Go Butler!!!

I've been listening to The Swell Season's new album "Strict Joy". The title of the album is a little deceiving to me because it seems to be anything but joyful. Which just so happens to fit my mood recently. It's a great album and I love how Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova blend their voices together so well. I can feel every word they sing by the emotion in their voices.

Anyway, here are some of the lyrics that have really been getting to me:

I wanna sit you down and talk

I wanna pull back the veils and find out what it is I've done wrong

I wanna tear these curtains down

I want you to meet me somewhere tonight in this old tourist town

And we'll go

Low rising, 'cause we've gotta come up

We've gotta come up, low rising

'Cause there's no further for us to fall, low rising

'Cause I fear we've had enough and we're low rising

Oh, for the love of you

"Low Rising"

You were restless

I was somewhere less secure

So I went running to the road

And so now there's a long list of places I was

I quit my rambling and came home

'Cause maybe I was born to hold you in these arms

Maybe I was born to hold you in these arms

"In These Arms"

Just before the rain came down the sun came out at last

And as for all assumptions made and questions never asked

I know we're not where I promised you we'd be by now

But maybe it's a question of who'd want it anyhow

"The Rain"

There's a light inside us all

It only shines as bright as we are

And you've fallen down so low

I'm really worried for you

I'm really worried

And even on our worst days we were never quite like this, no

We've gone as far as we can go without crashing, no

At the heart of every fool is the hope you're stupid too

And there's this lingering

This lingering feeling that I'm missing something

I feel like I'm missing something

"High Horses"

What's the verb to kick it off

To take the time and walk away from it

I'm not playing

That'll never sit with us well

We're far too pious to get out of it

And we're on our way

Running away won't change anything

It only puts it off

Stand on the spot

Work out where you are and take it all from there

"I'm tired of fighting," she said

You words just rattle my head

All joy escapes in the dark and I can't make this make sense

Your words are lost to me now

I cannot take it, I'm out

I'm stuck here kidding myself

You're out there caring somewhere

"The Verb"

But this estranged organ in my chest still beats for you

It will not rest

So meet me in our secret place when the time has come

Rest your head in my lap and I'll beat you out of your own trap

And I'll show you how much you have missed truth

In time we will unite

But you've been every now and then on my mind

You're every now and then on my mind.

"I Have Loved you Wrong"

In time when you word was true

You gave your heart to the ones you knew

And at the dawn of every day there was a light that you gave to me

You gave yourself to a love that conquers

Give everything to a love that conquers

And then you came

And you came real close

You gave the heart what it wanted most

You took your time and you made it clear

Maybe time will erase some things

You ran away with a love that conquers

You ran away with a love that conquers

Too long in the shadows

Too long in the dust

Give yourself to a love that conquers

"Love That Conquers"

The End. K bye.