urgencytobleed | Song(s) of the Day #89

I couldn't decide between two immensely beautiful songs so I'll just share both of them.

Jeniferever - Swimming Eyes

A silhouette passing by in front of your eyes
Someone walking through the crowd
That's just her body, it's not her
Just a reflection of a time that's lost
Memories painted as the contours of
Someone you once would have died for

A sound makes it through the constant noise
A voice so familiar but the words, they're not the same
As the ones she used to say
The sentences, they're not how they used to be
Though still as beautiful
They're not meant for you
So how did it feel tonight
As the streets became yours?
The streets of the city
In which our stories were written
So how did it feel like?
Your hand in someone else's hand
The features of your face on someone else's mind
The breath of another as
As the last sound you'll hear before sleep
As the first you hear at dawn
How will that feel like?
Will it make you feel alive?

There's so much pain in here
There's too many feelings
Left from back when
The days still left us with
These little things
That kept us trying

There's so much pain in here
There's too many feelings
Left from back when
The days still left us with
These little things
That kept us trying

I should have posted this one a long time ago but I was trying really hard not to post about them obsessively and possibly, as a result, make myself and everyone else sick of them. But it's been long enough since I last mentioned them now so I think it's safe. Anyway, this song is gorgeous. It's from their first album, Choose a Bright Morning, which didn't really hit me right away like Spring Tides did; it's been more of a grower but the songs are no less beautiful and sad. This one in particular has stuck out to me. The lyrics are very good and so heartbreaking, especially the first few lines. As is the norm with their songs, it starts off really sparse and slow before breaking out into a more energetic climax (though, in the instance of this song, it actually stays pretty mellow throughout). The back half of the song is definitely the best part of it and, for some reason, it reminds me of Blonde Redhead. I don't really know why. I think it's the high female accompanying vocals and the melody of the words makes me think of some of their songs too. But I don't even really like Blonde Redhead that much so, in my opinion, this is about a million times better. I would love Blonde Redhead if they sounded like the second half of this song. Also, the last few songs I posted by them were kind of buried in a link dump of random stuff I hadn't shared so if you haven't heard St. Gallen, you need that one in your life too. Seriously, I think that song and this one are among the most beautiful things I've ever heard

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Edit: Okay, I was just listening to "St. Gallen" again and my God, it blows me away every time. So I feel like I have to post the lyrics to that too because it is so. good. The final lines. The part that's bolded. Oh my God. Makes me want to cry because of its beauty.

I'll see you somewhere along the river as this hiatus ends and summer turns to fall. If you bring your words I'll bring pen and paper. It's been a lot of time and a lot of ache between the days that we've shared. But none that matters now, we've got a past that's past and a fall not to fall.

We once sung about loss and the memories that a room brings. You've met her now, by the lock. We once walked through town, through the blocks where I grew up. Those blocks need you now. There'll be names on all walls you pass. Some of them you'll learn, some you won't have to, they're no longer with us.

There'll be history in streets you'll walk that you won't ever know of. Who wrote it, for what reasons and who it's written about. So lay down your own and put me in it. 'Cause I need to forget and replace, let go and move on to something better.

Mew - Symmetry

(There are only three members currently but in all of the recent pictures I found, 2/3 of them have long, flowing locks and it freaks me out when guys have longer and prettier hair than I do. So this older picture will have to do instead. Anyway, this is an older song so it makes sense... just go with it.)

I haven't decided yet if I really like this band overall but this song is insanely pretty. The harmonizing is incredible and the two voices fit together so perfectly. And God... it's just beautiful. That's all I can say about it really. I was listening to the album it's on (Frengers) all the way through and nothing had really stuck out to me in the first few tracks but then I got to this song and listened to it four times before moving on to the next. And then the album suddenly started to sound a lot better from that point on. Funny how that happens, how one song can just grab you like that and make you see everything else that you had previously dismissed in a totally different light. And also, regarding those amazing harmonies, I should probably mention that the female half of them is a fourteen year old girl, which makes them even more impressive. Her voice actually does sound like a teenager's and not some diva twice her age but she's just got such an angelic, pure presence that she completely outshines the band's singer, Jonas. Which is pretty commendable as he's got a rather impressive high vocal range himself.

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