love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place...
~zora neale hurston

love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
and therefore is winged cupid painted blind.
~william shakespeare, mid-summer night's dream, 1595

hard way to fall..... ryan adams

ps i love you...

see the rain on the street
the way the cars shine
and the scotch that she drinks
with her lips so fine
and her shoulders go weak
as she closes her eyes
oh, my God, when she was mine
see how she moves through the door
how she loses her keys
how she loses her cool
watching blackbirds scatter through the trees
how she flips from the back to the front
reading magazines
oh, my God, I miss those things
and it's a hard way to fall
and this ain't the easy way down
and it's a hard thing to love anyone, anyhow
so if it's gotta be you
treat her nice
hold her hand
and tell her twice
that she doesn't have to worry
and it will be alright
it's alright this time
it's alright this time
see her smiling at him?
that used to be me
i could find her in a thunderstorm
just by the way that the rain would fall
and we used to be something
but somethin' happened to me
oh, my God, when I was free
and it's a hard way to fall
and this ain't easy way down
and it's a hard thing to love anyone, anyhow
and it's a hard way to fall
and this ain't the easy way down

~ J'ai été, le suis, tu seras ~ as you are so once was i, as i am so you will be.

friendship is love without the trembling of the heart....

time is on the wing...don't let your dreams fly away from you.

don't ever let them keep you down... let your voice sing load and proud!

ps we part to meet again..... never say goodbye! CreepingElm

"emily dickinson wrote in a poem that 'hope' is the thing with feathers-- / that perches in the soul--."

tomorrow is here....

ryan adams - little moon

ps what did i do little moon?

little moon don't shine.
are you waiting up for me tonight?
cause i'm alone, the way loneliness dies.
i'm the tears no one cries.
i'm the salt.
like salt that coats the skin.
i'm going now.
you know so you can let me in.

little moon don't weep.
chalk mark on an empty street.
how'd the night learn my name?
it's only me you can blame.
and the truth,
everything has an end.
severed too soon.
what did I do, little moon?
what did I do, little moon?

you are my center while i spin away...... creepingelm

when the rope gets tight (don't fail me now) - ryan adams

ps oh mary oh mother of all that is near.. lead me to freedom from my kingdom of fear... and don't fail me now.. just don't fail me now...

sad company "i fucking surrender"....ryan adams

ps. "i fucking surrender," what a find I have found......

first aid kit @ the echo on 10.05.10

first aid kit delivered at the echo this evening..... 2 honey-voiced swedish sisters, klara and johanna soderberg, on the road promoting their new album, the big black and the blue. they are wise beyond their years singing folk/pop songs that seep under the skin and claw at you. surface playfulness is deceiving as the tracks take on a darker hue in places, but both elements work perfectly together to create a trance-like quality. added are small yet purposeful flashes of drumming and autoharp. yay for the autoharp! singing their melancholy arrangements with warm harmonies that spin tales of self-discovery at the expense of lost love and memories of ghosts left behind, it's truly remarkable that at age 17 and 19 these lyrics come forth.
one of my favorite songs from their new album is ghost town. it is full of emotion, a song about leaving someone you love to find yourself before settling down for good, only to find that they found someone else in the meantime. do you make one final attempt to salvage what you had? do you walk away? do you live on with regret? another goodie is hard believer, a mesmeric tune where a real life argument about religion provoked the rousingly urgent line: "and it's one life / and it's this life / and it's beautiful".
btw they sing a beautiful cover of fleet foxes, tiger mountain peasant song! these sisters mesmerize me!
be sure to hear me play and share their songs regularly on blip.fm ~ http://blip.fm/CreepingElm
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ryan adams.... birthday happiness to you

let us down easy ....

writing the hits with stupid.....

ps this makes me giggle hard.....
ryan adams with mandy moore - oh my sweet carolina

ps may you one day carry me home....
whiskeytown - ryan adams - a song for you

ryan adams and the cardinals - go easy

ryan adams - happy birthday

memories of you

ps sending wishes, kisses and hugs out to ryan today.... oh and everyday too! hehehehe what would i do without his music? hmmm .. idk, maybe i could take up singing with frogs... just kidding
thank you ryan for making my world go around with your tunes!

josh rouse - 'sweetie'

ps crooked couple standing side by side...is that you? is that me? life in circles, and we dream up someplace to go

lazy dreamers on a Winter's night
making plans of the Spring
paint a picture while I put away my clothes

crooked couple standing side by side
is that you? Is that me?
life in circles, and we dream up someplace to go

we'll sleep on rooftops
we'll ride on bicycles
baby, we'll get married
don't you want to, Sweetie?

so much talent you're not fit for this world
as an actress, there's no screen
a couple movies, now you're stuck in this Broadway show

sink full of dishes and a dirty face
where's the passion? Talk is cheap
life in circles, then we turn the lights down low

we'll sleep on rooftops
we'll ride on bicycles
baby, we'll get married
don't you want to, Sweetie?

we hear some music
coming from the street down below
and the melody carries
oh, you sing with me, Sweetie

Girl, you sing with me
la-la-la-la-la
la-la-la-la-la
la-la-la-la-la

la-la-la-la-la
la-la-la-la-la
la
(repete)

and if I can love you
just like you deserve to be
tell me, what's your feeling
don't you want to, Sweetie?

hear pretty, pretty music
coming from the street down below
and the melody carries
won't you sing with me, Sweetie?

we'll walk down boardwalks
we'll ride on bicycles
baby, we'll get married
don't you want to, sweetie?
don't you want to, sweetie?

lA ladies choir covering sean na na

O+S » Sean Na Na from The Voice Project on Vimeo.

ps beautiful... gorgeous!
cedric's other project O+S and the lA ladies choir covering sean na na (har mar superstar)! this was done for the voice project...