Clarity by Vance Joy
The day began like all the rest
A frantic beating in my chest
A panicked reeling in my brain
Perspective lost but nothing gained
The precious moments that we shared
You slowed time down inside my head
I wish I'd found this clarity
While I still had you close to me
But I was stuck inside my shell
Until the ground began to sway
I realized what mattered most, that day
When the stars began to fall right out of the sky
And the seas were rising up
I had one thing in mind
When the road began to crumble in front of my eyes
There was only one person I wanted to find
It was you
It was you
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Prior Warning by Marcus Mumford
Put on my running gear
I knew that this was coming, I
Picked up my phone and called my favorite
I knew I had to sit you down
But sitting you down could not prepare you for another night like this
We made a promise that we always would be honest, I
Never thought that I would break again
Circled Hall and Park
Cold
When I came back and sat you down
For yet another night like this
I wish we could play the fools again
Each word is a cut that I see coming, I
Clench my fists as I'm inflicting them
And now I'm running out of parts that I can play
Not the hero, not the dodger, not the preacher's son
You ask me why I'd wanna break the very thing I love the most
You knew I couldn't answer plainly
Then you knelt down on the ground like you were drawing in the sand
And I surrender
Now
On the floor we painted white
You're picking up the pieces
Reminding me of love and what we would look like without it
It's not a problem that is yours to fix
As this pours into your life
The streetlights on and off again
Enough is enough is enough
Will it someday be enough?
I wish we could play the fools again
Go back, or just skip to the end
How could you not
Blame me?
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First accidental hiatus
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My apologies, and know it will almost certainly happen again. But for now, back to the SLAPs!
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Babel by Mumford and Sons
I know that time has numbered my days
And I'll go along with everything you say,
But I'll ride home laughing, “Look at me now!”
The walls of my town, they come crumbling down
And my ears hear the call of my unborn sons
And I know their choices color all I've done
But I'll explain it all to the watchman's son
I ain't ever lived a year better spent in love
I'll know my weakness, know my voice
And I'll believe in grace and choice
And I know perhaps my heart is farce
But I'll be born without a mask
Like the city that nurtured my greed and my pride
I stretched my arms into the sky
I cry Babel! Babel! Look at me now
Then the walls of my town, they come crumbling down
You ask where will we stand in the winds that will howl
As all we see will slip into the cloud
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 them down
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Something in the Orange by Zach Bryan
It'll be fine by dusk light I'm telling you
These things eat at your bones and drive your young mind crazy
But when you place your head between my collar and jaw
I don't know much but there's no weight at all
And I'm damned if I do and I'm damned if I don't
'Cause if I say I miss you I know that you won't
But I miss you in the mornings when I see the sun
Something in the orange tells me we're not done
I need to hear you say you've been waiting all night
There's orange dancing in your eyes from bulb light
Your voice only trembles when you try to speak
Take me back to us dancing, this wood used to creak
To you I'm just a man, to me you're all I am
Where the hell am I supposed to go?
I poisoned myself again
Something in the orange tells me you're never coming home
If you leave today, I'll just stare at the way
The orange touches all things around
The grass, trees and dew, how I just hate you
Please turn those headlights around
Please turn those headlights around
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Beloved by Mumford and Sons
Sit enthroned in white grandeur
But tired and shift
A whisper of wayward silver hair
From your eyes
I'd never seen you unkempt before
As you whisper "Darling close the door"
How have I not made a note of every word
You ever said
And time, is not on our side
But I'll pretend that it's alright
She says the Lord has a plan
But admits it's pretty hard to understand
Before you leave
You must know you are beloved
And before you leave
Remember I was with you
Are you afraid
However could you not be
In this rosy light
This is strange
I see a hand come through the mirror
Pointing at the light we never see
As you put your feathered arms over me
Before you leave
You must know you are beloved
And before you
Leave remember I was with you
And as you leave
I won't hold you back beloved
We'll sit
And talk the stars down from the sky
And I'll not forget the chaos in your eyes love
And as you leave
You must know you are beloved
I can see the wild has come for you
I won't hold you back beloved
And as you leave
See my children playing at your feet
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Sound of Silence by Simon & Garfunkel is a great one
Sound of Silence by Simon and Garfunkel
Hello darkness, my old friend
I've come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence
In restless dreams I walked alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone
'Neath the halo of a street lamp
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
That split the night
And touched the sound of silence
And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people, maybe more
People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening
People writing songs that voices never share
And no one dared
Disturb the sound of silence
"Fools," said I, "You do not know:
Silence like a cancer grows!
Hear my words that I might teach you
Take my arms that I might reach you!"
But my words like silent raindrops fell
And echoed in the wells of silence
And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon god they made
And the sign flashed its warning
In the words that it was forming
And the sign said, "The words of the prophets
Are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls
And whispered in the sounds of silence"
(obligatory plug for the Disturbed cover because imo they both hit different vibes that subtly change the focus of the lyrics)
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I found your blog and immediately thought of Traveling Song by Ryn Weaver <3 the last verse is particularly poetic
Traveling Song by Ryn Weaver
O father time
That meter maid who lends one lively winking eye!
We dance a borrowed jig while hiding from the fine
Oh, what I wouldn't spend to lend you mine
I take it in vain
All the plans and moves that we made.
Half a heart is aching to grow
Soulmates aren't just lovers, you know? I know, I know
Your eyes are the rain, just a soul that's changing in shape
I'll be laughing all of the way
Thinking about the days
Nobody knows where they are going
Oh how we try to wrap our minds
Over the edge of all our knowings--
Be it a bang or the divine
Tip of my iceberg blues are showing
I've never been one for goodbyes
So, 'til I meet you there, I'm singing
A traveling song to ease the ride
And so you know, everywhere I roam
I'll see you on the road
So farewell to my friend
He who taught me to love like a beast
And to feast like the queen that he fed turtle soup
Little boy from Paris to the States, check the facts
That was Magical Max
He was black sheep and mischief and love for his craft
Then he told me that I was Apollo 13
On that very last day, he said
"Shoot for your dreams, little girl, to the stars"
Well, I'm taking you with me
Now this one is ours and I know what you'd say
You'd say "On with the show"
So on we go
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Free by Florence + the Machine
Sometimes I wonder if I should be medicated
If I would feel better just slightly sedated
A feeling comes so fast and I cannot control it
I'm on fire, but I'm trying not to show it
I'm always running from something
I push it back, but it keeps on coming
And being clever never got me very far
Because it's all in my head
And "You're too sensitive", they said
I said, "Okay, but let's discuss this at the hospital"
As it picks me up, puts me down
It picks me up, puts me down
Picks me up, puts me down
A hundred times a day
It picks me up, puts me down
It chews me up, spits me out
But I hear the music
I feel the beat
And for a moment
When I'm dancing, I am free
Is this how it is?
Is this how it's always been?
To exist in the face of suffering and death
And somehow still keep singing
Like Christ up on a cross
Who died for us? Who died for what?
Don't you wanna call it off?
But there's nothing else that I know how to do
But to open up my arms and give it all to you
'Cause I hear the music, I feel the beat
And for a moment, when I'm dancing
I am free
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Shrike by Hozier
I couldn't utter my love when it counted
I couldn't whisper when you needed it shouted
But I'm singing like a bird about it now
The words hung above but never would form
Like a cry at the final breath that is
Drawn
And I had no idea on what ground I was founded
Then when I met you, my virtues uncounted;
All of my goodness is going with you now
Dragging along, following your form
Hung like the pelt of some prey you had
Worn
I fled to the city with so much discounted
But I’m flying like a bird to you now
Back to the hedgerows where bodies are mounted
I was housed by your warmth
Thus transformed
By your grounded and giving
And darkening scorn
Remember me, love
When I'm reborn
As the shrike to your sharp
And glorious thorn
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Landslide by Fleetwood Mac (written by Stevie Nicks)
I took my love, I took it down
I climbed a mountain and I turned around
And I saw my reflection in the snow-covered hills
'Til the landslide brought me down
Oh, mirror in the sky,
What is love?
Can the child within my heart rise above?
Can I sail through the changing ocean tides?
Can I handle the seasons of my life?
I've been afraid of changing
Because I've built my life around you
But time makes you bolder
Even children get older
And I'm getting older too
So take my love, take it down
Climb a mountain and turn around
And if you see my reflection in the snow-covered hills
The landslide will bring you down
The landslide will bring it down
(requested by Anonymous)
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If you want requests, then might I suggest 'Ship in a Bottle' by Fin. It's pretty repetitive, but I'd love to see it as poetry if you'd like to give it a shot.
Ship in a Bottle by Fin (Steffan Argus)
You can fit everything you know
In a bottle for you to show
Pick your brain apart and put it in
And build it again with needles and pins
Everything you have earned is a ship
With blue waves crashing into it
But nothing can touch your happy thoughts anymore
With your glass ceiling, walls, and floor
Sailing on a ship in a bottle
Anchor all your thoughts to the bottom
Pulling ropes and pulling your head back
To see what is breaking the foremast
There are red spots under your eyes
From when you cry into the sky
Ocean waters rising above your neck
You feel the glass start to crack
Sailing on a ship in a bottle
Water's leaking through holes in the bottom
Flying flags of ships that have long since
Sat at the floor of the sea, but in defense
You set sail alone, there is no crew
No one on the deck who can help you:
This is all your own battle to win
This is your ship and you are the captain
O captain! let's make a deal
Where we both say the things that we both really feel
I feel scared and I'm starting to sink
And I only sink deeper the deeper I think
Oh captain! make up your mind
Before the salt burns your eyes and you run out of time
because you're popping the cork,
you get lost in your brain
And you lose touch
with all the things that made you feel sane
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May I submit Landslide by Fleetwood Mac and Shrike by Hozier? You've already posted Gordon Lightfoot's If You Could Read My Mind, so, like, it's hard to beat that one :)
You bet your button you can! Can't believe I forgot about the untapped wells of poetry that are Fleetwood Mac and my boy Hozier, so let's get started correcting that. (Queued for sep 11 and 12 respectively; i usually put the ask and lyrics in the same post but since this had two, i'm doing separate posts.)
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Just a reminder: You can and should submit songs for me to post.
Pretty please.
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Words by Gregory Alan Isakov
Words mean more at night
Like a song
And did you ever notice
The way light means more than it did all day long?
Words mean more at night
Light means more
Like your hair and your face and your smile
And our bed and the dress that you wore
So i'll send you my words
From the corners of my room
And though I write them by the light of day
Please read them by the light of the moon
And I wish I could leave my bones and my skin
And float over the tired tired sea
So that I could see you again
Maybe you would leave too
And we'd blindly pass each other
Floating over the ocean blue
Just to find the warm bed of our lover
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I Of The Storm by Of Monsters and Men
If I could face them
If I could make amends with all my shadows
I'd bow my head and welcome them
But I feel it burning
Like when the winter wind stops my breathing
Are you really gonna love me when I'm gone?
I fear you won't
I fear you don't
I am a stranger
I am an alien inside a structure
Are you really gonna love me when I'm gone?
With all my thoughts
And all my faults
I feel it biting
I feel it break my skin, so uninviting
Are you really gonna need me when I'm gone?
I fear you won't
I fear you don't
And it echoes when I breathe
Until all you'll see is my ghost
Empty vessel, crooked teeth
Wish you could see
And I'm shaking like a leaf
And I wither underneath in this storm
I feel it
And they call me underneath to this storm
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Stick Season by Noah Kahan
As you promised me that I was more than all the miles combined
You must have had yourself a change of heart
Halfway through the drive
'Cause your voice trailed off exactly as you passed my exit sign
Kept on driving straight and left our future to the right
Now I am stuck between my anger
And the blame that I can't face
And memories are something
Even smoking weed does not replace
And I am terrified of weather 'cause I see you when it rains
Doc told me to travel, but there's COVID on the planes
So I thought that if I piled something good on all my bad
That I could cancel out the darkness I inherited from dad
No, I am no longer funny 'cause I miss the way you laugh
You once called me forever now you still can't call me back
And I love Vermont, but it's the season of the sticks and I
Saw your mom she forgot that I existed and
It's half my fault, but I just like to play the victim
I'll drink alcohol 'til my friends come home for Christmas
And I'll dream each night of some version of you
That I might not have, but I did not lose
Now you're tire tracks and one pair of shoes
And I'm split in half, but that'll have to do
I hope this pain's just passing through
But I doubt it
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