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required listening

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Sounds like hazy daydreaming, hidden kisses in between pathways and inside taxi cabs, and youthful victory--despite all we’ll never know [while we’re still young].

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there are some people who know how to claim songs as their own. the emotions originally portrayed in these songs may or may not be manifested as the way they ought to be, but these very special people know how to make up for it. taking on the hit rocket man by elton john, jason mraz does this exact same thing--bringing up his own magic, and being the catalyst to the magic that the audience did not know that they too could possess.

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missing you felt like pulling teeth i taste the metal when you're next to me it's so cold and sweet it makes me wanna take it back

a strong lyrical opening for a song that embodies solemn mundanity. this is a song about how looking back is a lot easier than taking the past back.

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post-rock bands have the best band names. i feel as if they can get away with just about anything.

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bouts of delicate self-questioning; moments wherein we look back at things like snapshots and realize where we went wrong--what could be better--what we really felt--what was important--and what we kind of wrecked.

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warmth and all that is unrequited but sweet

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all together reminiscent and so present