If there’s such a thing as a self-care love-song, it’d be this.
Take time, take all the time you need, take time or you won’t succeed.
We don’t take enough time for ourselves. None of us do! You need to make space for you. This song is a good start.
I started to highlight a lyric and realized I just kept typing because Angie somehow makes the first verse feel like it lasts five minutes and her singing on this is some of her best. Particularly this sequence:
“My baby talks at a mile a minute, she sings like a church with a choir in it, she shoots for the moon to land in the stars, and wakes up heavy with a sunken heart, thinking twice will lead you into a bad place, you got to move fast to win, no space for time, no time for space, I got what the human race needs, my baby runs ten miles to win it, she moves like her body’s got a fire in it, she makes me swoon when she walks in the room, she wakes up early and she leaves too soon“
If anyone said that about you, you’d melt right? For sure. Wait ’til you hear her sing it.
The original artist on this song was the band Oh Pep! Shout out to Mike and Erin’s cat Pepper! The original version is excellent! Such a different energy than Angie’s and yet conveys the exact same emotions. Their harmonizing starting at “why don’t you forget about it” is so spot on it inspires an ache. Really reminds me of First Aid Kit in some ways!
We also shout-out that tambourine when we hear it. Game recognize game.
I really hope you are enjoying our journey so far! I’ve had such a great time re-listening to these songs and analyzing them for each entry.
Thank you for any and all seconds you’ve spent reading this blog. I really do appreciate you taking moments of your free time to discover a new song every day. I think it’s such an easy way for us to expand our brains. Experience something new everyday. See how many of those feelings you can stack together in a given day. You really would be surprised the things you notice when you look a little harder.
Enjoy the songs! Let me know what you think of them!
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Another interesting song… the standard verse, chorus, bridge format is… more of a suggestion? And the lyrics are again more free-form poetry where rhymes happen, but they don’t necessarily have to.
I like that you pulled a message of self care from it. I can’t help wondering what it’s really about though. Sure the self-care part is clear. The worry for someone who is super ambitious. But there’s more to it, folded in poetic ambiguity. Now I want to know, and I wish Oh, Pep had explained it all somewhere.
Also. Pep! 😸
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It’s definitely a complex song! I think it’s why I really enjoy Angie’s stuff! A lot of room for interpretation and applying to self.
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