Watery mix

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I put together this set of songs for a water theme over at the pretty_music community. They're all very good therefore highly recommended. In fact, I am listening to them right now. And... they add up to about 70 minutes - the perfect length for a mix CD, right? ;)

• Azure Ray - Raining in Athens

"When this summer, you call maybe and ask how I've been, I can be honest and answer plainly, 'since November, it's been raining.'"

• Damien Rice - Cold Water

"Cold, cold water surrounds me now and all I've got is your hand."

• Eisley - Lost at Sea

"Still with my fingers drawing circles in the water and still, still you're always there."

• Fiona Apple - Sullen Girl

"They don't know I used to sail the deep and tranquil sea but he washed me 'shore and he took my pearl and left an empty shell of me."

• Kate Bush - Under Ice

"There's something moving under, under the ice, moving under ice, through water, trying to get out of the cold water - something, someone, help them! (It's me.)"

• Laura Veirs - Lake Swimming

"Though our wings may crumble, we can float like ash, broken but the edges still shine."

• Mates of State - An Experiment

"I wonder if I could tie the ocean to your knees; to your knees, if you please, to the bath at your feet."

• Mirah - Cold Cold Water

"I take you where the water's deep and make the air you breathe so sweet but is it not enough to be complete?"

• Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood

"Will I ever see you again? Will there be no one above me to put my faith in? I flooded my sleeves as I drove home again."

• Nina Nastasia - On Teasing

"She cries and she heaves that her sides, they may break; oh, the lapping that purples her ragged red cheek. 'Be you coddled and cocky, I'll have you for eats,' cries the great sea and drags her below by her feet."

• Noe Venable - Boots

"I'm alright, I'm okay, I can fall like rain long as I have my boots to help me stand. And the streets, they emptied hour by hour 'til they were finally drained and I was all alone."

• PJ Harvey - Down by the Water

"Little fish, big fish, swimming in the water - come back here, man; give me my daughter."

• Regina Spektor - Music Box

"When I do the dishes, I run the water very very very hot and then I fill the sink to the top with bubbles of soap and then I set all the bottle caps I own afloat and it's the greatest voyage in the history of plastic."

• Rilo Kiley - The Absence of God

"I'll teach you how to swim if you turn the bad in me into good again."

• Tegan and Sara - My Number

"It's a silly time to learn to swim when you start to drown."

• Tilly and the Wall - Coughing Colors

"When the floods, they come rushing in, and the boat is full and you can't get in, it's okay if you don't want to swim and when you're swallowed up, don't you cry; just give right in, don't you try to fight 'cause baby, I wouldn't pay no mind - there's nothing you can do."

• Tori Amos - Pandora's Aquarium

"She dives for shells with her nautical nuns and thoughts you thought you'd never tell."