songs

[rm]

Alison sent me a Neko Case album, and there are two lyrics from it that are utterly obsessing me:

I can say that I've lived here in honor and danger
But i'm just an animal and cannot explain a life
Down this chain of days I wished to stay among my people
Relation now means nothing, having chosen so defined

And if death should smell my breathing
As it pass beneath my window
Let it lead me trembling, trembling
I own every bell that tolls me

This, I should note, I kept hearing as "And if death should smell my freedom" which I like better and just leaves me stunned.

and

It's the devil I love
And that's as funny as real love
And that's as real as true love

This for me is in its glory out of context, because of me and my devils and maybe Mary MacLane and hers.

Both these songs are accidentally songs of the stories that matter so much to me. Honor and danger indeed.

Comments

[ekatarina.livejournal.com]

Ack! Now I know why she looks so familiar! (Posters all over town advertizing her appearance at FolkFest.)

I used to see cub in Vancouver a lot.

Okay, my brain can go back to sleep now.


Katja

[fuyukodachi.livejournal.com]

bwahaha. I was googling the second one to find out what song it came from so that I could look for it and found this:

http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Evils%20in%20America/Rock-n-Roll/neko_case.htm

Rock-n-roll music is of the Devil, and Neko Case is just another testimony to this fact.

[rm.livejournal.com]

And the thing even manages to wank on Crowley, which is always amusing.

[schpahky.livejournal.com]

Yay. It seemed exactly the right timing. That album shifts and changes with repeated listens, too.

The other thingamabob was just something I stumbled on in the middle of our conversations which also seemed timely, in a more frivolous sort of way.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Email later. I would have sent a thank you first, but I was at a friend's house with little time on the Internet, but I had to post about the lyrics as they were consuming me.

[schmidtybooger.livejournal.com]

If you have a gmail account I can send you some other albums of hers. She's fucking awesome.