Introspection

I've been in kind of a contemplative mood the last few days. Lots of my thoughts have been focused on sorting out some feelings or figuring out what is right or wrong.

When I get in these kinds of moods, I find I'm drawn to introspective musicians. Lately I've been on an especially big Ingrid Michaelson kick. Her melodies are beautiful! And her lyrics are so off beat and a little quirky. Some of them really make you stop and think.

Here are some of my faves:

1) So glide away on soapy heels, and promise not to promise any more. If you come around again then I will take the chain from off the door. - The Chain

2. I can do any thing I want to. I can do anything my heart tells me to. I can be anything that I see.- Lady In Spain

3) I want to change the world instead, I sleep. I want to believe in more than you and me. All I that I know is I'm breathing, all I can do is keep breathing, all we can do is keep breathing now. - Keep Breathing

4. Oh what a way that we died. Plenty of tears were supplied. My eyes are rung out and dry as a bone, but I taste much better alone. Something good...now that you're gone, I can roll on to something good. - Oh what a day

5) Let's get rich and by our parents homes in the south of France. Let's get rich and buy everybody nice sweaters and teach them how to dance. Let's get rich and buy a house on a mountain making everybody look like ants from way up there, you and I. -You and I

6. Happy is the heart that still feels pain. Darkness drains and light will come again. Swing open up your chest and let it in. Just let the love, love, love begin. -Everybody

7) They say you're really not somebody until somebody else loves you. Well, I am waiting to make somebody somebody soon. - Are We There Yet? (Actually, I just adore this whole song.)

8. You call me a mountain. And I call you the sea. I'll stand tall and certain, and watch you swallow me. - Mountain and Sea

9) I'll buy you rogane, when you start loosing all your hair; sew on patches to all you tear. Cause I love the way you call me baby. And you take me the way I am. - The Way I Am

10. Six pounds and seven ounces. A ball of bones and flesh and tears were you. Now your hands, your tiny pink hands grew larger than my hands ever grew. We don't say a word. There's nothing to say that hasn't been heard. How you've grown my little bird. I'm regretting letting you fly. - The Highway

Bonus: I will live my life as a lobster man's wife, on an island in the blue bay. He will take care of me, he will smell like the sea, and close to my heart he'll always stay. I will bear three girls, all with strawberry curls, little Ella and Nelly and Fay. While I'm combing their hair I will catch his warm stare on our island in the blue bay.

Some of them are better in context, so you should go listen to the songs! :)