December 26, 2007

i miss you, to the tune of the damien rice cd i’ve been listening to on repeat…

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Woke up and for the first time the animals were gone
It’s left this house empty now, not sure if I belong
Yesterday you asked me to write you a pleasant song
I’ll do my best now, but you’ve been gone for so long

The window’s open now and the winter settles in
We’ll call it Christmas when the adverts begin
I love your depression and I love your double chin
I love ‘most everything that you bring to this offering

Oh I know that I left you in places of despair
Oh I know that I love you, so please throw down your hair
At night I trip without you, and hope I don’t wake up
‘Cause waking up without you is like drinking from an empty cup

Woke up and for the first time the animals were gone
Our clocks are ticking now so before our time is gone
We could get a house and some boxes on the lawn
We could make babies and accidental songs

I know I’ve been a liar and I know I’ve been a fool
I hope we didn’t break yet, but I’m glad we broke the rules
My cave is deep now, yet your light is shining through
I cover my eyes, still all I see is you

Oh I know that I left you in places of despair
Oh I know that I love you, so please throw down your hair
At night I trip without you, and hope I don’t wake up
‘Cause waking up without you is like drinking from an empty cup

{damien rice - the animals were gone}

 

December 14, 2007

Music News!!! (that’s a year old, of course)

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Okay so I’m a huge Damien Rice fan - I got a chance to help put together a benefit concert with him in London and it was amazing; I totally fell in love with him, he’s incredible - but he played this one song that I later found out through fansites he never released, didn’t plan to release, and had specifically asked fans not to to bootleg… his fans being the loyal flock they are actually did not bootleg it… I have had nothing but the memory of one performance of that song until just now… when….

Last year (yeah, I know, late to the party) he released “9″, an album of mostly new stuff… and it includes the song.  IT INCLUDES THE SONG!!!!   Seriously - there is a song that I have been pining away for for THREE YEARS with nothing but a memory, and now I finally have it.

The song… well it’s got a silly name, it’s “Accidental Babies” - but when he played it live well, tears were streaming down my face.  I’ve never heard a song as honest and beautiful and utterly devastating.  It’s not the sort of song I’ll listen to every day but… just to know I have it…

If you haven’t yet, or aren’t a fan (yet), or don’t have the song - do yourself an enormous favor: GO GET IT.  Now.  Or at least check out the lyrics.  If you’ve never been wistful about an ended relationship well then maybe it won’t touch you, but I think if you have just a bit of empathy, well, he’s so damn honest and it’s just so simple and unpretentious and, well.  You need to listen to it.

Anyway I know it’s 5:30am, I just finished a paper, but I am SO excited to have found this song I could stay up another 18 hours!!  Oh Damien Rice, I do adore you.

 


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