Mood:
lyricalNow Playing: Black & White
unravel me
a distant cord
on the outside is forgotten
a constant need
to get along
and the animal awakens
and all I feel is black and white
the road is long
the memory slides
to the whole of my undoing
put aside
I put away
I push it back to get through each day
and all I feel is black and white
and I'm wound up small and tight
and I don't know who I am
everybody loves you when you're easy
everybody hates when you're a bore
everyone is waiting for your entrance so
don't disappoint them
unravel me
untie this chord
the very centre of our union
is caving in
I can't endure
I am the archive of our failure
and all I feel is black and white
and I'm wound up small and tight
and I don't know who I am
everybody loves you when you're easy
everybody hates when you're a bore
everyone is waiting for your entrance so
don't disappoint them
everybody loves you when you're easy so
don't disappoint them
don't disappoint them ...
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I had my "surfacing" CD in the stereo alongside Vince Gill's "I still believe in you". Oddly enough, Sarah lasted just long enough for me to finish steaming my artichoke (which was my dinner until Jim got home from duck hunting at 8), with some time for kitty snuggles while I waited for the timer to go off. Then Vince came on to serenade me while I ate. After that, I set the CD player to repeat this song, as I'd been trying to learn the lyrics to it for a while. As I listened to it, I realized it has somewhat of a "gotta move" rhythm to it. So, I just let it repeat and repeat and I danced my little heart out. Hey, with me, when the mood to exercise strikes, I don't hesitate. It doesn't happen often. Anyway, I danced around in several styles, got my heart pumping, stepped in time to cool down (short circuit around my living room). Then I sat on the floor and engaged myself in a pointless activity I do from time to time: transcribing the lyrics. Trouble is, none of the lyrics from this CD are printed on the jacket/book thingy. (Maybe that's a moot point, why would I be writing them out if I had them printed in front of me? Then again, I have done that before...) So, I'm sitting there, listening to this song for what must have been the 20th time, and I think I've got it down. I came into work tonight, of course I have that song stuck in my head (along with every other song I've heard in the last 6 hours). Not necessarily a bad thing, but I decided to post the lyrics here. Since I didn't bring the notebook I'd written them in, I had to look them up. Lo and behold, I had three words wrong, and all of them totally change the phrases they're in. Man, now I have to decide whether to sing it my way or her way...
In case you're wondering, here's what I heard, with corrections in parentheses:
- and all I fear (feel) is black & white
- everybody hates when you're a fool (bore)
- I am the archive of our faith (failure)