Since I commute from Ogden to Lagoon, I spend a fair amount of my time sitting in my car. I don't really mind, I like my car. It's a little, green, Subaru Forester that has tons of hardcore mountain biking stickers on it. It always makes me laugh when people pass me and get all weirded out by the tiny ginger girl in the badass mountain biking car.
I'm not one of those weird silent drivers, when I'm in the car I'm listening to music.
I used to just listen to whatever is on the radio, but after I'd heard Adele's "Rolling In The Deep" for the 890497932093485'th time I decided I either had to change what I listened to...or kill Adele.
Fortunately for her, I just burned myself a bunch of random cd's and all was well.
On one of the cd's is a song that has become my new favorite song of all time. It is by one of my favorite bands: The Airborne Toxic Event. I think the lyrics to this song are just so sweet, so I'm going to post them for you to read.
They're good. I promise.
The Graveyard Near The House
By: The Airborne Toxic Event
The other day when we were walking by the graveyard near the house you asked me
if I thought we Would ever die.
And if life and love both fade so predictably,
we've made ourselves a kind of predictable lie.
So I pictured us like corpses
lying side by side in pieces
in some dark and lonely plot under a bough.
We looked so silly There all decomposed,
half turned to dust in tattered clothes,
though we probably look just as silly now.
Bye, bye, bye, all this dog-eared innocence.
I can't pretend that I can tell you what is going to happen next
or how to be.
But you have no idea about me.
Do you?
It left me to wonder if people ever know each other
or just stumble around like strangers in the dark.
Because sometimes You seem so strange to me,
I must seem strange to you.
We're like two actors playing two parts.
Did you memorize your lines? 'Cause I did.
Here's the part where I get so mad.
I tell you that I can't forget the past.
You get so quiet now
And you seem somehow
like a lost and lonely child
and you just hope that the moment won't last.
Bye, bye, bye all this dogged innocence.
I can't pretend that I can tell you
what is going to happen next or how to be.
But you have no idea about me.
Do you?
Still, there's always a way around.
There's something tying our feet to the ground.
A moment passed, we hear how it sounds.
And it seems a little less profound,
like we're all
Going the same way down.
I'm just trying to write it all down.
I write songs, and you write letters.
We are tied like two in tethers,
and we talk and read and laugh and sleep at night in
Bed together.
And you wake in tears sometimes, I can see the thoughts flash across your eyes.
They say, “Darling will you be kind?
Will you be a good man and stay behind if I get old?”
Then the letters all flash through my head,
with the words that I was told
about the fading flesh of life and love,
The failures of the bold.
I can list each crippling fear like I'm reading from a will.
And I'll defy every one and love you still.
I will carry you with me up every hill.
And if you die before I die,
I'll carve your name out of the sky.
I'll fall asleep with your memory
and dream of where you lie.
It may be better to move on
and to let life just carry on
and I may be wrong. Still I'll try.
Because it's better to love whether you win or lose or die.
It's better to love and I will love you until I die.
I know that it's kind of morbid, and a little depressing at first, but I really really love this song. I hate songs that make life seem like this perfect fairy tale- and this one brings to light that life is hard sometimes. Even if you find someone you love more than anything, it can be hard. But it's also so incredibly worth it to make your love last.
I'm in kind of a sappy mood lately I guess, but I have been listening to this song nonstop.
I love it.
Moral of This Story: I'm a sucker for love songs.
The End.
