Songs: April 08
Gah. First of all, I just want to say that I'm really, really sorry that overtime and school have been kicking my butt to the point that I can't even support my own challenge. *shame* Er, I've got a week and a half off from school coming up? (And a horrible cold today...shh, I'm playing hooky.) Anyway, er, being tired made me pick songs about waiting, and maybe changes for the darker, and they're all sort of wistful and...yeah. Er. You've got the suggestion song to cheer you up? *sheepish*
On - "Shifting Skin" Okay, yeah, I listened to this at random because I liked the title. *grins* It's just your average rock, and I'm honestly too tired to think of who it reminds me of...oh, but a quality moment with Google tells me this is a project by someone from Failure. ....still don't think that's who I'm thinking of, though. *mutters*
On - "Shifting Skin"
I'm melting I can't feel a thing I'm falling through an open door
I should have stayed Where it was safe I can't imagine what's in store
All I see Is everything I've wished I could be I suppose I never really tried to let go
The silent flame The shifting skin The patterns in the fragile wall
I can't escape This vision burns It drags me through forbidden halls
All I see Is everything I've wished I could be I suppose I never really tried to let go
Everything is starting to make sense now I can feel the fear subside All my questions seems to find their answers I can see it's looking fine
I can feel The fear inside of me start to subside I can see The clouds right by me start to recede
Everything is starting to make sense now I can feel the fear subside All my questions seems to find there answers I can see it's looking fine
Youth Group - "On a String" I loooooove Youth Group. They're insanely catchy pop, and while maybe a third of their songs are too poppy/similar for me, one third of their songs will also leave me humming the refrain for hours. This chorus is so totally one of the latter types.
Youth Group - "On a String"
I just changed my mind I traded it in For a new sheet of skin Empty within.
The doctors couldn't presribe Anything else from the medicine shelf Oh cure thyself.
My life's on a string I'll do anything to get myself back. I hang by a thread, oh let's go to bed and get ourselves back.
I just lost my head. I'm falling away. The things that you say will haunt you one day.
Love's such a creepy thing It gets under your skin starts sticking in pins and festering.
My life's on a string I'll do anything To get myself back. I hang by a thread Oh let's go to bed And get ourselves back.
Oh
My life's on a string My life's on a string My life's on a string I'd do anything I wanna know you...
Sufjan Stevens - "I Can't Even Lift My Head" So okay, Sufjan Stevens can be a bit hit or miss at times, but his slow ballads? Will destroy you. In the best way possible. (This isn't actually the one I wanted to post, because there is actually a song even more beautiful than this, hard as it may be to imagine, but the lyrics to that one are just...difficult. Seriously. I've been trying to come up with something to write to it for a different challenge for nearly a year. But this one! Hopefully more workable. *crosses fingers*)
Sufjan Stevens - "I Can't Even Lift My Head"
If I ever should disappear What would I come to? What would I come to believe?
If I had seen your father What would his face do? What would his face do to me?
Oh, I can't even lift my head To say a word To say a word to you I can't even recognize What I did wrong What I did wrong
Oh, I can't even lift my head To say a word To say a word
From the Department of Soundtrackage: So Charming It Needs A Permit Belle and Sebastian - "Fiction" It's, y'know, Belle and Sebastian. Who are practically synonymous with "charming" in the first place, but this is so delicate and gorgeous and sweet, I just want to fling myself from a tall building. Or something like that. Dear god, they break me.
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From the Suggestion Box Straylight Run - "Existentialism on Prom Night" Indie rock band with a name that kills me with its cyberpunk roots. *hearts* Like I said, it's way more upbeat than the rest of what I'm posting this time around, but diversity is good!
Straylight Run - "Existentialism on Prom Night"
When the sun came up, We were sleeping in, Sunk inside our blankets, Sprawled across the bed, And we were dreaming,
There are moments when, When I know it and The world revolves around us, And we're keeping it, Keep it all going, This delicate balance, Vulnerable all knowing,
Sing like you think no one's listening, You would kill for this, Just a little bit, Just a little bit, You would, kill for this
Sing like you think no one's listening, You would kill for this, Just a little bit, Just a little bit, You would, you would...
Sing me something soft, Sad and delicate, Or loud and out of key, Sing me anything, we're glad for what we've got, Done with what we've lost Our whole lives laid out right in front of us,
Sing like you think no one's listening, You would kill for this, Just a little bit, Just a little bit, You would,
Sing like you think no one's listening, You would kill for this, Just a little bit, Just a little bit, You would, you would....
Sing me something soft, Sad and delicate, Or loud and out of key, Sing me anything.
Anyway, good luck, and hopefully you find something that inspires you!