Went to a concert! Yays!

My dad and I went to see Hawksley Workman Friday night. He's a fantastic pop-rock artist with great lyrics and weird, interesting twists and turns to his songs. And though he expresses himself in odd ways, the songs are about experiences we can all relate to.

He sang 5 of my favorite songs! Here they are, in case you wish to dabble a little...

We'll Make Time

Cartier asked various artists to write a song about love. When he submitted this they were like "Um this wasn't the kind of love we were thinking of."  ...But the song is brilliant! It's about trying to keep a relationship going for the long haul (you know... like the kind of watch Cartier makes!) There are all kinds of analogies with watches and plays on time. And the beat of the song itself sounds like a watch ticking. What's not to love??

I know we're corny, old fashioned

Is forever really true?

But when I say that you're for me

And baby, baby I'm for you

And though the grass is always greener

but you still have to cut it

And the scars you get together

Are the scars you really covet

Your Beauty Must Be Rubbing Off
He said it's about fear--his fear of flying, fear of marriage, fear of having kids... all rolled into one song where the narrator imagines his wife dying in a plane crash!
So let me say you look lovely in all of this
And let me say that the death that I fear
Could in part be a fear that I'd lose you just as I found you


You Me and the Weather
I love the way he keeps kicking the song into a higher range.


Piano Blink
Written while running away from Amsterdam after an affair that quickly went south.
Let's say we're happy even though
Let's be happy even though 
We know we're both done trying