songs_in_my_head_as_i_woke_up nr there were two today. the first was "it's a good life if you don't weaken" by the tragically hip. then i fell back to sleep, and when i woke up again it was "happiness is a warm gun" by the beatles. 211207 ... nr billie_eilish: "i love you" 220310 ... raze a song from a dream, with a voice that didn't seem to appreciate its own weight. the only words i heard: "things are better in the heart." 220310 ... raze another one from a dream. this time it was a song performed by an obscure (and nonexistent in the waking world) country singer from the 1950s named texas jerry. i triggered what might have been the only recording he made in his lifetime by pressing a single key on an archaic sampling keyboard. it was pretty lightweight stuff, but there was something compelling about his voice. some hitch that made me think of hank williams. he smiled in my mind and sang, "i give myself to you, my_love. i give myself to you." middle c played the song back at its intended pitch. i tried the lowest note on the keyboard to see what would happen. texas jerry's voice grew richer and more resonant, and instead of the grotesque slowed-down weirdness i was expecting to hear, i got something closer to the burden of experience set against a few major chords. 220317 ... raze "snap yo fingers" by lil jon. (not because i wanted it there. because a dream put it there. again.) 220527 ... tender_square "breakfast at tiffany's" by deep blue something. 220529 ... raze a catchy tune with a hook that went, "let potato salad be the one you love. ba ba ba ba." words to live by, no? 221113 ... tender_square from a dream a song with the repeated mantra "i want to be brave, but i'm afraid" 221121 ... tender_square lil jon & the east side boyz: "get low" 221220 ... raze "enter sandman" by metallica. i blame the dream that put it there. 230426 ... tender_square "drops of jupiter" by train. (for the love of god, make it stop.) 230506 ... tender_square "sweet home alabama" by lynyrd skynyrd. 230511 ... raze a franz ferdinand song that doesn't actually exist. it's called "she has lies". 230512 ... raze "the kids aren't alright" by the offspring after it appeared in a dream (but as a nofx song). 230626 ... tender_square the icicle works: "birds fly (whisper to a scream)" 230724 ... past dreamsicle by jason isbell 230724 ... raze the end of "star" by david_bowie. 230904 ... raze the theme from "sweet valley high". 240107 ... raze "straight to my heart" by sting. 240505 ... e_o_i Yesterday, "Hallelujah" by Leonard Cohen (one of his more popular songs but I hadn't even thought about it recently) 240606 ... raze "mother nature's son" by the_beatles. 240607 ... raze this acoustic fingerpicking thing i dreamed i drummed on a tabletop and then couldn't quite piece back together. 240608 ... e_o_i "Genesis" by Grimes (the chorus melody, whose words escape me - but maybe it's not supposed to have real words, in the style of Sigur Ros or what's-his-name's Songs of Sanctuary) 240614 ... e_o_i No, that part of the tune has these words: "My heart, I never feel I never see I never know" (and it did sound something like "heart") 240614 ... raze "babe" by styx. 240701 ... e_o_i The chorus of "Sweet Caroline" - my dream gave me the idea to write a blathe called dream_exercise, and then I was humming "dream exercise, doo doo doo" to that tune. 240713 ... raze "wire" and "indian_summer sky" by U2 (which often blur together in my brain). 240812 ... raze "funeral march of a marionette" (better known as the theme from "alfred hitchcock presents"). 241004 ... raze bruce cockburn's "northern lights". when the rhythm doubles and he starts singing wordless and falsetto ... so soulful. so sweet. 241010 ... e_o_i One day it's the trumpet call (actually clarinet) from Olivier Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time. The next it's this Coldplay chorus - although the lyrics have been scrubbed of the song's title, "Speed of Sound" - Birds keep flying from the underground To show us how it all began Birds keep flying from the underground If you see it, then you'll understand 241019 ... raze "islands in the stream", but with these words: "strangers in the night that is what we are only wasting time someone's fucking car" 241023 ... rubydee “These days” Nico 241023 ... epitome of incomprehensibility Not a preexisting song; something I'd made up that went like It's a villainous account With a criminal amount Which I really, really, really can't count. ...It sounded somewhat like Gilbert and Sullivan, which I CAN account for. I_joined_a_band_of_musical_pirates (local musical theatre group doing Pirates of Penzance this pirates) and had practice last night. 241026 ... e_o_i lol of lolling about! what the hell is "doing Pirates of Penzance this pirate"??? I meant "this year." Apparently years are pirates sometimes. 241026 what's it to you? who go blather from