Blogovision 2020, no.01: Moses Sumney - græ

 

We have no place that we can claim without contention

We are constructing a whole new edifice of boxes to put people in

To protect a space inside which you can exist

Very concerned about giving names (giving names)

Dissatisfaction seems like the natural byproduct of identification

I truly believe that people who define you control you

And the most significant thing that any person can do but especially black women and men

is to think about who gave them their definitions and rewrite those definitions for themselves

Lyrics from Boxes by Moses Sumney, from his album græ

Blogovision 2020, no.02: Scott Matthew - Adorned

 

I no longer can rely

On a friend who once kept me alive

And you won't see me take a stand

'cause I'm not special but it helped to know that some one thinks I am

And god its weird

God its strange

To be the only one 

To talk to

God its weird

And god its strange

To be the only one 

To dance with

Lyrics from Abandoned by Scott Matthew, from his album Adorned

Blogovision 2020, no.03: Ane Brun - After The Great Storm

 

my existence is screaming it’s a physical feeling

of missing out

on dance and light electricity in my hands

on circumstance

a scent-filled trance

I wanna take to the skies

this leaves me so heavy

I’m captured by gravity

and the weight of expectations genes and generations

calling my name

take hold of me

keep this energy steady

sometimes it is hard

to know what is fading

you measure all that you are the density of being

so you open all the gates walk on all the way

trusting the answers

will lie there waiting

take hold of me

keep this energy steady

Lyrics from Take Hold Of Me by Ane Brun, from her album After The Great Storm

Blogovision 2020, no.04: Jessie Ware - What's Your Pleasure?

 

If only I could let you go

If only I could be alone

I just wanna stay in the moonlight

This is our time, in the spotlight

If only I could let you go

If only I could be alone

I just wanna stay in the moonlight

This is our time, in the spotlight (Why?)

Lyrics from Spotlight by Jessie Ware, from her album What's Your Pleasure?

Blogovision 2020, 05: Róisín Murphy - Róisín Machine

 

Never had a broken heart

Am I incapable of love?

Never seen me fall apart

I must be incapable of love

Never had a broken heart

Yet I'm unavailable for love

And I should try and play my part

But I'm incapable

Lyrics from Incapable by Róisín Murphy, from her album Róisín Machine

Blogovision 2020, no.06: Pan Pan - Φαντασμαγορία Ένα

 

Το όνομα της θα μείνει για πάντα σ εκείνο το φως

Μέρες παγωνουν εδώ, γινονται  ή χρυσάφι ή ατμός  

Σπάει σε κομματια το Αγορι-Φαντασμα, σκοταδι, βυθος

Το όνομα της θα μείνει για πάντα σ εκείνο το φως

Έχω έξι λεξεις

Για κάθε μερα

Που δεν σε είχα

Και σε σκεφτόμουν 

"Μήνες σε θέλω

Μείνε σε θέλω"

Το όνομα της θα μείνει για πάντα σ εκείνο το φως

Μερες που φερνουν κρυφα το αρωμα της τυχαια στο μετρο

Πεσε στα γονατα Αγορι-φαντασμα μες στον συρμο

Το όνομα της θα μείνει για πάντα σ εκείνο το φως

Έχω έξι λεξεις

Για κάθε μερα

Που δεν σε είχα

Και σε σκεφτόμουν 

"Μήνες σε θέλω

Μείνε σε θέλω"

Και κάθε βράδυ

λέω το όνομα σου 

και κανω χωρο 

μηπως και ερθεις

"Μήνες σε θέλω

Μείνε σε θέλω"

Όμως δε θα ρθεις

κι ειναι η ζωη μου

να βρισκω καυλα

μεσα στον πονο

"Μήνες σε θέλω

Μείνε σε θέλω"

Αν ησουν διπλα

δεν θα παιζα νοτα

δεν θα γραφα στιχο

μα παλι φευγεις

"Μήνες σε θέλω

Μείνε σε θέλω"

Lyrics from Μείνε Σε Θέλω/Μήνες Σε Θέλω (Stay I Want You/Months I Want You) by Pan Pan 

from his album Φαντασμαγορία Ένα (Phantasmagoria One)

Blogovision 2020, no.07: Nicolas Jaar - Cenizas

 

En las cenizas

Vamos amar

No saber nada

Es mejor

Ya no cabe nada

Pero estamos juntos

Sin noticias

Del otro mundo

Lyrics from Cenizas by Nicolas Jaar, from his album Cenizas

Blogovision 2020, no.08: Arca - Kick I

 

I know you want it

Time

To let it out

It’s time 

I know you want it

I-I know you want it

And it’s time to let it out 

And show the world

Take this time

It’s all yours

It is all yours

You know it is baby 

T-t-take this time tonight for yourself 

Take this time tonight for your Self to unwind

It’s time

Lyrics from Time by Arca, from her album Kick I

Blogovision 2020, no.09: Ane Brun - How Beauty Holds The Hand Of Sorrow

 

Sure, life goes on

But I really didn't know

How life could move on

And I didn't understand

How beauty holds the hand of sorrow

How today can unchain tomorrow

I held your last breath

In my chest

Lyrics from Last Breath by Ane Brun, from her album How Beauty Holds The Hand Of Sorrow

Blogovision 2020, no.10: The Boy - Αντιλόπη

 

Και όταν μετρήσουμε με πόσους φιληθήκαμε θα πούμε ενα αχ και θα πάρουμε το δρόμο για το κοντινότερο μπαρ. Σφίγγουμε τα δόντια μας απ’το μπάσο. Αγκάλιασε με σφιχτά για να μη σου φύγω. Θέλω να τελειώνω μόνη μου τελευταία. Θέλω απλά να βλέπω τα βίντεο. Θα μετρήσουμε μέχρι το τρια και θα πούμε ταυτόχρονα το αγαπημένο μας μέρος στη Γη. 1-2-3 Εδώ. Μαζί σου.

Lyrics from Το Αγαπημένο μας Μέρος στη Γη by The Boy, from his album Αντιλόπη.

Blogovision 2020, no.11: Jarboe - Illusory

 

And I see true

Illusory you

Do I see true

Authenticity in you

Can time heal

But is time real

Can time heal

But its illusory still

And I knew

I'd see through

Illusory you

Lyrics from Illusory by Jarboe, from her album Illusory

Blogovision 2020, no.12: Saint Saviour - Tomorrow Again

 

I'm no fortune teller 

Be my witness walking blind 

Talk me through this

For my love 

She bears no empty gesture

Reaching deeper for the right line 

Down and feather

for my love

For my love 

I'm defector for my love 

Crown and sceptre

Lyrics from For My Love by Saint Saviour, from her album Tomorrow Again

Blogovision 2020, no.13: Matt Berninger - Serpentine Prison

 

I feel like an impersonation of you

Or am I doing another version of you doing me?

Nobody’s ever really thinking about us

Half as much as we want ‘em to be

Total frustration, deterioration 

Nationalism, another moon mission

Total submission, I’ve seen a vision

Call an electrician, serpentine prison

Lyrics from Serpentine Prison by Matt Berninger, from his album Serpentine Prison

Blogovision 2020, no.14: Sevdaliza - Shabrang

 

habibi habibi

no one understands me

habibi habibi

the caring left

habibi habibi

as long as i sing

habibi habibi

i’ll let the birds in

Lyrics from Habibi by Sevdaliza, from her album Shabrang

Blogovision 2020, no.15: Ólafur Arnalds - Some Kind Of Peace

 

Loom by Ólafur Arnalds from the album Some Kind of Peace

Blogovision 2020, no.16: Groove Armada - Edge Of The Horizon

 

Child that couldn't be learned
Write on your arm
A careless human being
Keep him safe from harm
All the written wrongs
Please keep the grenades
Safe from me
All in my veins
Baby, I wanna seem insane
We got something new
Something great
Something you can't lose
[Pre-Chorus]
Nothing's gonna change the way we are (Yeah)
You and me (Yeah)
(Yeah, me)
You and me

Get out on the dance floor

One move at a time

Three in a rhymе

Lyrics from Get Out On The Dancefloor by Groove Armada, from their album Edge Of The Horizon

Blogovision 2020, no.17: Jonathan Bree - After The Curtains Close

 

You say we'll be all right
You say it'll be all right
But with far few ties that bind
There's a slide placed by my mind
La la la la la la la
La la la la la la la
Yet here we are survived
Skip through fields in the sunshine
And all it took was time
To see us both come right

Lyrics from In The Sunshine by Jonathan Bree, from his album After The Curtains Close

Blogovision 2020, no.18: The Irrepressibles - Superheroes

 

Holding on to what makes me feel I’m a man… 
Holding on to what makes me feel this… 
But I can’t seem to take my eyes of a you  (whistle) 
I can’t seem to control this feeling… 
There’s something in the way that you smile at me, that makes me loose all concept of me.
There’s something that you have in your touch.. your touch.. that makes me feel like anger… then lust… then trust… 
I let go… oh oh oh, oh oh oh, oh oh oh.

Lyrics from Let Go! by The Irrepressibles, from their album Superheroes

Blogovision 2020, no.19: Echo Tides - Jokes Ate Themselves

 

Can your hear your girl

Crying and puking in the room next door

Do you think she will mind

To keep on carrying you child?

And then you wake up

It was all a dream and now i am gone

You re next to your girl

But you trying to reach your phone

Lyrics from Medieval by Echo Tides, from their album Jokes Ate Themselves

Blogovision 2020, no.20: Megan Thee Stallion - Good News

Freaky bitch, I do this, suck it like I'm toothless

                               Your old bitch can't fuck with me, you ain't teachin' me no new shit

Do you know who you dealin' with? Ain't convicted, but killin' shit

Caught a jet just to buy a car, I'm the flyest bitch on the dealership

Long legs, he intimidated, Amazon, I'm elevated

Lil' people make lil' people, stallions breed prize babies

Eat it up for a while, baby, buck on it, I'm wild, baby

I ain't scared, let's take it there, I knew you was a crybaby

Bust that pussy wide, let him adventure inside

If my pussy was a beach, he get swept up by the tide

Any nigga I let hit it, they know Stalli is a vibe

If I wasn't such a player, probably be somebody's wife 

Lyrics from Freaky Girls by Megan Thee Stallion, from her album Good News