So I run, and hide, and tear myself up,
Start again with a brand new name
And eyes that see into infinity.
I will disappear.
I told you once and I’ll say it again.
I want my message read clear.
I’ll show you the way–the way I’m going.
I was almost there,
Just a moment away from becoming unclear. Ever get the feeling that you’re gone?
I’ll show you the way–away I’m going.
So I run, start again
With a brand new name.
So I run, and hide, and tear myself up–so I run.
I’ll start again with a brand new name–start again.
And eyes that see into infinity–with a brand new name.
I will disappear.
- 30 Seconds to Mars, Capricorn (A Brand New Name)
It’s been long enough since my last music post! Here I teem!
Drowning, just as fast as I can.
But don’t throw me a line, don’t reach out your hand.
Because I’m on the brink of something beautiful and, I want to sing about it, but I don’t know where to begin.
Write a letter but the words don’t come out right.
Trying to explain how nobody can do me, like–
You don’t understand just how helpless I get,
Since the day we met–Oh, can you feel it yet?!
It’s never been more perfect being alive.
I’ve never been so satisfied.
Oh!
I could feel something different for the first time.
Heaven made sense and all the words rhymed.
No chance of stopping now,
I’m taking it all.
And now I’m caught in the air, it’s a good glide.
Pass it up? Wouldn’t dare, what a wild ride.
I remember being ready and waiting to fall,
Just like I did tonight.
Spinning around and around,
Until my left was my right and up became down. With just one look you knocked me off my of feet–
So unable to speak.
Oh how you made me weak.
Though it was a while ago, I still can recall.
That moment, so ready and waiting to fall. Can you take me back in time remembering when
You captured my heart, over and over again.
I could feel something different for the first time.
Heaven made sense and all the words rhymed.
No chance of stopping now,
I’m taking it all.
And now I’m caught in the air, it’s a good glide.
Pass it up? Wouldn’t dare, what a wild ride. I remember being ready and waiting to fall,
Just like I did tonight.
- Mae, Ready and Waiting to Fall
And if you see me losing ground,
Don’t be afraid to lie.
I know the pain inside my heart
Can’t break the fear inside of yours. And if you see me losing faith
In what it means to die,
Don’t let me leave before I know
What lies behind the stained glass doors.
Save sorrow for the souls in doubt.
Bleed every care out.
Will you carry me down the aisle that final day?
With your tears of gold and shaking from the weight?
When you lower me down beneath that sky of grey,
Let the rain fall down and wash away your pain.
For every word we never spoke,
We have a tear to cry.
For every silence like a wall
Between a better you and I.
So if you see me losing sight
Of all the death in life,
You’ll find the peace in every time
I failed to see the death in mine.
Let all the fear inside you drown.
Tear out the blade and lay it down.
Save sorrow for the souls in doubt.
Bleed every care out.
Oh, the blood is rushing out…
Oh, I’m better off without…
Oh, the walls are closing in…
Oh, sing for me again.
Rain down, oh rain down, no care for the flood.
Will you carry me down the aisle that final day?
With your tears of gold and shaking from the weight?
When you lower me down beneath that sky of grey,
Let the rain fall down and wash away your pain.
- Demon Hunter, Carry Me Down
Me and my baby on a February holiday,
‘Cause we got the news–
Yeah, we got the news.
Five hundred miles and we’re gonna make it all the way,
We’ve got nothing to lose.
We’ve got nothing to lose.
It’s been ten years’ waiting,
But it’s better late than the never.
We’ve been told before;
We can’t wait one minute more.
Oh, me and my baby driving down
To a hilly seaside town in the rainfall.
Oh, me and my baby stand in line–
You’ve never seen a sight so fine
As the love that’s gonna shine
At city hall!
Me and my baby have been through
A lot of good and bad,
Learned to kiss the sky,
Made our mommas cry.
I’ve seen a lot of friends,
After giving it all they had,
Lay down and die.
Lay down and die
Ten years into it,
Here’s our window
At the Vegas Drive-Thru Chapel.
It ain’t too much
For ‘em all to handle.
Outside, they’re handing out
Donuts and pizza pies
For the folks in pairs in the folding chairs. My baby’s looking so damned pretty,
With those anxious eyes,
Rain-speckled hair,
And my ring to wear.
Ten years waiting for this moment of fate,
When we say the words and sign our names. If they take it away again someday,
This beautiful thing won’t change.
Oh, me and my baby driving down
To a hilly seaside town in the rainfall.
Oh, me and my baby stand in line–
You’ve never seen a sight so fine
As the love that’s gonna shine
At city hall!
- Vienna Teng, City Hall
Every little thing I do, I do for you.
With every little thing, I think a thought of you.
And I try so hard not to notice.
I try so hard not to care.
I try so hard not to know that you’re not here.
But I’m counting down the hours,
And I’m counting up the days.
I try so hard not to show this side of me.
Jealous of the way they walk, the way they talk,
‘Cause I don’t think they know just what they got.
I’m jealous of the way they look, the way they are,
When I just want to be the way we were.
And I try so hard not to notice.
I try so hard not to care.
I try so hard not to know that you’re not here.
But I’m counting down the hours,
And I’m counting up the days.
I try so hard not to show this side of me.
- Meiko, The Piano Song (Penelope Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Dear readers, I come to you today with a peace offering, relevant to nearly everyone (and especially so to those of you who might be particularly anal). I’ve rounded up a few tried and tested apps for Leopard (tested on my current version of 10.5.5) that go a long way towards helping you expediate (or even just start) organizing your music libraries.
Assuming you hate getting blank metadata fields or ugly looking file names or randomly loud or soft gain on your songs and you’re on Mac OS X, I’ve got a few treats for you:
TriTag - could be used to batch fix your tag information of all songs by an artist or in an album or something, but it truly shines in its allowing you to easily rename a whole bunch of files according to their ID3 tag data. Oh, and it’s free.
Switch - lets you convert your music from one format to, for example, my favourite 128 CBR (constant bitrate) LAME MP3 setting, to standardize your music. This lets you chop off unnecessary “quality” that the average listener probaby can’t notice anyway to save space. I personally keep most normal songs at 128 CBR, symphonies and electronic at 320 KBS, and I don’t convert songs I receive from Amy. This one is free as well.
MacMP3Gain - lets you analyze and equalize your music’s playback gain (i.e. “how much loudy it makes”) so that you won’t have to readjust your volume everytime you get to that one song that’s very quiet or that album that’s much too loud for the neighbours’ tastes. This one is useful but a little slower than its Windows counterpart (just MP3Gain) which I had also used. This one, miraculously, is also free. See a pattern?
And that about sums it up. Granted, I still rely mostly on iTunes and its relatively weak interface for editing tag info, but these three are definitely very useful for everything iTunes can’t do. Give em a try and I’m almost sure you’ll love the new MP3 library smell.
