Gratuitous Lyrics Post

[unforth]

I'm gonna write something long and involved in the next few days, I expect, but for now, I'm currently nuts about this song.

I found a letter that said:
"I'm sorry that you were asleep when I wrote these words down,"
You'd think I'd ought to be used to that by now.
Save for a few of those late night episodes,
Missed opportunities, and "I Don't Cares,"
There's not a lot that I feel obliged to share or talk about.

I'll have my brother stop by this Saturday to pick up my things,
Just make sure you're not there.
This may sound bad, and don't take it the wrong way..
I love you, however,
You hold me down

You're the echoes of my everything,
You're the emptiness the whole world sings at night.
You're the laziness of afternoon,
You're the reason why I burst and why I bloom.
How will I break the news to you?

Cancel our dinner with Max and Coraline,
feed Jacky's gerbil and try to stay clean.
We'll talk it over after I've had some time alone to sort it out.
You hold me down

You're the echoes of my everything,
You're the emptiness the whole world sings at night.
You're the laziness of afternoon,
You're the reason why I burst and why I bloom.
You're the leaky sink of sentiment,
You're the failed attempts I never could forget.
You're the metaphors I can't create to comprehend this curse that I call love..
How will I break the news to you?
Or, here's a music video of it on Youtube.

Okay, now back to moving my furniture around...

Comments

Re: Gratuitious lyrics criticism :)

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Wow, that's interesting! Thanks for sharing! I definitely hear what you mean. The flip side is that, while I wouldn't say that I find this mistake to be more or less auditorily appealing, it doesn't particularly bother me, and, in fact, I think that I do find there to be something about it that makes the music interesting, kind of like syncopation, except with the words. (I know I'm going to sound amateur in what I write - sorry about that).

As we've discussed, I have a hell of time explaining what I like or don't like about a song. First, I think the theme of the lyrics speaks to me, especially since I heard the song a lot before I read them, and thus I had a different interpretation of one critical part of the song - in the transcription, it reads,
"I found a letter that said 'I'm sorry that,
You were asleep when I wrote these words down.'
You'd think I oughta be used to that by now."
But I interpreted it as the ENTIRE SONG being the letter - which affected how I interacted with it's content. Thus, thinking of it all as a "Dear John" letter, I found it to be emotionally moving.

Second, it's musical range is very good for me, and so I like to sing it. The words are pretty clear and easy to understand, which made it very well suited to my road trip, when I wanted music that I could sing along with.

Third, it happens to sound relatively similar to other music that I've been enjoying recently. With the thought that it might help you, here are a few other songs that I've been really into recently. Some of them are like this song, and other's aren't.
1. Alkaline Trio - Calling All Skeletons (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4K3ThV3M1Y) (I heard this song for the first time about a year ago and it's been one of my favorites since then.)
2. Alkaline Trio - Warbrain (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98cmO6NfBFE) (this has been one of my favorite songs for almost two years)
3. Motion city Soundtrack - Everything is Alright (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ci4-_hVwf4A)
4. Dragonash - Hot Cakes (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UICHaT8Tke4) (I haven't translated enough of this to tell you what it's about, but my favorite line is "itsumo kimi no onagi no sora shita de onagi yume o miyo(?)" - not sure about the last word - but it basically means "let's always aim for (or reach for, or try for, or a few other things, depending on that last word) the same dream beneath the same sky." (that's not quite right, but it's not that easy to translate, the more so because I've had trouble making out the verb. ;) ) (this is a pretty crappy recording of it, but it'll have to do...)
5. Sundowner - Steal Your Words (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSjkBQWiQb0) (I couldn't find anything but a live recording, but I LOVE this song - another more recent discovery)
6. Goldfinger - Youth (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdX7Z4_oDKA) (I heard this song a long time ago, then rediscovered it in February)
7. Third Eye Blind - Never Let You Go (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BS8w4jG9Yk8) - this isn't the whole song, but it's the only clear recording of the ones I checked.
8. Hellogoodbye - All Time Lows (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRdqwftGBPk) (ignore the music right at the start, that's not it)
9. Last one - I couldn't get a youtube mostly complete version, but I can get 28 seconds of it from Amazon - Treble Charger - I Don't Know (http://www.amazon.com/gp/recsradio/radio/B0000520NL/ref=pd_krex_dp_001_008?ie=UTF8&track=008&disc=001</a) (hopefully that link works - it seems to on my end)

So, normally I wouldn't bore you to tears with this, but since you seem pretty interested and you're doing a project related to it. So these, along with a few others, make up my list of current favorites - and in particular, the ones that I've found recently all seem kind of similar to me, and this song too (that's numbers 3, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9). They all have a musical quality that I like, and I like how it interacts with the lyrics and the main melody.

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