Everyone loves to listen to some kind of music. Even if it’s some drunk cockroaches drumming out the beat to Beverly Hills 90210 with that pretzel stick they just stole out of your plate. Music is music. By definition, it’s organized noise, and I have to tell you, there is some truly Goddamn awful noise that some people call music. But, that’s why we’re all different, gentle snowflakes. Music evokes different emotions in different people. Some music, like Juno Reactor, just makes me want to kick people’s asses. Some music, like virtually any kind of techno, will make me want to speed down the highway. And some music will make me bawl like a bitch. Usually, it’s a combination of the sad lyrics (if there are any) and the fact that many times just beautiful music will get the water works leaking from me. Take my word on it, I might act like a tough guy, but deep down inside I’m really just an asshole a soft, cuddly teddy bear. Who gets weepy and teary at what might possibly be bad music, but I digress.
So, if you ever have the misfortune of being in my company and you want me to run from the run, crying, in glass case of emotion, you might want to have me listen to…
5: Dido – My Lover’s Gone
source: http://www.didomusic.com/us/home/
This song is one of my favorites, and was that way, from the moment that I heard of it. The song is from the album No Angel by Dido, although it was out for quite a while before I ever listened to it. I’m sure that I’m not the only one who found it the way that I did. I was listening to another song called Stan, by Eminem, and the song features part of another song on No Angel, called Thank You. Naturally, I was curious about who this beautiful lady was that was singing in the beginning of one of Stan, and I was thrilled to find out that it wasn’t just something made for Stan, but in fact, another entire song. I listened to Thank You, loved it, and listened to the rest of the album. When I got to My Lover’s Gone, I just stopped dead. First, let me just start with Florian’s beautiful voice. Her voice is lovely, warm and melodic, and it just brings out the lyrics of the song even more. The song starts off quietly and slowly builds up – the beginning notes make you think of someone lonely, sitting out on the beach.
My lover’s gone.
His boots no longer by my door.
He left at dawn.
And as I slept, I felt him go.
Returns no more.
I will not watch the ocean.
My lover’s gone.
No earthly ships will ever
bring
him home
again
Bring him home again.
Then, the music picks up slightly. There is percussion added, but nothing too fast or intense, as to not take away from Florian’s voice, but rather to add power to it.
My lover’s gone
I know that kiss will be my last.
No more his song
The tune upon his lips has passed
I sing alone
While I watch the ocean
My lover’s gone
No earthly ships will ever
bring
him home
again
Bring him home again
The percussion picks up again, and the lyrics are repeated, but that song doesn’t need anything more than that. The music goes along so well with the lyrics that I have no trouble envisioning a lonely person – not even specifically a woman – waiting for their lover to return, but knowing that they never will. Perhaps something terrible had happened to them or perhaps they weren’t a lover at all, just someone who was there to fill the loneliness and is now gone, leaving the void again. Either way, this makes me want to bawl every time I hear it. It doesn’t help that the music is lovely, and that by itself will move me. See? I told you that I’m big sissy, nancy-boy, and as you read down this list, you’ll begin to see it more and more.
4: Kidneythieves – Serene Dream
source: http://kidneythieves.com/home/
I found out about the Kidneythieves purely by accident. One of my friends had their album Zerospace in my car, and they left it there. On the way to return it to them, I listened to it. It’s decent industrial rock music with some nice and strong female vocals. I liked it and was going to ask if I could actually borrow the CD to listen to it (and decide if I want to spend the money to buy it) when a song that was different from the others came on. Most of the music was along the side of rock, but this one started out with very soft acoustic guitars, (probably synth) piano, and violin. I immediately loved the tone of the song. It made me think of winter, of the snow covering the trees, and of being young and not worried about all of the stupid shit that I worry about now. It basically made me feel like I was a kid again, and made me miss it, even though a lot of my childhood isn’t something I’d want to repeat. That song made me remember the parts, as far and few between as they were, and want to relive them.
Serene dream
soft, easy winter
watering the dry spots on the day
serene dream
spend no-where with me
isn’t far to no-where
rise and feel the bomb of fountains land
close your eyes
in front of no-where
language of
no words
spend no-where with me
serene dream
free of thirst and pain
heavy turns to cake
where the ethers speak
(spend no-where with me)
tall day
it’s a
tall, tall day
it’s a
tall, tall, tall day
spend no-where
spend no-where
spend no-where
spend no-where
spend no-where
spend no-where
spend no-where with me
Needless to say, I went out and bought Zerospace. I love almost all of the songs on it, but Serene Dream will always hold a special place in my heart. And in my tissue box.
3: The Birthday Massacre – Weekend
source: http://www.thebirthdaymassacre.com/
I’ve been a big fan of The Birthday Massacre ever since I heard them via Pandora Radio. I loved the synth-rock style of music and I’ve always been partial to female vocalists. The first album that I listened to was their first album, titled Nothing and Nowhere. I fell in love with Happy Birthday and Promise Me, so naturally, I was excited when the band produced more albums. I even liked the remakes of some of the songs from the first album, found in the Violet album. When Walking With Strangers came out, I was listening to it, and a particular song struck my heartstrings. I mean, personally, I love the entire album, but Weekend makes me think of some really powerful memories. At the time when the album came out in 2007, I was going through a tough time in my life. A lot of things were changing. A while back, a childhood friend of mine had committed suicide, and I always kept in contact with his family. At this time, his widow was having issues with keeping their house and I was seeing how I could help. Consequently, this did remind me of his death a whole lot, and when I heard this song, it made me think about him… but not about his death. It made me think about being in school with him. I was always a bit of a weirdo and picked on quite often by other kids. After he made fun of me a lot, after we fought a lot… we ended up becoming friends. One of the things he always told me was that we’d get out – get out of our crappy life situations, get out of our country, and go together to the Land of the Free and become something.
Lights out
boys sleep-walking on the weekend
black out
two night’s killing of a best friend
fall out
like soldiers walking off to the deep end
hands out
don’t stop marching ’till the hearts rend
the time goes by
and sets the stage
they play their parts
and act their age
they never forget
the lines that they say
speaking slowly
I promise you one day
I promise you always
We’ll make out one day
I promise you always
Night’s out
Girls keep walking on the east end
White out
Two lights shining on a dead end
Drawn out
Like circles trailing off the pavement
Stand out
Don’t stop marching ’till the hearts mend
As time goes by
We set the stage
We play our parts
And act our age
We’ll never forget the words they’d say
Talking slowly
I promise you one day
I promise you always
we’ll make it out one day
I promise you always
I promise you one day
I promise you always
We’ll make it out one day
I promise you always
2: Death Cab for Cutie – Soul Meets Body
source: http://oldsite.deathcabforcutie.com/press_releases/
One of my friends is a big Death Cab for Cutie fan. He was always trying to get me to listen to them, and the few songs that he selected for me just didn’t interest me at all. I tried listening to other songs, thinking that I really just don’t like these guys, come on, Mark, just leave me alone, but then I listened to Plans, and I heard Soul Meets Body. I liked the melody, but most of all, I appreciated the lyrics. It made me think of my then-girlfriend, and how fluttery she made my heart feel. It does make me cry sometimes, since I’m touched in the head easily moved, but it’s a good kind of crying. It just makes me remember how nice it felt to be wanted and to actually want someone else. The song makes me think of comparing the person you love to a song, to music, and that basically takes the cake for me. I adore music and I happen to love my fiance. My fiance being the music of my life is a theme I’m willing to go with, and this song always makes me think of that.
I want to live where soul meets body
And let the sun wrap its arms around me
And bathe my skin in water cool and cleansing
And feel
Feel what its like to be new
Cause in my head there’s a greyhound station
Where I send my thoughts to far off destinations
So they may have a chance of finding a place
Where they’re far more suited than here
And I cannot guess what we’ll discover
When we turn the dirt with our palms cupped like shovels
But I know our filthy hands can wash one-another’s
And not one speck will remain
And I do believe it’s true
That there are roads left in both of our shoes
But if the silence takes you
Then I hope it takes me too
So brown eyes I hold you near
Cause you’re the only song I want to hear
A melody softly soaring through my atmosphere
Where soul meets body
Where soul meets body
Where soul meets body
And I do believe it’s true
That there are roads left in both of our shoes
But if the silence takes you
Then I hope it takes me too
So brown eyes I hold you near
Cause you’re the only song I want to hear
A melody softly soaring through my atmosphere
A melody softly soaring through my atmosphere
A melody softly soaring through my atmosphere
A melody softly soaring through my atmosphere
Did I mention that I’m a sissy, yet?
1: Chairlift – Cool As A Fire
source:http://www.myspace.com/chairlift
I found Chairlift through a forum. At the time, I was just looking for something new to listen to, and their name sounded obnoxious enough, so I thought I’d give them a try. I never thought that I’d find a combination of one of my favorite songs and the one song that really just makes me bawl. The music is nice and subdued – definitely compared to the rest of the album – and the lyrics are very simple yet straight to the point. The vocals are ambiguous, as in the fact that I’m still not sure if that’s a girl or a guy singing, and I kind of like that. Sometimes, I listen and I’m sure it’s got to be female vocals, but then I think, wait, that might just be someone with a dick. I’m never sure. The vocalist from Circa Survive made me question that kind of stuff in the first place, anyway. The song makes me think of every single one of those I’ll never let you go, Jack moments that happen in real-life and they’re not cheesy, and most of the time, you don’t let go of Jack. Except, then, Jack fucking dies anyway, and fuck your life. That kind of sadness that actually makes you feel it in your bones and your whole body starts to hurt.
Wasted the morning again
The world at the window is dead
The look in your eye says you don’t love me anymore
Cool as a fire
I’m alive
I’m alive
I know
But now that I found you
I don’t have a choice
With or without you
I don’t have a choice
When nobody’s watching
I’m coiled in question
Hiding the signs
Because weakness wins if weakness shows
Cool as a fire
I’m alive
I’m alive
I know
But now that I found you
I don’t have a choice
With or without you
I don’t have a choice
Now that I found you
I don’t have a choice
With or without you
I don’t have a choice
Gone with the weather
Nothing ever lasts forever
Gone with the weather
Nothing ever lasts forever
Gone with the weather
Nothing ever lasts forever
Gone with the weather
Nothing ever lasts forever
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