The dangers of IPod...

Oh, yeah, I'm singing out loud or at least lip syncing and looking like a complete idiot. Oh, well. I downloaded Annie Lennox's Little Bird, Alanis Morrissette's Eight Easy Steps,The Killers' Somebody Told Me, Switchfoot's Dare you to Move, and Jem's Maybe I'm Amazed (a remake, obviously). I love this.

Sometimes I'm so impressed with song lyrics. Just how they can get across so much emotion or a provocative thought with such an economy of words. I suck at that. My friend Stacy G. and I often go back and forth because I don't know how she creates such powerful poetry (I mean usually 100 words or less for some fairly heavy ideas) and she says she can't imagine writing something of longer length, like a book (though she'd totally be good at it.)

Some of my favorite lyrics (major bonus points if you can identify all the artists who sing these lyrics! Almost all of them have been on the radio at one point or another):

--"I've been around the world and found that only stupid people are breeding." (Hee. My brother and I both agree on this one. And if you think it's harsh, trying driving anywhere in the Chicago area when you have to be somewhere in a very short amount of time. The use of a turn signal to actually indicate a turn -- versus purely decorative purposes as the car travels miles and miles without actually turning -- is a foreign concept here.)

--"I'm standing in the middle of the desert, waiting for my ship to come in." (I love this one because I know that feeling.)

--"It's such a muddy line between the things you want and the things you have to do."

--"I wasn't looking for a lifetime with you. I never thought it would hurt just to hear 'I do' and 'I do.'" (I tear up every time I hear this song)

--"Come to me now, and lay your hands over me, even if it's a lie, say it will be all right, and I shall believe." (Yep, another tear jerker for me.)

--"But I fear I have nothing to give, I have so much to lose here in this lonely place, tangled up in our embrace, there's nothing I'd like better than to fall." (I love the words to almost all of her songs. I think she's an amazing writer.)

--"It doesn't matter what I want. It doesn't matter what I need. It doesn't matter if I cry. Don't matter if I bleed. " (Words for anyone who has the experienced the ending of relationship and realized that there's nothing that can be done about it.)

--"Oh, you speak to me in riddles and you speak to me in rhymes. My body aches to breathe your breath. Your words keep me alive."

--"How to sabotage your fantasies by fears of success" and "How to keep smiling when you're thinking of killing yourself."

Funny story about song lyrics -- I love to sing along to songs, even when I don't know the words, but I work hard, listening to the song over and over again, trying to get the words right. Sometimes, though, I cannot get it right, no matter how hard I try. For years, I mean years, I though the lyrics to one of Cher's songs were, "Words are like whalebones. They move you sometimes." It made sense to me. It was the one with the video where she was dancing around on a ship. And whalebones would be rather sad and moving. However, the real lyrics are, "Words are like weapons. They wound you sometimes."

Okay, so yeah, that makes more sense : )