erika: (tea: milky tea)
song lyric analysis )

The title of this song is Rumors, by Josh Ritter. (youtube link, download link).

I can't decide if the titular Rumor is the iceberg that broke the relationship, or if it's the rumor that results in the shift of perspectives seen in the verse change. Having listened to quite a few of Ritter's songs (and from the plural in the title), I'm guessing it's both.

As I said before, Josh Ritter is a horrible, horrible man (for conveying these emotions so well) who sings incredible songs.
erika: (words: lost for words)
This is for someone who should know who he is—especially since I'm going to link him to this post once it goes live.

(Oh, and anyone else would know, too, if you checked the tags.)

Download all 25 songs here.

This is not precisely a list of love songs [though it is a very long list of songs] )
erika: (sga: nothing to declare)
You've been watching over me
Saying you're keeping me company
I should be grateful, I suppose
and compare you to a summer's rose

You've been talking sweet to me
about peace and love and harmony
But I know what you say about me
So now I tell you cause I gotta break free

That I can't give you no false affection
I can do without your phony charm
This train ain’t moving in your direction
This piece of poetry is meant to do harm

Please don't give me no warm reception
What you call peace to me is a call to arms
Some are singing to raise affection
But this piece of poetry is meant to do harm

So with what shall I compare thee?
Summer's clay or winter's sleet?

You made a non-believer out of me,
Now you ask for my sympathy?


No, take your words and take your vows
Take your flake-fuelled Buddhist bows
Let the cool winds roughly shake
out all darling buds of fake


I can't give you no false affection
I can do without your phony charm
This train ain't moving in your direction
This piece of poetry is meant to do harm

And don't you give me no warm reception
What you call peace to me is a call to arms
I'm not singing to raise affection
This piece of poetry is meant to do harm

erika: (sex: raspberry beret)
Sex Playlists )
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