iTunes Shuffle 10/11/13

1. Björk - "Hollow"
2. Cass McCombs - "The Lonely Doll"
3. Kate Bush - "A Coral Room"
4. Echo & The Bunnymen - "Lips Like Sugar"
5. Cocteau Twins - "Beatrix"
6. Lucy Wainwright Roche - "Poison"
7. Marissa Nadler - "Thinking Of You"
8. Titus Andronicus - "Anxiety Block" (Television Personalities cover)
9. Emily Elbert - "Didn't It Rain" (trad. gospel song, made popular by Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Mahalia Jackson)
10. Harmonia & Eno '76 - "Sometimes In Autumn" (Shackleton Remix)

As usual, I found treasures in my iTunes I didn't even know existed. For straight up beauty, the Lucy Wainwright Roche, the Kate Bush and the Marissa Nadler are divine. I used to hate that Björk song, but it grew on me this week. The Cass McCombs ballad is simple and lovely. Emily Elbert's take on "Didn't It Rain" is a nice surprise. And all the rest is cool too.

Hollow, my ancestors have access
Hollow, I'm falling down the abyss
Hollow, looking for some answers
Generations of mothers sailing in
...
I yearn to belong, let me belong, let me belong.

Though I was too drunk to make sense
I felt her Essence
The lonely doll
and turned to leave this pretense
for night, black and immense
The lonely doll

There's a city, draped in net
Fisherman net
And in the half light, in the half light
It looks like every tower
Is covered in webs
Moving and glistening and rocking
Its babies in rhythm
As the spider of time is climbing
Over the ruins

Just when you think she's yours
She's flown to other shores
To laugh at how you break
And melt into this lake

You'll flow down her river
But you'll never give her
Lips like sugar
Sugar kisses...

When he cared, when he did love
When he knew, when he'd fall
I hear she'd fall

I drank the poison
Straight from the warmth of the palm of your hand
And like ice in the morning
There's nothing much left here to hold or to have
In the end

Thinking of you
All through the morning
I'm thinking of you
All through the evening
I'm thinking of you
And the way that your holy water grew

A song about washing away your sorrows with pills.

Didn't it rain, children
Didn't it, didn't it rain?

And a nice peaceful instrumental from Brian Eno and friends, circa 1976.