Concurrently Maudlin and Deprecating Thought of the Day
From Death Cab:
You'll be loved you'll be loved
Like you never have known
The memories of me
Will seem more like bad dreams
Just a series of blurs
Like I never occurred
Someday you will be loved
You may feel alone when you're falling asleep
And everytime tears roll down your cheeks
But I know your heart belongs to someone you've yet to meet
Someday you will be loved
You'll be loved you'll be loved
Like you never have known
The memories of me
Will seem more like bad dreams
Just a series of blurs
Like I never occurred
Someday you will be loved
Lyric-writing has always fascinated me, since the time I was about 6 and my mother and I sat in front of our family's beat-up casette player rewinding and fastforwarding to get all the lyrics to Nena's 99 Luftballons down on paper. The lyricist's attempt to say something "original" (even
though you have to use rhymes that have been around for about an eternity of pop music), the fact that when ppl blog about lyrics it never really looks that great bc the music (which probably made the lyrics cool in the first place) is missing. :) There was a time when I wanted to be the next Tim Rice (It was listening to the AIDA soundtrack over and over again that did it to me.), but I think that came from my need to validate writing as a profession: an actual concrete one, with a name better than just "writer." ("Oh, I'm a writer!" sounded slightly less impressive than "I'm a lyricist!" back then.) Worst case scenario, the lyricist thing gave me a funny thing to write on my Senior Goals Card that got read aloud at my high school's Spring Chorus Concert. There were three of us that swore we were going to adapt Disney's Mulan to the stage.
Ah the eighties. Here's the English music video for 99 Luftballons. It's a bit more upbeat from the German one.
You'll be loved you'll be loved
Like you never have known
The memories of me
Will seem more like bad dreams
Just a series of blurs
Like I never occurred
Someday you will be loved
You may feel alone when you're falling asleep
And everytime tears roll down your cheeks
But I know your heart belongs to someone you've yet to meet
Someday you will be loved
You'll be loved you'll be loved
Like you never have known
The memories of me
Will seem more like bad dreams
Just a series of blurs
Like I never occurred
Someday you will be loved
Lyric-writing has always fascinated me, since the time I was about 6 and my mother and I sat in front of our family's beat-up casette player rewinding and fastforwarding to get all the lyrics to Nena's 99 Luftballons down on paper. The lyricist's attempt to say something "original" (even
though you have to use rhymes that have been around for about an eternity of pop music), the fact that when ppl blog about lyrics it never really looks that great bc the music (which probably made the lyrics cool in the first place) is missing. :) There was a time when I wanted to be the next Tim Rice (It was listening to the AIDA soundtrack over and over again that did it to me.), but I think that came from my need to validate writing as a profession: an actual concrete one, with a name better than just "writer." ("Oh, I'm a writer!" sounded slightly less impressive than "I'm a lyricist!" back then.) Worst case scenario, the lyricist thing gave me a funny thing to write on my Senior Goals Card that got read aloud at my high school's Spring Chorus Concert. There were three of us that swore we were going to adapt Disney's Mulan to the stage.Ah the eighties. Here's the English music video for 99 Luftballons. It's a bit more upbeat from the German one.
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Here's another "oh-this-should-be-comforting-but-instead-it's-traumatic" song about love or the complete lack of it:
True love will find you in the end
You'll find out just who was your friend
Don't be sad, I know you will
But don't give up until
True love will find you in the end
This is a promise with a catch
Only if you're looking will it find you
'Cause true love is searching too
But how can it recognize you
Unless you step out into the light?
Don't be sad, I know you will
Don't give up until
True love finds you in the end
True love will find you in the end
You'll find out just who was your friend
So don't be sad, I know you will
And don't give up until
True love finds you in the end
True love will find you in the end
True love will find you in the end
~Daniel Johnston
Yeah, what's the deal?
Singing about The-Love-That-Can-Be-Just-Not-With-Me is a bit erm weird.
Doesn't it sound kind of...I dunno...patronizing? Except that since it's men doing most of the singing on these subjects (does that say something?), somehow they get away with sounding Wise and Encouraging and Pushing You to be Powerful, instead of the reality, which is simply, I Don't Want You, But Hey, You're Still a Great Person, Blah Blah Blah, Don't Let My Rejection Get You Down.
Can we hit these people? Please?
The only way these songs work is if they're written by some guy for his sister. Then it's protective and cute. Like...what's that one..."The Middle," by Jimmy Eat World. I dunno if that's actually written for a guy's sister, but it's got a very fraternal feel to it which I find enjoyable, instead of the usual gilded pill rejection song.
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