happy new year

[confectionery]

where you go and where you've been

side A: the road a-winding goes

the night starts here; STARS
no one is spared, no one is clean, it travels places you've never been or seen before
the night starts here, the night starts here, forget your name, forget your fear

laughing with a mouth of blood; ST VINCENT
laughing with a mouth of blood from a little spill I took (oh, what are you laughing at?)
see, I traded in my plot of land for a plane to anywhere (oh, where do you go?)
and I can't see the future but I know it's got big plans for me (oh, what does it see?)

left and leaving; THE WEAKERTHANS
my city's still breathing, but barely it's true, through buildings gone missing like teeth
the sidewalks are watching me think about you, sparkled with broken glass
I'm back with scars to show, back with the streets I know will never take me anywhere but here

foreign tongue; ALELA DIANE
I'll never tip-toe across my home ever again

winter's memory of summer; DELAYS
and take your heart from your sleeve, leave behind the failing trees that crowd you so
turned the neighbourhood gold, until winter's memory of summer was cold

bones & skin; MIRAH
don't forget, you've got love, you've got bravery, you've got trust, you've got bodies, responsibilities
there's still mountains, they're pushing up from underneath

san francisco; GLOBAL DJs
Paris, London, L.A., Chicago, Tokyo, Baghdad, New York, Moscow, Memphis, Cape Town, Dallas, Amsterdam, Boston, Berlin, San Francisco —
If you're going to San Francisco, be sure to wear some flowers in your hair

california one/youth & beauty brigade; THE DECEMBERISTS
and the road a-winding goes, from Golden Gate to roaring cliff-side, and the light is softly low
as our hearts become sweetly untied beneath the sun of California one

side B: I am not what I was or what I will be

i may be rude but i'm the truth; COBRA STARSHIP
I don't mind what they say, and I don't need what they got
if you don't like what I say, put it in your blog, I promise no one even gives a damn

fun is for the feeble-minded; THE INDELICATES
you were young, you were healthy, you were jobless but your dad was wealthy
so you swayed and you swerved through the things you deserved

oh no!; MARINA & THE DIAMONDS
'cause I feel like I'm the worst, so I always act like I'm the best

upstairs; PSAPP
teach me the way to be humble and good, to be quiet when I should, to be great
I am not what I was or what I will be, there is no one guessing for me

we are beautiful, we are doomed; LOS CAMPESINOS!
I taught myself the only way to vaguely get along in love is to like the other slightly less than you get in return

belong; FAKE?
I need to belong, I need to be strong

cuddle fuddle; PASSION PIT
oh god, just please don't ever let me go
sometimes we're high and sometimes we're low
put up with me and I'll make you see that things are better when you're with me

give me strength; SNOW PATROL
my friends, we've seen it all, triumphs to drunken falls
and our bones are broken still, but our hearts are joined until time slips its tired hand into our tired hands
we've years 'til that day and so much more to say

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