Best Song from Vacation

June 14th, 2008

I had an awesome 24-hr playlist on my iPod for the trip to Savannah and back. Very heavy on The Weepies (of course) Over the Rhine, The Decemberists, Frou Frou, Feist, Imogen Heap, James Taylor (classic road-tripping music) Laura Veirs, Michael Buble & Nellie McKay. I am also really grooving on Viva la Vida by Coldplay, and I am hoping against hope that I won’t hate it with the fury of a thousand suns (from overplay) within a few weeks.

But by far the best song that I listened to while I was on the road was “How will he find me?” by The Weepies. I am all in “over-identify much?” land, but isn’t that why we love the songs we love? Because they speak to us? Anyway, you can listen to it at their site, lyrics excerpt below.

How Will He Find Me? – The Weepies

if i don’t stand out like a star among the moons
if i am always late
and he always backs away too soon

i walk the world with a skin so thin
i can wear no adequate protection
everything comes crashing in

if i’m too wide open for this place
but not enough for him
to recognize my face

how will he find me?
with no one’s arms to gather me together
how will he find me?
only held by gravity
faded with uncertainty
no longer young and not that pretty
how will he ever find me?

it never seems to matter
the tears i cry
there’s a well inside of me
that never runs dry

from being born i guess
and born in life until we die
the music and the hope for love
keep me alive
still i wonder

how will he find me?
with no one’s arms to gather me together
how will he find me?
only held by gravity
faded with uncertainty
no longer young and not that pretty
how will he ever find me?

I also had some of my favorite music in rotation on Thursday when I drove out to the beach on Tybee Island. That way I infused songs that I already loved with all kinds of beachy happiness and the pure joy that is living (when you’re on your way to the beach on a beautiful day with all the windows down and the sunroof open, and not a care in the world, at least).

Hopefully they will be something I can take out and bathe in when I am down this year and there’s no beach handy.

Mood : introspective