Song of the Day: Laura Stevenson - Living Room, NY

Have I mentioned that I love songs that capture a certain vibe?  Yes?  Fine, I guess I have.  Remember, it's my blog, and I'll type what I want!   :)

Laura Stevenson - Living Room, NY (Official Audio)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0zcVEaAua0

So I’ll fold the world to be there tonight
Because I want to fall asleep on your time
I want to fall asleep where you lie
I want to fall asleep with you shifting by my side
I want to fall asleep where you lie
I want to fall asleep with you, I
With you, I
With you, I
I miss you, I

Lyrics, from Genius.com:

https://genius.com/Laura-stevenson-living-room-ny-lyrics

Living Room, NY

Laura Stevenson

Album The Big Freeze

  

I want to feel you restless

I want to wake up from it

I want to see you stare at ceilings until you fall back to sleep

I want to feel you restless

I want to wake up from it

I want to see you stare at ceilings until you fall back to sleep

In the waiting room

In the waiting room

In the waiting room

It's a little stuffy in here

I want to wring my hands in open elevators

A shaky finger I am pushing the door open button

I want to feel the urge to press against my neighbors while I keep you in my mind

I keep you in my mind all of the time here

In the waiting room

In the waiting room

In the waiting room

One is moving one is standing

In the waiting room

In the waiting room

In the waiting room

Wonder where we’ll land

Will we fall straight into routine

Or we'll be strangers for a week, stir-crazy, lazy until I leave again

Then I jump out of my skin until you tell me where I am

Living Room, NY

Living Room, NY

I'll give an arm just to hear you in the dark saying, “Living Room, NY”

So I’ll fold the world to be there tonight

Because I want to fall asleep on your time

I want to fall asleep where you lie

I want to fall asleep with you shifting by my side

I want to fall asleep where you lie

I want to fall asleep with you, I

With you, I

With you, I

I miss you, I

Song of the Day: Sasha Sloan - Older

I love this song.  As a father to two beautiful daughters, and as a son with some fucked up parents, this song really touches me.  Sad and true.  Maybe it hits too close to home.  Regardless, I like the message.  I haven't shared it with my daughters yet, as I type this, but I surely will.  I sincerely hope they love it as much as I do.  I hope you do, too.

Sasha Sloan - Older (Lyric Video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1Fx0tqK5Z4

Song lyrics from AZLyrics.com:

https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/sashasloan/older.html

Sasha Sloan Lyrics

"Older"

I used to shut my door when my mother screamed in the kitchen

I'd turn the music up, get high and try not to listen to every little fight

'Cause neither one was right

I swore I'd never be like them

But I was just a kid back then

The older I get the more that I see

My parents aren't heroes, they're just like me

Loving is hard, it don't always work

You just try your best not to get hurt

I used to be mad but now I know

Sometimes it's better to let someone go

It just hadn't hit me yet

The older I get

I used to wonder why, why they can never be happy

I used to close my eyes and pray for a whole 'nother family

Where everything was fine, one that felt like mine

I swore I'd never be like them

But I was just a kid back then

The older I get the more that I see

My parents aren't heroes, they're just like me

Loving is hard, it don't always work

You just try your best not to get hurt

I used to be mad but now I know

Sometimes it's better to let someone go

It just hadn't hit me yet

The older I get

The older I get the more that I see

My parents aren't heroes, they're just like me

Loving is hard, it don't always work

You just try your best not to get hurt

I used to be mad but now I know

Sometimes it's better to let someone go

It just hadn't hit me yet

The older I get

Song of the Day: Tender - Handmade Ego

Something about this song grabs me.

TENDER - Handmade Ego

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTIO-enLIYQ

Lyrics, from Genius.com:

https://genius.com/Tender-handmade-ego-lyrics

Handmade Ego

Tender

Produced by Luca Buccellati

Album Fear of Falling Asleep

    

[Verse 1]

I’ll be looking for the scent when it goes cold

I’ve been trying to beat the maze with a blindfold on

I’ve been foraging through mud and sticks

Searching for that power that don’t exist

Gather my strength and I’ll pull my weight

Run so hard I can only taste blood in my mouth

And I’ll do my work and I’ll break a sweat

Feel your nails drag across my chest

It's all worth the pain

Your sex and savage ways

[Chorus]

So caught up, so caught up in my self-indulgence

I tell myself that I'm not hopeless

When I need you, I need you to struggle with me too

So wrapped up, so wrapped up in my handmade ego

Well knock me down a peg and watch me wallow

'Cause I need you, I need you to struggle with me too

[Verse 2]

I’ve been trying to find the path, keep me on track

Trying to solve the puzzle with my hands tied behind my back

I’ve been keeping my head in the sand

Won’t get involved in what I don’t understand

Sink my teeth into what is mine

I hunt and kill so you can wine and dine

It's all worth my time

Our bodies intertwine

[Chorus]

So caught up, so caught up in my self-indulgence

I tell myself that I'm not hopeless

When I need you, I need you to struggle with me too

So wrapped up, so wrapped up in my handmade ego

Well knock me down a peg and watch me wallow

'Cause I need you, I need you to struggle with me too

[Bridge]

So draw the line, it's there to cross

I think we’ll find a cause we lost

So draw the line, it's there to cross

I think we’ll find a cause we lost

A cause we lost

[Chorus]

So caught up, so caught up in my self-indulgence

I tell myself that I'm not hopeless

When I need you, I need you to struggle with me too

So wrapped up, so wrapped up in my handmade ego

Well knock me down a peg and watch me wallow

'Cause I need you, I need you to struggle with me too

Song of the Day: Death Cab for Cutie - Summer Years

You, my seven* readers, know by now how much I love moody, sad songs.  Well, here's another one, in the "you can't go back" category.  :(

Death Cab for Cutie - Summer Years (Official Audio)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBM-brPlGkQ

Lyrics from AZLyrics.com:

https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/deathcabforcutie/summeryears.html

Death Cab For Cutie Lyrics

"Summer Years"

Sometimes I wake at night

And watch the rain fall through the street lights

'Cause you're standing still in my mind

Fading out, waving goodbye

And I wonder where you are tonight

If the one you're with was a compromise

As we're walking lines in parallel

That will never meet and it's just as well

Sometimes I'm overcome

By every choice I couldn't outrun

The junctions all disappear

You can't double back to your summer years

And I wonder where you are tonight

If the one you're with was a compromise

As we're walking lines in parallel

That will never meet and it's just as well

And I wonder where you are tonight

If the one you're with was a compromise

As we're walking lines in parallel

That will never meet and it's just as well

It's just as well

And I wonder where you are tonight

If the one you're with was a compromise

As we're walking lines in parallel

That will never meet and it's just as well

And I wonder where you are tonight

If the one you're with was a compromise

As we're walking lines in parallel

That will never meet and it's just as well

It's just as well

* estimated

Song of the Day: Better Oblivion Community Center - Dylan Thomas

Phoebe Bridgers has another band?  Well, I think I love everything she does.   :)

Better Oblivion Community Center - Dylan Thomas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXzReYLuavg

Song lyrics, from AZLyrics:

https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/betteroblivioncommunitycenter/dylanthomas.html

"Dylan Thomas" lyrics

Better Oblivion Community Center Lyrics

It was quite early one morning

Hit me without warning

I went to hear the general speak

I was standing for the anthem

Banners all around him

Confetti made it hard to see

Put my footsteps on the pavement

Starved for entertainment

Four seasons of revolving doors

So sick of being honest

I'll die like Dylan Thomas

A seizure on the barroom floor

I'm getting greedy with this private hell

I'll go it alone, but that's just as well

These cats are scared and feral

The flag pins on their lapels

As the truth is anybody's guess

These talking heads are saying

"The king is only playing a game of four dimensional chess"

There's flowers in the rubble

The weeds are gonna tumble

I'm lucid but I still can't think

I'm strapped into a corset

Climbed into your corvette

I'm thirsty for another drink

If it's advertised, we'll try it

And buy some peace and quiet

And shut up at the silent retreat

They say you've gotta fake it

At least until you make it

That ghost is just a kid in a sheet

I'm getting used to these dizzy spells

I'm taking a shower at the Bates Motel

I'm getting greedy with this private hell

I'll go it alone, but that's just as well

Song of the Day: Virginia Wing - Be Released

You know what I'm going to say ..... I love the vibe of this song.   :)

Be Released
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvqebFNUczA




Lyrics, from Genius:
https://genius.com/Virginia-wing-be-released-lyrics

Be Released
Virginia Wing
Album Ecstatic Arrow
 
Tell me: where do you go from here?

I saw a photograph from the past
It showed your family tree all red and gold
It showed your place of birth
And all the colours blurred
Like chalk on a blackboard

And now that you look
It all seems so far away
It's further than it seems

Progress is slow
But it will be easier, it's easier now to say
"I'm home, four doors and all the furniture I own-
Dissolved, I chose to be released from all of this"

It's funny how quickly you forget
And how the smallest of details remain
Flawless and bright
Like the curtains hanging loose
And open in the room
Or your first class when you went to school

And you were last to arrive
You asked your friends for advice
But nothing they said could reach so deep
Or even describe the moment you felt
All alone in your mind
It was the first of five years now -

You're free of all those places
Tell me: where do you go from here?

And now that you look
It all seems so far away
It's further than it seems

Progress is slow
It will be easier, it's easier now to say
"I'm home, four doors and all the furniture I own -
Dissolved, I chose to be released from all of this"

You found a story for yourself
Built from a dream
Removed all inheritance and debt
From here there's nowhere else

And now that you look
It all seems so far away
It's further than it seems

Progress is slow
It will be easier, it's easier now to say
"I'm home, four doors and all the furniture I own -
Dissolved, I chose to be released from all of this"

Four doors
A shelf
A wall
Windows
Chairs
Carpets
And stairs

Song of the Day: Wet - Love is Not Enough

Yet another new band whose vibe I love.

Love is Not Enough
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRHySJl4u9o




Song Lyrics from AZLyrics.com:
https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/wet/loveisnotenough.html

Wet Lyrics
"Love Is Not Enough"

Roll her over in the knee high water
And they [?] a part of her that's never been seen before
And mine is flowing like a scene from the autumn
People showing just to look and laugh

Because love is not enough
No, love is not

Call your sisters and your little cousins
And hide the kids they're laying out on the corner
And they come runnin' when it's all [?]
All their wounds are gone, and you're left with memories

Love is not enough
Don't let them tell you
Love is not enough

And I told you once, but I will say it louder
The love we had — it grew tall like a flower
Then all at once it will [?] over
And it left with yourself and the ghost of another

Love is not enough

Oh, I dreamed you last night
You, you whispered to me
The water is fine, but now the
The wine is flowing
And I wish that we could stay there
Right there forever, but I promise you that I will always remember

Love is not enough
Don't let them tell you
Love is not enough
Don't listen to them
Love is not enough