I couldn't pronounce July earlier...

To claim.

'High up in the branch
Just out of my reach

Can I call you mine?
Can I call you mine?
Can I call you mine?
Can I call you mine?

July Flame
I'm seeing fireworks
They're so beautiful
Tell me why it hurts'

[July Flame; Laura Veirs]

Birds

Since i'm now home from Uni for nearly a month, i thought i'd take this opportunity to post a photo taken from my uni bedroom window, and then i can do the same once i get a nice one here.
These lyrics are from My Brightest Diamond's version of the song, as it's the version i own.
It's a non-depressing post for once, cos i'm, as the song says, just feeling really good at the moment, really happy.

'Birds flying high
You know how I feel
Sun in the sky
You know how I feel
...
Yeah it's a new dawn
It's a new day
It's a new life for me
And I'm feeling good'

[Feeling Good; My Brightest Diamond]

Getting my melancholy on

Having discovered The Civil Wars via the getyourmelancholyon.com blog, I fell in love with the lyrics of Poison & Wine.
Joy Williams and John Paul White sing 'i don't love you but i always will' again and again, and i'm glad of the repetition - i just can't quite put my finger on why it makes me feel the way it does.. It's all happy-sad, and i really like it.

'I wish you'd hold me when I turn my back
The less I give the more I get back
Oh your hands can heal, your hands can bruise
I don't have a choice but I'd still choose you'

[Posion & Wine; The Civil Wars]

Excitement

I cannot wait to go and see Mumford and Sons on Saturday. It is bound to be amazing as they are some of the best musicians i've heard in a long long time.
As part of this excitement, this post therefore concerns an example of the genius that is them and their lyrics. It's relatively long, but more than worth it.
Everything Marcus M sings, i feel resonates deeply with me.

'Corrupted by the simple sniff of riches blown
I know you have felt much more love than you've shown
And I'm on my knees and the water creeps to my chest
...
The sky above us shoots to kill
Rain down, rain down on me

But I will hold on
I will hold on hope

I begged you to hear me, there's more than flesh and bones
Let the dead bury the dead, they will come out in droves
But take the spade from my hands and fill in the holes you've made'

[Thistle & Weeds; Mumford & Sons]

For future reference

I realised today that when i look back on all my past blog entries, it is so intrinsically linked to the way i feel on the day. As much as i've tried not to let my feelings cloud my choice of lyrics to the extent where it resembles a kind of therapy, i think it's almost impossible not to gravitate towards the songs that echo how you feel at one particular point in time, even if you know you're going to feel differently in a few days or even hours.
So the thought for today:

"Lesson learned and the wheels keep turning

This is the world that we live in
I can't take blame for two
This is the world that we live in
And maybe we'll make it through"


[The World We Live In; The Killers]

Moviefilm

This time a quote from a film.
Sometimes i think wishing the present was the same as how 'it used to be' is a mistake, because every present (and i mean current time, here, not gift..) has its issues and there are always fights and upsets; these are just forgotten about when looking back with those reliable old rose-tinted-retrospecs.
Sometimes this jeopardises the future. Saying 'it should be like it was' leaves no room for either 'it could be better than it was' or even 'evolution is natural'.
It runs the risk of saying 'if i can't have the past, then i don't care about the future'.
Don't throw anything away, preempting that it might break, cos throwing it only breaks it more.

'all the time ya spend trying to get back what's been took from ya, more is going out'
[Ellis; No Country For Old Men (2007)]