Song of the Day: Adrianne Lenker - Anything

Sometimes a song just reaches out and grabs you, and you play it over and over.  This is one of those songs, for me. 

adrianne lenker - anything (official audio)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bs4MffKz9rk


I love the lyrics in this song, by the way.  From AZLyrics.com:

https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/adriannelenker/anything.html

AdriAnne Lenker Lyrics

"Anything"

Staring down the barrel of the hot sun

Shining with the sheen of a shotgun

Careless little swinging sun

Joyous rays, we wanna come

Hanging your jeans with a clothes pin

Skin still wet still on my skin

Mango in your mouth, juice dripping

Shoulder of your shirtsleeve slipping

Christmas eve with your mother and sis

Don't wanna fight but your mother insists

Dog's white teeth slice right through my fist

Drive to the ER and you put me on my wrist

Grocery store list, now you get this

Brunch, had calls and messages

I don't wanna be the owner of your fantasy

I just wanna be a part of your family

And I don't wanna talk about anything

I don't wanna talk about anything

I wanna kiss, kiss your eyes again

Wanna witness your eyes looking

I don't wanna talk about anyone

I don't wanna talk about anyone

I wanna sleep in your car while you're driving

Lay on your lap when I'm crying

Circle of pine and riddle

Circle of moss and fire smoke

Fan on the ceiling like a wheel spoke

Push the clutch in and I pull the choke

Wanna listen to the sound of you blinking

Wanna listen your hands soothe

Listen to your heart beating

Listen to the way you move

And I don't wanna talk about anything

I don't wanna talk about anything

I wanna kiss, kiss your eyes again

Wanna witness your eyes looking

I don't wanna talk about anyone

I don't wanna talk about anyone

I wanna sleep in your car while you're driving

Lay on your lap when I'm crying

Ordering the stars in Heaven

Hurling salt in the sea

Dragging a new-born mountain

Didn't you believe in me?

You held me the whole way through

When I couldn't say the words like you

I was scared indigo go but I wanted to

I was scared indigo go but I wanted to

And I don't wanna talk about anything

I don't wanna talk about anything

I wanna kiss, kiss your eyes again

Wanna witness your eyes looking

I don't wanna talk about anyone

I don't wanna talk about anyone

I wanna sleep in your car while you're driving

Lay on your lap when I'm crying

Song of the Day: Frances Cone - '93 or '94

I love love love finding new music.  Before the artists become really well known.  Or even if they don't, frankly.

This song blew me away.  I listened to it over and over, as well as other songs by the band, when I first heard it.

And now here it is for you, my seven* readers.  You're welcome.

'93 or '94

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

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Song of the Day: Dragonette - Detonate

Not sure when this came out, but I think I missed it.  No matter, I found it now.  I love the vibe, just as I do with many Dragonette songs.    :)

Dragonette - Detonate (Official Audio)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ne_MQt41W_o

Lyrics, from AZLyrics.com.

https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/dragonette/detonate.html

"Detonate"

Another level into another obstacle course

We fall another ten feet through another trap door

And I don't wanna find a safe way home

I'm right where I want

And I believe we belong somewhere in between lost and found

And I, I don't think it can be wrong flying too close to the sun

I swear this love is so precarious

If you're a spark then I want to take it for pain

And even in the tiniest dust we'll light on

We'll light on, we'll light on in flames and detonate..

We detonate

We light up and detonate

Detonate

Living in our own natural disaster

Not really what we want, but kinda what we've asked for

We don't need to find a place to hide

'Cause we've come alive

And I believe we belong somewhere in between right and wrong

And I, I don't think that [?] flying too close to the sun

I swear this love is feeling dangerous

If you're a spark then I want to take it for pain

And even in the tiniest dust we'll light on

We'll light on, we'll light on in flames and detonate

We detonate

We light up and detonate

Detonate

If this is our, our time to go

Is there a better way to explore

Fill up the sky with ashes and dust

And when it settles down, we will never ask for more

I swear this love is so precarious

If you're a spark then I want to take it for pain

And even in the tiniest dust we'll light on

Oh, well this love is feeling dangerous

You are a spark and I want to take it for pain

And even in the tiniest dust we'll light on

We'll light on, we'll light on in flames and detonate

We detonate

We light up and detonate

Detonate

Song of the Day: Molly Tuttle - Sunflower, Vol. 6

Have I mentioned to you, my seven* readers, how much I love finding new music?  Well, it's true.  I do.  This is a perfect example.  So talented, such a delicate touch.  Perfect.

Molly Tuttle - Sunflower, Vol. 6 (Harry Styles Cover - Official Audio)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZg3WFVpkEc

Lyrics, from Genius.com

https://genius.com/Molly-tuttle-sunflower-vol-6-lyrics

Sunflower, Vol. 6

Molly Tuttle

Produced by Tony Berg

Album ...but i’d rather be with you

  

[Verse]

Sunflower, my eyes want you more than a melody

Let me inside, wish I could get to know you

Sunflowers sometimes keep it sweet in your memory

I was just tongue-tied

[Bridge]

I don't wanna make you feel bad

But I've been trying hard not to talk to you

My sunflower

[Chorus]

I couldn't want you any more

Kiss in the kitchen like it's a dance floor

I couldn't want you any more

Tonight, tonight, tonight

[Verse]

Wondering headshake, tired eyes are the death of me

Mouthful of toothpaste before I got to know you

I've got your face hung up high in the gallery

Out of this shade, sunflowеr, sunflower

[Verse]

Your flowers just died

Plant nеw seeds in the melody

Let me inside

I wanna get to know you

[Bridge]

I don't wanna make you feel bad

But I've been trying hard not to act a fool

My sunflower

[Chorus]

I couldn't want you any more

Kiss in the kitchen like it's a dance floor

I couldn't want you any more

Tonight, tonight, tonight

I couldn't want you any more

Kiss in the kitchen like it's a dance floor

I couldn't want you any more

Tonight, tonight

[Verse]

Sunflower, my eyes want you more than a melody

Let me inside, wish I could get to know you

Sunflowers just died, keep it sweet in your memory

I'm still tongue-tied, sunflower, sunflower

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Song of the Day: The Cranberries - Dreams

Classic song, from a great band.  Came up in my YouTube suggestions, after listening to some songs from Allie Sherlock busking on Grafton Street, Dublin.  If you don't know where that is or why it's cool, let me just say this: It's worth a trip, in my opinion.

I don't like seeing stars from my youth dying, by the way.  Makes me feel old.  And reflective.  Dolores O'Riordan was younger than me, something I didn't realize until just now.  Did her dreams come true??   :(

The Cranberries - Dreams (Official Music Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yam5uK6e-bQ

Lyrics, from AZLyrics.com.  Cheesy at times, perhaps, but I happen to really like them.
https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/cranberries/dreams.html

The Cranberries Lyrics

"Dreams"

Oh, my life

Is changing everyday

In every possible way

And oh, my dreams

It's never quite as it seems

Never quite as it seems

I know I felt like this before

But now I'm feeling it even more

Because it came from you

Then I open up and see

The person falling here is me

A different way to be

Aaah, la-a-la-aaah

La la laaaa

La-a-la-aah

La-ah ah aaah

I want more

Impossible to ignore

Impossible to ignore

And they'll come true

Impossible not to do

Impossible not to do

And now I tell you openly

You have my heart so don't hurt me

You're what I couldn't find

A totally amazing mind

So understanding and so kind

You're everything to me

Oh, my life

Is changing everyday

In every possible way

And oh, my dreams

It's never quite as it seems

'Cause you're a dream to me

Dream to me

Song of the Day: Van Halen - Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love

Another thing to talk about with my daughters.  Why is Eddie Van Halen, who died a few days ago on October 6th, significant?  Maybe this song, the opening guitar work, will help them understand.  This is what I think about when I hear "Eddie Van Halen."

Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love (2015 Remaster)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtwBFz6lfrY

Song of the Day: Iron and Wine - The Trapeze Singer

Okay, so I lied.  One more song with a fantastic wistful vibe.  I can't stop playing this song.  It's perfect.

Iron and Wine - The Trapeze Swinger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yt7O8gDy0DA

Lyrics, from AZLyrics.com:
https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/ironwine/thetrapezeswinger.html

Iron & Wine Lyrics

"The Trapeze Swinger"

Please remember me, happily

By the rosebush laughing

With bruises on my chin, the time when

We counted every black car passing

Your house beneath the hill and up until

Someone caught us in the kitchen

With maps, a mountain range, a piggy bank

A vision too removed to mention

But please remember me, fondly

I heard from someone you're still pretty

And then they went on to say that the Pearly Gates

Had some eloquent graffiti

Like 'We'll meet again' and 'Fuck the man'

And 'Tell my mother not to worry'

And angels with their great handshakes

But always done in such a hurry

And please remember me, at Halloween

Making fools of all the neighbors

Our faces painted white, by midnight

We'd forgotten one another

And when the morning came I was ashamed

Only now it seems so silly

That season left the world and then returned

And now you're lit up by the city

So please remember me, mistakenly

In the window of the tallest tower

Call, then pass us by but much too high

To see the empty road at happy hour

Gleam and resonate just like the gates

Around the Holy Kingdom

With words like, 'Lost and found' and 'Don't look down'

And 'Someone save temptation'

And please remember me as in the dream

We had as rug burned babies

Among the fallen trees and fast asleep

Beside the lions and the ladies

That called you what you like and even might

Give a gift for your behavior

A fleeting chance to see a trapeze

Swinger high as any savior

But please remember me, my misery

And how it lost me all I wanted

Those dogs that love the rain and chasing trains

The colored birds above there running

In circles round the well and where it spells

On the wall behind St. Peter

So bright on cinder gray in spray paint

'Who the hell can see forever?'

And please remember me, seldomly

In the car behind the carnival

My hand between your knees, you turn from me

And said the trapeze act was wonderful

But never meant to last, the clowns that passed

Saw me just come up with anger

When it filled with circus dogs, the parking lot

Had an element of danger

So please remember me, finally

And all my uphill clawing

My dear, but if I make the Pearly Gates

I'll do my best to make a drawing

Of God and Lucifer, a boy and girl

An angel kissin' on a sinner

A monkey and a man, a marching band

All around the frightened trapeze swinger

Nah nah nah

Nah nah nah

Nah nah