Life For Rent

That’s the title of the new Dido CD. I know that most normal, sane men with an ounce of masculine fear that he might be gay would not leap at the chance to buy this CD, but I’m glad I did. It’s really really good. The lyrics are really phenomenal, and so many of them speak to me at this moment in my life. I’m going to write a few song’s lyrics here, I hope all you read them and find the songs.

WHITE FLAG

This song really speaks to me lyrically, right now. I know exactly these feelings. I’ve felt them a million times before, and I feel them right now.

I know you think that I shouldn’t still love you or tell you that

but if I didn’t say it well I’d still have felt it, where’s the sense in that?

I promise I’m not trying to make your life harder or return to where we were but

I will go down with this ship and I won’t put my hands up and surrender

There will be no white flag above my door, I’m in love and always will be

I know I left too much mess and destruction to come back again

and I cause nothing but trouble, I understand if you can’t talk to me again

and if you live by the rules of it’s over then I’m sure that that makes sense bit

I will go down with this ship and I won’t put my hands up and surrender

There will be no white flag above my door, I’m in love and always will be

and when we meet, which I’m sure we will

all that was there, will be there still

I’ll let it pass, and hold my tongue

and you will think, that I’ve moved on

I will go down with this ship and I won’t put my hands up and surrender

There will be no white flag above my door, I’m in love and always will be

WHO MAKES YOU FEEL

This song has a bizarre sound to it, but the lyrics are amazing. It seems she has really powerful music behind her weaker words and more bizarre music behind her better words. The lyrics are good, I don’t know exactly why I like them….maybe their simplicity.

I don’t touch you the way I used to

and I don’t call and write when I’m away

we don’t make love as often as we did do

what couldn’t wait now waits and usually goes away

but listen and think when I say, oh but listen and think when I say

who makes you feel the way that I make you feel

who loves you and knows you the way I do

who touches you and holds you quite like I do

who makes you feel like I make you feel

I don’t mind if you come home late

and I don’t ever ask you where you’ve been

I just assume if there’s a problem, you’d tell me

but listen and think when I say, oh but listen and think when I say

who makes you feel the way that I make you feel

who loves you and knows you the way I do

who touches you and holds you quite like I do

who makes you feel like I make you feel

being weak, when I am strong

being seen, for who you are

being sad and lost but not alone

but listen and think when I say, oh but listen and think when I say

who makes you feel the way that I make you feel

who loves you and knows you the way I do

who touches you and holds you quite like I do

who makes you feel like I make you feel

That’s really the two bigs songs. All the other ones are good, too. I love this CD and I just bought it. The lyrics to that first song up above keep echoing in my head. They seem to be my life spilled out in song….and they’ll probably be my epitaph, too. We’ll see, won’t we?