All We Are - OneRepublic

♫I tried to paint you a picture, the colors were all wrong
Black and white didn't fit you and all along,
You were shaded with patience, your strokes of everything
That I need just to make it, and I believe that...
Lord knows I've failed you
time and again, but you and me are alright.

Time can tear you apart
But it won't break anything that you are, you are

We won't say our goodbyes you know it's better that way
We won't break, we won't die
It's just a moment of change
All we are, all we are, is everything that's right
All we need, all we need, a lover's alibi

I walked a minute in your shoes, they never would've fit
I figured there's nothing to lose,
I need to get some perspective on these words before I write them down
You're an island and my ship has run aground
Lord knows I'll fail you time and again,
But you and me we're alright

We won't say our goodbyes you know its better that way
We won't break, we won't die
It's just a moment of change
All we are, all we are, is everything that's right
All we need all we need, a lover's alibi

Every single day that I can breathe, you change my philosophy
I'm never gonna let you pass me by
So don't say your goodbyes you know its better that way
We won't break, we won't die
It's just a moment of change

All we are, all we are, is everything that's right
All we need, all we need, a lover's alibi

So don't say our goodbyes you know its better
We won't break, we won't die.♫

She Hates Me - Puddle of Mud

I love this song. I have the dirty version (she says somewhat sheepishly). Can't help myself. I love this video...everything but the blonde. Bad casting. Blech!

Have a great weekend!

Medicine - Tab Benoit

I think I was born in a shack on the bayou.

I've memories of it

small wooden porch

creak of a rocking chair

the gentle sway of a lantern

crickets so loud they drown out sorrow

or are sorrow

or eat sorrow.

My eyes are the color of silt

and I've the scent of the water in my hair.

They keep telling me

I was born and raised inland

a city dweller

but I cannot reconcile the fact

I do not live where I ought.

My soul has never lived here.

♫I’m losing my mind, babe, the worse things happen I fear
Begging for mercy, there ain’t no connection out here
I’m getting sick of these things that’s going on
My fever’s high, my nights are long
One more shot to do me in

Bring me my medicine
Bring me my medicine

A hard times are holding me against y will
I’m so tired that I can’t find my flip
I’m stuck in the middle of the right and wrong
I don’t know what keeps me hanging on
Baby, can’t you see what a shape I’m in?

Bring me my medicine
Bring me my medicine

It/s so good when medicine hits my vein
just one time and I ain’t never been the same
People try to find out what’s the deal
All I know is how it makes me feel
Maybe this is pushing incomprehensible

Oh bring me my medicine
Bring me my medicine baby♫

Tab Benoit

("Tab Benoit (born November 17, 1967, Baton Rouge, Louisiana) is an American blues guitarist, musician and singer. He plays a style that is a combination of blues styles, including Chicago blues. He plays a Fender Telecaster electric guitar and writes his own musical compositions.

A guitar player since his teenage years, he hung out at the Blues Box, a music club and cultural center in Baton Rouge run by guitarist Tabby Thomas. Playing guitar alongside Thomas, Raful Neal, Henry Gray and other high-profile regulars at the club, Benoit learned the blues first-hand from a faculty of living blues legends. He formed a trio in 1987 and began playing clubs in Baton Rouge and New Orleans. He began touring other parts of the south two years later and started touring more of the United States in 1991- and he continues to this day.Tab is also featured in the IMAX film, Hurricane on the Bayou.")

ACK! I gotta see that movie!
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You Can Call Me Al - Jesse Young

♫A man walks down the street
He says why am I soft in the middle now
Why am I soft in the middle
The rest of my life is so hard
I need a photo-opportunity
I want a shot at redemption
Don't want to end up a cartoon
In a cartoon graveyard
Bonedigger Bonedigger
Dogs in the moonlight
Far away my well-lit door
Mr. Beerbelly Beerbelly
Get these mutts away from me
You know I don't find this stuff amusing anymore
If you'll be my bodyguard
I can be your long lost pal
I can call you Betty
And Betty when you call me
You can call me Al

A man walks down the street
He says why am I short of attention
Got a short little span of attention
And oh my nights are so long
Where's my wife and family
What if I die here
Who'll be my role-model
Now that my role-model is
Gone Gone
He ducked back down the alley
With some roly-poly little bat-faced girl
All along along
There were incidents and accidents
There were hints and allegations

If you'll be my bodyguard
I can be your long lost pal
I can call you Betty
And Betty when you call me
You can call me Al
Call me Al

A man walks down the street
It's a street in a strange world
Maybe it's the Third World
Maybe it's his first time around
He doesn't speak the language
He holds no currency
He is a foreign man
He is surrounded by the sound
The sound
Cattle in the marketplace
Scatterlings and orphanages
He looks around, around
He sees angels in the architecture
Spinning in infinity
He says Amen! and Hallelujah!

If you'll be my bodyguard
I can be your long lost pal
I can call you Betty
And Betty when you call me
You can call me Al
Call me Al♫


(Thanks Alesa for the song reminder. I sure would like a shot at redemption. Soft in the middle. Yeah. Right about now. I like Jesse's cover of Paul Simon. Check him out at www.myspace.com/jesseyoung)

(Update: His Myspace page shows four original songs I think. Unfortunately too "pop" for my taste in general. Good voice, just wish the songs weren't so slick. I really like this acoustic thing with very little production. I'll keep an eye on him.)
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The Gabe Dixon Band

(The band released their debut album for Fantasy Records, The Gabe Dixon Band, in August 2008. In its initial days of release, it has received praise from the music press and fellow artists. The band toured the United States from Aug 2008 through Nov 2008 with native New Yorker turned Canadian resident, Justin Nozuka. The song Find My Way was the opening track to the film The Proposal (2009) starring Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds.


Gabe's solo album, One Spark, will be released on August 23, 2011. The album is produced by Marshall Altman and will feature a duet with Alison Krauss.)


I think this band has a wide diversity of songs/styles. I REALLY REALLY love all of it. My favorite so far, is Baby Doll. I think it is an exceptionally sweet and patient song. I hope he gets the girl :)






♫You take your coffee differently each day
I hope you think my noticing's okay
Just when I think I'm learning all your moves
Do you even see the dance you do
Between who you are and what you choose?

You're restless when you're talking about him
And I don't mind discussing it again, no
You say talking to him's just making sound
I don't see why you're still hanging 'round
You're the fastest rolling stone in town

Baby Doll what you gonna do now?
Is your head in the clouds or stuck in the ground?
Will you pin your hair or let it down?
I'm sticking around
Don't let me down Baby Doll

I'm sorry if I'm calling you too late
And now I'm fumbling for words to say
I've got your voice repeating in my head
All the sad and lonely things you said
Maybe I should let you get to bed

Or maybe, maybe
Baby Doll
I hate to see you sad
I hate to see you sad
But I love to see you

Baby Doll what you gonna do now?
Is your head in the clouds or stuck in the ground?
Will you pin your hair or let it down?
I'm sticking around
Don't let me down Baby Doll
Baby Doll♫