Music makes the world go round: part 2

Lately my taste in music has shifted some from the harder electronical music I used to listen to before to softer songs, where the focus is more on the lyrics and the melody than just sounds. Maybe that is a part of growing up? Don't get me wrong, I can still enjoy some of the harder things, both synth and rock but right now I mostly listen to Matt Nathanson and Lifehouse.

The lyrics are the biggest part of this change I think, I listen more and more to lyrics and not only the music, I have always needed lyrics (not big on the instrumental stuff) but now it means even more than before. I have no idea if that got something to do with me actually "dealing" with stuff more now than I did before. I have actually calmed down quite a bit since I started writing this blog, I might not have many readers but I really don't write for you guys, I write for me.

I planned to give a few quotes from lyrics that get to me now, including links to said songs. So here goes:

Matt Nathanson -  Sad Songs
"I'm waiting up for you to rescue me
To come around and cover everything
Relying on my best memories
To breathe for me, breathe for me

So much better than all of this, all of this

I'm tired of singing all the sad songs in my head
But I can't find enough of anything to drown out what you said
And sometimes I find I catch myself letting you back in
And I'm so tired of singing all these sad songs in my head"

Lifehouse - Spin
"I'd rather chase your shadow all my life
Than be afraid of my own
I'd rather be with you
I'd rather not know
Where I'll be than be alone and convinced that I know

And when the world keeps spinning round
My world's upside down
and I wouldn't change a thing
I've got nothing else to lose
I lost it all when I found you
And I wouldn't change a thing
No, you and I wouldn't change a thing"

Lifehouse - Sick Cycle Carousel
"If shame had a face I think it would kind of look like mine
If it had a home would it be my eyes
Would you believe me if I said I'm tired of this
Well here we go now one more time

'Cause I tried to climb your steps
I tried to chase you down
I tried to see how low I can get down to the ground
I tried to earn my way
I tried to tame this mind
You better believe that I tried to beat this"

311 - Beautiful Disaster
"I know a drugstore cowgirl, so afraid of getting bored
She's always running from something, so many things ignored
I might do that stuff if it didn't make me feel like shit
I'm on some old reality tip, so many trips in it

Beautiful disaster, flyin' down the street again
I tried to keep up, you wore me out and left me ate up
Now I wish you all the luck
You're a butterfly in the wind without a care
A pretty train crash to me and I can't care
I do, I don't, whatever"

Matt Nathanson - All we are
"I tasted, tasted love so sweet
And all of it was lost on me
Bought and sold like property
Sugar on my tongue

I kept falling over
I kept looking backward
I went broke believing
That the simple should be hard

All we are we are
All we are we are
And every day is a start of something beautiful"

The interesting thing is these songs have been recommended to me via fanfic, I knew something good would come from reading fanfic! Fangirls rock!

Over and out