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Happy Tuesday! This tuesday’s theme is: Songs I wish were books!

This was kind of a difficult topic! I realized that a lot of the music I listen to is sad and would not really make a good book, haha. But I came up with these ten songs that I think could be interesting if adapted!

Songs I wish were books:

1. I See You – Mika

   • I don’t speak, you don’t know me at all
     For fear of what you might do
     I say nothing but stare at you
     And I’m dreaming
     I’m trippin’ over you
     Truth be told
     My problems solved
     You mean the world to be but you’ll never know
     You could be cruel to me
     While we’re risking the way that I see you
     That I see you 
     Could it be you fell for me?
     And any possible similarity
     If its all, how would I know?
     You never knew me at all but I see you
     But I see you 

2. Reno – Wild Child

   • Late nights on the road
     Didn’t hear your call
     Damn I hope you’d catch me when I fallI know your mind goes running wild
     But I’m always at your door
     You treat like a child cos I’ve run beforeBut when they dim those city lights
     Could search the whole world round
     Always know my heart is in your hometown

3. Home by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros

   • I’ll follow you into the park,
     Through the jungle, through the dark
     Girl, I’ve never loved one like youMoats and boats, and waterfalls,
     Alleyways, and payphone calls
     I been everywhere with you (that’s true)Laugh until we think we’ll die,
     Barefoot on a summer night
     Never could be sweeter than with youAnd in the streets you run afree,
     Like it’s only you and me,
     Geez, you’re something to see.Home, let me come home
     Home is wherever I’m with you
     Home, let me come home
     Home is wherever I’m with you

4. Little Wanderer by Death Cab For Cutie

   • You sent a photo out your window of Tokyo
     Told me you were doing fine
     You said the cherry blossoms were blooming
     And that I was on your mind
     But I couldn’t make you out through the glitches
     It’s how it always seems to go
     So we say our goodbyes over messenger
     As the network overloads
     When the network overloads
     You’re my wanderer, little wanderer
     Off across the sea
     You’re my wanderer, little wanderer
     Won’t you wander back to me
     Back to me
     Always fall asleep when you’re waking
     I count the hours on my hands
     Doing the math to the time zone you’re at
     Is an unseen part of the plan
     But if you’ll be my bluebird returning
     Then I’ll be your evergreen
     Standing tall on your horizon
     Guiding you home to me
     Guiding you home to me

5. That Power- Childish Gambino

   • This is on a bus back from camp. I’m thirteen and so are you. Before I left for camp I imagined it would be me and three or four other dudes I hadn’t met yet, running around all summer, getting into trouble. It turned out it would be me and just one girl. That’s you. And we’re still at camp as long as we’re on the bus and not at the pickup point where our parents would be waiting for us. We’re still wearing our orange camp t-shirts. We still smell like pineneedles. I like you and you like me and I more-than-like you, but I don’t know if you do or don’t more-than-like me. You’ve never said, so I haven’t been saying anything all summer, content to enjoy the small miracle of a girl choosing to talk to me and choosing to do so again the next day and so on. A girl who’s smart and funny and who, if I say something dumb for a laugh, is willing to say something two or three times as dumb to make me laugh, but who also gets weird and wise sometimes in a way I could never be. A girl who reads books that no one’s assigned to her, whose curly brown hair has a line running through it from where she put a tie to hold it up while it was still wet

6. Tiny Toy Piano- Jared Mees & the Grown Children

   • I was head over heart over heels
     for you as you knocked with your helmet and bike wheel.
     My grandma offered you cookies as she cleaned up our card game.
     You asked her how he was, and she said “oh about the same.”
     You said “I’m so sorry, it must be so awful hard.”
     She nodded as she let, the dog into the yard.
     She said “yes but what I do in times like this
     is read what he wrote me after our very first kiss…
     he said: ‘Our love is like a deep sea submarine.
     We’re getting down to the bottom of things
     because the surface was just too boring…
     though we may not ever be returning.
     It’s like a hard tail motor­bike just burning up the road,
     its fast and wild and scary but it’s pretty safe if truth be told'”
     For 50 years I fell further every foot.
     For 50 years falling never felt so good.

7. Summertime by the Mowgli’s

   • Oh, I can’t get you off of my mind
     And I think that it’s alright
     Cause looking back
     I’m falling in love with you every single night
     You know that feeling, right
     Where everything is fine, just fine
     I keep falling in love with you in the summertime

8. Let’s Dance to Joy Division- The Wombats

   •  Let’s dance to joy division
     And celebrate the irony
     Everything is going wrong
     But we’re so happy
     Let’s dance to joy division
     And raise our glass to the ceiling
     ‘Cos this could all go so wrong
     But we’re just so happy
     Yeah, we’re so happy
     So, if you’re ever feeling down
     Grab your purse and take a taxi
     To the darkest side of town
     That’s where we’ll be
     And we will wait for you
     And lead you through the dance floor
     Up to the DJ booth
     You know what to ask for

9. Brick by Boring Bring by Paramore

   • Oh, she lives in a fairy tale
     Somewhere too far for us to find
     Forgotten the taste and smell
     Of a world that she’s left behind
     It’s all about the exposure the lens
     I told her the angles were all wrong
     Now she’s ripping wings off of butterflies
     Keep your feet on the ground
     When your head’s in the clouds
     Well, go get your shovel
     And we’ll dig a deep hole
     To bury the castle, bury the castle
     Go get your shovel
     And we’ll dig a deep hole
     To bury the castle, bury the castle
     Pa ra pa pa ra pa pa ra
     So one day, he found her crying
     Coiled up on the dirty ground
     Her prince finally came to save her
     And the rest you can figure out
     But it was a trick and the clock struck twelve
     Well, make sure to build your home brick by boring brick
     Or the wolves gonna blow it down

10. First Day of My Life by Bright Eyes

    • Your’s is the first face that I saw
      I think I was blind before I met you
      Now I don’t know where I am
      Don’t know where I’ve been
      But I know where I want to go
      And so I thought I’d let you know
      That these things take forever
      I especially am slow
      But I realized that I need you
      And I wondered if I could come home
      Remember the time you drove all night
      Just to meet me in the morning
      And I thought it was strange
      You said everything changed
      You felt as if you’d just woke up

What songs do you wish were books? thoughts on my choices above?? Let’s Gab below!