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meme. Right.
List your ten favorite songs that begin with the letter given to you (and explain why you picked them, if you want).
I got "H" from speccygeekgrrl. In roughly alphabetical order. Also, I'm seriously bad with talking about music. (How that's any different than talking about anything else, I don't know.)
1. Halfway There - Katy Pfaffl (and Scott Chasolen)
Scott has this kind of awesome piano part in the middle and... I like it a lot. The end.
and you never thought / that you could be the person that you see / that you could be caught / wondering how to set your spirit free
2. Hallelujah - as covered by everyone on the damn planet
Okay, I know, this song has slipped into the realm of cliche, but I can't help it. I like it.
baby i've been here before / i've seen this room and i've walked this floor / i used to live alone before i knew you / i've seen your flag on the marble arch / but love is not a victory march / it's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah
3. Hand Me Down - Matchbox Twenty
My favourite band for... many years. Awwww. I loved them. Oh, Brian. You were our favourite.
someday they'll find your small town world on a big town avenue / gonna make you like the way they talk when they're talking to you / gonna make you break out of your shell cause they tell you to / gonna make you like the way they lie better than the truth / they'll tell you everything you wanted someone else to say / they're gonna break your heart
4. Headshots - Suzanne Vega
I... just like this song. ::shrugs::
it's strange the way a shadow / can fall across the wall / and make the difference / in what you see
5. Helicopters - Barenaked Ladies
I love almost every song by this band ever. Duh. This song is just... haunting and so sad and... yes.
though it's only half a month away, the media's gone / an entertaining scandal broke today, but I can't move on / i'm haunted by a story and i do my best to tell it / can't even give this stuff away, why would I sell it? / everybody's laughing while at me they point a finger / a world that loves its irony must hate the protest singer
6. Here I Am - Josh Joplin Group
here i am and i don't really care this time / the record skips and stammers the beat and repeats the line / repeats the line / repeats the line (love is lonely) / repeats the line (love is cruel) / repeats the line (love is only for a fool)
7. Hey Julie - Fountains of Wayne
So there are like, four hundred Fountains of Wayne songs that start with "H" (or, three or so) and I like them all, but I used to listen to this one on repeat for hours. I used to say that someone really needed to make an incredibly ironic House/Wilson music video to this song, but no one listened to me.
hours on the phone making pointless calls / i've got a desk full of papers that mean nothing at all / sometimes i catch myself staring into space / counting down the hours 'til i get to see your face
8. Home - Barenaked Ladies
Off their newest album. I think I posted this song, because it's another one I listened to on repeat. A lot.
end of the road I'm running / and look back to survey where I'd been / someday I'll write and ask you / if you could imagine what I'd seen / how could you think that I could turn my back on you? / how did you think this would be turning out? and turning 'round / what could I do but call you? / what could I do to call this home?
9. Homeward Bound - Simon and Garfunkel
tonight i'll sing my songs again, / i'll play the game and pretend / but all my words come back to me in shades of mediocrity / like emptiness in harmony, i need someone to comfort me
10. How Can You Live in the Northeast? - Paul Simon
Off his latest record. Oh god, I love this song.
weak as the winter sun, we enter life on earth / names and religion comes just after date of birth / then everybody gets a tongue to speak, / and everyone hears an inner voice, / a day at the end of the week to wonder and rejoice. / if the answer is infinite light / why do we sleep in the dark?
And with that, I'm going to attempt to either write or sleep.
(Oh, and comment if you want a letter and I will... give you one. Yes.)
List your ten favorite songs that begin with the letter given to you (and explain why you picked them, if you want).
I got "H" from speccygeekgrrl. In roughly alphabetical order. Also, I'm seriously bad with talking about music. (How that's any different than talking about anything else, I don't know.)
1. Halfway There - Katy Pfaffl (and Scott Chasolen)
Scott has this kind of awesome piano part in the middle and... I like it a lot. The end.
and you never thought / that you could be the person that you see / that you could be caught / wondering how to set your spirit free
2. Hallelujah - as covered by everyone on the damn planet
Okay, I know, this song has slipped into the realm of cliche, but I can't help it. I like it.
baby i've been here before / i've seen this room and i've walked this floor / i used to live alone before i knew you / i've seen your flag on the marble arch / but love is not a victory march / it's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah
3. Hand Me Down - Matchbox Twenty
My favourite band for... many years. Awwww. I loved them. Oh, Brian. You were our favourite.
someday they'll find your small town world on a big town avenue / gonna make you like the way they talk when they're talking to you / gonna make you break out of your shell cause they tell you to / gonna make you like the way they lie better than the truth / they'll tell you everything you wanted someone else to say / they're gonna break your heart
4. Headshots - Suzanne Vega
I... just like this song. ::shrugs::
it's strange the way a shadow / can fall across the wall / and make the difference / in what you see
5. Helicopters - Barenaked Ladies
I love almost every song by this band ever. Duh. This song is just... haunting and so sad and... yes.
though it's only half a month away, the media's gone / an entertaining scandal broke today, but I can't move on / i'm haunted by a story and i do my best to tell it / can't even give this stuff away, why would I sell it? / everybody's laughing while at me they point a finger / a world that loves its irony must hate the protest singer
6. Here I Am - Josh Joplin Group
here i am and i don't really care this time / the record skips and stammers the beat and repeats the line / repeats the line / repeats the line (love is lonely) / repeats the line (love is cruel) / repeats the line (love is only for a fool)
7. Hey Julie - Fountains of Wayne
So there are like, four hundred Fountains of Wayne songs that start with "H" (or, three or so) and I like them all, but I used to listen to this one on repeat for hours. I used to say that someone really needed to make an incredibly ironic House/Wilson music video to this song, but no one listened to me.
hours on the phone making pointless calls / i've got a desk full of papers that mean nothing at all / sometimes i catch myself staring into space / counting down the hours 'til i get to see your face
8. Home - Barenaked Ladies
Off their newest album. I think I posted this song, because it's another one I listened to on repeat. A lot.
end of the road I'm running / and look back to survey where I'd been / someday I'll write and ask you / if you could imagine what I'd seen / how could you think that I could turn my back on you? / how did you think this would be turning out? and turning 'round / what could I do but call you? / what could I do to call this home?
9. Homeward Bound - Simon and Garfunkel
tonight i'll sing my songs again, / i'll play the game and pretend / but all my words come back to me in shades of mediocrity / like emptiness in harmony, i need someone to comfort me
10. How Can You Live in the Northeast? - Paul Simon
Off his latest record. Oh god, I love this song.
weak as the winter sun, we enter life on earth / names and religion comes just after date of birth / then everybody gets a tongue to speak, / and everyone hears an inner voice, / a day at the end of the week to wonder and rejoice. / if the answer is infinite light / why do we sleep in the dark?
And with that, I'm going to attempt to either write or sleep.
(Oh, and comment if you want a letter and I will... give you one. Yes.)