Q.U.E.E.N. – Janelle Monáe – f. Erykah Badud (2013) 1449
I heard this life is just a play with no rehearsal
A message – Tyler Childers (2020) d1339
“If we wouldn’t stand for it, why would we expect another group of Americans to stand for it? Why would we stand silent, or worse, get in the way of it being rectified?”
Bowl of oranges – Bright Eyes (2002) d1171
So that’s how I learned the lessonThat everyone’s aloneAnd your eyes must do some rainingIf you’re ever gonna growAnd when crying don’t helpYou can’t compose yourselfIt’s best to compose a poemAn honest verse of longingOr a simple song of hope
The inner landscape of beauty – John O’Donohue (2016) d1152
Beauty isn’t all about just nice loveliness, like. Beauty is about more rounded, substantial becoming. So I think beauty, in that sense, is about an emerging fullness, a greater sense of grace and elegance, a deeper sense of depth, and also a kind of homecoming for the enriched memory of your unfolding life.
If you tolerate this, then your children will be next – Maniac Street Preachers (1998) d1098
Bullets for your brain todayBut we’ll forget it all againMonuments put from pen to paperTurns me into a gutless wonder
You’re in the army now- Bolland (1981) d1081
You’ve got your orders to shoot on sightYour finger’s on the trigger but it don’t seem right
People’s faces – Kate Tempest (2019) d919
There are no new beginningsUntil everybody seesThat the old ways need to end
I burn but I am not consumed – Katrine Polwart (2018) d814
On May 11th 1930, Mary Anne Macleod, from Tong on The Isle of Lewis, boarded the RMS Transylvania from Glasgow to New York City, in search of a better life. There, she fell in love with Frederick, whose father had come to America from Germany as a 16 year old barber. The couple raised five children. Mary Anne’s middle […]
