Song Lyric Day

So this week's songs are my two new favourite song from Dave Matthews Band. The boys recently put out a new album and the first song is the first release from that album. The video for this song is....kind of weird. The Second song, is the first real song on the album even though it's listed as the second track. So without further delay here is Funny The Way It Is and Shake Me Like A Monkey, enjoy.

Funny The Way It Is
Lying in the park on a beautiful day
Sunshine in the grass and the children play
Sirens passing, fire engine red
Someone's house is burning down on a day like this

And evening comes, and we're hanging out
On the front step and a car goes by with the windows rolled down
And that war song is playing, "Why can't we be friends"
Someone is screaming crying in the apartment upstairs

Funny the way it is, if you think about it
Somebody's going hungry, someone else is eating out
Funny the way it is, not right or wrong
Somebody's heart is broken - it becomes your favorite song

The way your mouth feels in your lover's kiss
Like a pretty bird on a breeze, or water to a fish
The bomb blast brings the building crashing to the floor
Hear the laughter while the children play war

Funny the way it is, if you think about it
One kid walks 10 miles to school, another's dropping out
Funny the way it is, not right or wrong
On a soldier's last breath, his baby's being born

Standing on a bridge, watch the water passing underneath
It must have been much harder when there was no bridge, just water
Now the world is small, compared to how it used to be
With mountains and oceans and winters and rivers and stars

Watch the sky, the jet plane so far out of my reach
Is there someone up there looking down on me
Boy chase a bird, so close but every time
He'll never catch her, but he can't stop trying

Funny the way it is, if you think about it
One kid walks 10 miles to school, another's dropping out
Funny the way it is, not right or wrong
On a soldier's last breath, his baby's being born
Funny the way it is, not right or wrong
Somebody's broken heart become your favorite song
Funny the way it is, if you think about it
One kid walks 10 miles to school, another's dropping out

Standing on a bridge, watch the water passing underneath
It must have been much harder when there was no bridge, just water
Now the world is small, compared to how it used to be
With mountains and oceans and winters and rivers and stars

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ew8hmVIGKcM&feature=fvst

Shake Me Like A Monkey
The thing I like about you
The way you do what you do
The thing i like about you

God and the devil alone could not have made you up
Two must have worked as one together
So good just want to eat you up
Let me like the real thing
Lick your sticky fingers boy and sing for your dinner sing
Come on pretty babe make me lose my mind
Everybody get together gonna make love shine

Do you know what it is to feel the light of love inside you?
And all the darkness falls away
If you feel the way I feel then believe we have the answer
I've been searching for tonight
Love me baby love me baby shake me like a monkey
Forever I'm yours, yours, yours

I can't stop thinking about you
yeah yeah yeah
why would i want to
I like coffee with toast and jelly
But I'd rather be licking from your back to your belly
I think I'm going to

Do you know what it is to feel the light of love inside you?
And all the darkness falls away
If you feel the way I feel then believe we have the answer
I've been searching for tonight
Love me baby love me baby shake me like a monkey baby
Forever I'm yours, yours, yours

Cigarettes and coffee broken heart and being lonely little girls
And ponies are the things that go together
Yes and no you have to choose Romeo and Juliet to hang their noose

You and me would go together
Kiss Kiss make a wish
Hope that it comes true
But I ain't waiting for the world to change
Gonna change the world for you
Come on pretty baby make you lose your mind
Everybody get together gonna make love shine

Do you know what it is to feel the light of love inside you?
And all the darkness falls away
If you feel the way I feel then believe we have the answer
I've been searching for tonight
Love me baby love me baby shake me like a monkey baby
Forever I'm yours, yours, yours
Come on everybody make me lose my mind
Everybody get together gonna make love shine

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

There's Alarms Screaming In My Head

Story Time.

So it is currently 10am. I've had quite the morning.

At three a.m. The fire alarms went off in my building. This, in and of its self, is not unusual. In the 7ish months I've been here, they've gone off about once a month. The end result has always been nothing. So, when the alarm went off at 3, I silenced it and was trying to continue sleeping. That is until I heard the sirens of what sounded like many fire engines. Reluctantly I looked out my window and saw many tired, disgruntled people, trudging to the designated muster point. Now fully awake, I resigned myself to having to go outside, pulled on some pants and out I went. There we stood for about 45 minutes wondering what the F was going on. I heard some people talking saying they had to walk through some fire suppressant, but that was about the extent of an explanation I got. At about 4 am we were allowed back inside. Since I had to be up at 430 for work I said screw it and stayed up.

Being that it's a holiday, I only worked half of a day - 5:30 to 9:30. Then after this difficult morning I sat down with two co-workers and toasted Canada with an ice cold brew. I think this officially becomes the earliest I've drank when I've gone to bed the night before.

Now I'm spent, so after an eventful last seven hours I'm going to bed.

Song Lyric Day

You could say I was....inspired.

Check The Dates

Take what you want and baby
Shut me up
Your words have always been so clever

Take what I need so you can
Shut me up
Oh why's this feel like closure?

Twisting the summer calls
I can't fall
These wings won't do at all
This doesn't sound like goodbye
These lies
There's distance in your eyes

This is the way you wanted it to be
So how come this view won't do at all?
I like that your sitting talking to me
It's bring down
Bringing down this wall

Throw caution to the wind
Sometimes these fears are just for nothing
Silence it's always loudest
Bud do you think that he will even notice?

Twisting the summer calls
I can't fall
These wings won't do at all
This doesn't sound like goodbye
These lies
There's distance in your eyes

How come this don't feel wrong
Could've been these tears were just for nothing
Talk through your fighting head
Memories will show where this has lead

I like the way this feels
I like the hate that fades away
I like the way this looks
This is not the last I've seen
Not the last I've seen
Not the last I've seen of you

Twisting the summer calls
I can't fall
These wings won't do at all
This doesn't sound like goodbye
These lies
There's distance in your eyes

Take what you want and baby
Shut me up
Your words have been so clever

Take what I need so you can
Shut me up

Song Lyric Thursday

This week it's Slipknot. Enjoy.

Vermillion Part Two
She seemed dressed in all of me
Stretched across my shame,
All the torment and the pain
Leaked through and covered me.

I'd do anything to have her to myself,
Just to have her for myself.

Now I don't know what to do,
I don't know what to do
When she makes me sad.

She is everything to me,
The unrequited dream,
The song that no one sings,
The unattainable.

She's a myth that I have to believe in,
All I need to make it real is one more reason.

I don't know what to do,
I don't know what to do
when she makes me sad.

But I won't let this build up inside of me.
I won't let this build up inside of me.
I won't let this build up inside of me.
I won't let this build up inside of me.

A catch in my throat, choke,
Torn into pieces, I won't. No.

I don't want to be this but
I won't let this build up inside of me (won't let this build up inside of me) x4

She isn't real.
I can't make her real.
She isn't real.
I can't make her real.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VP8XWLyn1c&feature=related

I'm Still Me

Dear Helloise;

I've got pictures of you.

Some of them are dark, some of them are covered. Some of them look fun, but not one of them you'd show your mother.

I've got a short temper. It's as short as your hair and just as red. I walked away, but I can't escape my head. You can hide behind a pillar, you can say what you think you mean, but I'm still me and what you did was still mean.

"True Love Waits," or sends a dear john from a far. True love does a lot of things. Most importantly it understands. You never understood, you don't understand, you'll never understand.

Song Lyric....Day?

I'm in a dark mood.
This song has always struck me by its lyrics, however up until now I had no idea what they were about. My first guess was a stalker, and it turns out I wasn't too far off on that logic. Funnily enough I used to listen to this song first thing in the morning when working at Douglasdale Golf Course. I found the music itself calming, however now I might find it just creepy. I'll let Thom Yorke explain:
"This is about the unspeakable. Literally skull-crushing. I used to work in a mental hospital around the time that Care In The Community started, and we all just knew what was going to happen. And it's one of the scariest things to happen in this country, because a lot of them weren't just harmless... It was hailing violently when we recorded this. It seemed to add to the mood."
For information on what he refers to as the "Care In The Community" go here.
So I give you Climbing up the Walls by Radiohead. Enjoy.

Climbing up the Walls
I am the key to the lock in your house
That keeps your toys in the basement
And if you get too far inside
You'll only see my reflection

It's always best when the light is off
I am the pick in the ice
Do not cry out or hit the alarm
You know we're friends till we die

And either way you turn
I'll be there
Open up your skull
I'll be there
Climbing up the walls

It's always best when the light is off
It's always better on the outside
Fifteen blows to the back of your head
Fifteen blows to your mind

So lock the kids up safe tonight
Put the eyes in the cupboard
I've got the smell of a local man
Who's got the loneliest feeling

That either way he turns
I'll be there
Open up your skull
I'll be there
Climbing up the walls
Climbing up the walls
Climbing up the walls

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgDPkqiXrjc
(Sound is broken on my laptop, so if link doesn't work my apologies.)

This Time I Lose...

Dear Helloise;

This time I lose, but one day I'll win.

Dark day's have been around me. I've scraped, I've fought. Its stuck with me, like your image. Ingrained like I never wanted it to be. I move on, I move back, I move on, I move back but there it is. It hangs from my mantle like a reminder. It begs me to forgive, yet never lets me forget, I can't do either.

This time I lose, but one day I'll win.

I wonder where you are. What you're doing. Then I hope that whatever it is, it's bringing you sadness. I hope you're angry, tormented, destroyed. I hope one day you can find me, look me in the eye, know the pain, know the anger and say you were right.

This time I lose, but one day I'll win.

One day I'll win.