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Sound and Color by Alabama Shakes
A new world hangs outside the window, Beautiful and strange
It must be falling away, I must be
Sound and color with me for my mind
And it should show you where to go when I need to speak
Sound and color, With me in my mind
Sound and color, Try to keep yourself awake
Sound and color, This life ain't like a book
Sound and color, I wanna touch a human being
Sound and color, I loath to go back to sleep
Sound and color, Ain't life just down the street
Sound and color, You wish you're looking all the way
Sound and color, The more the feeling set to notice it
Sound and color
Life is
Sound and color
Love is
Sound and color
Love is
Sound and color
Sound and color
Sound and color
The Explanation
The singer of this band has synesthesia which is a perceptual phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory pathway. This means that when she hears sound she sees color as well.
The Poem
I may be colorblind,
But with you I see sound as color.
The world is far more beautiful,
When I have you by my side,
Painting the trees,
The rivers,
The sky,
With your voice.
Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space by Spiritualized
All I want in life's a little bit of love To take the pain away
Getting strong today, A giant step each day
I've been told
Only fools rush in
But I don't believe
I don't believe
I could still fall in love with you
I will love you till I die
And I will love you all the time
So please put your sweet hand in mine
And float in space and drift in time
All the time until I die
We'll float in space, just you and I
And I will love you till I die
And I will love you all the time
So please put your sweet hand in mine
And float in space and drift in time
All the time until I die
We'll float in space, just you and I
Baby I love you today
I guess that's what you want
And I don't know where we are all going
Life don't get stranger than this
It is what it is
And I don't know where we are all going
The Explanation
An explanation of the song title and meaning from the lead singer, “Some people live an ordinary life — go to work, mow the lawn, take the bins out, look after the kids. And they’re perfectly happy. But what the song’s title, intro, and the original quote are getting at is that if you stop to think for a moment, everything about life is mind-bogglingly absurd. We are sentient bundles of meat, driving around in vehicles fuelled by long-dead animals and plants, existing on a massive chunk of rock and iron, floating around a nuclear fusion reactor in a physically-unknowable universe that contains more stars than all the grains of sand you could ever collect, and all of that could just be a minuscule ripple in a higher-dimension existence we could never hope to even begin to comprehend, like an ant crawling on the side of the Empire State Building.
We can barely comprehend the inside of our own minds, let alone everything else that is out there. And so no one can be blamed for pretending like none of that exists. But it does, somewhere out there…”
Also I made this poem a Tanka poem so Bret wrote the last two lines.
The Poem
Floating aimlessly
I’ve come across you, my love
It all makes more sense
Please put your sweet hand in mine
I know where we are going.
You and I by Ingrid Michaelson
Don't you worry, there my honey
We might not have any money
But we've got our love to pay the bills
Maybe I think you're cute and funny,
Maybe I wanna do what bunnies do with you,
If you know what I mean
Oh, let's get rich and buy our parents
Homes in the South of France
Let's get rich and give everybody nice sweaters
And teach them how to dance
Let's get rich and build our house on a mountain
Making everybody look like ants
From way up there, you and I, you and I
Well you might be a bit confused
And you might be a little bit bruised
But baby how we spoon like no one else
So I will help you read those books
If you will soothe my worried looks
And we will put the lonesome on the shelf
Oh, let's get rich and buy our parents
Homes in the South of France
Let's get rich and give everybody nice sweaters
And teach them how to dance
Let's get rich and build our house on a mountain
Making everybody look like ants
From way up there, you and I, you and I
Oh, let's get rich and buy our parents
Homes in the South of France
Let's get rich and give everybody nice sweaters
And teach them how to dance
Let's get rich and build our house on a mountain
Making everybody look like ants
From way up there, you and I, you and I
The Poem
Sweetly you strum at my heartstrings
A lullaby emanates from within me
I look up into your eyes
And I see a life we may have
An uncertain future far away.
But for now
We are frozen in this moment
In this small world we have created together
And we levitate
Untouched
As time passes beneath us.
Sound and Color by Alabama Shakes
A new world hangs outside the window, Beautiful and strange
It must be falling away, I must be
Sound and color with me for my mind
And it should show you where to go when I need to speak
Sound and color, With me in my mind
Sound and color, Try to keep yourself awake
Sound and color, This life ain't like a book
Sound and color, I wanna touch a human being
Sound and color, I loath to go back to sleep
Sound and color, Ain't life just down the street
Sound and color, You wish you're looking all the way
Sound and color, The more the feeling set to notice it
Sound and color
Life is
Sound and color
Love is
Sound and color
Love is
Sound and color
Sound and color
Sound and color
The Explanation
The singer of this band has synesthesia which is a perceptual phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory pathway. This means that when she hears sound she sees color as well.
The Poem
I may be colorblind,
But with you I see sound as color.
The world is far more beautiful,
When I have you by my side,
Painting the trees,
The rivers,
The sky,
With your voice.
Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space by Spiritualized
All I want in life's a little bit of love To take the pain away
Getting strong today, A giant step each day
I've been told
Only fools rush in
But I don't believe
I don't believe
I could still fall in love with you
I will love you till I die
And I will love you all the time
So please put your sweet hand in mine
And float in space and drift in time
All the time until I die
We'll float in space, just you and I
And I will love you till I die
And I will love you all the time
So please put your sweet hand in mine
And float in space and drift in time
All the time until I die
We'll float in space, just you and I
Baby I love you today
I guess that's what you want
And I don't know where we are all going
Life don't get stranger than this
It is what it is
And I don't know where we are all going
The Explanation
An explanation of the song title and meaning from the lead singer, “Some people live an ordinary life — go to work, mow the lawn, take the bins out, look after the kids. And they’re perfectly happy. But what the song’s title, intro, and the original quote are getting at is that if you stop to think for a moment, everything about life is mind-bogglingly absurd. We are sentient bundles of meat, driving around in vehicles fuelled by long-dead animals and plants, existing on a massive chunk of rock and iron, floating around a nuclear fusion reactor in a physically-unknowable universe that contains more stars than all the grains of sand you could ever collect, and all of that could just be a minuscule ripple in a higher-dimension existence we could never hope to even begin to comprehend, like an ant crawling on the side of the Empire State Building.
We can barely comprehend the inside of our own minds, let alone everything else that is out there. And so no one can be blamed for pretending like none of that exists. But it does, somewhere out there…”
Also I made this poem a Tanka poem so Bret wrote the last two lines.
The Poem
Floating aimlessly
I’ve come across you, my love
It all makes more sense
Please put your sweet hand in mine
I know where we are going.
You and I by Ingrid Michaelson
Don't you worry, there my honey
We might not have any money
But we've got our love to pay the bills
Maybe I think you're cute and funny,
Maybe I wanna do what bunnies do with you,
If you know what I mean
Oh, let's get rich and buy our parents
Homes in the South of France
Let's get rich and give everybody nice sweaters
And teach them how to dance
Let's get rich and build our house on a mountain
Making everybody look like ants
From way up there, you and I, you and I
Well you might be a bit confused
And you might be a little bit bruised
But baby how we spoon like no one else
So I will help you read those books
If you will soothe my worried looks
And we will put the lonesome on the shelf
Oh, let's get rich and buy our parents
Homes in the South of France
Let's get rich and give everybody nice sweaters
And teach them how to dance
Let's get rich and build our house on a mountain
Making everybody look like ants
From way up there, you and I, you and I
Oh, let's get rich and buy our parents
Homes in the South of France
Let's get rich and give everybody nice sweaters
And teach them how to dance
Let's get rich and build our house on a mountain
Making everybody look like ants
From way up there, you and I, you and I
The Poem
Sweetly you strum at my heartstrings
A lullaby emanates from within me
I look up into your eyes
And I see a life we may have
An uncertain future far away.
But for now
We are frozen in this moment
In this small world we have created together
And we levitate
Untouched
As time passes beneath us.