p=15DACA5C91006793&index=0


Lately I've been wishing I had one desire
Something that would make me never want another
Something that would make it so that nothing matters
All would be clear then

But I guess i'll have to settle for a few brief moments
And watch it all dissolve into a single second
Try to write it down into a perfect sonnet
Or one foolish line
'Cause that's all that you'll get so you'll have to accept
You are here then you're gone

But i believe that lovers should be tied together
Thrown into the ocean in the worst of weather
Left there to drown
Left there to drown
In their innocence
But as for me i'm coming to the final chapter
I read all of the pages and there's still no answer
Only all that was before i know must soon come after
That's the only way it can be

So I stand in the sun
And I breathe with my lungs
Trying to spare me the weight of the truth
Saying everything you've ever seen was just a mirror
Spent your whole life sweating in an endless fever
Now you're laying in a bathtub full of freezing water
Wishing you were a ghost
But once you knew a girl and you named her lover
Danced with her in kitchens through the greenest summer
Autumn came, she disappeared
You can't remember where she said she was going to
But you know that she is gone 'cause she left you a song
That you don't want to sing

Singing I believe that lovers should be chained together
Thrown into a fire with their songs and letters
Left there to burn
Left there to burn
In their arrogance
But as for me i'm coming to my final failure
Killed myself with changes trying to make things better
Ended up becoming something other than what I had planned to be

Now i believe that lovers should be draped in flowers
And layed entwined together on a bed of clover
Left there to sleep
Left there to dream of their happiness

On the Radio

On the Radio by Regina Spektor. Possibly my favorite song by her. I just...can't understand how she comes up with these lyics. So incredibly genius.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PErGYWLO9GE&feature=PlayList&p=754F69728856D7D6&index=0

This is how it works
It feels a little worse
Than when we drove our hearse
Right through that screaming crowd
While laughing up a storm
Until we were just bone
Until it got so warm
That none of us could sleep
And all the styrofoam
Began to melt away
We tried to find some worms
To aid in the decay
But none of them were home
Inside their catacomb
A million ancient bees
Began to sting our knees
While we were on our knees
Praying that disease
Would leave the ones we love and never come again

On the radio
We heard November Rain
That solo's really long
But it's a pretty song
We listened to it twice'
Cause the DJ was asleep

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
And on the radio
You hear November Rain
That solo's awful long
But it's a good refrain
You listen to it twice'
Cause the DJ is asleep

On the radio(oh oh oh)
On the radio
On the radio - uh oh
On the radio - uh oh
On the radio - uh oh
On the radio

Baby Jesus

Baby Jesus by Regina Spektor. Not on any album or available anywhere, unfortunately :(

v=n_cOkWjYEiE&feature=PlayList&p=0023C3D1C545D97F&index=0

You know that statue
That statue of baby jesus
In the windowin the window of the 99 cent store
Last night I saw the owner kiss it
And whisper in its ear

I was walking home from walgreen's
And he did not hear me see him
And on the very very next morning
All the subway cars were hallelu-leluing
Welcome back the baby king, the baby king
All the believers they were smiling
And winking at each other
I could honestly say I was scared for my life

They said, all the non-believers they get to eat dirt
And the believers get to spit on their graves...

You know that statue
That statue of baby jesus
In the window
In the window of the 99 cent store
They've been showing it on the news
It was thirty times its size
With a megaphone and a heart-shaped bruise
It was hovering in the skiesand all the
Subway cars were hallelu-lelu-leluing, hallejuah
Welcome back the baby king, the baby king
All the believers they were smiling
And winking at each other
I could honestly say I was scared for my life

They said, all the non-believers they get to eat dirt
And the believers get to spit on their graves...
Believe!...

You know that statue
That statue of baby jesus
In the window
In the window of the 99 cent store
When I woke up I ran and bought it
And locked it in my closet
With a little bread and water
And a flashlight and a first aid kit til he grows

Samson

Samson by Regina Spektor <3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoluLfvTW3s&feature=related

You are my sweetest downfall
I loved you first, I loved you first
Beneath the sheets of paper lies my truth
I have to go, I have to go
Your hair was long when we first met
Samson went back to bed
Not much hair left on his head
He ate a slice of wonder bread and went right back to bed
And history books forgot about us and the bible didn't mention us
And the bible didn't mention us, not even once

You are my sweetest downfall
I loved you first, I loved you first
Beneath the stars came fallin' on our heads
But they're just old light, they're just old light
Your hair was long when we first met

Samson came to my bed
Told me that my hair was red
Told me I was beautiful and came into my bed
Oh I cut his hair myself one night
A pair of dull scissors in the yellow light
And he told me that I'd done alright
And kissed me 'til the mornin' light, the mornin' light
And he kissed me 'til the mornin' light

Samson went back to bed
Not much hair left on his head
Ate a slice of wonderbread and went right back to bed
Oh, we couldn't bring the columns down
Yeah we couldn't destroy a single one
And history books forgot about us
And the bible didn't mention us, not even once

You are my sweetest downfall
I loved you first

Laughing With

Laughing With by Regina Spektor. She's an effing genius.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rov3pV9PsRI

No one laughs at God in a hospital
No one laughs at God in a war
No one’s laughing at God
When they’re starving or freezing or so very poor

No one laughs at God
When the doctor calls after some routine tests
No one’s laughing at God
When it’s gotten real late
And their kid’s not back from the party yet

No one laughs at God
When their airplane start to uncontrollably shake
No one’s laughing at God
When they see the one they love, hand in hand with someone else
And they hope that they’re mistaken

No one laughs at God
When the cops knock on their door
And they say we got some bad news, sir
No one’s laughing at God
When there’s a famine or fire or flood

*Chorus*
But God can be funny
At a cocktail party when listening to a good God-themed joke, or
Or when the crazies say He hates us
And they get so red in the head you think they’re ‘bout to choke
God can be funny,
When told he’ll give you money if you just pray the right way
And when presented like a genie who does magic like Houdini
Or grants wishes like Jiminy Cricket and Santa Claus
God can be so hilarious
Ha ha
Ha ha

No one laughs at God in a hospital
No one laughs at God in a war
No one’s laughing at God
When they’ve lost all they’ve got
And they don’t know what for

No one laughs at God on the day they realize
That the last sight they’ll ever see is a pair of hateful eyes
No one’s laughing at God when they’re saying their goodbyes
But God can be funny
At a cocktail party when listening to a good God-themed joke, or
Or when the crazies say He hates us
And they get so red in the head you think they’re ‘bout to choke
God can be funny,
When told he’ll give you money if you just pray the right way
And when presented like a genie who does magic like Houdini
Or grants wishes like Jiminy Cricket and Santa Claus
God can be so hilarious

No one laughs at God in a hospital
No one laughs at God in a war
No one laughs at God in a hospital
No one laughs at God in a war
No one laughing at God in hospital
No one’s laughing at God in a war
No one’s laughing at God when they’re starving or freezing or so very
poor

No one’s laughing at God
No one’s laughing at God
No one’s laughing at God
We’re all laughing with God

3rd Planet

3rd Planet by Modest Mouse


The lyrics are a part of the video. So good. Love this song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbqYzArcTqQ&feature=PlayList&p=DC745F8C2F75E711&index=0

Music Is My Hot Hot Sex

Music Is My Hot Hot Sex
By CSS


From all the drugs the one i like more is music
From all the junks the one i need more is music
From all the boys the one i take home is music
From all the ladies the one i kiss is music
Music is my boyfriend
Music is my girlfriend
Music is my dead end
Music is my imaginary friend
Music is my brother
Music is my great-grand-daughter
Music is my sister
Music is my favorite mistress

From all the shit the one i gotta buy is music
From all the jobs the one i choose is music
From all the drinks the one i get drunk of music
From all the bitches the one i wannabe is music
Music is my beach house
Music is my hometown
Music is my kingsize bed
Music is where i meet my friends
Music is my hot hot bath
Music is my hot hot sex
Music is my back rub
My music is where i'd like you to touch

Claro-que-simFui escoteira-mirim
Direto da escola, não
Não ia cheirar cola
Nem basquete, pebolim
O que eu gosto não é de graça
O que gosto não é farsa
Tem guitarra, bateria, computador saindo som
Alguns dizem que mais alto que um furacão (rhéum)

Perto dele eu podia sentir
Saía de seu olho e chegava em mim
Sentada do seu lado
Eu queria encostar
Faria o tigela até o sol raiar
Debaixo do lençol
Ele gemia em ré bemol
Fiquei tensa
Mas tava tudo bem (tudo bem)

Ele é fodão, mas eu sei que eu sou também
Ele é fodão, mas eu sei que eu sou também
Ele é fodão, mas eu sei que eu sou também
Ele é fodão, mas eu sei que eu sou também
Ele é fodão, mas eu sei que eu sou também


I don’t know why I like this song so much. It’s just been stuck in my head all day. Couldn’t find a proper video for viewing/listening. Sorry.

Ocean Breathes Salty

Ocean Breathes Salty
By Modest Mouse



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZE-ML-BAAfY
(watch the video)

Your body may be gone, I'm gonna carry you in.
In my head, in my heart, in my soul.
And maybe we'll get lucky and we'll both live again.
Well I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. Don't think so.

Well that is that and this is this.
You tell me what you want and I'll tell you what you get.
You get away from me. You get away from me.
Collected my belongings and I left the jail.
Well thanks for the time, I needed to think a spell.
I had to think awhile. I had to think awhile.

The ocean breathes salty, won't you carry it in?
In your head, in your mouth, in your soul.
And maybe we'll get lucky and we'll both grow old.
Well I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I hope so.

Well that is that and this is this.
You tell me what you want and I'll tell you what you get.
You get away from me. You get away from me.
Collected my belongings and I left the jail.
Well thanks for the time, I needed to think a spell.
I had to think awhile. I had to think awhile.

Well that is that and this is this.
Will you tell me what you saw and I'll tell you what you missed,
when the ocean met the sky.
You missed when time and life shook hands and said goodbye.
When the earth folded in on itself.
And said "Good luck, for your sake I hope heaven and hell
are really there, but I wouldn't hold my breath."
You wasted life, why wouldn't you waste death?
You wasted life, why wouldn't you waste death?

The ocean breathes salty, won't you carry it in?
In your head, in your mouth, in your soul.
The more we move ahead the more we're stuck in rewind.
Well I don't mind. I don't mind. How the hell could I mind?

Well that is that and this is this.
You tell me what you want and I'll tell you what you get.
You get away from me. You get away from me.

Well that is that and this is this.
Will you tell me what you saw and I'll tell you what you missed,
when the ocean met the sky.
You wasted life, why wouldn't you waste the afterlife?





Mike made me listen to it. The music is beautiful, the lyrics are beautiful, the video is beautiful. It’s such a sad song, but…touching. It’s so original. Not the kind of sound you hear every day. It took a few listens to appreciate it quite as much as I do now, but it was worth it.

Also, I know I was going to reserve this blog mainly for songs, but I have to say how much I love the music video. It’s exactly the kind of thing I think is incredible. It made my day. You rarely get something that right, but it’s perfect.

I Heart You Online

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vVdWHADKto&feature=channel_page

Just watch. Just...it's too amazing.

Love Rymes With Hideous Car Wreck

Love Rymes With Hideous Car Wreck by the Blood Brothers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OEtlteAojI

(Please don't watch the video - just listen to it. It's so annoying to watch. Even I, who love the song, am pissed the fuck off by this video. Also, the sound lags so the visuals are off and it just gives you a headache. Yeah - just listen. Please.)

Those tire tracks

Zigzag your torso like the Devil's self portrait

The car accident, the skin graft treatment,

The flower basketsThe wincing relatives...

You bid her farewell then got in your car

And that's the last thing that you can recall

And when they pulled you out

You didn't know your name

Exploding semi truck, I blurred your face with flame...

You met Jane four years ago today

Dancing at some vomit-stained frat party

Her newspaper gown, a flashing headline brown,

her violent gypsy danc, her tired underpants...

Love, love, love, love, love, love

Love, love, love, love, love, love

Rhymes with pity now

Love, love, love, love, love, love

Love, love, love, love, love, love

Rhymes with sympathy now

Jane let you touch and feel her

She was so free like a pineapple in a tree, but

You said it's dangerous

To be so intimate

You know it's dangerous, dangerous, dangerous

And Jane said when she laid on her back

The sun hit her body like an ugly landscape

But some things never get better

Like used cars and bad livers

So you traded her in for a better looking brand

One with fake porno tits

A pad lock on her lips

A disposable tan

Biodegradable hands

Back at the hospital

You got no visitors at all

She visits you in your sleep

That newspaper gown (you want it)

Is always on fire (you want it)

Back at the hospital

You got no visitors at all

She visits you in your sleep

But that newspaper gown (you want it)

Is always on fire (you want it)

She met him a week after you left her

When you tossed out her untouched to the garbage collector

He talked her out of her skirt in his beer-soaked apartment

And then they did all the things

You never said that you wanted

And the sirens are laughing underneath your skull

And your thoughts are turning dull, callous and cold

Last night you gave your burden a name

Last night you gave your burden a face

But your burden looks an awful lot like her

Love, love, love, love, love, love

Love, love, love, love, love, love

Rhymes with pity now

Love, love, love, love, love, love

Love, love, love, love, love, love

Rhymes with sympathy now

Love, love, love, love, love, love

Love, love, love, love, love, love

This song…wow. It’s bizarre. I decided to put it as my first post on this blog just because it’s very strange and the whole band is one that normally goes against all my tastes in music. But my friend loved this song so much that she made me listen to it – and the whole album – three times while she was at my house one day. I kind of worshipped her back then, so anything she liked, I tried to like to – this included. Needless to say, it kind of grew on me, both the song and the band. I’m not quite sure how it happened exactly.

So let’s see…I like this song because it’s not your typical love song. It’s ugly. Everything about it is ugly – the story, the singing, the images the lyrics give – but it just hits something right. There’s a lot of anger and regret and disgust. And the chorus. Oh, how I love the chorus! Everything about it is perfect and it’s what saved the song for me. I wouldn’t have been able to stand listening to it otherwise. A lot of people hate Blood Brothers lyrics and call them juvenile – which is kind of true. It’s emo poetry half the time. But despite that I still enjoy listening to it. There’s something raw about it; they don’t shy away from the feeling they want to portray, even if it is somewhat adolescent. The music in itself is pretty good once you get past the singing. They’ve got some really good tunes and guitar work that play with the vocals throughout. I’ve only been able to start listening to the instruments in Blood Brothers songs recently just because I’ve always been overpowered by the voices. But now that I have, I’m pleasantly surprised.

I kind of suck at reviewing, especially music, so this is how I’m going to end my first post. Hopefully more shall follow!!

And give the song a chance, even if you don’t like it at first. It’s the kind of thing that must be listened to more than once.