Happy in the Meantime

Today's tune is another that while carries a rather sombre tune just makes me happy.

"Happy in the Meantime" by Lit just hammers home the point of being happy in the meantime, what ever the reasons. I guess sometimes you have to just settle with what you have, have another drink and just be happy.

It's just another reason why
It all comes down to you and I
Just have another drink
Waste some time with me
We're happy in the meantime

I've gotta make up for losin' time
Cuz I've been spinnin' my wheels all night
And I can't wait
Can't hardly wait to see you
Things seem better off now
I think I'm better off now

It's just another reason why
It all comes down to you and I
Let's have another drink
Waste some time with me
We're happy in the meantime

I guess the rain's gonna follow me
Cuz it's been droppin' in minor D.
And I can't wait
Can't hardly wait to see if
Things are better off now
I think I'm better off now

It's just another reason why
It all comes down to you and I
Let's have another drink
Waste some time with me
We're happy in the meantime

We're happy in the meantime

Well save a little rain
And wash away the pain
I'll try and keep it clean
I'll show you what I mean
I don't wanna keep you holdin' on
Cuz in the morning I'll be gone
So long

It's just another reason why
It all comes down to you and I
Let's have another drink
Waste some time with me
We're happy in the meantime

It's just another reason why
It all comes down to you and I
Let's have another drink
Waste some time with me
We're happy in the meantime

We're happy in the meantime
We're happy in the meantime
We're happy in the meantime

Regardless, we need to remain happy if only for the meantime.

You're My Best Friend

"You're My Best Friend" by Queen has to be one of my favourite pick me up tunes. While it carries a weight of sadness too.

This even gets a play at the end of one of my all time favorite movies, Shaun of the Dead

Ooh you make me live
Whatever this world can give to me
It's you you're all I see
Ooo you make me live now honey
Ooo you make me live

Ooh you're the best friend that I ever had
I've been with you such a long time
You're my sunshine and I want you to know
That my feelings are true
I really love you
Oh you're my best friend

Ooo you make me live

Ooh I've been wandering round
But I still come back to you
In rain or shine
You've stood by me, girl
I'm happy, happy at home
You're my best friend

Ooo you make me live
Whenever this world is cruel to me
I got you to help me forgive
Ooo you make me live now honey
Ooo you make me live

You're the first one
When things turn out bad
You know I'll never be lonely
You're my only one
And I love the things
I really love the things that you do
You're my best friend

Ooo you make me live

I'm happy at home
You're my best friend
Oh ya
Oh you're my best friend
Ooo you make me live
You you're my best friend.

My sunshine and a light.

Low

It's Friday (Friday, gotta get down on Friday...) and officially Beerday here at the office. So as with the average Friday (and every Beerday) lets keep this one relatively light hearted.

"Low" from the Foo Fighters does tackle what seems to be a more serious issue. How long do you simply stick with lover or meet up with them out of habit more than anything else. How empty can that be or low do you really go?

The music video on the other hand is a whole other story. Words just can't quite explain it! Warning however, your life may be changed forever!

Hey you
Are you in there
I'm stuck outside you, ooh

We could use
One another
Another like you, ooh

You be my passerby
I'll be your one to pass through
Screws inside
Turn so tight
Turning on you
I'm hanging on you, ooh

Me and you
Going nowhere
I'm right beside you, ooh

Me and you
Going nowhere
I'm right beside you, ooh

You be my passerby
I'll be your one to pass through
Screws inside
Turn so tight
Turning on you
I'm hanging on you

Taking you as low as you go
As low as you go
Taking you as low as you go
As low as you go

Ooh, ooh, ooh

You be my passerby
I'll be your one to pass through
Screws inside
Turn so tight
Turning on you
I'm hanging on you

Taking you as low as you go
(Low as you go)
As low as you go
(Low as you go)
Taking you as low as you go
(Low as you go)
As low as you go
(Low as you go)

As low as you go
Low as you go

Ooh, ooh

Taking you as low as you go
As low as you go
Taking you as low as you go
As low as you go

Taking you as low as you go
(Low as you go)
As low as you go
(Low as you go)
Taking you as low as you go
(Low as you go)
As low as you go
(Low as you go)

As low as you can go, I know how to DIG!!

We Will Rock You

It's rather chilly this morning and guess I'm looking for something to pick up the pace a little. Today's tune might just be THE rock anthem of all time.

"We Will Rock You" by Queen is simply a classic. So as a pick me up this morning, we'll just rock the day away!

Buddy you're a boy make a big noise

Playin' in the street gonna be a big man some day
You got mud on your face
You big disgrace
Kickin' your can all over the place
Sing it!

We will we will rock you
We will we will rock you

Buddy you're a young man hard man
Shoutin' in the street gonna take on the world some day
You got blood on your face
You big disgrace
Wavin' your banner all over the place

We will we will rock you
Sing it!
We will we will rock you

Buddy you're an old man poor man
Pleadin' with your eyes gonna make you some peace some day
You got mud on your face
Big disgrace-
Somebody better put you back into your place

We will we will rock you
Sing it
We will we will rock you
Everybody
We will we will rock you
We will we will rock you
Alright

It's time to rock!!

Coming Clean

I've posted this one before but as it's bucketing down and I don't expect to see much more rain with winter on it's way, here we go again.

"Coming Clean" by Hilary Duff is one of my more feel good songs.

So let the rain fall, let it wash away the last shreds of sanity.

Let's go back
Back to the beginning
Back to when the earth, the sun, the stars all aligned

'Cause perfect didn't feel so perfect
Trying to fit a square into a circle
Was no life
I defy

Let the rain fall down
And wake my dreams
Let it wash away
My sanity
'Cause I wanna feel the thunder
I wanna scream
Let the rain fall down
I'm coming clean, I'm coming clean

I'm shedding
Shedding every color
Trying to find a pigment of truth
Beneath my skin

'Cause different
Doesn't feel so different
And going out is better
Then always staying in
Feel the wind

Let the rain fall down
And wake my dreams
Let it wash away
My sanity
'Cause I wanna feel the thunder
I wanna scream
Let the rain fall down
I'm coming clean, I'm coming clean

I'm coming clean
Let the rain fall
Let the rain fall
I'm coming...

Let the rain fall down
And wake my dreams
Let it wash away
My sanity
'Cause I wanna feel the thunder
I wanna scream
Let the rain fall down
I'm coming clean, I'm coming clean

Let the rain fall down
And wake my dreams
Let it wash away
My sanity
'Cause I wanna feel the thunder
I wanna scream
Let the rain fall down
I'm coming clean, I'm coming clean

Let's go back
Back to the beginning

While it lasts, let the rain fall... let it wash everything clean.

One should not worry so much about fitting a square into a circle so much as fitting a circle into a square. It'll go but it's filled with way too much emptiness.

Hammering in my Head

Ever think the voices in your head just make too much noise?

"Hammering in my Head" by Garbage seems to tell the tale of playing a clear, calm individual while behind the mask all hell is breaking lose. How often do we do that? How often do we simply play to the crowd just do drown out the noise?

Do we really fear the hammering in our heads?

I'm stressed but you're freestyle
I'm overworked but I'm undersexed
I must be made of concrete
I sign my name across your chest

Give out the same old answers
I trot them out for the relatives
Company tried and tested
I use the ones that I love the best

Like an animal you're moving over me
Like an animal you're moving over me

When did I get perverted
I can't remember your name
I'm growing introverted
You touch my hand and it's not the same

This was so unexpected
I never thought I'd get caught
Play boomerang with your demons
Shoot to kill and you'll pop them off
BANG! BANG!

Like an animal you're moving over me
Like an animal you're moving over me

You should be sleeping my love
Tell me what you're dreaming of (all 4x)

I knew you were mine for the taking
I knew you were mine for the taking
I knew you were mine for the taking
When I walked in the room

I knew you were mine for the taking
I knew you were mine for the taking
Your eyes light up
When I walk in the room

A hammering in my head don't stop
From the bullet train
From Tokyo to Los Angeles
I'm leaving you behind
A flash in the pan
A storm in a teacup
A needle in a haystack
A prize for the winning
A dead for the raising
A catch for the chasing
A jewel for the choosing
A man for the making in this blistering heat

Sweat it all out
Sweat it all out
With your bedroom eyes and your baby pouts
Sweat it all out
In our electric storms and our shifting sands
Our candy jars and our sticky hands

Sweat it all out
Sweat it all out
Sweat it all out
Sweat it all out
Sweat it all out
Sweat it all out

Don't forget what I wrote you then
And don't forget what I told you then
And don't forget I that meant to win
And don't forget your ventolin
So a hammering in my head don't stop
In the bullet train from Tokyo to Los Angeles

Sometimes it's our own voices that make the most noise. Perhaps... it's easier than dealing with the silence?

Paradise

Well, the weekend has come and gone and alas... the Rapture did not take place.

Today's tune is a tribute to paradise and quite simply titled "Paradise". This was written by Lynn Anderson but the version I know best is by Hayseed Dixie.

How often do we wish for paradise and in doing so simply overlook what we already have, then in years to come we simply look back and wonder where it went. If only we had realised just what we really had.

When I was a child my family would travel
Down to western Kentucky where my parents were born
And there's a backwards old town that's often remembered
So many times that my mem'ries are worn.

And daddy won't you take me back to Muglenberg County
Down by the Green River where paradise lay
Well, I'm sorry my child but you're too late in askin'
Mr. Peabody's coal train has hauled it away.

Well, sometimes we traveled right down the Green River
By the abandoned old prison down by Adrie Hill
Where the air smelled like snakes and we'd shoot with the pistols
But empty pop bottles was all we would kill.

And daddy won't you take me back to Muglenberg County
Down by the Green River where paradise lay
Well, I'm sorry my child but you're too late in askin'
Mr. Peabody's coal train has hauled it away.

Then the coal company came with the world's largest shovels
They tortured the timber and they stripped all the land
Well they dug for the coal till the land was forsaken
Then we wrote it all down as the progress of man.

And daddy won't you take me back to Muglenberg County
Down by the Green River where paradise lay
Well, I'm sorry my child but you're too late in askin'
Mr. Peabody's coal train has hauled it away.

Mr. Peabody's coal train has hauled it away...

Take in the paradise that you have today, for tomorrow it could have been taken away.