Unsteady Affair

I've been turned on to two new songs this week.  The first comes from one of my readers - John, in Denver - who left the link for me in one of his comments. He has great taste in music, in the past turning me onto Grace Potter.

This song is called "Unsteady" by X Ambassadors. The guy's voice slays me. I have played it over and over and over.  It makes me unsteady. There's just something beautiful about it. Thanks for the heads up, John! 

UNSTEADY
by X Ambassadors
Hold, hold on, hold onto me

'Cause I'm a little unsteady

A little unsteady

Hold, hold on, hold onto me

'Cause I'm a little unsteady

A little unsteady

Mama, come here

Approach, appear

Daddy, I'm alone

'Cause this house don't feel like home

If you love me, don't let go

If you love me, don't let go

Hold, hold on, hold onto me

'Cause I'm a little unsteady

A little unsteady

Hold, hold on, hold onto me

'Cause I'm a little unsteady

A little unsteady

Mother, I know

That you're tired of being alone

Dad, I know you're trying

To fight when you feel like flying

But if you love me, don't let go

If you love me, don't let go

Hold, hold on, hold onto me

'Cause I'm a little unsteady

A little unsteady

Hold, hold on, hold onto me

'Cause I'm a little unsteady

A little unsteady

Hold, hold on, hold onto me

'Cause I'm a little unsteady

A little unsteady

The next song I discovered while watching Showtime's The Affair this weekend. It's the theme song for the show, played during the opening credits.  It's called "Container" by Fiona Apple. To me, it sounded like a murder ballad, with it's haunting words and lyrics. The hook is my favorite part - I only have one thing to do and that's to be the wave that I am and then sink back into the ocean.

The subject that inspired the song doesn't really make it a happy song, but I chose to take that line as being the wave that you are. Be who and what you are.  And I love that.

Here's the video, the lyrics are below. 

CONTAINER
by Fiona Apple

I was screaming into the canyon
At the moment of my death
The echo I created
Outlasted my last breath

My voice it made an avalanche
And buried a man I never knew
And when he died his widowed bride
Met your daddy and they made you

[Hook:] 3x
I have only one thing to do and that's
To be the wave that I am and then
Sink back into the ocean

Sink back into the o-
Sink back into the ocean
Sink back into the o-
Sink back into the ocean
Sink back into the ocean

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