Thursday, December 07, 2006

An Ode to Winter

Ok, not so much an ode as a song, a song that is only peripherally about winter. So whatever...But, it does have what is at this moment my favorite lyric -Your name is the splinter inside me. So descriptive, and yet so simple. This is the kind of thing that people who write, wish they wrote.

I should know who I am by now
I walk the record stand somehow
Thinkin' of winter
Your name is the splinter inside me
While I wait

And I remember the sound
Of your November downtown
And I remember the truth
A warm December with you
But I don't have to make this mistake
And I don't have to stay this way
If only I would wake

The walk has all been cleared by now
Your voice is all I hear somehow
Calling out winter
Your voice is the splinter inside me
While I wait

I could have lost myself
In rough blue waters in your eyes
And I miss you still
"Winter" Josh Radin

The whole winter theme reminds me (I'm not sure why) of my quest to make a CD that has the names of all the months of the year. Strangely enough, although I've been able to think of some fall and winter songs - spring and summer, not so much. Here's all I have so far:

"September" Earth, Wind and Fire
"November Rain" GNR (rock!)
"Long December" Counting Crows

And I could technically use this song and get November and December out of the way all at one time. But that's all I can think of. I think that John Mayer might have a song with some months in it, but maybe not, maybe it's just holidays. Can anyone help me out?

3 comments:

  1. I feel I should be able to help, yet I cannot. The music has left my brain. Except for Will Hoge. I'm currently listening to Washed by the Water and requesting a concert poster on my Amazon wish list. Dork. I know...

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  2. Yes John does.

    And I freaking love Joshua Radin. He is soooo great!! I've seen him twice in concert in the last six months :) tee hee he. but he is kinda short. . . .

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  3. Do you actually have to like the songs?

    Just Like January - Melissa O'Neill
    January Rain - David Gray
    January Friend - Goo Goo Dolls
    February Song - Josh Groban
    One Heavy February - Architecture in Helsinki
    February Stars - Foo Fighters
    February - Dar Williams
    Ides of March - Silverstein
    Waters of March - Al Jarreau
    April Showers - Sugarland
    April Fools - Rufus Wainwright
    April in Paris - Count Basie
    Five Days in May - Blue Rodeo
    One Morning in May - James Taylor
    Lusty Month of May - Camelot (showtune)
    June Is Finally Here - Don Caballero
    Seven Days in Sunny June - Jamiroquai
    Rainy Day in June - Alan Jackson
    Cold Day in July - Dixie Chicks
    July Morning - Uriah Heep
    4th of July - Soundgarden
    August in Bethany - Juliana Theory
    August 8th - Nofx
    August - Rilo Kiley
    August Moon - The 69 Eyes
    The 12th of September - Xavier Rudd
    Wake Me Up When September Ends - Green Day
    Come September - Norah Jones
    September Morn - Neil Diamond
    A Lonely September - Plain White T's
    September - Faktion
    Maybe in September - Tony Bennett
    October Nights - Yellowcard
    October - Evanescence
    When October Goes - Barry Manilow
    Sweet November - Babyface
    November Has Come - Gorillaz
    Gone Til November - Wycleff Jean
    My December - Linkin Park
    Forget December - Something Corporate
    December is For Cynics - The Matches
    December - Collective Soul
    December 4th - Jay-Z
    Once Upon a December - Aaliyah
    If We Make It Through December - Merle Haggard

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