The month in song

I'm slacking a bit and so the weeks in song will be actual songs that I seemed to play a lot during each of the first four weeks. Here is the list:

Week One
Sufjan Stevens: Vito's Ordination Song
- I don't know how it came up, but after the first church service I attended in New Zealand (which are really cool, by the way... they've got a really small little sanctuary and the praise team is composed of older (30-40s) and younger (as young as 7-8) people so it's really cool. They sing all the same songs we do, pretty much, just to note) I really felt like listening to this song over and over.
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Week Two
Why?: Eskimo Snow
- Just love the lyrics to this song. I love the way Yoni Wolf (Why?) writes. Love the part about bearing fruit at the end, and his struggles with that.

All of my words for sadness
Like eskimo snow on unmanned crosses all
Planted in threes in a field for living trees
Are hummed as prayers in secret
and sung through speakers in rooms for people to hear it
Even when I'm wasted and numb
With the words for good wine on a philistine's tongue

And I'm under something black
and thicker than a sheet for ghosts
in the first feet of snow
That old, that old cloud's yield
On the crosses on the chests of dead soldiers in a field
and I'm, I'm still here
Bearing my watery fruits if fruits at all
And I'm still here
Barely understanding what truth that rarely calls
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Week Three
Yo La Tengo: More Stars Than There Are In Heaven
- The trip back from camp in the van was great. I had the front bench to myself so I lied down and looked at the window. Saw the city lights of Christchurch bounce off the ocean, and later, saw a sky of ten thousand stars, all so clearly visible and I thought of this song. The mood of this song fits perfectly with that night. At one point, the driver, Hanna came to a sudden stop and I flew off the bench onto the ground, it caused quite a laugh. "I didn't know you didn't have your seatbelt on!" - Hanna
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Week Four:
Switchfoot: Dare You To Move
- There was a really incredible skit that half of the Capernwray clan put on at the camp I wasn't at, and the song that played in the background was this one. Great song.
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