Song of the Day: Sinead O'Connor - Sacrifice (Elton John Cover)

I honestly can't remember the last time I heard a song this utterly beautiful.  Wow.

Sinead O'Connor Elton John Sacrifice Gorgeous Cover

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUbwjLOJczw&t=3s

Lyrics from AZLyrics.com:

https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/eltonjohn/sacrifice.html

"Sacrifice"

It's a human sign

When things go wrong

When the scent of her lingers

And temptations strong

Into the boundary

Of each married man

Sweet deceit comes a callin'

And negativity lands

Cold, cold heart

Hard done by you

Some things looking better baby

Just passin' through

And it's no sacrifice

Just a simple word

It's two hearts living

In two separate worlds

But it's no sacrifice

No sacrifice

It's no sacrifice at all

Mutual misunderstanding

After the fact

Sensitivity builds a prison

In the final act

We lose direction

No stone unturned

No tears to damn you

When jealousy burns

Cold, cold heart

Hard done by you

Some things looking better, baby

Just passin' through

And it's no sacrifice

Just a simple word

It's two hearts living

In two separate worlds

But, it's no sacrifice

No sacrifice

It's no sacrifice, at all

Cold, cold heart

Hard done by you

Some things looking better, baby

Just passin' through

And it's no sacrifice

Just a simple word

It's two hearts living

In two separate worlds

But, it's no sacrifice

No sacrifice

It's no sacrifice, at all

No sacrifice, at all

No sacrifice, at all

No sacrifice, at all

No sacrifice, at all

Song of the Day: Julien Baker - Highlight Reel

New music from Julien Baker?  Yes, please!!  Fabulous vibe in this song, keeping the connection even with a larger backing band.

Highlight Reel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8LW5IUQR2Q

Lyrics from AZLyrics.com:

https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/julienbaker/highlightreel.html

"Highlight Reel"

Pass out in the back of a cab

Could you pull over

I think that I'm trapped

Caught underwater

I beat on the glass

Gnawing my arm at the shoulder

Would you help me get out?

Ooh it's a highlight reel

Tell me how

You feel

Pulling down a projector

Scratched in the back of my eyes

Hovering over

Tangled in

The power lines

Ooh It's a highlight reel

Tell me how to feel

Tell me what snuffed out

The wick in your eye

Pumping your chest to

Make sure you're alive

When it dies

You can tell me

How much was a lie

I guess that's for me to decide

When it dies

You can tell me

How much was a lie

I guess that's for me to decide

Song of the Day: Billie Eilish, ROSALÍA - Lo Vas A Olvidar

 I love the vibe in this song.  Two great artists collaborating.

Billie Eilish, ROSALÍA - Lo Vas A Olvidar (Official Music Video)

I like the commentary, along with the English translation here:

https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/latin/9514644/billie-eilish-rosalia-lo-vas-a-olvidar-lyrics-translation-english/

The slow-tempo, bilingual song has dreamlike, almost hazy melodies that bring to the forefront Eilish and Rosalia's vocal chemistry and enchanting harmonies.

Translated lyrics from LyricsTranslate.com:

https://lyricstranslate.com/en/lo-vas-olvidar-you-are-going-forget-it.html

English, Spanish

Lo Vas A Olvidar

[Verse 1: ROSALÍA & Billie Eilish, Ambos]

Dime si me echas de meno' aún

Dime si no me perdonas aún

Que harás con to' este veneno, nada bueno

Dime si me echas de meno' aún

 

[Chorus: ROSALÍA & Billie Eilish]

¿Lo va' a olvidar? Can you let it go?

Can you let it go? ¿Lo va' a olvidar?

Can you let it go? ¿Lo va' a olvidar?

¿Lo va' a olvidar? Can you let it go?

Can you let it go? ¿Lo va' a olvidar?

Can you let it go? ¿Lo va' a olvidar?

Can you let it go? ¿Lo va' a olvidar?

 

[Verse 2: Billie Eilish & ROSALÍA]

Dime que no te arrepientes aún

Dime si aún queda algo en común

El tiempo que se pierde no vuelve

Dame un beso y bájame de la cru'

 

[Chorus: ROSALÍA & Billie Eilish]

¿Lo va' a olvidar? Can you let it go?

Can you let it go? ¿Lo va' a olvidar?

Can you let it go? ¿Lo va' a olvidar?

¿Lo va' a olvidar? Can you let it go?

Can you let it go? ¿Lo va' a olvidar?

Can you let it go? ¿Lo va' a olvidar?

 

[Bridge: ROSALÍA]

Ay, ay

Ay, ay, ay, ah-ah

 

[Outro: ROSALÍA & Billie Eilish]

El amor no puede medirse en un paso firme

Un dia soy un Dios y al otro puedo partirme

I needed to go 'cause I needed to know you don't need me

Could we put you so but it seems like you don't even see me

El amor no puede medirse en un paso firme

Un dia soy un Dios y al otro puedo partirme

You say it to me like that it something I have any choice in

Like if wasn't important why would you waste all your poison

 

English translation

You are going to forget it

Versions: #1#2

[Verse 1: ROSALÍA & Billie Eilish, Both]

Tell me if you miss me yet

Tell me if you don't forgive me yet

What will you do with all this poison, nothing good

Tell me if you miss me yet

 

[Chorus: ROSALÍA & Billie Eilish]

Are you going to forget it? Can you let it go?

Can you let it go? Are you going to forget it?

Can you let it go? Are you going to forget it?

Are you going to forget it? Can you let it go?

Can you let it go? Are you going to forget it?

Can you let it go? Are you going to forget it?

Can you let it go? Are you going to forget it?

 

[Verse 2: Billie Eilish & ROSALÍA]

Tell me you don't regret it yet

Tell me if there is still something in common

The time that is lost does not return

Give me a kiss and lower me from the cross

 

[Chorus: ROSALÍA & Billie Eilish]

Are you going to forget it? Can you let it go?

Can you let it go? Are you going to forget it?

Can you let it go? Are you going to forget it?

Are you going to forget it? Can you let it go?

Can you let it go? Are you going to forget it?

Can you let it go? Are you going to forget it?

 

[Bridge: ROSALÍA]

Ay, ay

Ay, ay, ay, ah-ah

 

[Other: ROSALÍA & Billie Eilish]

Love cannot be measured in a steady step

One day I'm a God and the next I can break

I needed to go 'cause I needed to know you don't need me

Could we put you so but it seems like you don't even see me

Love cannot be measured in a steady step

One day I'm a God and the next I can break

You say it to me like that it something I have any choice in

Like if it wasn't important why would you waste all your poison

 

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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