Growing up. Growing old. Growing apart, growing together. Changes, unfun changes.So I’m not going to think about it tonight.
So here’s a list of songs that I have on every playlist in my iPod. If your name starts with a J, you’ve probably heard it already (and I’ll already have sent you the songs). If you chopped me open, these notes would be streaming in my blood and the lyrics fusing itself with my dna. They are the sounds that come out of me when I’m crying my heart out, professing my love, and coming back humiliated, shaken, and beat. And they are the reason why I keep going. These are the songs that I play when I’m happiest, when I’m in love, when I’m spending time with myself at the highest place I can find myself on. These are the songs I never skip when they come up on my iPod and the songs I’m probably listening to when you notice the weird girl spacing out on the back of the bus.
So I present to you, my lifeline. Because without music, life would not be fair.
1. Goodnight Song – Tears for Fears
2. Blood Bank – Bon Iver
3. Enjoy the Ride – Morcheeba
4. Star of Wonder / None Shall Pass- Tor/Sufjan Stevens
5. Mykonos – Fleet Foxes
6. Riverbed – Morcheeba
7. All I Believe In – The Magic Numbers and Amadou and Mariam
8. Brackett, WI – Bon Iver
9. Street Lights – Kanye West
10. Comrades & Friends – From Monument to Masses
11. Early Winter – Keane
12. Slow Show – The National
13. Maps (Acoustic) – Yeah Yeah Yeahs
14. Night of the Creeps – Everlea
13. Two Silver Trees – Calexico
14. Auto Rock – Mogwai