And I leave you with a song

I was going to post the lyrics of Nick Drake's Thought Of Mary Jane but decided to do it only this weekend. It's because as I was about to craft this entry, I thought Nick's song deserves a little bit more ommph to it. Kinda.

Well.....anyway.

These are the words to the song Have You Forgotten by the fantabulous Red House Painters. There was a time when I was younger, like before or during JC years, I was really looking at the 4AD stable of artists. There were the Thievery Corporation, Dead Can Dance, Cocteau Twins and Red House Painters of course. At that time, there was this local magazine called ETC. I remember reading a glowing review of Mark Kozelek's album - Ocean Beach. Don't wanna dismiss the rest of the band but really it's Mark's show, usually. And that album was kinda his solo outing. But this song, Have You Forgotten (unfortunately picked up and used in the movie Vanilla Sky) and All Mixed Up are found in Songs For A Blue Guitar. He was actually in Cameron Crowe's Almost Famous playing a small-ish role.

And the funniest thing is, I don't own a single Red House Painters' album. I have not watched Vanillan Sky. Not watched Almost Famous. But who cares really.

Have You Forgotten

I can't let you be
Cause your beauty won't allow me
Wrapped in white sheets
Like an angel from a bedtime story
Shut out what they say
Cause your friends are fucked up anyway
And when they come around
Somehow they feel up and you feel down

When we were kids
We hated things our parents did
We listened low
To Casey Kasem's radio show
That's when friends were nice
To think of them just makes you feel nice
The smell of grass in spring
And October leaves cover everything

Have you forgotten how to love yourself?

I can't believe all
The good things that you do for me
Sat back in a chair
Like a princess from a faraway place
Nobody's nice
When you're older your heart turns to ice
And shut out what they say
They're too dumb to mean it anyway

When we were kids
We hated things our sisters did
Backyard summer pools
And Christmases were beautiful
And the sentiment

Of coloured mirrored ornaments
And the open drapes
Look out on frozen farmhouse landscapes

Have you forgotten how to love yourself?

Red House Painters