The song "Falling in love at the coffee shop" is a song from a young artist from the great state of Tennessee. I can say the state is great because, it is were I am from too. Anyway the artist is Landon Pigg(yes I know brutal name), he is a quirky little indy singer that I have been listening too since he came onto the scene in 2006. But, who now,(thanks to and AT&T commercial) will probably become really well know and lose his indy cred.
The video I attached is not the official video, but one that some guy made for a woman he loves, so I used it because........one, the song is about love and two.....the guy did a fantastic job and I can only imagine how great the girl this was intended for felt when she saw it.
As for the songs meaning, at first it seems to have self-explanatory lyrics....about falling in love with someone slowly, while spending time with them at low key places like a coffee shop; and then it suddenly hits you that it's the person that made all those simple things seem so special.
But sometimes I actually think that these lyrics arent so self-explanitory. "i've seen the paths that your eyes wander down, i want to come too". i think he is longing for this amazing girl that he sees in a coffee shop and other miscellanious places...
he wants to get the nerve to admit to this girl how wonderful she is and how much she has changed his life...
its a slow, beautiful, and clean love. something that is hard to come by nowadays.
Anyway, I could be wrong,maybe Landon wrote the song while drunk one night and it really has no meaning to him.............but for me, it is a song that really expresses how love should be.
Saturday, May 9, 2009
Thursday, May 7, 2009
Thursday's Child
Wanted to share a song from the coolest dude on the planet.......David Bowie.....Thursday's Child, off his "Hours" album from 1999 is my favorite Bowie song.
It seems to me that this song is about Bowie himself, saying that he always felt slightly out of place. He was a person with gifts and potential who never quite got off the ground, breaking his life in two (into the man he had potential to be , and the man he actually became), he feels like he was born in the wrong time, etc.
Then, he speaks of something that gives him hope. A reason that he no longer regrets his troubled life. He says "throw me tomorrow", as if tomorrow is a life preserver thrown to rescue a drowning man. For all of the hardships of his life, comparing himself to a Thursday's Child, he is now glad to be here because of his love, (the girl).
Also I think there is a component that speaks to age as he looks in the mirror. Yeah, he's getting old, but that is the past and he has new life now with his love.
Also, it may be that his song playing on the radio represents the success he's had in this life, but he knows it's really superficial (Mirror symbolizes this), and it doesn't satisfy him in a deeper way like the love he has with his girl, who is the focus of the video.
"Thursday's Child" does indeed mean "One that will go far". In this song, he reflects on his entire career, and his mistakes. He's telling himself (in the video, he tells a younger-looking Bowie he sees in his reflection) that no matter the mistakes he's made in his career, he's gone far, and he doesn't regret it.
Anyway watch the video and then draw your own conclusions
It seems to me that this song is about Bowie himself, saying that he always felt slightly out of place. He was a person with gifts and potential who never quite got off the ground, breaking his life in two (into the man he had potential to be , and the man he actually became), he feels like he was born in the wrong time, etc.
Then, he speaks of something that gives him hope. A reason that he no longer regrets his troubled life. He says "throw me tomorrow", as if tomorrow is a life preserver thrown to rescue a drowning man. For all of the hardships of his life, comparing himself to a Thursday's Child, he is now glad to be here because of his love, (the girl).
Also I think there is a component that speaks to age as he looks in the mirror. Yeah, he's getting old, but that is the past and he has new life now with his love.
Also, it may be that his song playing on the radio represents the success he's had in this life, but he knows it's really superficial (Mirror symbolizes this), and it doesn't satisfy him in a deeper way like the love he has with his girl, who is the focus of the video.
"Thursday's Child" does indeed mean "One that will go far". In this song, he reflects on his entire career, and his mistakes. He's telling himself (in the video, he tells a younger-looking Bowie he sees in his reflection) that no matter the mistakes he's made in his career, he's gone far, and he doesn't regret it.
Anyway watch the video and then draw your own conclusions
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