A lot of people think Dashboard Confessional is overrated. And maybe they are. But I discovered Dashboard in my own time, instead of jumping on the band wagon when it came along. I love them. I love how many of their songs are acoustic guitar driven, how the vocals are layered and almost texured and how it is so easy to sing along with your own harmony. And I love their lyrics. So different from your typical love and lose love lyrics.
Screaming Infidelities has been one of my favorite Dashboard songs since I began listening to them. I loved the melody, the harmonies, the guitar, and the lyrics. But this song hit a home run for me the other day while driving alone along some of my favorite roads at night.
I've just started listening to Motion City Soundtrack, even though I know they have been around for a while. This isn't your typical break-up song, none of this: I can't live without you and I can't do anything with myself because I'm sucha wreck.
I think that is why I love it so much.
Do you remember how we met?
Silhouetted by the lights...
You were drunk and tried to take a mental picture with your hands
I was thinking about that
And a bunch of other things
Stop looking at the floor...
I need to pour out this expansive dose of words.
I can't explain...
I need to be alone.
I know the timing isn't great
But these things, you just can't plan.
I just need a little time
So I can find myself again
'Cause I get buried underneath
All the things they think you are
And I'm too tired to pretend it doesn't hurt
To be left out
I had a pocket full of dreams
But I gave them all to you
Now I think I want them back
So can you tell me if I'm crazy or confused?
Don't ever change
The way you are
I've never loved anyone more.
Check out a couple other songs by Motion City Soundtrack that I can't get enough of:
So, Augustana is pretty much known only for the song Boston, which, by the way, is one of my favorite songs ever. I had never really given them much more thought until recently and I discovered that there is actually much more to them then a one hit wonder. They are so talented! Also. Almost every song mentions something about California and Boston. Story of my lifeeee.
When she's sleeping on the sofa,
When she's laying in her Sunday best,
when she's turning over Friday,
I could swear I'm sleeping less and less...
and the ocean's getting warmer,
and California's on her mind,
Los Angeles is tired, but we always seem to feel alright,
but I won't...
no I won't...
Cause she's already out the door,
she's already out of here
she's already gone away...already gone away...
When I'm coming over Sunday
and I think about you all the time,
I wonder what you're doin
I wonder why you never cry,
When Boston's always raining,
And we never ever seemed alive,
I sung about you once now, I guess I might as well
This is the way you left me, I'm not pretending. No hope, no love, no glory, No Happy Ending. This is the way that we love, Like it's forever. Then live the rest of our life, But not together.
Wake up in the morning, stumble on my life Can't get no love without sacrifice If anything should happen, I guess I wish you well A little bit of heaven, but a little bit of hell
This is the hardest story that I've ever told No hope, or love, or glory Happy endings gone forever more I feel as if I'm wasted And I'm wastin' every day
This is the way you left me, I'm not pretending. No hope, no love, no glory, No Happy Ending. This is the way that we love, Like it's forever. Then live the rest of our life, But not together.
2 o'clock in the morning, something's on my mind Can't get no rest; keep walkin' around If I pretend that nothin' ever went wrong, I can get to my sleep I can think that we just carried on
This is the hardest story that I've ever told No hope, or love, or glory Happy endings gone forever more I feel as if I'm wasted And I'm wastin' every day
This is the way you left me, I'm not pretending. No hope, no love, no glory, No Happy Ending. This is the way that we love, Like it's forever. Then live the rest of our life, But not together.
A Little bit of love, little bit of love Little bit of love, little bit of love[repeat]
I feel as if I'm wasted And I waste everyday
This is the way you left me, I'm not pretending. No hope, no love, no glory, No Happy Ending. This is the way that we love, Like it's forever. To live the rest of our life, But not together.
I wonder if humans shed around this time of the season because of the season. I have noticed that I'm losing a lot more hair lately and I would like to think it's because I am shedding my winter coat, like my kitties. It is getting warmer here and the cats have been shedding like crazy. Maybe I am shedding my winter coat too and I will soon be ready to move on from this last season and into the coming one.
or maybe I'm just losing hair because I've dyed it too much.
Tonight I went to the Pinkerton Academy's band concert. It was amazing. Words fail me to describe how beautiful they sounded tonight. The concert band was so balanced and full sounding and they took up the whole stage! And the Wind Ensemble was phenomenal. I have a few videos that I took of them but they really don't do anyone justice.
I am not lying when I say that the one thing I miss about high school is Mr. Adams (the band instructor) and playing for him in concert and in wind. My heart hurt a little today when I realized that I am no longer a member of his band and now just an audience member. I wanted so badly to be up on that stage making music and taking part in one of the best concerts that he has put on since he came to Pinkerton. But I am glad to have witnessed it anyways and I am thankful for the love and passion for music and music making that he has instilled and planted in me. Mr. Adams is why I want to be a teacher. He's just one of those people who inspires.
anyways. If you have a moment, listen to the concert band and Wind.
Concert Band playing Flight of the Falcon, directed by Ms. Sandra Clark.
Wind Ensemble playing the end of Vesuvius, directed by Mr. Mike Adams.
I've been getting tired of my ipod lately. Every thing it plays either just so old to my ears or brings back memories that I'm just not capable of dealing with right now. (cough...outofmyleauge...cough). I recently discovered the Pandora Radio Application for my iPod touch and made a Jaymay station today while I was taking a shower. This song came on and I was just hit so hard at how beautiful it was and how even Pandora seems to know me so well. This song is another perfect depiction of what I've been feeling. Perfect.
I want you between me and the feeling I get when I miss you
But everything here is telling me I should be fine
So why is it so, above as below,
That I'm missing you every time
I got used to you whispering things to me into the evening
We followed the sun and its colours and left this world
It seems to me that I'm definitely
Hearing the best that I've heard
So throw me a rope to hold me in place
Show me a clock for counting my days down
Cause everything's easier when you're beside me
Come back and find me
Cause I feel alone
And whenever you go it's like holding my breath underwater
Okay, first of all. Why did I name Thursday "Tempos on Thursday?" when "Tunes on Thursday" makes more sense and doesn't sound so weird? I had this realization today, and I felt so stupid. But life goes on.
Second: Death Cab for Cutie has been one of my favorite bands for a few years now. They have always gotten me through everything that has been thrown in my way and I am positive that they will continue to do so. I haven't really listened to them in a long while, and I put my ipod on shuffle the other day and this song came on. I thought two things:
1. Sometimes, I feel like Death Cab had written their songs just for me.
2. My ipod knows me so well.
So. Here is my Song of today/this week.
We're not the same, dear, as we used to be.
The seasons have changed and so have we.
There was little we could say, and even less we could do
To stop the ice from getting thinner under me and you.
We bury our love in the wintery grave
A lump in the snow was all that remained.
But we stayed by its side as the days turned to weeks
And the ice kept getting thinner with every word that we'd speak.
And when spring arrived
We were taken by surprise when the floes under our feet bled into the sea
And nothing was left for you and me.
We're not the same, dear,
And it seems to me
There's nowhere we can go
With nothing underneath.
And it saddens me to say
But we both know, well, it's true
That the ice was getting thinner
Under me and you.
The ice was getting thinner
Under me and you.
I've been feeling the pull to write a lot more lately. I've kind of been toying with the idea of starting another blog, but having more then me contribute? As in, other writers. But, I don't know what exactly would be written and I don''t know who else would write. I don't know. Just sayin'. Any thoughts?
anyways. These are the thoughts and tempos? (seriously, Chels, what the heck? tempos?) of today.
Enjoy your Thursday! I plan on enjoying mine! (GREYS ANATOMY & THE OFFICE!)
This is one of those songs that I can't get enough of because I feel like it was written just for me.
Also. I recently discovered imovie on my mac. So. Enjoy my creation:
Simple words we never knew, The power behind what they put us through, Now it's all begun what it takes to make it real. We're standing on the edge of this, When our soul is gone what will we miss? We lost what it takes to really, make it feel.
But the better day's behind us now, We all need someone to tell us how To save the state of where we are, It keeps demanding more and more and more.
And who will save us? This can't go on, without the meaning in the rhyming. Can you save? Can you save us? Well I can't go on, out of rhythm with our time.
We hold these truths self evident, The lies we used to represent Who we are because it was never meant to be. And all the songs we used to sing, they used to tell us everything. All about how it was never ment to be.
But the better day's behind us now. We all need someone to tell us how To save the state of where we are, It keeps demanding more and more and more.
And who will save us? Well this can't go on, without the meaning in the rhyming. Can you save? Can you save us? Well I can't go on, out of rhythm with our time.
Say the words, give it all the time you need. Let it out, oh you say anything. Say the words and make them count, Say them loud without a doubt. Give us truth and nothing more, Leave us wanting more and more.
who will save us? This can't go on. Without the meaning in the rhyming. Can you save? Can you save us? Well I can't go on we're out of rhythm with our time. And can you save? Can you save us? I can't go on, without the meaning in the rhyming And can you save? You say you'll save us? Well I can't go on, out of rhythm with our time
