I've Missed You, But I Haven't Met You, Oh But I Want To

So, today we have a double header since I can't decide which of these songs I would rather post...and seeing as I haven't posted in a while, I figured posting 2 wouldn't be unbearable...and especially seeing as I just kinda make these little blogs for my own entertainment cause no one else reads them, I can do whatever I want. so there. ha.

Anyway, both of these songs are by The Civil Wars. I really quite enjoy this duo. They are just two people that write great music, play, and sing by themselves...not to mention they are awesome at it. So, these songs kind of have the same theme and can go together, which is also why I figured it would be ok to include them in the same blog update. The first one is entitled "To Whom It May Concern," the second song being "I've Got This Friend." ...and I guess I like these songs cause I can relate. I'm at the point in my life where, well, lets just say of the first 4 cousins on the Reese side of the family, I am the only one that is single...and probably will be for the rest of my life...and sometimes I can't help but feel like I will be the loner/let down of the family. I have been single for approximately 20 years, and with little friends for most of that too, so I can't help but relate in the first song when it talks about waiting for someone to walk into your life...and missing that close relationship. I mean, I want that too. And then on to the second song. I really love this song, and partially because I feel like I am the friend...both the male and female friend. (and you will understand this more when you listen to the song.) I originally have had in mind for a while now to add "To Whom It May Concern" onto my list of blog updates, but the more i listened to "I've Got This Friend," the more I thought about adding this song instead...so I ended up posting both, but I think if you only have time for one, check out I've Got This Friend. So I guess without further delay, lets listen to the song shall we:



Why are you so far from me?
In my arms is where you ought to be
How long will you make me wait?
I dont know how much more I can take
I missed you
But I haven't met you
Oh how I want to
How I do
Slowly counting down the days
Till I finally know your name
Ooo the way your hand feels round my waist
The way you laugh
The way your kisses taste
I missed you
But I haven't met you
Oh how I want to
How I do, How I do
I missed you
But I haven't met you
Oh how I missed you
I haven't met you
Oh but I want to
Oh how I want to
Dear whoever you might be
I'm still waiting patiently.



I've got this friend
I don't think you know him
He's not much for words
He's hid in his hardened way

Oh I've got this friend
A loveless romantic
All that he really wants
Is someone to want him back

Ohh, if the right one came
If the right one came along
Ohh, If the right one came, along

I've got this friend
I don't think you know her
She sings a simple song
It sounds a lot like his

Oh I've got this friend
Holding onto her heart
Like it's a little secret
Like it's all she's got to give

Ohh, if the right one came
If the right one came along
Ohh, if the right one came, along

It'd be such a shame
(If they never meet)
She sounds lovely
(He sounds right out of a dream)
If only
(If only)
If only

Ohh
Ohh, if the right one came
If the right one came along
Ohh, (I've got this friend) if the right one came
If the right one came along
Ohh, (I've got this friend)
If the right one came, along

That's okay, you don't need to win anyways...

Bad day, looking for a way,
home, looking for the great escape.
Gets in his car and drives away,
far from all the things that we are.
Puts on a smile and breathes it in
and breathes it out, he says,
bye bye bye to all of the noise.
Oh, he says, bye bye bye to all of the noise.

Doo doo doo doo doo noo noo
Doo doo doo doo doo noo noo noo noo
Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo doo doo noo noo noo

Hey child, things are looking down.
That’s okay, you don’t need to win anyways.
Don’t be afraid, just eat up all the gray
and it will fade all away.
Don’t let yourself fall down.

Doo doo doo doo doo noo noo
Doo doo doo doo doo noo noo noo noo
Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo doo doo noo noo noo

Bad day, looking for the great escape.
He says, bad day, looking for the great escape.
On a bad day, looking for the great escape,
the great escape.


Not that i've had too terrible of a day, but I did work just a hair over 8 hours, so i guess i'm just in the state now where I just wanna lie in bed and be on my computer and do absolutely nothing. Although, when this happens I tend to find myself stuck on Tumblr for hours on end and then my mind starts to wonder and think...and that is never good for my self esteem. ever. haha. And then I realized I hadn't been listening to music this whole time! What theee. So i open up iTunes, press play and this is the first thing that plays. i haven't heard this song in a while, but for some reason when it started to play just now i really loved it. It was/is mellow and peaceful and a little bit comforting. I don't really know what exactly it is, but i like it. 
Although, this is how i've felt a lot during this semester. With school, interning, and work, it can wear a person down...and make you look for a great escape, away from the things that I am (student/intern/shift leader/friend). And then bye to all the noise...those are my favorite moments. Every now and again I find myself driving outside the city between the big houses, nature, and fields, away from all my weekly duties I have and I can feel free for a minute. A minute to picture life without all your responsibilities and how enjoyable that would be. But sooner or later you need to turn the car around and head back to the city, noise, and your jobs. bummer.  Although, i do find myself thinking on these drives...how my life currently is and about the future, how i would want my life to end up or whatnot; which is basically the second verse. "Hey child, things are looking down. That’s okay, you don’t need to win anyways. Don’t be afraid, just eat up all the gray and it will fade all away. Don’t let yourself fall down." This is what i need to remind myself. The more I think about the song, the more comforting it is and the more i like it. 
Looking for the great escape...

This goes with my previous post...

Time for an explanation. Since I am back at the front desk, to keep myself occupied, I decided that I'm gonna post less about useless things (like for example the whole first paragraph of the previous update) and talk a little more about why I like the song I posted and/or what I'm getting out of the lyrics. Now, I know no one cares but, at this point, I am just doing this for my own entertainment, haha. So here it  goes:

This song is great at painting a picture in my head, a place I want to visit and how I want to live. With even the opening line the song gets me hooked, "Sometimes I wish I lived an an airstream." Seriously though, how fun would it be to travel around the country living in an airstream! If not for your whole life at least for a summer, season, month or so. And then the next verse, which I might like even more than the first, "Sometimes I wish I lived on a mountain drank from a stream instead of a fountain, I'd stay there, top of the world." Can I get an amen! If someone would tell me to picture my dream house, if I could live anywhere I wanted, I would picture a log cabin-esk (?) house/cabin in the mountains by a creek. That my friends, is like heaven for me. (I really hope there are mountains, waterfalls, sunsets, creeks and nature in heaven...I mean, I know God wouldn't disappoint, but those are just some of the most beautiful things to me.)

And then comes the theme of what would be a chorus: "unbridled or tethered and tied, the safety of the fence or the danger of the ride i'll always be unsatisfied." The more I think about this the more I like and appreciate it, especially at this point in my life. My college career is slowly coming to a close as I am drawing nearer and nearer to my senior year where soon I will be forced to get by in life without the title of "student" as your fall-back. I am a person of many interests. Even within this semester I have gone back and forth with what I want to do after I graduate. ...if I can even find a job. Unbridled- finding a tour to work on (probably as the merch person to start off) and if I can't seem to find a job, I've even thought about finding a job on Cool Works for a season at a resort somewhere, who knows, i'm young, I don't really have a career yet, so why not? Thinking about possibly getting involved with the tv and film industry (although that would require a relocation to California I believe so, that is way up in the air.) Tethered and tied- finding an office job or being stuck working at a food job here in Nashville where I know I at least have a somewhat steady paycheck. As much as I want to work in the music business, I don't really want a normal job for a company where I am in an office all day. So for these lines of this chorus (kind-of) that is what I think about...my future. The safety of the fence or the danger of the ride...and the more I think about what I want to do and where I go, the more I realize I will probably always be unsatisfied. I feel the relatability of "If this is all I need why do I want more?"  (well...maybe at least until I find a steady job that will would let me be unbridled...? haha, i don't know) But that's life and i'll just ride it out.

Sometimes I wish I lived in an airstream, homemade curtains lived just like a Gypsy...

Sometimes I Wish I Lived In An Airstream...

I know it is only 1:28 and the number of songs I have yet to listen to today is many, but I wanted to go ahead and pick a song of the day. (And mainly because I am at Borman right now and half of the office is gone in Vegas at the ACM awards and have nothing better to do, haha) So anyway, in light of the ACM Awards, today we will have a country artist. I was looking over a magazine here overviewing the ACM awards with nominee's and whatnot, just talked about the show and events around it. It also talked about the hosts. Blake Shelton will be joining Reba for the hosting duties. This. Will. Be. Funny. I haven't been into award shows to much lately, probably because there seem to be a million in the country genre specifically, but looking at this magazine made me excited for the show! And I know you might be thinking, Amy, we don't care...but then again, not sure why you are on here in the first place...and i digress. So anyway, Miranda Lambert was in this magazine and after thinking about it, she is really the only country album I still have on my ipod. In my change of music taste in the past few months, manly country tunes have been deleted, and mostly just because they were old stuff that I had already grown tired of for the sheer amount of time they have been on my ipod. But one country artist out of all that has the most songs present is Miranda Lambert, which is kind of surprising. I realized today how much I really do like her and her music and I really hope she wins female vocal of the year Sunday night at the ACM's. But forward bound! Whilst sitting here at Borman one of her songs came on my ipod I hadn't heard in a while and it used to be one of favorite songs! It is entitled Airstream Song. I love the little instrumental at the beginning, it is calm and a little soothing and I like the instruments...but then it picks up the pace a little and from here I appreciate the lyrics. I love the lyrics of this song! I agree with pretty much all the words. Well, enough rambling about the song, i'll let you enjoy it for yourself!



Sometimes I wish I lived in an Airstream
Homemade curtains, lived just like a gypsy
Break a heart, roll out of town
‘Cause gypsies never get tied down

Sometimes I wish I lived on a mountain
Drank from a stream instead of a fountain
I’d stay there, top of the world
But I was born a red dirt girl

Unbridled or tethered and tied
The safety of the fence or the danger of the ride
I’ll always be unsatisfied

Sometimes I wish I lived by a pier
In a lighthouse with a chandelier
I’d watch everybody’s ships come in
And then I’d sail away with them

Unanchored in the storm
Or safely on the shore
If this is all I need, why do I want more

Sometimes I wish I lived in an airstream
Homemade curtains, lived just like a gypsy

So there you have it. In honor of the ACM's, Miranda Lambert, and the only country album I still enjoy, haha.

Update:
If you are extremely bored and care to read about my take/interpretation/feelings toward the song and lyrics, it can be viewed here>>. Or, if  you are viewing the blog and not just this specific post...you passed it to get here and just need to look/scroll up. :)