Warning this is going to be an incredibly nerdy post.
Evolution, like anything only consumes the mind when it revolves around the evolution of something you love or interests you. Few things grab at my attention long enough for me to give it space and time to evolve. Things die off, interests change, and people change. Life is our world litteraly spinning to the consistant tune of non stop change. Plenty of things in this life are precious and kept close to my heart. But one group of guys that has been around since the first time I noticed them in 2002 is the ever evolving, timeless, and tasteful mewithoutyou.
These guys have in my mind come full circle with their music in the last 15 years. So I decided that I would list my favorite lines from each of my favorite songs in some kind of order starting in 2002. Ready? haha
1. When you laugh you'll feel my breath there filling up your lungs.
2. Put music to our troubles and we'll dance them away
3. God became the glass, all things left were emptiness
4. Oh the profanation of our love, to tell the world of our passing joys
4. Come and whisper in my ear "your very pretty dear" and it'll be alright. Your lieing! Well I don't mind tonight
5. She put on happiness like a loose dress over pain I'll never know.
6. You watched me like a 10 car highway wreck with detached vulgar curiosity
7. Can you remember dear my saying how my coming here was terrible fall
As we crept like theives along your bedroom hall
8. Look! up in the window! She carries a candle in mid day!
9. I still have a thousand half loves.. Oh, my god I just wanna shoot myself just thinking about it! You think I don't mean what I say!? Well I mean every word I said!
10. So turn your ears, you musicians, to silence
Because they only come out when it's quiet
11. I was a basket filled with holes and she was the sand I tried to hold.
12. Rehearsed indifference tossed aside, our narrow arms spread wide,
What unseen pen etched eternal things on the hearts of human kind
But never let them in there minds
13. We have all our beliefs, But we don't want our beliefs
God of peace we want you.
14. You surround me, You're pretty but you're all I can see
Like a thick fog... If there was no way into God
I would never have laid in this grave of a body for so long
15. Pay no attention to me dancing with my girl
With every intention to be failures in this world
16. I'd set my course for land, But you well understand
It takes a steady hand to navigate adulterous waters
17. And there I go again to the next further removed level
of that same exact feigned humility!
18. What new mystery is this? In overflowing emptiness!
The invisible is seen among the shadows and the mist,
Before my doubting eyes, the infinite appears this time
The unquestionable is questioned
But makes no reply
19. Then I saw a forest grow in the city
and a driftwood wall of birdhouse gourds
And I'm still waiting to meet a girl like my mom
(who's closer to my age)
20. Find a friend and stay close and with a melting heart
tell them whatever you're most ashamed of-
Our parents have made so many mistakes,
but may we forgive them and forgive ourselves
21. Still there's a whisper in my ear,
The voice of loneliness and fear, so I say:
Devil disapear!
I'm still (eeehh... Technically..) a virgin
after 27 years -
Which never bothered me before,
What's maybe 50 more?
22. I had a rusty spade but I'm not the fighting sort
If I was samson I'd have found that harlots blade
and cut my own hair short
23. Not much for monks but we pretend to be
We share a silent meal and a pot of chamomile
Gypsies like us should be stamped in solidarity
24. If I come without a thing, then I come with all I need
No boat out in the blue, no place to rest your head,
The trap I set for you seems to have caught my leg instead
25. You rotten wooden mixing spoon!
Why, you midnight winged raccoon
You'd better bring those pastires back, you no good, burnt black macaroon!!
26. And as the smoke king curled higher and higher, the troops, flying loops 'round
the telephone wires, they said: Our beloved's not dead, but his highness instead
has been utterly changed into fire!!
27. But Tiger, why sit stil,
As the officers climb the hill?
What stars cast down their spears,
Cooled your fire with their tears?
28. Shepherd the Southwest wind,
Railspikes ripped like the seam of a wineskin
Shepherd the northwest rain,
Brass hat slept at the helm of that woeful train
Ain't it an awful shame!
Don't it just break your heart to hear of so much pain?!
29. And hidden in the fox thorn blind
We grew old as the foxtail pine
Sheep in the cold shielding our gold
sipping on milk and water like
30. We're the boxtop admissions and their throaways,
strewn across tobacco roads
With their wormwood shots and their snake oil plots
Drunk sheepshank con men and their sycophants
31. They gather like wolves on the boardwalk below
And they're howling for anwsers, no wolf could no
I charged at the waves, with a glass in my hand
I was tossed like a ball, at the bottle stand
and I landed beside your remains on the stones
where your cold fingers wrapped round my ancle bone
32. I'm bound in ropes and on the firing line
Welll, I wake up disapointed ever time
I wake up disapointed ever time
I wake up disapointed ever time!!!
strewn across tobacco roads
With their wormwood shots and their snake oil plots
Drunk sheepshank con men and their sycophants
31. They gather like wolves on the boardwalk below
And they're howling for anwsers, no wolf could no
I charged at the waves, with a glass in my hand
I was tossed like a ball, at the bottle stand
and I landed beside your remains on the stones
where your cold fingers wrapped round my ancle bone
32. I'm bound in ropes and on the firing line
Welll, I wake up disapointed ever time
I wake up disapointed ever time
I wake up disapointed ever time!!!
