uppers and downers

this week i reviewed my collection of dashboard confessional songs. i loved some of them right away, but listening through the whole collection makes me feel like i'm going through a wringer because chris carraba is all emo. i bet there is one dashboard song you can find that is tailor fit to whatever stage you're on, whether falling in or out of love. but behind the songs, even the optimistic ones, is a note of bitterness obvious to ones who have been burned in the past.

it's just like you to contest
you wear it like a label on your breast
don't you see what this takes of me?
a certain callousness complies with your charm
and in your pride a hopeful look draped in despise.

i want to give you whatever you need.
what is it you need? is it what i need?
i want to give you whatever you need.
what is it you need? is it within me?

it's hard to explain how i am getting by on so little from you.
it's hard to believe that i would let myself get so wrapped into you.
there's got to be something that would be worthwhile for me to give to you. we need a
connection but you seem to push me far away from you.

the harder i push the farther i fall.
well you don't mind me being headstrong.
but you don't want to sing along.
maybe it's trite but i can't always be wrong.
try not to be wrong.

-- dashboard confessional, ender will save us all

finally, i have a copy of keane's this is the last time, courtesy of this overly generous blogger guy who has a collection from heaven. the same as the killers, i didn't really much like the first single keane put out but i was hooked with everybody's changing. i'm seriously considering getting the cd now, but maybe i'll postpone it for a little while longer.

keane has a great website too. i enjoyed watching the glastonbury performance of this is the last time. kinda raw, but still great. it's just a shame the tracks aren't downloadable, i would have loved having the glastonbury clips in my collection. maybe i should look around the web a bit more thoroughly, who knows what fansites have in store ;)

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the answer: it was the lobby door. luckily all the students were at a respectable distance, so it was only the guard who had a few cuts from the shattered glass. but it was scary coz the wind was blowing in hard, and i don't know how none of us got any small shards of glass in our eyes. that was a real fluke.

q: this song from the movie closer was played at the beginning and the end

a) damien rice, the blower's daughter

b) the smiths, how soon is now

c) damien rice, cold water

more on the movie next post. hopefully i'd have seen it by then.