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Maggie’s Pick 4.2.2015: April Showers: “It Will Rain” by Bruno Mars

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Dedicated to the missing props, and to any sense of identity and/or certainty this week.

Also I just really like this song, and Bruno Mars has about the same singing range I do, so there’s that 😛

Maggie’s Pick 1.25.2015: The Color Picks: “White Flag” by Dido

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Hi friends! So sometimes I really want an excuse to Pick a specific song without just outright Picking it, so I come up with an elaborate set of themes that would explain away the Pick, and then I decide that I actually really like the elaborate set of themes and decide to do them.

That’s what’s happening today: Variations on a Theme: Color, alternately titled The Color Picks. I’ll have a more precise schedule for you later this week, but basically I’m going through the rainbow, just about every color getting a week of songs for it (there will be some combo weeks for underrepresented colors like orange and gray, and extra time for blue, because blue). This theme project is going to take the Picks through to the beginning of April, with is National Poetry Writing Month, an annual event at Maggie Lives. April will have its own theme, as will May, because while I can’t structure my future, I can structure my blog’s future.

This week’s color is White, and next week will be Pink, if I’ve remembering my own plans correctly. Color relationship can be with a song title, lyrics, artist name, album name, and song feeling/mood, if I get desperate. I’m not going to Pick a bad song just to fit the theme, but I will find ways to explain away seemingly unrelated good songs.

This is the first of The Color Picks. I was mainly introduced to this song through some karaoke video game (which is a thing I am obnoxiously good at due to my excessive musical training) when I was a freshman in high school, and I’ve liked it ever since. I love the chorus.

I can’t tell how I feel about this music video. I feel like there’s a very interesting story to be discovered here if I can just get past the annoying camera angles.

New Poem: “Lines Unspoken” by Maggie McGinity

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Hello! I wrote a poem on the first Sunday of Thanksgiving break, and now I’m posting it on the first Sunday of Christmas break. Weeeeeeeee.

I had a bunch of weird dreams that morning, and none of them were fully formed. I feel like this poem is not fully formed either, but I can’t remember anything else I wanted to add to it, so I’m sharing it.

Writing is quite strange now. I can’t hide behind my words, I have to stand for them, I have to embrace them. I’m writing songs and hiding the verses, I’m singing songs in my sleep.

I’m being intentionally cryptic because my outlet is now a way out, but not a route I want to take.

Anyways. The poem. Enjoy!

“Lines Unspoken
By Maggie McGinity

I had a dream that you would sing.
I dreamed unrealistic things.
One appeared far too fast,
Too rushed, too rash,
Not built to last.

At first I has happy,
To get it out of the way.
But then I thought to say,
‘This is not how I wanted this today.’

Halfway done both in time and content,
My dream left me less certain, more spent.
I awoke before I could see it through.
Don’t know if I love these stranger dreams of you

Though I do, I do
Love dreaming of you
But daydream details cannot dictate
What happens in my mind of late

This was the barest frame of fantasy
(FYI, very PG)
Would’ve rather dreamed you danced with me
Though eventually would have, if I hadn’t awoken.
My dream left out the lines unspoken.

Unrehearsed, unreversed,
Not yet safe to say uncursed.
Unprepared, unaware,
God knows how I did my hair

I couldn’t see me. I could see you
I didn’t know just what to do
And my brain, not being quite there yet,
Ran from what it wasn’t sure it could get.”

Quotes:

“In our rushing, bulls in china shops, we break our own lives.”
“Sometimes you don’t know when you’re taking the first step through a door until you’re already inside.”
-“One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are” by Ann Voskamp

“Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly.”
-Langston Hughes

“Haven’t you heard?
I’m stuck on a verse,
I’m stuck on a boy who fills me with joy,
I knew I was wrong to jump straight on into
This picture so pretty,
But he is so pretty to me,

And he doesn’t know just how far I would go
Just to kiss him,
He doesn’t know how I pine”
-“Your Song” by Kate Walsh

Maggie’s Pick 11.15.2014: “Crazy On You” by Heart

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Ending the Crazy theme on a high note. Now I have to figure out what I’m going to Pick tomorrow o.O

Anyways. Love this song, want to learn guitar, want to learn the opening solo, want to be able to sing that high with my chest voice. Sigh. Great song.

New original song: “Funny, Isn’t It?” by Maggie McGinity

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Originally posted on June 16, 2014.

Sometimes you lose track of things and people, and sometimes you’re better for the loss. Also sometimes you don’t realize you’ve actually lost track of these things for awhile, and then when you do it’s kind of amazing, because they no longer have any impact on your life. This song is about June 2012, and June 2014, and all the spaces in between. Enjoy!

Lyrics:

Verse 1:
I remember laughing, though I couldn’t say what at
Perhaps a silly gesture or an overvalued hat
I remember most things, but I don’t remember that
Our little joke, funny, isn’t it?

Verse 2:
I remember skipping out and skipping on
I remember reading to the pale light of dawn
And I once knew that joke by heart, but I don’t know where it’s gone
This little loss, funny, isn’t it?

Bridge:
It’s just like all those memories slipping away
It’s funny, it’s not as if I asked them to stay
But watching all our moments fade
It’s strange

Verse 3:
‘Cause I remember laughing, back tracking in that
Irrational decision I don’t know if I’d take back
Somehow I’ve stopped tracking the forks from all our paths
Out this little town, funny, isn’t it?

That little love, funny, wasn’t it?

My little heart, funny, isn’t it?

New original song: “Believe” by Maggie McGinity

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From April 26, 2014:

High stressed Maggie = new original song time! A little rough around the edges, and filmed by an iPhone propped up on black dress shoes. It’s called “Believe.” Enjoy! 🙂

Lyrics:

Verse One:
I don’t know a way in
I don’t know a way out
I am stuck in this strange in-between place
Wrapped in comforts and doubt
Here it’s dark, and it’s warm
I am safe from heart’s harm
But it’s not where I want to be
This is not just some joke
I’m not fun you can poke
Just need somebody to believe

Chorus:
Believe in me
‘Cause all that I’m ever told
Is I’m less, or I’m lacking, or not.
Believe in me
‘Cause I’d like to see life unfold
So much better than I thought
It could be
Believe in me

Verse Two:
I don’t know where to go
I don’t care where I do
Invitations to somewhere that’s shiny?
I just want somewhere true
I am lost and alone
I am far from my home
This is not where I want to be
This is not just some hoax
If my heart you can coax
Then be somebody to believe

Chorus

Bridge:
Believe that I
Will honestly try
To stay by your side
Be anything that you need
And I’ll
Answer the call
Won’t let you fall
Unless falling
Is where you want to be
Let me believe

Chorus 2:
Believe in you
If all that you’re ever told
Is you’re less, or you’re lacking, or not.
Believe in you
If you’d like to see life unfold
So much better than you thought
It could be
It could be
Believe in me