#123 Lyrics for the Books

5:00 AM

Today I spent some of my morning sleeping in, doing chores around the house, and then heading up to Winnsboro to help with registration for our work event up at Camp La Vida. The drive up and back, while super boring, can sometimes sport some of the best landscapes. In my windowy Wagoneer Hank, I was left speechless a couple of times watching the sun begin to set behind saturated green landscapes and fluffy white clouds hanging in the sky.

This really does none of it justice. At all.
I began inserting random CDs from my early 2000 collection of albums and burned discs to see what kind of soundtrack I could make for myself, as the radio was patchy traveling the lonely path on I-77.

I started remembering a few of my favorite songs, well some of my favorite lyrics--I do tend to be the person who never listens to the actual lyrics or knows them, I just like beats of songs. While I've also never been big on reading or writing, or really could ever profess to have an expansive knowledge of literature or what is a great piece of literature, these little fragments of songs jump out at me. They have stuck in my mind, and any time I think of great lyrics these little bits get me every time. Their imagery evokes a specific reaction in me, and I can really see and feel everything I think the artist meant it to say.

"Slow Hands" - Interpol

I watched the pole dance of the stars

  


"Pink Bullets" - The Shins

Cool of a temperate breeze from dark skies to wet grass

We fell in a field it seems now a thousand summers passed

When our kite lines first crossed

We tied them into knots

And to finally fly apart

We had to cut them off.

...

But your memory is here and I'd like it to stay
Warm light on a winter's day.

   


"At the Bottom of Everything" - Bright Eyes

We must stare into a crystal ball

And only see the past

And into the caverns of tomorrow

With just our flashlights and our love

We must plunge, we must plunge, we must plunge

   


"Hide and Seek" - Imogen Heap


The dust has only just begun to fall,
Crop circles in the carpet, sinking, feeling.
    




The last song, Hide and Seek, the way she sings it creates exactly the hurt and pain those lyrics convey. Whew.

Okay enough of my Senior year in High School and Freshman year in College music.


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