Songs that best describe you.

Why is it that only action stars and super heroes have theme songs? What about us? Why can’t we have a theme song? Sure it’s probably because nobody wants to hear a song about being a librarian, but that doesn’t mean that we deserve it any less. Song lyrics exist to make us relate to the artist by finding common ground with our lives. What songs best describe you and your situation? Mine are accompanied by the lyrics as well:

1. “The News From Your Bed” – Bishop Allen
   On occasion I have been known to not leave the house for weeks at a time. Healthy? Probably not. Appropriate song for the circumstance? Undoubtedly.

   You were saving the date
   But you woke up too late pulled the covers down over your head.
   You haven’t left your front door
   For a week maybe more tell me, hey, what’s the news from your bed?
   You know your face is all covered with your birthday cake
   That you’re eating in the kitchen at home.
   Another banner year, a splendid day
   Another inch or two that you’ve grown
   But it’s hard to celebrate on your own.

   There’s a mouse in cupboard that nibbles your crumbs
   And you talk to him every night
   You say, “Hey, Mr. Whiskers, I’m bored and I’m numb
   You can stay if you just treat me right.”
   Just last year you were fortunate baby
   And your friends circled around you in droves.
   Are they thinking of you? Maybe just maybe
   But not a one has bothered to phone.
   Tell me where oh where did they go?

   Called a car
   About an hour ago.
   You’re gonna take yourself out
   Despite the cold and snow.
   Did they forget about you
   Are they in on it too?
   You’re sitting looking in the mirror
   At your dancing shoes

   When your family calls you make nice to them all
   And assure them you’re fine and you’re great.
   Then you cry in the bath, cry so hard that you laugh
   Then you watch television ’til late.
   Who do you need? Nobody.
   You’re lucky nobody’s around.
   I can pour my own drinks
   No thanks, Mister. Go on, and get out of town
   And you’re gorgeous in your evening gown.

2. “Polar Opposites” – Modest Mouse
   Theresa played this song for me in college and it remains my favorite Modest Mouse song. This is exactly what I did my final semester of school.

   Polar opposites don’t push away.
   It’s the same
   on the weekends as the rest of the days.
   And I know
   I should go but I will probably stay.
   And that’s all
   you can do about some things.

   I’m trying,
   I’m trying to
   Drink away the part of the day that I cannot sleep away.
   I’m trying,
   I’m trying to
   Drink away the part of the day that I cannot sleep away.

   Two one eyed dogs, they’re looking at stereos.
   Hi-fi Gods try so hard
   to make their cars low to the ground.
   These vibrations oil its teeth.
   Primer gray
   is the color when you’re done dying.

   I’m trying,
   I’m trying to
   Drink away the part of the day that I cannot sleep away.
   I’m trying,
   I’m trying to
   Drink away the part of the day that I cannot sleep away.

3. “China” – Chris Holmes (terrible quality attached to an O.C. promo and it stops playing 3:10 in)
   Optimism is something you can never have to much of, and wanting change for the better is super duper too. This song represents the fresh starts and optimism I have when making those changes.

   I take it all in
   instead of writing it down.
   Trying to find a way
   to get out of this town.
   Searching for contact
   waiting on the last act.
   Biding my time
   because I’ll never be back.
   Hopin’ to find
   that I’m one of a kind.
   Willing to settle
   for some piece of mind.
   I’m going to sail to China
   or move to Carolina.
   Find myself some peace
   and take myself some time
   To fall and I’ll fall
   and I’ll fall for the first pretty girl
   that I’ll give her my heart
   and I’ll make her my world.
   And we’ll dance and dance and dance.

   All we live and all we are
   and all lives we’re all unsure.
   All we do and all we see
   and all we want and we need.
   All we feel and all we know
   and all we hide and all we show.
   All we take and all we give
   and all we die and all we live.

4. “Spread” – Outkast (video probably not safe for work)
   No explanation needed.

   I don’t want to move too fast, but
   Can’t resist your sexy ass.
   Just spread, spread for me
   (I can’t, I can’t wait to get you home).
   Don’t want to come on too strong, but
   I’ll play in you all day long.
   Just spread, spread for me
   (I can’t, I can’t wait to get you home).

   I…I can’t read minds, but I can read yours.
   I think she says that she wants to pour your…
   your…
   yourself all over me.
   What you think? I could be wrong, but cupids don’t lie.
   And if they do, by God, they must fry! (fry?!)
   You know, like electric chair.
   The way you stare (yeah I’m there)
   You committed a crime and I’m the victim.

   I’ve got an eye out for she that cries out passionately
   We’ll do things backwardly, forwardly, horizontally
   I’m too young to be settling down.
   quick to change my mind tomorrow
   So now can I borrow your timid torso
   More so than your soul, honest me gotta be how I roll.
   Fuck the rhythm, tuck the rhythm under your bosom
   You’re the prism, Shirley Chisholm
   Was the first, let’s rehearse making a baby.
   Put in your order, I want a baby daughter.
   Dance on the tip of my tongue
   Shake the clouds until there’s no more wetness in them.
   Tell your homegirls that you will send them
   A postcard from 3000…hard!

   Don’t want to make you feel strange, but
   Don’t let these words be in vain, so
   Spread, spread for me
   (I can’t, I can’t wait to get you home).
   Nature knows that I want you, but
   Not unless you want me too, so
   Spread, spread for me
   (I can’t, I can’t wait to get you home).

   I don’t want to move too fast, but
   Can’t resist your sexy ass.
   Just spread, spread for me
   (I can’t, I can’t wait to get you home).
   Don’t want to come on too strong, but
   I’ll play in you all day long.
   Just spread, spread for me
   (I can’t, I can’t wait to get you home).

   Don’t want to make you feel strange, but
   Don’t let these words be in vain, so
   Spread, spread for me
   (I can’t, I can’t wait to get you home).
   Nature knows that I want you, but
   Not unless you want me too, so
   Spread, spread for me
   (I can’t, I can’t wait to get you home).

5. “Still Wasted From The Party Last Night” – Liam Lynch
   Sometimes a long night turns into an early day. Cheers to that.

   I was on my way to work, when I realized I’m wasted,
   Still wasted from the party last night.
   So I kicked back my seat and I loosened my tie,
   I’m wasted (he’s wasted),
   Still wasted from the party last night.

   The guys in the office might criticize me,
   for lookin’ like hell and smellin’ like a brewery,
   but I’m wasted (he’s wasted).
   Sitting here in traffic, and I’m wasted (he’s wasted).
   Still wasted from the party last night.

   I’m only wearin one shoe, theres no denyin it.
   I’m wasted (he’s wasted), Still wasted.
   Put my last smoke behind my ear and realize it was lit,
   I’m wasted (he’s wasted),
   Still wasted from the party last night.

   Sitting here in morning traffic,
   I could go to work or I could just pass it by.
   Cause I’m wasted (he’s wasted),
   Still wasted from the party last night.

   I’m wearin’ my bedsheets like a cape and a cowboy hat,
   (he’s wasted)
   and naked.
   But if I don’t go to work how will I pay my tab?
   I’m wasted (he’s wasted)
   Still wasted from the-
   I said I’m wasted and party when the somethin’ thats done-
   wa-sted somethin’,
   Party last night

So what songs have you pegged? List 5 songs that best describe you.

Tags: Bishop Allen, Chris Holmes, Drunk, Liam Lynch, Modest Mouse, Outkast, Theme Song