We live on front porches and swing life away.
We live on front porches and swing life away,
We get by just fine here on minimum wage
If love is a labor I'll slave till the end,
I won't cross these streets until you hold my hand
I've been here so long, I think that it's time to move
The winter's so cold, summer's over too soon
Let's pack our bags and settle down where palm trees grow
I've got some friends, some that I hardly know
But we've had some times, I wouldn't trade for the world
We chase these days down with talks of the places that we will go
excerpt from the lyrics of Swing Life Away by Rise Against.
i love music. i love lyrics. i love how i hate poetry until a melody is put to it. there is something extra there when there a verse is sung rather than spoken. think about it. when you are a child, a poem would be the most boring thing in the world...until someone puts a tune to it and all of a sudden you get "Old MacDonald Had A Farm." i don't count nursery rhymes as they're still denoted the same way no matter who says them and the intonations in one's voice is very distinct and different.
i've been trying to think tonight of all the different times in my life when i've had songs that mean a LOT to me...Muse - Butterflies and Hurricanes. Rise Against - Swing Life Away. Reel Big Fish - You Don't Know. or the times when bands stood out...At the Drive-In. Silverchair/Coldplay/and old Incubus. Bright Eyes. each band...each song...can point to a specific time in my life. genres of music...from Bluegrass to Classic Rock, to country, to punk, to metal/screamo/thrash, to christian, to a muddled mess of rock and R&B and classic rock...all leading up to my array of music i have now. i can't describe my taste. the best i can come is it matches my appetite. i eat damn near anything that comes near my mouth besides any kind of shellfish. i risk puking everytime i ingest one of those. i may like bands from all different genres...but there are far too many bands in each genre that are the proverbial shellfish of their kind.
i do believe i'll fall asleep to music this night. something i rarely do, but i feel is needed. i've been on a huge music kick lately (if you couldn't tell) and i need new music to satisfy it. on the list to download is more Say Anything, Death Cab for Cutie, the Faint, Reel Big Fish, Coldplay, Modest Mouse, Coheed & Cambria, Ambulance Son, Anberlin, Elliott Smith, The Format...the list goes on a ways :-P. now if i can only get a file-transfer program to work so i can do this...grrr to complications with firewalls.
today was kinda unproductive, though it was through no fault of my own. i have more to do on the 'morrow. which means that i should NOT be up at 5am. at all. bah. i need to stop this. seriously.
hrm...don't know what to write about next. *smack in head* that's my hint to get my ass naked, in bed, and asleep. *sigh* here's to sleepin alone... :-(
the one! the only!
~Gabriel
edit> *has minor heart attack after preview suddenly closes and entry is erased from journal editing program* but thank GOD....it for some reason saved to my site anyway. so after my heart skipped quite a few beats, i'm going to sleep. night everybody ;-)
We get by just fine here on minimum wage
If love is a labor I'll slave till the end,
I won't cross these streets until you hold my hand
I've been here so long, I think that it's time to move
The winter's so cold, summer's over too soon
Let's pack our bags and settle down where palm trees grow
I've got some friends, some that I hardly know
But we've had some times, I wouldn't trade for the world
We chase these days down with talks of the places that we will go
excerpt from the lyrics of Swing Life Away by Rise Against.
i love music. i love lyrics. i love how i hate poetry until a melody is put to it. there is something extra there when there a verse is sung rather than spoken. think about it. when you are a child, a poem would be the most boring thing in the world...until someone puts a tune to it and all of a sudden you get "Old MacDonald Had A Farm." i don't count nursery rhymes as they're still denoted the same way no matter who says them and the intonations in one's voice is very distinct and different.
i've been trying to think tonight of all the different times in my life when i've had songs that mean a LOT to me...Muse - Butterflies and Hurricanes. Rise Against - Swing Life Away. Reel Big Fish - You Don't Know. or the times when bands stood out...At the Drive-In. Silverchair/Coldplay/and old Incubus. Bright Eyes. each band...each song...can point to a specific time in my life. genres of music...from Bluegrass to Classic Rock, to country, to punk, to metal/screamo/thrash, to christian, to a muddled mess of rock and R&B and classic rock...all leading up to my array of music i have now. i can't describe my taste. the best i can come is it matches my appetite. i eat damn near anything that comes near my mouth besides any kind of shellfish. i risk puking everytime i ingest one of those. i may like bands from all different genres...but there are far too many bands in each genre that are the proverbial shellfish of their kind.
i do believe i'll fall asleep to music this night. something i rarely do, but i feel is needed. i've been on a huge music kick lately (if you couldn't tell) and i need new music to satisfy it. on the list to download is more Say Anything, Death Cab for Cutie, the Faint, Reel Big Fish, Coldplay, Modest Mouse, Coheed & Cambria, Ambulance Son, Anberlin, Elliott Smith, The Format...the list goes on a ways :-P. now if i can only get a file-transfer program to work so i can do this...grrr to complications with firewalls.
today was kinda unproductive, though it was through no fault of my own. i have more to do on the 'morrow. which means that i should NOT be up at 5am. at all. bah. i need to stop this. seriously.
hrm...don't know what to write about next. *smack in head* that's my hint to get my ass naked, in bed, and asleep. *sigh* here's to sleepin alone... :-(
the one! the only!
~Gabriel
edit> *has minor heart attack after preview suddenly closes and entry is erased from journal editing program* but thank GOD....it for some reason saved to my site anyway. so after my heart skipped quite a few beats, i'm going to sleep. night everybody ;-)