Just a quick show of hands, how many of you like music? Yeah? Excellent.
Me, personally, I'll throw my iTunes on Shuffle and just let 'er run when I'm doing homework or chore or something. Once in a great while, though, I'll be in the mood for a particular song. There's something that I need hear, because there's a particular line or musical riff that really, you know. Speaks to me.
Which brought me to this thread.
What lyrics mean the most to you (at this moment)? Why? You can post as many times as you need to, because our moods change. Got a link to the particular song? YouTube links are usually pretty reliable.
I'd love to know what you're all thinking, listening to, feeling.
Also, I'd prefer if you guys didn't post the lyrics to the whole song. I want to read the bits that made you go "Aha!" of course, but don't post great blocks of copypasta'd text. I want to hear more about what made the song fit your mindset.
Go!
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I'll kick things off. Right now, I cannot get "Collect Call" by Metric out of my head.
I know it's a lie, but I want it to be true.
The rest of the ride is ridin' on you.
[ .. ]
If somebody's got soul
You gotta make the moooo-oooove ..
First of all, I'm a sucker for any song that's as sparse, pretty, and melancholy as this one. Emily Haines has a delicate, springy voice and when she its the "moo-oove" bit, I always get chills.
Second of all, I love driving at night. More specifically, I love being a passenger at night. I love sitting in a cool car flying along +30 mph over the posted speed limit, seeing only what the headlights give me, seeing only what the streetlights give me. I love that.
Tuesday night, November 29th this song came on a mix CD in my friend Matt's care as we were gliding back to his house from a post-shooting meal at Olive Garden. One thing about the area that we're in is that it's all tight-knit suburban kingdoms with names like Whispering Brooke and Everspring Court, tall fences, manicured lawns all separated by great, blank expanses of farmland.
Listening to this song's steady but smooth pulse while cutting through the country darkness, seeing tiny packaged communities of suburbia with dotted trees with Christmas lights here and there .. I wish I could paint the scene even more perfectly, but there it is.
Who's next?
