We'll Shine Together

Today was my high school graduation. Most high school students look forward to it as a "Finally, this shit is over" moment. I thought of it like that up until when I started hugging people. It got to me that I might not see them again. I didn't cry... I think. But I always have an umbrella.

I heard this yesterday while heading to the graduation practice and here it is, for you pleasant enjoyment. From her 2007 Good Girl Gone Bad, here is Rihanna with "Umbrella," featuring rapper Jay-Z.

You can stand under my umbrella (2x)/ -ella, -ella, eh, eh, eh

Under my umbrella/ -ella, -ella, eh, eh, eh

Your Lips are Nettles; Your Tongue is Wine

For some people, they love a band. I mean it in the sense that they listen to all the music the band outputs and goes from there. For me, I'm more of a song-to-song guy. I pick and choose songs from bands. Just because I have more than one song doesn't necessarily mean I like that band-- but this song might have just changed that.

It's another song from alt. rock band Sea Wolf, here with its 2009 single "The Violet Hour."

In the dark, you tell me of a flower/ that only blooms in the violet hour

I turn the lights out/ I clean the sheets/ You change the station/ turn up the heat

Galileo!

Around October of last year, I started listening to Queen. It marked the beginning of my rock period, because ever since then, all I ever do is look for those rock songs from decades past. Hell, the first rock song posted on here was "Life on Mars?" and this was surely to follow.

Around the same time, I posted a song on my main blog and that brought me over the edge for classic rock. Now of course, rock from today is good-- but when compared to decades past, it lacks a bit in meaningfulness. I don't know if that makes sense... but still.

From their 1975 album Night at the Opera, Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody."

Easy come, easy go/ will you let me go?

Bismillah/ No! We will not let you go!/ Let him go!

Bismillah/ We will not let you go!/ Let him go!

Bismillah/ Will not you go! (x3)