Cy's Playlist
Certain friends of mine inadvertently made me want to do this by posting their own, so here goes. (AND TO THOSE TO WHOM I OWE DRABBLES--going to work on that this week after we've moved into our new place, since we will have no shiny internets to distract me. PREPARE FOR THE AVALANCHE WHEN I RETURN.)
WONDER - Chris Rice
I could stand here looking at you for a thousand years
And if I could, I’d fly to the heavens and meet you there
But this gravity keeps holding me down
So I’ll just keep watching you slide through the summer sky
And it makes me smile while you mingle with your lights with the fireflies
And I don’t want to stop this spinning around
LIFE IN TECHNICOLOR - Coldplay
Instrumental
42 - Coldplay
Those who are dead are not dead
They're just living in my head
And since I fell for that spell
I am living there as well
SPEED OF SOUND - Coldplay
All that noise, and all that sound
All those places I got found
And birds go flying at the speed of sound
To show you how it all began
Birds came flying from the underground
If you could see it then you'd understand
PLAYING TO THE FIRMAMENT - Dar Williams
And when did sex get so mean, when did crime get so clean
You know I just can't seem to find the soul in this striving
Why not play to a dream, cause the world is too green
For all this bad driving
SEE THE SUN - Dido
Cy/Des
Come on take my hand
We're going for a walk, I know you can
You can wear anything as long as it's not black
Please don't mourn forever
She's not coming back
MARSH KING’S DAUGHTER - Eisley
Come on darling run with me, we'll take the bog on foot
we'll be not lost you see, though dark the bog shall be
When we arrive there on our feet you just stay close to me
BRIGHTLY WOUND - Eisley
I shall never grow up
Make believe is much too fun
Can we go far away to the humming meadow
This place is so lovely
It kind of makes me very happy
Let's go far away to the humming meadow
MARVELOUS THINGS - Eisley
Dark night hold tight, and sleep tight
my baby
Morning light shall burst bright
and keep us here safely
I followed a rabbit
through rows of mermaid entwined Shrubbery
Oh what marvelous things but, they are, they are, they are
giving me the creeps
PLENTY OF PAPER - Eisley
Cy/Tag
I cut the moon in half
And stuck a piece to my hair
It made the back of my head glow
Golden yellow and then I took
Ten stars on sticks and placed them in my small metal
Bucket and I gave the other half of the moon to you
Ooh, so you wouldn't forget me while I'm gone
IT’S ONLY A PAPER MOON - Ella Fitzgerald
Cy/Tag
I never feel a thing is real
When I'm away from you
Out of your embrace
The world's a temporary parking place
WILD CHILD - Enya
Ever close your eyes
Ever stop and listen
Ever feel alive
And you've nothing missing
You don't need a reason
Let the day go on and on
ORDINARY DAY - Great Big Sea
See that girl on the street, what keeps her from dying
Let them say what they want, she won't stop trying
She might stumble, if they push her 'round
She might fall, but she'll never lie down
THE REMEDY - Jason Mraz
The remedy is the experience.
This is a dangerous liaison
I say the comedy is that it's serious.
This is a strange enough new play on words
I say the tragedy is how you're gonna spend
The rest of your nights with the light on
So shine the light on all of your friends
When it all amounts to nothing in the end.
I won’t worry my life away.
OMNA MAGNI - Makino Yui
shadow of the dead
suffering of the living
bliss of the dark
frenzy of the light
lump it all together
wrap it in beautiful lace
enveloped in gloom
a leggy shadow screams
DIRTY KNIFE - Neko Case
So suddenly the madness came
With it's whiskered, wolven ether pangs
He locked the door and he shut the blinds
He laid down on the floor and he slept like iron
While the dirty knife wore deep into his spine
TESTAMENT TO YOUTH IN VERSE - The New Pornographers
Oh my sweet witness
Can't you hear the voices?
They're telling the children to rock
For their choices
The bells ring
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no...
HOTEL SONG - Regina Spektor
I have dreams of orca whales and owls
But I wake up in fear
You will never be my, you will never be my dear
Will never be my dear, dear friend
WEAR YOUR LOVE LIKE HEAVEN - Sarah McLachlan
Cannot believe what I see
All I have wished for will be
All of our race proud and free
Wear your love like Heaven
HEAVEN’S NOT ENOUGH - Steve Conte
and heaven's not enough
if when I'm there I don't remember you
and heaven does enough
you think you know it
and it uses you
TRUE LOVE - Steve Conte
True love, true love
I need it
True love
Sweet and simple and it keeps me living
True love, true love
You give me
True love
Yeah, the only reason I'll never give in
BOOK OF DREAMS - Suzanne Vega
I took your urgent whisper
Stole the arc of a white wing
Rode like foam on the river of pity
Turned its tide to strength
Healed the hole that ripped in living
In my book of dreams
In my book of dreams
BLOOD MAKES NOISE - Suzanne Vega
I think that you might want to know
The details and the facts
But there's something in my blood
Denies the memory of the acts
So just forget it Doc.
I think it's really
Cool that you're concerned
But we'll have to try again
After the silence has returned
LEFT OF CENTER - Suzanne Vega
When they ask me
"What are you looking at?"
I always answer
"Nothing much" (not much)
I think they know that
I'm looking at them
I think they think
I must be out of touch
ONLY HOPE - Switchfoot
There's a song that's inside of my soul
It's the one that I've tried to write over and over again
I'm awake in the infinite cold
But you sing to me over and over again
WONDER - Chris Rice
I could stand here looking at you for a thousand years
And if I could, I’d fly to the heavens and meet you there
But this gravity keeps holding me down
So I’ll just keep watching you slide through the summer sky
And it makes me smile while you mingle with your lights with the fireflies
And I don’t want to stop this spinning around
LIFE IN TECHNICOLOR - Coldplay
Instrumental
42 - Coldplay
Those who are dead are not dead
They're just living in my head
And since I fell for that spell
I am living there as well
SPEED OF SOUND - Coldplay
All that noise, and all that sound
All those places I got found
And birds go flying at the speed of sound
To show you how it all began
Birds came flying from the underground
If you could see it then you'd understand
PLAYING TO THE FIRMAMENT - Dar Williams
And when did sex get so mean, when did crime get so clean
You know I just can't seem to find the soul in this striving
Why not play to a dream, cause the world is too green
For all this bad driving
SEE THE SUN - Dido
Cy/Des
Come on take my hand
We're going for a walk, I know you can
You can wear anything as long as it's not black
Please don't mourn forever
She's not coming back
MARSH KING’S DAUGHTER - Eisley
Come on darling run with me, we'll take the bog on foot
we'll be not lost you see, though dark the bog shall be
When we arrive there on our feet you just stay close to me
BRIGHTLY WOUND - Eisley
I shall never grow up
Make believe is much too fun
Can we go far away to the humming meadow
This place is so lovely
It kind of makes me very happy
Let's go far away to the humming meadow
MARVELOUS THINGS - Eisley
Dark night hold tight, and sleep tight
my baby
Morning light shall burst bright
and keep us here safely
I followed a rabbit
through rows of mermaid entwined Shrubbery
Oh what marvelous things but, they are, they are, they are
giving me the creeps
PLENTY OF PAPER - Eisley
Cy/Tag
I cut the moon in half
And stuck a piece to my hair
It made the back of my head glow
Golden yellow and then I took
Ten stars on sticks and placed them in my small metal
Bucket and I gave the other half of the moon to you
Ooh, so you wouldn't forget me while I'm gone
IT’S ONLY A PAPER MOON - Ella Fitzgerald
Cy/Tag
I never feel a thing is real
When I'm away from you
Out of your embrace
The world's a temporary parking place
WILD CHILD - Enya
Ever close your eyes
Ever stop and listen
Ever feel alive
And you've nothing missing
You don't need a reason
Let the day go on and on
ORDINARY DAY - Great Big Sea
See that girl on the street, what keeps her from dying
Let them say what they want, she won't stop trying
She might stumble, if they push her 'round
She might fall, but she'll never lie down
THE REMEDY - Jason Mraz
The remedy is the experience.
This is a dangerous liaison
I say the comedy is that it's serious.
This is a strange enough new play on words
I say the tragedy is how you're gonna spend
The rest of your nights with the light on
So shine the light on all of your friends
When it all amounts to nothing in the end.
I won’t worry my life away.
OMNA MAGNI - Makino Yui
shadow of the dead
suffering of the living
bliss of the dark
frenzy of the light
lump it all together
wrap it in beautiful lace
enveloped in gloom
a leggy shadow screams
DIRTY KNIFE - Neko Case
So suddenly the madness came
With it's whiskered, wolven ether pangs
He locked the door and he shut the blinds
He laid down on the floor and he slept like iron
While the dirty knife wore deep into his spine
TESTAMENT TO YOUTH IN VERSE - The New Pornographers
Oh my sweet witness
Can't you hear the voices?
They're telling the children to rock
For their choices
The bells ring
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no...
HOTEL SONG - Regina Spektor
I have dreams of orca whales and owls
But I wake up in fear
You will never be my, you will never be my dear
Will never be my dear, dear friend
WEAR YOUR LOVE LIKE HEAVEN - Sarah McLachlan
Cannot believe what I see
All I have wished for will be
All of our race proud and free
Wear your love like Heaven
HEAVEN’S NOT ENOUGH - Steve Conte
and heaven's not enough
if when I'm there I don't remember you
and heaven does enough
you think you know it
and it uses you
TRUE LOVE - Steve Conte
True love, true love
I need it
True love
Sweet and simple and it keeps me living
True love, true love
You give me
True love
Yeah, the only reason I'll never give in
BOOK OF DREAMS - Suzanne Vega
I took your urgent whisper
Stole the arc of a white wing
Rode like foam on the river of pity
Turned its tide to strength
Healed the hole that ripped in living
In my book of dreams
In my book of dreams
BLOOD MAKES NOISE - Suzanne Vega
I think that you might want to know
The details and the facts
But there's something in my blood
Denies the memory of the acts
So just forget it Doc.
I think it's really
Cool that you're concerned
But we'll have to try again
After the silence has returned
LEFT OF CENTER - Suzanne Vega
When they ask me
"What are you looking at?"
I always answer
"Nothing much" (not much)
I think they know that
I'm looking at them
I think they think
I must be out of touch
ONLY HOPE - Switchfoot
There's a song that's inside of my soul
It's the one that I've tried to write over and over again
I'm awake in the infinite cold
But you sing to me over and over again