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Been thinking about Life on Mars. Not in any deep or meaningful way but like. Imagine being sent back to 1973. They didn’t even have Madness. They didn’t have Madness back then. Can you imagine being English without Madness.
When I was a kid, my favorite song was “Our House,” by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. We used to play the vinyl record in our living room, singing the lyrics in ragged half-step, not quite aligned: “Our house is a very, very, very fine house / With two cats in the yard…” … the song captured what I loved about our family—that we all genuinely liked each other, my parents and brothers and I, and that on good nights laughter swelled the wood-paneled walls. “Our House” isn’t about the stormy surges of falling in love, or breaking up; it’s about domestic rhythms, and the quiet pleasures of building a home with a partner: “Come to me now / And rest your head for just five minutes.”
— Leslie Jamison, Splinters: Another Kind of Love Story (Little Brown and Company, February 20, 2024)
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Queued: Art. Poetry. Music, Love. Yearning.
Description: Nebulae are ghosts of stars. They are also stellar breeding grounds. Stars create and attract all of celestial existence. The functions of a star's core and the human heart are similar and result in spectacular explosions of energy and emotion.
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Reminder: Vote based on the song, not the artist or specific recording! The tracks referenced are the original artist, aside from a few rare cases where a cover is the most widely known.
Lyrics, videos, info, and notable covers under the cut. (Spotify playlist available in pinned post)
Me and My Husband
Written By: Mitski
Artist: Mitski
Released: 2018
“Me and My Husband” is the seventh track of Mitski’s fifth studio album Be The Cowboy released in August 2018. Like earlier tracks on the album such as ‘Nobody’, ‘Me and My Husband’ explores the loneliness Mitski felt while writing the album, although this time she takes on the persona of a suburban housewife. As she explained to GQ: “If you’re a suburban mom surrounded by family with a nice life you still feel alone. On tour, I’m surrounded by people all the time but it’s lonely.” Despite the song’s upbeat tone the lyrics portray a housewife stubbornly sticking by her husband even though she may not be happy. Mitski claims the song isn’t personal and isn’t meant to be reflection of her views on marriage or settling down as she told The Outline: “I try to keep a sense of humor about all this stuff. I’m not married, I don’t have a husband, but I was just thinking about being a woman with a man in a long term relationship. I used a stereotype of the suburban, old-fashioned housewife to kind of accentuate my point.”
[Verse 1]
I steal a few breaths from the world for a minute
And then I'll be nothing forever
And all of my memories
And all of the things I have seen will be gone
With my eyes, with my body, with me
[Chorus]
But me and my husband
We are doing better
It's always been just him and me
Together
So I bet all I have on that
Furrowed brow
And at least in this lifetime
We're sticking together
Me and my husband
We're sticking together
[Verse 2]
And I'm the idiot with the painted face
In the corner, taking up space
But when he walks in, I am loved, I am loved
[Chorus]
Me and my husband
We are doing better
It's always been just him and me
Together
So I bet all I have on that
Furrowed brow
And at least in this lifetime
We're sticking together
Me and my husband
We're sticking together
Me and my husband
We are doing better
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Our House
Written By: Graham Nash
Artist: Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Released: 1970
Cover included: The Head and the Heart, 2021
“Our House” is a song written by British singer-songwriter Graham Nash and recorded by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young on their album Déjà Vu. At the time Graham Nash & Joni Mitchell were dating and the time the two spent that particular day after purchasing a vase on Ventura Boulevard inspired this song. Nash has stated that he wrote this song in a hour. In October 2013, in an interview with Terry Gross on NPR’s Fresh Air, Nash elaborated: “Well, it’s an ordinary moment. What happened is that Joni [Mitchell] and I – I don’t know whether you know anything about Los Angeles, but on Ventura Boulevard in the Valley, there’s a very famous deli called Art’s Deli. And we’d been to breakfast there. We’re going to get into Joan’s car, and we pass an antique store. And we’re looking in the window, and she saw a very beautiful vase that she wanted to buy … I persuaded her to buy this vase. It wasn’t very expensive, and we took it home. It was a very grey, kind of sleety, drizzly L.A. morning. And we got to the house in Laurel Canyon, and I said – got through the front door and I said, you know what? I’ll light a fire. Why don’t you put some flowers in that vase that you just bought? Well, she was in the garden getting flowers. That meant she was not at her piano, but I was … And an hour later ‘Our House’ was born, out of an incredibly ordinary moment that many, many people have experienced.”
[Verse 1]
I'll light the fire
You place the flowers in the vase
That you bought today
[Verse 2]
Staring at the fire
For hours and hours while I listen to you
Play your love songs all night long
For me, only for me
[Verse 3]
Come to me now
And rest your head for just five minutes
Everything is done
[Verse 4]
Such a cozy room
The windows are illuminated by the evening
Sunshine through them, fiery gems
For you, only for you
[Chorus]
Our house is a very, very, very fine house
With two cats in the yard
Life used to be so hard
Now everything is easy cause of you
And our
[Interlude]
La-la, la-la-la la la…
[Chorus]
Our house is a very, very, very fine house (fine house)
With two cats in the yard
Life used to be so hard
Now everything is easy cause of you
And our
[Verse 1]
I'll light the fire
While you place the flowers in the vase
That you bought today