1. Astronautalis - "Lift The Curse"
2. Blessed Feathers - "Stinging Nettle, Honeysuckle"
3. Strange Mangers - "Handmaids"
4. Big Head Todd & The Monsters - "Cashbox"
5. Cowboy Junkies - "Walkin' After Midnight" (Patsy Cline cover)
6. Beck - "Profanity Prayers" (acoustic)
7. Robert Plant & Alexis Korner - "Operator"
8. Cults - "Abducted"
9. Bob Cheevers - "All I Want From Memphis"
10. Fanfarlo - "Finish Line"
Every time I do this shuffle, I find at least one song I've never heard that I find absolutely breathtaking. This time it's the very first song, from Astronautalis. Close runners up are the song from Blessed Feathers, Fanfarlo, and the Cowboy Junkies' Patsy Cline cover.
Everyone who's drinking is already drunk or sleeping
Everyone who isn't is just too political to talk to
Another summer evening and the city's barely breathing
Just ain't the same
Just ain't the same without you
There ain't no magic in materials, magic's in our words
That we whisper in each others' ears to make diamonds out of dirt
There ain't no glory in the silken things, glory's in the hurt
And can split your skin from end to end down the center of the earth
There's poison words just gurgling
At the base of your throat
You swallow them back down
You and yours they bring me down
With nails their grudging hammer falls
Not meant for wedding gowns
And though we won't be there's memories I'll still keep
You're holding hands with some new girl
You braid her hair into curls
Because I set you free
I hope you plan to speak to her
In the sweetest honeysuckle words
Stinging nettle though I'll be
I'm sorry dear with all my heart
With tears I broke your fragile heart
I opened up your cage
I hope you're well and doing fine
And found a love as pure as mine
We're on a brand new page
It doesn't make sense to me
I'm not listening
Whatever
You seem to be all right...
You got love in the cashbox, baby
Now give it to me
You got diamonds on the dresser,
Bring 'em on here you see
Didn't your momma tell ya, it's better to give than receive...
I stop to see a weeping willow
Crying on his pillow
Maybe he's crying for me
And as the skies turn gloomy
Night winds whisper to me
I'm lonesome as I can be
I go out walking after midnight
Out in the starlight
Just hoping you may be
Somewhere a-walking after midnight
Searching for me
Well you know how it looks
When you pull all your books from the table
And you stare into space
Trying to discern what to say now
And you wait at the light
And watch for a sign that you're breathing
'Cause you can't just live on air
And float to the ceiling
So many sad, sad, sad years, baby, but I've had a lot of fun
So many sad, sad, sad years, I've had my fun
But the day I met you, darling
All my troubles have begun...
I knew right then that I'd been abducted
I knew right then that he would be taking my heart
I knew right then no one was above him
I knew right then that he would be breaking my heart
He tore me apart because I really loved him
He took my heart away and left me to bleed out, bleed out
He broke my heart because I really loved him
He took it all away and left me to bleed out, bleed out
Just a cute little love song about loving someone in Memphis.
Last year was a good year, I beat myself to a bloody mess
But blue is the colour of the days I'm hoping for
What have you done to the mind you had
Out there somewhere is the finish line
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