Tuesday Tunes: The Monster - Eminem & Rihanna

I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed
Get along with the voices inside of my head
You're trying to save me, stop holding your breath
And you think I'm crazy, yeah, you think I'm crazy

Tuesday Tunes: Skinny Love (Birdy Cover)

Come on skinny love just last the year,

Pour a little salt you were never here,

My my my, my my my, my-my my-my...

Staring at the sink of blood and crushed veneer.

Tell my love to wreck it all,

Cut out all the ropes and let me fall,

My my my, my my my, my-my my-my...

Right in the moment this order's tall.

And I told you to be patient,

And I told you to be fine,

And I told you to be balanced,

And I told you to be kind,

And in the morning I'll be with you,

But it will be a different kind,

'Cause I'll be holding all the tickets,

And you'll be owning all the fines.

Come on skinny love, what happened here?

Suckle on the hope in light brassieres,

My my my, my my my, my-my my-my...

Sullen load is full, so slow on the split.

And I told you to be patient,

And I told you to be fine,

And I told you to be balanced,

And I told you to be kind,

And now all your love is wasted,

Then who the hell was I?

'Cause now I'm breaking at the britches,

And at the end of all your lies.

Who will love you?

Who will fight?

And who will fall far behind?

Come on skinny love,

My my my, my my my, my-my my-my...

My my my, my my my, my-my my-my.

Tuesday Tunes: The Civil Wars

The Civil Wars new album is INCREDIBLE!  It's all I've been listening to since the day it was released.  Below are my favorite lyrics from each song...

The One That Got Away

"I miss the way you wanted me when I was staying just out of your reach, begging for the slightest touch.  Ooh, you couldn't get enough."

I Had Me A Girl

"He washed me as clean as a sinner could be."

Same Old Same Old

"‘Cause do I love you?  Oh, I do.  And I'm going to 'til I'm gone.  But if you think that I can stay in this same old, same old, well, I don't."

"I’m gonna name names.  I’m gonna call us out.  I’m gonna say it if you won’t."

Dust to Dust

"Oh, you're acting your thin disguise, all your perfectly delivered lines.  They don't fool me.  You've been lonely too long."

"Let me in the wall you've built around.  We can light a match and burn it down.  Let me hold your hand and dance 'round and 'round the flames in front of us."

"You're like a mirror reflecting me.  Takes one to know one, so take it from me."

Eavesdrop

"I don’t want to talk right now.  I just want your arms wrapped around me in this moment before it runs out."

"I can’t pull you closer than this.  It’s just you and the moon on my skin."

Devil's Backbone

"Oh Lord, Oh Lord, what do I do?  I’ve fallen for someone who’s nothing like you.  He’s raised on the edge of the devil’s backbone."

"There wasn’t a wrong or a right he could choose.  He did what he had to do."

"Give me the burden, give me the blame.  I’ll shoulder the load and I’ll swallow the shame.  Give me the burden, give me the blame.  How many, how many Hail Mary's is it gonna take?  Don’t care if he’s guilty, don’t care if he’s not.  He’s good and he’s bad and he’s all that I’ve got."

From This Valley

"Oh the outcast dreams of acceptance just to find pure love's embrace.  Like an orphan longs for its mother, may you hold me in your grace."

Tell Mama

"Tell Mama all about it.  Tell Mama what you need.  Tell Mama what you want.  And I’ll make everything alright."

Oh, Henry

"Oh the grass is green everywhere but under me.  Or so it seems."

"Got a wedding band in the name of a wandering man.  I love the best I can."

"Oh Henry, I know you wouldn't hurt me.  Don't you know that we don't need one more grave in this town."

"Oh you and I both know that at the end of that forbidden road, there's a six-foot hole."

"When we wed, we said forever ever and a day.  The whole town heard you promise to be true.  So boy, you're gonna only give your gypsy heart to me if it's the last thing you do."

Disarm

"Disarm you with a smile and leave you like they left me here to wither in denial, the bitterness of one who's left alone."

Sacred Heart

Translating this song from English to French could never do it justice.

D'arline

"I could get over you, but please don’t ask me to.  Just so you know, you’ll always be the only one, even when you’re not.  You’ll always be the only one, even when you’re gone."

"You always said you want me to be happy, but happiness was having you here with me.  You’ll always be the one that’s standing in my way.  And that’s okay."

Tuesday Tunes: Babel Edition

 Babel

“And my ears hear the call of my unborn sons.  And I know that choices color all I’ve done.  But I’ll explain it all to the watchman’s son.  I ain't never lived a year better spent in love.”

“I'll know my weakness, know my voice.  And I'll believe in grace and choice.” 

“So come down from your mountain and stand where we’ve been.  You know our breath is weak and our body thin.  Press my nose up to the glass around your heart.  I should’ve known I was weaker from the start.  You’ll build your walls and I will play my bloody part to tear, tear them down.”

Whispers in the Dark

“Spare my sins for the ark.  I was too slow to depart.  I'm a cad but I'm not a fraud.  I'd set out to serve the Lord.”

I Will Wait

“Now I'll be bold as well as strong, and use my head alongside my heart.  So tame my flesh and fix my eyes, a tethered mind freed from the lies.”

“Raise my hands, paint my spirit gold.  Bow my head, keep my heart slow.”

Holland Road

“And I will not tell the thoughts of hell that carried me home from the Holland Road with my heart like a stone.  I put up no fight to your callous mind and from your corner you rose to cut me down.  You cut me down.”


“But I'll still believe though there's crack's, you'll see.  When I'm on my knees I'll still believe.  And when I've hit the ground, neither lost nor found.  If you'll believe in me, I'll still believe.”

Ghosts That We Knew

“You saw my pain washed out in the rain and broken glass, saw the blood run from my veins.  But you saw no fault, no cracks in my heart.”

“So give me hope in the darkness that I will see the light… But I will hold as long as you like.  Just promise me we'll be alright.”

Lover of the Light

“But I'd be yours if you'd be mine.”

“Stretch out my life and pick the seams out.  Take what you like but close my ears and eyes or watch me stumble over and over.”

“I had done wrong, you built your tower.  But call me home and I will build a throne and wash my eyes out never again.”

“And in the middle of the night I may watch you go.  There'll be no value in the strength of walls that I'll have grown.  There'll be no comfort in the shade of the shadows thrown.  You may not trust the promises of the change I'll show.  But I'd be yours if you'd be mine.”

Lover's Eyes

Love was kind for a time.  Now just aches and it makes me blind.  This mirror holds my eyes too bright.  I can't see the others in my life.”

“Tame the ghosts in my head that run wild and wish me dead.  Should you shake my ash to the wind, Lord, forget all of my sins.  Oh, let me die where I lie ‘neath the curse of my lover's eyes.”

Reminder

“A constant reminder of where I can find her, a light that might give up the way is all that I’m asking, for without her I’m lost.  Oh my love, don’t fade away.”

“So I watched the world tear us apart, a stoic mind and a bleeding heart.  You never seen my bleeding heart.”

Hopeless Wanderer

“So when your hope's on fire but you know your desire, don't hold a glass over the flame.  Don't let your heart grow cold.  I will call you by name.  I will share your road.”

“But do not tell me all is fine.  When I lose my head I lose my spine.”

“I will learn to love the skies I'm under.”

Broken Crown

“The pull on my flesh was just too strong, stifled the choice and the air in my lungs.  Better not to breathe than to breathe a lie ‘cause when I open my body I breathe a lie.”

“Now in this twilight, how dare you speak of grace?”

Below My Feet

“Keep my eyes to serve, my hands to learn.”

Not With Haste

“We will run and scream.  You will dance with me.  They'll fulfill our dreams and we'll be free.  And we will be who we are.  And they'll heal our scars.  Sadness will be far away.”

“And I will love with urgency but not with haste.”

For Those Below (Bonus Track)

“Helpless, she lies across the stairs haunting your days, consuming your prayers.  There will be healing but don't force this girl to stand as she's counting the ceilings with pale voice and trembling hands.”

“Wanting change but loving her just as she lies is the burden of the man who's built his life on love.”

The Boxer (Paul Simon Cover) [Bonus Track]

“Such are promises, all lies and jest.  Still, a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.”

Where Are You Now (Bonus Track)

“As we walked the city streets, you never said a word.  When we finally sat down
your eyes were full of spite.  I was desperate, I was weak.  I could not put up a fight.”