SOTD Regina Spektor – Hotel Song

Regina Spektor – Hotel Song

Come in, come in
Come into my world I’ve got to show
Show show you
Come into my bed
I’ve got to know
Know know you

I have dreams of orca whales and owls
But I wake up in fear
You will never be my
You will never be my fool
Will never be my fool

Floaters in my eyes
Wake up in a hotel room
Cigarettes and lies
I am a child, it’s too soon

I have dreams of orca whales and owls
But I wake up in fear
You will never be my
You will never be my fool
Will never be my fool

A little bag of cocaine
A little bag of cocaine
So who’s the girl wearing my dress?
I figured out her number
Inside a paper napkin
But I don’t know her address I wade downstairs
The porter smiles to me a smile
I’ve bought
With a couple of gold coins
A sign that I’ve been caught

I have dreams of orca whales and owls
But I wake up in fear
You will never be my
You will never be my dear
Will never be my dear, dear friend
Dear dear friend, dear dear friend…

A little bag of cocaine
A little bag of cocaine
So who’s the girl wearing my dress
I figured out her number
Inside a paper napkin
But I don’t know her address

Come in, come in
Come into my world I’ve got to show
Show show you
Come into my bed
I’ve got to know
Know know you

I have dreams of orca whales and owls
But I wake up in fear
You will never be my
You will never be my dear
Will never be my dear, dear friend
Dear dear friend, dear dear friend…

SOTD – Tori Amos “Taxi Ride”

Tori Amos “Taxi Ride”

Lily is dancing on the table
we’ve all been pushed too far
I guess on days like this
you know who your friends are
Just another dead fag to you, that’s all
Just another light missing
On a long taxi ride
Taxi ride

And I’m down to your last cigarette and this “we are one” crap
as you’re invading this thing you call love
she smiles way too much but
I’m glad you’re on my side
Sure I’m glad you’re on my side still

You think you deserve a trust fund
Just because you want one
Sure you talk the talk when you need to
I fear the whole world is starting to believe you
Just another dead fag to you that’s all
Just another light missing on a long taxi line
Taxi line

And I’m down to your last cigarette and this “we are one” crap
As you’re invading this thing you call love
She smiles way too much
But I’m glad you’re on my side
Sure I’m glad you’re on my side still

Lily is dancing on the table
We’ve all been pushed too far today
Even a glamorous bitch can be in need
This is where you know the honey from the killer bees
I’m glad you’re on my side
Sure i’m glad you’re on my side
Sure i’m glad you’re on my side still

Got a long taxi ride
Got a long taxi ride

SOTD – Spinnerette “Ghetto Love”

Another band that DaveWWT turned me on to. This means he’s been right twice this year so far, and that’s probably gonna be about his limit.

Spinnerette “Ghetto Love”

Hey now, there now
It’s a game to be played out amongst
Thieves of the heart and the
Whores of the ego

Hey now, there now
Kiss everyone’s ailments
See them rise up, exalt and illuminate

Humanity is a deer in the headlights
The road is covered in blood
Free yourself with a dagger from above
A crossbow of faith

You sold your heart
For the primal experience
Gave up on love for a
Medal malevolent
You fill yourself with
The fire of innocence
The karmic stain will bring you back through the gates again

Oh how I wonder what will become, of us
I’m just a girl out looking for love

You want in me what you see
Is a testament
You never know when you love
What you’ll manifest

I’m Joan of Arc on a mission
Avenge loves death
I’m gonna win
I’ll never give in

SOTD – Psapp “Hi”

Psapp “Hi”

Hi-lo
Get out the abacus and count this
A funny story with a dark twist
The target’s so big that you can’t miss
Me

You’re compulsive
And every page I turn I want more
I never know the next thing in store
’cause you excite me like a locked door
does

Like a limpet
I want to take your voice and drink it
There doesn’t seem to be a limit
To all the things that I could do

I know how I want it to go
I know how I want it to be
Don’t make me think before I speak
or make me hold my horses

Hold tight
We’re saddled up if you can ride right
If you just think it then you’ll be fine
Fingers crossed that it’s the right time
this time

You’re a fat swamp
We can visit for a fun romp
I really want to do the high jump
Taking a risk with do us all some good

I know how I want it to go
I know how I want it to be
Don’t make me think before I speak
or make me hold my horses

I’ve got my eye on the prize (look at their eyes)
My beady eyes are alive (they’re alive)
Although I don’t know what comes next
I will not hold my horses

Hello
Get out the abacus and count me
A funny feeling says I won’t leave
The target’s so big that you can’t miss
me

I know how I want it to go (I want it to go)
I know how I want it to be (I want it too)
Don’t make me think before I speak
or make me hold my horses

I’ve got my eye on the prize (look at their eyes)
My beady eyes are alive (they’re alive)
And though I don’t know what comes next
I will not hold my horses

I know what you’re thinking
I know how you see me
Although it hurts
You’re probably right

SOTD – Fever Ray “If I Had a Heart”

@h_wallbanger turned me onto Fever Ray, and I am pretty much grooving on them. This song is my current spooky favorite. Check them out at feverray.com.

Fever Ray “If I Had a Heart”

this will never end
cause i want more
more, give me more, give me more

this will never end
cause i want more
more, give me more, give me more

if i had a heart i could love you
if i had a voice i would sing
after the night when i wake up
i’ll see what tomorrow brings

if i had a voice i would sing

dangling feet from window frame
will i ever ever reach the floor?
more, give me more, give me more

crushed and filled with all i found underneath and inside
just to come around
more, give me more, give me more

if i had a voice i would sing

SOTD – Time Killer, Project Pitchfork (And One Remix)

I like this remix much more than I like the original of this song.

Time Killer, Project Pitchfork

go away leave me alone
I feel your presence in my mind
the time seems to stop I set you free
you calm my mind you calm my mind
make my dreams come true – baby
every time it seems to me
that fiction and reality melt together for eternity
liquid words dropping down the stairs
filling the emptiness with sense
you and me on the floor floating on our sensibility

you need a timekiller and you don’t understand
I am like quicksand lick it from my hand
I am your timekiller I let your mind expand
I am like quicksand lick it from my hand

tick tock tick tock madness comes tonight
what’s reality compared to me?
I rest on the bed and I’m sure I slowly get mad
I’m in a state of mind which makes me blind
for the fact that I’m a man
I’m here to stay forever but not today

you need a timekiller and you don’t understand
I am like quicksand lick it from my hand
I am your timekiller I let your mind expand
I am like quicksand lick it from my hand

in my heart is no place for you
and in my mind is no space for you
the exit already melted away
and now there’s nothing left to say

you need a timekiller and you don’t understand
I am like quicksand lick it from my hand
I am your timekiller I let your mind expand
I am like quicksand lick it from my hand

Liars and the SOTD – Tracy Chapman “Tell it Like it is”

This album, along with Poe’s “Haunted” and more recently F+TM’s “Lungs” is on my list of all-time favorite albums. The ones where every song you listen to you think “OK, I am totally going to replay this song when it’s over.” and then the next song comes on and it’s so amazing that you have to listen to that one instead of re-listening to the first one.

Most of these albums come from places of brokenness and disenchantment with the world, which is why I identify with them. But to me they’re also cries for understanding and calls to do better with yourself, be a better sort of person. They’re from people who are heartbroken and disillusioned, and they point out how the world and people surrounding them have failed them—yet they also hold a sort of yearning for a world that’s not like this, where the people are good to each other, and good to them.

I feel like lately I have been dealing with way too many liars. Whether they’re lying inadvertently because they don’t understand themselves or lying blatantly because they’re assholes with shit to cover up, I am not always sure. Why they do it isn’t important, the net effect is that I don’t really trust anyone lately to tell the truth about anything. And I hate that. I hate that because my natural state is to believe people when they tell me things. I rarely lie. I will either tell you the truth or change the subject, and I assume most other people are the same. And I can’t assume that as much as I do. I don’t really know how to be super selective about it either. With me it’s either “honesty filter 100% on” or “you dirty motherfuckers, stop talking to me with your lying bullshit mouths.” And these are people who not only lie about what they’re doing, they lie about who they are. And that’s the most disappointing kind to discover, the kind where someone you thought was one kind of person – someone who took the time and trouble to paint that picture of themselves for you – is really not that kind of person at all. It makes me feel stupid and naive, it disappoints me, it makes me feel all alone in the world with a bunch of people wearing carnival masks.

I know that there’s no solution to this. People are how they are, and a lot of people need to lie to themselves and each other,  just in order to survive and maintain their internal images of themselves. I get it.  I am glad in some ways I am not one of them, but I am also lonely for other people who tell the truth, even when it’s harsh and ugly. I would rather hear about and deal with what’s really happening around me than have to sift through a huge pile of someone else’s horseshit to find the kernel of reality in there.

People give me grief for my negativity, but honest negativity will always be preferable to me than rosy-cheeked bullshit optimism and self-delusion. And I refuse to apologize for that, because no matter how it pains me, mine is the more authentic reality and I will not give it up.

Tracy Chapman “Tell it Like it is”

Say it say it say it
Tell it like it is
Say it say it say it
Tell it like it is

What breaks your heart
What keeps you awake at night
What makes you want to break down and cry

But say you’ll never turn your back
Say you’ll never harden to the world
Say you’ll never try to still the rhythms in your breast
Say you’ll never look at the evil among us and try to forget
Say you’ll tell it like it is

Say it say it say it so everyone can hear
Say it say it say it tell it like it is

What breaks your heart
What keeps you awake at night
How your anger and grief
Make you want to cry out
Oh and tell it like it is

But say you’ll never close your eyes
Or pretend that it’s a rosy world
Say you’ll never try to paint
What is rotten with a sugarcoat
Say you’ll talk about the horrors you’ve seen and the torment you know
And tell it like it is

Say it say it say it
So no one can forget
Say it say it say it
Tell it like it is

What breaks your heart
What keeps you awake at night
What makes you want to break the ties that silence and bind
And tell it like it is

Say you’ll never cover your ears and close your mouth
And live in a silent world
Say you’ll only run as far or as fast as you need to be secure
Say that then you’ll tell the truth
When a lie could cross your lips
And tell it like it is

Say it say it say it – Say it say it say it
Say it say it say it – Say it say it say it
Say it say it say it – Say it say it say it
Say it say it say it – Say it say it say it

Here’s the song, but ignore the video which seems to be just a bunch of weird birds.

SOTD – Dr. John “I don’t want to know”

Dr. John “I don’t want to know”

And I don’t want to know about evil
Only want to know about love
I don’t want to know about evil
Only want to know about love.

Sometimes it gets so hard to listen
Hard for me to use my eyes
And all around the cold is glistening
Making sure it keeps me down to size.

And I don’t want to know about evil
Only want to know about love
I don’t want to know one thing about evil
Only want to know about love.

I’m waiting for the planets to tumble
Waiting for the towns to fall
I’m waiting for the cities to crumble
Waiting till I see you crawl.

It’s getting kinda hard to listen
Hard for us to use our eyes
All around the gold is glistening
Making sure it keeps us hypnotized.

I don’t want to know about evil
I only want to know about love
I don’t want to know about evil
Only want to know about love.

I don’t want to know anything about evil
Only want to know about love
I don’t want to know about evil
Only want to know about love.

SOTD – Deb Talan “Forgiven”

Deb Talan “Forgiven”

You worry on
hurting anybody anymore
You worry on
small comfort
One of us seems not to tremble
You make a rift inside me
every day
Then you choose to stay
I walk the edge and
push it wider

You are forgiven
I open all my doors
You are forgiven
What a heart is for
I am no martyr
You give me reason
I try harder
and I wait
for a warmer season
Meanwhile,
You are
forgiven

I hear a soft noise like a sigh,
A singing
like a lullaby
It is my heart
It is this wind
that blows through,
Where you held me closer,
Where we whisper
This is
this is true

You are forgiven
I open all my doors
You are forgiven
What a heart is for
I am no martyr
You give me reason
I try harder
And I wait
for a warmer season
Meanwhile,
You are
forgiven

And it’s time
to go
I cannot stay
You cannot know
My love
So dear
Will it be faith
or fear?

You are forgiven
open all my doors
You are forgiven
What a heart is for
I am no martyr
You give me reason
I try harder
And I wait
for a warmer season
Meanwhile,
You are
forgiven

You are
Forgiven

SOTD – James Taylor “Shower the People”

A classic. It’s really been a James Taylor kind of day today.

James Taylor “Shower the People”

Shower The People – James Tayl…

You can play the game and you can act out the part
Though you know it wasn’t written for you
But tell me, how can you stand there with your broken heart
Ashamed of playing the fool
One thing can lead to another; it doesn’t take any sacrifice
Oh, father and mother, sister and brother
If it feels nice, don’t think twice

Just shower the people you love with love
Show them the way that you feel
Things are gonna work out fine if you only will
Shower the people you love with love
Show them the way you feel
Things are gonna be much better if you only will

You can run but you cannot hide
This is widely known
And what you plan to do with your foolish pride
When you’re all by yourself alone
Once you tell somebody the way that you feel
You can feel it beginning to ease
I think it’s true what they say about the squeaky wheel
Always getting the grease.

Better to shower the people you love with love
Show them the way that you feel
Things are gonna be just fine if you only will
Shower the people you love with love
Show them the way that you feel
Things are gonna be much better if you only will

Shower the people you love with love
Show them the way that you feel

You’ll feel better right away
Don’t take much to do
Sell you pride
They say in every life
They say the rain must fall
Just like pouring rain
Make it rain
Make it rain
Love, love, love is sunshine.
Oh yes
Make it rain
Love, love, love is sunshine
Yeah, all right
Everybody, everybody
Shower the people you love with love

SOTD – Aesthetic Perfection “Schadenfreude”

Here’s the song of the day – BKA “superbadgirl is an angry, angry girl.”

Ah well, at least I’ve managed to turn off the Florence + The Machine album. I actually really love this whole album (A Violent Emotion.) If the F+TM album is all about breakups and painful love from a feminine perspective, this is all about those things from a more aggressive (and not to be sexist but male-feeling) perspective. This is all “I love you a lot but you suck and now I hope you die.”

If you like this, also check out “Pale” by the same band. (also, it’s got a great beat and you can dance to it!)

Aesthetic Perfection “Schadenfreude”

I’m not evil,
You’re just weak,
You’re too afraid to taste a thing so sweet,
It’s ok,
More for me,
I think you’re better off dead.

I can’t deny what is a part of me,
I take joy out of your misery,
Lay down,
Lay down,
Lay down, yeah
I guess that’s what you do best.

I can’t give you what you need but I can give you what you want,
I’ve found that all the things I love I despise,
I can’t give you what you need but I can give you what you want,
And when you hate the things you love then learn to love the things
That you hate.

I want one thing,
Suffering,
I want one thing,
You living in hell,
It’s so much better than apologies,
I want to watch it swell,
Don’t need to be the one who does it to you,
Don’t need to twist the knife or push it through,
Just want to see that you’re in misery too,
Just like me inside.

Their greedy eyes light up,
They’re salivating,
Everyone knows there’s no better way,
It’s like a crime to you,
It’s like the best for me,
Let it all out.

You can’t give me what I need but you will give me what I want,
And then I’ll leave what’s left of you to the flies,
You can’t give us what we need but you will give us what we want,
My dear your guests are waiting,
Time to begin

I want one thing,
Suffering,
I want one thing,
You living in hell,
It’s so much better than apologies,
I want to watch it swell,
Don’t need to be the one who does it to you,
Don’t need to twist the knife or push it through,
Just want to see that you’re in misery too,
Just like me inside.

I think you’re better off dead,
I think you’re better off dead,
I think you’re better off dead,
I think you’re better off dead.

SOTD – Florence + The Machine “Dog Days Are Over”

My obsession with this album shows no signs of abating. I’ve stopped recognizing other albums for the time being, convinced that they contain no music. This is the only music that ever is or was. I am just sure of it.

And I never wanted anything from you
Except every thing you had and what was left after that too…

SOTD – Florence + The Machine “Blinding”

Sorry, I know it’s F+TM overload this week, but I am in one of those states where I feel like I might never listen to another album ever again. Give me a week or two to get over it. But SERIOUSLY PEOPLE. This fucking album. It’s… it’s all about everything.

Florence + The Machine “Blinding”

Seems that I have been held, in some dreaming state
A tourist in the waking world, never quite awake
No kiss, no gentle word could wake me from this slumber
Until I realised that it was you who held me under

Felt it in my fists, in my feet, in the hollows of my eyelids
Shaking through my skull, through my spine and down through my ribs

No more dreaming of the dead as if death itself was undone
No more cawing like a crow for a boy, for a body in a garden
No more dreaming like a girl so in love, so in love
No more dreaming like a girl so in love, so in love
No more dreaming like a girl so in love with the wrong world

And I could hear the thunder and see the lightning crack
All around the world was waking, I never could go back
’cause all the walls of dreaming, they were torn wide open
And finally it seemed that the spell was broken

And all my bones began to shake, my eyes flew open
And all my bones began to shake, my eyes flew open

No more dreaming of the dead as if death itself was undone
No more cawing like a crow for a boy, for a body in a garden
No more dreaming like a girl so in love, so in love
No more dreaming like a girl so in love, so in love
No more dreaming like a girl so in love with the wrong world

Snow White’s stitching up the circuitboards
Synapse slipping through the hidden door
Snow White’s stitching up the circuitboard

No more dreaming of the dead as if death itself was undone
No more cawing like a crow for a boy, for a body in a garden
No more dreaming like a girl so in love, so in love
No more dreaming like a girl so in love, so in love
No more dreaming like a girl so in love with the wrong world

Snow White’s stitching up the circuitboards
Synapse slipping through the hidden door
Snow White’s stitching up the circuitboard
Synapse slipping through the hidden door

SOTD – Florence + The Machine “Cosmic Love”

Rarely have I run into music that expresses so perfectly the pain of unhealthy, destructive love. It’s that “I love you so much I’ll let you kill me” and “I’d rather be cold with you than warm alone.” It hurts my everything to be in the middle of these songs.

I seriously love this album and am going to marry and/or make out with it forthwith. I don’t really want to know what happened to this girl, but it had to hurt like hell and I hope that writing and performing these songs has helped her.

Florence + The Machine “Cosmic Love”

A falling star fell from your heart
and landed in my eyes
I screamed aloud, as it tore through them
and now it’s left me blind

The stars, the moon, they have all been blown out
You left me in the dark
No dawn, no day, I’m always in this twilight
In the shadow of your heart

And in the dark, I can hear your heartbeat
I tried to find the sound
But then it stopped, and I was in the darkness,
So darkness I became

The stars, the moon, they have all been blown out
You left me in the dark
No dawn, no day, I’m always in this twilight
In the shadow of your heart

I took the stars from our eyes, and then I made a map
And knew that somehow I could find my way back
Then I heard your heart beating, you were in the darkness too
So I stayed in the darkness with you

The stars, the moon, they have all been blown out
You left me in the dark
No dawn, no day, I’m always in this twilight
In the shadow of your heart

SOTD Sarah Bettens “Not Insane”

Sarah Bettens “Not Insane”

For every time you tell me that I can’t be who I am
For every time you twist my arm and get me to confess
For every door you close on me
For every boy or girl you turn your back to
You will pay, the price of some day knowing that you think you tried and yet you failed to see that you can’t change me

I told myself today
It’s pretty nice to find your way
no matter what you say
I am not insane

For every so-called victory you lose a piece of you
And when it shows you love can be in everything you do
…love can be in everything you do…

I told myself today
It’s pretty nice to find your way
No matter what you say
I am not insane…

Look inside you
Find what drives you
I can’t change you

I told myself today
It’s pretty nice to find your way
No matter what you say
I am not insane…

I told myself today
It’s pretty nice to find your way
No matter what you say
I am not insane…