Liner Notes For A Later Date

19 Days In Your Room
Various Artists


1. Shelby Sifers - Are You Devo (The Spirituals Remix)
2. Gomez - Mix
3. Sleater-Kinney - Modern Girl
4. Ingrid Michaelson - The Way I Am
5. Brett Dennen - The One Who Loves You Most
6. Jens Lekman - Your Arms Around Me
7. Beirut - Scenic World
8. The XX - Heart Skipped A Beat
9. Lacrosse - You're On My Fighting Side
10. She & Him - I Was Made For You
11. MiniBoone - Rosalina Must Dance Alone
12. Yo La Tengo - Our Way To Fall


I wish I could commit to making these liner notes all at the same time and putting them in the case, but I got too excited to give you my present and I had to do it this way. I won't be hiding it in your gate this time, but I'll probably do something else shy to hand over the goods. This mix follows the same rules as before: twelve tracks, no repeated artists, one theme. I tried to get the same kind of songs, the same kind of beat, with a flow to move to. The first time I made one of these, I was falling hard for you. This time, I'm in deep, and I guess this is a story about that.


1. I came across this last and unexpectedly. The original title of the mix was to be 6 days in your room for the six days of summer blackout, but the lyrics called for 19, and so I did. The song is about waiting to and finally getting let in.


And like a big bad wolf I will
Eat your heart right out of your chest.
I would hug you so hard you bleed.
Oh what big eyes I have,
Oh what big teeth I have,
Oh what big feelings have,
Oh what big love I have. 


2. I don't really know what this song means because honestly it's kind of confusing, but I think it's about not knowing what the most important thing in life is because you're too busy with work or school or whatever, but I've got the answer. Be happy, and be honest if you're not.


3. I don't think this needs explaining. My baby loves me.


4. You know when I sing this, every time I sing it, I'm singing to you. This was the song I wanted to build around because I think it says everything I need to say. Whatever you need, I'll find it for you. Whatever you want, I'll get it for you. Whatever. Because you take me the way I am and I love it.


5. This song is what I want to be to you.


6. This song tells a little story about two people going to the shore and the mishap that gets in the way because they're screwing around. I just like the imagery of coming up from behind and putting my arms around you in some unexpected manner.


7. I feel like everything is beautiful when we're together. It is.


8. And this song is about the opposite of what I want to be. The thought of finding anything better than this in the whole big world is so alien and impossible to me that the notion horrifies me. And I think it's good to balance the sappy songs out.


9. Enough of the sad notes. You're on my fighting side, and I'm on you're fighting side too. That's where I'll keep on being. 


10. And, I think this might be true.


11. This song was written for people much younger than us, but I'm still familiar with the ideas it expresses, about being convinced about love at last. My knees will do anything you please, let's dance.


12. Please just read the lyrics to this. This, and all the others, but this most especially.


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