Back to the Top 2000 Countdown...

Hey friends!  I'm back with an update on the Top 2000 Countdown!  Today I've got two pages to share with you -  from days three and four.

On day three (yesterday), we went from #1493 to #1179; and my pick came in at #1388...

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Counting Crows

I've always been so fascinated with the lyrics to this song; so I looked up the meaning, and this is what I found.  From Adam Duritz on storytellers...

"The song begins with a guy walking out the front door of his house, and leaving behind this woman. But the more he begins to leave people behind in his life, the more he feels like he's leaving himself behind as well. The less and less substantial he feels like he's becoming to himself. And that's sorta what the song's about because he feels that even as he disappears from the lives of people, he's disappearing more and more from his own life. The chorus is, he sorta keeps screaming out these idioms these lessons that your mother might say to you when you were a kid, sorta child lessons ya know, "round here we always stand up straight", "carving out our names". Things that you are told when you are a kid that you do these things that.. that when you're grown up it'll add up to something, you'll have a job, you'll have a life. I think for me and the character of the song they don't add up to anything, it's just a bunch of crap kinda. Your life comes to you or doesn't come to you, but those things don't really mean anything. By the end of the song he's so dismayed by this that he's kinda screaming out that he can stay up as long as he wants and that no one makes him wait...the sort of things that are important if you are a kid. You know that you don't have to go to bed, you don't have to do anything. The sort of things that don't make any difference at all when you're an adult, they're nothing. And uh and uh this is a song about, about me."

So cool.




and now, onto day four...

For day four, we countdown from 1178 to 862.  The song I picked comes in at #1051.  The lyrics to this song are much more straightforward, but still, so heartfelt and beautiful (in my opinion)...

WHEN I WAS YOUR MAN

Bruno Mars

enjoy the video...


Head on over to Marit's blog to see all of the artwork from artists around the world, honoring their picks from the list.  It's amazing!

Thanks so much for visiting!  I will see you tomorrow for day five of the countdown!