Music

[Loba]

Hold your horses
Hold, hold the border
Don't come closer
Don't, don't let go of me
I'm like porcelain
When you're with me
All, all I know is

Just about a million ways to harm you
All the things I shouldn't say
Are the things that when I want to make you happy
Only comes out of me

What if I dropped, dropped the steering wheel
Closed my eyes
Drove, drove faster
I'm like porcelain
When I love you
I, I know it's

Just about a million ways to harm you
All the things I shouldn't say
Are the things that when I want to make you happy
Only comes out of me
We have got the power of destruction
You can always let it fall
But when we try to work on something solid
It is too goddamn hard

Give it a thought
It takes a lot
To trust that someone else will catch my fall
It takes a lifetime
Breaking goes fast
When everything that matters made of glass

Just about a million ways to harm you
All the things I shouldn't say
Are the things that when I want to make you happy
Only comes out of me

Just about a million ways to harm you
All the things I shouldn't say
Are the things that when I want to make you happy
Only comes out of me

We have got the power of destruction
You can always let it fall
But when we try to work on something solid
It is too goddamn hard

I'm like porcelain

[LastThursday]

Recently rediscovered

Very cheesy but it's like meeting an old friend from years ago. I like the syncopation.

 

[Loba]

In Christianity, the ringing of church bells is traditionally believed to drive out demons and other unclean spirits.  Inscriptions on church bells relating to this purpose of church bells, as well as the purpose of serving as a call to prayer and worship, were customary, for example "the sound of this bell vanquishes tempests, repels demons, and summons men".  Some churches have several bells with the justification that "the more bells a church had, the more loudly they rang, and the greater the distance over which they could be heard, the less likely it was that evil forces would trouble the parish."

The kisses of the sun
Were sweet I didn't blink
I let it in my eyes
Like an exotic dream
The radio playing songs
That I have never heard
I don't know what to say
Oh not another word

Inside an empty room
My inspiration flows
Now wait to hear the tune
Around my head it goes
The magic melody
You want to sing with me
Just la la la la la
The music is the key
And now the night is gone
Still it goes on and on
So deep inside of me
I long to set it free
I don't know what to do
Just can't explain to you
I don't know what to say
Oh not another word

Just, la la la la la
It goes around the world
Just, la la la la la
It's all around the world
Just, la la la la la
And everybody's singing
La la la la la
And now the bells are ringing

[Zigzag Idiot]

 

 

 

[Loba]

Stay close to the river and cry
And the river's gonna feel you're the god of rain
He's gonna worship you like god and creator for ages
And all the fairies of the forest will come
They wanna show you to the dance of night
This is the Age of Aquarius

Stay close to the river and cry
And the river's gonna feel you're the god of rain
He's gonna worship you like god and creator for ages
And all the fairies of the forest will come
They wanna show you to the dance of night
This is the Age of Aquarius

Hey!

I'm coming out of river
Breathing out, I'm finally reborn

Rain is falling to the shore
Dawn is coming, the night is almost gone

I came from where the Leo is rising
I've travelled through the space for so long
A forest nymph is calling for me
Come along and I will guide where to go

Age of Aquarius
Age of Aquarius

We ran to the mountain
We've found an ancient temple with my name
Then she bowed and said these words
We were waiting here a thousand years for you
Now you must do something
To bring the light
Now you must do something
To change the world

Age of Aquarius
Age of Aquarius

Returning again to mother earth
To set the fire and rain
I'm turning again the circles of time
To bring the sun back again

When you're underqualified but you get the job anyway. 

Edited December 8, 2022 by Loba

[Aaron p]

. Damnit wrong one lol. This one:

 

 

 

Edited December 8, 2022 by Aaron p

[Loba]

Cold night, strange dreams
Memory stuck like glue
Her face, her voice
Sail across the seas with you
Can you hear all the angels?

When you feel like you're out there on your own
Know there is someone watching over you
When out at sea, feels love can let go
Oh sailor, we will blow the wind right
But if you die out there, tearing you into two
I hope you know that you could sail right on
I hope you know you got the ocean blue

No sound worse than silence
A curse that grows
Big words kept in
Whispers of dreams untold
Just don't fight all the angels

When you feel like you're out there on your own
Know there is someone watching over you
When out at sea, feels love can let go
Oh sailor, we will blow the wind right
But if you die out there, tearing you into two
I hope you know that you could sail right on
I hope you know you got the ocean blue

When you feel like you're out there on your own
Know there is someone watching over you
When out at sea, feels love can let go
Oh sailor, we will blow the wind right
But if you die out there, tearing you into two
I hope you know that you could sail right on
I hope you know you got the ocean blue

When you feel like you're out there on your own
Know there is someone watching over you
When out at sea, feels love can let go
Oh sailor, we will blow the wind right
But if you die out there, breaking you into two
I hope you know that you could sail right on
I hope you know you got the ocean blue

 

[Loba]

When you walk away
You don't hear me say,
"Please, oh baby, don't go."
Simple and clean is the way that you're making me feel tonight
It's hard to let it go

You're giving me too many things
Lately, you're all I need.
You smiled at me and said,

"Don't get me wrong, I love you,
But does that mean I have to meet your father?"
When we are older you'll understand
What I meant when I said,
"No, I don't think life is quite that simple."

When you walk away
You don't hear me say,
"Please, oh baby, don't go."
Simple and clean is the way that you're making me feel tonight
It's hard to let it go

So simple and clean

The daily things
(like this and that and what is what)
That keep us all busy are confusing me
That's when you came to me and said,

"Wish I could prove I love you,
But does that mean I have to walk on water?"
When we are older you'll understand
It's enough when I say so
And maybe some things are that simple

When you walk away
You don't hear me say,
"Please, oh baby, don't go."
Simple and clean is the way that you're making me feel tonight
It's hard to let it go

Hold me
Whatever lies beyond this morning
Is a little later on
Regardless of warnings the future doesn't scare me at all
Nothing's like before

When you walk away
You don't hear me say,
"Please, oh baby, don't go."
Simple and clean is the way that you're making me feel tonight
It's hard to let it go

Hold me
Whatever lies beyond this morning
Is a little later on
Regardless of warnings the future doesn't scare me at all
Nothing's like before

Mercury, Quicksilver and Messenger Service

In ancient times, the wing-footed Roman god Mercury zipped around, carrying lofty messages from one god to another. Mercury flew so quickly, in fact, that the Romans named the fastest-moving planet for him.  The Romans gave Mercury's name to a silvery metal that moved almost as fast as he did: "argentum vivum," literally "living silver," now known as "quicksilver" or, in cold climates where the plunging mercury requires warm clothing, "long-john silver."  Mercury also entered our language in a more indirect way. Mercury's Greek name was "Hermes," and the Greeks identified Hermes with Thoth, the Egyptian god of wisdom.

Forever contemplating the nature of the prima materia, God's messenger.
Intention: neutralize destructive chain reactions.  Not a fan of these kind of movies, but the music is good to bring something to fruition, the nature of the narrative lends well to let go of the tackiness.  Meh.

Edited December 12, 2022 by Loba

[Ulax]

 

Edited December 13, 2022 by Ulax

[LastThursday]

Some classical. Good old Grieg:

 

[Loba]

Molten bloody earth
A focused open wound
All highways lead right here
Ghost

Storms and heavy air
Riots in the street
I'll take you somewhere safe
Ghost

Will we feel the same
Caught between the sheets
Time is time again
Ghost

Just show me your world
Will we feel the same

Dancing around my head
Glowing stems of death
Time is time again
Ghost

Anodyne you hurt like heaven
Physical comfort drift away
Anodyne you move like heaven
Physical comfort drift away
Anodyne distortion has brought us back together
Operation Overlife guide us away

I find Bukowski to be a writer who must have flirted with the Gods themselves... it's as though the God of writing bestowed him with the wisdom of the ages.
And as for such things... to really do any good is to See it within yourself first and foremost.  
So much of it within the heart of a single man, that to See it in the world is to simply step into a hall of infinite mirrors.

"The genius of the crowd"

There is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average
Human being to supply any given army on any given day

And the best at murder are those who preach against it
And the best at hate are those who preach love
And the best at war finally are those who preach peace

Those who preach god, need god
Those who preach peace do not have peace
Those who preach peace do not have love

Beware the preachers
Beware the knowers
Beware those who are always reading books
Beware those who either detest poverty
Or are proud of it
Beware those quick to praise
For they need praise in return
Beware those who are quick to censor
They are afraid of what they do not know
Beware those who seek constant crowds for
They are nothing alone
Beware the average man the average woman
Beware their love, their love is average
Seeks average

But there is genius in their hatred
There is enough genius in their hatred to kill you
To kill anybody
Not wanting solitude
Not understanding solitude
They will attempt to destroy anything
That differs from their own
Not being able to create art
They will not understand art
They will consider their failure as creators
Only as a failure of the world
Not being able to love fully
They will believe your love incomplete
And then they will hate you
And their hatred will be perfect

Like a shining diamond
Like a knife
Like a mountain
Like a tiger
Like hemlock

Their finest art

Edited December 17, 2022 by Loba

[eos_nyxia]

Lately, I've been giving a few groups I've been aware of a more serious listen, like Daughter. (Who I was aware of vaguely before I heard that they were going to score Life is Strange: Before the Storm.) It's definitely some moody introvert music. Paying attention to the lyrics more now, they're definitely way darker than I remembered.

I've also felt like music has been supporting me more lately, and has felt less like a sort of pretty decoration to fill up space a time...

 I think this is somewhat faster than the album version:

 Acoustic versions of Prefab Spout:

 This one has been living in my head rent-free the past week:   (and a fall-winter mood, if I've ever heard one.)

And this one, the original which was my introduction to them:

Very underrated group from the 80s...

Edited December 19, 2022 by eos_nyxia
music mood lately: ***ugly cries in acoustic guitar********

[Loba]

I know that you're going
Wish I knew where to
I'd follow right behind you
I'd follow in your footsteps
Your shadow over me
Like a curtain dressed in navy blue

You know all of these stars that we once wished upon
Could merely be memories
Oh, but all of these moments I still call upon
When I don't feel anything

Oh, when I crumble to dust on the ground
And life makes us stumble and turn life around
I wish I had a way to tell you
But time only tells the true fairytales

I know what you're doing
Wish I could do it too
In shadows I would find you
I'd make the darkness tremble
I'd make the light believe
In nothing else but you and me

 

Edited December 24, 2022 by Loba

[Loba]

That's enough, the end
Comes undone
Falls off the edge, falls out young
Falls off the edge, falls off love
As dark comes the night
Before sunlight

That's enough, the end
Comes undone
Falls off the edge, falls out young
Falls off the edge, falls off love
As dark comes the night
Before sunlight

As winter takes me now, of cold and clammy skin
A barren empty womb, as I am born again
It's pulling at my hair, and crawling all within
A gentle beating heart is swept away by sin

That's enough, the end
Comes undone
Falls off the edge, falls out young
Falls off the edge, falls off love
As dark comes the night
We all die young

The monster in your head, won't surface again
Be still my child, wash away the sin
And I as future king, walk off the edge
Hold me by my name, hold me till the end

Hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas, enjoy the spirit of the season! 

[Loba]

Baby, please try to forgive me
Stay here don't put out the glow
Hold me now don't bother
If every minute it makes me weaker
You can save me from the man that I've become, oh yeah

Looking back on the things I've done
I was trying to be someone
I played my part, kept you in the dark
Now let me show you the shape of my heart

Sadness is beautiful, loneliness that's tragical
So help me I can't win this war, oh no
Touch me now, don't bother
If every second it makes me weaker
You can save me from the man I've become

Looking back on the things I've done
I was trying to be someone (trying)
I played my part, kept you in the dark (in the dark)
Now let me show you the shape of my heart

I'm here with my confession
Got nothing to hide no more
I don't know where to start
But to show you the shape of my heart

I'm lookin' back on things I've done
I never wanna play the same old part
I'll keep you in the dark (keep you in the dark)
Now let me show you the shape of my heart
Looking back on the things I've done
I was trying to be someone (trying to be someone)
I played my part, kept you in the dark
Now let me show you the shape of my heart (now let me show you the shape of my heart)
Looking back on the things I've done
I was trying to be someone
I played my part, kept you in the dark
Now let me show you the shape of

Show you the shape of my heart

(I prefer slowed reverb - BSB sound like men, now.) ;P 

[ryandesreu]

 

 

 

 

 

3 songs with great musicians, vocals, and deep lyrics.

 

[Zeroguy]

 

[Loba]

My only love

Do I ever wonder
More than words can say
Heaven knows it's hard
Enough to pray
Let me tell you something
There is a change in me
We've been out, you're gone
You'll always be

My only love

Does it seem so funny?
For the fool to pray
Do know the meaning?
Of goodbye
As your wind goes through me
We are all in a dream
And you need to know
Even when they leave

My only love

[Loba]

It was me on that road
But you couldn't see me
Too many lights out, but nowhere near here
It was me on that road
Still you couldn't see me
And then flash lights and explosions

Road's end getting nearer
We cover distance, but not together
I am the storm and I am the wonder
And the flashlights, nightmares
And sudden explosions

I don't know what more to ask for
I was given just one wish

It's about you and the sun
A morning run
The story of my maker
What I have and what I ache for
I've got a golden ear
I cut and I spear
But what else is there?

Road's end getting nearer
We cover distance still not together
If I am the storm, if I am the wonder
Will I have flashlights, nightmares
And sudden explosions?

There's no room where I can go and
You've got secrets, too
I don't know what more to ask for
I was given just one wish

A pale white girl rests in a forest and sometimes a sunlit field just at the edge of my manifestation visions as of late - who is she?  Me?  A guide?  She showed up when I let go of all of my old work and began to design a "wish" to bring balance and research into the problems the planet faces to come to know what I am up against pertaining to all forms of dysfunction. 
Strange how it all transmogrifies the moment you shed Light on it, building from any which way you move.  I would Be such a thing if I could, illuminated like living marble.

[Proserpina]

I never thought I'd be a killer
Cause there's so much to lose
But if I can't drink the water
What else can I do

And although the axe is heavy
It just sits in my hands
While you're changing like the current
Not a shore on land

Every time I try to bring it down
You always turn my head around

Make up your mind
Let me live or let me love you
While you've been saving your neck
I've been breaking mine for you
The power is on, the guillotine hums
My back's to the wall, go on, let it fall, oh
Make up your mind
Before I make it up for you

I never thought that I'd be facing
A sea that's bluer than the tide [?]
Now my knees are shaking
And I can't look in your eyes

But if you're gonna make me do it
How'd you want it done
Is it best to sip it slowly
Or drink it down in one

Every time I try to bring it down
You always turn my head around

Make up your mind
Let me live or let me love you
While you've been saving your neck
I've been breaking mine for you
The power is on, the guillotine hums
My back's to the wall, go on, let it fall, oh
Make up your mind
Before I make it up for you

The executioner's within me
And he comes blindfold ready
Sword in hand
And arms so steady
Every time I try to bring it down
You always turn my head around
But every time I try to bring it down
You always turn my head around

Make up your mind
Let me live or let me love you
While you've been saving your neck
I've been breaking mine for you
The power is on, the guillotine hums
My back's to the wall, go on, let it fall, oh
Make up your mind
Before I make it up for you
Make up your mind
Let me live or let me love you
While you've been saving your neck
I've been breaking mine for you
The power is on, the guillotine hums
My back's to the wall, go on, let it fall
Oh, make up your mind
Before I make it up for you

(my tears stream down my face.  I look up and the eyes of wizard stares back at me through the smoke.  The eyes of wellbeing, that streams life energy.  So rarely do I meet him these days.  'Let me live or let me love you'. 'don't drown in a sea of negativity when you can float in an ocean of life')

Edited December 30, 2022 by Proserpina