Everyday there is a song that goes with us wherever we go, or a song that would fit perfectly in any given situation of our life, or a song that you just haven't heard yet, but you are eager to discover...
Whatever the case may be, this will be a space dedicated to show anyone who runs into this blog, the song that was stuck in my head any given day, the song I would listen to if..., or just to give a simple recommendation of what I think is a worth-listening song...
"Bound with all the weight of all the words he tried to say, chained to all the places that he never wished to stay, bound with all the weight of all the words he tried to say, As he faced the sun he cast no shadow..."
*A QUICK ONE: Decisive thoughts are going through my head... A life decision, I might call it...
"You're the one who's always choking Trojan, you're the one who's always bruised and broken, drunk on immorality, Valium and cherry wine, coke and ecstasy, you're gonna blow your mind..."
"I understand the fascination, I've even been there once or twice or more, but if you don't change your situation then you'll die, you'll die, don't die, don't die..."
*A COMMENT: This is one of my favorite Placebo's songs, if not the most... Supposedly it is a reference to a technician named Levi Tecofski, who saved Brian Molko's life when he was drunk in the street and was about to be run over by a vehicle.
What can I make of the lyrics? Well, apparently is about this guy who is destroying his life with drugs and all this dangerous fetishes, bad choices all over, but someone, a friend, does care about him and he's lecturing/warning him and asking him to change. But what does it have to do with Levi? I don't quite know, who knows if Levi asked Brian to stop, or maybe he just named it this way out of gratitude... So what I make of it is that perhaps it could be Brian singing it to himself, his destructive lifestyle led him to some crazy situations and then this guy comes and saves him and maybe that was a wake up call... I don't know, but I do know that I love the lyrics and the music...
"The unknown distance to the great beyond stares back at my grieving frame..."
"And all that stands between the souls release ? This temporary flesh and bone we know that it's over now, I feel my faded mind begin to roam..."
"There's nothing I can say, there's nothing we can do now..."
*A COMMENT: It all started a little over a year, I heard a foreign student, that did his abroad time in my school, had passed away. There were two facts that made this event "important". The first was that I had worked with him throughout the whole semester in this entrepreneurial project. The second was that it was actually the first person I actually knew of my age that died. Of course I was shocked when I found out about his car accident, shocked for the same 2 reasons noted before. I wouldn't go that far and call him a friend, as we barely knew each other, we did not super bond either, as we worked very independently, but the fact was I knew him and he was the same age as me. I started wondering why at that age, with a whole life ahead, that kind of questions I couldn't possibly answer nor understand... As the weeks went by, the shock state started to clear up...
Yesterday I found out another foreign student had died. What was different? Well, you could say the shock state was bigger as I actually considered him a friend. We had good times together, we formed a good group of friends, good times definitely. It did come as a bigger shock, a shock that won't clear up soon, and I'm asking the same goddamn questions I asked to myself back then, seriously, why? I don't quite understand. I can't even put my ideas together as of why this helplessness of not having the answers. I mean, sure everyone has to die at some point, but the thing that troubles me the most is why at their age, why little boys and girls, with so much to experience, so much to learn, know, feel, you name it... Why are life's designs so shitty? And yet we have to accept them and try to make something out of them...
Anyway, all that remains to be said is that I will remember Dario as a happy, jovial and smiling dude, and I truly truly hope he enjoyed his time here, and if Life, the Universe, God, or whatever there is that "rules" what happens after life (if something actually happens), allows it we might see each other again some time. Travel well, my friend.
"Her green plastic watering can for her fake Chinese rubber plant in the fake plastic earth that she bought from a rubber man, in a town full of rubber plans to get rid of itself..."
"She lives with a broken man, a cracked polystyrene man, who just crumbles and burns, he used to do surgery for girls in the eighties, but gravity always wins..."
*A COMMENT: I think the basic idea of this song is the pretentious and make believe world we have been living in. When you think about it, it is full of appearances. People are not honest to each other and in some cases we are not even honest with ourselves. Yes, the facade has always to be first, but why? I don't know, perhaps that phony imposed/created necessity by society... Anyhow, in the long run it will wear you out, specially when it is you that you are fooling...
Artist: Brandon Flowers Song: Playing With Fire Album: Flamingo Year: 2010
"Daddy I'm not gonna tell you that I'm sorry 'cause there ain't nothing you can do to change my mind, I'm not here to know the things I cannot do, we've seen the outcome of the boys who didn't fly..."
"And I might not get there but this little town, this little house, they seem to be leaning in the wrong direction... I'm not afraid of you no more..."
*A SHORT COMMENT: Although this song may have tints of religion, it could be easily applied to any other situation that requires a separation from something, a search for freedom and some sense of accomplishment. There.
Artist: Cut Copy Song: Take Me Over Album: Zonoscope Year: 2011
"Do you hear the voice inside your head whispering to live your dreams instead? Some people cling to what they know but I woke up now it's time to go..."
"Uhhh I can hear it calling... Uhhh did you see me falling in and out of love? Uhhh I can hear it calling... Uhhh did you see me falling?"
*JUST SO YOU KNOW: For a change, I feel at ease today, maybe because it is the weekend...
Artist: Calexico Song: All Systems Red Album: Garden Ruin Year: 2006
"Felt a tremor stir beneath my breath that forecasts storms on the gallup poll, waking up from the nightmare news hoping to read a sign in the morning air..."
"I hear you can't trust in your own now the grey is broken in the early morn and the words forming barely have a voice, it's just your heart that's breaking without choice..."
Artist: Athlete Song: Rubik's Cube Album: Black Swan Year: 2009
"The world is too heavy, too big for my shoulders, come take the weight off me now... thousands of answers to one simple question, come take the weight off me now..."
Artist: Boy & Bear Song: Feeding Line Album: Moonfire Year: 2011
"But I got my whole damn life caught up in moments entirely of yours, but I'm finding it harder to reason in order to grow and finding it hard is a feeling that all of you know, know, know..."
"See my body keeps in line and I got my whole damn life, oh I want to be somebody, somebody, someone..."
*JUST A NOTE: I just heard this one and I liked it and thought I would share it with you...
"She saw my comb over, her hourglass body, she has problems with drinking milk and being school tardy, she'll loan you her toothbrush, she'll bartend your party..."
"I called and called, but I can't get through, said he's on his own, but his own is you..."
*A COMMENT: Looking for a meaning of this song I found several versions of it, but the ones that had more "counts" were two. The first one saying if about a girl which has problems giving head. And the second one saying it is about a girl Caleb (the vocalist) liked but one of his brothers made a move on her or something like that. I don't know, you make your own research and stay with the meaning you like.
As for me, the second one makes more sense, and it is not that I'm shocked with the first one, neither that I'm some kind of moralistic individual, but somehow the last quote above leads me to think that. As stated, at the end everyone will make their own interpretation and that's the beauty of it, besides it is an awesome song.
"Now I think that I'm going to bed, as the image of you and yer crap leaves my head; 'cause it's T-minus 20 tomorrow, rocket flies and it doesn't depend on the size, 'cause the thing that I built, it's ripping my kilt, it's coming to blow you away..."
*A COMMENT: This comes from my teenage days, cool song, funny lyrics, if you know what I mean... And that was lame, but you get it now, I hope...
"And everywhere I go there's always something to remind me of another place and time where love that traveled far had found me..."
"Brave men tell the truth, the wise man's tools are analogies and puzzles, a woman holds her tongue knowing silence will speak for her..."
*A QUICK ONE: This is an awesome video, I like it a lot, although I must say I have mixed feelings because it touches, to certain extent, crappy lifestyles and corporate stuff I'm not too fond of...
"The light in your eyes, well it's pulling me in, yeah, it's pulling me in, a heart that's still speeding up and it's coming again, yeah it's coming again, how did it happen? How did it come to this? Taking me over..."
*A QUICKIE: Those eyes, those lips @.@ Just beautiful, I would kiss her too, even if she's been puking gummy bears...
"She was built with a brain and some swagger, a little scream, little cry, little laughter. She's a ten, I'm a joke in my own mind, but she still loves to dance with my punch lines..."
"Baby cause I'm crazy for you, it's not your fault it's not your fault, yeah... Maybe I'm a little confused, it's not your fault, it's not your fault, yeah..."
*A QUICKIE: So, I was running today and I got this playlist on my iPod precisely for that. It is supposed to have songs that cheer me up and motivate me to give my best and stuff. But there are certain days even the songs on the playlist are not enough, well today wasn't the case, on the contrary, there are days that a single song pumps you up so well for almost the whole way and today it was this song...
"This is the last time that I will say these words, I remember the first time, the first of many lies, sweep it into the corner or hide it under the bed, say these things they go away but they never do..."
"Something I wasn't sure of but I was in the middle of, something I forget now, but I've seen too little of..."
*A COMMENT: Today I found myself doing some retrospective on certain events and spots in my life and reached the conclusion that little by little, fact by fact, no matter how little they were, everything ends up accumulating and the sum of it is a big result, an amount of consequences that shapes paths, directions and the sad thing is that sometimes we don't even have a say and if we do we are too dumb to enforce our perspective... Sad indeed.
"The morning sunrise seemed to ask me why I tried to find the strength in people who had never thought about a different way of life, it just doesn't seem that easy..."
"I don't know where to go, I don't know what to be, I don't know how to change from being me, I don't know what to say, maybe another day
I'll stop getting lost and find my way home, all I know is gone..."
"But the storms I've weathered, you know they don't seem to be as bad if you think there's hope from here and there's a life you should now have..."
*A COMMENT: Whoa! There's a lot of lyrics right there, you might say... The reason is that right now I feel exactly that way... In a word: 'Lost'. In two words: 'Very Lost'. In three: 'Very Fucking Lost'... And I could go on, but that would bore you and I don't want that, I don't want to bore myself either... By the way, this is an excellent song to run to, it pumps you up, specially the final part... Enjoy...
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Artist: Oasis
