Home by Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros

Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros

I just really like this song.  
It's true.  
When you have someone who means so much to you and you laugh and feel free and fall in love at inopportune times for the strangest reasons... you feel like you're home.  


and I think this line is my favorite:
"While you were sitting in the backseat smoking a cigarette you thought was going to be your last, I was falling deep, deeply in love with you, and I never told you until just now"

"This video for Home is a collection of some of our favorite memories over the past few years. We hope it feels like Home wherever you are watching this."

Buy the song on iTunes.

Lyrics

Her:

Alabama, Arkansas

I do love my ma and pa

Not that way that I do love you

Him:

Holy moley, me oh my

You're the apple of my eye

Girl, I've never loved one like you

Her:

Man, oh man, you're my best friend

I scream it to the nothingness

There ain't nothing that I need

Him:

Well, hot and heavy, pumpkin pie

Chocolate candy, Jesus Christ

Ain't nothing please me more than you

Both:

Ah, home

Let me go home

Home is wherever I'm with you

Ah, home

Let me go home

Home is wherever I'm with you

La, la, la, la, take me home

Mother, I'm coming home

Him:

I'll follow you into the park 

Through the jungle, through the dark

Girl, I never loved one like you

Her:

Moats and boats and waterfalls

Alleyways and pay phone calls

I've been everywhere with you

Him:

That's true

Laugh until we think we'll die

Barefoot on a summer night

Never could be sweeter than with you

Her:

And in the streets you run a-free

Like it's only you and me

Geez, you're something to see

Both:

Ah, home

Let me go home

Home is wherever I'm with you

Ah, home

Let me go home

Home is wherever I'm with you

La, la, la, la, take me home

Daddy, I'm coming home

(talking)

Him: Jade

Her: Alexander

Him: Do you remember that day you fell out of my window?

Her: I sure do, you came jumping out after me

Him: Well, you fell on the concrete, nearly broke your ass, you were bleeding all over the place and I rushed you out to the hospital, you remember that?

Her: Yes, I do

Him: Well, there's something I never told you about that night

Her: What didn't you tell me?

Him: While you were sitting in the backseat smoking a cigarette you thought was going to be your last, I was falling deep, deeply in love with you, and I never told you until just now

Both:

Ah, home

Let me go home

Home is wherever I'm with you

Ah, home

Let me go home

Home is where I'm alone with you

Him:

Home

Let me come home

Home is wherever I'm with you

Her:

Ah, home

Yes I am home

Home is when I'm alone with you

Her:

Alabama, Arkansas

I do love my ma and pa

Moats and boats and waterfalls

Alleyways and pay phone calls

Both:

Ah, home

Let me go home

Home is wherever I'm with you

Ah, home

Let me go home

Home is where I'm alone with you 

My Heart Beats for Love by Miley Cyrus

"Everyone has the right to love each other 

and no one should feel discriminated or judged for that."

This is not a joke.  I am seriously posting about a Miley Cyrus song.
Here's the situation: before today, I owned none of Miley's music but I could tolerate Party in the U.S.A. just as much as the next person.... but today I got curious.  So I listened to all of the samples of the songs on her new album and kind of liked the anthemic/inspirational/leona-lewis-meets-faith-hill-meets-end-credits-to-a-disney-channel-movie feel of My Heart Beats for Love.


And then I found out she wrote the song for her gay friends who should be allowed to love whoever they want.  and that's when I knew I made the right choice in my first miley cyrus song to ever post/purchase.  

Here's an excerpt from an article by Liz Gellar on Gather.com:

 Miley had a very touching and open-minded moment Monday night that we should all recognize. At her performance at the House of Blues L.A., she performed a song off her new album titled, "My Heart Beats for Love". "I wrote this for my gay fans," Miley said. "Everyone has the right to love each other and no one should feel discriminated or judged for that."

I thought it was awesome and inspiring that she said this. Miley Cyrus is a role model to a lot of kids and it's important they get this message at an early age. Teenagers and tweens harassing each other is no joke. Think of the horrible news stories we've been hearing lately of kids committing suicide because they've been harassed! Hopefully her fans hearing about this message will become more tolerant of gay people than they already were.

Props to you, Miley.  Who knows, maybe you'll be the next Liza.  The LGBT community salutes your valiant efforts to promote equality.  Now stop dressing like a baby prostitute and I'm sure you'll make an even bigger difference.  (Said with respect.)

Download it on iTunes.

Lyrics

I've been stranded on a lonely street

Got lost in the shadows

Fell hard in the battle

The choirs and the suffering

I walked through the darkness

Left broken and heartless

I'm calling out, can you hear my voice?

I'm gonna find you through all the noise

Ooh whoa

You know there's nothing that I wouldn't do

So shine your light as I reach for you

My heart beats for love

My heart beats for love

It's the sound that I hear, tells me not to give up

It breathes in my chest and

It runs through my blood

My heart beats for love

My heart beats for love

Whoa ooh oh oh oh yeah

And I've been told at least a thousand times

It's not worth the struggle, the hurt or the trouble

I keep running up to these front lights

No I won't surrender

I'll wait here forever

Standing here with my flag held high

Oh can't you see that it's worth the fight?

My heart beats for love

My heart beats for love

It's the sound that I hear, tells me not to give up

It breathes in my chest and

It runs through my blood

My heart beats for love

My heart beats for love

Whoa ooh oh oh oh yeah

I'm not to cross this battle field

I'm screaming out, can you hear me now?

I'm holding on, I stand my ground

I'm screaming out, can you hear me now?

My heart beats for love

My heart beats for love

It's the sound that I hear, tells me not to give up

It breathes in my chest and

It runs through my blood

My heart beats for love

My heart beats for love

My heart beats for love

My heart beats for love

It's the sound that I hear, tells me not to give up

It breathes in my chest and

It runs through my blood

My heart beats for love

My heart beats for love

Whoa ooh oh oh yeah

No One's Gonna Love You by Band of Horses - wait, Renee Fleming?

I don't know if you know this... but Renee Fleming just released an album called Dark Hope on which she covers songs by people like Arcade Fire, Death Cab for Cutie, Band of Horses, Peter Gabriel, Muse, and others.  When I first heard it, I was very uncomfortable and felt violated...


Ok actually, here's the real deal.  When I heard this song playing in Barnes and Noble, I was very curious about who was covering it... and then I Shazamed (can that be a verb?) and saw that it was, in fact, Ms. Fleming.  
The CD as a whole is strange... but I just think someone should listen to it.  It's bizarre because she's a WORLD CLASS opera singer with the most vibrant career and she agreed to take a huge risk and record what someone at Universal Music decided were songs from the best songwriters of our generation.  I guess I'm glad so many of my favorite bands made it into that category.  

Listen to Renee's Version: 
since LaLa was recently shut down, there is no way to post this song for you.  LAME.
(illegally download it and then delete it if you want... but if you like it buy it.  cause i don't condone stealing music.)
http://www.egydown.com/2841-renee-fleming-dark-hope-2010-fray.html


Sample it/Buy it on iTunes.


Listen to/Watch the original:

Lyrics

It's looking like a limb torn off

Or altogether just taken apart

We're reeling through an endless fall

We are the ever-living ghost of what once was

But no one is ever gonna love you more than I do

No one's gonna love you more than I do

And anything to make you smile

It is my better side of you to admire

But they should never take so long

Just to be over then back to another one

But no one is ever gonna love you more than I do

No one's gonna love you more than I do

But someone,

They could have warned you

When things start splitting at the seams and now

The whole thing's tumbling down

Things start splitting at the seams and now

If things start splitting at the seams and now,

It's tumbling down

Hard.

Anything to make you smile

You are the ever-living ghost of what once was

I never want to hear you say

That you'd be better off

Or you liked it that way

But no one is ever gonna love you more than I do

No one's gonna love you more than I do

But someone

They should have warned you

When things start splitting at the seams and now

The whole thing's tumbling down

Things start splitting at the seams and now

If things start splitting at the seams and now,

It's tumbling down

Hard.