Angela Christine

This entry is basically the soundtrack for my freshman year of high school. All of these capture a moment in time very vividly for me. I’m having a much harder time with the other three years.

“Beautiful Day” U2
You love this town
Even if that doesn’t ring true
You’ve been all over
And it’s been all over you

“Hallelujah” Jeff Buckley (Leonard Cohen)
I heard there was a secret chord
That David played and it pleased the lord
But you don’t really care for music, do you?
Well it goes like this the fourth, the fifth
The minor fall and the major lift
The baffled king composing hallelujah

“Rush of Blood to the Head” Coldplay
He said I’m going to buy this place and see it go
Stand here beside my baby watch the orange glow
Some’ll laugh and some just sit and cry
But you just sit down there and you wonder why.

“Volcano” Damien Rice
You give me miles and miles of mountains
And I’ll ask for the sea

“Across the Universe” Rufus Wainwright’s cover (The Beatles)
Pools of sorrow waves of joy
are drifting thorough my open mind
Possessing and caressing me

“Moonshadow” Cat Stevens
I’m being followed by a moonshadow, moonshadow, moonshadow
Leapin and hoppin’ on a moonshadow.

“Into the West” Annie Lennox
What can you see
On the horizon?
Why do the white gulls call?
Across the sea
A pale moon rises
The ships have come to carry you home

“Summerbreeze” Emiliana Torrini
Well summerbreeze is blowing through your window
And summerbreeze is blowing through your hair
And something in your eyes that you cannot disguise
Don’t tell me it ain’t there

“Winter” Tori Amos
When you gonna make up your mind?
When you gonna love you as much as I do?
When you gonna make up your mind?
Cause things are gonna change so fast
All the white horses are still in bed
I tell you that I’ll always want you near
You say that things change my dear

“Wonderwall” Ryan Adams cover (Oasis)
And all the roads we have to walk are winding
And all the lights that lead us there are blinding.

“Float On” Modest Mouse
Bad news comes don’t you worry even when it lands
Good news will work its way to all them plans
We both got fired on the exactly the same day
Well we’ll float on good news is on the way.

I need to work on this, though the more confident I am about my voice, the easier it becomes. I had my second recital last Saturday, and it went fairly well (meaning none of my body parts were shaking). I’m planning on auditioning for several shows this year, so I really want to get it under control.

I can’t afford lessons right now, but I’m hoping to start taking them once I’m back in school.