Song of the Month (September): John Legend- Open Your Eyes

I didn't even realize when John Legends latest album came out. Nonetheless my wife purchased the album and played it on our way to a keith urban concert. Now I loved the old Bobby caldwell version of this song but John legend really tears it up and I was immediately hooked when I heard it. Enjoy!
 


John Legend- Open Your Eyes

I see you in the lonely place
How can you be so blind
You still regretting the love you left, left behind
Oh darling, I seen you go through the changes
Sitting alone each night
Are you expecting to find the love, love that's right
Darling open your eyes
Let me show you light
Girl you never find a love that's right
Darling open your eyes
Let me show you the light
Girl you think you're so wise, you're so wise
There are times when you need someone
I will be by your side
I'll take my chances before they pass, pass me by
Oh darling, there is a light that shines
Special for you and me
You need to look at the other side, you'll agree
Darling open your eyes
Let me show you the light
You may never find a love that's right
Darling open your eyes
Let me show you the light
You may never find a love that's right
Darling open your eyes
Let me show you the light
You may never find a love that's right
Darling open your eyes
Let me show you the light
Girl you think you're so right
You may never find a love that's right

Song of the Month (August): Sunny Levine - Wild Us Out

 This song reminds me of LA. This past month I went to LA for four days. I walked around the big city all by myself. I saw sky scrapers, busy city streets, palm trees, traffic, sunsets, etc. As I sat back in a lounge chair in the pool area of The Universal Sheraton I thought to myself that I really disliked the big city. Don’t get me wrong, it was beautiful. This song reminded me of the beauty of the town as seen on Celeste and Jessie but honestly I have changed. When I was in my early 20’s I wanted to move out to a big city and I hated my country roots. I thought I was meant for the big city and lights and people and all of that. But as I enjoyed an LA summer sunset I realized that even those desires are behind me. LA was nice but I love being in good old Nor Cal. Yes, it is hot as hell but it’s where my wife is, it’s where my heart is, it’s home. 

Sunny Levine - Wild Us Out



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Song of The Month (July) : Stone Sour – Through Glass

Really this song has no association to any memories. I just really liked the song. I do remember going camping with my wife, my buddy outsider and his wife and telling him that I discovered stone sour, specifically this song. He quickly pulled out his phone and began playing this song. Well when he did this we started reminiscing about the fact that my buddy (we call him Outsider) was the first person to introduce me to hard rock in my early 20’s. I already listened to Nirvana and Red Hot Chili Peppers but He introduced me to Seether, three days grace, breaking Benjamin and other similar bands.  Anyway, enjoy!

Stone Sour – Through Glass

I'm looking at you through the glass
Don't know how much time has passed
Oh, god it feels like forever
But no one ever tells you that forever
Feels like home sitting all alone inside your head

Cause I'm looking at you through the glass
Don't know how much time has passed
All I know is that it feels like forever
But no one ever tells you that forever feels like home
Sitting all alone inside your head

How do you feel? That is the question
But I forget, you don't expect an easy answer
When something like a soul becomes initialized
And folded up like paper dolls and little notes
You can't expect a bit of hope
So while you're outside looking in
Describing what you see
Remember what you're staring at is me

Cause I'm looking at you through the glass
Don't know how much time has passed
All I know is that it feels like forever
When no one ever tells you that forever feels like home
Sitting all alone inside your head

How much is real? So much to question
An epidemic of the mannequins
Contaminating everything
When thought came from the heart
It never did right from the start
Just listen to the noises
(Null and void instead of voices)
Before you tell yourself
It's just a different scene
Remember it's just different from what you've seen

I'm looking at you through the glass
Don't know how much time has passed
And all I know is that it feels like forever
When no one ever tells you that forever feels like home
Sitting all alone inside your head

Cause I'm looking at you through the glass
Don't know how much time has passed
All I know is that it feels like forever
But no one ever tells you that forever feels like home
Sitting all alone inside your head

And it's the stars
The stars
That shine for you
And it's the stars
The stars
That lie to you, yeah-ah

And it's the stars
The stars
That shine for you
And it's the stars
The stars
That lie to you, yeah-ah

I'm looking at you through the glass
Don't know how much time has passed
Oh, god it feels like forever
But no one ever tells you that forever feels like home
Sitting all alone inside your head

Cause I'm looking at you through the glass
Don't know how much time has passed
All I know is that it feels like forever
But no one ever tells you that forever feels like home
Sitting all alone inside your head

And it's the stars
The stars
That shine for you
And it's the stars
The stars
That lie to you, yeah-ah

And it's the stars
The stars
That shine for you
And it's the stars
The stars
That lie to you, yeah yeah

Oh when the stars
Oh when the stars that lie!

Song of the Month (June): Bob Dylan – Girl from the North Country

I discovered this song when watching  movie called "Silver Linings Playbook." Sad, I know. Sad that it took some movie to discover this beautiful timeless masterpiece or the works of Bob Dylan. Its not that I had never heard of him, its that I never truly paid any attention to his music until now.

Well anyway, I played this song on repeat while driving through the barren lands and countrysides of Washington and Oregon. We had gone to visit my wifes family and I just felt this song was perfect for the return trip and it sure was.

 Bob Dylan – Girl from the North Country



If you're traveling in the north country fair
Where the winds hit heavy on the borderline
Remember me to one who lives there
For she was once a true love of mine.

Well, if you go when the snowflakes storm
When the rivers freeze and summer ends
Please see for me if she's wearing a coat so warm
To keep her from the howlin' winds.

Please see from me if her hair hanging down
If it curls and flows all down her breast
Please see from me if her hair hanging down
That's the way I remember her best.

Well, if you're traveling in the north country fair
Where the winds hit heavy on the borderline
Please say hello to one who lives there
She once was a true love of mine.

If you're travelin' in the north country fair
Where the winds hit heavy on the borderline
Remember me to one who lives there
She once was a true love of mine.

Song of the month (May): Bon Iver - Holocene

I discovered this song long ago but it really started making sense this month. I remember two things while listening to this song:
1. Driving around Chico with my mom and sister, rememebering my memories from when I lived in that town. As I drove down those streets, the streets that I once called home, I realized how adult i feel now. That was my twenties and now I am thirty and driving down those streets is now a part of my past. Those were beautiful days.

2. Driving down highway 1 with the love of my life. We were stuck in traffic but it was one of the best moments of my entire life. Not the traffic, but the moment; holding hands with my gorgeous wife sitting on one of the most beautiful highways in the world. These are beautiful times.

In all this song remeinds me of the beauty of life. That is something that I never imagined writing back in my self loathing teens, or my world hating twenties. I guess this song reminds me that the past wasn't as bad as I thought it was back then while simultaneously reminding me that My future is better than I EVER could have thought.

Bon Iver - Holocene

"Someway, baby, it's part of me, apart from me"
You're laying waste to Halloween
You fucked it, friend, it's on its head, it struck the street
You're in Milwaukee, off your feet

And at once I knew I was not magnificent
Strayed above the highway aisle
(Jagged vacance, thick with ice)
I could see for miles, miles, miles

3rd and Lake, it burnt away, the hallway
Was where we learned to celebrate
Automatic bought the years you'd talk for me
That night you played me 'Lip Parade'
Not the needle, nor the thread, the lost decree
Saying nothing, that's enough for me

And at once I knew I was not magnificent
Hulled far from the highway aisle
(Jagged vacance, thick with ice)
I could see for miles, miles, miles

Christmas night, it clutched the light, the hallow bright
Above my brother, I and tangled spines
We smoked the screen to make it what it was to be
Now to know it in my memory

And at once I knew I was not magnificent
High above the highway aisle
(Jagged vacance, thick with ice)
I could see for miles, miles, miles

Read more: Bon Iver - Holocene Lyrics | MetroLyrics

Song of the month (April): Darius Rucker - Wagon Wheel

Not a big story for this song. just a great track! I had no idea it was originally performed by a band called old crow medicine and co-written by Bob Dylan! Well, anyway, it is a fantastic, catchy song that got stuck in my head the entire month of april! Enjoy!

 Darius Rucker - Wagon Wheel




Heading down south to the land of the pines
I'm thumbing my way into North Caroline
Staring up the road and pray to God I see headlights
I made it down the coast in seventeen hours
Picking me a bouquet of dogwood flowers
And I'm a-hopin' for Raleigh, I can see my baby tonight

So rock me momma like a wagon wheel
Rock me momma any way you feel
Hey momma rock me
Rock me momma like the wind and the rain
Rock me momma like a south bound train
Hey momma rock me

Running from the cold up in New England
I was born to be a fiddler in an old time string band
My baby plays a guitar, I pick a banjo now
Oh, north country winters keep a-getting me down
Lost my money playing poker so I had to leave town
But I ain't turning back to living that old life no more

So rock me momma like a wagon wheel
Rock me momma any way you feel
Hey momma rock me
Rock me momma like the wind and the rain
Rock me momma like a south bound train
Hey momma rock me

Walkin' to the south out of Roanoke
I caught a trucker out of Philly had a nice long toke
But he's a heading west from the Cumberland gap
To Johnson City, Tennessee
And I gotta get a move on before the sun
I hear my baby calling my name and I know that she's the only one
And if I died in Raleigh at least I will die free

[x2:]
So rock me momma like a wagon wheel
Rock me momma any way you feel
Hey momma rock me
Rock me momma like the wind and the rain
Rock me momma like a south bound train
Hey momma rock me

Song of the month (March): Lynyrd Skynyrd – Tuesday’s Gone

Although I was going to post a black keys song, ANY black Keys song, instead I decided to go with the rightful song of the month. I did get into the black keys though. I discovered them in March, downloaded one of their songs and listened to a lot of their stuff on spotify.  They are a great band and if I had become attached to one particular song, I probably would have added it. 

However, at the end of last month I went on a huge beach side camping trip with my buddies. I played the role of DJ for the party and played some of my favorite party jams. On the last day of the trip we all stood around and drank a few last beers. We packed up a few things, and we looked around that beautiful campground and it was then that I got a bright idea. I pulled out my phone and played Lynyrd Skynyrds “Tuesday’s Gone.” It is a tune that carrys nostalgia, good bye’s and good memories throughout its entire 7 minutes. Wen I played it, everybody stayed quiet for a moment and listened. My buddy mike finally broke the silence with, “This song is making me all nostalgic and $#!t! haha My job was done. I am also working on a video with this song as its soundtrack.

Lynyrd Skynyrd – Tuesday’s Gone

Train roll on, on down the line,
Won't you please take me far, far away.
Now I feel the wind blow, outside my door,
I'm leavin' my woman at home, oh yeah.
Tuesday's gone with the wind,
My baby's gone, gone with the wind.
And I don't know, oh, where I'm goin'.
I just want to be left alone.
When this train ends, I'll try again.
I'm leavin' my woman at home.
My baby's gone

Tuesday's gone with the wind.
Tuesday's gone with the wind.
Tuesday's gone with the wind.
My baby's gone, with the wind.
Train roll on
Tuesday's gone with the wind.
Tuesday's gone with the wind.
Tuesday's gone with the wind.
My baby's gone, with the wind.

Train roll on
Train roll on many miles from my home,see I'm,
I'm ridin' my blues, babe, blues away, yeah.
But Tuesday you see, a she had to be free.
Somehow I got to, to carry on.
My baby's gone.

Tuesday's gone with the wind.
Tuesday's gone with the wind.
Tuesday's gone with the wind.
My baby's gone, with the wind.

Train roll on...train roll on...
Roll on train...roll on train...roll on train
Train roll on...the train, it rolls on
Train rolls on I can't change, I can't change,
I can't change, I can't change,I can't change...
Ride on train
I can't change
Train roll on
Lord, I can't change
I can't change