The Killers - A Dustland Fairytale

A dustland fairytale begining
Just another white trash
County kiss
Sixty one
Long Brown hair and foolish eyes
He looked just like you'd want him too
some kind of slick chrome American prince
A blue jean serenade
Moon river what'd you do to me
But I don't believe you

Some Cinderella in a party dress but
She was looking for a night gown
I saw the devil wrapping up his hands
He's getting ready for the show down
I saw the minute that I turned away
I got my money on a pond tonight

Change came in disguise of revelation
Set his soul on fire
She said she always knew he'd come around
And the decades disappear like sinking
Ships we persevere God gives us hope
But we still fear
We don't know
The mind is poison
castles in the sky
Sit stranded, vandalized
The draw bridge is closing

Some Cinderella in a party dress but
She was looking for a night gown
I saw the devil wrapping up his hands
he's getting ready for the show down
I saw the ending when they turned the page
I threw my money and I ran away
Straight to the valley of the great divide

And where the dreams roll high
And where the wind dont blow
Out here the good girls die
And the sky won't snow
Out here the bird don't sing
Out here the field don't grow
Out here the bell don't ring
Out here the bell don't ring
Out here the good girls die

Now Cinderella don't you go to sleep
It's such a bitter form of refuge
Ah, don't you know the kingdom's under siege
And everybody needs you
Is there still magic in the midnight sun?
Or did you leave it back in sixty-one?
In the cadence in the young man's eyes
And where the dreams roll high

Jack's Mannequin "Swim"

I just got the new Jack's Mannequin album on my iTunes.

This is my favorite song off of it so far.



You gotta swim
Swim for your life
Swim for the music
That saves you
When you're not so
sure you'll survive
You gotta swim
Swim when it hurts
The whole world is watching
You haven't come this far
To fall off the earth
The currents will pull you
Away from your love
Just keep your head above

I found a tidal wave
Begging to tear down the dawn
Memories like bullets
They fire at me from a gun
Cracking the armor yeah
I swim for brighter days
Despite the absence of sun
Choking on salt water
I'm not giving in, I swim

You gotta swim
Through nights that won't end
Swim for your families
Your lovers your sisters
And brothers and friends
Yeah you gotta swim
Through wars without cause
Swim for the lost politicians
Who don't see their
greed is a flaw
The currents will pull us
Away from our love
Just keep your head above

I found a tidal wave
Begging to tear down the dawn
Memories like bullets
They fire at me from a gun
Cracking the armor now
I swim for brighter days
Despite the absence of sun
Choking on salt water
I'm not giving in
I'm not giving in, I swim

You gotta swim
Swim in the dark
There's no shame in drifting
Feel the tide shifting
away from the spark
Yeah you gotta swim
Don't let yourself sink
Just find the horizon
I promise you it's not as
far as you think
The currents will drag us
away from our love
Just keep your head above
Just keep your head above Swim
Just keep your head above
Swim, swim
Just keep your head above Swim

Ray Lamontagne

Ray Lamontagne is one of my favorite musicians. If you haven't heard his stuff, you should really check it out. Here is a video:

Here are the lyrics to that song [Hold You In My Arms]:

When you came to me with your bad dreams and your fears
It was easy to see that you'd been crying
Seems like everywhere you turn catastrophe it reigns
But who really profits from the dying
I could hold you in my arms
I could hold you forever
I could hold you in my arms
I could hold you in my arms forever

When you kissed my lips with my mouth so full of questions
It's my worried mind that you quiet
Place your hands on my face
Close my eyes and say
Love is a poor man's food
Don't prophesize
I could hold you in my arms
I could hold you forever
And I could hold you in my arms
I could hold you forever

So now we see how it is
This fist begets the spear
Weapons of war
Symptoms of madness
Don't let your eyes refuse to see
Don't let your ears refuse to hear
Or you ain't never going to shake this sense of sadness
I could hold you in my arms
I could hold on forever
And I could hold you in my arms
I could hold forever

And these are the lyrics to another of my favorite songs by him[Empty]:

she lifts her skirt up to her knees
walks through the garden rows with her bare feet laughing
I never learned to count my blessings
I choose instead to dwell in my disasters
I walk on down the hill through grass grown tall and brown
and still it's hard somehow to let go of my pain
on past the busted back of that old and rusted cadillac
that sinks into this field collecting rain
will I always feel this way?
so empty, so estranged...

of these cutthroat busted sunsets, these cold and
damp white mornings I have grown weary
if through my cracked and dusty dime-store lips
I spoke these words out loud would no one hear me?
lay your blouse across the chair, let fall the flowers from your hair
and kiss me with that country mouth so plain
outside the rain is tapping on the leaves
to me it sounds like they're applauding us the quiet love we make
will I always feel this way?
so empty, so estranged...

well I looked my demons in the eyes, laid bare my chest, said do your best to destroy me
you see, I been to hell and back so many times
I must admit you kind of bore me
there's a lot of things that can kill a man
there's a lot ways to die, yes and some already dead that walk beside me
there's a lot of things I don't understand, why so many people lie,
it's the hurt I hide that fuels the fire inside me

will I always feel this way?
so empty, so estranged...

it's the hurt i hide that fuels the fire inside me.

...

i like that.

Rob Thomas - Meet the Robinson

This song was at the end of Meet the Robinsons. It is super cheesy, but so cute!! I wanted you to hear it and all I could find was the music video.

These are the lyrics:

let it go,
let it roll right off your shoulder
don't you know
the hardest part is over
let it in,
let your clarity define you
in the end
we will only just remember how it feels

our lives are made
in these small hours
these little wonders,
these twists & turns of fate
time falls away,
but these small hours,
these small hours still remain

let it slide,
let your troubles fall behind you
let it shine
until you feel it all around you
and i don't mind
if it's me you need to turn to
we'll get by,
it's the heart that really matters in the end

our lives are made
in these small hours
these little wonders,
these twists & turns of fate
time falls away,
but these small hours,
these small hours still remain

all of my regret
will wash away some how
but i can not forget
the way i feel right now

in these small hours
these little wonders
these twists & turns of fate
these twists & turns of fate
time falls away but these small hours
these small hours, still remain,
still remain
these little wonders
these twists & turns of fate
time falls away
but these small hours

these little wonders still remain