lyrics

  • Give It Up

    Well I made my way back down to the valley
    Right on past 83rd street
    That’s where we once belonged
    But I’m gone
    I swear I’m long gone

    So give it up, throw your hats in the air
    And change is as you ladies say
    “We’ll get out of here”
    Something tells me that you’re too scared to go

    So the stairs that you could climb
    Are the ones you’ve left behind
    And your eyes light up when we talk about the past
    God, I miss those songs we used to sing
    Talking like getting away would be the greatest thing
    Well me, I got out,
    And you, you kept singing to me
    Like that’s really going to set this free

    So give it up, throw your hats in the air
    And change just as they land
    You’re saying, “We’ll get out of here”
    Something tells me that you’re too scared to go

    Like a ghost
    You’ve been haunting all these dusty old roads and old homes
    The ones we swore we’d never go, oh oh

    As for Joe
    Oh I’ve seen him around
    Then there’s Adam
    He’s afraid to go out
    I don’t blame him, I just wanted to go out to eat

    Then there’s Mark
    God damn, I wish him the best
    We were kids back then, as if we could progress
    Sometimes I, I just can’t sleep
    Thinking of everything we could have been

    So give it up, throw your hats in the air
    And change just as they land
    You’re saying, “We’ll get out of here”
    Something tells me that you’re too scared to go

    So give it up, throw your hats in the air
    And change just as they land
    You’re saying, “We’ll get out of here”
    Something tells me that you’re too scared to go.

    [The Format]

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    Music reflects life.  And for some people, music is life.

  • So as already established, I love good music.  Well, I noticed a word commonly used in songs that isn’t the word “love”, “sad”, or many of the commonly accepted immoral things (in olden-day standards) the word:

    SUN!

    [In the forms of sunset etc. too]. So, I have here a list of sun-songs, if you’d like to add to the list =] (not to mention most of them are really good songs..)
    ["Sun" found in title]

    • Here Comes the Sun-the Beatles
    • Good Day Sunshine-the Beatles
    • Sun King-the Beatles
    • Blister in the Sun-Violent Femmes
    • Standing in the Sun-Howie Day
    • Stare at the Sun-Thrice
    • Song for Sunshine-Belle & Sebastian
    • Another Sunny Day-Belle & Sebastian
    • The Sun Still Shines-LFO
    • Crawling Towards the Sun-the Hush Sound
    • California Sun-the Rewinds
    • Brighter Than Sunshine-Aqualung
    • Asleep on a Sunbeam-Belle & Sebastian
    • life-like sun-unkle stiltskin
    • Your Name Here (Sunrise Highway)-Straylight Run
    • Sunlight-Nathanael Mehrens

    ["Sun" found in lyrics, besides ones listed above]

    • Back Home-Yellowcard
    • Brand New Colony-the Postal Service
    • Snails-the Format
    • My Girl-the Temptations
    • Pretty Baby-Vanessa Carlton
    • Life is Good-LFO
    • Marching Bands of Manhattan-Death Cab for Cutie
    • Smile Like You Mean It-The Killers
    • Same-Snow Patrol
    • Brown Eyed Girl-Van Morrison
    • Collide-Jars of Clay
    • Drops of Jupiter-Train
    • Ocean Avenue-Yellowcard

    And the list runs on…
    Perhaps people still hold a reverence for the sun like they did in the ancient days…

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