Home Callin' - SotW [Week of 4-10-11]

It is like this... ownership is wack anyway but if you know it's yours, do not let it alone. I mean, do the mountains really care if I am on their side? Really really.

SotW 4/10:

Colorado Rain  Tyller Gummersall 

I'm an American boy
Raised on the green grass of Colorado
If she should ever fail
I know that I would surely follow

I soak my ideas in morning light
And I wash my doubts in afternoon rain
Sweet smell of new beginnings
Lead the way
I love Colorado rain

She's an American girl
Born and bred in California
Called these mountains home for a summer
Man I'm sure glad to have known her

I soak my ideas in morning light
And I wash my doubts in afternoon rain
Sweet smell of new beginnings
Lead the way
I love Colorado rain

We're just American kids
Happy to be alive and in each others arms
Sometimes you have to forget
'Bout what could happen, 'bout what could go wrong 


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z36niyck4oQ

Nearing it, for sure - SotW [Week of 4-3-11]

So many barriers to finally being where you want to be. I love rivers, and not opposed to roads. Will be beautiful getting to where I want to be.


SotW 4/3:

Rivers and Roads  The Head & The Heart

A year from now, we'll all be gone
All our friends will move away
And they're going to better places
But our friends will be gone away

Nothing is as it has been
And I miss your face like hell
And I guess it's just as well
But I miss your face like hell

Been talking bout the way things change
And my family lives in a different state
And if you don't know what to make of this
Then we will not relate
So if you don't know what to make of this
Then we will not relate

Rivers and roads
Rivers and roads
Rivers 'till i reach you
Rivers and roads
Rivers and roads
Rivers 'till i reach you
Rivers and roads
Rivers and roads
Rivers 'till i reach you
Rivers and roads
Rivers and roads
Rivers 'till i reach you
Rivers and roads
Rivers and roads
Rivers 'till i reach you
Rivers and roads
Rivers and roads
Rivers 'till i reach you


Rivers and roads
Rivers and roads
Rivers 'till i reach you


Rivers and roads
Rivers and roads
Rivers 'till i reach you


Rivers and roads
Rivers and roads
Rivers 'till i reach you


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFDSDzZoBb0

I know a lot of these - SotW [Week of 3-27-11]

My 'back in the day,' includes a show where Nathan Willett sold me a tshirt. Embrace your claim. to. fame.


SotW 3/27:

Sensitive Kid  Cold War Kids

I try being sweet

It's very deep in me

Now I can only see red on red

My mom's going out with my best friend's dad

She talking loud, I can't believe what she said

A sensitive kid

A sensitive kid

They sold the house, left photo albums there

No silver ware while paper walls were bare

I called all my friends, 'Come over! Come one, come all!'

'Let's get a crowd here for one last hoorah!'

A sensitive kid

A sensitive kid

Who made me

A sensitive kid

A sensitive kid

The message was bleak, my brother pounded it in me

You climb it up or you cut it down

This is your family tree

I know you were born with a heart of gold

But, I want a purple heart that cannot dissolve

A sensitive kid

A sensitive kid

Don't call me

A sensitive kid

A sensitive kid

I can't tell you why you should a known it

Sensitive kid start acting like a grown up

I can't tell you why you should a known it

Sensitive kid start acting like a grown up

I can't tell you why you should a known it

Sensitive kid start acting like a grown up

I can't tell you why you should a known it

Sensitive kid start acting like a grown up

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzSeKo6IYgY

He's a good man, too - SotW [Week of 3-20-11]

Venice boardwalk, much? And I'm back in Tacompton.


SotW 3/20:

Block Grind  The Boss & The Don


[Lo siento, no lyrics, no pic -- ask me if you want the tunes]

Well Endearing - SotW [Week of 3-13-11]

There's a place where you wonder. There's a place far past that.


SotW 3/13:

Swimming  Breathe Owl Breathe

Swimming,
I wish I was swimming,
I wish I was swimming,
I wish I was,
I wish I wish I wish I was

Swimming,

I wish I was swimming,

I wish I was swimming,

I wish I was

I wish I wish I wish I was

Bring a mask and snorkel,

Bring the flippers also,

Bring the frisbee, baby,

Bring something to drink,

Bring your purple bathin' suit,

Depends on where we're goin to,

If we're goin' to that swimmin' hole,

We won't need nothin' at all.

Someone close to jumping too,

We could ever try,

I'll do the canon ball, if you do your... swan dive.

You can splash me if you want to

You can splash me if you want to

You can splash me if you want to

I don't mind.

You can splash me if you want to

You can splash me if you want to

You can splash me if you want to

But not in the eye.

Swimming,

I wish I was swimming,

I wish I was swimming,

I wish I was,

I wish I wish I wish I was

Swimming,

I wish I was swimming,

I wish I was swimming,

I wish I was

I wish I wish I wish I was

Somewhere in the well-kept secrets,

I'll never tell where the rope swing is,

Where to hold on, when to let go, swing out, give out a yell,

You'll never hit bottom, you'll never grow tired,

Of this wonder, you're under, 

Water. 

I wish I was swimming,

I wish I was swimming,

I wish I was

I wish I wish I wish I was

Swimming,

I wish I was swimming,

I wish I was swimming,

I wish I was,

I wish I wish I wish I was...

Somewhere in the well-kept secrets,

I'll never tell where the rope swing is,

Somewhere in the well-kept secrets,

You'll never tell where the rope swing is,

Where to hold on, when to let go, swing out, give out a yell,

You'll never hit bottom, you'll never grow tired,

Of this wonder, you're under, 

Water. 

I wish I was swimming,

I wish I was swimming,

I wish I was,

I wish I wish I wish I was

Swimming,

I wish I was swimming,

I wish I was swimming,

I wish I was,

I wish I wish I wish I was...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGM1tjX9R1g

Snooze Button - SotW [Week of 3-6-11]

It's my alarm so I hear it every morning when I wake up. Just the way I like it.


SotW 3/6:

Blip On A Screen  The Streets

Turn on the light
so it burns in the night
turn down the flight
the world is uncertain
I'm certained by the curtains tonight
You will not know, but grow
We will not dare, we'll always smile 
and care and ply with your hair

Got to reverse the pattern
What's the worse that could happen?
For the first time in my adulthood
The worse that could happen
Is utterly unthinkable, sinking unsaid dread
Suddenly I'm worried about the bread under the bed
But then all sort of awful shit seem plausible indoors
Proportions get walked in to the worse, and for certain
You're growing thumbs
I'm growing numb
Totting to your mom's lips like it might be quite fun

A blip on a screen
You don't know me
I think about you
And what you'll grow to be

Black and white blotches to watch and not get,
and then flashes of sense along with your body and head
It is all as simple as you think when you were little,
It is all as simple as me sinking a little drink
You're growing nails, Mine are so nailed
I'm drinking your mothers wine for both of us today
You don't know choice, but you know my voice,
You should never have of chosen me, I have loved like a boy
The world's so dark sometimes, the noise of the cars
building a world full up with toys and stars

A blip on a screen
You don't know me
I think about you
And what you'll grow to be

You'll dance on every song, foot fall every little move,
before you realize that every noise is not music
My dad raised these thoughts, he pastes these boards
I never knew I just grew that's all you can do
but then growing to an adult is just learning the language
of explaining with words what you were as a baby
You'll leisurely learn how to lie and pretend, to service your love and rely on your friends
this could be fraught but its all I got taught and I don't wanna make it up as I go along with yours

A blip on a screen
You don't know me
I think about you
And what you'll grow to be

I fix and I plan
but this is just mad
I love you
You're only a 100 pixels on a scan


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6QNJsu4MOY

Zen moment! - SotW [Week of 2-27-11]

Some of the most heartbreaking music that exists - in the most profound way.


SotW 2/27:

Dust Lane  Yann Tiersen

[there are a few spoken-word lyrics throughout -- so as not to butcher them, I will not post them; check out the links below]


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dDxecYXzgs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d80o6uTNoPI

Wishful thinking - SotW [Week of 2-20-11]

If you are one of those people who thinks that I will some day 'come to my senses' and stop enriching the world with everything Garrett Dutton... well... then you should tell me that, so that I will have an extra excuse to send you this song. That, I do not mind.


SotW 2/20:

Fixin' to Die  G. Love 

Feeling funny in my mind, Lord,
I believe I'm fixin' to die
Feeling funny in my mind, Lord
I believe I'm fixin' to die
Well, I don't mind dyin'
But I hate to leave my children cryin'
I'm walkin' kinda funny, Lord
I believe I'm fixin' to die
Well I'm walkin' kinda funny, Lord
I believe I'm fixin' to die
I don't mind dyin'
but I hate to leave my children cryin'
Well, I look over yonder to that burying ground
Look over yonder to that burying ground
Sure seems lonesome, Lord, when that sun is sinkin' down

There's a black smoke rising, Lord
It's rising up above my head, up above my head
Well this black smoke is surroundin us Lord
It's rising up above my head, up above my head
And can't tell Jesus make up my dying bed.


Feeling funny in my eyes, Lord,
I believe I'm fixin' to die
Feeling funny in my eyes, Lord
I believe I'm fixin' to die
Well, I don't mind dyin'
But I hate to leave my children cryin'


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCPH3dPQkIc

It's love week again... - SotW [Week of 2-13-11]

I remember most things told to me. Mentioned, I tend to dwell. If we could all be on the same page, love would be less frustrating, but also so much less worth it.

SotW 2/13:

Someone Like You  Adele

I heard that you're settled down, 
That you found a girl and you're married now, 
I heard that your dreams came true, 
Guess she gave you things I didn't give to you, 
Old friend, why are you so shy? 
Ain't like you to hold back or hide from the light, 

I hate to turn up out of the blue uninvited, 
But I couldn't stay away, I couldn't fight it, 
I had hoped you'd see my face, 
And that you'd be reminded that for me it isn't over, 

Nevermind, I'll find someone like you, 
I wish nothing but the best for you, too, 
Don't forget me, I beg, 
I remember you said, 
"Sometimes it lasts in love, 
But sometimes it hurts instead," 
Sometimes it lasts in love, 
But sometimes it hurts instead, yeah, 

You know how the time flies, 
Only yesterday was the time of our lives, 
We were born and raised in a summer haze, 
Bound by the surprise of our glory days, 

I hate to turn up out of the blue uninvited, 
But I couldn't stay away, I couldn't fight it, 
I had hoped you'd see my face, 
And that you'd be reminded that for me it isn't over, 

Nevermind, I'll find someone like you, 
I wish nothing but the best for you, too, 
Don't forget me, I beg, 
I remember you said, 
"Sometimes it lasts in love, 
But sometimes it hurts instead," 

Nothing compares, 
No worries or cares, 
Regrets and mistakes, they're memories made, 
Who would have known how bittersweet this would taste? 

Nevermind, I'll find someone like you, 
I wish nothing but the best for you, 
Don't forget me, I beg, 
I remember you said, 
"Sometimes it lasts in love, 
But sometimes it hurts instead," 

Nevermind, I'll find someone like you, 
I wish nothing but the best for you, too, 
Don't forget me, I beg, 
I remember you said, 
"Sometimes it lasts in love, 
But sometimes it hurts instead," 
Sometimes it lasts in love, 
But sometimes it hurts instead.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAc83CF8Ejk