Fall in the water just like a stone, chilled to the marrow in them bones

Down by the river by the boats
Where everybody goes to be alone
Where you won't see any rising sun
Down to the river we will run

When by the water we drink to the dregs
Look at the stones on the riverbed
I can tell from your eyes
You've never been by the riverside

Down by the water the riverbed
Somebody calls you somebody says
swim with the current and float away
Down by the river every day

Oh my God I see how everything is torn in the river deep
And I don't know why I go the way
Down by the riverside

When that old river runs past your eyes
To wash off the dirt on the riverside
Go to the water so very near
The river will be your eyes and ears

I walk to the borders on my own
Fall in the water just like a stone
Chilled to the marrow in them bones
Why do I go here all alone

Oh my God I see how everything is torn in the river deep
And I don't know why I go the way
Down by the riverside
ooh ohh IIII
down by the riverside

—Agnes Obel / Riverside

With bacon

I just ate a breffast sammich full of rainbows, dreams, and bacon. Day over. Breffast Sammich won.

Also, I'm drinking a Coca Cola.

I DON'T THINK A BETTER FRIDAY HAS EVER EXISTED.

Hello again.

As I'm leaving
A change comes on my eyes
These streets persuading me
With mumbled strange goodbyes

Through the water
Through the rain
To the soul of everything
Throw my heart out on the stones
And I'm almost gone

There's no meaning
In clothes and coffee cups
Cheap hotel furniture
Where silence never stops

Through the water
Through the rain
To the soul of everything
Throw my memories to the wind
And I'm almost gone

And now I'm dreaming
I'm staring at the walls
Cars are frozen now
In late night waterfalls

Through the water
Through the rain
To the soul of everything
Throw my heart out on the stones
And I'm almost
Through the water
Through the rain
To the soul of everything
Wash my heart out on the stones
And I'm almost gone

—David Gray / As I'm Leaving

I guess I'm losing track of wrong and right

One short night with a stranger
One full moon over my head
One false move and it's over
It reminds me of the things we've said

Strange how heavy my heart is
Strange how dark it is tonight
Strange the way this all started
I guess I'm losing track of wrong and right

And as the lights go dim
I lie down with him
And as I'm lying there
I can only smell your hair

It's like you're across the hall
With your ear glued to the wall
And as I move to let him in I can
Feel you crawl under my skin

And I can feel you from the inside
Prowling like a devil that I try to hide
I can feel your heart beating
Closer than the poison of my pride

Caught up in a moment
I thought I'd feel no shame because I
Never have tell you lies
When the daylight came but now
Down goes that silver tear
Down goes my golden year
Down we go in a water slide
That's made up of the tears I've cried

And I can feel you from the inside
Prowling like a devil that I try to hide
I can feel your heart beating
Closer than the poison of my pride

I can feel you touching me
I look at him but it's you I see
I can feel you so close
It's like I'm sleeping with your ghost

—Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, One Short Night

Walkin' the line between faith and fear

Well my friend, I see your face so clearly
Little bit tired, little worn through the years
You sound nervous, you seem alone
I hardly recognize your voice on the telephone

In between I remember
Just before we wound up broken-down
We drive out to the edge of the highway
Follow that lonesome dead-end road sign south

We're all in this thing together
Walkin' the line between faith and fear
This life don't last forever
When you cry I taste the salt in your tears

Come my friend, let's put this thing together
And walk the path our worn out feet have trod
If you want, we could go on forever
Give up your jaded ways, spell your name to God

We're all in this thing together
Walkin' the line between faith and fear
This life don't last forever
When you cry I taste the salt in your tears

All we are is a picture in a mirror
Fancy shoes to grace our feet
All there is is a slow road to freedom
Heaven above and the devil beneath

We're all in this thing together
Walkin' the line between faith and fear
This life don't last forever
When you cry I taste the salt in your tears

—Old Crow Medicine Show / We're All In This Together

Remember when our songs where just like prayers? Like gospel hymns that you called in the air.

Remember when our songs where just like prayers?
Like gospel hymns that you called in the air.
Come down come down sweet reverance,
unto my simple house and ring . . . and ring.

Ring like silver, ring like gold
Ring out those ghosts on the Ohio
Ring like clear day wedding bells
Were we the belly of the beast or the sword that fell . . . we’ll never tell.

Come to me clear and cold on some sea
Watch the world spinning waves . . . like some machine

Now I’ve been crazy couldn’t you tell
I threw stones at the stars, but the whole sky fell
Now I’m covered up in straw, belly up on the table
Well and sang and drank, and passed in the stable.

That tall grass grows high and brown,
well i dragged you straight in the muddy ground
And you sent me back to where I roam
Well I cursed and I cried, but now I know . . . now I know

And I ran back to that hollow again
The moon was just a sliver back then
And I ached for my hear like some tin man
when it came oh it beat and it boiled and it rang . . . its ringing

Ring like crazy, ring like hell
Turn me back into that wild haired gale
Ring like silver, ring like gold
Turn these diamonds straight back into coal.

—Gregory Alan Isakov / The Stable Song

And I got troubles oh, but not today, cause they're gonna wash away.

I got troubles oh, but not today
Cause they're gonna wash away
They're gonna wash away

And I have sins Lord, but not today
Cause they're gonna wash away
They're gonna wash away

And I had friends oh, but not today
Cause they done washed away
They done washed away

And oh, I've been cryin'
And oh, I've been cryin'
And oh, no more cryin'
No, no more cryin' here

We get along Lord, but not today
Cause we gonna wash away
We're gonna wash away

And I got troubles oh, but not today
Cause they're gonna wash away
This old heart gonna take them away

—Joe Purdy / Wash Away

I'm armed with the past, and the will, and a brick, I might not want you back but I want to kill him.

With a name like Frightened Rabbit, what's not to love?



Good arms verses bad arms will win hands down (down)
They are built to hold and fit,
Look how far they go around,

You don't need these now that you've found another pair
And the difference is astounding I should expect,
Except,

Leave the rest at arms length,
Keep your naked flesh under your favorite dress
And leave the rest at arms length,
When they reach out, don't touch them, don't touch them

I decided this decision some six months ago
So I'll stick to my guns but from now on it's war,
I'm armed with the past, and the will, and a brick,
I might not want you back but I want to kill him.

Leave the rest at arms length,
Keep your naked flesh under your favorite dress
And leave the rest at arms length,
When they reach out, don't touch them, don't touch them

And leave the rest at arms length,
Don't brush with him, he might have diseases,
And leave the rest at arms length,
Steer clear of the grasp girl, run, run away.

And leave the rest at arms length,
Just roll over, boy, and don't make me do this
And leave the rest at arms length,
I am armed to the teeth and I'm heavy set
And leave the rest at arms length,
I'm not ready to see you this happy
And leave the rest at arms length,
I am still in love with you (can't admit it yet)

—Frightened Rabbit / Good Arms Vs Bad Arms

I will love you forever, little ones.

It's been a long, long, long time coming but I know that change is gonna come

I was born by a river, oh my
In this little old town
Just like this river
I've been running ever since

It's been a long long long time coming
I know, but I know that change is gonna come, now
Oh yes it is, my oh my oh my oh my

It's been too hard livin', oh my
And I'm afraid to die
I don't know what's up there
Beyond the clouds

It's been a long long long time coming
but I know that change is gonna come
Oh yes it is, my oh my oh my

There's a time
I will go to my brother, oh my
I would ask my brother
Will you help me please, oh now oh now
He turned me down
And then I asked my little mother, oh my oh
I said mother, I said mother
I'm down on my knees

It's been time that I go
Lord it's too late
Very long, oh now oh

Somehow I thought I was still able
To try to carry on
It's been a long long long time coming
but I know that change is gonna come
Oh yes it is

Just like I said
I went to my little baby brother, oh my, my little brother
I asked my brother, brother help me please, oh now
He turned me down
And then I go to my little mother, my dear mother, oh now, huh
I said mother, I said mother I'm down on my knees

But there was a time that I go
Lord it's too late
So very long, oh my oh
Somehow I thought I was still able
To try to carry on
It's been a long long long time coming
but I know, but I know that change is gonna come
It's been so long, it's been so long
A little too long
But change has gotta come
So tired, so tired of suffering
Standing by myself
It's been so long
But change has gotta come

—Otis Redding / A Change is Gonna Come
(FYI: Sam Cooke's (original songwriter) lyrics are little different, apparently. Oh, Interwebs, I learn so much from you.)

It takes a long night when you unravel at home

Don't know that she knows
What it is she doing
Don't know that she knows
How deep this will cut
Can't believe you really think
We'll make it through this oh
You fucked me right up
Just fucked me right up

All alone in a house that we were living
All that love just walked out the door
She's off running around
With a brand new man, oh
You fucked me right up
Just fucked me right up

I got a long way to travel
With a heaviness taking hold
It takes a long night
When you unravel at home

Don't know that she knows
What it is she doing
Don't know that she knows
We are throwing it all away
Tell me how you think
We're gonna make it through this oh
You fucked me right up
Just fucked me right up

Don't know that she knows
Or even if it matters
The cut's been made
The dice have been thrown

What was our love worth
If it's something we could gamble oh
You fucked me right up
Fucked me right up

Goodbye goodbye
Goodbye goodbye

—Sean Hayes / Fucked Me Right Up

Impart some of the wisdom from that tried and tested man

This album is just fantastic. Excellent purchase from the land of Scots.



My hopes are high but my eyes can't
believe what they see,
Give me something to believe,
give me something to believe
I got lucky in life and had plenty to eat and
I saw this world as one big pool of opportunity
But there's too much mind corruption,
too little remedy (or that's how it seems to me)
Yeah we need a moral education to
set the young minds free...

So let us change what we can and
Accept what we can't
Impart some of the wisdom
from that tried and tested man
There's no harm in being wrong you know no,
in fact to me, it's common ground - yeah
So take that feather from you cap sir,
and pass that feather around...

My hopes are high but my eyes can't
believe what they see,
Give me something to believe in,
give me something to believe
My hopes are high but my eyes
can't believe what they see
My hopes are high
Give me something,
give me something to believe

It's like I'm a part of something real.

Sitting beside you in school,
While we'd paint I'd make you laugh
Mine was never very good,
Yours looked exactly like the photograph

Looks like I'm growing, I'm growing up beside you

I don't always get the way you feel,
But now I've learned to live with that
it's like I'm a part of something real
I was hittin' the bottle, now I've broken the seal

Looks like I'm growing, I'm growing up beside you

And the sun sets the scene
While the rain misses me
And all the time I'll be growing, growing up beside you

Oh, The sun sets the scene
While the rain misses me
And all the time I'll be growing, growing up beside you

And the sun sets the scene
While the rain misses me
And all the time I'll be growing, growing up beside you

The sun sets the scene
While the rain misses me
And all the time I'll be growing, growing up beside you

Looks like I'm growing, growing up beside you

--Pablo Natini, Growing Up Beside You

And dreamed of all the different ways I had to make her glow

"Show me how you do that trick
The one that makes me scream" she said
"The one that makes me laugh" she said
And threw her arms around my neck
"Show me how you do it
And I promise you I promise that
I'll run away with you
I'll run away with you"

Spinning on that dizzy edge
I kissed her face and kissed her head
And dreamed of all the different ways I had
To make her glow
"Why are you so far away?" she said
"Why won't you ever know that I'm in love with you
That I'm in love with you"

You
Soft and only
You
Lost and lonely
You
Strange as angels
Dancing in the deepest oceans
Twisting in the water
You're just like a dream

Daylight licked me into shape
I must have been asleep for days
And moving lips to breathe her name
I opened up my eyes
And found myself alone alone
Alone above a raging sea
That stole the only girl I loved
And drowned her deep inside of me

You
Soft and only
You
Lost and lonely
You
Just like heaven

—Just Like Heaven / The Cure (performed by The Watson Twins)

Ten years I never spoke your name, now it feels good to say that you're my friend again.

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I must have been sleeping
I must have been drinking
I haven't been dreaming about you for years
There was a sharp turn and a sunburn
I was too cool for high school that year

Must have have been new years, no one invited you,
You took things too far but I missed you
And your antics
You were lonesome and
Blue-eyed and so special to us

You should have taken a long break
Instead of a long drop from a high place
Ten years I never spoke your name
Now it feels good to say it
You're my friend again

Said he forgave you, I said I hated you
He was the bigger man, I was sixteen
All the innocence it took for
you to finally make the year book
That year
That year

You could have taken some time away
Instead of a long drop, instead of a leap of faith
Ten years I never spoke your name
Now it feels good to say that you're my friend again
You're my friend again

I was angry
I was a baptist
I was a daughter
I was wrong

make love—with your sandwich

I'm not so sure I want a sammich for dinner anymore . . .

SCORPIO [October 23–November 21] Barbara De Angelis wrote a book that offers to help us learn "how to make love all the time." Maybe I'll read it, but right now I'm more interested in your take on the subject. How would you make love—not have sex, but make love—with your sandwich, with the music you listen to, with a vase of flowers, with the familiar strangers sitting in the café, with everything? Your expertise in this art is now at a peak. —Rob Brezsny, Village Voice

Welcome to my iPod.

Time keeps burning, the wheels keep on turning, sometimes I feel I'm wasting my day

So, this past weekend I went to see the amazing Brandi Carlile in NJ. Just. Amazing.

You just don't get much better than a chick and her band who are going to sing almost every song off their new album, a few of their past album highlights, and cover Patsy Cline, Bob Dylan, Tears for Fears, and Johnny Cash.

Here's a lovely highlight from the actual show (yay for illegal taping!). Dying Day is my favorite track from Brandi's new album so I just quite giddy when the band unplugged themselves and stepped to the front of the stage.



On the actual album:



I left home a long, long time ago
in a tin can for the road
with a suitcase and some songs

Chasing miles through the nighttime making tracks
with no time for looking back
to the place where I belong

How these days grow long
but I'm on my way back home
It's been hard to be away
How I miss you
and I just want to kiss you
and I'm gonna love you till my dying day
How these days grow long

When you're sad,
you know I wish I could be there
to make your sorrows disappear
and set your troubles free
It's not fair for me to be this far from you
but I promise to stay true
wherever I might be

Time keeps burning
The wheels keep on turning sometimes
I feel I'm wasting my day
How I miss you
and I just want to kiss you
and I'm gonna love you till my dying day
How these days grow long
Time keeps burning on
How these days grow long

Now I'm lost in a sea of sunken dreams
while the sound of drunken screams
echoes in the night
But I know all of this will come to pass
and I'll be with you at last
forever by your side

How these days grow long
but I'm on my way back home
It's been hard to be away
How I miss you
and I just want to kiss you
and I'm gonna love you till my dying day

And time keeps burning
The wheels keep on turning sometimes
I feel I'm wasting my day
How I miss you
and I just want to kiss you
and I'm gonna love you till my dying day
How these days grow long
Time keeps burning on
How these days grow long

—Brandi Carlile, Dying Day

And from a show in Portland, Oregon:



All around me are familiar faces
Worn out places, worn out faces
Bright and early for their daily races
Going nowhere, going nowhere
Their tears are filling up their glasses
No expression, no expression
Hide my head I want to drown my sorrow
No tomorrow, no tomorrow

And I find it kinda funny
I find it kinda sad
The dreams in which I'm dying
Are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you
I find it hard to take
When people run in circles
It's a very, very mad world mad world

Children waiting for the day they feel good
Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday
Made to feel the way that every child should
Sit and listen, sit and listen
Went to school and I was very nervous
No one knew me, no one knew me
Hello teacher tell me what's my lesson
Look right through me, look right through me

And I find it kinda funny
I find it kinda sad
The dreams in which I'm dying
Are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you
I find it hard to take
When people run in circles
It's a very, very mad world . . . world
Enlarge your world
Mad world

—Tears for Fears, Mad World


RIght beautiful.

Well, you made me love you, now your man done come

Lovely little cover.



CC Rider, see what you gone done
CC Rider, see what you gone done
CC Rider, see what you gone done
Well hey, hey, hey, hey

Well, you made me love you, now your man done come
Made me love you, now your man done come
Made me love you, now your man done come
Hey, hey, hey, hey

You were standin’ in the kitchen in that morning gown
Standin’ in the kitchen in that morning gown
Standin’ in the kitchen in that morning gown
Hey, hey, hey, hey

I was lookin’ right at her when that sun went down
Lookin’ right at her when that sun went down
Lookin’ right at her when that sun went down
Hey, hey, hey, hey

Well, CC Rider, see what you gone done
CC Rider, now see what you gone done
CC Rider, you’ll see what you gone done
Hey, hey, hey, hey

—Ma Rainey (I believe), CC Rider

You can never know just where to put all your faith and how it will grow

Such is the way of the world
You can never know
Just where to put all your faith
And how will it grow

Gonna rise up
Burning back holes in dark memories
Gonna rise up
Turning mistakes into gold

Such is the passage of time
Too fast to fold
And suddenly swallowed by signs
Low and behold

Gonna rise up
Find my direction magnetically
Gonna rise up
Throw down my ace in the hole

—Eddie Vedder, Rise