I’m sort of bailing on ‘Song Lyric Sunday‘ this week. This week’s theme is self-love. My music collection (and my taste in music in general) is often on the darker side. I could spend a few hours trying to find something that fits, but I’m not going to do that. I’m just going to post a song that’s been in my head lately. I never really intended to turn my ‘song of the day‘ thing into something else anyway… but combining it with this challenge works, too… sometimes…
This is a song about fucking up a relationship… something I’m familiar with.
First / Cold War Kids
Cheated and lied, broken so bad
You made a vow, never get mad
You play the game, though it’s unfair
They’re all the same, who can compare?
First you lose trust, then you get worried
Night after night, bar after club
Dropping like flies, who woke you up?
On the front lawn, sprinklers turn on
It’s not your house, where’d you go wrong?
First you get hurt, then you feel sorry
Flying like a cannonball, falling to the earth
Heavy as a feather when you hit the dirt
How am I the lucky one?
I do not deserve to wait around forever when you were there first
First you get hurt, then you feel sorry
There comes a time, in a short life
Turn it around, get a re-write
Call it a dark night of the soul
Ticking of clocks, gravity’s pull
First you get close, then you get worried
Flying like a cannonball, falling to the earth
Heavy as a feather when you hit the dirt
How am I the lucky one?
I do not deserve to wait around forever when you were there first
First you get hurt, then you feel sorry
You’re going silent, the silent treatment
It’s not inviting now
Don’t deny what you meant
You get excited, you get excited
You got a feeling, or at least you can pretend
You wanna light it, you wanna light it
You wanna light it now, the candle from both ends
You get excited, you get excited
Flying like a cannonball, falling to the earth
Heavy as a feather when you hit the dirt
How am I the lucky one?
I do not deserve to wait around forever when you were there first
Flying like a cannonball, falling to the earth
Heavy as a feather when you hit the dirt
How am I the lucky one?
I do not deserve to wait around forever when you were there first
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Written by Cold War Kids
what sandra thinks 
Nice song but I am more on the positive side… Still good listen.
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I just don’t usually connect with positive music. Upbeat, yes… positive messages? I never like it as much. I think the darker stuff has more emotion. But that’s me… 🙂
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I think so too but even in the darker stuff I find some positivity. 🙂
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Another good one. 😊
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🙂
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AHHHH! YES. I just downloaded First myself! Such a good, and fitting, track for this week. Nice one. I will now search my (fairly dark as well) music for something to contribute too 🙂
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It’s a great song, isn’t it? I love it.
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Ok found one. So this is more like Self Reassurance perhaps, than it is Self Love. But I was inspired half by the prompt and half by your song choice’s theme: fucking up a relationship (which is what basically half the songs I listen to are about- haha).
The song is Better Days by Graham Nash. And while I have a deep love of the classics, especially 70’s soul, funk and folk rock, this was not one I had on my playlist until recently when a friend reminded me of its existence and I felt a connection to it. Who hasn’t, at one point or another, had to have a pep talk to the mirror about letting someone go and remembering that you can have a fine day on your own? I find the song and lyrics soothing to the soul, in a sort of melancholy way.
BETTER DAYS – GRAHAM NASH
When your love has moved away
You must face yourself and you must say
I remember better days
Don’t you cry ’cause she is gone
She is only moving on
Chasing mirrors through a haze
Now that you know it’s nowhere
What’s to stop you coming home
All you got to do is go there
Then you’ll really realize what’s going down
You went to a strange land searching
For a truth you felt was wrong
That’s when the heartaches started
Though you’re where you want to be, you’re not where you belong
When your love has moved away
You must face yourself and you must say
I remember better days
Don’t you cry ’cause she is gone
She is only moving on
Chasing mirrors through a haze
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Cool…. Thanks for playing along! 🙂
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I think this one fits the theme as well. It is melancholy, but it fits. Thanks for playing along!
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I really liked this song. I like a lot of darker music as well, but I do find I like songs that have positive messages as well. Thanks so much for playing along!
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I’m glad you liked it! 🙂
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