Blue Skies Are Coming

'cause blue skies are coming, but I know that it's hard...'
 

Reconsideration

How susceptible we are to the heart's hopes. To feel torn between letting go and all the while, secretly, silently, hoping for the heart to step up and win out, and overrule against it...in a crescendo of true feeling.

Small Steps, Big Jumps

It's almost Spring. Some days I skip along to this, haloed by sun, others I stumble back into winter. Small steps can be big jumps. Big jumps can be small steps. Big jumps can be gentle, glorious in small/big ways.

Love, Always

'If you love someone, either you always will, or you never have.' 

True.

Lana Del Rey's tone is the only one to express this sentiment perfectly:

Love, Love, Love

Happy Valentine's Day!

I have to say, I love Valentine's Day, regardless of relationship status. It's a day dedicated to love. And in this day and age of modern indifference and emotional apathy, I think it's a much-needed day, whether it has corny connotations or not!

And no matter how many times I get my heart broken, I can never give up on Love. The lows are low, but the highs - well they are so worth it. How could it be possible to fall out of love with love?

To love!

'Love, love, love...'

'All the very best of us 
string ourselves up for love...'

This is just a big, happy, smiley, cheesy celebration of love that you just can't help but sing along with! It might even make you smile :)  ~ Love is Endless

February Fervour

It's February. First step into a new season, a fresh beginning. Saying goodbye to winter and hello to new warmth.
And it feels something like this:

Happy New Year

Two songs for New Year's. The first, The Goo Goo Dolls' 'Better Days' for its embodiment of hope at this time of year,  'for tonight's the night the world begins again...':

and then The National's 'Blank Slate' , with its brilliant resolution refrain: 'Gonna be a blank slate/gonna wear a white cape'... I dare you to get that one out of your head now you've heard it!

 

New Year

'Don't let me into this year with an empty heart, with an empty heart. Don't let me into this year with an empty heart...'

November

Mr Novembers themselves, The National -

November sadness -

Hunter's Moon

 

If ever there was a moon to howl at, this'd be  it: October's Full Moon, known as the Hunter Moon (occuring 17-18th October) 

These songs remind me of this moon - i.e empowerment, self-realisation, and an unveiling of potential ~ 

Autumn Aware

La Rocca are the band I associate most with this time of year. The leaving, letting go, and moving on. The rustling copper leaves and their breezy burnished beats go together, like a freshening wind, blowing the previous season's accumulations away and preparing the way for a big significant change. 

'Non-Believer', by the way, one of my favourite ever songs. Play it loud and often to change your life. 

'Do you take the non-believers? Cause I'm a non-believer...'

'Make a friend of who you are....the future's getting brighter...'

'Cause I know a place I'm going to like nowhere that you've been....'

Fake Empire

I can't believe I haven't posted The National here yet, my favourite modern band.

Morose and miserable, they describe disillusion (and everything starting with 'dis') like no one else. Into the winter season we go:

Sing to the Moon

This is just amazing...

Music/Musing for a New Season

Learning to adapt to and accept a new season...

This is equivalent to being smacked in the face and embracing a ten-force wind of change! It'll blow the cobwebs right off:

September Sadness

I don't like September. Don't like the seasonal change. Lots of other changes. And the darkness coming in fast.

If Only

'It made me think of you, it made me think of you...'

If only sometimes, we could do the thing we really wanted to do, recognised the moment for what it was - an opportunity, a flight path -  used our wings instead of wishing for them.

Then we wouldn't be haunted by regret (and a fear of flying)

La Vie en Rose

 

Is there any song more beautiful, more magical than this one ~  (or any idea either: that love makes life rose-tinted) 

 

Stars & Lullabies

Band of Horses: Rainy summer night listening. Melancholy and stars. Lullaby and longing. Sorrow and sweetness:

Backwards Walk

Trying to forget about someone, to retreat from all your feelings for them, is like trying to walk backwards... A difficult thing to learn.

Up, Over & Beyond

Let the sunshine carry you up, over, and beyond all that would try to keep you down.
Or - how a keen and sudden realisation is equal to wings; strength, resolve, independence, ~ freedom.

'I will not be a victim of romance, I will not be a victim of circumstance, or chance...'