I have found few people in life who have the same obsession and appreciation for song lyrics like I do. I don't even keep in touch with or know the whereabouts of the three people whom I have shared this delight with. Each of those relationships was like a little book club. We would bring up songs, talk about their lyrics, how we interpreted the lyrics, what the actually history of the lyrics and the writer was, etc etc. I have decided that I am going to create another label, (Lyrics), and start sharing amazing song lyrics that I think others should also appreciate. My favorite line will be bold.
Since I listen to this song on Wednesdays, today's song is "Barely Out Of Tuesday" (by, my favorite, Counting Crows)
Woke up Tuesday morning staring at the ceiling
hoping for deliverance from the distances in you.
This room feels like an oven somewhere
south of nowhere north of nothing
Barely out of Tuesday seen seven hours of Wednesday
And I guess got regrets maybe you could leave a light on leave a light on for me
Can you see her waiting there down by the sea with a hat on,
with her eyes in there looking for me.
If you see me coming home turn me away everybody tries to go back somewhere someday
Won't you give me the distance 52 weeks later, your still the same
I'm standing in my basement making my arrangements
waiting for the telephone to ring to ring to ring
So I left for Minnesota where the weather is getting colder people are changing
Maybe you could leave a light on leave a light on for me
Can you see her waiting there down by the sea
& how arrangements made there for welcoming me?
If you see me coming home turn me away
everybody tries to go back somewhere someday
And for all this distance ain't going to bring you to me
What's the point of all this patience
it's not your nature you just keep what you need
and you got some pictures of me
Woke up Wednesday morning
sometime Wednesday evening hoping for a piece of something easy to believe
We live out on the border of everything and nothing
there's nothing but waking and dreaming
Barely out of Tuesday there's no one to receive me nothing is changing
Maybe you could leave a light on leave a light on for me
Can you see her waiting there down by the sea
There's a light on but there's no body waiting for me.
If you see me coming home turn me away
Everybody tries to go back somewhere someday
Everybody tries to go back somewhere someday
Everybody tries to go back somewhere someday
Everybody tries to go back somewhere.........
1 comment:
Oh, how timely! I was just going to tell you that the other day I remembered how you and I used to write notes to each other in class where each line had to be a lyric from a song. Do you remember that?
Also - remember the time in Bible class when we each wrote a note to ourselves just to see if we'd get caught and Downing would read it in front of the class? I did get caught, and had to leave. You were a bad influence! :)
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