A Bed of Songs & Stories

"Come Undone" - Duran Duran This song is dedicated to my insomnia. I woke up this morning with a towel wrapped around my head, all the lights turned on, and my bed made. I looked over to the digital clock above my TV and it read, "9:01A." The sunshine made its way through my deep pink curtains. The air was beginning to warm up as I stretched over my neatly-placed bedsheets beneath me. I pulled a pillow over my face and let the cool side rest against my skin as I attempted to recall what exactly happened last night. I wasn't drunk. I strayed away from the Grey and barely had one drink made up of more ice than candy-flavored liquor. No, I didn't let a random good-for-nothing guy buy it for me and yes, I was staring at Miss Bartender the whole time as she put this concoction together. I wasn't emotional. No fights broke out before, during or after this last minute shindig. My black eyeliner and tightly-wound ponytail stayed in tact even through the heat ...

"Set Adrift on Memory Bliss" - P.M. Dawn I started off with 3 songs, but ended up with none. I searched and found a few more that I want to revisit later. That's 6. Not to mention the 7 drafts I still have sitting in my folder. Bringing this total to 16, silently waiting for me. The music is once again flooding my thoughts and although it would be easy to just post, I know stories linger in there somewhere. If I simply cut and paste, I won't go back to add onto it and this is what makes it worth publishing. I need a full five nights dedicated to you, Dear Blog. I need to put your songs up. I need to clean you up. I need to fine-tune you and I know I've been careless. Please know I will take care of you as I did once before. So forgive me for breaking away, but I'm still learning how to balance my emotional state to find the right words to express how I feel without jumping from one extreme to the next. So let me start with this song. It always begins with som...

It's been 7 days, dear Blog. This time it was intentional to leave you be for a bit. Not because I was hurting, but because I wasn't... hence, why it's been a challenge to write. I'm not so sure how to move so freely in this area of my life, but I don't mind adjusting to it. I'll be back later to tell you all about it.

"Take Care" - Drake feat. Rihanna I didn't have to ask. I didn't even expect... I didn't have to do anything and all of a sudden, my tulips finally came with a brighter and stronger heart. Lyrics: Know you’ve been hurt by someone else I can tell by the way you carry yourself If you let me, here’s what I’ll do I’ll take care of you I’ve loved and I’ve lost I’ve asked about you and they told me things But my mind didn’t change And I still feel the same What's a life with no fun? please don’t be so ashamed I’ve had mine, you’ve had yours we both know We know, they don’t get you like I will My only wish is I die real Cuz that truth hurts, and those lies heal And you can’t sleep thinking that he lies still So you cry still, tears all in the pillow case Big girls all get a little taste Pushing me away so I give her space Dealing with a heart that I didn’t break I’ll be there for you, I will care for you I keep thanking you just don’t know Trying to run from that,...

"Greatest Love of All" - Whitney Houston I refuse to read into how you died and why for I will remember you for how you lived. I grew up to you, attempting to sing songs I knew I can never, ever sing. And even though you struggled to hit the notes that once came to you with such ease, it doesn't shy away from the fact that your range surpassed beyond what many have tried so desperately to reach. No one can sing it the way you could and with that I say goodbye to you. May you sing the way you once sang and as passionately as you sang it for all time. Lyrics: I believe the children are our future Teach them well and let them lead the way Show them all the beauty they possess inside Give them a sense of pride to make it easier Let the children's laughter remind us how we used to be Everybody searching for a hero People need someone to look up to I never found anyone to fulfill my needs A lonely place to be So I learned to depend on me I decided long ago, never to walk in...

"Midnight City" - M83 Because this song matches the time that matches my mood that is my life. Lyrics: Waiting in a car Waiting for a ride in the dark The night city grows Look and see her eyes, they glow Waiting in a car Waiting for a ride in the dark Drinking in the lounge Following the neon signs Waiting for a roar Looking at the mutating skyline The city is my church It wraps me in the sparkling twilight Waiting in a car Waiting for the right time Waiting in a car Waiting for the right time Waiting in a car Waiting for the right time Waiting in a car Waiting for the right time Waiting in a car Waiting for a ride in the dark http://www.lyricsty.com/m83-midnight-city-lyrics.html http://newfangledmusic.blogspot.com/2011/07/galactic-midnight-city.html

"Somebody that I Used to Know" - Gotye feat. Kimbra It's the cover version (thanks neighbor) that lead me to the original and now I can't stop listening to it. Both drew me in...literally so I included them here. They need to be heard. They need to be seen. Because you...all of you before him...need to hear and see it. Though I'm grateful you're leaving me alone for obvious reasons, though I'm hopeful you will continue to do so, I'm pretty sure you're still reading me. So, here. Cover by Walk off the Earth Lyrics: Now and then I think of when we were together Like when you said you felt so happy you could die Told myself that you were right for me But felt so lonely in your company But that was love and it's an ache I still remember You can get addicted to a certain kind of sadness Like resignation to the end, always the end So when we found that we could not make sense Well you said that we would still be friends But I'll admit that...

"About You" - Mary J. Blige This played today on the way to work. I haven't heard it in a while and it decided to play for me at the exact moment I needed to hear it. Lyrics: Mary J Will I am in the place with the love Yeah, it feels, it feels good Mary J, Will.I.Am Tell 'em how ya feel Boy you got me goin' crazy I don't know what to say anymore Cuz still I wanna be your lady You know that I would never walk out that door I'm not giving up on us but Things can get a little hard in this life But you know, you know I love you You're everything I ever wanted Everything I've never wanted In a man, can't you see What you're doing to me I'm sayin yes and sayin no Because I dont want you to know How I really feel, how I really feel About you (you know how I feel) About you (you know how I feel) About you (how I feel, you know how I feel) So glad to have you in my life (It's a new life for me, yeah) (Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yea...