iTunes Shuffle 7/26/13

1. Big Star - "Kanga Roo"
2. Talib Kweli & Z-Trip feat. Greg Nice, Styles P - "NY Shining"
3. Green Day - "Coming Clean"
4. Dawes - "When My Time Comes"
5. The Swell Season - "Fallen From The Sky"
6. Hammock - "Together Alone"
7. Tiësto feat. Tegan & Sara - "Feel It In My Bones"
8. De La Soul - "Me Myself And I"
9. Tori Amos - "Horses" (live 6/5/05 Manchester, UK)
10. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - "Into My Arms"

The Swell Season is Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová, and "Fallen From The Sky" was originally recorded by Glen for the Once Soundtrack. Moving forward:

I first saw you
You had on blue jeans
Your eyes couldn't hide anything
I saw you breathing
I saw you staring out in space

Soon you will see me shining...

Seventeen and coming clean for the first time
I finally figured out myself for the first time
I found out what it takes to be a man
Now mom and dad will never understand
What's happening to me

Had no idea that's what Green Day was up to when I was 14. I should have been playing closer attention.

So I took what I wanted and put it out of my reach
I wanted to pay for my successes with all of my defeats,
And if heaven was all that was promised to me
Why don't I pray for death?
And now it seems like the unraveling has started too soon
I am sleeping in hallways, tweaking perfume
And I'm speaking to mirrors and I'm howling at moons
While the worse and the worse that it gets.

Oh you can judge all the world on the sparkle that you think it lacks.
Yes, you can stare into the abyss, but it's staring right back.

You must've fallen from the sky
You must've shattered on the runway
You brought so many to the light
And now you're by yourself...

Beautiful instrumental music from this group out of Nashville. If you like Explosions In The Sky, you'll like this.

I feel you in my bones
You're knockin' at my windows
You're slow to letting me go
And I know this feeling also
This feeling in my bones

It's just me myself and I...

I got me some horses
to ride on
to ride on
they say that your demons
can't go there
so I got me some horses
to ride on
to ride on
as long as your army
keeps perfectly still
...
you showed me the meadow
and Milkwood
and silkwood
and you would if I would
but you never would
so I chased down your posies
your pansies in my hosies
then opened my hands
and they were empty then
...
and if there is a way to find you
I will find you
but will you find me if Neil
makes me a tree
an afro a pharaoh
I can't go
you said so
and threads that are golden don't break easily

One of the most subtly meaningful songs Tori has ever written, in my opinion.

I don't believe in the existence of angels
Looking at you I wonder if that's true
But if I did I would summon them together
Ask them to watch over you
Oh, to each burn a candle for you
To make bright and clear your path
And to walk, like Christ, in grace and love
And guide you into my arms...