This edition of ‘song of the day‘ is also a post for ‘Song Lyric Sunday‘. The challenge is to post a song that fits the weekly theme. Or even a song that doesn’t fit… just to share some lyrics and music.
This week’s theme is rules.
Rules… I suppose they serve a purpose. To irritate me. No… I’m just kidding. Kind of.
I was a good kid… I followed the rules… I never got into trouble. As I grew up, I recognized (or decided?) that some rules were just stupid. And although I kept myself out of trouble, I didn’t always follow the rules. I didn’t break the law or anything (well, there is one but that’s legal now).
I break writing rules all the time. Not resulting in poor grammar… because that irritates me. (Hey, it doesn’t count if I’m casually writing the way I talk… which I’m doing now…) I break rules like using random words from lists of words I’ve been told I should never use. And rules like starting sentences with and or but. And I don’t care what ‘they’ say, I like the way I write. Rules or not.
I had a couple of songs in mind for the rules theme… or more accurately, breaking rules (like stealing a car… see below)… but I’ve chosen this one. I did post this song before during the a-to-z challenge… but I’m breaking my own rule to never re-post the same song…
Jackie and Wilson / Hozier
So tired trying to see from behind the red in my eyes
No better version of me I could pretend to be tonight
So deep in this swill with the most familiar of swine
For reasons wretched and divine
She blows out of nowhere, Roman candle of the wild
Laughing her way through my feeble disguise
No other version of me I would rather be tonight
Lord, she found me just in time
Cause with my mid-youth crisis all said and done
I need to be youthfully felt, cause God I never felt young
She’s gonna save me, call me baby
Run her hands through my hair
She’ll know me crazy, soothe me daily
Better yet she wouldn’t care
We’ll steal a Lexus, be detectives
Ride ’round picking up clues
We’ll name our children Jackie and Wilson
Raise ’em on rhythm and blues
Lord it’d be great to find a place we could escape sometime
Me and my Isis growing black irises in the sunshine
Every version of me dead and buried in the yard outside
Sit back and watch the world go by
Happy to lie back, watch it burn and rust
We tried the world, good God it wasn’t for us
She’s gonna save me, call me baby
Run her hands through my hair
She’ll know me crazy, soothe me daily
Better yet she wouldn’t care
We’ll steal a Lexus, be detectives
Ride ’round picking up clues
We’ll name our children Jackie and Wilson
Raise ’em on rhythm and blues
Cut clean from the dream that night, let my mind reset
Looking up from a cigarette, she’s already left
Start digging up the yard for what’s left of me and our little vignette
For whatever poor soul is coming next
She’s gonna save me, call me baby
Run her hands through my hair
She’ll know me crazy, soothe me daily
Better yet she wouldn’t care
We’ll steal a Lexus, be detectives
Ride ’round picking up clues
We’ll name our children Jackie and Wilson
Raise ’em on rhythm and blues
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Written by Hozier
This video is fun to watch. It makes me smile.
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That’s a great one! Fits perfectly with the prompt. 😃👍🏻
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Thanks… I thought so! And I’m glad I was able to write the post… before the poem I posted earlier, I hadn’t posted since Thursday. I was getting worried I’d never have anything to post again!
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Gotta relax. Let it come to you, ya’ know? You’re a great writer, so a dry spell won’t last long. 😊
I’ve been meaning to ask, I really liked the pic in your post this morning. One of yours?
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Not doing great with relaxing… job or no job, Monday is extremely stressful for me. I think it’s actually worse while I’m unemployed than it was when I was working. It’s not even 7pm on Sunday… and I’m already a mess…
Do you mean the picture of the girl looking out the window? It’s not mine… I got it from my truly-free license-free image source… I visit it frequently. I wish I had good enough pictures to use…!
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I hear ya on the Sunday thing. I get it being stressful, probably feels weird. I dread going to work sometimes, but I feel guilty being off sick or playing hookie.
I’m sure your pics are good. You should use them more often. 😊
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Yeah… part of it is guilt for me. And then I think of all the things I should be doing but am having SO much trouble doing.
I wish my pictures were sorted in a better way. They’re all by date so if I can’t remember when something happened, it takes me forever to find things!
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I have the same issue with my pics. But, even though I can’t remember my own name most days, I can find pics in my catalog fairly readily. It’s weird. 😃
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Cool song, and the video was fun to watch! 🙂 Good choice for the prompt!
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Thank you! I love that video… everyone just looks like they’re having so much fun…
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Yes, they do! 🙂
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Nice choice!
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Thanks! Glad you liked it!
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Great selection!
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Thanks!
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I hadn’t heard this one before, but I absolutely fell in love with it. Thanks so much for sharing!
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I’m so glad you liked it! Hozier is one of my favorite artists of all time… 🙂
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I’m going to have to check out more! 😊
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