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So let me explain why I want to go to Live so badly.
I was first introduced to them around 10 years ago by an ex-girlfriend of mine. The first song I listened to was Lightning Crashes, and it sort of struck a chord, the voice, the sound and the lyrics. So I bought Throwing Copper and fell in love with the band itself. I remember listening to Lakini's Juice on the radio a lot, around the same time the Wallflowers came out with One Headlight and I always turned it up. I loved the video, and I loved the song.
So I watched for new albums and then The Distance to Here came out, and I fell more in love with the band and the music. No matter the mood I was in, I always turned to them. When Shannon and I were at our worst and I was wondering what was going on and I was confused, I had Birds of Prey to listen to and it comforted me and made me feel like everything might just be ok. I listened and listened and listened and eventually the Best of Live album came out and I bought that. I had, at the time, refused to download Live music because I felt they deserved the money I'd pay for a CD.
When Mackenzie was little I would play Pillar of Davidson and pace and sing to her and it would put her to sleep. It would calm her when nothing else would. After Vaughn was born, I would put him in his crib or his playpen and turn on that song, and he'd quiet down and listen and he'd fall asleep. This music has an effect on me and on my kids.
I've gone a while since listening to their music, but I get in moods and it still always helps, after all these years, and I've never seen them...live.
Now, after the last year and a half I've had, it almost feels like I could start having good things happen to me by going back to the music that has always been there for me. To see them live would be a culmination of a 10 year love of their music and almost like a new beginning because it would be what I've wanted for so long.
I need to see this band:
Run To The Water
oh desert speak to my heart
oh woman of the earth
maker of children who weep for love
maker of this birth
'til your deepest secrets are known to me
I will not be moved
I will not be moved
"don't try to find the answer
when there ain't no question here
brother let your heart be wounded
and give no mercy to your fear"
adam and eve live down the street from me
babylon is every town
it's as crazy as it's ever been
love's a stranger all around
in a moment we lost our minds here
and lay our spirit down
today we lived a thousand years
all we have is now
run to the water
and find me there
burnt to the core but not broken
we'll cut through the madness
of these streets below the moon
these streets below the moon
and I will never leave you
'til we can say, "this world was just a dream
we were sleepin' now we are awake"
'til we can say
in a moment we lost our minds here
and dreamt the world was round
a million mile fall from grace
thank god we missed the ground
run to the water
and find me there
burnt to the core but not broken
we'll cut through the madness
of these streets below the moon
with a nuclear fire of love in our hearts
yeah, I can see it now lord
out beyond all the breakin' of waves
and the tribulation
it's a place and the home of ascended souls
who swam out there in love!
run to the water
and find me there
burnt to the core but not broken
we'll cut through the madness
of these streets below the moon
with a nuclear fire of love in our hearts
rest easy baby, rest easy
and recognize it all as light and rainbows
smashed to smithereens and be happy
run to the water (and find me there)
run to the water
I was first introduced to them around 10 years ago by an ex-girlfriend of mine. The first song I listened to was Lightning Crashes, and it sort of struck a chord, the voice, the sound and the lyrics. So I bought Throwing Copper and fell in love with the band itself. I remember listening to Lakini's Juice on the radio a lot, around the same time the Wallflowers came out with One Headlight and I always turned it up. I loved the video, and I loved the song.
So I watched for new albums and then The Distance to Here came out, and I fell more in love with the band and the music. No matter the mood I was in, I always turned to them. When Shannon and I were at our worst and I was wondering what was going on and I was confused, I had Birds of Prey to listen to and it comforted me and made me feel like everything might just be ok. I listened and listened and listened and eventually the Best of Live album came out and I bought that. I had, at the time, refused to download Live music because I felt they deserved the money I'd pay for a CD.
When Mackenzie was little I would play Pillar of Davidson and pace and sing to her and it would put her to sleep. It would calm her when nothing else would. After Vaughn was born, I would put him in his crib or his playpen and turn on that song, and he'd quiet down and listen and he'd fall asleep. This music has an effect on me and on my kids.
I've gone a while since listening to their music, but I get in moods and it still always helps, after all these years, and I've never seen them...live.
Now, after the last year and a half I've had, it almost feels like I could start having good things happen to me by going back to the music that has always been there for me. To see them live would be a culmination of a 10 year love of their music and almost like a new beginning because it would be what I've wanted for so long.
I need to see this band:
Run To The Water
oh desert speak to my heart
oh woman of the earth
maker of children who weep for love
maker of this birth
'til your deepest secrets are known to me
I will not be moved
I will not be moved
"don't try to find the answer
when there ain't no question here
brother let your heart be wounded
and give no mercy to your fear"
adam and eve live down the street from me
babylon is every town
it's as crazy as it's ever been
love's a stranger all around
in a moment we lost our minds here
and lay our spirit down
today we lived a thousand years
all we have is now
run to the water
and find me there
burnt to the core but not broken
we'll cut through the madness
of these streets below the moon
these streets below the moon
and I will never leave you
'til we can say, "this world was just a dream
we were sleepin' now we are awake"
'til we can say
in a moment we lost our minds here
and dreamt the world was round
a million mile fall from grace
thank god we missed the ground
run to the water
and find me there
burnt to the core but not broken
we'll cut through the madness
of these streets below the moon
with a nuclear fire of love in our hearts
yeah, I can see it now lord
out beyond all the breakin' of waves
and the tribulation
it's a place and the home of ascended souls
who swam out there in love!
run to the water
and find me there
burnt to the core but not broken
we'll cut through the madness
of these streets below the moon
with a nuclear fire of love in our hearts
rest easy baby, rest easy
and recognize it all as light and rainbows
smashed to smithereens and be happy
run to the water (and find me there)
run to the water