We listened to each of these tracks twice, the first time to listen to lyrics or the "first layer" of music, which is what ever you instinctively listen to. The second time through we focused on listening to the way the arrangements are layered and built to support the song. There were definitely some really interesting and strong opinions, some "I never need to hear that agains" while others loved that same track and the feelings switched.
However these tracks make you feel, dig into why, try to figure out what is about them that you do or do not enjoy. Lean into the discomfort.
The first track is Alasdair Fraser and Natalie Haas - Calliope Meets Frank
However these tracks make you feel, dig into why, try to figure out what is about them that you do or do not enjoy. Lean into the discomfort.
The first track is Alasdair Fraser and Natalie Haas - Calliope Meets Frank
| The Second Track is Hozier - Run listen through following the lyrics the first time: Rare is this love, keep it covered I need you to run to me, run to me, lover Run until you feel your lungs bleeding Oh but the farrow know Her hungry eye, her ancient soul It's carried by the sneering menagerie Know what it is to grow Beneath her sky, her punishing cold To slowly learn of her ancient misery To be twisted by something A shame without a sin Like how she twisted the bog man After she married him Rare is this love, keep it covered I need you to run to me, run to me, lover Run until you feel your lungs bleeding But in all the world There is one lover worthy of her With as many souls claimed as she But for all he's worth He still shatters always on her earth The cause of every tear she'd ever weep Rushing to shore to meet her Foaming with loneliness White hands to fondle and beat her Give her his onliness Rare is this love, keep it covered I need you to run to me, run to me, lover Run until you feel your lungs bleeding Rare is this love, keep it covered I need you to run to me, run to me, lover Run until you feel your lungs bleeding Rare is this love, keep it covered I need you to run to me, run to me, lover Run until you feel your lungs bleeding | |
Bros Landreth - Greenhouse
| You're a cold day in August You're a stream too shallow You're a heart shaped box with no letter inside You're a seed unplanted You're a field run fallow Your heart's used up You're feeling cast aside I'm sorry that I left so soon I left you standing at the gallows You were all strung out The hangman waiting for the sign Come see me at the greenhouse In the back yard Come see me at the oak tree With our names carved in the bark Come see me at the train tracks Bring some pennies for old time's sake Even though I'm gone There's some memories that you need to take You're working up the courage Just to get yourself through that doorway A big world out there You're afraid of what you'll find Now you're leaning on friends Finding comfort and laughter You're patching up your heart And finding some piece of mind I'm sorry that I left so soon You're stepping down from the gallows You were all strung up The hangman waiting for a sign Come see me at the greenhouse In the back yard Come see me at the oak tree With our names carved in the bark Come see me at the train tracks Bring some pennies for old time's sake Even though I'm gone There's some memories that you need to take Mmmm... You found a new lover You went and got yourself married You're doing all the things we never got to do You had yourself a baby she's beautiful and happy Oh lord how I wish I could have given that to you But I left you too soon I was standing at the gallows I was all strung up I gave the hangman the sign You don't need me in the greenhouse In the backyard You don't need me at the oak tree With our names carved in the bark Don't make it to the train tracks Bringing pennies for old times sake There's new memories that you need to make It's time for me to fade away I'm going home | |
Josh Ritter - Best is for the Best
| Once I knew a girl in the hard hard times She made me a shirt out of fives and dimes Now she's gone but when I wear it she crosses my mind And if the best is for the best then the best is unkind I realized that Illinois was more than I could stand They say working's best cause poverty is hell on a man Now I ride a lazy river through the Mississippi fan And if the best is for the best then the best can be damned I spent a few years on the Queen of Spain She was a leaky little boat that went up in flames When the boiler blew some people started naming names But if the best is for the best I guess the best is to blame I spent a few more as the Cairo Crown A heavyweight wrestler in the Midwest towns But I was lonesome for a girl who could pin me down They say the best is for the best but that's not what I've found Now I listen to my sweetheart and I listen to my thirst I don't spend time listening to other people's words Sometimes they're right most times the reverse They say the best is for the best when the best?s for the worse Once I knew a girl in the hard hard times She made me a shirt out of fives and dimes Now she's gone but when I wear it she crosses my mind And if the best is for the best then the best is unkind | |
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