Some Nights

"Well, some nights I wish that this all would end
'Cause I could use some friends for a change.
And some nights I'm scared you'll forget me again
Some nights I always win, I always win..."







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'Some Nights' is the second single from the album with the same title of American indie rock band Fun.     The song was written by Jeff Bhasker, Nate Ruess, Andrew Dost, and Jack Antonoff. 

Staccato

by Ewong
for the Sharp Islander

You sang in such a soft tone | Can’t look at the stars now

a line from an unknown song | that I couldn’t learn anymore

now that there is | no more reason | to sing since you left

I still don’t know what it was | that captured me | was it your

sweet, unassuming voice | your camellian eyes, your gift

for music | or was it the warmth | of your bosom against mine?

The night was passing | like a tourist in a strange land

and all I could do was count | the seconds | the minutes

the hours | and pray to them nameless gods | well,

including  Albert Einstein | that may this episode | this chance

encounter with you | never end | These days I look at lyric

sheets | and I hate myself | for singing those songs back then

when I first met you | For now they are all meaningless

without your strumming | without red wine or beer | or deathly

porcine cholesterol | without you | Now all I could do is sleep

all day, sleep all day | over and over | and over and over again

There’s a certain sadness in the endless pleasure a single night

brings  to us lonely people | Maybe the problem is | one of us

is more lonely | or the other is much less alone | Or is it

because both of us | can’t look at the stars now? | I know I sin  

And I know you sin  | But what I really want to do is sing  

all day, sing all day | over and over | and over and over again

But I had lost my tongue | will someone else please find my song?

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Poem has reference to these songs:
Stars (Grace Potter and the Nocturnals) and Sleep All Day (Jason Mraz)

Joshua Radin's "Today"

No other day matters as much.



Shoelaces untied
You can dry your eyes
Perfect shadows align
behind us
This is the day I make you mine

Quatre Saisons

by Ewong

There's the drink:



There's the music:




And another music:




And there's those crazy artful stuff I was making then:


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March 12It's time to finally post them.

For a new season has begun.______________________________________________

Regina Spektor's "Laughing With God"

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Regina Spektor is a music goddess, and I figure that my favorite "non-romantic" song of hers is just so apt for my favorite hol(y)day: this Lenten season. Great vocals, great poetry, great message:



"No one laughs at God
When their airplane starts
to uncontrollably shake
No one’s laughing at God
When they see the one they love,
hand in hand with someone else
And they hope that they’re mistaken..."

Watch the official music video here.
The full lyrics are here.
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Joni Mitchell's "A Case of You"

You're in my blood like holy wine
You taste so bitter and so sweet
Oh I could drink a case of you
And I would still be on my feet
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Damien Rice's "Elephant"

This has got to die
This has got to stop
This has got to lie down
With someone else on top
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Belle and Sebastian's "Funny Little Frog"

*Para Kay B(arbie)

Details in the Fabric (Jason Mraz et James Morrisson)

If it's a broken part, replace it
If it's a broken arm, then brace it
If it's a broken heart, then face it.

Paolo Nutini's "Last Request"

Sure I can accept that we're going nowhere,
But one last time let's go there,
Lay down beside me...

Damien Rice's "9 Crimes"

Leave me out with the waste
This is not what I do
It's the wrong kind of place
To be cheating on you

Version de chanson de "Lettre de George Sand à Alfred de Musset" par Céline Dion

There is this feeling that lingers...
so good, so pure and so soft.
For which I shall never feel the need to end.
(translated)

Trading Yesterday's "The Beauty and the Tragedy"

Another day, another sunrise
Washing over everything
In its time, love will be mine
The beauty and the tragedy

Joshua Radin's "The One You Knew"

The one you knew from your love
I grew into complete and whole
and the way I justify,
it's my way to control love everlasting

Nouvelle année and Owl City's "Fireflies"

This is my last day of being gravely sinful. Tomorrow is another day... no, tomorrow is another year! It's high time to unwrap the bandage around our hearts. Feel the sweet light piercing through you now. To all the people I've loved and hated, may 2010 bring us together again in brighter and more exciting--not necessarily happy--encounters. Happy new year!



To ten million fireflies
I'm weird 'cause I hate goodbyes
I got misty eyes as they said farewell

Vienna Teng's "Feather Moon"

seven sins
god of stone
all is true
down to the bone
feather moon
scarlet sky
I love you endlessly
not knowing why

Switchfoot's "You"

I find peace when I'm confused
I find hope when I'm let down
Not in me...
It's in you.

Jeff Buckley's "Lover, You Should've Come Over"

So I'll wait for you... And I'll burn
Will I ever see your sweet return?
Oh, will I ever learn?

Trading Yesterday's "One Day"

I will stay forever here
until that one day comes,
praying time will bring you near,
I'll wait for your love

Blue October's "18th Floor Balcony"

I raised my hand as if to show you
that I was yours,
that I was so yours for the taking.
I'm still so yours for the taking.