s2309 | 30 Days Of Music

Day 13 - A song that is a guilty pleasure

Most old songs are kinda sorta guilty pleasures for me - I love some (*some*, not all) of the sounds, and at the same time, I can't help but think "this music is so not mine." It feels a little like theft or something, IDEK. But here goes!

one

Ella Fitzgerald's version of Sunshine of Your Love. This song has to be the sexiest thing ever. The voice, the instrumentation, the feel of it... It's absolutely gorgeous, I love it.

It's getting near dawn
When lights close their tired eyes
I'll soon be with you, my love
To give you my dawn surprise

I'll be with you darling, soon
I'll be with you when the stars start falling down
When they're falling down

I've been waiting so long
To be where I'm going
In the sunshine of your love

I'm with you, my love
The light's shining through on you
Yes, I'm with you, my love
It's the morning and just we two

I'll stay with you darling, now
I'll stay with you till my seeds are all dried up
When they're all dried up

I've been waiting so long
To be where I'm going
In the sunshine of your love

I'm with you, my love
The light's shining through on you
Yes, I'm with you, my love
It's the morning and just we two

I'll stay with you darling, now
I'll stay with you till my seeds are all dried up
When they're all dried up

I've been waiting so long
I've been waiting so long
I've been waiting so long
To be where I'm going
In the sunshine of your love
Your love, your love

two

Cold by Annie Lennox is my kind of song - slow, sad, minimal. I think my neighbour recced me this one a couple months back (along with a whole bunch of other Annie Lennox songs - this one caught my ear).

Come to me
Do and be done with me
(Cold cold cold)
Don't I exist for you
Don't I still live for you
(Cold cold cold)
Everything I possess
Given with tenderness
Wrapped in a ribbon of glass
Time it may take us but God only knows
How I've paid for those things in the past

Dying is easy it's living that scares me to death
I could be so content hearing the sound of your breath
Cold is the colour of crystal the snowlight
That falls from the heavenly skies
Catch me and let me dive under
For I want to swim in the pools of your eyes

I want to be with you baby
Slip me inside of your heart
Don't I belong to you baby
Don't you know that nothing can tear us apart
Come on now come on now come on now
Telling you that
I loved you right from the start...
But the more I want you the less I get
Ain't that just the way things are...

Winter has frozen us
Let love take hold of us
(Cold cold cold)
Now we are shivering
Blue ice is glittering
(Cold cold cold)

Cold is the colour of crystal the snowlight
That falls from the heavenly skies
Catch me and let me dive under
For I want to swim in the pools of your eyes

In other music stuff, I've been listening to a lot of acoustic lately. Like, oh, look, that song i know and love has an acoustic version, let's go listen! (about fifteen times over, for about fifteen different songs, lol) It's like falling in love with something familiar all over again, it's lovely :3