Not my patience of course, your patience. This is just a fun idea I had in my head; you’re the one that has to put up with it. So here’s my glorious idea:
Starting with the song that’s on my iTunes right this second, I’m going to list my favorite lyric from this and the next nine songs that come up (I’m in shuffle mode, as I often am when I listen to anything in iTunes). Ten songs total. No skipping. Thus, if I don’t know a song very well, I’m going to look up the lyrics and find something I like the best. If you like this idea – steal it! Just either give me credit, or link me so I can read, at the very least. Haha. To be fair, I’m probably not the first person with this idea, so I’m just going to pretend like I am.
1. Brand New – Okay I Believe You, But My Tommy Gun Don’t
“These are the words you wish you wrote down. This is the way you wish your voice sounds – handsome and smart. Oh, my tongue’s the only muscle in my body that works harder than my heart.”
2. Vanessa Carlton – Hands On Me
“We climb Tibetan mountains where we can barely breathe. I see the Dalai Lama, I feel him blessing me – and all the constellations shine down for us to see.”
3. Justin Timberlake – Lovestoned (I Think She Knows It)
[Ed. Note - I should've skipped this one. I'm staying honest, though!]
“She shuts the room down, the way she walks and causes a fuss – the baddest in town.”
4. Thrice – The Earth Will Shake
“Heaven sent reply, however small – evidence of life behind these walls. Born and bred in this machine, wardens dread to see us dream. We hold tight to legends of real life – the way it was before.”
5. Five Iron Frenzy – Anchors Away
“The advertising dollars buy the right to stifle antonyms, to sterilize the truth with fiction, so we can sing their corporate hymns.”
6. Moby – Porcelain
[Ed. Note - One, this song is slim pickens for lyrics. Also, I skipped over the original number six which was Girl Talk's "Pump It Up" - mostly 'cause those aren't his lyrics.]
“In my dreams I’m dying all the time – when I wake it’s kaleidoscopic mind. I never meant to hurt you, I never meant to lie – so this is goodbye.”
7. Notorious B.I.G. – 1970-Somethin’
“My momma water burst. No spouse in the house, so she rolled herself to the hospital, to see if she could get a little help. Umbilical cords wrapped around my neck; I’m seein’ my death and I ain’t even took my first step.”
8. NOFX – Eat The Meek (live)
“The factory mass producing fear. Bottled, capped, distributed near and far; sold for a reasonable price. And the people they love it, they feed it; brush with it, bathe with it, breathe it – inject it direct to the blood – it seems to be replacing love.”
9. The Killers – I Can’t Stay
“There is a majesty at my doorstep, and there is a little boy in her arms. Now we’ll parade around without gameplan, obligation or alarm.”
10. Sublime – Pool Shark (acoustic)
“I’ve got that needle and I can’t shake, but I can’t breathe – I take it away, but I want more and more. One day I’m gonna lose the war.”
Sad, on that last one. Seriously, songs where the writer essentially predicts exactly how his/her own death will happen is kind of a mindfuck. One side of your brain wonders if it was just a coincidence, and the other side wonders if it’s just a case where the artist just knew him or herself *that* well. Again – depressing no matter what.
So, to counteract the depressing end of my list – here’s Bert & Ernie lip-syncing to M.O.P.’s “Ante Up”. I can’t watch this without smiling, at the very least.
