you say goodbye, i say hello

Created by magyang on Jun 2, 2009

This playlist has the songs as you turn to go by the 6ths, Land Locked Blues by Bright Eyes, Farewell by Fairport Convention, I am a Passenger by Iggy Pop, Blacking Out The Friction (Demo) by Death Cab For Cutie, and more.

(hello, hello! i don't know why you say goodbye, i say hello.)

Props to Lady Z for the theme; it hit a little too close to home for me, as I am going through a drawn-out week of goodbyes myself. I tried to make this playlist approximate the conflicting emotions that go hand in hand with of the leavetaking/homecoming process, from the weepy au revoir to the unsettling feeling of travelling, then finally the joy of coming home.

1.
"Well, if you ever loved me
Tell me so
As you turn to go"

2. THIS ONE GOES OUT TO MS. CHAZZILICIOUS , BTW (hahaha. c. oberst sounds like he's sobbing in this one.)

"So I’m up at dawn
Putting on my shoes
I just want to make a clean escape
I’m leaving but I don’t know where to
I know I’m leaving but I don’t know where to"

3.
"Farewell, farewell to you who would hear
You lonely travellers all
The cold north wind will blow again
The winding road does call"

4.
"I look through my window so bright
I see the stars come out tonight
I see the bright and hollow sky
Over the citys a rip in the sky
And everything looks good tonight"

5.
"The hardest part is yet to come
When you will cross the country alone."

6. "You can say the sun is shining if you really want to
I can see the moon and it seems so clear
You can take the road that takes you to the stars now
I can take a road that'll see me through
I can take a road that'll see me through."

7. It’s so many miles and so long since I’ve met you
Don’t even know what I’ll find when I get to you
But suddenly now, I know where I belong
It’s many hundred miles but it won’t be long

8. Down the hillside
to the cemetery
To bury the past
Down the hillside

9. We are not two we are one
Strangers on this road we are on
We are not two we are one

10. "a butterfly in the wind is drifting like I do
it’s dumb - I know what I want to say
but I can’t even take one breath
so now still burning silently away
a storm without the thunder"

11. And you're walking away
But where to go to?
And you're walking alone,
But how to get through?

12. What a beautiful face
I have found in this place
That is circling all round' the sun
And when we meet on a cloud
I'll be laughing out loud
I'll be laughing with everyone I see
Can't believe how strange it is to be anything at all

13. "Yes a heart should always go one step too far
Come the morning and the day winding like dreams
Come the morning every blue shade of green
Come with me, go places"

14. "Heal the scars from off my back
I don't need them anymore
You can throw them out or keep them in your mason jars
I've come home."

15."New front door, same address
Same front step, same back-porch
Geraniums to the terrace
Sold my shoes to pay the rent
I won't be needing them
I won't be leaving too soon"

Bonus Track: The Long and Winding Road: because more journeys will be taken.