62/63/64 - Triumverate

This first song was a great one to come across.  I think someone recommended the band, don't remember who, but I remember it was Sept-Dec 2006.  I was living on the front porch of a house in Lockport, IL.  It was finished and and actual room, it was an interesting and fun few months living there while the house was getting built.

This song, and album really struck me.  It was an cool mix of sounds and ideas in one of those 'concept' albums.  It tells a story of a future broken and ravaged by war.  But I really enjoy this song for it's message.  It goes well with the Kinks song I posted recently, Love It All.

Song 62
        "A Little's Enough" from the debut album, We Don't Leave a Whisper, by Angels & Airwaves

This song ties into the whole theme of love this week.  But with another facet.  Check out these lyrics:

Like God himself is coming home to say

I, I can do anything
If you want me here
And I can fix any thing
If you let me near

Then...

The cure is if you let in just a little more love
I promise you this, a little's enough

 The Autumn connection is primarily because of when I first heard it.  But it works well in this season regardless.  There is the driving, building sound and it's infused with hope.  I really enjoy this song.  So, let in a little more love...it's enough.

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Now, onto the next.  Another wonderful song about love.  A little more somber, but I find more...penetrating.  It just seeps into my bones.  Ugh.  No pun intended...(you'll see when you get to the title)

This is from that band Elbow who I've explained how I came across them much earlier in this series.  So...here is the next song!

Song 63
       "The Bones of You" from Elbow's The Seldom Seen Kid

I'm not really sure where the relationship he sings about is.  I mean, is it over?  Is it struggling?  I don't know.  But it's got him hard.  And that line, "I love the bones of you," is just a strong, striking expression.  Which shortly after hearing this song I started watching the Scottish epic Rob Roy, in which his wife says that line to him.

To love some one that much.  To their very bones.  That while they may frustrate or upset you, the love remains.  It's powerful stuff.  But I believe love is a choice, and not just a random emotion that we fall in and out of.  That's to flimsy and fickle.  It doesn't stoke the fires of adventure and history.  It doesn't hold up the ideals that love can conquer all...if it's fleeting and flighty.  (Lots of good F adjectives in there...)

So, take a listen.  It's a good track from a great band.  The long laboring notes and vocals are what relate this to Autumn for me.  Especially this late in the season.  It conjures up images of barren trees, and dry scratching leaves skittering about the ground...but with a purpose in mind and a destination.

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Lastly.  For today, and this run on love...(and there was much rejoicing in the audience.  yay.)

This song is much more up beat than the previous two.  And the last song on love should be.  Love isn't just a labourious quest.  Full of struggles to understand and be understood.  I think that's a part of it, but love is ultimately a deeper friendship.  It's making someone family by choice.  I think that sometimes means the bond is thicker than blood.  It has to be.

Song 64
        "Best Friend" from the wonderful band Weezer on their album Make Believe

It might be a little cheesy, but in the best possible ways.  This the person making a fool of themselves in public to make the person they love smile.  Not showing off, but sensing what the other needs and going for it with all their heart.

The lyrics are simple and to the point.  Easy and fun, but full of heart and sincerity.

You are such a blessing and I wont be messing
with the one thing that brings light to all of my darkness

You are my best friend
and I love you, and I love you
Yes I do

This is the best kind of love.  Rather, the best kind of love has this as firmly planted foundation.  I'm all for the rush of new romance and all that stuff.  But that is the allure of a new relationship.  It's fun and exciting, but for me...the best part is down the road.  When this becomes the reality. 

It makes me think of that scene in the movie Abyss, when the guy is sleeping and snoring, and the wife just tell him to roll over, and in his sleep he does.  Maybe I'm remembering that wrong, been a while since I saw it.  But that is the scene from that movie that stuck with me more than anything.


Alright folks.  I've kept you far too long.  Go.  Enjoy your Saturday!  (or whatever day you read this!)


grace, peace, + hope
-Jesse