Basically everything seems to be taking shape. I’ve quit smoking completely and Sam and I are re-shaping all of our plans. We’re going to start planning out our live together fully. I’m starting to put away more money and budget myself so I can contribute to this future. I’m excited.
Also Christmas was good. It didn’t feel like Christmas at all though. Just felt like a day to open up some gifts. I got a turn table that connects to the computer, so in the future if I get an album that has only vinyl bonus tracks, I’ll be able to rip them. It’ll be nice. I still need to buy a standard record player for my listening pleasures though. I hope everyone else had a great Christmas.
Tomorrow I’ll be posting my End Of The Year list of my Top 10 albums.
On December 24th all will be alright
I can drive around in hopes of seeing Christmas lights
and children will be tucked away, oh so tight
anticipating what Santa brought for them in night
but for me I smile from childhood memories
remembering all the times that child was me
but now the lights have dimmed on this Christmas tree
because Christmas isn’t the same without you next to me…
There’s no mistletoe when there’s no one to kiss
and this year I didn’t even bother making a list
because the one present that I want for me
is you wrapped up underneath my tree
The snow never falls here on Christmas day
if I’m lucky it’ll be cold with a chance of rain
to leave me with thoughts of how this use to be
but ever since we changed Christmas has been so lonely
There’s no mistletoe when there’s no one to kiss
and this year I didn’t even bother making a list
because the one present that I want for me
is you wrapped up underneath my tree
So I hope you have a Merry Christmas
and that you got everything on your list
I hope this year you’re far from lonely
because you deserve it like nobody
Else… else… else… else…
There’s no mistletoe when there’s no one to kiss
and this year I didn’t even bother making a list
because the one present that I want for me
is you wrapped up underneath my tree
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I’m trying to write a Christmas song every year. This is the first installment. I’m going to try to record it tomorrow at some point. Tell me what you think!
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For example. Today I was trying to write a new song. Trying is the key word there. I’m still writing it, but this new song is going to take a couple of days. I wasn’t feeling very inspired today, so I turned to another artist (most of the time that’s a bad idea). I turned to Andy Hull of Manchester Orchestra. I put on Manchester Orchestra’s new EP, Let My Pride Be What’s Left Behind, and holy shit. I never really even listened to this EP. The first track is the song that hit me hard. It’s call “I Can Feel A Hot One“. My God is this song great. It made me tear up a bit right at the end. Andy is an AMAZING writer. Now I know why I put him in the same category as Jesse Lacey of Brand New and Max Bemis of Say Anything. The dude is a fucking poet! This has easily become one of my favorite songs by Manchester Orchestra. I’m really excited for the new album which, if I’m not mistaken, just got a release date of March 31st, 2009. Well below you can read the lyrics to the song “I Can Feel A Hot One”. You can also visit their MySpace to listen to it.
“I Can Feel A Hot One”
I could feel a hot one taking me down
For a moment, I could feel the force
Fainted to the point of tears
And you were holding on to make a point
What’s the point?
I’m but a clean man, stable and alone man
Make it so I won’t have to try
The faces always stay the same
So I face the fact that I’m just fine
I said that I’m just fine
I remember, head down,
After you had found out
Manna is a hell of a drug
And I need a little more, I think
Because enough is never quite enough
What’s enough?
I took it like a grown man crying on the pavement
Hoping you would show your face
But I haven’t heard a thing you’ve said
In at least a couple hundred days
What’d you say?
I was in the front seat, shaking it out
And I was asking if you felt alright
I never want to hear the truth
I want to hear your voice, it sounded fine
My voice, it sounded fine
I could feel my heartbeat taking me down
And for the moment, I would sleep alright
Invading with a selfish fear
To keep me up another restless night
Another restless night
The blood was dry, it was sober
The feeling of audible cracks
And I could tell it was over
From the curtains that hung from your neck
And I realized that then you were perfect
And my teeth ripping out of my head
And it looked like a painting I once knew
Back when my thoughts weren’t entirely intact
To pray for what I thought were angels
Ended up being ambulances
And the Lord showed me dreams of my daughter
She was crying inside your stomach
And I felt love again
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If I’m a fresh struck match
You’re a gust of wind
Sure the breeze feels fine
But you blow all the time
Tell me whats so wrong with letting me shine
