LDL Mix -- 2

The Weepies "Gotta Have You" released on their 2006 album "Say I am You". If you have not checked this album out, please do. It's probably on my top five albums.

"Gray, quiet and tired and mean
Picking at a worried seam
Try to make you mad at me over the phone
Red eyes and fire and signs
I'm taken by a nursery rhyme
I wanna make a ray of sunshine and never leave home

No amount of coffee, no amount of cry
No amount of whiskey, no amount of wine
No no no no no, nothing else will do
I've gotta have you, I've gotta have you.

The road gets cold, there's no spring in the middle this year
I'm the new chicken plucking open hearts and ears
Oh, such a prima donna, sorry for myself
But green, it is also summer
And I won't be warm till I'm lying in your arms.

No amount of coffee, no amount of crying
No amount of whiskey, no amount of wine
No no no no no, nothing else will do
I've gotta have you, I've gotta have you.

I see it all through a telescope: guitar, suitcase, and a warm coat
Lying in the back of the blue boat, humming a tune...

No amount of coffee, no amount of crying
No amount of whiskey, no wine
No no no no no, nothing else will do
I've gotta have you, I've gotta have...

No amount of coffee, no amount of crying
No amount of whiskey, no amount of wine
No no no no no, nothing else will do
I've gotta have you, I've gotta have you
I've gotta have you, gotta have you
I've gotta have you."

A New Series in the Blogs of Elizabeth

I have decided to incorporate music in my blog. I'm composing a long-distance love mix and will post every song day-by-day on this blog. Because I can't wait until Andres arrives.

To begin, Incubus's "I Miss You". This can be found on their album "Make Yourself" released in 1999.



"To see you when I wake up
Is a gift I didn't think could be real.
To know that you feel the same as I do
Is a three-fold, Utopian dream.

You do something to me that I can't explain.
So would I be out of line if I said "I miss you"?

I see your picture.
I smell your skin on
The empty pillow next to mine.
You have only been gone ten days,
But already I'm wasting away.
I know I'll see you again
Whether far or soon.
But I need you to know that I care,
And I miss you."

Love songs make sense and the heart as a symbol. It is present keeps you warm and is vital, yet unseen. Only felt through secondary signals, like the fact that you still move and breath and feel or the constant movement, pounding against your insides.

I can't feel my brain; I only know it is there. But my heart -- that I can feel.

Let's be honest now. What he meant by "bipartisan" was "we'll tell you what we're going to do, and you'll watch as we do it". None of this feel-good, fluffy mumbo jumbo so many people were crazy about.

So, for the first time ever, I am in a completely foreign place. Everything is different here -- new sights, new sounds, new smells even. The one phrase i find myself using more than any other? There is NO WAY that is safe. :)

Poet Spotlight : Mayda del Valle

Prepare to be Pun-ished!

I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger. Then it hit me.

Did you hear about the guy whose whole left side was cut off? He's all right now.

I couldn't quite remember how to throw a boomerang, but eventually it came back to me.

Police were called to a daycare where a three-year-old was resisting a rest.

A hole has been found in the nudist camp wall. The police are looking into it.

Show me a piano falling down a mineshaft and I'll show you A-flat minor.

The butcher backed up into the meat grinder and got a little behind in his work.

There was once a cross-eyed teacher who couldn't control his pupils.

If you don't pay your exorcist you get repossessed.

The Buddhist refused pain-killers during the root canal because he wanted to transcend dental medication.