'but you can sky rocket away from me
and never come back if you find another galaxy,
far from here, with more room to fly,
just leave me your star dust to remember you by.'
-Gregory and the Hawk

'oh Im just a fall leaf,
something simple and shy like that,
thats how my heart lies down beside the sidewalk.'
-CocoRosie

'but its late in the day
and your well on your way
what was golden went gray
and Im suddenly shy.'
-Joanna Newsom

'tangerines are hanging heavy, glowing marigold in hue,
teasing a half-pale moon,
and I feel a pull to the blue velvet dark and stars.'
- The Weepies

'I sang instead when other girls only cried.
I called it grace,
I am a mindless child.'
-Mates of State

'half in love with this
half in love with that
nothing but a change of heart
to set you back'
-New Buffalo

'sameness is the same

fighting is the game
nameless is the lady who has gone insane.'
-New Buffalo

unrelated comforts

'rivers sweep away my memories of children's things,
a young mother's love.'
-cocorosie

on over analyzing every word you spoke, face you made.

'its a silly time to learn to swim when you start to drown,
its a silly time to learn on the way down.'
-Tegan and Sara

pwitty pwitty

I just REALLY love this commercial. not the shoes or cars or screaming women, or the stereotypical male response, just the song.
If I could choose a new voice it would sound an awful lot like hers.

'Ive been slipping through the years,

my old clothes don't fit like they once did
so they hang like ghosts
of people Ive been'
-Death Cab

what is this surreal reality?

'my brains repeating
"if you've got an impulse let it out,"
but they never make it past my mouth.'
- Death Cab

'I know there's an answer to your question,
but I don't know if I could word it right.'
-Beth Orton

she died today. yesterday she was warm beneath my fingers.

'rainbows wept color all over the streets
when you went away
maybe one day we'll meet'
-CocoRosie

sweet company

an eight year old who really wanted to blog, and a furry senior citizen.
could anything be sweeter?
nope.