Embrace - Ashes

Artist: Embrace

Song: Ashes

Album: Out Of Nothing

Year: 2004

"I've waited, and given the chance again, I'd do it all the same, but either way I'm always outplayed, up on your down days, I left it the right way, to start again..."

"Now watch me rise up and leave all the ashes you made out of me, when you said that we were wrong, life goes on, just look how long I've agreed..."

"Out of place, like a gem on a coalface, lost on the right way, it's all the same. 'Cause I've had my hopes raised, riding the wrong waves, scared when you feel safe to start again..."

*A PHRASE: Just like the Phoenix, just like the Phoenix... Hell yeah!

BTW... It's Friday, cheer up!

http://www.embrace.co.uk/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace_(English_band)

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Semisonic - F.N.T.

Artist: Semisonic

Song: F.N.T.

Album: Great Divide

Year: 1996

"Fascinating new thing, you delight me and I know you're speaking of me..."

"I'm surprised that you've never been told before that you're lovely and you're perfect and that somebody wants you... I'm surprised that you've never been told before that you're priceless, yeah, you're precious even when you are not new..."

*A BIG SIGH: I've never had spent so much time deciding which song to post... Almost 2 hours and no song convinced me... But here it is... F.N.T. Enjoy! :)

http://www.semisonic.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semisonic

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Pixies - Here Comes Your Man

Artist: Pixies

Song: Here Comes Your Man

Album: Doolittle

Year: 1989

"...I know the nervous walking, I know the dirty beard hangs out by the box car waiting. Take me away to nowhere plains, there is a wait so long, you never wait so long, here comes your man, here comes your man, here comes your man!"

*A QUICK FACT: Even though this song is about an earthquake, today I'm giving it another interpretation (at least to the title of it), one with so much conviction in it! Oh yeah! Here comes your man!

http://www.pixiesmusic.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixies

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Mumm-Ra - She's Got You High

Artist: Mumm-Ra

Song: She's Got You High

Album: These Things Move In Threes

Year: 2007

"She's got you high and you don't even know yet, it's the search for the time before it leaves without you, have you lost your mind or has she taken all of yours too?"

"What's this about? I figured love would shine through, we've lost romance, this world it's turned so see through, open your mind, believe it's going to come true, keep romance alive and hope she's going to tell you..."

*A QUICKIE: It came and kick me right in the nuts... I felt so damn related to it and realized that I've been losing opportunities just because I was being so fucking blind and had my eyes set on something that was going nowhere and I somehow knew it but... I must not have been looking, I must not have been looking, and maybe it is high time I started to open my eyes wide and start looking... But just to be sure and have no 'What ifs' later, I'm going to go until the very end, so, as I said, there is no doubt about it...

http://www.myspace.com/mummra

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumm-Ra_(band)

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Liquido - Play Some Rock

Artist: Liquido

Song: Play Some Rock

Album: At The Rocks

Year: 2000

"...doing some rehearsal, exercising in the cold, lowering the standard for the six-string never rolled, whistling at the girls and saving for the fuel, making plans and knock, knock, knock on wood..."

"Sentenced by our faults that we were to make in time, pleasantly aware of our solitude in mind, saved me from the boredom of what we disavowed, encouraged by the sound that was the sweetest one of all..."

*A COMMENT: Holy Molly! Monday again :S But hey! Here's a good song to get us through the day! I think this song is so nostalgic, I believe it is narrated from the next perspective: there's this guy having reminiscences, perhaps while talking to some friends, about what they used to do when they were younger, about the plans the had together and stuff like that. My guess is that, now that they are older, things turned out differently from what they had planned/expected... U.U He's not the only one... there are many people that feel that way, but that's life... HAVE A GREAT START TO THE WEEK!!! and of course LET'S PLAY SOME ROCK!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquido

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Keane - Fly To Me

Artist: Keane

Song: Fly To Me

Album: Everybody's Changing

Year: 2003

"Don't turn your back on me, conceal and protect me, I need you to stop me from reeling around. The time's gonna come when you no longer need me but stay by my side til the sun has gone down..."

"As much as I want to I can't hold onto you, when will you return to your old home again? May love lie around you, good fortune surround you, you know where to turn to when you need a friend..."

"When I am an old man and live by the sea, will all your thoughts fly to me? When I'm far away from the places we've grown, will all your love bring me home?"

*PFFF: Such a beautiful song, it really is, and it totally fits my mood for this Sunday... And amazingly it was a B-Side...

http://www.keanemusic.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keane_(band)

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Friendly Fires - Running Away

Artist: Friendly Fires

Song: Running Away

Album: Pala

Year: 2011

"I'm standing opened up but you close your eyes, pretending that happiness is a thing you can't deny. Normal lights are shining, you turn away, it seems I gotten used the hardest thing to say..."

"Keep on running away, running away, feel this moment like I do..."

*NO COMMENT TODAY, JUST ENJOY AND FEEL THIS SONG, IT MAKES YOU WANT TO MOVE!! HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND...

http://www.wearefriendlyfires.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendly_Fires

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Frightened Rabbit - Backwards Walk

Artist: Frightened Rabbit

Song: Backwards Walk

Album: Midnight Organ Fight

Year: 2008

"I'm working on erasing you just don't have the proper tools, I get hammered, forget that you exist, there's no way I'm forgetting this..."

"I've been working on my backwards walk, there's nowhere else for me to go except back to you just one last time say yes before i change my mind... say yes before I... You're the shit and I'm knee-deep in it..."

*A COMMENT: July has just begun, so in a way is a good time to start doing some stuff differently, it is a good time for things to start changing and to let them change, but always guiding them so they can change in the desired way... May and June have been crazy as shit and have left me with some conclusions, reflections, lessons, etc. and as July begins it seems that all is becoming a bit clearer in some aspects, at least that's what I perceive, and even though there is the possibility of things to become tougher, for now, at this beginning, they seem to be settling down... So, let's see what the immediate future brings and how I face it... And yay! It's Friday!

http://frightenedrabbit.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frightened_Rabbit

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Lemon Jelly - The Staunton Lick

Artist: Lemon Jelly

Song: The Staunton Lick

Album: Lemonjelly.ky

Year: 2000

"This is basic plucking, or, the Staunton Lick. Hold down the chord of C, pluck a fretted bass string with the thumb of the right hand, and pluck the third, second and first strings altogether with the first, second and third fingers of the right hand..."

*A QUICK ONE: I remember I discovered this through 'Napster', as it was recommended when you started the program... Nice song to chill out...

http://www.lemonjelly.ky/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemon_Jelly

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Brad Sucks - Dirtbag

Artist: Brad Sucks

Song: Dirtbag

Album: I Don't Know What I'm Doing

Year: 2003

"It seems you've mistaken me for someone who cares, I'm just a

dirt bag under the weather and overrated..."

*A COMMENT: I also heard this for the first time through 'The 61' site. This guy releases his music under 'copyleft' license, which is allowing the free distribution and/or modified versions of some art work, program or something else with the requirement of keeping the same rights (lefts) for the modified or shared version, in plain English, keeping it for free.

http://www.bradsucks.net/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_Sucks

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Bon Iver - Calgary

Artist: Bon Iver

Song: Calgary

Album: Bon Iver

Year: 2011

"Hip, under nothing, propped up by your other one, face 'way from the sun, just have to keep a dialogue, teach our bodies: haunt the cause. I was only trying to spell a loss..."

*A COMMENT: Here's Bon Iver's new single, from his eponymous album. The meanings of Bon Iver's songs always "trouble" me as he uses so many metaphors, so in a way you can interpret them the way you feel it, but of course there's always like a "defined" path to follow. From this song, which somehow reminds to Sting's 'Fields of Gold', I can take that it is about some couple, but the lady ran out of love or interest, but they remain together. As for the guy, he's always longing for her to love him, but he knows his role, and event though it seems twisted, they know they are together in this, so they just continue the "charade" but in an amicable way, where there's actually affection but nothing more than that, a big affection, but no love...

http://boniver.org/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bon_Iver

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Stella StageCoach - What Have I Done

Artist: Stella StageCoach

Song: What Have I Done

Album: The Great Divide

Year: 2009

"Oh my god what have I done? Wasted my life and forgotten how to love, so if I was angry, I'm sorry if I am, pass the gates of heaven only much depends, it's not too late though, not too late if we turn back..."

*SAY WHAT!: Whoa! O.o Life's too short...

HAVE A NICE START TO THE WEEK!

http://www.myspace.com/stellastagecoach

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FutureCop! - NASA

Artist: FutureCop!

Song: NASA

Album: The Unicorn and the Lost City of Alvograth EP

Year: 2009

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*NO CRAPPY COMMENT FOR TODAY, JUST SIT BACK AND ENJOY!

Thanks again to 'The 61' site...

http://www.myspace.com/thefuturecop

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurecop!

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Hard-Fi - I Shall Overcome

Artist: Hard-Fi

Song: I Shall Overcome

Album: Once Upon a Time In the West

Year: 2007

"New day dawning, I wonder what it holds for me, sun is shining, I don't think that it is shining for me, I look around, nothing seems to have changed, this dirty town, it hasn't some how rearranged..."

"I hear your voice, call my name, but in my heart, It's still pouring rain, and it ain't pretty, no it ain't pretty... But you say "Hold on, hold on, believe me, all the plans against you one by one, will come undone..." I shall overcome..."

*A QUICKIE?: Actually it's gonna be longer ha! I just got my wisdom teeth removed, no big cheeks, just pain inside my mouth, especially the right side, it feels like a really bad bite, like an intense sting, I hope it doesn't get nastier as the numbness disappear. I'm kind of jaded, lately there have been some setbacks and incidentals and almost no time to take care of them... my knees and the respective therapy, the medical paperwork and several payments to be done and now this (and of course the money spent on that :S)... I know maybe I'm whining a bit too much but it feels like something conspired to send this stuff to me all at once and I have got to admit that sometimes I feel all alone, with no one to turn to, besides my intention is not bothering anyone with my issues, I've always been a 'do it yourself guy' in most of the cases, but the truth is that this mad season too shall pass, and as a matter of fact, there have been people that have helped me overcome some of these nuisances and to them I want to send a big big THANK YOU! I really appreciate you cared even when you didn't have to... That being said... HAVE AN EXCELLENT WEEKEND!!

HERE'S THE STUDIO VERSION, SLIGHTLY LONGER AND DIFFERENT... JUST IN CASE

http://www.hard-fi.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard-Fi

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Local Natives - Airplanes/Shape Shifter

Artist: Local Natives

Songs: Airplanes

Album: Gorilla Manor

Year: 2009

"It sounds like we would've had a great deal to say to each other, I bet when I leave my body for the sky the wait will be worth it..."

*A FACT: This song is about his is about the loss of his grandfather, whom he never met, as he passed away before before he was born.

Artist: Local Natives

Songs: Shape Shifter

Album: Gorilla Manor

Year: 2009

"Your eyes, they swell like a riot, deranged, tomorrow you're laughing like a child again..."

"Why does the soul hallucinate? I've got control, I shift my shape, if flesh and bone do not contain the mirrors don't reflect my face..."

*ANOTHER FACT: This time not that accurate, I think that it is a song directed to oneself, by shape they mean moods, it is about how you change mood so abruptly or quickly, some more than others, it is about all the different facets we show...

http://www.thelocalnatives.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorilla_Manor

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