don't leave me high, don't leave me dry

Two jumps in a week, I bet you think that's pretty clever don't you boy
Flyin' on your motorcycle, watching all the ground beneath you drop
You'd kill yourself for recognition, kill yourself to never ever stop
You broke another mirror, you're turning into something you are not

Don't leave me high, don't leave me dry
Don't leave me high, don't leave me dry

Drying up in conversation, you will be the one who cannot talk
All your insides fall to pieces, you just sit there wishing you could still make love
They're the ones who'll hate you when you think you've got the world
all sussed out
They're the ones who'll spit at you, you will be the one screaming out

Don't leave me high, don't leave me dry
Don't leave me high, don't leave me dry

Oh, it's the best thing that you've ever had
The best thing that you've ever, ever had
It's the best thing that you've ever had
The best thing you've had has gone away

So don't leave me high, don't leave me dry
Don't leave me high, don't leave me dry
Don't leave me high
Don't leave me high
Don't leave me dry

If I seem absent minded just keep telling me the facts and keep making me smile

To be lost in the forest
To be cut adrift
You've been trying to reach me
You bought me a book
To be lost in the forest
To be cut adrift
I've been paid
I've been paid

Don't get offended
If I seem absent minded
Just keep telling me facts
And keep making me smile
Don't get offended
If I seem absent minded
I get tongue-tied
Baby, you've got to be more discerning
I've never known what's good for me
Baby, you've got to be more demanding
I will be yours

I'll pay for you anytime

You told me you wanted to eat up my sadness
Well jump on, enjoy, you can gorge away
You told me you wanted to eat up my sadness
Jump right
Baby, you've got to be more discerning
I've never known what's good for me
Baby, you've got to be more demanding
Jump left

What are you holding out for?
What's always in the way?
Why so damn absent-minded?
Why so scared of romance?

This modern love breaks me
This modern love wastes me

Do you wanna come over and kill some time?
Tell me facts, tell me facts, tell me facts
Tell me facts
Throw your arms around me
Do you wanna come over and kill some time? [x3]
Throw your arms around me.

it's a leap you have to make, it's the risk we all must take

Having said what I needed to,
Having shown what I feel for you,
What my intentions have been today.
Now it's time for you to do the same.
And no love can be guaranteed.
It don't come with no warranties.
It's a leap you have to make.
It's the risk we all must take.


Well it's clear where the cutting line
Woke up deep for the longest time.
But I can't offer any help.
You must do this all by yourself.
And no love can be guaranteed.
It don't come with no warranties.
So wake up, or wake up alone.
If you want me, show some
Courage, courage, courage, courage

all i know there's no time, there's no life, there's no turning back

they can say the most wonderful words, you just don't understand
i can show you the way, but i know that you'll never be there
all the time, all the shine of your eyes i would never forget
all i know there's no time, there's no life, there's no turning back
there is no turning back
there is no turning back

they can say the most wonderful words, you just don't understand
i can show you the way, but i know that you'll never be there
all the time, all the shine of your eyes i would never forget
all i know there's no time, there's no life, there's no turning back
there is no turning back
there is no turning back

you knew what you wanted and you fought so hard

So you no longer care if there's another day
I guess I have been there, I guess I am there now
You knew what you wanted and you fought so hard
Just to find yourself sitting in a golden cage
In a golden cage

So of course I miss you and miss you bad
But I also felt this way when I was still with you
Yes of course I miss you and miss you bad
But I also felt this way when I was still with you

This city's no longer mine
There's sadness written on every corner
Each lover was made to sign
Now I hear them calling me over and over

i've got another confession to make, i'm your fool

I've got another confession to make
I'm your fool
Everyone's got their chains to break
Holdin' you

Were you born to resist, or be abused?

Is someone getting the best
The best, the best, the best of you?
Is someone getting the best
The best, the best, the best of you?

Or are you gone and onto someone new?

I needed somewhere to hang my head
Without your noose
You gave me something that I didn't have
But had no use
I was too weak to give in
Too strong to lose

My heart is under arrest again
But I'll break loose
My head is giving me life or death
But I can't choose
I swear I'll never give in
I refuse

let them know you realize that life goes fast

Do you realize that you have the most beautiful face?
Do you realize we're floating in space?
Do you realize that happiness makes you cry?
Do you realize that everyone you know someday will die?

And instead of saying all your goodbyes
Let them know you realize that life goes fast
It's hard to make the good things last
You realize the sun don't go down
It's just an illusion caused by the world spinning 'round

I try to make a move, It almost stopped me from belief

In my past, bittersweet,
There's no love between the sheets,
Taste the blood, broken dreams,
Lonely times indeed,
With eyes cast down,
Fixed upon the ground,
Eyes cast down

I'll keep my eyes fixed on the sun

Turn back now its time for me to let go,
Way down had to find a place to lay low,
Lampshade turned around into a light post

Walk around the corner,
Never saw it coming still,
I try to make a move,
It almost stopped me from belief,
I don't wanna know the future,
But I'm like rolling thunder,

Even on a cloudy day,
Even on a cloudy day,
Even on a cloudy day,
Even on a cloudy day,
Even on a cloudy day,
Even on a cloudy day,
Even on a cloudy day,

I'll keep my eyes fixed on the-
I'll keep my eyes fixed on the-
I'll keep my eyes fixed on the sun

It’s good to see you, It's good to see you go

It’s really not that kind
To terrorize one in one's sleep
And if you really tried, you’d probably cut the chase too deep.
It seems to me that that's a fine way to keep you off your feet.
It seems to be no other side for the two ideas to meet.

It’s good to see you,
it’s good to see you go.
It’s good to see you, got to keep your mind on somewhere else.
it’s good to see you go. Got to keep on thinking of your health.

It’s good to see you, strange when your mind burns...

I'm over with words, I'm moving in lines

I need to take myself away
From the pillowed hand on which I stand
And throw me out of the side of a plane
And I'll just see where I land

I will have to pull my heart away
'Cause if I never leave I'll ruin yesterday

It's not like my feet are stuck to the floor
It's not like I'm wanting to know about the door
I want you to throw my shoes in the fire
And I'll watch the souls burn on the funeral pyre

And I'm over and it will change my position
And I'll know that nobody, nobody's listening
And that's easy for me and it's better for the soul
And it's better for you and it's better for all

I will have to pull my heart away
'Cause if I never leave I'll ruin yesterday
I will have to pull my heart away
'Cause if I never leave I'll ruin yesterday

you're stashing money, there're rubies up your sleeve

I can't hear you
You're talking to yourself
And what you're used to
It don't work on no one else

I'm gonna teach you
And keep you for myself
Gonna take you by the hand
And walk you to my house
So I can hear you

I wanna hear you

I can't say so
Naive, be so naive
You're stashing money,
There're rubies up your sleeve

if you fill the cup, i'll drink you up baby

She is a wicked high
Yes she is
She goes down so hard
She might never come back
She’s gonna break free
But she loves to laugh
But I was thinking
I’d love to get some of that

I drink your poison if you fill the cup
You make me crazy, baby, don’t let up
But if I’m falling I don’t wanna stop
I’d give up everything to have your love

cause that's what i'm waiting for

We trade tit for tat like that for this
And I don't think that there was an insult that was missed
I can see it in your eyes like I taste your lips and
I'm very sorry

Cause thats what I'm waiting for
That's what I'm waiting for
That's what I'm waiting for, aren't I?

turn out the light, come take my hand now

Deep in my soul, I've been so lonely
All of my hopes, fading away
I've longed for love, like everyone else does
I know I'll keep searching, even after today
So there it is girl, I've said it all now
And here we are babe, what do you say?
We've got tonight, who needs tomorrow?
We've got tonight babe
Why don't you stay?

I know it's late, I know you're weary
I know your plans don't include me
Still here we are, both of us lonely
Both of us lonely

you listen to it twice, cause the DJ is asleep

Regina Spektor- On The Radio

This is how it works
You're young until you're not
You love until you don't
You try until you can't
You laugh until you cry
You cry until you laugh
And everyone must breathe
Until their dying breath

No, this is how it works
You peer inside yourself
You take the things you like
And try to love the things you took
And then you take that love you made
And stick it into some
Someone else's heart
Pumping someone else's blood
And walking arm in arm
You hope it don't get harmed
But even if it does
You'll just do it all again

"Well I been thinking about the future
But I'm too young to pretend
It's such a waste to always look behind you
Should be lookin' straight ahead"

here we go!

Today I decided that to best express my feelings, thoughts, ideas, emotions, etc. and to have fun that my new purpose on this blog is to ascribe music to my life, which I do anyway. I realized that each day I find a song that (almost) perfectly conforms to my state of mind for that day. I will listen to this song multiple times and consider, configure, and control my mental state for that day. So, let the playlist of my life begin!

swan dive into the best night of your life.

I love the "Old Spice Guy". I think this advertising campaign is one of the best of the past year. The original ad by Wieden & Kennedy, Portland, Ore., just celebrated its one year anniversary on February 5. I am excited to see what the "Old Spice Guy" (Isaiah Mustafa) has in store for us in 2011. Going viral is necessary for any brand to succeed online. But often times companies miss the mark by creating digital platforms for the sake of simply just having a foot in the digital space. It is important to create digital branding platforms with a purpose, rather than for the sake of having one. Old Spice has successfully created "buzz" about their brand through the "Be a Man's, Man" campaign (through branding themselves by creating "advertainment" value). Here's the newest of the commercials. So check it out!

another day, another dream

For now, I'm just waiting for/working on my BIG IDEA.

In advertising, we always talk about THE BIG IDEA as the core concept that will be the trademark of a campaign that cause an uproar of social buzz about your brand. Right now, I am trying to figure out a big idea for my life. It's that point in life where I have to start making several important decisions about who I want to be in the future and how I am going to get there. Concentrating on both advertising and sociology in my undergraduate college experience has caused me to stumble upon several moral/ethical dilemmas. When the evils of advertising are visible so clearly through the sociological lens I apply to life, can I pursue a career in the industry without facing moral dilemmas on a daily basis? Or without abandoning my morals completely?

I do enjoy both advertising and sociology. I can see glory and triumph awaiting me on either side of the spectrum. Will I be able to enjoy the fruits of my labor? And which fruits will my labor bear? I feel like I'm comparing apples to oranges, but maybe I am.