25 - Oh Simple Thing, Where Have you Gone?

Due to not feeling well, today's post is late, and quite short.  Tomorrows should be back, up to snuff, as they say.

Does any one really say that any more?

Well, if they don't, I'm taking it back.  So for now, our 25th Song of Autumn...


Song 25/Day 25
        "Somewhere Only We Know" from the album Somewhere Only We Know by Keane.

I don't remember when I first came across this song.  I think it was in circulation on MTV, or VH1 or something that showed videos.  I remember thinking it was a bit mellow...and I liked it.  The piano was a nice touch with the other instruments.  Once again, it's another band that I've not explored much at all.

The reason it makes me think of Autumn, is that it still has a vibrancy and life to it, but it's a slower spirited song.  The visuals built into the lyrics are fantastic.  They go right along with many of the other songs I've posted already.  A traveler seeing the land around him.  I really like these lines:

I came across a fallen tree
I felt the branches of it looking at me
Is this the place we used to love?
Is this the place that I've been dreaming of?

Of course the whole tie to love and dreams (haven't touched too much on dreams yet...) but they really evoke the spirit of this season for me.

So, I'll leave today's quick post at that.  Check the link in the album listing up above.

-Jesse

11 - They Won't Dare Bring Our Names Up Again

The Concept:  Feature a song a day for every day of the most magnificent season of Autumn.  The songs are ones that capture the thoughts/ideas/images/feelings of the season for me. 

It's my "Autumnal Playlist" if you will.

This is another song from Chuck.  Well, it was from the artist first, but I heard it on Chuck.  It's played over a brutally heart breaking scene.  Surprisingly, I don't only associate this song with that scene.  Probably because it was just a bit of the song.  Saw the episode for the first time over Memorial Day weekend this year.  From Chuck - Season Five.

This tune, like many on this list, have mellow beginnings an build to something bigger and more driving.

Song 11/Day11

Today's Song:  "She Tows the Line," by Crooked Fingers on the album, Breaks in the Armor.
The only thing I don't like about this song, is the spelling of the title, and therefor miss use of the idiom.  I'm sure it was intentional.  But it bugs me.  However, the change in the spelling of Toe to Tow, works powerfully with the scene in Chuck that the song is used in.

Why I picked it?  This song takes me to the coast of New England in the Fall.  Now, I've never really been there, but I've seen enough pictures/movies/shows etc that I get an idea.  When listening to this song I feel the drumming of the steel grey/blue waves on the beach.  The white sand and dying tall grasses at the crest of the hill leading down to the shore.  There is a playful sarcasm carried through it.

I imagine a group of friends at a beach house, exploring the shoreline by day, having fun and laughing.  While night falls they light up a bonfire on the beach and have hot dogs and S'mores and all that campfirey goodness.

I guess that's what this song makes me want to do.  Anyone up for it?

The lyrics feel a bit ambiguous to me.  They seem to have significance to the singer, but it kinda feels like he's giving directions and using landmarks that out-of-towners wouldn't know.  But I still like it.  Especially these:

see it so clear in her eyes
she won't be bringing it up again
so she rises and goes
so they'd never know
that she even came here at all

Enjoy the tune.  I've not gotten around to exploring more from the artist...but would like to someday.  Perhaps when I go on that trip to New England shores in the Fall.

"She Tows the Line," by Crooked Fingers.  Toe or Tow the line.  There is a difference!

-Jesse