I cant be held responsible for the things I say
For I am just a vessel in vain
And I cant be held responsible for the thing I see
For I am just a vessel in vain

No boat out on no ocean
No name there on no hull
And its not a strain at all to remember
Those that Ive left behind
Theyre all standing right here beside me now
And most of them with a smile

My ideals have got me on the run
Towards my connection with everyone
My ideals have got me on the run
Its my connection with everyone

Such free reign
For a vessel in vain

Are we not all vessels in vain?
Such a beautiful song.
I feel quite close it this tune.
We arrived with nothing and as sure as hell we’ll leave with nothing!
I was a late listener to Smog but I love all their work.
I first heard this song in the british movie ‘Dead Man’s Shoes’.
Rarely do you see a movie where you feel so involved in it, that it touches your heart.
I urge everyone to watch it, and I dare anyone not to have their jaws hitting the floor at the end of it.
One of the greatest British movies of all time, by a fantastic director Shane Meadows, and with
in my opinion, the best British actor of the time Paddy Considine. No exaggeration!
Go watch it! And enjoy the song!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOLMiQsZhLI

I am an American aquarium drinker
I assassin down the avenue
I’m hiding out in the big city blinking
What was I thinking when I let go of you

Let’s forget about the tongue-tied lightning
Let’s undress just like cross-eyed strangers
This is not a joke so please stop smiling
What was I thinking when I said it didn’t hurt

I want to glide through those brown eyes dreaming
Take you from the inside, baby hold on tight
You were so right when you said I’ve been drinking
What was I thinking when we said good night

I want to hold you in the Bible-black predawn
You’re quite a quiet, domino, bury me now
Take off your band-aid ‘cause I don’t believe in touchdowns
What was I thinking when we said hello

I always thought that if I held you tightly
You’d always love me like you did back then
Then I fell asleep in the city kept blinking
What was I thinking when I let you back in

I am trying to break your heart
I am trying to break your heart
But still I’d be lying if I said it wasn’t easy
I am trying to break your heart

Disposable Dixie cup drinker
I assassin down the avenue
I’ve been hiding out in the big city blinking

What was I thinking when I let go of you
(Loves you)
I’m the man who loves you

Well, I could spend all night guessing what this song is about, but here’smy slant on it.
I think its about someone who he let go, someone who he doesn’t care about the same way anymore. He wished he could capture that first feeling of their relationship again, instead of running all the past experiences in his head. And he’s finally admitting to be the less-secure member of a long-term relationship.
the girl he talks about is much more capable of tearing his heart out and he knows it.
To me this song expresses the difficulties we all face in our relationships, and how hard it is o communicate without saying or doing the wrong thing.
And that’s why I like iot so much. It’s very relevent to me at the moment. The lyrics. Regret, revenge, pain, hurt and loss. I think he knows he can’t go back now, don’t look over your shoulder at the past but look to the future.

‘What was I thinking when I let you go?’
Unfortunately for me, the girl that I let go, is the one girl I want and need back in my life and I would do anything for that to happen. I don’t and can’t move on, and know me and her were meant to be and so I’m going back to fight for her. I am trying to mend her heart.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhsoQvOQ058

You must leave now, take what you need, you think will last.
But whatever you wish to keep, you better grab it fast.
Yonder stands your orphan with his gun,
Crying like a fire in the sun.
Look out the saints are comin’ through
And it’s all over now, Baby Blue.

The highway is for gamblers, better use your sense.
Take what you have gathered from coincidence.
The empty-handed painter from your streets
Is drawing crazy patterns on your sheets.
This sky, too, is folding under you
And it’s all over now, Baby Blue.

All your seasick sailors, they are rowing home.
All your reindeer armies, are all going home.
The lover who just walked out your door
Has taken all his blankets from the floor.
The carpet, too, is moving under you
And it’s all over now, Baby Blue.

Leave your stepping stones behind, something calls for you.
Forget the dead you’ve left, they will not follow you.
The vagabond who’s rapping at your door
Is standing in the clothes that you once wore.

Strike another match, go start anew
And it’s all over now, Baby Blue.

Dylan is one of the finest wordsmiths in music history and it’ll be a sad day, the day he goes, but I think this is one of my favourite of his songs. It seems to me to be about change, but I don’t think it’s to do with a relationship as such, but just moving on in general in life. Progress. Movement. At this time, Dylan had just moved from acoustic to an electric sound, and many fans called for his head due to this betrayal, but Dylan stuck to his guns because he knew the sound of the future. We all should take a leaf out of his book and not be afraid of change, nor upsetting people who discourage change. Movement is vital, and if we do not move, we are dead!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E06SoECIp1U

I’ll tell you why I don’t
Want to know where you are
I got a joke I been dying to tell you
A silent kid is looking down the barrel
To make the noise that I kept so quiet
I kept it from you, Pitseleh

I’m not what’s missing from your life now
I could never be the puzzle pieces
They say that God makes problems
Just to see what you can stand
Before you do as the devil pleases
And give up the thing you love

But no one deserves it

The first time I saw you
I knew it would never last
I’m not half what I wish I was
I’m so angry, I don’t think it’ll ever pass

And I was bad news for you, just because
I never meant to hurt you.

I think Elliott Smith is probably my favourite singer/songwriter of all time. I can’t for the life of me understand why the whole world isn’t in love with his songs. His death makes all his songs that little bit more tragic, but I think this is one of his finest. It’s a song about love and loss, and you can feel the despair. About loving a girl and losing her, only to feel lost and angry, but also it seems that he never really felt worthy to be with her and always down on himself. It so sad that he can’t stay friends with his lost love because the pain would be too great. It shreads and mends at the same time, it’s truely a heartbreaking piece of work.
’’They say that God makes problems, just to see what we can stand.’‘
I think Pitseleh means ‘little flower’, I’m not sure though.
R.I.P Elliott, thanks for this remarkable song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDMeEtUCq54&feature=related

There’s nothing I could say
To make you try to feel ok
And nothing you could do
To stop me feeling the way I do
And if the chance should happen
That I never see you again
Just remember that I’ll always love you

I’d be a better person
On the other side I’m sure
You’d find a way to help yourself
And find another door
To shrug off minor incidents
And make us both feel proud
I just wish I could be there
To see you through

You always were the one
To make us stand out in a crowd
Though every once upon a while
Your head was in the clouds

There’s nothing you could never do
To ever let me down
And remember that I’ll always love you

Although I have seen the film About A Boy, I can’t really remember where this fits in but nevertheless it’s a great song off a super soundtrack.
I love how simple it is. The music isn’t exactly a Phil Spector wall off sound, just a guitar, a harmonica, and a the voice of Damon Gough, but it’s the lyrics which are so sincere, so meaningful and touching. You know when he sings it that he means every single word!

The grass is screaming long
Midnight cars roll past
I’ve been chasing your room
While the summer lasts

So count it on your fingers
If we got it wrong
It’s cause the days have no numbers
If we leave tonight
And we leave it all behind

Drinking alphabetically
Cause the beauty’s gone all sore
Honey dripping, paler skin
While there’s bodies underneath, the floor

So count it on your fingers
If we got it wrong
It’s cause the days have no numbers
If we leave tonight
And we leave it all behind

I simply think this is one of the most beautiful songs I’ve ever heard. The fingerpicking work on the guitar is to perfection and the lyrics are amazing and cery poetic. Fionn is a talent not to be ignored that’s for sure. Fans of Dylan and Nick Drake will love him.
I couldn’t find him playing but I found this fella playing it and it’s very good:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQ2kq_Cu6sM

When is it time to surrender?
A little monkey in a lion’s den.
A little monkey with a drum jumpin’
for their fun.
Yeah I feel a little tender then.

And when I am away remember
A cheap rhyme never fits the bill.
‘Cos I’ve been around the world,
But I missed my girl
And I feel a little tender still.

So tell me if you’re feeling tender,
My baby, if you’re feeling blue,
I’ve got some money put away
For a great escape
And I could run for a girl like you.
And I can make plans if you can.
I know there’s fear in being true.

Maybe a monkey with a drum
I am to some,
But know I’m not that to you.

And I can make plans if you can,
You know we’ve gotta take a bird’s
eye view.
And from way up here,
Things are looking pretty clear
Above the clouds the skies are always blue,
Always blue.

So tell me if you’re feeling tender,
My baby, if you’re feeling blue,
I’ve got some money put away
For a great escape
And I could run for a girl like you.
And I can make plans if you can
I know there’s fear in being true.

Maybe a monkey with a drum
I am to some,
But know I’m not that to you.

Ozzie Pyke writes songs that are timeless, emotional and honest. He writes about what he knows. It has most beautiful, delicate lyrics I will ever hear;
’’And I can make plans if you can
I know there’s fear in being true.
Maybe a monkey with a drum
I am to some,
But know I’m not that to you.’‘
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hg5efv1S_o

I got two armfuls of magazines for you
I’ll bring em over
so hang your holiday rainbow lights in the garden
hang your holiday rainbow lights in the garden and I’ll
I’ll bring a nice icy drink to you

Let me come over I can waist your time I’m bored
Invite me to the war every night of the summer
and we’ll play G.I. blood, G.I. blood
we’ll stand by the pool
we’ll through out our golden arms

Darlin can you tie my string
killers are callin on me
my angel face is fallin
feathers are fallin on my feet
Darlin can you tie my string
killers are callin on me

Stay near your, stay near your television
Set it up outside
and hang your holiday rainbow lights in the garden
hang your holiday rainbow lights in the garden and I’ll
I’ll bring a nice icy drink to you

Let me come over I can waist your time I’m bored
Invite me to the war every night of the summer
and we’ll play G.I. blood, G.I. blood
we’ll stand by the pool
we’ll through out our golden arms

Darlin can you tie my string
killers are callin on me
my angel face is fallin
feathers are fallin on my feet
my angel face is fallin
feathers are fallin on my feet
Darlin can you tie my string
killers are callin on me

Darlin can you tie my string
killers are callin on me

The band’s morose, self-deprecating lyrics are written and sung by Matt Berninger in a distinctive, deep baritone, and I especially like the line, ’’Let me come over I can waist your time.’‘

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxxeIhGw2Ys

Distance
I’ll keep my distance
These things I never seem to mean
So I leave the murder scene

Honey
What God broke here
Won’t go back together again
So I’ll leave this while I can

Nothing
to be scared of
my dreams, they keep a hold of me
my guides when I can’t see

Cold
I will be thin
I’m sure your passing the test
I wish you all the best

Although the start of the songs sounds like the opening of Ultravox’s ‘Vienna’, it gets better!
Distance
n
1. The extent of space between two objects or places; an intervening space.
2.The fact or condition of being apart in space; remoteness.
The songs meaning is pretty straight forward really and sums up the mood of a guy admist a relationship breakdown.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8RbTq-jDLM

All the lies that you make up
What’s at the back of your mind ?
Oh, your face I can see
And it’s desperately kind
But what’s at the back of your mind ?

Two icy-cold hands conducting the way
It’s the Eskimo blood in my veins
Amid concrete and clay
And general decay
Nature must still find a way
So ignore all the codes of the day
Let your juvenile IMPULSES sway
This way and that way
This way, that way
God, how sex implores you
To let yourself lose yourself

Stretch out and wait
Stretch out and wait
Let your puny body, lie down, lie down
As we lie, you say
As we lie, you say
Stretch out and …
Stretch out and wait
Stretch out and wait
Let your puny body lie down, lie down

As we lie, you say :
Will the world end in the night time ?
(I really don’t know)
Or will the world end in the day time ?
(I really don’t know)
And is there any point ever having children ?
Oh, I don’t know
What I do know is we’re Here and it’s Now

So … stretch out and wait
Stretch out and wait
There is no debate, no debate, no debate
How can you conciously contemplate
When there’s no debate, no debate ?
Stretch out and wait
Stretch out and wait
Stretch out and wait
Wait
Wait
Wait
Wait
Oh …

I remember finding this song really striking because Morrissey really had never sung about sex in such a vulnerable way before. I think this is just another example of the bravery of his lyrics in exploring the vulnerability of sexual experience. It’s simply a beautiful song that sounds as good today as it did all those years ago. Sheer poetry at it’s finest. It’s beautiful, almost effortless. It’s as good as it gets lyrically & musically. Plus it’s quite funny in parts and I love the reference to ‘Rebel Without A Cause’....

’’Will the world end in the daytime or nighttime?’‘

Plus I went to the same high school as Morrissey and was taught by some of the teachers he had, I am soooo proud of this fact!
Local lad comes good! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGcKPWOo9nk