Until We Bleed by Kleerup ft. Lykke Li

I heard this song today.  I love this song.  It's so cool.  Lykke Li can make anything sound so sexy.  The lyrics don't hurt either.  I want to put it in a movie so badly.  Some dark underground party scene with distant colorful lights or something.  I don't know why that's what I think of.  You might picture something completely different.  Anyways, it's a sweet song.

Buy it on iTunes.

Until We Bleed (Feat. Lykke Li...

Lyrics
I'm naked
I'm numb
I'm stupid
I'm staying
And if Cupid's got a gun, then he's shootin'

Lights black; heads bang
You're my drug
We live it
You're drunk, you need it
Real love, I'll give it
So we're bound to linger on
We drink the fatal drop
Then love until we bleed
Then fall apart in parts

You wasted your times
On my heart
You've burned
And if bridges gotta fall, then you'll fall, too

Doors slam
Lights black
You're gone
Come back
Stay gone
Stay clean
I need you to need me
So we're bound to linger on
We drink the fatal drop
Then love until we bleed
Then fall apart in parts

Now we're bound to linger on
We drink the fatal drop
Then love until we bleed
Then fall apart in parts 

Swans and the Swimming by Iron & Wine

Iron and Wine released an album earlier this year called "Around the Well."  The album contains all those random songs an artist doesn't know what to do with... B-sides, live recordings, and little gems that don't quite fit into a normal release.  I always love those albums.  Swans and the Swimming is a beautiful song hearkening back to young love and summer romance.  Love it.

and short story:  A friend of mine thought the plural of Swan was Swine, making the Swine flu the Swan flu.  Whenever I see anything related to Swans, I giggle just a bit.  Make sure you get your Swan flu vaccine!

Swans and the Swimming - Iron ...

Lyrics

"take me again," she said, thinking of him

"to the pond with the swans and the swimming"

far from his room the familiar perfume

how it felt to her when she was naked

lessons she learned when her memory slurs

as they marvel with love at the sunset

walking away at the dark end of day

she will measure and break like a habit

oh how the rain sounds as light as a lover's word

and now and again she's afraid when the sun returns

"take me again," she said, thinking of him

"i don't care for this careful behavior"

a brush through her hair, children kissing upstairs

keeps her up with her want for her savior

the sun on the sand, on her knees and her hands

as she begs for her fish from the water

but turn them away, she's a whip and a slave

given time she may find something better

oh how the rain sounds as loud as a lover's words

and now and again she's afraid when the sun returns

Tomorrow Is A Long Time by Bob Dylan ... and Elvis and Nickel Creek and Nick Drake

This is a beautiful song and everyone needs to know it.  Bob Dylan's lyrics are always subtly poetic and deeply touching.  The song has been covered by many artists so check out my favorites.  Enjoy.

Tomorrow Is A Long Time - Bob ...

Tomorrow Is A Long Time - Elvi...

Tomorrow Is A Long Time - Nick...

Tomorrow Is A Long Time - Nick...

Lyrics

If today was not an endless highway,
If tonight was not a crooked trail,
If tomorrow wasn't such a long time,
Then lonesome would mean nothing to you at all.
Yes, and only if my own true love was waitin',
Yes, and if I could hear her heart a-softly poundin',
Only if she was lyin' by me,
Then I'd lie in my bed once again.

I can't see my reflection in the waters,
I can't speak the sounds that show no pain,
I can't hear the echo of my footsteps,
Or can't remember the sound of my own name.
Yes, and only if my own true love was waitin',
Yes, and if I could hear her heart a-softly poundin',
Only if she was lyin' by me,
Then I'd lie in my bed once again.

There's beauty in the silver, singin' river,
There's beauty in the sunrise in the sky,
But none of these and nothing else can touch the beauty
That I remember in my true love's eyes.
Yes, and only if my own true love was waitin',
Yes, and if I could hear her heart a-softly poundin',
Only if she was lyin' by me,
Then I'd lie in my bed once again.

Assassin by John Mayer

John Mayer's music is really starting to mature... I found myself frequently wondering if he had teamed up with Sting to write a lot of his songs. This song, Assassin, is perhaps my favorite song on the new album, Battle Studies. Most songs on the album adhere to the theme of love as war... everyone taking on different militaristic personas to fight for their own motives or for the one they love. 

Assassin - John Mayer

Lyrics

I work in the dead of night
When the roads are quiet
No one is around
To track my moves

Racing the yellow lights
To find the gate is open
She's waiting in the room
I just slip on through

You get in
You get done
And then you get gone
You never leave a trace or show your face
You get gone

Should have turned around
And left before the sun came up again
But the sun came up again

Enter the morning light
To find the day is burning the curtains and the wine
In a little white room
No, I'm not alone
Her head is heavy on me
She's sleeping like a child
What could I do?

You get in
You get done
And then you get gone
You never leave a trace or show your face
You get gone

Should have turned around
And left before the sun came up again
But the sun came up again

I was a killer, was the best they'd ever seen
I'd steal your heart before you ever heard a thing
I'm an assassin and I had a job to do
Little did I know that girl was an assassin too

Suddenly I'm in over my head and I could hardly breathe
Suddently I'm floating over her bed and I feel everything
Suddently I know exactly what I did, but I cannot move a thing
Suddently I know exactly what I'd done and what it's gonna mean to me, mean to me
I'm gone

I was a killer, was the best they'd ever seen
I'd steal your heart before you ever heard a thing
I'm an assassin and I had a job to do
Little did I know that girl was an assassin too

She's an assassin
She's an assassin
She's an assassin
She's an assassin and she had a job to do 

Lost by Pogo ... Bangarang, Rufio!

Pogo takes sound clips from movies and edits them together into sweet electronic musical parties. Check out his YouTube page and prepare to be blown away!

I came across Pogo's music when searching for music for an Alice in Wonderland video I made.  This song includes sound clips from Disney's animated Alice in Wonderland... I think it's just really cool and original.  (And in case you didn't know, Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland is set to release in March 2010.  The new trailer is going to be released really soon but the first ones are sweet lime too. It's going to be amazing.)

Lost - Pogo - MP3


You can actually download most of his music on his Last.fm page.

This video is for the song "Bangarang" which is made up of soundclips from Hook. SO COOL!

Aftermath by Adam Lambert

Adam Lambert's CD came out today!  ...and his AMA performance was certainly potentially career-shaking.  I trust Adam has a better voice than the one he demonstrated at the American Music Awards.  Listen to this song and re-gain your appreciation for Mr. Lambert's musicianship.  I'm sure our appreciation for his sexuality has never dwindled.

Aftermath - Adam Lambert

Lyrics
Have you lost your way?
Livin’ in the shadow of the message that you made
And so it goes
Everything inside your circle starts to overflow
Take a step before you leap
Into the colours that you seek
You give back what you give away
So don’t look back on yesterday


Wanna scream out
No more hiding
Don’t be afraid of what’s inside
Gonna tell ya you’ll be alright
In the Aftermath
Anytime anybody pulls you down
Anytime anybody says you’re not allowed
Just remember you are not alone
In the Aftermath


You feel the weight
Of lies and contradictions that you live with every day
It’s not too late
Think of what could be if you rewrite the role you play
Take a step before you leap
Into the colours that you seek
You give back what you give away
So don’t look back on yesterday


Wanna scream out
No more hiding
Don’t be afraid of what’s inside
Gonna tell ya you’ll be alright
In the Aftermath
Anytime anybody pulls you down
Anytime anybody says you’re not allowed
Just remember you are not alone
In the Aftermath
In the Aftermath


Before you break you have to change your own mind
Take a trip and fall into the pit
Tell a stranger that their view is full
So all you feel is love love
All you feel is love love


Wanna scream out
No more hiding
Don’t be afraid of what’s inside
Wanna tell you you’ll be alright
In the Aftermath


Wanna scream out
No more hiding
Don’t be afraid of what’s inside
Gonna tell ya you’ll be alright
In the Aftermath


Anytime anybody pulls you down
Anytime anybody says you’re not allowed
Just remember you are not alone
In the Aftermath
In the Aftermath
Gonna tell ya you’ll be alright
In the Aftermath
In the Aftermath
Just remember you are not alone
In the Aftermath

Everything I've Got by Iain Archer

Iain Archer's Canal Song has been in my music library for a while... since like 2006... but I had never really explored his music.  If you like Bright Eyes, you'll like Iain Archer.  It goes from the heart to the heart.  

Everything I've Got - Iain Arc...

Lyrics

With complication comforting my mind it was easy

To throw it to the air and watch it fall gently

And leave it scattered never pick it up

Plot the endless patterns of chaos

And never ever count the cost

Of not feeling

I bet you anything you want

I'll risk everything I've got

You watched me lose it every day and feared me

In your room you're trying to get things straight and failing

And how you must have longed for it to stop

Crying 'til you're almost throwing up

I don't know where you ever found the hope

But I know why

I bet you anything you want

I'll risk everything I've got

I bet you anything I won't

(Nothings ever lost, tell me nothings ever lost)

Lose it all again oh no

(Say that there's a way, say that you can find a way)

Lose it all again oh no

(Nothings ever lost, tell me nothings ever lost)

I'll risk everything I've got 

Twice by Little Dragon

Supposedly Little Dragon got their name because the lead singer, Yukimi, would lose her temper a little too easily in the studio.

The swedish band is still pretty unknown in America but hopefully not for long.  

Here is a little excerpt from the band's bio:  

"From the city of Gothenburg grew the birth of tiny creature.  Its breath full of fire passion death and dreams. It lived in a fantasy called the electric forest. This forest was thick  with russtling secrets and  infintite amounts of pinetrees. On occasional full moons the pine trees would light up in neon auras  of lime and turquoise and the ground would shake  with a steady rumble. The tiny creature grew into a little dragon.  It wrestled with the large wind sometimes. The heat of its breath would weave in with the cool air and make patterns in the sky. Although the creature was a powerful little beast it was light as a feather and would often sleep on the leaf flowing in the breeze. And there it would dream in a dream. These dreams were without visuals and haunted by sounds.  electric sounds and beats would pump its little  heart and make her sleep walk around the forest like a ghost dancing in the night. And the aching of this lonely creatures heart would be reflected in bittersweet melodies both haunting and happy."

Twice is how I found out about the band. Check it.

Twice - Little Dragon

Lyrics

Twice I turn my back on you

I fell flat on my face but didn't loose

Tell me where would I go

Tell me what led you on I’d love to know

Was it the blue night

Gone fragile

Was it both men

In wonder steady gone under

Was it the light ways

So frightening

Was it two wills

One mirror holding us dearer now

Thought I had an answer once

But your random ways swept me along

Colossal signs so I got lost

With so many lovers singing soft

Was it the blue night

Gone fragile

Was it both men

In wonder steady gone under

Was it the light ways

So frightening

Was it two wills

One mirror holding us dearer now 

Inside a Boy by My Brightest Diamond

My Brightest Diamond is easily one of my favorite bands.
They have such a magical sound and Shara Worden's lyrics are so poetic yet so resonant.  She is an extremely talented woman.  Just check out her bio!


(I can't say I'm the biggest fan of the music video...  so close your eyes and listen or something.)

My Brightest Diamond - Inside a Boy from My Brightest Diamond on Vimeo.

Lyrics

Inside a boy

I found a universe

And in his eyes

Are a thousand stars

On a dark sky

We are clouds

We are whispers

Like fawns and shape-shifters

Our edges can never be found out

No, our edges keep moving further out

We are stars colliding

Now we crash

Like lightning into love

Love

In his arms

I'm unwinding

Under his kiss

I'm falling into love

We are stars colliding

Now we crash

Like lightning into love

We are stars colliding

Now we crash

Like lightning into love

Love

Love, love

Love, love, love, love, love 

Island, IS by Volcano Choir

I dare you to figure out what this song means.

Stream of consciousness?  I think so.

Lyrics

owen, you’re home
the sun set it on to the sky
with a long catapult
and the salt that he put to the side
and the tones he would push and the songs he would push to the side
when it all went a fuck in the snow that gets pushed to the side
well your heart is a bush and it’s talking too, with some size
when you already put all of the soot inside

they were already smushed with a calm steady push to the side
all that your heart finds
on with your own wife
sign
up
all
your
relatives
only a harbor mind
in turpentine

im the reaper bahn
calm the arrival
tear it to the night

heart is said, you boy
come and serve it with an omelette
and you’re on it
with the carpet
you solved it
said you’re corporate
set your orbit
set your coffin
said its often
that your old fits
are your old tits
on
your
hard drive 

Untouched by The Veronicas

Again with the pop music!  I better put some indie on this thing or someone's gonna kill me.

But please just listen to this song when you're in a "ready to party" or "need to dance in my car" mood!

Untouched - The Veronicas

Lyrics
(I am almost embarassed to post these lyrics... this is kind of like Christopher Walken reading the lyrics to Poker Face. Scroll down for that gem.)
I go ooh ooh, you go ah ah

lalalalalalalala

I can't lie lie lie lie lie lie
I wanna wanna wanna get get get what I want
Don't stop
Give me give me give me what you got got
Cause I can't wait wait wait any more more more more
Don't even talk about the consequence
Cause right now you're the only thing that's making any sense to me
And I don't give a damn what they say, what they think think
Cause you're the only one who's on my mind
I'll never ever let you leave me
I'll try to stop time for ever, never wanna hear you say goodbye (bye bye bye)

I feel so untouched
And I want you so much
That I just can't resist you
It's not enough to say that I miss you
I feel so untouched right now
Need you so much somehow
I can't forget you
Been going crazy from the moment I met you

Untouched
And I need you so much

See you, breathe you, I want to be you
Alalalala alalalala
You can take take take take take time time
To live live the way you gotta gotta live your life
Give me give me give me all of you you
Don't be scared
I'll see you through the loneliness of one more more more
Don't even think about what's right or wrong, wrong or right
'Cause in the end it's only you and me and no one else is gonna be around
To answer all the questions left behind
And you and I are meant to be so even if the world falls down today
You've still got me to hold you up up
And I will never let you down (down)

I feel so untouched
And I want you so much
That I just can't resist you
It's not enough to say that I miss you
I feel so untouched right now
Need you so much somehow
I can't forget you
Been going crazy from the moment I met you

Untouched, untouched, untouched, untouched, untouched
Alalalala alalalala
Untouched
Alalalala alalalala

I feel so untouched
And I want you so much
That I just can't resist you
It's not enough to say that I miss you
I feel so untouched right now
Need you so much somehow
I can't forget you
Been going crazy from the moment I met you

I feel so untouched
And I want you so much
That I just can't resist you
It's not enough to say that I miss you
I feel so untouched right now
Need you so much somehow
I can't forget you
Been going crazy from the moment I met you

Untouched, untouched, untouched

When You're Ready by Kate Earl

I rarely listen to "pop" music... mainly because I'm only now coming out of an interesting phase of only listening to "indie" and "folk" music... but Kate Earl's smoky vocals make the upbeat feel and electronic instrumentals much more enjoyable.  (Put some pitch-corrected tweeny-bop idol on one of these tracks and you'd have to pay me to listen.)  Kate Earl's music is a cool blend of soul and fun.  Her lyrics are accessible and relatable and have an earnest simplicity that make listening a real pleasure. Her CD is thoroughly enjoyable. (iTunes) Here's the song "When You're Ready."  Check. it.

When You're Ready - Kate Earl

Lyrics

i’ll wait patiently

when the world

you’re caught up in fades

come to me

and you know i’m not holdin my breath

but you know how to find me

and you know there’s a knot in my chest

only you can untie me

when you’re ready for love

cause you know along

i’m the one that you wanted baby

all your reasons are wrong

now i know why you run

and i’m not leavin

before i got that you’re just lost

i used to think that i wasn’t enough

when you’re ready for love

cause you know all along

i’m the one that you want baby

you’re sane, safe with me

i hope that i’ve

shown you enough to believe

and you know i’m not holdin my breath

but you know how to find me

and you know there’s a knot

in my chest only you can untie me

when you’re ready for love

cause you know along

i’m the one that you wanted baby

all your reasons are wrong

now i know why you run

and i’m not leaving

before i got that you’re just lost

i used to think that i wasn’t enough

when you’re ready for love

cause you know all along

i’m the one that you want baby

it’s never too late to put the past away

it’s never too late to quit the masquerade

Silver Clouds by Bowerbirds

Bowerbirds' Upper Air is a fun listen with a good amount of semi-upbeat and semi-chill songs... I chose Silver Clouds to share today because, well... regardless of who you thank for your successes, there is always someone or something to be grateful for.  And it's just a good song.


Upper Air on iTunes. 

Silver Clouds - Bowerbirds

Lyrics

Put my dreams in my hands so I know I'm sure

Give me all that I want from this giant world

But you can't seem to not tally it up

So we know the score

Show me how I'm a man

Show me the light

Show me the wins of the day and the debts of the night

But you can't seem to not show me all that you sacrificed

And, well, nothing is harder

than to know how much I still owe you

You could move like a silver cloud through the skies

You could move like a secret and slip past my life

But you can't seem to quit moving words around to show who was right

And, well, nothing is harder

than to know that you were never wrong, dear

Nights & Windows by Cazz (His debut EP)

Cazz is as talented as they come and is amazing at anything he sets his mind to.  It's no surprise that his EP is wonderful- and self-produced!  Check out his stuff on myspace and become a fan on facebook!


You can also buy the album on CDBaby or DigStation.

Blood by The Middle East

I came across The Middle East a month ago and started listening to their EP on repeat for a good couple of weeks. I started with the song The Darkest Side but my new favorite track is Blood. Conveniently enough, the band is giving away mp3s of both songs on their website right now! The EP is only $5 though, and I always encourage supporting artists' efforts. 

Blood - The Middle East

Lyrics

older brother, restless soul, lie down
lie for a while with your ear against the earth
and you'll hear your sister sleep talking
say "your hair is long but not long enough to reach
home to me
but your beard
someday might be"

and she'll wake up in a cold sweat on the floor
next to a family portrait drawn when you were four
and beside a jar of two cent coins that are no good no more
she'll lay it aside

older father, weary soul, you'll drive
back to the home you made on the mountainside
with that ugly, terrible thing
those papers for divorce
and a lonely ring
a lonely ring
sit on your porch
and pluck your strings

and you'll find somebody you can blame
and you'll follow the creek that runs out into the sea
and you'll find the peace of the Lord.

grandfather, gentle soul, you'll fly
over your life once more before you die
since our grandma passed away
you've waited for forever and a day
just to die
and someday soon
you will die

it was the only woman you ever loved
that got burnt by the sun too often when she was young
and the cancer spread and it ran into her body and her blood
and there's nothing you can do about it now