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dejametranquilo:

The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die // “Picture Of A Tree That Doesn’t Look OK”

Whenever, if ever I get my life together 
I’ll apologize for all the things I should have said and done.
Another day lost to the setting sun 
I stare at the ceiling and it looks back.

soundcheckradio:

Sure, he just put out the sheet music “album” Song Reader just last winter, but it’s been far too long since Beck released a proper album of new songs. Now, he’s apparently not just working on one, but two records to be released independently.

Rolling Stone cites a “music industry source” close to Beck, who says the musician intends to release the previously announced acoustic album, and another record that will serve as an official follow-up to 2008’s Modern Guilt.

But if that wasn’t enough, today Beck dropped “Defriended,” a new standalone single which won’t be on either album.

slow-riot:

The original copies of Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space featured an alternate version of the title track that was then removed from the later reissues of the album. The original version of the song featured much of the lyrics/melody of Elvis Presley’s Can’t Help Falling In Love With You sung in the background of the song as well as being much more present in the main vocals. The result created a much more atmospherically driven and downright gorgeous song, but the Presley Estate made them remove it due to copyright claims. The song was finally featured on the 2009 deluxe reissue of the album, under the condition that it be called Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space (I Can’t Help Falling In Love)

Los Campesinos! | (All’s Well That Ends) In Medias Res 

you know I’d sooner go down in a ball of flames
than I would lay here and be bored to death
all’s well that ends

onasas:

THE NATIONAL | Graceless

All of my thoughts of you 
Bullets through rock and through
Come apart at the seams
Now I know what dying means

juliankoster:

Getting Sodas - The World is a Beautiful Place and I am No Longer Afraid to Die

The world is a beautiful place but we have to make it that way. Whenever you find home we’ll make it more than just a shelter. And if everyone belongs there it will hold us all together. If you’re afraid to die, then so am I.

onasas:

THE NATIONAL | I Need My Girl

I’m under the gun again
I know I was a 45 percenter then
I know I was a lot of things
But I am good, I am grounded
Davy says that I look taller
I can’t get my head around it
I keep feeling smaller and smaller
I keep feeling smaller and smaller
I keep feeling smaller and smaller

ungirthed:

Vampire Weekend | Finger Back

I don’t wanna live like this but I don’t wanna die.

yourmorningcoffee:

Death Cab For Cutie - Company Calls Epilogue

Synapse to synapse, the possibility’s thin
I’m dressed up for free drinks and family greetings
On your wedding, your wedding, your wedding date
The figures in plastic on the wedding cake that I took were so real

And I kept a distance, the complications cloud 
The postcards and blip through fiber optics, 
As the girls with pigtails were running from little boys wearing bowties 
Their parents bought and “I’ll catch you this time!” 

Crashing through the parlor doors, what was your first reaction? 
Screaming, drunk, disorderly, I’ll tell you mine
You were the one, but I can’t spit it out when the date’s been set
The white routine to be ingested inaccurately

Synapse to synapse, the sneaky kids had attached 
Beer cans to the bumper so they could drive 
Up and down the main drag
People would turn to see who’s making the racket
It’s not the first time

When they lay down the fish will swim upstream 
And I’ll contest, but they won’t listen 
When the casualty rate’s near 100 percent, 
And there isn’t a pension for second best or for hardly moving

theyllseeuswavin:

You Can Do Better Than Me - Death Cab for Cutie

I’ve been slipping through the years
My old clothes don’t fit like they once did
So they hang like ghosts of the people I’ve been