You can't carry it with you if you want to survive
Ah, the start of baseball season. You can not even imagine how much I have missed baseball. I’ve been watching games that really have no interest in either team, but I have MISSED baseball. That and soccer are really the only sports that I have anything other than a passing interest in. And both are perfect for watching out the corner of your eye while doing something else. All you have to do is listen to the commentators. And thank God that Twins finally won today. Honestly.
Also, am watching the Academy of Country Music Awards. So far, Ronnie Dunn has been the absolute best thing on the show. Reba has a smile that is so wide that it’s almost a Glasgow Grin (or Chelsea Smile however you want to refer to is as). You know, the thing that the Joker has. I’m looking forward to Zac Brown Band and James Taylor’s performance. Martina McBride is good too.
So, a song. Here is one that I really have no idea what is going on in the lyrics. I love it, but I have never understood the lyrics. In fact, some are a little hard to hear. The structure is pretty standard, except for some reason the pre-chorus and chorus seemed to be flipped. So I guess it’s really a post-chorus. And the second verse is after the bridge…? Ah screw it, the structure is a bit strange and, well, British. Like that explains anything. It’s the best I can come up with.
Here we go:
Dog Days Are Over - Florence + the Machine
I have to admit that before the MTV video awards I had no idea who she was. For awhile after that I still didn’t. When this song was sung on Glee is when I figured out who she was. I like the original better.
Happiness hit her like a train on a track
Coming towards her, stuck still no turning back
The thing that is so confusing from me on this song is that the backing music for it is so sweet and happy. I mean it has a ukulele for Christ’s sake. And it just sounds sunny. I take it that the girl has emotions that hit her. This happiness seems to do it with quite some force. I wouldn’t mind if happiness did that to me. *shrug*
She hid around corners and she hid under beds
She killed it with kisses and from it she fled
So, she doesn’t want the happiness? And how do you kill something with kisses unless you happen to be Poison Ivy? Or you are that good at kissing that you manage to stun the “happiness” so you can run away. Whatever the case, it seems to have the main character of our song, I shall call her “Mary” just because I can, running scared.
With every bubble she sank with a drink
And washed it away down the kitchen sink.
It makes her want to drink? The bubbles of happiness make her want to drink them away? I really am becoming quite confused. I mean, I like a glass of wine or two, but the idea for me is to get slightly silly, not get rid of the happy.
The dog days are over
The dog days are done
The horses are coming so you better run
Okay, I know what dog days are and I know what it means for them to be done. Usually, I see it as a good thing. I know the lazy days are lovely for reading books and just sipping iced tea or lemonade. I don’t like heat, but that’s something else entirely. But, the music, oh God, the music! I love singing this part in the car when I can’t bug anybody with how loud I can get my voice to go. Also, just a note, if a horse is running at you in a stampeding fashion, STAND STILL! They do not like stepping on soft things, you qualify as a soft thing. Plus, as hard as you may try, you can’t out run those suckers, I’ve tried chasing them and they can go faster and longer than humans. Just trust my experimental data from trying to catch them in a feedlot. You just get dusty or muddy in the process depending on the season. If you stay still they will probably perceive you as a strangely shaped post to avoid. Unless the horse in question is like the horse I rode in high school. That gelding saw barrels not as things to turn tight corners around at high speeds while racing against another horse and rider duo or the clock, but as things to run into for the giggles. Yeah, he did this to poles when we were doing pole weaving or bending (there is a difference, I’ve never quite figured it out) in class.
Run fast for your mother; run fast for your father
Run for your children all your sisters and brothers
Leave all your love and your longing behind
You can't carry it with you if you want to survive
*pout* Mary, are you saying that if we want to survive we can’t love or long for stuff? What do we have to survive? I don’t know if I want to survive if I have to leave love behind, not to get mushy but yeah. I could leave the longing at the side of the road though.
The dog days are over
The dog days are done
Can you hear the horses
'Cos here they come
Pedantic note, you tend to feel horses coming long before you hear them. Seriously, the earth shakes. Again, I beseech you to stand still, or get to the nearest tree and climb. Ten feet up should do.
And I never wanted
anything from you
Except everything you had
And what was left after that too oh
Okay, Mary dear, you are now being confusing. You never “wanted anything from” me, I’m listening to the song so I’ll assume the “you” is me, “except everything” I “had and what was left after that too.” Could you just have said “everything” to begin with? Then I wouldn’t feel like I was doing some weird, quasi unwilling form of appeasement.
Also at this point the music suddenly cuts to a very thin orchestration of just harp strings. It catches me off guard pretty much every time. Even when I know it’s coming. It’s like a reverse of Haydn’s Surprise Symphony. You know it’s coming and you still jump a bit.
Happiness hit her like a bullet in the back
Struck from a great height
By someone who should have known better than that
The music kicks back in and I’m sing along with glee…err, joy now. Wait, she got hit with a bullet? And the shooter should have known better? Well that’s just downright disturbing. I now have to dodge a happiness sniper? That’s creepy. Does he have a schedule so I know when to duck? I’m scared now…
The dog days are over
The dog days are done
Can you hear the horses
'Cos here they come
Run fast for your mother, run fast for your father
Run for your children, all your sisters and brothers
Leave all your love and your longing behind
You can't carry it with you if you want to survive
Do I have to run to survive in their place? Cause this whole song is turning towards the strange and slightly creepy side. Maybe I’ve just been reading too many post-apocalyptic stories.
The dog days are over
The dog days are done
Can you hear the horses
'Cos here they come
The dog days are over
The dog days are done
The horses are coming
So you'd better run
At this point the vocals are so overlapped in the recording that I honesty can’t tell where the melody is anymore. The effect is really cool anyway. She's also holding this sustained raising line that is just glorious.
The dog days and over
The dog days are done
The horses are coming
So you'd better run
I really like singing this song. I have no idea what’s going on. Is she trying to say that everything is transient? I’m not all that good with metaphor that I either haven’t written or haven’t been hit over the head with so I really don’t know. The 2010 version of the video is also a bit of a head scratcher. I don’t know what’s going on other than Florence Welch has rather nice legs, a love of body paint, an odd sense of costumes, fantastic eye make up and what seems to be the crash cymbals of doom at the end. Here, just look for yourself.
The performance by Zac Brown Band and James Taylor was FANTASTIC! God I love it when music is performed live by real musicians with talent.
I am tired now. And I have new shoes. Good shoes. Practical and comfy shoes. That I really like.
Laters all,
C
Also, am watching the Academy of Country Music Awards. So far, Ronnie Dunn has been the absolute best thing on the show. Reba has a smile that is so wide that it’s almost a Glasgow Grin (or Chelsea Smile however you want to refer to is as). You know, the thing that the Joker has. I’m looking forward to Zac Brown Band and James Taylor’s performance. Martina McBride is good too.
So, a song. Here is one that I really have no idea what is going on in the lyrics. I love it, but I have never understood the lyrics. In fact, some are a little hard to hear. The structure is pretty standard, except for some reason the pre-chorus and chorus seemed to be flipped. So I guess it’s really a post-chorus. And the second verse is after the bridge…? Ah screw it, the structure is a bit strange and, well, British. Like that explains anything. It’s the best I can come up with.
Here we go:
Dog Days Are Over - Florence + the Machine
I have to admit that before the MTV video awards I had no idea who she was. For awhile after that I still didn’t. When this song was sung on Glee is when I figured out who she was. I like the original better.
Happiness hit her like a train on a track
Coming towards her, stuck still no turning back
The thing that is so confusing from me on this song is that the backing music for it is so sweet and happy. I mean it has a ukulele for Christ’s sake. And it just sounds sunny. I take it that the girl has emotions that hit her. This happiness seems to do it with quite some force. I wouldn’t mind if happiness did that to me. *shrug*
She hid around corners and she hid under beds
She killed it with kisses and from it she fled
So, she doesn’t want the happiness? And how do you kill something with kisses unless you happen to be Poison Ivy? Or you are that good at kissing that you manage to stun the “happiness” so you can run away. Whatever the case, it seems to have the main character of our song, I shall call her “Mary” just because I can, running scared.
With every bubble she sank with a drink
And washed it away down the kitchen sink.
It makes her want to drink? The bubbles of happiness make her want to drink them away? I really am becoming quite confused. I mean, I like a glass of wine or two, but the idea for me is to get slightly silly, not get rid of the happy.
The dog days are over
The dog days are done
The horses are coming so you better run
Okay, I know what dog days are and I know what it means for them to be done. Usually, I see it as a good thing. I know the lazy days are lovely for reading books and just sipping iced tea or lemonade. I don’t like heat, but that’s something else entirely. But, the music, oh God, the music! I love singing this part in the car when I can’t bug anybody with how loud I can get my voice to go. Also, just a note, if a horse is running at you in a stampeding fashion, STAND STILL! They do not like stepping on soft things, you qualify as a soft thing. Plus, as hard as you may try, you can’t out run those suckers, I’ve tried chasing them and they can go faster and longer than humans. Just trust my experimental data from trying to catch them in a feedlot. You just get dusty or muddy in the process depending on the season. If you stay still they will probably perceive you as a strangely shaped post to avoid. Unless the horse in question is like the horse I rode in high school. That gelding saw barrels not as things to turn tight corners around at high speeds while racing against another horse and rider duo or the clock, but as things to run into for the giggles. Yeah, he did this to poles when we were doing pole weaving or bending (there is a difference, I’ve never quite figured it out) in class.
Run fast for your mother; run fast for your father
Run for your children all your sisters and brothers
Leave all your love and your longing behind
You can't carry it with you if you want to survive
*pout* Mary, are you saying that if we want to survive we can’t love or long for stuff? What do we have to survive? I don’t know if I want to survive if I have to leave love behind, not to get mushy but yeah. I could leave the longing at the side of the road though.
The dog days are over
The dog days are done
Can you hear the horses
'Cos here they come
Pedantic note, you tend to feel horses coming long before you hear them. Seriously, the earth shakes. Again, I beseech you to stand still, or get to the nearest tree and climb. Ten feet up should do.
And I never wanted
anything from you
Except everything you had
And what was left after that too oh
Okay, Mary dear, you are now being confusing. You never “wanted anything from” me, I’m listening to the song so I’ll assume the “you” is me, “except everything” I “had and what was left after that too.” Could you just have said “everything” to begin with? Then I wouldn’t feel like I was doing some weird, quasi unwilling form of appeasement.
Also at this point the music suddenly cuts to a very thin orchestration of just harp strings. It catches me off guard pretty much every time. Even when I know it’s coming. It’s like a reverse of Haydn’s Surprise Symphony. You know it’s coming and you still jump a bit.
Happiness hit her like a bullet in the back
Struck from a great height
By someone who should have known better than that
The music kicks back in and I’m sing along with glee…err, joy now. Wait, she got hit with a bullet? And the shooter should have known better? Well that’s just downright disturbing. I now have to dodge a happiness sniper? That’s creepy. Does he have a schedule so I know when to duck? I’m scared now…
The dog days are over
The dog days are done
Can you hear the horses
'Cos here they come
Run fast for your mother, run fast for your father
Run for your children, all your sisters and brothers
Leave all your love and your longing behind
You can't carry it with you if you want to survive
Do I have to run to survive in their place? Cause this whole song is turning towards the strange and slightly creepy side. Maybe I’ve just been reading too many post-apocalyptic stories.
The dog days are over
The dog days are done
Can you hear the horses
'Cos here they come
The dog days are over
The dog days are done
The horses are coming
So you'd better run
At this point the vocals are so overlapped in the recording that I honesty can’t tell where the melody is anymore. The effect is really cool anyway. She's also holding this sustained raising line that is just glorious.
The dog days and over
The dog days are done
The horses are coming
So you'd better run
I really like singing this song. I have no idea what’s going on. Is she trying to say that everything is transient? I’m not all that good with metaphor that I either haven’t written or haven’t been hit over the head with so I really don’t know. The 2010 version of the video is also a bit of a head scratcher. I don’t know what’s going on other than Florence Welch has rather nice legs, a love of body paint, an odd sense of costumes, fantastic eye make up and what seems to be the crash cymbals of doom at the end. Here, just look for yourself.
Click to viewThe performance by Zac Brown Band and James Taylor was FANTASTIC! God I love it when music is performed live by real musicians with talent.
I am tired now. And I have new shoes. Good shoes. Practical and comfy shoes. That I really like.
Laters all,
C