30 Day Song Challenge - Day 4

In yet another installment of the 30 Day Song Challenge, we find ourselves considering "a song that makes you sad." There are half a dozen burned CDs on my music rack that are full of broken-hearted crush songs from middle school and high school - songs I used to play over and over again, pining after this boy or that. But I have chosen to forgo those depressing (*ahemNineInchNails*), screaming (*ahemLinkinPark*), and off-pitch songs (*coughcoughMidtown*) to go with something a little prettier and a lot more *ahem* current.

"Jar of Hearts" (2010)
By: Christina Perri

No, I can't take one more step towards you
‘Cause all that's waiting is regret
Don't you know I'm not your ghost anymore
You lost the love I loved the most

I learned to live, half alive
And now you want me one more time

[Chorus:]
Who do you think you are?
Runnin' 'round leaving scars
Collecting your jar of hearts
And tearing love apart
You're gonna catch a cold
From the ice inside your soul
So don't come back for me
Who do you think you are?

I hear you're asking all around
If I am anywhere to be found
But I have grown too strong
To ever fall back in your arms

I've learned to live, half alive
And now you want me one more time

[Chorus]

It took so long just to feel alright
Remember how to put back the light in my eyes
I wish I had missed the first time that we kissed
‘Cause you broke all your promises
And now you're back
You don't get to get me back

Who do you think you are?
Runnin' 'round leaving scars
Collecting your jar of hearts
And tearing love apart
You're gonna catch a cold
From the ice inside your soul
Don't come back for me
Don't come back at all

Who do you think you are?
Runnin' 'round leaving scars
Collecting your jar of hearts
And tearing love apart
You're gonna catch a cold
From the ice inside your soul
Don't come back for me
Don't come back at all

Who do you think you are?
Who do you think you are?
Who do you think you are?


This is one of those sad songs that's so relatable and raw a girl really can't help but sing along to it. It's particularly great to belt out loud while you're in the shower. I like to push play on my portable iPod jam box, turn the water to steaming hot, step in, and let the wondrous echo chamber effect of the bathroom do its wondrous thing. This song should be in a musical, playing the moment the ingenue, who's caught up with some bad man, lets her heartwrenched emotion out in song. Ah!, such bittersweet release on such a pretty melody line!

I just hope my darling sweet boyfriend who lives with me can't hear me from our office - he'll think I've gone Glee happy ;)

30 Day Song Challenge - Day 3

Day 3 of the 30 Day Song Challenge brings us to "a song that makes you happy." This one's easy: Bob Marley & The Wailer's "Three Little Birds."

"Three Little Birds" (1977)
By: Bob Marley & The Wailers

Don't worry about a thing,
'Cause every little thing gonna be all right.
Singin': "Don't worry about a thing,
'Cause every little thing gonna be all right!"

Rise up this mornin',
Smiled with the risin' sun,
Three little birds
Pitch by my doorstep
Singin' sweet songs
Of melodies pure and true,
Sayin', ("This is my message to you-ou-ou:")

Singin': "Don't worry 'bout a thing,
'Cause every little thing gonna be all right."
Singin': "Don't worry (don't worry) 'bout a thing,
'Cause every little thing gonna be all right!"

Rise up this mornin',
Smiled with the risin' sun,
Three little birds
Pitch by my doorstep
Singin' sweet songs
Of melodies pure and true,
Sayin', "This is my message to you-ou-ou:"

Singin': "Don't worry about a thing, worry about a thing, oh!
Every little thing gonna be all right. Don't worry!"
Singin': "Don't worry about a thing" - I won't worry!
"'Cause every little thing gonna be all right."

Singin': "Don't worry about a thing,
'Cause every little thing gonna be all right" - I won't worry!
Singin': "Don't worry about a thing,
'Cause every little thing gonna be all right."
Singin': "Don't worry about a thing, oh no!
'Cause every little thing gonna be all right!


I can't say that any other song can turn my mood from meh to happy! better than this one. In 2009, The Wailers came to Riverbend (a week-long, family friendly outdoor music festival in my home town of Chattanooga), and I got a chance to hula hoop to this song. There I was, on a big open patch of level grass at Coolidge Park, across the river from the festival. The joyful tune stretched out from the stage, across the water, to my ears and into my hoop and it was quite an awesome experience.

Here's the link to Wiki's info about the song, if you're curious. =)

30 Day Song Challenge - Day 2

Day 2 - Your least favorite song

(I know this is the 30 Day Song Challenge, but I didn't read about any consecutive requirement in the rules. So, yeah....)

My least favorite song is easy: "You're So Vain" by Carly Simon. Even though the song is ranked at #72 on Billboard's Greatest Songs of All-Time (wikipedia article), and even though it's played in something like half of the chick flicks I've seen, all I can think when I hear this song is the fact that it's not exactly "vain" if the song is indeed about him. And the song is all about this dude - the lyrics prove it!

"You're So Vain"

Written & Performed by Carly Simon (1972)

You walked into the partyLike you were walking onto a yacht
Your hat strategically dipped below one eye
Your scarf it was apricot
You had one eye in the mirror
As you watched yourself gavotte
And all the girls dreamed that they'd be your partner
They'd be your partner, and

You're so vain
You probably think this song is about you
You're so vain
I'll bet you think this song is about you
Don't you? Don't you?

You had me several years ago
When I was still quite naive
Well, you said that we made such a pretty pair
And that you would never leave
But you gave away the things you loved
And one of them was me
I had some dreams they were clouds in my coffee
Clouds in my coffee, and

You're so vain
You probably think this song is about you
You're so vain
I'll bet you think this song is about you
Don't you? Don't you?

I had some dreams they were clouds in my coffee
Clouds in my coffee, and

You're so vain
You probably think this song is about you
You're so vain
I'll bet you think this song is about you
Don't you? Don't you?

Well, I hear you went up to Saratoga
And your horse naturally won
Then you flew your Lear jet up to Nova Scotia
To see the total eclipse of the sun
Well, you're where you should be all the time
And when you're not, you're with
Some underworld spy or the wife of a close friend
Wife of a close friend, and

You're so vain
You probably think this song is about you
You're so vain
I'll bet you think this song is about you
Don't you? Don't you?

 

 

 

Clouds in my coffee??? *swan dives out a window*

Besides the lyrics, the other thing about this song that irks me is the fact that the beginning is deceptively awesome with its cool dundundundun bass and sexy lead guitar. Sometimes when this song has played on the radio, I have been known to start jamming my head and shaking my shoulders, all cool and like. The first 19 seconds of the song are so kickin', but then the terrible fact thunders down all around me that it's *this* song. This song, so all that pumped up dance energy was for nothing! NOTHING! I've had this happen a few times in the car with my man and by the time I realize what's happened, he asserts that I have jammed far too hard to not finish out listening the whole song. Oh, he knows my dislike. ^.^

30 Day Song Challenge - Day 1

I thought I'd take up Facebook's 30 Day Song Challenge, so here it goes:

Day 1 - Your Favorite Song

When I read the Challenge rules, I was like, dang! they made the first one the hardest. I mean how can I possibly determine my FAVORITE song? Favorite? But I've got like twenty favs! I went through playlist after playlist on iTunes to figure this one out. After a few days and much consideration, I think I have determined that Cyndi Lauper's "All Through The Night" (1984; originally written by Jules Shear) is my favorite song. The message of not needing a past, of only needing a feeling of love and guts to move forward really touches me. Cyndi's voice, particularly in this YouTube clip of the song, is incredible. Plus, for whatever reason, the musical break near the end reminds me everytime of Chocobo music from Final Fantasy, and I just love it.

All Through The Night Lyrics

All through the night I'll be awake and I'll be with you
All through the night this precious time when time is new.
Oh all through the night today
Knowing that we feel the same without saying.

We have no past we won't reach back
Keep with me forward all through the night.
And once we start the meter clicks
And it goes running all through the night
until it ends there is no end.

All through the night stray cat is crying so stray cat sings back.
All through the night they have forgotten what by day they lack.
Oh under those white street lamps there is a little chance they may see.

We have no past we won't reach back
Keep with me forward all through the night.
And once we start the meter clicks
And it goes running all through the night
until it ends there is no end.

*music break*

Oh
the sleep in your eyes is enough
Let me be there
let me stay there a while.

We have no past we won't reach back
Keep with me forward all through the night.
And once we start the meter clicks
And it goes running all through the night
until it ends there is no end.