That made this tame - SotW [Week of 10-28-12]

You need to listen to every word I say, every song I sing, and how. On those drives when water was my sight. On those drives when the sun came up. Sometimes I wish you were what I wanted you to be.

SotW 10/28
Greg Holden The Lost Boy

I left my home still as a child, I walked a thousand soary miles
To wait for my father, to gather up his tools
He said my boy you've got to run, don't wait for me, don't wait for mum
We'll come get you, when it's safe for us to move

So I waited many years, held back the pain behind my tears
For my father, to come find me like he said
And in that time I was alone, so many years without my home
I made brothers of a different kind instead

And at the time I didn't know, just how hard the wind could blow
Towards disaster, and the things that I would see
I never found my father, I never found my mother
Even would I know in my lifetime I will be

A hero into the masses, to those born without chances
There's a freedom that everyone deserves
I know there's greed and there's corruption
I've seen death and mass destruction
But I'm telling you, and I hope that I'm heard

I will not be commanded
I will not be controlled
And I will not let my future go on
Without the help of my soul

And I will not be commanded
And I will not be controlled
And I will not let my future go on
Without the help of my soul

And I will not be commanded
And I will not be controlled
And I will not let my future go on
Without the help of my soul

I will not be commanded
I will not be controlled
And I will not let my future go on
Without the help of my soul

Vid

To let you - SotW [Week of 10-21-12]

When I hear a song and cry because I fell in love with thinking of you. I still love it, I still think of you. They used to say 'tell me baby, what's your story?' and now you ask to swim. I won't let you, try or not, ruin these for me.

SotW 10/21
Willy Tea Taylor Marshall Law

This may be my darkest day

I may one day have another

Don't you worry 'bout your baby boy mama

I'll be walkin' with my brother

We'll be walkin' over hills and through valleys

And we'll be sleepin' with the stars

We'll be fightin' off the wicked and the whatnot

With our hearts and our guitars

And we gonna shine, we gonna shine, we gonna shine

This may be my final hour

And I may never get another

Don't you worry 'bout your bouncin' boy papa

I'll be walkin' with my brother

We'll be walkin' through the streets and all the cities

And we'll be sleepin' with the sun

We'll be killin' all that wicked and the whatnot

Ain't gonna stop until we're done

And we gonna shine, we gonna shine, we gonna shine

Shine boys, you gonna shine

We know you gonna shine

Shine boys, you gonna shine

Yeh, we gonna shine, we gonna shine, we gonna shine

We gonna shine, we gonna shine, we gonna shine

Over and over

Sighing - SotW [Week of 10-14-12]

I dreamt that you fell for me. Daydreamt that it wasn't a dream. Knew I was awake when you were more distant than ever. Cold enough to know the warmth of a tear, but I know that's not the bottom.

SotW 10/14
Passenger Let Her Go

Well you only need the light when it's burning low
Only miss the sun when it starts to snow
Only know you love her when you let her go
Only know you've been high when you're feeling low
Only hate the road when you're missing home
Only know you love her when you let her go
And you let her go

Staring at the bottom of your glass
Hoping one day you'll make a dream last
But dreams come slow and they go so fast
You see her when you close your eyes
Maybe one day you'll understand why
Everything you touch, oh it dies

But you only need the light when it's burning low
Only miss the sun when it starts to snow
Only know you love her when you let her go
Only know you've been high when you're feeling low
Only hate the road when you're missing home
Only know you love her when you let her go

Staring at the ceiling in the dark
Same old empty feeling in your heart
'Cause love comes slow and it goes so fast
Well you see her when you fall asleep
But never to touch and never to keep
'Cause you loved her too much and you dive too deep

Well you only need the light when it's burning low
Only miss the sun when it starts to snow
Only know you love her when you let her go
Only know you've been high when you're feeling low
Only hate the road when you're missing home
Only know you love her when you let her go
And you let her go
Oh oh oh no
And you let her go
Oh oh oh no
Well you let her go

'Cause you only need the light when it's burning low
Only miss the sun when it starts to snow
Only know you love her when you let her go
Only know you've been high when you're feeling low
Only hate the road when you're missing home
Only know you love her when you let her go

'Cause you only need the light when it's burning low
Only miss the sun when it starts to snow
Only know you love her when you let her go
Only know you've been high when you're feeling low
Only hate the road when you're missing home
Only know you love her when you let her go
And you let her go

First time, cried

In a warm house - SotW [Week of 10-7-12]

Thankful I didn't let that one stop me from opening the next door. You are when the truth is too good, and the expectations are still. I am all talk, and all in.

SotW 10/7
Bootstraps Forty Five

Forty-five is slower when it spins on our recorder
And before they all come over
My oh my
Shook as the wheel spun
Lost from everyone
They don't know where we come from
Where we come from
Forty-five is slower with grooves that skip over
Every word ya heard before
My oh my
'Cause our hot blood
Bound by wonderlust
Still don't know where we come from
Where we come from
My, my oh my
Oh, oh
My oh my

Imagine Hwy 1

What this means - SotW [Week of 9-30-12]

So many claim honesty, fewer wisdom. In the next two, and then four, a mind is still dreaming. I claim to know nothing, expect less, and wish for more. The same page turns.

SotW 9/30
Mumford & Sons I Will Wait

Well I came home
Like a stone
And I fell heavy into your arms
These days of dust
Which we've known
Will blow away with this new sun

But I'll kneel down wait for now
And I'll kneel down
Know my ground

And I will wait

I will wait 

For you
And I will wait

I will wait 

For you

So break my step
And relent
Well you forgave and I won't forget
Know what we've seen
And him with less
Now in some way shake the excess

'Cause I will wait

I will wait 

For you
And I will wait

I will wait 

For you

And I will wait

I will wait 

For you
And I will wait

I will wait 

For you

Now I'll be bold
As well as strong
And use my head alongside my heart
So tame my flesh
And fix my eyes
A tethered mind freed from the lies

And I'll kneel down
Wait for now
I'll kneel down
Know my ground

Raise my hands
Paint my spirit gold
And bow my head
Keep my heart slow

'Cause I will wait

I will wait 

For you
And I will wait

I will wait 

For you

And I will wait

I will wait 

For you
And I will wait

I will wait 

For you

Fav

Mine and yours - SotW [Week of 9-23-12]

I look at one shining beacon, two that I admire. Youth to the end. I look at another, two that I can see myself becoming. They will always end up together.

SotW 9/23
Muse Madness

Ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma... mad mad mad

I, I can't get these memories out of my mind,
And some kind of madness has started to evolve.
I, I tried so hard to let you go,
But some kind of madness is swallowing me whole, 

Yeah

I have finally seen the light,
And I have finally realized,
What you mean.
Ooh oh oh

And now, I need to know is this real love,
Or is it just madness keeping us afloat?
And when I look back at all the crazy fights we had,
Like some kind of madness
Was taking control
Yeah

And now I have finally seen the light,
And I have finally realized,
What you need.

And now I have finally seen the end
(Finally seen the end)
And I'm not expecting you to care
(Expecting you to care)
But I have finally seen the light
(Finally seen the light)
I have finally realized
(Realized)
I need your love
I need your love

Come to me,
Just in a dream
Come on and rescue me.
Yes I know, I can be wrong
Maybe I'm too headstrong
Our love is
Madness

Maaaaadness

Know it back - SotW [Week of 9-16-12]

I want to be with someone who I love so much that I think, "who wouldn't love them?" And then I realize, right. They are spectacular. They are loved. Who wouldn't love them, another loves them. They choose convenience and to not ignore what is right in front of them, but to overlook what could be. So I continue to jump in, get pushed out, break down, and jump in again. Until I find the one who knows this back to me.

SotW 9/16
Rihanna We Found Love

Yellow diamonds in the light
And we're standing side by side
As your shadow crosses mine
What it takes to come alive

It's the way I’m feeling I just can't deny
But I've gotta let it go

We found love in a hopeless place
We found love in a hopeless place
We found love in a hopeless place
We found love in a hopeless place

Shine a light through an open door
Love and life I will divide
Turn away cause I need you more
Feel the heartbeat in my mind

It's the way I'm feeling I just can't deny
But I’ve gotta let it go

We found love in a hopeless place
We found love in a hopeless place
We found love in a hopeless place
We found love in a hopeless place

Yellow diamonds in the light
And we're standing side by side
As your shadow crosses mine...

We found love in a hopeless place
We found love in a hopeless place
We found love in a hopeless place
We found love in a hopeless place

We found love in a hopeless place
We found love in a hopeless place
We found love in a hopeless place
We found love in a hopeless place

Heeere!

Shed a few at least - SotW [Week of 9-9-12]

I tell you you're pushing him away. I tell you what makes you smile and what you don't want to hear. I tell you that I don't know what will happen. I know there's only so much you will hear. I am your friend.

SotW 9/9
The Avett Brothers The Weight of Lies

Disappear from your hometown
Go and find the people that you know
Show them all your good parts
Leave town when the bad ones start to show
Go and wed a woman, a pretty girl that you've never met
Make sure she knows you love her well
But don't make any other promises

The weight of lies will bring you down
And follow you to every town
Cause nothin happens here
That doesn't happen there
So when you run make sure you run
To something and not away from
Cause lies don't need an aero plane
To chase you anywhere

I once heard the worse thing
A man can do is draw a hungry crowd.
Tell everyone his name in pride and confidence
But leaving out his doubt.
I'm not sure I bought those words
When I was young I knew most everything.
These words have never meant as much to anyone
As they now mean to me.

The weight of lies will bring you down
And follow you to every town,
Cause nothin happens here that doesn't happen there.
So when you run make sure you run
To something and not away from,
Cause lies don't need an aero plane
To chase you down.

The weight of lies will bring you down
And follow you to every town,
Cause nothin happens here that doesn't happen there.
So when you run make sure you run
To something and not away from,
Cause lies don't need an aero plane
To chase you anywhere.

The weight of lies will bring you down
And follow you to every town,
Cause nothin happens here that doesn't happen there.
So when you run make sure you run
To something and not away from,
Cause lies don't need an aero plane
To chase you down

Truth

Reasons - SotW [Week of 9-2-12]

If it won't change your lifestyle, then do it for my sake. I have told you it would change mine.

SotW 9/2
Ben Sollee A Few Honest Words

If you're going to lead my country
If you're gonna say it's free
I'm gonna need
a little honesty

Just a few honest words
It shouldn't be that hard
Just a few honest words
Is all I need

I don't need no handshake
No firm look in the eye
Don't tell me what you think I
I ought to hear

I don't need no high life
No fancy premiers
Just tell me what you really think
Without fear

Just a few honest words
It shouldn't be that hard
Just a few honest words
Is all I need

Love is a bitter food
You've learned to eat
You still don't know, oh,
Where it grows

And our love of freedom
Holds a veil over our eyes
Rights that are given
Can be taken away

Just a few honest words
It shouldn't be that hard
Just a few honest words
Is all I need

We don't choose our leaders
The choose themselves
Tell me again
About democracy

Songgg

The hills, the lights - SotW [Week of 8-26-12]

That time I was surprised to hear from you, and I told you I was getting restless. Ready to drive west for some California dreamin'.

SotW 8/26

Kalifornia Adam 12 ft. Mos Def

This is the place, they say

People come from far far far away
To find their dreams
Chasin' down these meteors and comets called dreams
(Chasin em Chasin em Chasin em...)
In the sky of life
In certain hotspots where these meteors and stars have a tendency to fall
And legend has it that California is one of those spots
I believe that to be true...

They say...This the place where stars are born
They say... This is the place where legends are made
They say.... This is the place where angels come play
They say... That this is the place where it all can happen for you

California knows how to make dreams seem so sweet
California knows how to whisper in your ear and tell you

You're a star, you're a star, you're a star
And you keep on staring, pretty girls by the oceanside
Softly refuse to shine, on your mind
California knows how to party indeed
In the city of LA, they say the angels come play
In the city, city of Compton, All over the world
In the city of good old watts
Beat dont stop, beat don't stop
In the city
California don't stop, don't stop
All the ways from LA to the bay indeed
Stars fall down here thats what they say
Indeed
All the way from LA to the bay indeed

Stars fall down here, that's what they say
It's everything they say

It's the lights from across the bay
California!
Its the c-a-l-i-f-o-r-n-i-a
California knows how to make me smile at times, yes they do
California hey, knows how to do what they do, when they do, what they do, 

when they do, what they do to me and you too
California
Phenomena phenomena worldwide original stop indeed
Mos def on the profile indeed
Attitude by the new so very will
Worldwide original stop indeed
Mos def on the profile indeed
Attitude by the new so very will

In the city
of LA
It's everything they say

Best stories - SotW [Week of 8-19-12]

There's room for mischief. And Peter Pan-like shenanigans.

SotW 8/19
Travis Barker ft. The Cool Kids RCRD LBL Mixtape

Ah, it's the humpty dump, truck big wheel, wall crumbler

If money did talk, yours probably be a mumbler

The bumble bee, color kush, burning in the bubble of puff

Brother rocks Dougie but it's uglier on that other stuff
I'm saying no, weighing only about 175

I sound like a heavier guy but we high, so high-five

Behinds the nice thighs and the sun beamin'

Flicking on the old blue beamers, hoodie
And Woody Allen couldn't see it with his glasses on

At homecoming getting drunker then the chaperon

And don't you hate when you go into a place

And somebody need a I.D. 'cause they done left at it home
You feel bad if you go ahead and leave 'em

So you try to swap it out

And hope the door man believe 'em

Yo' he payed cash, send a check to him directly

Or money orders, every dollar, four quarters
While I drive, break, shift, jump down

When I drive, break, shift, jump down

While I drive, break, shift, jump down

When I drive, break, shift, jump down
And I just touched down, pillow case sized clouds

Louder than that pound like your neighbors at your door

Dog take yo' job off the floor, meet your neighbor

Chuck Daly is the liveliest coach, bless his soul
It's amazing though to save his   kept his

But to see he saved that color

Mike rock got the range, had it flickin' last summer

Size 900 with the turbo runnin' on it
Gold BBS in the zone as a nexus

Supposed to be flexed on y'all niggas last summer

Chill, we ain't have to move a muscle

Had a court case pending and we hit the ground runnin'
Get'cha rap together, you ain't talkin' 'bout nothin'

Sure lip-sync shit and y'all ain't talkin' 'bout none of us

And it's '45 back on my number 9'94 can't touch this like it's Hammer time
While I drive, break, shift, jump down

When I drive, break, shift, jump down

While I drive, break, shift, jump down

When I drive, break, shift, jump down

When I drive, I play this

Over 60 - SotW [Week of 8-12-12]

Just when I thought I wouldn't make bad choices, you came around. I figured you'd get me in the end anyway, so I let you win. After you left, you came crawling back.

SotW 8/12
Wilco Heavy Metal Drummer

I sincerely miss those heavy metal bands
I used to go see on the landing in the summer
She fell in love with the drummer
She fell in love with the drummer
She fell in love

Shiny, shiny pants and bleach-blond hair
A double kick drum by the river in the summer
She fell in love with the drummer
Another and another
She fell in love

I miss the innocence I've known
Playing KISS covers, beautiful and stoned

Unlock my body and move myself to dance
Moving warm liquid, flowing blowing glass
Classical music blasting masks the ringing in my ears

I sincerely miss those heavy metal bands
I used to go see on the landing in the summer
She fell in love with the drummer
She fell in love with another
She fell in love

I miss the innocence I've known
Playing KISS covers, beautiful and stoned
Playing KISS covers, beautiful and stoned
Playing KISS covers, beautiful and stoned

That girl

Real pictures - SotW [Week of 8-5-12]

There's enough to keep me up in my head. And who puts those thoughts there? I try not to imagine what you could be like, who you could be to me.

SotW 8/5
Sleeping With the Lights On Teitur

I’ve been haunted by this old ghost before
I want to hear your voice you know it’s been so long
Like a dancing wave you balance on the shore
It would feel so good to see your face again
I still sleep with the lights on
I still stay up late alone
I still love another one
I still sleep with the lights on
We both understand we got no way back
Our love was strange in a strange land
We got broken wings we were bound to fall
Until the sun comes up you can hold my hand
I still sleep with the lights on
I still stay up late alone
I still love another one
I still sleep with the lights on
Take it easy, take it slow
Let’s just watch the tides they grow
The wind is coming from the side
We are sleeping in the light
Feel like waking up in your house some day
Or eating off your hand like a bird astray
But nothing’s gonna change, we’ll still be the same
We’ve said what’s to say, nothing’s buried nowhere
I still sleep with the lights on
I still stay up late alone
I still love another one
I still sleep with the lights on
This is a good'un

Guurl power - SotW [Week of 7-29-12]

He laughed when I couldn't remember what day it was. Wished he could do what I do. And I smiled when I knew someone wanted to be in my shoes. Wished I could do more.

SotW 7/29
Girl on Fire Alicia Keys (Inferno Version ft. Nicki Minaj)

Spirit of Marilyn calling me, audibly
Bawling she, said that she would never leave
Continued to torture me
Telling me to come with her
Underneath my comforter
And she brought a gun with her
Pills and some rum with her
Tip me on the balcony telling me to jump with her
Yeah I’m in the ghost but I ain’t doing stunts with her
I ain’t tryna be that haters wanna see that
But I got ‘em aggy cause I win the gold like Gabby

She’s just a girl and she’s on fire
Hotter than a fantasy, longer like a highway
She’s living in a world and it’s on fire
Fill with catastrophe, but she know she can fly away

Oh, she got both feet on the ground
And she’s burning it down
Oh, she got her head in the clouds
And she’s not backing down

This girl is on fire
This girl is on fire
She’s walking on fire
This girl is on fire

Looks like a girl but she’s a flame
So bright she can burn your eyes
Better look the other way
You can try but you’ll never forget her name
She’s on top of the world
Hottest of the hottest girls say

Oh, we got our feet on the ground
And we’re burning it down
Oh, got our head in the clouds
And we’re not coming down

This girl is on fire
This girl is on fire
She’s walking on fire
This girl is on fire

Everybody stands as she goes by
Cause they can see the flame that’s in her eyes
Watch her when she’s lighting up the night
Nobody knows that she’s a lonely girl
And it’s a lonely world
But she gon’ let it burn baby burn baby

Dear God, If you’re here God
Make the fire disappear when they stare God
Take away my fear when they interfere God
Do you fear God? Cause I fear God
And in my backyard, that’s a deer, God
And that’s a horse ranch
And to my core fans keep repping me
Do it to the death of me
X in the box cause ain’t nobody checking me

This girl is on fire
This girl is on fire
She’s walking on fire
This girl is on fire

Oh, oh, oh…

She’s just a girl, and she’s on fire

Hot hot hot!

Where we are now - SotW [Week of 7-22-12]

We finally figured it out, and I guess I don't mind. And now I am remembering you, fondly. And how I almost went over - because I knew where you lived, but probably no longer - to give back the mixtape you made me. So it began and it ended before you ever spoke an honest word to me. Aside from the songs, which usually give it all away anyway.

SotW 7/22
Dave Alvin King of California

Well I left my home and my one true love
East of the Ohio River
My father said we’d never wed
For I had me no gold nor silver

But my darling dear, please shed no tears
But I think that it’s fair to warn you
That I return to claim your hand
As the King of California

Over deserts hot and mountains cold
I traveled the Indian country
Whispering your name under lonesome skies
Remembering my only company

But my darling dear, please have no fear
For I think that it’s fair to warn you
That I return to claim your hand
As the King of California

I went up from Sacramento town
To the Sierra gold fields
And I worked my stake on a riverbank?
Dreaming just how a rich man feels

Now my darling dear, listen here
For I think that it’s fair to warn you
That I return to claim your hand
As the King of California

Now the dead man’s lying at my feet
Who tried to steal my earnings
Yet I still recall your tender kiss
Though this bullet in my chest is burning

But my darling dear, please have no fear
For I think that it’s fair to warn you
That I return to claim your hand
As the King of California

That I return to claim your hand
As the King of California

Howdy there

Freebie - SotW [Week of 7-15-12]

To staying until the final hour - and having a time I never thought I'd have, meeting people I never thought I'd meet and may never again. Worth the convincing.

SotW 7/15
Dragon & Jontron Winter Promo Mix 2011

You know what... You can HAVE this one: Download Here
Get pumped. Click it. Wait. Dance your face off. And reflect.

No life without sun - SotW [Week of 7-8-12]

I feel like I've written this before, and the other day I actually heard what a broken turntable sounds like. Not like a broken record.

SotW 7/8
Sugar Ray Under The Sun

Now this is somethin' from back in the day
I'll always remember Run DMC
And all the good times
That we had on the beach
Stealing sips from a paper cup
And making out in the sand
Maybe I'm dreaming
Can you tell me

Do you remember
The summers that lasted so long
June til September
Was our time to sing all the songs
Do you remember
All of us together
As we grew up under the sun

I'll always remember everything we do
Rockin' the eighties blastin' KROQ
I remember Culture Club
The Clash, and Men Without Hats
Seems kind of funny right now
But it's taking me back
We'd always sing along
And laugh out loud at ourselves
Don't want to stop dreaming
Can you tell me

Do you remember
The summers that lasted so long
June til September
Was our time to sing all the songs
Do you remember
All of us together
As we grew up under the sun

I want to rewind every time
'Cause the words have so much meaning
They were there when nobody cared
Always knew what I was feeling
Stay tonight don't leave me reminiscing
All I do is wind up missing you
And you missing
Are you missing me
na na na

Do you remember
The summers that lasted so long
June til September
Was our time to sing all the songs
Do you remember
All of us together
As we grew up under the sun

dial it back

Straight and narrow - SotW [Week of 7-1-12]

In four days, I'll see my frustrations to the door. Out for a couple of hours and wake to the rest of my life.

SotW 7/1
A Fine Frenzy Almost Lover

Your fingertips across my skin
The palm trees swaying in the wind, images
You sang me Spanish lullabies
The sweetest sadness in your eyes, clever trick

Well, I?d never want to see you unhappy
I thought you?d want the same for me

Goodbye, my almost lover
Goodbye, my hopeless dream
I'm trying not to think about you
Can't you just let me be?

So long, my luckless romance
My back is turned on you
Should've known you'd bring me heartache
Almost lovers always do

We walked along a crowded street
You took my hand and danced with me in the shade
And when you left you kissed my lips
You told me you would never ever forget these images, no

Well, I?d never want to see you unhappy
I thought you?d want the same for me
[. From: http://www.elyrics.net/read/a/a-fine-frenzy-lyrics/almost-lover-lyrics.html .]

Goodbye, my almost lover
Goodbye, my hopeless dream
I'm trying not to think about you
Can't you just let me be?

So long, my luckless romance
My back is turned on you
Should've known you'd bring me heartache
Almost lovers always do

I cannot go to the ocean
I cannot try the streets at night
I cannot wake up in the morning
Without you on my mind

So you're gone and I'm haunted
And I bet you are just fine
Did I make it that easy to walk
Right in and out of my life?

Goodbye, my almost lover
Goodbye, my hopeless dream
I'm trying not to think about you
Why can't you just let me be?

So long, my luckless romance
My back is turned on you
Should've known you'd bring me heartache
Almost lovers always do
To your ears

Outta shells - SotW [Week of 6-24-12]

Never get enough surprising myself. That hill will go faster if you run it. And trust, you can run it.

SotW 6/24
The Black Eyed Peas Boom Boom Pow

Gotta get-get, gotta get-get

Gotta get-get, gotta g-g-g-get-get-get, get-get
Boom boom boom, gotta get-get

Boom boom boom, gotta get-get

Boom boom boom, gotta get-get

Boom boom boom, gotta get-get
Boom boom boom, now

Boom boom boom, now

Boom boom pow

Boom boom

Yo, I got that hit that beat the block

You can get that bass overload

I got the that rock and roll

That future flow
That digital spit

Next level visual shit

I got that boom boom pow

How the beat bang, boom boom pow
I like that boom boom pow

Them chickens jackin' my style

They try copy my swagger

I'm on that next shit now
I'm so 3008

You so 2000 and late

I got that boom, boom, boom

That future boom, boom, boom

Let me get it now
Boom boom boom, gotta get-get

Boom boom boom, gotta get-get

Boom boom boom, gotta get-get

Boom boom boom, gotta get-get
Boom boom boom, now

Boom boom boom, now

Boom boom pow

Boom boom pow
I'm on the supersonic boom

Y'all hear the spaceship zoom

When, when I step inside the room

Them girls go ape-shit, uh
Y'all stuck on Super 8 shit

That low-fi stupid 8 bit

I'm on that HD flat

This beat go boom boom bap

I'm a beast when you turn me on

Into the future cybertron

Harder, faster, better, stronger

Sexy ladies extra longer
'Cause we got the beat that bounce

We got the beat that pound

We got the beat that 808

That the boom, boom in your town
People in the placeIf you wanna get down

Put your hands in the air

Will.i.am drop the beat now
Yup, yupI be rockin' them beats, yup, yup

I be rockin' them beats, y-y-yup, yup
Here we go, here we go, satellite radio

Y'all gettin' hit with boom boom

Beats so big I'm steppin' on leprechauns

Shittin' on y'all with the boom boom
Shittin' on y'all you with the boom boom

Shittin' on y'all you with the
This beat be bumpin', bumpin'

This beat go boom, boom
Let the beat rockLet the beat rock

Let the beat rock
This beat be bumpin', bumpin'

This beat go boom, boom
I like that boom boom pow

Them chickens jackin' my style

They try copy my swagger

I'm on that next shit now
I'm so 3008

You so 2000 and late

I got that boom boom boom

That future boom boom boom

Let me get it now
Boom boom boom, gotta get-get

Boom boom boom, gotta get-get

Boom boom boom, gotta get-get

Boom boom boom, gotta get-get
Boom boom boom, now

Boom boom boom, now

Boom boom pow

Boom boom pow
Let the beat rock

Now REALLY let the beat rock

Done doin it - SotW [Week of 6-17-12]

The biggest grin when I hear the year's first roll of thunder. What I fall back on, what is reliable but new every time. 

SotW 6/17

Ben Kweller Sundress

Everybody's trying to be the best
What about the girl with loneliness
I like your sundress
I like your sundress
What about the girl with loneliness
From the inside out
You're so beautiful
I want to hold you in my hand

I do everything you want me to
I do everything you want me to do

I want to start going on a morning walk
What about the days when we used to talk?
I don't need a smile from a mannequin
I just want to hold you in my hands

I do everything you want me to
I do everything you want me to
I do everything you want me to do

From the inside out
You've changed, girl
You know you have
Don't make a good thing bad
Just let me hold you in my hands

I do everything you want me to
I do everything you want me to do
I do everything everything everything
I do everything you want me to
I do everything you want me to do
Do do for you

sunny days

Ttyn - SotW [Week of 6-10-12]

Done fightin'. Done waitin'. Done settlin'.

SotW 6/10
Joe Johnson A Time To Dance

Sittin' outside an old bus station
Laze around under shade trees
Police said you can't sleep inside
Threw me out in the cold, cold street

Now I'm lost in 'nawlins
and I ain't got a clue
Feels the same way
I feel lookin' for you

So I dance a jig in my Sunday shoes
Feel the beat like a second skin
Cut off jeans and my white legs showin
Like cotton in a delta wind

Now I'm lost in emotion
Seeps down to my bones
Don't look for me behind these eyes
I'm already gone

Oh I ain't lookin' for forgiveness
What a wickedness I've done
Years ain't gettin kinder

Know that I'm a good man
Just a victim of circumstance
There's a time when you gotta fight
And a time when you gotta dance


Oh I ain't lookin' for forgiveness
What a wickedness I've done
Years ain't gettin kinder

Know that I'm a good man
Just a victim of circumstance
There's a time when you gotta fight
And a time when you gotta dance



There's a time when you gotta fight
And a time when you just gotta dance


time to dance

Never wished this upon us - SotW [Week of 6-3-12]

Least favorite ally: you've done nothing. But trust fell short.

SotW 6/3

The Decemberists This is Why We Fight

Come the war
Come the avarice
Come the war
Come hell

Come attrition
Come the reek of bones
Come attrition
Come hell

This is why
Why we fight
Why we lie awake
And this is why
This is why we fight
When we die
We will die
With our arms unbound
And this is why
This is why
Why we fight
Come hell

Bride of quiet
Bride of all unquiet things
Bride of quiet
Bride of hell

Come the archers
Come the infantry
Come the archers
Of hell

This is why
Why we fight
Why we lie awake
This is why
This is why we fight
And when we die
We will die
With our arms unbound
And this is why
This is why we fight
Come hell
Come hell

This is why
Why we fight
Why we lie awake
This is why
This is why we fight
When we die
We will die with our arms unbound
And this is why
This is why we fight

So come to me
Come to me now
Lay your arms around me
And this is why
This is why
We fight
Come hell
Come hell
Come hell
Come hell

fun sesh

Any day now - SotW [Week of 5-27-12]

I always say there's no other feeling than when you truly know something. And there's no other feeling than when that truth is not mutual.

SotW 5/27

Scott Matthews Eyes Wider Than Before

Follow the distant beam of light

A drop of neon floods my weary eyes
It illuminates my soul, reasons why
I'm heading your way with the traffic by my side
Remember how it was before
Just a minute away, I'll be knocking on your front door
Don't underestimate, this place is tired
Every second is treated as though there is no time

Your eyes are wider than before
So little has changed
But your eyes now see much more

Hush now, sway and fall asleep
Gonna drive you away from the trampling of bustling feet
You can lose your troubled thoughts for tonight at least
You can wake in the morning feeling that you can breathe

Little darling you're mine for tonight
Your mellow and tender self is hard to find
From you, I drown all doubts deep inside
I surrender myself to your presence and peace of mind

Your eyes are wider than before
So little has changed
But your eyes now see much more

so much more
so, so much more
so much more
so much more

Landed status - SotW [Week of 5-20-12]

I never thought I'd miss them that much. You could have caught me tapping my foot at the gate; the others sat further back. There's nothing quite like a reunion.

SotW 5/20

Fleet Foxes Mykonos

The door slammed loud and rose up a cloud of dust on us

Footsteps follow, down through the hollow sound, torn up.

And you will go to Mykonos

With a vision of a gentle coast

And a sun to maybe dissipate

Shadows of the mess you made

How did animals in the snow tipped pines, I find

Hatching from the seed of your thin mind, all night?

And you will go to Mykonos

With a vision of a gentle coast

And a sun to maybe dissipate

Shadows of the mess you made
Brother you don't need to turn me away

I was waiting down at the ancient gate

You go

Wherever you go today

You go today

I remember how they took you down

As the winter turned the meadow brown

You go

Wherever you go today

You go today

When a-walking brother don't you forget

It ain't often that you'll ever find a friend

You go

Wherever you go today

You go today

Aaaand, a viewing.

The build up - SotW [Week of 5-13-12]

It was a matter of when and a matter of pushing send. A made-up mind in all the ways you would dread in hindsight.

SotW 5/13
Aidan Hawken Shut Me Out

If I could start all over with you again,
I’d change the way the story ends.
I’d try my best to help you along,
If ever there’s anything wrong,
But I know you gotta be moving on.

Baby it’s gonna be fine if you have to go
And I always wish you well you know,
It’s time for you to do everything,
you always wanted to do.
So, I’ll see you when you make it through

I couldn’t do anything right;
I couldn’t do anything right,
I was so far away and you shut me outside.
Shut me outside,
Shut me outside.

God I wish I was sleeping with you tonight,
We could listen to the rain outside,
I’d tell you a story, sing you a song, promise you nothing is wrong,
But I know you gotta be moving on.

I couldn’t do anything right;
I couldn’t do anything right,
I was so far away and you shut me outside.

It’s time for you to do everything,
you always wanted to do.
So, I’ll see you when you make it through
Yeah, I’ll see you when you make it through

Have a seat.

I have to take this - SotW [Week of 5-6-12]

I'll always remember this day. And every time I tell the story, it proves the end. 

SotW 5/6

James Blake Limit To Your Love

There's a limit to your love

Like a waterfall in slow motion

Like a map with no ocean

There's a limit to your love

Your love, your love, your love

There's a limit to your care

So carelessly there

Is it truth or dare?

There's a limit to your care

There's a limit to your love

Like a waterfall in slow motion

Like a map with no ocean

There's a limit to your love

Your love, your love, your love

There's a limit to your care

So carelessly there

Is it truth or dare?

There's a limit to your care

So carelessly there

There's a limit to your care

There's a limit to your love

Like a waterfall in slow motion

Like a map with no ocean

There's a limit to your love

Your love, your love, your love

http://youtu.be/oOT2-OTebx0

You'll look back - SotW [Week of 4-29-12]

There is more heartbreak ahead for us. And that won't stop me from being someone else's girl of a different kind.

SotW 4/29

Swedish House Mafia Don't You Worry Child

There was a time, I used to look into my father's eyes
In a happy home, I was a king I had a gold throne
Those days are gone, now the memories are on the wall
I hear the songs from the places where I was born

Up on the hill across the blue lake,
That's where I had my first heartbreak
I still remember how it all changed
My father said,
"Don't you worry, don't you worry, child
See heaven's got a plan for you
Don't you worry, don't you worry now"
Yeah!

"Don't you worry, don't you worry, child
See heaven's got a plan for you
Don't you worry, don't you worry now"
Yeah!

There was a time, I met a girl of a different kind.
We ruled the world, I thought I'll never lose her out of sight.
We were so young, I think of her now and then
I still hear a song reminding me of a friend

Up on the hill across the blue lake,
That's where I had my first heartbreak
I still remember how it all changed
My father said,
"Don't you worry, don't you worry, child
See heaven's got a plan for you
Don't you worry, don't you worry now"
Yeah!

Oh, oh, oh!
See heaven's got a plan for you

"Don't you worry, don't you worry, child
See heaven's got a plan for you
Don't you worry, don't you worry now"
Yeah!

Oh, oh, oh, oh!
Yeah!

Acoustic version

On morality - SotW [Week of 4-22-12]

You think everything can be held by faith. And I think nothing can be truly held.

SotW 4/22
Hootie & The Blowfish Hold My Hand

With a little love, and some tenderness
Well walk upon the water
Well rise above this mess
With a little peace, and some harmony
Well take the world together
Well take em by the hand

Cause Ive got a hand for you
Cause I wanna run with you

Yesterday, I saw you standing there
Your head was down, your eyes were red
No comb had touched your hair
I said get up, and let me see you smile
Well take a walk together
Walk the road awhile, cause

Cause Ive got a hand for you
Ive got a hand for you
Cause I wanna run with you
Wont you let me run with you? yeah

Hold my hand
Want you to hold my hand
Hold my hand
Ill take you to a place where you can be
Hold my hand
Anything you wanna be because
I wanna love you the best that, the best that I can

See I was wasted, and I was wasting time
Till I thought about your problems, I thought about your crimes
Then I stood up, and then I screamed aloud
I don't wanna be part of your problems
Don't wanna be part of your crowd, no

Cause Ive got a hand for you
Ive got a hand for you
Cause I wanna run with you
Ah, wont you let me run with you?

Hold my hand
Want you to hold my hand
Hold my hand
Ill take you to the promised land
Hold my hand
Maybe we can't change the world but
I wanna love you the best that, the best that I can, yeah

Hold my hand
Want you to hold my hand
Hold my hand
Ill take you to a place where you can be
Hold my hand
Anything you wanna be because
I...oh...no, no, no, no, no

Hold my hand
Want you to hold my hand
Hold my hand
Ill take you to the promised land
Hold my hand
Maybe we can't change the world but
I wanna love you the best that, best that I can
Oh, the best that I can

Takin' it back.

Names come up - SotW [Week of 4-15-12]

Every time you call and say we should or you wish, I'll tell you to be the brother I think of you as.

SotW 4/15
Basia Bulat Heart of My Own

Under that bird
Beneath that falls
Down on these walls
Burnin my arms
I've been alone
When I sat by you

For every word I could undo
I've been uncrossed
and I've been untrue
I've been the thorn
I've been the hunt

With a heart of my own
Burn it down low
The light in your verse
And the shadow between
The way that I was when I used to roam

Back home
What do I hold?
For the maid or the mother I'll be
If only the loom and a thread will hold.
It is work too but as that I hear it
Tomorrow I'll mend it
The empty bones.

There are the roses that come without seekin'
They are the ones that I have to sow.
In your verses that I have repeated
The way that I was when I used to know.

I wrote on these walls
A simple charm
To keep the wounds at bay
Gave of a heart
The strength of my arms
To hold you close and safe

But I kept my eyes closed
I'll never know
Where the shadows are these days
I stood in the room of a house divided

Ah, and it washed away from me.
It washed away from me, oh,
And It washed away from me.
It washed away to take my own
Burn it down low

The light in your verse
And the shadow between
The way that I was when I used to roam

Back home
What do I hold?
For the maid or the mother I'll be
If only the loom and a thread will hold.
It is work too but as that I hear it

Tomorrow I meant it
The empty bones
There are the roses that come without sinkin
They are the ones that I have to sow
In your verses that I have repeated
The way that I was when I used to know.

In Studio

Penpal feelings - SotW [Week of 4-8-12]

For something that could conquer all, I am refreshed that it was lost.

SotW 4/8

Ryan Adams Dear Chicago

Dear Chicago,
You'll never guess.
You know the girl you said I'd meet someday?
Well, I've got something to confess.
She picked me up on Friday.
Asked me if she reminded me of you.
I just laughed and lit a cigarette,
Said "that's impossible to do."
My life's gotten simple since.
But it fluctuates so much.
Happy and sad and back again.
I'm not crying out to much.
Think about you all the time.
It's strange and hard to deal.
Think about you lying there.
And those blankets lie so still.
Nothing breathes here in the cold.
Nothing moves or even smiles.
I've been thinking some of suicide.
But there's bars out here for miles.
Sorry about the every kiss.
Every kiss you wasted back
I think the thing you said was true,
I'm going to die alone and sad.

The wind's feeling real these days.
Yeah, baby, it hurt's me some.
Never thought I'd feel so blue.
New York City, you're almost gone.
I think that I've fallen out of love,
I think I've fallen out of love... with you.

Da music.

Little has changed - SotW [Week of 4-1-12]

I used to think that someday I'd grow up. That everyone does.

SotW 4/1
The New Radicals You Get What You Give

Wake up kids
We've got the dreamers disease
Age 14 we got you down on your knees
So polite, you're busy still saying please
Fri - enemies, who when you're down ain't your friend
Every night we smash their Mercedes - Benz
First we run and then we laugh till we cry
But when the night is falling
And you cannot find the light
If you feel your dream is dying
Hold tight
You've got the music in you
Don't let go
You've got the music in you
One dance left
This world is gonna pull through
Don't give up
You've got a reason to live
Can't forget you only get what you give
Four a. m. we ran a miracle mile
Were flat broke but hey we do it in style
The bad rich
God's flying in for your trial

This whole damn world can fall apart
You'll be ok follow your heart
You're in harms way
I'm right behind
Now say youre mine

Fly high
What's real can't die
You only get what you give
Just dont be afraid to leave
Health insurance rip off lying FDA big bankers buying
Fake computer crashes dining
Cloning while they're multiplying
Fashion mag shoots
With the aid of 8 dust brothers Beck, Hanson
Courtney Love and Marilyn Manson
You're all fakes
Run to your mansions
Come around
We'll kick your ass in!
Don't let go
One dance left

Championed by a soulless media misleading
People unaware they're bleeding
No one with a brain is believing
It's so sad you lost the meaning
Never knew it anyway
Human natures so predictable
I'm a fool to do your dirty work whoa, whoa
Hollaback!

Still early - SotW [Week of 3-25-12]

I know it's nerves, when all I can come up with is a time frame waiting game. And I hope my trials are worth my travels.

SotW 3/25
Hey Marseilles To Travels & Trunks

Lucy and I came from Tallahassee
With our bones on our backs
Our backs on our knees
She was small, I was straight
We left our love in a bed ridden gate for shame

Why can't you see the sky isn't green anymore
Why don't you know what I need on these shores
All I want is love eternally
With your heart facing me

Science says stones don't fly through water
And souls don't matter if you love your mother
If karma could dance, she'd tango forever
And I'd sell my sleeves for some cloud ridden weather

Why can't you see heaven won't wait for us
Salutations and prayers are too laborius
All I want is love eternally
With your heart facing me

Without further adieu

Before summer - SotW [Week of 3-18-12]

When winter is longer than you remember, but you're afraid that another summer means another year. And you don't want whatever is happening now to happen for another year. You find an end, and put it in sight.

SotW 3/18

Midlake Roscoe

Stonecutters made them from stones
Chosen specially for you and I
Who will live inside
The mountaineers gathered tender
Piled high
In which to take along.
Driving many miles, knowing they'd get here.

When they got here, all exhausted
On the roof leaks they got started
And now when the rain comes
We can be thankful

Ooh aah ooh
When the mountaineers
Saw that everything fit, they were
Glad and so they took off

Thought we were devoid
A change or two
Around this place
When they get back they're all mixed up with no one to stay with

The village used to be all one really needs
That's filled with hundreds and hundreds of
Chemicals that mostly surround you
You wish to flee but it's not like you
So listen to me, listen to me

Oh, oh, oh and when the morning comes,
We will step outside
We will not find another man inside
We like the newness, the newness of all
That has grown in our garden soaking for so long

Whenever I was a child I wondered what if my name had changed into something more productive like Roscoe
Been born in 1891
Waiting with my Aunt Rosaline

Thought we were devoid
A change or two
Around this place
When they get back they're all mixed up with no one to stay with

1891
They looked around the forest
They made their house from cedars
They made their house from stones

Oh, they're a little like you, and
They're a little like me
When they're falling me

Thought we were devoid
A change or two
Around this place
This place
This place

When they get back they're all mixed up with no one to stay with
When they get back they're all mixed up with no one to stay with

Here tis

Rescheduled - SotW [Week of 3-11-12]

She told me it was postponed. I took you to dinner. When things finally run on time, I won't have seen you for months.

SotW 3/11
Belle & Sebastian Piazza, New York Catcher

Elope with me Miss Private and we’ll sail around the world
I will be your Ferdinand and you my wayward girl
How many nights of talking in hotel rooms can you take?
How many nights of limping round on pagan holidays?
Oh elope with me in private and we’ll set something ablaze
A trail for the devil to erase

San Francisco’s calling us, the Giants and Mets will play
Piazza, New York catcher, are you straight or are you gay?
We hung about the stadium, we’ve got no place to stay
We hung about the tenderloin and tenderly you tell
About the saddest book you ever read
It always makes you cry
The statue’s crying too and well he may

I love you I’ve a drowning grip on your adoring face
I love you my responsibility has found a place
Beside you and strong warnings in the guise of gentle words
Come wave upon me from the family why not that's absurd
“You’ll take care of her, I know it, you will do a better job”
Maybe, but not what she deserves

Elope with me Miss Private and we’ll drink ourselves awake
We’ll taste the coffee houses and award certificates
A privy seal to keep the feel of 1960's style
We’ll comment on the decor and we’ll help the passerby
And at dusk when work is over we’ll continue the debate
In a borrowed bedroom virginal and spare

The catcher hits for .318 and catches every day
The pitcher puts religion first and rests on holidays
He goes into cathedrals and lies prostrate on the floor
He knows the drink affects his speed he’s praying for a doorway
Back into the life he wants and the confession of the bench

Life outside a diamond is a wrench
I wish that you were here with me to pass the dull weekend
I know it wouldn’t come to love, my heroine pretend
A lady stepping from the songs we love until this day
You’d settle for an epitaph like “Walk Away, Renee”
The sun upon the roof in winter will draw you out like a flower

Meet you at the statue in an hour

Meet you at the statue in an hour
Listen!

Trudging - SotW [Week of 3-4-12]

When you go through a closet, and most of the crazy shit you find is for Halloween. To either be something you're not at all, or something that is your essence.

SotW 3/4
Rogue Wave California

Screw California
And friends that are never there
And places that they oughta
Pretend that they even care

From a false family, she could light you up
Like a holiday tree in the summer

So lead us there

So screw California
And ice that will never melt
From hearts of the modern
Children of Cicero

From a false family, she could light you up
Like a holiday tree in the summer

So lead us there

cali cali

Nothing to fix - SotW [Week of 2-26-12]

I've been there, when you didn't care. Now you're there. You'll do anything now. Now you say it all, mean it all. It meant more to me then, and that's when you didn't say it, even if you meant it. Gone now.

SotW 2/26
Ray LaMontagne A Falling Through

Laid the blessings on the ground

Softening of sound draws us closed again

Stay, stay and watch the coals

Till they cease to glow like empty promises

Why, why did you go?

Why did you go away?

Why, why did you go?

Why did you go away baby?

There's nothing I can say, nothing I can do

To bring you back again

This of life I know is true

It's all fallen through and so I reach for you

Why, why did you go?

Why did you go away?

Why, why did you go?

Why did you go away?
Don't you care?

It may seem unfair

Steal the things you ought to borrow

Don't you find it may seem unkind?

I'd rather breathe than drown in sorrow

Why, why did you go?

Why did you go away?

Why, why did you go?

Why did you go away baby?

Sigh...

Humble - SotW [Week of 2-19-12]

I was there, and that's one thing you counted on. And took for granted.

SotW 2/19
Radical Face Always Gold

We were tight knit boys
Brothers in more then name
You would kill for me
And knew that I'd do the same
And it cut me sharp
Hearing you'd gone away

But everything goes away
Yeah everything goes away

But I'm going to be here until I'm nothing
But bones in the ground

And I was there, when you grew restless
Left in the dead of night
And I was there, when three months later
You were standing in the door all beat and tired
And I stepped aside

Everything goes away
Yeah everything goes away
But I'm gonna be here until I'm nothing
But bones in the ground
So quiet down

We were opposites at birth
I was steady as a hammer
No one worried 'cause they knew just where I'd be
And they said you were the crooked kind
And that you'd never have no worth
But you were always gold to me

And back when we were kids
We swore we knew the future
And our words would take us half way 'round the world
But I never left this town
And you never saw New York
And we ain't ever cross the sea

But I am fine with where I am now
This home is home, and all that I need
But for you, this place is shame
But you can blame me when there's no one left to blame

Oh I don't mind

All my life
I've never known where you've been
There were holes in you
The kind that I could not mend

And I heard you say
Right when you left that day
Does everything go away?
Yeah, everything goes away.

But I'm going to be here 'til forever
So just call when you're around.

Radicooool song

Get on it - SotW [Week of 2-12-12]

Not tied down, comfort unnecessary, risk taking time.

SotW 2/12
Jay-Z & Kanye West Ni**as In Paris

So I ball so hard muhfuckas wanna fine me

But first niggas gotta find me

What's 50 grand to a muhfucka like me

Can you please remind me?

Ball so hard, this shit crazy

Y'all don't know that don't shit phase me

The Nets could go 0-82 

and I look at you like this shit gravy

Ball so hard, this shit weird

We ain't even s'pose to be here,

Ball so hard, since we here

It's only right that we be fair

I'm psycho,

I'm liable to go Michael

Take your pick, Jackson, Tyson, Jordan, Game 6

Ball so hard, got a broke clock, 

Rolleys that don't tick tock

Audemars that's losing time, 

hidden behind all these big rocks

Ball so hard, I'm shocked too, 

I'm supposed to be locked up too

You escaped what I escaped

You'd be in Paris getting fucked up too

Ball so hard, let's get faded, 

Le Meurice for like 6 days

Gold bottles, scold models, spillin' 

Ace on my sick J's

(Ball so hard) Bitch behave, 

just might let you meet Ye, 

Chi towns D. Rose, 

I'm movin' the Nets to BK

Ball so hard muhfuckas wanna fine me

That shit Kray

She said Ye can we get married at the mall?

I said look you need to crawl 'fore you ball

Come and meet me in the bathroom stall

And show me why you deserve to have it all

That shit Kray, ain't it Jay?

What she order (what she order), fish filet(Ball, ball so hard) 

Your whip so cold (whip so cold), this old thing

(Ball so hard) 

Act like you'll never be around muhfuckas like this again

Bougie girl, grab her hand

Fuck that bitch she don't wanna dance

Excuse my French but I'm in France (I'm just sayin')

Prince William's ain't do it right if you ask me

Cause I was him I would have married Kate & Ashley

What's Gucci my nigga?

What's Louie my killa?

What's drugs my deala?

What's that jacket, Margiela?

Doctors say I'm the illest

Cause I'm suffering from realness

Got my niggas in Paris

And they going gorillas, huh!

Ball so hard muhfuckas wanna fine me

Ball so hard muhfuckas wanna fine me

You are now watching the throneDon't let me get in my zone

These other niggas is lyin'

Actin' like the summer ain't mine

I got that hot bitch in my home

You know how many hot bitches I own

Don't let me get in my zone 

The stars is in the building

They hands is to the ceiling

I know I'm bout to kill it

How you know, 

I got that feeling

You are now watching the throne

Don't let me into my zone

I'm definitely in my zone

what what!

Gotta be - SotW [Week of 2-5-12]

So many times I thought about what would be easier. And then maybe selfishness took over, not wanting to give up, not wanting to start over, knowing that the easiest way and the best thing could maybe be the same. For once.

SotW 2/5

Josh Ritter You Don't Make It Easy Babe

Here I am standing at your window again, 

Waiting for you to say go away or come in.

I’m your locked door’s worst knocker,

I’m your curtain’s best friend.

I’m trying hard to love you – you don’t make it easy, Babe

I’m trying hard to love you – I’m looking for an easy way.

Your friends ask about me you say I can be found,

With the cheap romance novels with their spines battered down,

Well the heart has no bones you say so it won’t break

But the purpose of loving is the pounding it takes.

I’m trying hard to love you – you don’t make it easy, Babe.

I’m trying hard to love you – I’m looking for an easy way.

The ropes that have bound me leave no marks by their knots,

And though they’re your hair that don’t mean I’m not caught.

I know the song of the handcuffs as they scrape across the floor,

But that new thing you’ve got I’ve got no clue what it’s for.

I’m trying hard to love you – you don’t make it easy, Babe.

I’m trying hard to love you – I’m looking for an easy way.

With fortune’s rocks millstones you hang round my throat,

And a brick for my window weighted down with a note.

I hope you find someone just as hard as you come,

In this hard world sadly that’s so easily done.

I’m trying hard to love you – you don’t make it easy, Babe.

I’m trying hard to love you – I’m looking for an easy way

I’m trying hard to love you – you don’t make it easy, Babe.

I’m trying hard to love you – there’s gotta be an easy way.

Cute