Filed under: rambling, random, reflective, songs, videos | Tags: awesome, music, video
corinne bailey rae has such a nice voice! i love it. her music makes me feel as if i’m lying on a golden carpet of fallen leaves on the bank of a river twinkling in the soft autumn sun. aaaah if only singapore had autumn-ish weather… or maybe even rained more often at night, then the weather will be so nice. it’ll be perfect; romantic city that only rains at night haha. but the actual scorching heat kills any cell of romance imo.
anw i found this the other day while watching stop-motion animation videos. i love these kinds of videos because they’re just so whimsical and otherworldly (in a sense they remind me of some other parallel universe) not to mention the pain-staking effort behind it all; it makes it all so ironic since they seem effortless in the first place
it helps that the song is really great too!
i was gonna talk about about generation kill (it’s a hbo mini-series about us recon marines in iraq) but it somehow doesn’t seem to fit into the tone of this post, lol.
I need a hand with my worrisome heart
I need a hand with my worrisome heart
I would be lucky to find me a man
Who could love me the way that I am
With this here worrisome heart
I need a break from my troubling ways
I need a break from my troubling ways
I would be lucky to find me a man
Who could love me the way that I am
With all my troubling ways
I need a man who got no baggage to claim
I need a man who got no baggage to claim
I would be lucky to find me a man
Who could love me the way that I am
A worrisome troubling baggage free modern day dame,
a worrisome troubling baggage free modern day dame
Ain’t no body the same
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god this song really describes the way i feel currently.
and as to my “baggage”, well, i got a lot on my mind right now.
Instructions: Go to your music player of choice and put it on shuffle. Say the following questions aloud, and press play. Use the song title as the answer to the question. NO CHEATING.
How does the world see you?
Death and All His Friends – Coldplay
(WOAH. i swear i don’t make people die.)
Will I have a happy life?
Feeling Good – Muse
(yeah baby. haha)
What do my friends really think of me?
Oh Yeah – Daft Punk
(totally. haha)
What do people secretly think of me?
Good Love is on the Way – John Mayer
(meaning…?)
How can I be happy?
Home – Michael Buble
(that’s pretty true; home is where i feel i’m the most comfortable)
What should I do with my life?
Ruled by Secrecy – Muse
(haha i am gonna be a spy next time)
Will I ever have children?
Make Love – Daft Punk
(HAHAHAHA. hey. this song fortune telling this IS pretty accurate)
What is some good advice for me?
In Heaven – Fatboy Slim
(oh ew. actually the song title is censored, cos they cut off the first word, which is like the verb form of the f-word)
How will I be remembered?
Teenage Love Affair – Alicia Keys
(!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NO. please. haha)
What is my signature dancing song?
Fly Me to the Moon – Diana Krall
What does everyone else think my current theme song is?
Out of Control – The Chemical Brothers
(i still have some self-control, thank you very much)
What song will play at my funeral?
The Rockafella Skank – Fatboy Slim
(which is like a song that will make people wanna stand up and dance and forget that i’m dead in a coffin)
What type of men/women do you like?
7 Days – Craig David
(NOT TRUE!!! for those who don’t know this is a song about a fling. they sleep with each other after knowing each other for 3 days)
What does next year have in store for you?
I’m Your Man – Michael Buble
(yes please)
What does your love life look like next year?
Life Without You – Stevie Ray Vaughan
(no comment!)
What do you say when life gets hard?
Forever – Mariah Carey
(which sucks. my bad luck will go on forever)
What do you think when you get up in the morning?
Something – The Beatles
(i have a very simple mind)
Song that reminds you of your first kiss?
Knights of Cydonia – Muse
(WTF haha)
Your favourite saying?
I Can’t Let You Go – Matchbox 20
(um… wow)
Most Missed Memory?
Tomorrow Night – BB King
(lol. that’s like, something that hasn’t even happened yet)
What song describes your best friend?
Kill Joy – N.E.R.D.
(HAHAHAHAHA OMG PAM this is too not entirely true)
What song describes your ex?
Hysteria – Muse
(LOL)
What song describes yourself?
Micro cuts – Muse
(lol. i’m not that emo!)
Where will you be in 10 years?
Spanish Lesson – Madonna
(muchos lovely. i like spain)
Your love life right now?
Stop this Train – John Mayer
(“Can’t take the speed it’s moving in/I know I can’t/But honestly won’t someone stop this train”)
What is your state of mind like at the moment?
The Love Has Gone – Rick Astley
(first of all, wow. second of all, this fortune telling thing is starting to get freaky. third of all, why do i have rick astley in my library?!)
The song you’ll put as the subject?
Rehab – Amy Winehouse
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okay phew. that was pretty long. actually they were 2 memes that i combined and editted. the non-relevant questions/answers were deleted (serves me right for having too much Daft Punk). it’s pretty true actually. i felt myself getting goosebumps on some of them.
this is such a pretty song. usually when friends post lyrics of songs i don’t know, i’ll skip them over totally. but the lyrics contain so much beautiful imagery that i’ve been putting it on repeat for ages.
the difference
Slow dancing on the boulevard
In the quiet moments while the city’s still dark
Sleepwalking through the summer rain and the tired spaces
You could hear her name when she was warm and tender
And you held her arms around you
There was nothing but her love and affection
She was crazy for you
Now shes part of something that you lost
[chorus]
And for all you know
This could be
The difference between what you need
And what you wanna be
Yeah, what you wanna be
Night swimming in her diamond dress
Making small circles move across the surface
Stand watching from the steady shore
Feeling wide open and waiting for
Something warm and tender
Now shes moving further from you
There was nothing that could make it easy on you
Every step you take reminds you that she’s walking wrong
[chorus]
Yeah, for all you know
This could be
The difference between what you need
And what you want
Every word you never said
Echoes down your empty hallway
And everything that was your world
Just came down
Day breaking on the boulevard
Feel the sun warming up your second hand heart
Light swimming right across your face
And you think maybe someday, yeah
Maybe someday
[chorus]
For all you know
Yeah, this could be
The difference between what you need
And what you want
Yeah, for all you know
For all you know
Yeah, for all that you know
This is what you wanna be
Girl, what you wanna be
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it’s been one of those days when the sky’s so dreary and your mood’s so neutral you feel like a robotic incarnation of an icecube. somedays you wake up to feeling beautiful, as if you’ve been sleeping on a bed of roses and your mind still fresh from that wonderful dream you had of sunsets and bygone kingdoms. and there are the days you wake up with sleep-kissed eyes to find that your limbs are aching and mouth dry, and as if you’ve forgotten something extremely important but you can’t remember what.
i didn’t go to school today. recently the spate of events have been nothing short of unsettling, and coupled with other things, i wouldn’t be surprised if it were true anyway. slacking at home and trying to do productive work… doesn’t work haha.
