What are you listening to?

I sometimes download an entire album of music by an artist based on one or two songs that I particularly like, but never get around to listening to the whole album in its entirety. So, often a song will pop up on my playlist that I haven't heard before, and it reminds of another song, either melodically, lyrically or thematically. So, I present these two together because they revolve around a common theme and are both strong examples of the craft, imo.

The first comes from American singer songwriter Patty Griffin...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkJibRAdTqc


https://youtu.be/WkJibRAdTqc

The second is a song from Eliza Gilkyson, another female folksinger who I was fortunate enough to hear live in concert a few years back. In a interesting trivia note, her father Terry Gilkyson wrote the song "Bare Necessities" for the Disney film - The Jungle Book.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6PoHCLtjko


https://youtu.be/A6PoHCLtjko

Enjoy!
 
A really tongue in cheek one, of the "if there's hell below, we're all gonna go" theme.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JioaipWcSq0
 
the Hyperdimensional Politics thread has me feeling: Our Time Is Running Out

Yet another Matt Bellamy song that has me wondering just how much they really know

"It's an older code (2010) but it checks out"


https://youtu.be/O2IuJPh6h_A?rel=0

A touch risque at times but the imagery serves as a reminder of the original sales job for this density.

Lyrics:

I think I'm drowning
Asphyxiated
I want to break the spell
That you've created

You're something beautiful
A contradiction
I want to play the game
I want the friction

You will be
The death of me
Yeah, you will be
The death of me

Bury it
I won't let you bury it
I won't let you smother it
I won't let you murder it

Our time is running out
And our time is running out
You can't push it underground
We can't stop it screaming out

I wanted freedom
But I'm restricted
I tried to give you up
But I'm addicted

Now that you know I'm trapped
Sense of elation
You'll never dream of breaking this fixation
You will squeeze the life out of me

etc
 

https://youtu.be/9URhKk22xbM

There's a sky full of lights
And none of them stars
But each white, silvery flicker's
A faithful reminder to us
Of a weight that's in youth
That makes a dick of us all
If it happened today
Then it's probably happened before

In a crowd unfamiliar
I just wanna touch a familiar face
And make friends at the parties I've feared
The likes of an age
To be wanted with truth
And make formidable love
See light in myself
That I see inside everyone else I know

It's not a lacking of spine
Nor of physical pulse
It's just a feeling of distance
Akin to a feeling of loss
Of love in the youth
Of my limited life
That passed in a violent
And ritual screwing inside

And the years unfamiliar
Are made of increasingly digital days
And I am grieving the loss of myself
With frightening malaise
When there's weightless in youth
And the sum of it's small
Just stand in the darkness
And laugh with your heel on its throat

'Cause not everything means something, honey
So say the unsayable
Say the most human of things
And if everything is temporary
I will bear the unbearable
Terrible triteness of being

Alone in my house
Frozen in time
But don't get me wrong now, honey
I am trying

There's a warmth in the eyes
And a clearness of thought
When the deepest of sighs
And the frankest of shadows are gone

We're pushing a stone
Up a mountainous waste
And the lines at the store
Look like lines on a beautiful face

See, I'm not so assured
Nor unusually strong
Or outstandingly brave
I'm more just fumbling around in the dark
For the bulk of my day

When there's weight that's in youth
And the sum of it's small
I will stand in the darkness
And laugh with my heel on its throat

And not everything means something, honey
So say the unsayable
Say the most human of things
And if everything is temporary
I will bear the unbearable
Terrible triteness of being

Alone in my house
Frozen away
But don't get me wrong now, honey
I'm okay

Ah, cast me a line
Ah honey, cast me a line
Won't you fear me tonight?
Goddamn, do you fear me tonight?

Ah, pass me a light
Ah honey, pass me a light
Won't you feel me tonight?
Goddamn do you feel me tonight?

'Cause not everything means something, honey
So say the unsayable
Say the most human of things
If everything is temporary
I will bear the unbearable
Terrible triteness of being
 
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