![]() ![]() ![]() Up on the mountain, that mountain's too high You know they'll never make it on their own You can't just leave them on the side of the road I felt myself a dinosaur ate age 45 and never felt so alone. I remember climbing the Arenal Volcano in La Fortuna and listening to the chorus to Dinosaurs on the Mountain as I reached the top - I have a video of it somewhere and will post it if I can. She wasn't pleased in knowing I was doing drugs but also understood what it meant. I called my mother to tell her and later sent her the song. I remember doing LSD for the first time in Monteverde Costa Rica and finding a love for psychedelics. I remember later that night listening to Mother Please Don't Be Sad and wanting to tell my mom that the man she knew had died and told her my plans to leave the US to live in Costa Rica. I remember jumping from the highest bungee jump in central America and feeling like a part of me fell out of my body (I refer to it as The American Head or Ego) and I was FREE for the first time in my life. I did return, briefly, and sold or gave away everything I own and now live in Costa Rica. I remember listening to Will You Return / When you Come Down while walking in San Jose and deciding I did not want to return (to my life in the US). So many songs on this album spoke to me for so many reasons. This was perhaps the biggest life changing musical adventure I have ever experienced. Some people call this a midlife crisis but to me it's felt like an awakening of sorts. How they came from the stars (How they came from the stars)Īnd all that they'll want (And all they'll want)Ģ021 - My girlfriend from 2019 broke up with me again (we had got back together after going to see the Lips on Tour for The King's Head) - Then the Lips released American Head and the concert was the last thing we did before things ended entirely.Ģ022: American Head became the soundtrack of my adventure when I took off to Costa Rica for 7 weeks. In your ships and cars (In your ships and cars) My focus became love and kindness and I rekindled my relationship with the girlfriend above. The line that stands out to me most on this album and the one that shaped me the most is from The Mouth of the King. Why would you go? You'll never see tomorrow I thought maybe it flew away from my sorrow I often thought of her while listening to The Sparrow (her being the Sparrow): I'm not going to say I listened to The King's Head every day but I would say every other day for several months until I was again pulled out of that depression in part by the Lips. Her and I are still friends and while we rarely speak, she will message me occasionally and remind me of that night.Ģ019 - my most girlfriend and I broke up with me and again the Lips released another amazing album. both of us showed up in unicorn onsies which we ended up taking off, leaving ourselves almost completely naked, after There Should Be Unicorns played, due to heat. I felt myself disintegrate and realized All We Have is Now.Ģ017 - my entire life fell apart due to a stupid mistake - Lost my job, my house, and many many friends, and went into a deep depression, then I went to see the Lips on the Oczy Mlody tour with a friend. I saw them on that tour as well with two friends who had never heard of them.Ģ016 - Saw the Soft Bulletin with a symphony orchestra in Red Rocks with my brother and decided to leave the toxic relationship mentioned above. ![]() I remember driving around the country side with the windows down to escape while blasting My Cosmic Autumn Rebellion and The Sound of Failure - also It's Summertime, Sunship Balloons, and Fight Test. "Will the fight for our sanity be the fight of our lives?"Ģ008 - got into a toxic relationship/marriage that isolated me from friends and family. The main line in the Gash became the theme of my life that year. Friend turned me on to the Lips and I saw my first concert shortly after and it changed my life. I was introduced to them in 2004 by my middle school best friend.Ģ004 - wife left me - super depressed. and a short (sort of) explanation of the truly amazing impact they've had on my life. This is the closest thing to a thank you I could ever give the band.
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