Turntables and Back Rooms: A Fanmix/Drabble Conglomerate
1" Elbow -- Some Riot
A friend of mine grows his very own brambles
They twist all around him 'til he can't move
Beautiful, quivering, chivalrous shambles
What is my friend trying to prove?
2" Kyuss -- El Rodeo
Johnny
And if you're trying to ride for free
Oh Johnny
It'll be the same I do to you
3" Cake -- MahnaMahna
4" Megan McCauley -- I Will Pay You to Shoot Him
Hey Father,
I want to put you to an end
Hey Father,
I'm almost over it again
Hey Father,
You were never my friend
Hey Father,
I've lost my mind again
5" Fountains of Wayne -- Bright Future in Sales
I had a line on a brand new account
But now I can't seem to find
Where I wrote that number down
I try to focus, I'm staring at the screen
Pretending that I know what all these little flashing lights mean.
6" Rasmus -- Time to Burn
Tell me why do I feel this way
All my life I've been standing on the borderline
Too many bridges burned,
Too many lies I've heard
Had a life but I can’t go back
Can't do that, it will never be the same again
And I know I don’t
Have any time to burn
7" Portishead -- Roads
I got nobody on my side
And surely that ain't right
And surely that ain't right
8" Lovely Sparrows -- Dept. of Foreseeable Outcomes
So I tossed some seeds
Over my shoulder in the careless breeze
If I could find a careless breeze.
So I called the Department of Foreseeable Outcomes
They said, “You shoulda known better.”
I said, “Yeah, but I moved here for the weather.”
9" The Verve -- Lucky Man
Happiness
More or less
It's just a change in me
Something in my liberty
Oh, my, my
10" Chuck Prophet -- What Makes the Monkey Dance
Everybody’s got a theory
But nobody knows
What makes the monkey dance
11" Cake -- Cool Blue Reason
Cool blue reason
Empties on the page
Your colleagues are in prison
And your enemies enraged
12" The Cardigans -- Feathers and Down
So you trying to do what they did
Your friends that turn to liquid
And got lost in the sea
And now you’re drowning me
With your talk of four leaf clovers
You turn to rocks and omen
To beat the ambient harm
But it’s bruising your karma
13" Bright Eyes -- Lua
When everything is lonely, I can be my own best friend
Get a coffee and the paper - have my own conversations
With the sidewalk and the pigeons and my window reflection
The mask I polish in the evening by the morning looks like shit
14" The Brady Bunch -- It's a Sunshine Day
I think I'll go for a walk out side now
The summer sun knows me by name
He's callin me
I gotta get out, gotta get out, gotta get away
I gotta get away, get away, get away, get away
Into the sunshine day....
And to entice you to read the drabbles, the mostly-complete zip file of this mix is over here, on my blog.
Happy holidays, folks. :)