#The Strumbellas

[bookishjules]

worth living

maya c. popa, duress // noah kahan, growing sideways // unknown // unknown // gabriel mistral, selected prose and prose-poems // megan chance, the spiritualist // faridah àbíké-íyímídé, where sleeping girls lie // james baldwin, giovanni's room // @bookishjules, from @ann-perkins4 // emily lloyd jones, the hearts we sold // the strumbellas, shovels & dirt // albert camus // antoine de saint-exupéry // the strumbellas, shovels & dirt // jeff buckley

[grimm-the-tiger]

I've been lookin' at the stars tonight And I think, oh, how I miss that bright sun I'll be a dreamer 'til the day I die And they say, oh, how the good die young? -"Spirits", the Strumbellas

Me yesterday: Oh, I like the idea of making drawings of song lyrics I associate with characters, I think I'll do it more.

Me today: Speedrunning this in *checks Procreate stats* a little over three hours? Damn, I thought it was longer.

The top text might be a little hard to read because I couldn't find any colors that would fit with the drawing and were strong enough to read, so it just says "And I don't want a neverending life." In the original song, it's the line directly preceding the line written at the bottom.

Anyway, speedpaint below the cut.

If anyone knows who made the reference picture in the lower lefthand corner at about 0:15, please let me know so I can credit them.

EDIT: The person who made the reference is anorwegan on DeviantArt. The original can be found here. Thank you to @svenskaghost for finding it!

[auszeitstille]

And I don′t want a never-ending life. ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎I just want to be alive. While I'm here.

[random5daily]

rules: put your music library on shuffle, then list the first five songs that come up in a poll to let people vote for which one they like the most! 🎶

Please reblog! As always, I tag YOU 💙

[walkawaytall]

Absolutely wild that I found The Strumbellas through a TikTok trend considering how very my jam their music is???

[secondhandconverse]

mother, mother,

i can feel your heart break

burning through me

every single day

[tisthekatseason]

i want to be a kinder person, i want to find the bright side of life

[deepfluffycloudmentality]

listening to my playlist from my teenage years and the nostalgia!!

[eventsnearme]

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[bookishjules]

every time i go to the strumbellas' instagram page, i am reminded that the only other person i follow who follows them is noah kahan. i see his little icon and username and give him a mental fist bump bc in that moment i feel we are buds. like he gets it.

[goldendivinewrath]

Been stuck in my head for three days and I just discovered that I hadn't shared this yet, so. This absolutely will not make up for the last post.

Lyrics below, etc.

Sometimes it's all that I can do to get up out of bed Talking to the angels, fighting demons in my head Oh, oh

Coffee and a cigarette, and I don't even smoke Sometimes you gotta laugh when you're the butt of every joke Oh

Drowning, digging deeper, following the leader Everyday dreamer, part-time believer The river's getting low now, heavy is the load now But I ain't gonna go down

I, I, I, I'm still breathing My heart's still beating Running from the devil down a dead-end road But ain't nobody gonna steal my soul Steal my soul, steal my soul Ain't nobody gonna steal my soul Oh, oh, oh, oh Oh, oh, oh, oh

Spend my life chasing that very first high Smile on my face but there's thunder in my mind Oh, oh

It's hard to find my footing when I'm hanging by a thread Been knocked down, but I keep coming back again Oh, oh

Drowning, digging deeper, following the leader Everyday dreamer, part-time believer The river's getting low now, heavy is the load now But I ain't gonna come down

I, I, I, I'm still breathing My heart's still beating Running from the devil down a dead-end road But ain't nobody gonna steal my soul Steal my soul, steal my soul Ain't nobody gonna steal my soul Oh, oh, oh, oh Oh, oh, oh, oh

You know you got the fight of your life ahead You can't worry 'bout what the whole world says Lightning crashes I'm rising up from the ashes I'm rising up from the ashes

I, I, I, I'm still breathing My heart's still beating Running from the devil down a dead-end road But ain't nobody gonna steal my soul Steal my soul, steal my soul Ain't nobody gonna steal my soul Oh, oh, oh, oh (Ain't nobody) Oh, oh, oh, oh (Steal my soul) Sometimes it's all that I can do to get up out of bed Talking to the angels, fighting demons in my head Oh

[random5daily]

rules: put your music library on shuffle, then list the first five songs that come up in a poll to let people vote for which one they like the most! 🎶

Please reblog! As always, I tag YOU 💙

[poprocklyrics]

Crash and tumble on through my mind An eerie feeling running down my spine

Wild Sun, The Strumbrellas