Mean everything to nothing...

These guys are going to blow up and they should. As much as they are a lot of people's best kept secrets --- Katharine, Lauren, and so on --- they're got more talent than so many of the cliched bands in the scene and they deserve the success that's coming their way. The lyrics listed here are from the first song on their sophomore album Mean Everything To Nothing which came out last week. They were pointed out to me by Katharine and I knew immediately that I should put them up here. They're just so striking and beautiful. I can't help but keep the music playing.

"I guess that it's true you never know
the passive power of the truth so cut me loose..."
- Manchester Orchestra

Wow, three updates in two days...

Craziness. But this is a second update thus far that's not actually a lyrics. But it should be. It's a quote from a t-shirt that should be on my doorstep when I arrive back in the U.S. in exactly 11 days. (Yeahhhh, Julie!) And it's beautiful and it gives me chills and I wanted to share it. It's from an organization called To Write Love On Her Arms, that everyone reading this probably already knows about, but if not check out www.twloha.org immediately. Stay hopeful.

"We will be the hopeful."

<3

From their new album...

Here are some of my favorites from Holiday Parade's new album Tickets And Passports, out a few weeks ago. It didn't strike a cord with me immediately and I was actually pretty disappointed at first, but I've warmed to it. Especially the last two songs, which in addition to single "Getaway" are the album's strongest.

"If I had my way, we'd put the past aside. We'd take the boat to the bay, leaving the whole world behind as the sea takes hold of our tales untold. I'd say "Come with me tonight, we'll fall without a fight." If you're scared, it's okay..."
- Holiday Parade

"It's how is all comes back to you and I..."
- Holiday Parade

Everyone who reads this thing knows who that last one is talking about.

This reminds me of a certain someone...

"They took him to the hill where they made him a star.
Everyone loved who they knew from afar..."
- Empires

I was listening to Howl the other night and this lyric struck me over like a bus in Florence. I know some of their lyrics, but I'd never picked up on this one before that night. It's so Peter Pan, so truthful about so many people I love. From afar, from up close are two different things. Are they? I don't want them to be.