Monday, February 14, 2011

Friendship and exhaustion collide


I've been absolutely IN LOVE with Iceland since I was 12. And anyone who have seen me do my Iceland project in Mrs. Cheshire's(sp?) class in six grade would know, especially since the background music was Bjork and everyone in the room was giving me weird looks. I remember that project, I got an "A" on the project and I was ecstatic. Not because I got a good grade, but because I knew EVERYTHING about Iceland. Nope. Thanks, to National Geographic and The History Channel's "The Universe", I know more than elementary facts. Oh, and I'm SO in love with Icelandic post-rock/ambient music. I only know a few, the first one being Bjork. The second one was Mum, and now it's Sigur Ros and then some. But if you ever listen to any Icelandic music, it sounds what Iceland would sound. Dreamy, magical, whimsical, and surreal. I don't have a favorite Sigur Ros song, but this always catches my ears
when I hear it:
Sigur Ros - ÁgæTis Byrjun

And because it's hard for me to understand the song without understanding the lyrics, here it is in English:


Bright Hopes Come True
As We Walk Downtown
Smiling And Laughing Happily
Friendship And Exhaustion Collide
We Celebrate The Day
A Two Year Wait
A Distant Dream Is Born
We Eat And Drink Til We’re Full
And Pay For Ourselves
With Everything We Have For The Day
We Sit Down Excited
Listen To Ourselves Play In Rhythm To The Music
No One Seems To Listen
This Is Completely Different
We Lived In Another World
Where We Were Never Invisible
A Few Days Later
We Speak Again
But The Sound Wasn’t Good
We Were All In Agreement
In Agreement About Most Things
We’ll Do Better Next Time
This Is A Pretty Good Beginning

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