213. Steal My Records

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213. Steal My Records
213. Steal My Records

The other day, I wrote in my blog:

"I’m lying on the floor, listening to records, the cool of the hard wood against my spine and the sound reverbrating through my huge, cushioned headphones. As I listen, I daydream: of deserts and telephone wires, wind and space and open-top cars, diners and sad-looking casinos shot on kodachrome film. I wish, not for the first time, that I could find some way to do this full-time and still make rent."

At the time I was writing about Richmond Fontaine, but there's something so pure and so perfect about the warm sound of vinyl that I guard my still limited collection jealously.

I couldn't not pick Ryan Adams for R. This is my favourite of his songs.

(Incidentally, I find it hysterical that my American BFF went for the same theme for R, but with a completely different artist!)

213/365: 1st August 2009

Ryan Adams: "Come Pick Me Up"
when they call your name
will you walk right up
with a smile on your face
will you cower in fear
in your favorite sweater
with an old love letter?

i wish you would
i wish you would
come pick me up
take me out
fuck me up
steal my records
screw all my friends
they're all full of shit
with a smile on your face
and then do it again
i wish you would

when you're walking downtown
do you wish i was there
do you wish it was me
with the windows clear
and the mannequin's eyes
do they all look like mine
you know you could

i wish you would
come pick me up
take me out
fuck me up
steal my records
screw all my friends
behind my back
with a smile on your face
and then do it again
i wish you would

i wish you'd make up my bed
so i could make up my mind
try it for sleeping instead
maybe you'll rest sometimes
i wish i could
i wish i could
i wish i could

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRnoh86FD2A

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