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Jan
08

70 Favorite Songs: 11. Comfort in Your Strangeness

 

woke up this morning
i was staring at the ceiling cracks
and the roadmaps and landscapes and highways

i have seen
i have been to places
far and deep in my mind
only to find
comfort in your strangeness

of moving shadows
when i call the wind by name
singing ether water fire
singing earth singing air

i have seen
i have been to places
far and deep in my mind
only to find
comfort in your strangeness

we are slaves to the crimes we commit
in fits of passion we shame
we are nothing we are nothing
we are nothing we are nothing but

the dust on your feet
dying to be born again
singing ether water fire
singing earth singing air

i have seen
i have been to places
far and deep in my mind
only to find
comfort in your strangeness

Composer / Performer: Cynthia Alexander
First Released: 1997
Album: Insomnia and Other Lullabyes
Genre: OPM – Folk Pop / World Music
First Heard Her In: MTV
Why I Love It: Honestly, how can you not? That voice, that arrangement is nothing short of amazing. 
Also Listen To: Everything. And you should especially watch her live. I also love “No Umbrella” “Wait” and “The Weather Report”


6 Responses to “70 Favorite Songs: 11. Comfort in Your Strangeness”


  1. 1 Leo
    4 January 2008 at 12:59 am

    waaah… super special sa kin nito. :( i.love.

  2. 4 January 2008 at 10:27 am

    bakit sad face? tapos i.love.? haha. kelan ka ba makakalaya sa alipin mode. let’s do something. :)

  3. 5 January 2008 at 10:47 am

    oh leo — not replying!!!! hehe.

    nakapunta ako nung konsert ni norah jones dito. hehe, medyo di ko na trip yung second and third album, pero ayus lang. at ang my blueberry nights! dadalhin ba un dito?

  4. 4 Leo
    5 January 2008 at 5:16 pm

    CHARD PASENSYA! grabe na kasi ang pagpapaalipin ko. inaantay ko lamang ang mga revisions mo. hehe. at go ako sa bagong sked mo. :)

    AYN… tara! you’re back na rin pala! this week hopefully i’ll be freeeeeee………

  5. 5 ayn
    5 January 2008 at 6:18 pm

    chard: (re: norah jones) very replying on the wrong post. hehe. this year daw ang official release the my blueberry nights so hopefully…kahit sa ayala cinemas lang.

    leo: oh yes, you text us.

  6. 8 January 2008 at 11:16 am

    hehe ayn kasi dito may response dito si leo — tas nalito nako. hehe. yey, sana nga!


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For we will be wicked and we will be fair
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So go, tell your Wendys, your Susans, your Janes,
There's a place they can go if they're tired of chains,
And our roads may be golden, or broken, or lost,
But we'll walk on them willingly, knowing the cost --
We won't take our place on the shelves.
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Say the wicked girls saving ourselves.