Friday, September 09, 2005

song call- Carbon Leaf, "Life Less Ordinary"

Live a life less ordinary
Live a life extraordinary with me
Live a life less sedentary
Live a life evolutionary with me
Well I hate to be a bother,
But it's you and there's no other, I do believe
You can call me naive but...
I know me very well (at least as far as I can tell)
And I know what I need

The night you came into my life
Well it took the bones of me, took the bones of me
You blew away my storm and strife
And shook the bones of me, shook the bones of me
By the way, I do know why you stayed away...
I will keep tongue-tied next time

Live a life less ordinary
Live a life extraordinary with me
My face had said too much
Before our hands could even touch
To greet a 'hello'
(So much for going slow...)
A little later on that year
I told you that I loved you dear
What do you know?
This you weren't prepared to hear
I'm a saddened man, I'm a broken boy
I'm a toddler with a complex toy
I've fallen apart, since the ambush of your heart

The night you came into my life
Well it took the bones of me, took the bones of me
You blew away my storm and strife
And shook the bones of me, shook the bones of me.
By the way, I do know why you stayed away
I will keep tongue-tied but...

Honey understand, honey understand
I won't make demands
Honey understand, honey understand
We could walk without a plan.
Honey understand (honey), honey understand
I won't rest in stone all alone
Honey understand, honey understand
I'm all ready to go
But you already know...

Live a life less ordinary
Live a life extraordinary with me.
If I could name you in this song
Would it make you smile and sing along?
This is the goal: to get into your soul
If I could make you dance for joy
Could that be the second-chance decoy?
The bird-in-hand I would need
To help you understand?

The night you came into my life
well it took the bones of me, took the bones of me
You blew away my storm and strife
And shook the bones of me, shook the bones of me
By the way, I do know why you stayed away
I will keep tongue-tied next time
-Carbon Leaf, "Life Less Ordinary"

This song is unbelievably catchy. It was on the Eddie Bauer tape last summer and it got stuck in my head so very, very often. I like Carbon Leaf, though, so that's okay. The lead singer's voice has a very pleasant vibe to it, kind of like the anti-Rufus Wainwright. (I've been looking for this song since the end of last summer; I'm quite pleased to have found it.)

Been downloading music like mad lately; naturally I don't take advantage of the free bandwidth at home. Instead I wait until I'm back at school where we have a limited amount. Genius, I tell you, sheer genius.

God, I'm tired.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Carbon Leaf came to Ann Arbor this summer! I didn't go see them, though, because I still hadn;t forgiven them for being less awesome than this song and "What About Everything" had lead me to believe. Those two songs *are* so catchy it ought to be a crime.

But, meh. Their live singing is off-key. Mostly this is a "pretty cool, but why are they so popular?" group for me.

-Sonya