Love writing

Lately, B has been hooking us up with a lot of new music.  Some I like, some I think is whiney, some I'm pretty much indifferent about, but most of it I love.  (We both have the same silly habit with music we end up liking-- we burn a cd so we can listen in the car and then only play that cd for about two weeks straight.  Non-stop.  Then, the cd gets shelved for couple of weeks, months maybe, until it resurfaces for another two weeks of fame.)  My current obsession?  Greg Laswell.

He mostly writes really, really sad songs--sometimes he'll play a lonely guitar riff and it's as if you can actually hear his heart breaking.  But it's his lyrics that get me and I think he's still writing love songs underneath.  Here is a sample of my favorites from his newest album:

if i could write out my own dream / for the next time that i sleep / you'd be the first one that i'd see / and i'd be the last one you keep

there's a song that i've waited / oh, to write with you / think i'll finish it instead / i got enough from you love / that it finishes itself / i regret

and if the plane lifts off / i'll write you a letter / to say goodbye / and i will make it long / and lie just a little / tell you that i'm doing fine

so go ahead and bang a gong / nothing / could drown out the sound of the whispers of my love