Okay, The Beatles. We are born, we grow up, we die, and there is always The Beatles. Their music is just there, like air, or water. For my parents, they were a Super Big Deal. For me, they just were. They were a 45 RPM record with an apple in the middle, a scratchy B-side called … [Read more...]
Songs That Stab Me in the Heart: “Baby Can I Hold You” By Tracy Chapman
I've been singing this lately as I clean, or fold clothes, or cut the 1,000th Box Tops For Education cardboard square. It's not exactly a happy working song, but I find it sort of soothing, and sort of sad. Years gone by and still Words don't come easily Like forgive … [Read more...]
Songs That Stab Me in the Heart: “100 Years” by Five For Fighting
Monday, PM You'll notice a trend in these songs. Many of them are about loss, or memories. Maybe it's my age, or the losses I have suffered, which by comparison to people around the world are tame. Maybe it's the weird place I'm in, creatively, professionally, personally. But … [Read more...]
Songs That Stab Me in the Heart: “Cannonball” by Damien Rice
there's still a little bit of your song, in my ear, there's still a little bit of your words, i long to hear, you step a little closer to me, so close that i can't see, what's going on All of the live versions of this song (even the cover by a makeup-plastered quartet on … [Read more...]
Songs That Stab Me in the Heart: “Run” by Snow Patrol
Light up Light up As if you have a choice Even if you cannot hear my voice I'll be right beside you, dear … [Read more...]
