Music For Meaning

I've been digging for a blog topic a while now but nothing struck me. Probably because I've been too busy redesigning my website.

I finally found something - where I least expected it, as usual. I promised myself I would never do one of these things, but this is too entertaining to resist. Mostly because it's about meaning generation, and my favorite thing to dig for, after all, is meaning.

So, onward (and it should be noted Nox didn't tag me with this, I did it all by myself):

Instructions: set your iTunes on shuffle and use the song order to answer the following questions.



Q) How does the world see me?

A) Right Where It Belongs - Nine Inch Nails

What if all the world's inside of your head?
Just creations of your own
Your devils and your gods all the living and the dead
And you're really all alone
You can live in this illusion,
You can choose to believe.
You keep looking but you can't find the woods,
While you're hiding in the trees



Q) Will I live a happy life?

A) Alarm Call - Bjork

I have walked this earth
And watched people
I can be sincere
And say I like them

You can't say no to hope
Can't say no to happiness

I want to go on a mountaintop
With a radio and good batteries
And play a joyous tune and
Free the human race
From suffering

It doesn't scare me at all

I'm no ****ing Buddhist
But this is enlightenment

The less room you give me
The more space I've got

This is an alarm call
So wake up, wake up now
Today has never happened
And it doesn't frighten me

It doesn't scare me at all



Q) What do people really think of me?

A) Sex On The Flag - KMFDM

SEX ON THE FLAG, GIVE ME RESPECT OR GIVE ME DEATH
SEX ON THE FLAG, NO RESPONSIBILITY
SEX ON THE FLAG, YOU GOTTA HAVE SOME FANTASY
SEX ON THE FLAG, CRACK DOWN AND CRY FOR ME



Q) How can I make myself happy?

A) Work It To The Bone - LNR

Come on let's work
Come on let's work it to the bone bone bone
Gotta work it to the bone
Gotta work it to the bone
Gonna work you 'til you sweat
Gonna work you 'til you get wet
Come on work...to the bone bone bone



Q) What should I do with my life?

A) O Come, O Come, Emmanuel

O come, Thou Wisdom from on high,
Who orderest all things mightily;
To us the path of knowledge show,
And teach us in her ways to go.

O come, Thou Day-spring, come and cheer
Our spirits by Thine advent here;
Disperse the gloomy clouds of night,
And death's dark shadows put to flight.



Q) What is some good advice for me?

A) Drama! - Erasure

One rule for us, for you another
Do unto yourself as you see fit for your brother
Is that not within your realm of understanding?
Well then, poor unfortunate you
There are a myriad of things that you can do
Like pick up a pen and paper, or go and talk to a friend
The history of the future
No violence or revenge

Your shame is never...ending
Just one psychological drama after another
You are guilty, and how you ever entered into this life...
God only knows the infinite complexities of love



Q) What do I think my current theme song is?

A) Lips - Ambo

You know we say the damnedest things my love
We must see something here that's invisible to most
Her lips are slightly parted and wet and soft and full
They enrage and confuse and clarify my ideas
And when they speak they sometimes break my heart
I lift my eye for the help to come
I don't know what the help will look like



Q) What song will play at my funeral?

A) Knowing Me, Knowing You - Abba

No more carefree laughter
Silence ever after
Walking through an empty house, tears in my eyes
Here is where the story ends, this is goodbye

Knowing me, knowing you
There is nothing we can do
We just have to face it, this time we're through
Breaking up is never easy, I know but I have to go
Knowing me, knowing you
It's the best I can do

Memories, good days, bad days
They'll be, with me, always



Q) What is my day going to be like?

A) Masterhit (Parts 1 & 2) - Front 242

You know me and I sure know you...
Every one of you.

You seem so...tender

Give me some more of the warm little beasts
I'm so fond of

Master, I'm so glad to feel your presence
But you don't seem to share my impatience
I relied upon you to break the silence
I cannot understand your reluctance

Master, I feel so warm and I'm so happy, oh master
Give me some more of the warm little beasts
I'm so fond of

You seem so...
I could melt the frozen wall you raised between us
And now I'm on the other side, you seem rather surprised

Constricting viscous rings around your warm body
Holding you tied, holding you tied...and I feel so happy

You seem as tender
As the warm little beasts
I'm so fond of



Q) Why am I here?

A) Come To Me - Bjork

Come to me
I'll take care of you
Protect you
Calm, calm down
You're exhausted
Come lie down
You don't have to explain
I understand
You know
That I adore you
You know
That I love you

Jump off
Your building's on fire
And I'll catch you
I'll catch you
Destroy all that is keeping you back
And then I'll nurse you
I'll nurse you

Come to me
I'll take care of you
You don't have to explain
I understand



Q) What will people remember me for?

A) Tread Water - De La Soul

As I walked along my journey,
I thought 'What have I just learned?'
Always look to the positive and never drop your head
For the water will engulf us if we do not dare to tread
See I look past all my worries, which is something you must do
Though you're fed up, throw your head up
With this advice from me to you:
And that's to tread water



Q) What song will I get stuck in my head tomorrow?

A) All Apologies - Sinead O'Connor (written by Kurt Cobain)

What else should I be?
All apologies
What else could I say?
Everyone is gay
What else should I write?
I don't have the right
What else should I be?
All apologies

In the sun - in the sun I feel as one
In the sun - in the sun
I'm married
Buried

I wish I was like you
Easily amused
Find my nest of salt
Everything's my fault
I'll take all the blame
Aqua seafoam shame
Sun burn with freezerburn
Choking on the ashes of her enemy

In the sun - in the sun I feel as one
In the sun - in the sun
I'm married
Buried
Married
Buried

All alone is all we are



Q) Are there people outside waiting to take me away?

A) Black Dove (January) - Tori Amos

She was a January girl
She never let on how insane it was
In that tiny kinda scary house
By the woods, by the woods, by the woods, by the woods
By the woods, by the woods, by the woods, by the woods

Black-dove
Black-dove
You're not a helicopter
You're not a cop-out either
Black-dove
Black-dove
You don't need a space ship
They don't know you've already lived
On the other side of the galaxy



Q) What will this year be all about?

A) Is Blood - Ambo

What is blood, tell me is it blue?
Like a river, flows from me to you
Tributary of veins upon my wrist
All lead to a sea of pain and bliss

The sea is the heart, mind and soul
No one on this ocean has control
Not even God, He allows the choice
The ocean rages - I rejoice

Laughing and bleeding inside this storm
I look up, I scream and am forlorn
Back and forth I dream and deeply sleep
From nightmare to peaceful dreams I keep

I'll tell you a secret... listen well
I still taste Heaven, seized by Hell
And in this seizure that wars in my soul
I find great peace in flesh and bone

So war and wage within my sky blue blood
We'll build a bridge and cross over the flood

Tagging Mike, Neil, Art, "Spy Pucca", "Dark Knight" and "Enmity Bear" with this.