The other day I posted on my facebook status:
...is looking for a hat trick:
- ...you bleed just to know you're alive - Goo Goo Dolls/Iris
- ...I wanna sunburn, just to know that I'm alive - Thriving Ivory/Angels on the Moon
- ...? anyone? Bueller?
There was a third song about hurting and knowing you were alive that I knew vaguely but couldn't think of.
One thoughtful soul wrote back with an uplifting song about how it's really all OK (Al Green - Everything's Gonna Be Alright). Apparently he was worried I was depressed. I'm not. I swear. Neither of those songs make me sad. I love the sound of both of them and in particular I find those lines poetic. The person singing/writing the song might be sad...I don't presume to know, I guess.
The Goo Goo Dolls song has a couple of other cool lyrics:
- You're the closest to heaven that I'll ever be
- And all I can taste is this moment, And all I can breathe is your life
- I just want you to know who I am
I don't recall where I came across the band Thriving Ivory and their self-title album. But it's that and the new Chris Cornell album (Scream) that seem to be getting the play-time on my iPod. Angels on the Moon has a few other lyrics I like, including part of the chorus:
- Don't wake me cause I'm dreaming, of angels on the moon
Where everyone you know, never leaves too soon
- This is to one last day in the shadows
And to know a brother's love
This is to New York City angels
And the rivers of our blood
At any rate, I like those songs and was looking for a third one -- because you know the world revolves around hat tricks right? (Maybe I should change the name of my blog to "Chasing Hat Tricks"...)
So today I gave up and did it the "old-fashioned" way: I Googled it. (Can you taste the irony there? Old-fashioned? Google? Ok, nevermind.)
Here's the most popular result:
I know your pain is for a reason,
You need to feel just to know that you're alive
- Kutless/To Know That You're Alive
Not bad, I guess. The sound of the song is OK. Probably the true hat trick for my lyric collection in this case.
Just overall not exactly what I had in the back of my mind. By the way, I heard the song I was trying to think of over the weekend while driving home from a hockey game. I tried to remember it all the way home, but forgot it. Yeah, my short term memory leaves something to be desired, and I couldn't remember the song's title or who was singing it. It had the phrase "dirt" in it. I just knew it did. But when I Googled "dirt lyrics" it came back with dirty lyrics. Hmmm...different topic, really. Eventually I got my search refined enough that I got the song I wanted. I love the internet! I was originally introduced to this song on an album of covers done by Johnny Cash - yep the Man in Black, himself. Covering other people's work! So here you go - the song I was looking for for my hat trick:
- I hurt myself today
To see if I still feel
I focus on the pain
The only thing that's real
- - Nine Inch Nails/Hurt
...which has the other cool lyric You could have it all, My empire of dirt. This song I do think is a little sad. So maybe it's not really a hat trick. What do you think?
