Showing posts with label lyrics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lyrics. Show all posts
Mission Accomplished.
Friday, January 23, 2009
when i look at the man who would be king
the man who would be king goes to the
desert to sing war his dad rehearsed
came back with flags on coffins and said
we won, oh, we won..."
'20 dollar nose bleed' by fall out boy
Random Thought I Just Had:
i know i'm a month late, and you have probably already made a decision on it, but the new fall out boy record is PHENOMENAL.
exhibit a:
'20 dollar nose bleed'
America: “Obama biro yawne yo! Obama biro yawne yo!”
Monday, January 19, 2009
'america's song' by will.i.am, david foster, faith hill, bono, seal & mary j. blige
CLICK HERE for free mp3 download via oprah.com
In 2006, Obama visited Kibera, Kenya, one of the worst slums in all of Africa. As he came to the village, children from the outskirts of town, seeing him approaching, turned and ran to the village center, chanting, “Obama biro yawne yo! Obama biro yawne yo!”
“Obama’s coming. Clear the way.”
[via dylan loewe, photo via gawker, mp3 via oprah] Read more...
Musical Meme:
INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Put your music player on shuffle.
2. Press forward for each question.
3. Use the song title as the answer to the question even if it does not make sense.
4. Tag someone else
NO CHEATING!
How do you feel today? now that we found love - heavy d and the fat boys (i don't know about that)
What’s your outlook on life? help me - nick carter (i concur with this selection)
What does your family think of you? harvest moon - neil young (i doubt my family sees me this way, perhaps 'loser' by beck would be a better choice)
What do your friends think of you? the boy's gone - jason mraz (there is definite symbolism here)
What do strangers think of you? sweet caroline - angelo venuto (i got nothing...)
What do your exes think of you? cold as ice - foreigner (serious LOL)
How’s your love life? barbie girl - aqua (i can't get past my embarrassment of actually having this song in my itunes library)
How will your love life be in the future? beautiful people - the black eyed peas feat. macy gray (i hope so)
Will you get married? is there a ghost - band of horses (i can't find a correlation here, FAIL)
Are you good at school? angels - robbie williams (again, FAIL)
Will you be successful? 6th avenue heartache - the wallflowers feat. the counting crows (again, the truth comes out)
What song should they play on your birthday? high - james blunt (maybe back in the day, but unfortunately, no more)
What song should they play at your graduation? waiting for you - chromeo (sure, i guess i can see it)
The Soundtrack of your life? nine in the afternoon - panic at the disco (me feeling like nine o'clock is the middle of the afternoon has always been a problem)
You and your best friends are? cocaine habit - old crow medicine show (negative)
Happy times: wonder - freddy jones band (good call itunes, good call)
Sad times: floatin' - charlie wilson feat. will.i.am and justin timberlake (not a sad time at all, and i don't do 'breakup songs' which is where this song would most likely fit)
Every day: only human - jason mraz (check)
For tomorrow: house of the rising sun - led zeppelin (apropos of inauguration)
For you: a puro dolor - son by four (the best part about this is the fact that this is the spanglish version of the song, and my friend mike and i know ALL the words)
What does next year have in store for me? sleeping to dream - jason mraz (i appreciate sleep, and this song, very much)
What do I say when life gets too hard? billy - james blunt (there is a much deeper meaning of this song to me that i could never explain to anyone, just understand that this is probably the EPIC WIN of this whole meme)
What song will I dance to at my wedding? oh timbaland - timbaland (i seriously doubt that, unless eve wants to marry me)
What do you want as your career? jimi thing - dave matthews band (if i recall correctly, 'jimi thing' is about smoking a fat joint, which would make this the fourth drug reference in this post)
Your favorite saying? story of a girl - nine days (definitely not)
How will I die? naked and famous - the presidents of the united states of america (i promise you i didn't fake this, i will die naked and famous if i have any say in the situation)
my dearest spleeness, TAG, you're it.
I Feel Like I'm Goin' Nowhere Fast...
Monday, January 12, 2009
and so, i must have listened to this song 100 times today...
Can you feel the room spinning?
Can you feel what's happening?
Walls are caving, colors change.
The red you're wearing turns to grey.
Oceans rise and oceans subside.
The seasons give up and so have I.
Holding you is holding you back from what you could be, what you could have.
Run away, run away before it's too late.
Run away before it's too late.
Run away, run away before it's too late.
Run away before it's too late.
You never what you're gonna find out there.
No, you never know until you look.
Memories as sweet as these,
You cannot take them, they belong to me.
Don't you worry, worry about me.
Don't make this harder than it has to be.
Run away, run away before it's too late to run away.
Run away before it's too late.
Run away, run away before it's too late.
Run away before it's too late.
You never know what you're gonna find out there,
No you never know until you look.
Run away before it's too late.
Run away...
Run away before it's too late to run away.
Run away before it's too late.
Run away before it's too late to run away.
I want you to stay.
You never know what you're gonna find out there.
No you never know until you look.
[www.brendanjames.com] Read more...
Q: What's Cooler Than A Song Called 'Pork Roll, Egg & Cheese?' [Ween]
Friday, January 09, 2009
pork roll or taylor ham? it depends on what part of jersey you're from. this photo shows the mason-dixon line of the best damn breakfast meat on the planet! (blue denotes taylor ham and red denotes pork roll)
A: a song called taylor ham, egg & cheese. (by ween)
[special thanks to thisrecording for the mp3] Read more...
If It Kills Me...
Wednesday, January 07, 2009
hello
tell me you know
yea you figured me out
something
gave it away
it would be such a beautiful moment
to see the look on your face
to know that
i know that you know now
and baby that's a case of my wishful thinking
you know nothing
well you and i, why
we go carrying on for hours on and
we get along much better than you and your boyfriend
well all i really wanna do is love you
a kind much closer than friends use
but i still can't say it after all we've been through
and all i really want from you is to feel me
as the feeling inside keeps building
and i will find a way to you if it kills me
if it kills me
how long
can i go on like this
wishing to kiss you
before i rightly explode
well this double life i lead
isn't healthy for me
in fact it makes me nervous
if i get caught i could be risking it all
cause maybe there's a lot that i miss
in case i'm wrong
all i really wanna do is love you
a kind much closer than friends use
i still can't say it after all we've been through
and all i really want from you is to feel me
as the feeling inside keeps building
and i will find a way to you if it kills me
if it kills me
if it kills me
if i should be so bold
i'd ask you to hold my heart in your hand
i'd tell you from the start how i longed to be your man
but i never said a word i guess i'm going to miss my chance again
well all i really wanna do is love you
a kind much closer than friends use
i still can't say it after all we've been through
and all i really want from you is to feel me
as the feeling inside keeps building
and i will find a way to you if it kills me
if it kills me
oh i think it might kill me
and all i really want from you is to feel you
yea the feeling inside keeps building
i'll find a way to you if it kills me
if it kills me
if it kills me
it might kill me
[via commonpleasure.org] Read more...
Live High, Live Mighty, Live Righteously...
Friday, December 19, 2008
...and try to picture the man
to always have an open hand
and see him as a giving tree
see him as matter
matter of fact he's not a beast
oh no not the devil either
always a good deed do-er
and it's laughter that we're making after all
the call of the wild is still an ordination why
in the order of the primates
all our politics are too late
oh my the congregation in my mind
is this assembly singing of gratitude
practicing their loving for you
live high
live mighty
live righteously
taking it easy...
['live high' lyrics via commonpleasure]
0% Interest...
Saturday, December 06, 2008
...but us, we found peace in the shadows...long enough to see the monsters rise...living high on yesterday's lies...let me tell you all about the sunsets in sweden...and the laws of eden...and how you were the rock of gibraltar..."
Love for a Child [Jason Mraz]
Saturday, October 25, 2008
what about taking this empty cup
and filling it up
with a little bit more of innocence
i haven't had enough
it's probably because
when you're young it's ok to be easily ignored
i'd like to believe it was all about
love for a child
when the house was left in shambles
well who was there to handle all the broken bits of glass
was it mom who put my dad out on his ass
or the other way around
well i'm far too old to care about that now
it's kinda nice to work the floor since the divorce
i've been enjoying both my christmases and my birthday cakes
and taking drugs and making love at far too young an age
and they never checked to see my grades
what a fool i'd be to start complaining now
what about taking this empty cup
and filling it up
with a little bit more of innocence
i haven't had enough
it's probably because
when you're young it's ok to be easily ignored
i'd love to believe it was all about
love for a child
it was all about love
[lyrics via commonpleasure] Read more...
Butterfly [Jason Mraz]
Friday, October 24, 2008
in case you weren't aware, jason mraz is a musical, storytelling genius of the caliber of greats like harry chapin and john denver. if i was on death row, and could only have one album in my walkman, it would be jason mraz's 'live at java joe's.' he's that good. no question.
Green [Brendan James]
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
the photo that i used above is from a new book by an artist/photographer named david maisel. the canisters in the photograph have an amazing story behind them, check it out below.
"Esteemed photographer David Maisel has created a somber and beautiful series of images depicting canisters containing the cremated remains of the unclaimed dead from an Oregon psychiatric hospital. Dating back as far as the nineteenth century these canisters have undergone chemical reactions causing extravagant blooms of brilliant white green and blue corrosion revealing unexpected beauty in the most unlikely of places. This stately volume is both a quietly astonishing body of fine art from a preeminent contemporary photographer and an exceptionally poignant monument to the unknown deceased." --Library of Dust Read more...
Chasing Pavements [Adele]
Monday, October 20, 2008
say what you will about that crazy ass amy winehouse. she's a real nutjob, i agree. but physical attributes aside, i have to admit that there is something incredibly sexy about a woman that is influenced and inspired by soulful greats like etta james, ella fitzgerald, and the like. that being said, i've had a truly life changing experience in hearing the song 'chasing pavements' by adele. it's one of those songs, that after hearing it once- after it had taken me to that higher place- there was no coming back. not wholly at least. the sensual soul of adele's voice is amazing. i'll never be the same...
Another piece of awesomeness:
Saturday, October 18, 2008
there was a time, in the not so distant past, that i hated to admit that i loved the band panic at the disco. it was one of those relationships, where i tried so hard not to like them, that it actually made me fall in love even harder. and faster.
the other day i posted a song from their new album called northern downpour. my friend reesa emailed me from the uk to tell me that she too, like i did, hated to admit that she loved it. and she downloaded the entire album on itunes. (hell yeah!) nothing makes me happier than introducing enjoyable music to others that they may not have given a chance to otherwise.
p@td's first album was intriguing because of the classic disco/classical music composition of it. they've since evolved into something so much deeper. and so much harder to ignore. some douche on youtube commented on one of their videos saying that they were copying the beatles. but aren't all musicians inspired by their predecessors? and of all groups to be inspired by, wouldn't the beatles be a good choice? like they say, "imitation is the sincerest form of flattery." and i must agree. and i also agree that the inspiration of panic at the disco's new album "pretty. odd." seems to be a cross section of abbey road and the white album. and with that, i offer you another piece of their awesomeness, when the day met the night.
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