Nostalge Playlist
While I was making my newest body of work I found myself curating a playlist of songs that either inspired, or related heavily to the pieces I was creating. I wanted to archive it somewhere and thought this would be the best place. There are some songs that are described below too with the why and hows.
System by Foy Vance: a song of a dad speaking of his daughter, I take it as we all need something to ground ourselves with:
Lyrics:
She said, "Life's like trying to land an airplane
"When you're circling the eye inside a hurricane"
It's hard to keep your confidence
You're only safe as your safest friend
Sometimes life with me is more like aquaplaning
Just hoping that the rubber grips the road again
When you can't rely on your safest friend
Well, you're only safe as your best defense
What she needs is a system
She lives life endlessly in soliloquy
Always lost in thought and never much to say
When you can't rely on your best defense
You're only safe as your common sense
What she needs is a system
What she needs is a system
What she needs is a system
We stopped on the One, though we had time to make
Watched the sun descend and daylight fade away
You said I wished the sunset would never end
You know, sometimes, daddy, you're my only friend
What she needs is a system
Stardust by Nat King Cole: this song was on a medley CD that was in the car that I now drive. My grandparents on my dad’s side used to own this car and this was the song that was playing when I accidentally hit “CD” in my audio system. It moved me to think that this was the last song they were listening to when they had to stop driving their car, and I have a memory of them driving us around in their mini van as we were kids listening to CDs.
Sanctuary by Lennon and Maisy: recently discovered song, but the LYRICS
Turn the light off
Go to bed
Tell me all about the day you had
Lay beside me
It's time to rest
You can close your eyes, you've done your best
Let me be your sanctuary
Let me be your safe place to fall
I can take away your worries
The refuge from it all
All this time
We have together
Is our shelter from the rain
I will share the weight you carry
Let me be your sanctuary
We have weathered
Through the storms
Taking comfort in each other's arms
When the dark clouds come again
I will lift you up and take you in
Let me be your sanctuary
Let me be your safe place to fall
I can take away your worries
The refuge from it all
All this time
That we have together
Is our shelter from the rain
I will share the weight you carry
Let me be your sanctuary
I will share this weight you carry
Let me be your sanctuary
The Past is Never Dead by Gareth Dunlop: self explanatory
Echoes of days gone by
Words linger in the dust It's a hell of a road behind
A hundred ways in front of us
All of what once was
Still hanging in the breeze
The roots of yesterday
Are tomorrow’s scattered seeds
A symphony of highs and lows
Who we were, who we are and where we go
The past is never dead
We’re tangled in its thread
Words waiting to be said, ohh whatever lies ahead
The past is never dead
Mistakes that we once made
Shadows in the soul
We carry every pain
But we carry it with hope
And all that we might be
Living in the here and now
Hangs on what we’ve seen
The why the where and the how
A symphony of highs and lows
Who we were, ohhhh who we are and where we go
The past is never dead
Were tangled in its thread
Words waiting to be said, ohh whatever lies ahead
The past is never dead
The past is never dead
Were tangled in its thread
Words waiting to be said, ohh whatever lies ahead
The past is never dead
The past Is never dead
The past Is never dead
The past is never dead
marjorie by Taylor Swift. First of all I’m going to get a lot of crap from friends about putting this on here because I constantly critique her music (but I don’t hate it). This a song about her wanting to sing with her grandmother, the lyrics are all words that her grandmother use to say to her, and in the bridge her late grandmother is singing in the background of the song.
I was very close with my paternal grandmother, and I find myself wanting to always know more and hear more about my maternal grandmother as I lost her when I was 2. These lyrics are all too relatable.
