Here Comes My Girl by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

Two weeks ago, I discovered Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' Damn the Torpedoes album. I found it in a folder of music downloads from several years ago but had not had the chance to listen to it. I had it on play when I was on my commute to work. Last week it resonated with me. A few days ago, Tom Petty just died. 

I've listened to a few Tom Petty songs before, particularly Free Fallin' as it was a staple of the MTV Asia I grew up with and a favorite of my older brother's. I was introduced to Won't Back Down via the news about the legal wrangle with Sam Smith's Stay with Me song. 

This is my favorite from the songs from Damn the Torpedoes. I love how Tom Petty's sings on this song, changing his style between the verses and the chorus. I love how the bass slightly rumbles as well.

Part of me wishes that I met someone who sold me to the brilliance of Tom Petty earlier. Or maybe I wasn't just listening back then. 

You know, sometimes, I don't know why,

But this old town just seems so hopeless

I ain't really sure, but it seems I remember the good times

Were just a little bit more in focus

But when she puts her arms around me,

I can, somehow, rise above it

Yeah man, when I got that little girl standing right by my side,

You know, I can tell the whole wide world, and shout it,

Hey, 

Here comes my girl, 

Here comes my girl,

Yeah, she looks so right, 

She's all I need tonight

Every now and then, I get down to the end of a day,

I'll have to stop, ask myself, "What've I done?"

It just seems so useless to have to work so hard,

And nothin' ever really seem to come from it

And then she looks me in the eye, says, "We gonna last forever,"

And man, you know I can't begin to doubt it

No, because this feels so good and so free and so right,

I know we ain't never goin' change our minds about it

Hey, 

Here comes my girl, 

Here comes my girl,

Yeah, she looks so right, 

She's all I need tonight

Yeah, everytime it seems like there ain't nothin' left no more,

I find myself havin' to reach out and grab hold of somethin'

Yeah, I just catch myself wanderin', waitin', worryin'

About some silly little things that don't add up to nothin'

And then she looks me in the eye, says, "We gonna last forever,"

And man, you know I can't begin to doubt it

No, because this feels so good and so free and so right,

I know we ain't never goin' change our minds about it

Hey, 

Here comes my girl, 

Here comes my girl,

Yeah, she looks so right, 

She's all I need tonight 

Little Respect by Erasure

This song from the late 80's just popped in my head today, and it is worthy of a song to be included in this blog. 

 

I try to discover
A little something to make me sweeter
Oh baby refrain from breaking my heart
I'm so in love with you
I'll be forever blue
That you give me no reason
Why you're making me work so hard

That you give me no
That you give me no
That you give me no
That you give me no

Soul, I hear you calling
Oh baby please give a little respect to me

And if I should falter
Would you open your arms out to me
We can make love not war
And live at peace in our hearts
I'm so in love with you
I'll be forever blue
What religion or reason
Could drive a man to forsake his lover

Don't you tell me no
Don't you tell me no
Don't you tell me no
Don't you tell me no

Soul, I hear you calling
Oh baby please give a little respect to me

I'm so in love with you
I'll be forever blue
That you give me no reason
You know you're making me work so hard

That you give me no
That you give me no
That you give me no
That you give me no

Soul, I hear you calling
Oh baby please give a little respect to me

Soul, I hear you calling
Oh baby please give a little respect to me 

Hanging by a Moment by Lifehouse

I was walking to work earlier along the Ayala-Edsa overpass when I suddenly remembered this song. It was a hit when I was in college. I remembering listening to the album from a pirated copy that my bestfriend Dris owned. I even had a chance to see Lifehouse live at the Araneta Coliseum when they had a concert there a few years ago. 

Desperate for changing, starving for truth
I'm closer to where I started, I'm chasing after you
I'm falling even more in love with you
Letting go of all I've held on to
I'm standing here until you make me move
I'm hanging by a moment here with you
Forgetting all I'm lacking, completely incomplete
I'll take your invitation, you take all of me now
I'm falling even more in love with you
Letting go of all I've held on to
I'm standing here until you make me move
I'm hanging by a moment here with you
I'm living for the only thing I know
I'm running and not quite sure where to go
And I don't know what I'm diving into
Just hanging by a moment here with you
There's nothing else to lose, there's nothing else to find
There's nothing in the world that can change my mind
There is nothing else
There is nothing else
There is nothing else
Desperate for changing, starving for truth
I'm closer to where I started, I'm chasing after you
I'm falling even more in love with you
Letting go of all I've held on to
I'm standing here until you make me move
I'm hanging by a moment here with you
I'm living for the only thing I know
I'm running and not quite sure where to go
And I don't know what I'm diving into
Just hanging by a moment here with you
Just hanging by a moment
Just hanging by a moment
I'm hanging by a moment
Just hanging by a moment here with you

Redundant by Green Day

I suddenly found myself singing this song today. I cannot speak, I'm lost for words. 

I liked this song the first time I saw it on MTV.

We're living in repetition.
Content in the same old shtick again.
Now the routine's turning to contention,
Like a production line going over and over and over, roller coaster.

Now I cannot speak, I've lost my voice.
I'm speechless and redundant.
'Cause I love you's not enough.
I'm lost for words.

Choreographed and lack of passion.
Prototypes of what we were.
Went full circle 'til I'm nauseous.
Taken for granted now.
Now I waste it, faked it, ate it, now i hate it.

'Cause I cannot speak, I lost my voice.
I'm speechless and redundant, 'cause I love you's not enough.
I'm lost for words.

Now I cannot speak, I've lost my voice.
I'm speechless and redundant.
'Cause I love you's not enough.
I'm lost for words.

Now I cannot speak, I've lost my voice.
I'm speechless and redundant.
'Cause I love you's not enough.
I'm lost for words.

While The Music Plays On by Tony Bennett

I was reading Tony Bennett's autobiography earlier and read about this song. I was on a lunch break at work and searched online for this song. I had chills listening to this song while eating a sandwich. Old music can be wonderful and Tony Bennett remains cool to this day.

Each night in some cafe
I'm on display until the dark, turns into dawn
Up upon the stand, singing with the band
While the music plays on

Each night is just a long
And there where song until the last couple has gone
Then only I must start singing out my heart
While the music plays on

Oh, what madness to discover
Music still possesses all its charms
As I serenade my lover
Dancing by in someone else's arms

But I am not allowed to show the crowd
What happens when romance has gone
I must hide my feels singing through the tears
While the music plays on

Oh, what madness to discover
Music still possesses all of its charms
As I serenade my lover
Dancing by in someone else's arms

But I am not allowed to show the crowd
What happens when romance has gone
I must hide my feels singing through my tears
While the music plays on

Half the World Away by Oasis

I found myself singing this song in my head while talking a walk today. Maybe I'll listen to the whole album like I did during college.

I would like to leave this city, 

this old town don't smell too pretty and
I can feel the warning signs running around my mind
 

And when I leave this island 

I'll book myself into a soul asylum
'Cause I can feel the warning signs running around my mind

So here I go, 

I'm still scratching around in the same old hole
My body feels young but my mind is very old
So what do you say?
You can't give me the dreams that are mine anyway

You're half the world away
Half the world away
Half the world away
I've been lost I've been found but I don't feel down

And when I leave this planet, 

You know I'd stay but I just can't stand it and
I can feel the warning signs running around my mind
And if I could leave this spirit, 

I'll find me a hole and I'll leave in it
And I can feel the warning signs running around my mind

Here I go, I'm still scratching around in the same old hole
My body feels young but my mind is very old
So what do you say?
You can't give me the dreams that are mine anyway

You're half the world away
Half the world away
Half the world away
I've been lost I've been found but I don't feel down

No I don't feel down, no I don't feel down
I don't feel down, I don't feel down
I don't feel down, I don't feel down
I don't feel down

Honky Tonk Women by The Rolling Stones

I've taken a new liking of The Rolling Stones, after listening to disc 1 of their greatest hits collection Forty Licks. One of the new songs that really struck a chord with me is Honkey Tonk Women. It's jangly telecaster driven guitars and an oh-so simple backbeat just made me smile when I tried to listen to it. The bass guitar also just comes in at around the chorus. The horns also add a certain vibe to this Stones song. It's just so danceable and will probably be in my list of songs I like to dance to. I like the backing vocals as well. There is no doubt that Honkey Tonk Women belongs to the pantheon of Rolling Stones songs.

I met a gin soaked, bar-room queen in Memphis,
She tried to take me upstairs for a ride.
She had to heave me right across her shoulder
'Cause I just can't seem to drink you off my mind.

It's the Honky Tonk Women
Gimme, gimme, gimme the Honky Tonk blues.

I laid a divorcee in New York City,
I had to put up some kind of a fight.
The lady then she covered me with roses,
She blew my nose and then she blew my mind.
It's the Honky Tonk Women
Gimme, gimme, gimme the Honky Tonk blues.

(yeah!)
It's the Honky Tonk Women

Gimme, gimme, gimme the Honky Tonk blues.

(yeah!)
It's the Honky Tonk Women

Gimme, gimme, gimme the Honky Tonk blues.