DOING THE TRICK

Take a load off. Go for a drive. Eat a sandwich.

Study or cook. Do a puzzle. Scattered showers and the cats are napping. Avoid yardwork at all costs. Ethiopian Jazz & Chill

“I don't wanna wonder whether you love me. I don't wanna wonder whether you care. So don't try to woo me. Don't try to fool me. Oh, I know all of your tricks.” She & Him

“I'm coming up slowly, I'm high on emotion with waves of this feeling as light as the ocean. And then I see you when I feel like I'm drowning and then I see you. It's okay, it's okay, I'm okay, I'm alright again.” Maggie Rogers

“I thought about leaving but I don't know. Wouldn't even know anywhere to go. Guess I'll stay on desolation row, go get stoned and hang around. The beat of my drum is the only sound. I would jump into the ocean but I'm scared I'd drown.” Dan Auerbach

“Looking across the street lights, see the colors they obscure. Straining your night vision for a chance to pierce the heavens in the darkened light.” Tennis

“Now, back in our town as a castaway, I'm reminded of the time it all fell in line, on the third of May. As if it were designed, painted in sand to be washed away. Oh, but I can hear you, loud in the center. Aren't we made to be crowded together, like leaves?” Fleet Foxes

“Where has my mind gone? Strains with the day till the break of a new dawn.” Quiet Life

“Well we all have a face that we hide away forever and we take them out and show ourselves when everyone has gone.” Billy Joel

“My girlfriend's run off with my car and gone back to her ma and pa, telling tales of drunkenness and cruelty. Now I'm sitting here sipping at my ice cold beer, lazing on a sunny afternoon.”

“I'm not the tiger you never had. I'm not the first hit when you got it bad. I'm not your second, I'm not your third, but I'll be your bird.” M. Ward

“Watching the waters go passin’ by me but I do not mind. Everything moving was dragging behind. I am just looking for something to find sometimes. Waters before me, waters behind, many miles of love in there.” Michael Nau

“When you talk to God about suicide, when you never hear back, I hope you're still alive. And the part of you that never cared, you can leave it here in the sea of air.” Portugal the Man

“If the rain comes they run and hide their heads. They might as well be dead If the rain comes, if the rain comes. When the sun shines they slip into the shade.”  The Beatles

“I saw you passing there in the street lights. Do you have a home for the morning? And are you holding, holding on so tight? Frazey Ford

“I have been to the mountain and I have walked on his shore. I have seen but I can't see him no more.”  Kevin Morby

“Sometimes I don't know where this dirty road is taking me. Sometimes I don't even know the reason why, but I guess I keep a-gamblin'. Lots of booze and lots of ramblin'. Well it's easier than just a-waitin' around to die.” Townes Van Zandt