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“Face of Light” by Rival Sons

11 Friday May 2012

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But you and your face of light.
It’s a brilliant roman candle that separates the day from the night. It’s that clean, clear truth that sorts out the wrong from the right.
You and your face of light.

When all is grey
I want to run away
I see your smile
And stay another day

When I’m crumbling inside
Just want to hide
You come find me
Arms open wide

When I’ve messed up again
Failed to count to ten
Your forgiving eyes
Humble me then

Your angelic face
Will ever have a place
In my expanding heart
Growing in grace

www.rivalsons.com

Hear “Face of Light” on Rival Sons’ June 2011 release, ‘Pressure and Time’

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“Black Butterfly” by Ex Reverie

03 Tuesday Apr 2012

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Black Butterfly
Always so high
Glad heart, bright mind

I walked down the hallway toward AP English class. One more hour to go before lunch, then Spanish and track practice and the academic day would be done. This hinge point to my schedule was somewhat hard to bear. I had already thought too hard through three classes after getting up too early and having way too little nourishment for breakfast. Now I got to look forward to pondering Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness while ignoring the many similarities it bore to my own disillusionment with the world and “the horror, the horror” of becoming a jaded young adult.
Before I entered into the discussion of the darkness however, I noticed a light awaiting me. His name was Ken T—. We met through a friend of a friend and honestly I can’t say I ever really knew him. We had no class together. We didn’t sit share the same lunch table. I doubt he ever asked me anything beyond, “How are you today?” But he was what I looked forward to each day before noon. The way his face would light up in the hallway when he’d see me, as he was exiting class and I was entering. He was everything I needed in that moment.
Ken would wrap his arms around me and hold me there in the hallway, as if we weren’t surrounded by students shuffling off to class. I’d giggle at his thrilled response to my presence, and then I’d press his thin fit adolescent body against mine. I felt so special and content in that moment. It didn’t matter all the things I didn’t know about him or all the things he didn’t ask about me. He liked art and he played water polo and he delighted in me. I was pretty, I accepted what he gave me, and I delighted in him. Everything else was trivial.
That was the satisfaction of my 16 year old self. To be the person that lit up someone’s face, to be held for a brief and meaningful moment, to be treated as the most significant person in the crowded high school hallway…those were the things that spun my world back then. As void of commitment as the relationship between me and Ken was, it was incredibly meaningful at the time.

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“Black Butterfly” can be heard on Ex Reverie’s ‘Praxis’ EP, free download available through bandcamp.

“Bloody Mary” by Silversun Pickups

26 Monday Mar 2012

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Hey Jen, remember the games we used to play?  What ever happened to those days?
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If we can stay here long enough
We can play with Bloody Mary
She can chase us through the dark
Activate our nerve endings
We’ll stay…
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She said she would kill herself if she had to put up with her parents one more night.  Though I had thought her a dork for most of the past three years I’d known her, I couldn’t deny she was my best friend.  If it was a matter of life and death, then we should bail.  Just walk right past her parents and out the door.  So that’s what we did.
Once we crossed into the darkness we knew we were outside our limits so we ran.  We ran, alive with boldness and uncertainty.  We ran not knowing where to go but knowing we were together.  Who needs them?  They don’t understand us anyway  Who needs anybody?  We need only each other.  Best friends.  That’s enough.
But then we got to the highway.  Which way to go?  We couldn’t go anymore ahead and there was no going back.  No admitting our guilt and asking forgiveness.  Not yet.  We went to Sergeant Pepperoni’s Pizza, a good place to catch our breath, be still awhile.  Stifle the tears and frustration.
She finally called a friend’s mom.  An adult she could trust.  Someone who’d listen to her complaints and tell her mom she was alright.  A person who would take her home safe and sound and drive me back home as well.
I didn’t suspect that would be my last time seeing my best friend, my last time being welcome in her house.  I was ever after the instigator, the troublemaker, the girl who led a daughter to run away from home.  A bad influence.
I made a poor decision based on a friend’s frustration.  I cared too much to leave her alone.  But my tight grip snapped the bond between us.  Split.  Just like that.  Best friends since seventh grade, then gone.  Over and done with.
No more afternoon visits.  No more nightly sleepovers.  No more Friday nights at the movies.  Find another friend, my mom says I can’t talk to you anymore.  It didn’t really matter.  Her parents divorced shortly after and she moved to Arizona, so, whatever.
Everyone in California had either just arrived or was just about to leave.  That’s just the way it is in a place like that.  You gotta adjust.  Don’t take it personal.  Just move on.  You’ll find someone new.  Move on.

http://silversunpickups.com

“Bloody Mary” is the first single off Silversun Pickups’ ’Neck of the Woods’ due out May 8th.

“Gold on the Ceiling” by The Black Keys

07 Wednesday Mar 2012

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Down in the waves, she screams again.  Roar at the door.  My mind can’t take much more. I could never drown.  I am invincible. Destined for greatness. God on my side.
They wanna get my…everything. They wanna get my gold on the ceiling. I ain’t blind. Oro en el cielo. Just a matter of time before I let go. ‘Cause I’m aware, there ain’t no guard in my house.
They wanna get my…very soul. They wanna get my oro en el cielo.  Treasure I’ve stored in Heaven. Just a matter of time before I lose it all to thieves. Ain’t no guard in my house.

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Hear “Gold On The Ceiling” on The Black Keys’ December 2011 album, ‘El Camino.’

“Home Tonight” by Eux Autres

28 Tuesday Feb 2012

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Eux Autres – “Home Tonight” from Nicholas Larimer on Vimeo.

Well they tell me there’s a hundred ways to fight.
You and me, right now, come on.
But I only need a few of them tonight
‘cause there’s no way to prove
if what’s killing me’s got the best of you.
“The killer in me is the killer in you, my love.”
And my speculation’s sputtering again.

Plenty reason I should turn the other way.
Look. Don’t look.  Leave! No, stay.
But the reasoning is wearing thin today.
I confess that I hate
nothing quite so much as an empty slate.
And I‘m running out of time to run along.
Aw, here we go again.

I’m not coming home tonight.
I’m not coming home tonight
til I can’t remember what was wrong with me.
Why the hell was I so frickin upset?
Don’t you dare answer that, you fiend.

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Eux Autres’ “Home Tonight” may be heard on their Feb 28th release, ‘Sun Is Sunk’ through Bons Mots Records.

“Cry” by Alexx Calise

15 Wednesday Feb 2012

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Rotate laundry
Wash dishes
Whisper wishes for something more
Scrub sinks
Wipe counters
Clean the splatter off the floor 

Forgot what it’s like to just feel okay
Praying for the day when there is no more rain

And I, I don’t wanna do anything but cry.
And I, I don’t wanna do anything but cry.

He won’t help
And she won’t play
Slip away and pray for patience
He’s growing lazy
She’s becoming bored
Tell me Lord how to handle this

The hole in my heart is growing bigger by the day.
Wish that I could crawl inside, hide away.

And I, I don’t wanna do anything but cry.
Oh and I, I don’t wanna do anything but cry.

Dinner’s ready
Watch and wait
Hope he’s not late coming home
Tense greeting
Fleeting smile
It’s been awhile since we’ve talked alone

Oh I’m so low, I’m almost to the bottom.
Oh nowhere to go, even my soul has left my body.

Oh and I, I don’t wanna do anything but cry.
Oh and I, I don’t wanna do anything but cry.

Bubble baths
Bedtime reading
Body’s pleading for an end
Long day
Same as always
Sit to rest, but I’m needed again

And I, I don’t wanna do anything but cry.
And I, I don’t wanna do anything but cry.

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Hear “Cry” on Alexx Calise’s 2010 album, ‘In Avanti’

“Kingmaker” by Dead Leaf Echo

10 Friday Feb 2012

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In the sun, with you there.  Just trying, attempting not to care.
Does it really matter?  Is there anything we can do? 
Me being me.  You being you.
In the sun, with you there.  Miss the feeling, the feeling I’m not there.
Me living in my corner of the world, you living in yours.
Vows exchanged, resolutions made.
Neither of us drawing toward drama.
We both confirm, we don’t doubt the thrill of life has gone.
Me weary except when you’re around.  Your jaded eyes ever intrigued.
These textual exchanges, streams of language interjecting our thoughts.
I ought to go.  You shouldn’t have stayed.  We continue, on and on.
I call you, but you’re not there.  My heart beating, the feeling of despair.

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“Kingmaker” is Dead Leaf Echo’s first single from their upcoming album ‘Thought & Language’

“We Are Young” by Fun

08 Wednesday Feb 2012

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So if by the time the bar closes, and you feel like falling down, I’ll carry you home.

Let time, let time stretch this moment
The world’s been spinning around my head so long
Can we take this, take this slow a few minutes, hours?
Just concentrate awhile on nothing, nothing at all?

Tonight we are young. So let’s set the world on fire. We can burn brighter than the sun.

I want to shine, shine on the dance floor.
Forget the five, ten, twenty things and more
Pulling me, pulling in all directions.
Stop this focal dissection.

And I know that I’m not all that you got. I guess that I just thought maybe we could find a way to fall apart.

Let me loose, let me lose control.
Just this once allow my soul
To be exposed, exposed under swirling lights.
I might be crazy or more me, more me than ever before.

So if by the time the bar closes, and you feel like falling down, I’ll carry you home tonight.

http://ournameisfun.com

Fun’s “We Are Young” featuring Janelle Monáe can be found on the upcoming album, ‘Some Nights’ available February 21, 2012 on Fueled By Ramen.