Tears for Fears - Everybody Wants to Rule the World

Artist: Tears for Fears

Song: Everybody Wants to Rule the World

Album: Songs From the Big Chair

Year: 1985

"It's my own design, it's my own remorse. Help me to decide, help me make the most of freedom and of pleasure, nothing ever lasts forever, everybody wants to rule the world..."

"I can't stand this indecision, married with a lack of vision, everybody wants to rule the world. Say that you'll never never never never need it, one headline why believe it? Everybody wants to rule the world..."

*A COMMENT: Today while at work, 3 situations happened that immediately made me think of the title of this song. And on a deeper "analysis" I came to the conclusion that almost everyone, to a lesser or greater extent, has a side that wants to shine, to control, to stand out from the rest, to have some power, and this is not an exclusive want or necessity, because I think that from the richest man to the poorest one there's always this need of power, the need of controlling, whether they are the owner of a business, a warehouse manager, an accountant, a clerk, etc., given the chance to have power, to control, or to make themselves noticeable, most are going to take it. This is not to be confused with the kind of shining as in seizing opportunities, no, this has to do more with power, with this sense of superiority, and sometimes the arrogant style. And please do notice this is me somehow generalizing out of some situations that happened to me today, and I say somehow because of the lesser or greater extent of power necessity you have within you, but maybe you don't have any.

http://www.tearsforfears.net/

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

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Doves - Caught by the River

Artist: Doves

Song: Caught by the River

Album: The Last Broadcast

Year: 2002

"Son, what have you done? You're caught by the river, you're coming undone..."

"Life, you know it can't be so easy, but you can't just leave it 'cause you're not in control no more..."

"And you give it all away, would you give it all away now? Don't let it come apart, don't want to see you come apart..."

*OH BOY, AM I TIRED: Sometimes I really feel like saying "fuck this shit!" but then I reconsider and put myself together again. Some things are not easy, like focusing on some stuff you don't give much of a damn about, especially when there's constantly external crap being thrown at you from all sides, making it almost impossible to put your 100% on what you are doing, it is a bummer when you are being constantly distracted. All I know is that I don't want to be that mediocre fucker, no, not in this life. And if there's one thing I've learned and admired from my old man is that even if you don't like it, and if life has already led you into that road, you are supposed to do it the best way possible, even if it's just for pure personal satisfaction. I might add to that that you have got to know when enough it's enough, you're supposed to do it right, yes, but you're not supposed to take it forever. Besides, everything has some knowledge in it, there's always some learning to be done. And just remember, if life turns its back on you, you grab it by the ass and tell her "Listen to me bitch (you know, 'cause life's a bitch) and listen to me good, I know you're always going to be throwing your goddamn crap and tests at me, but I know how to take them and overcome them, and more importantly I will enjoy doing it!"

http://www.doves.net/

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

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Trey Lockerbie - Hummingbird

Artist: Trey Lockerbie
Song: Hummingbird
Album: Hummingbird EP
Year: 2009

"I push a needle and I pull the thread trying to put myself back together again. She feels alive when they call her name, one look in her eyes you know I feel the same, yeah..."

"And I, well, I believe that eventually we'll get what we're after but I need it now. And all I see out my window is a hummingbird flying backwards, and it's all I think about..."


*A LATE LATE POST: Again a belated post, but what can you do when sleeps attacks you so early? You don't want to waste it because then you'll have trouble finding sleep again. So without further ado, here's today post. HAVE A NICE START TO THE WEEK!





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Northern Room - Galaxy

Artist: Northern Room

Song: Galaxy

Album: Last Embrace

Year: 2008

"Unless you breathe once, you'll find your tears filling the galaxy, It's another dark road that you'll walk on your own. Unless you breathe once, you'll find your heart filling with gravity, you're another lost soul without a place of your own..."

"...Our days of youth have come and gone, so put your heart where your heart belongs..."

*JUST FOR THE 'CHILL' OF IT: Just a good song to chill out, from a CD that was hard to get, from a band that no longer is...

http://www.northernroom.com/

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

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Friendly Fires - Skeleton Boy

Artist: Friendly Fires

Song: Skeleton Boy

Album: Friendly Fires

Year: 2008

"You're too much, I take it that we're over. Should we even care at all? You're too much, too much, Let's shake hands and say goodbye..."

"Your love is old, but even despite it all give me your hand, let's face this night and see it through..."

*NO COMMENT TODAY! ENJOY YOUR WEEKEND! YAY!

http://www.wearefriendlyfires.com/

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

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Placebo - Follow The Cops Back Home

Artist: Placebo

Song: Follow the Cops Back Home

Album: Meds

Year: 2006

"The call to arms was never true, let's take a ride and push it through suspended animation glue, blame it on apartheid. Let's spend the night in Jimmy Choo's, I'll give you coats and cheap shampoo, I'll give u nothing else to do..."

"The call to arms was never true, I'm medicated how are you? Let's take a dive swim right through sophisticated points of view..."

*A QUICK FACT: This song was written out of a trip Brian Molko took to Iceland, he was impressed by the extreme low rate of criminality there, along with the fact there's not much to do there, according to him. So, taking into account the previous facts, I think this song is written from the point of view of some guy who lives there and he's so bored with the lifestyle and his environment, and in order to give some excitement to it, he's telling his criminal plans to someone, again all with the sole purpose of spicing up his life.

http://www.placeboworld.co.uk/home.php

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

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Newton Faulkner - Dream Catch Me

Artist: Newton Faulkner

Song: Dream Catch Me

Album: Hand Built By Robots

Year: 2007

"There's a place I go when I'm alone, do anything I want, be anyone I wanna be, but it is us I see and I cannot believe I'm fallin', that's where I'm going, where are you going? Hold it close won't let this go... Dream catch me, yeah, dream catch me when I fall or else I won't come back at all..."

*A FORREST GUMP PHRASE: "I'm pretty tired... I think I'll go home now." If only I was home, but I do feel tired so I think I'll go to sleep now...

http://www.newtonfaulkner.com/gb/home/

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

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Arkells - John Lennon

Artist: Arkells

Song: John Lennon

Album: Jackson Square

Year: 2008

"Head on the wall and my piss hardly makes the stall, and this time it's not an act, this time I swear it's fact..."

"I'm so lost and I live just around the corner..."


*A QUICK ONE: So here's a late post, I was so sleepy last night and I didn't want that sleepy state to pass me by, so I decided I would post the song later, but here it is: Arkells. And if you want to relive one of the first posts of this blog, here it is Arkells again!





www.arkells.ca/

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


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Manchester Orchestra - Simple Math

Artist: Manchester Orchestra

Song: Simple Math

Album: Simple Math

Year: 2011

"Simple math, it's how our bodies even got here. Sinful math, the ebb and flow to multiply..."

"What if I was wrong and no one cared to mention? What if it was true, and all we thought was right was wrong? Simple math, the truth cannot be fractioned either way..."

*NO COMMENT JUST REMEMBER TO WEAR THE SEATBELT!! BUCKLE UP BOYS AND GIRLS!!

http://www.myspace.com/manchesterorchestra

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

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Boy Kill Boy - Suzie/Ivy Parker

Artist: Boy Kill Boy

Song: Suzie

Album: Civilian

Year: 2006

"This is not a movie and things just ain't the same as your favorite video. Try standing back and move me, next to you's a very nice place to go..."

"Countdown, countdown, countdown to the disappointment, I'm yours tonight..."

Artist: Boy Kill Boy

Song: Ivy Parker

Album: Civilian

Year: 2006

"Waking to the same sound, this friend of mine. This morning it seems to me, I'm wasting my time... So this fight has just begun, this war she says that I'm scared of..."

"Maybe we could break down from time to time, this distance is new to me, this pleasure's not mine..."

*A QUICKIE: Here are two excellent tunes to start off the week... In the first song I find a hint of anticipation and resignation, and by this I mean when you know the outcome in advanced, and it is not too encouraging, but yet you still try... The second song I think is about commitment, the commitment of either side of the relationship, which in this case one part is not showing to the fullest, due to fear or lack of honesty...

Anyway... ENJOY AND HAVE A GOOD START TO THE WEEK...

http://www.myspace.com/boykillboy

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

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White Lies - Death/From the Stars

Artist: White Lies

Song: Death

Album: To Lose My Life

Year: 2009

"I love the feeling when we lift off, watching the world so small below I love the dreaming when I think of the safety in the clouds out my window. I wonder what keeps us so high up. Could there be love beneath these wings?

If we suddenly fall should I scream out? Or keep very quiet and cling to my mouth as I'm crying, so frightened of dying, "Relax", yes I'm trying but fear's got a hold on me..."

*A COMMENT: I think this song is about the fear of flying and dying while doing so, you can tell by the many references in the whole song. But beyond that I think it can also be used as a metaphor for love or for life in general. See, in the song he describes how he loves certain things about flying, like when he lifts off, when he watches the world so small, or when the sun drowns in the sea, but the he starts thinking about what could go wrong "Will it fall?" "Who's driving?" and that's when he freaks out and imagine the worst.

In love and life there is no big difference, it all depends on how we handle it. When starting a relationship/activity certain things about it are enjoyed, but let's face it, there are questions that arise in our heads, and when the "plane" starts shaking the freaking out begins, as well as being paranoid, thinking the worst, imagining or own "grave" when maybe nothing's happening but the fear we created is so big that takes over us and stop us from enjoying the things we like about it.

White Lies - Death from Rodin Alper Bingöl on Vimeo.

Artist: White Lies

Song: From the Stars

Album: To Lose My Life

Year: 2009

"I saw a friend that I once knew at a funeral, he took the time out to be seen. His eyes kept glancing to the hour hand on the gold watch, that he'd been given by a magazine. He didn't cry when the priest gave the sermon, just pulled up the woolen collar on his fleece, crossed his arms, gave a sigh and checked the time again, as he sat inches from the wife of the deceased..."

*A SECOND COMMENT: This song narrates a short story about a successful guy, a celebrity that return to his hometown for a friend's funeral. This guy realizes how empty his life has become and feels just like the buildings he asked for "run down and so forlorn". And although he's on top and he has earned what he has, he does not feel fulfillment in his life...

http://www.whitelies.com/

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

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Psychic Stunts - Speaker's Block

Artist: Psychic Stunts

Song: Speaker's Block

Album: Panic In Motion

Year: 2009

"Do do do do do do you want to da da da da da da dance with me, now I got a little nervous, I will have a drink and ask you once again, hey…"

*A QUICK ONE: I heard this Swedish duo catchy song some yesterdays ago through "The Sixty One" site, which is pretty awesome, you'll find tons of bands you've never heard of, and of any kind of genre, I totally recommend it... HAVE AN AWESOME WEEKEND!

http://www.psychicstunts.com/

http://www.myspace.com/psychicstunts

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Rogue Wave - Lake Michigan

Artist: Rogue Wave

Song: Lake Michigan

Album: Asleep at Heaven's Gate

Year: 2007

"Now we wear same colored yellow uniforms, sky is burning but at least we're warm. Go and run yourself a million miles hoping that the colors run out..."

*NO COMMENT TODAY... ENJOY THIS SONG I HEARD ON CHUCK!

http://www.roguewavemusic.com

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

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Van Halen - Right Now

Artist: Van Halen

Song: Right Now

Album: For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge

Year: 1991

"Don't wanna wait till tomorrow. Why put it off another day? One more walk through problems, built up, and stand in our way..."

"One step ahead, one step behind me, now you gotta run to get even. Make future plans, don't dream about yesterday c'mon turn, turn this thing around..."

"Right now, it's your tomorrow. Right now c'mon,it's everything. Right now, catch a magic moment, do it right here and now it means everything..."

*A SUPER QUICKIE: Good music, excellent lyrics, awesome video... Makes you wonder...

http://www.van-halen.com/

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

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John Mayer - Vultures

Artist: John Mayer

Song: Vultures

Album: Continuum

Year: 2009

"Some of us, We're hardly ever here, the rest of us, we're born to disappear. How do I stop myself from being just a number? How will I hold my head to keep from going under?"

"Down to the wire, I wanted water but I'll walk through the fire, if this is what it takes to take me even higher then I'll come through like I do when the world keeps testing me, testing me, testing me..."

"So I keep on running to protect my situation..."

*A BRIEF COMMENT: This has got to be my favorite John Mayer album, he surely knows how to sing my life, especially on this album. I must admit that when I first heard him, some time ago, I was a bit doubtful, maybe because the first song I heard was 'Your Body is a Wonderland', but then some other singles came along that were so different from that poppy song and I decided to give him a chance and whoa! I became a great fan of such a talented musician. He is the SHIT!

http://www.johnmayer.com/

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

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