Soap made of goat's milk doesn't lather

Yeah, yeah, we know I'm pathetic

11:26 PM, 22/11/2008 .. Posted in Broken .. 1 comments .. Link

I get leeway, though, because my fiance is dying. If it was just a breakup, a standard one, with no clogging in arteries, swelling of extremities, stopping of hearts; well, then, you are not allowed to play songs that were meaningful to your ex-relationship over and over again. There is usually a good friend who will help you burn them or blow them up or convert the cd's into fancy frisbees or ashtrays. (I seem to remember that I gave one of mine away to an old aboriginal woman sitting in the park in Broome - I don't know the thought process of that gifting).

But for now I am playing these two songs over and over and you have to shut up about it. It's a relationship ending, too. The lyrics are beautiful and so is the music.

"I Will Follow You Into The Dark"

Love of mine some day you will die
But I'll be close behind
I'll follow you into the dark

No blinding light or tunnels to gates of white
Just our hands clasped so tight
Waiting for the hint of a spark
If Heaven and Hell decide
That they both are satisfied
Illuminate the NOs on their vacancy signs

If there's no one beside you
When your soul embarks
Then I'll follow you into the dark

In Catholic school as vicious as Roman rule
I got my knuckles bruised by a lady in black
And I held my tongue as she told me
"Son fear is the heart of love"
So I never went back

If Heaven and Hell decide
That they both are satisfied
Illuminate the NOs on their vacancy signs

If there's no one beside you
When your soul embarks
Then I'll follow you into the dark

You and me have seen everything to see
From Bangkok to Calgary
And the soles of your shoes are all worn down
The time for sleep is now
It's nothing to cry about
'cause we'll hold each other soon
In the blackest of rooms

If Heaven and Hell decide
That they both are satisfied
Illuminate the No's on their vacancy signs

If there's no one beside you
When your soul embarks
Then I'll follow you into the dark
Then I'll follow you into the dark

or

"What Sarah Said"

And it came to me then that every plan is a tiny prayer to father time
As I stared at my shoes in the ICU that reeked of piss and 409
And I rationed my breaths as I said to myself that I'd already taken too much today
As each descending peak on the LCD took you a little farther away from me
Away from me

Amongst the vending machines and year-old magazines in a place where we only say goodbye
It stung like a violent wind that our memories depend on a faulty camera in our minds
But I knew that you were a truth I would rather lose than to have never lain beside at all
And I looked around at all the eyes on the ground as the TV entertained itself

'Cause there's no comfort in the waiting room
Just nervous pacers bracing for bad news
And then the nurse comes round and everyone will lift their heads
But I'm thinking of what Sarah said that "Love is watching someone die"

So who's going to watch you die?..

Death Cab for Cutie for both of those.
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4:02 AM, 23/11/2008 .. Posted by Suzy
I love the first song. I've listened to it a lot myself, because it really is a sweet song.

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