good songs about being far away from someone you like alot?
hey dorks! i'm making a mixtape. help me pls!
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across the sea by weezer although it is a tad creepy
lol
I COULD NEVER TOUCH YOU! I THINK THAT WOULD BE WRONG!
Postal Service - Such Great Heights
of course!
2000 lightyears away - green day
going away to college - blink 182
Again
by Archive
This Lullaby by QOTSA
Bryan Adams and Melanie C
Even food don't taste that good
(noooooooooo-oo)
drink aint doing what it should
(no no no no)
things just feel so wrong
(yeee-eeeah)
baby when you're gone
(yeeeeeeeeeeah)
yeah.
lol
thanks 4 this. this is going on as a joke.
you say "as a joke"
but really, it will be the standard "indie emo 'joke' mixtape throw-in" the one track on every indie i <3 girls mixtape ever. designed to make them think "oh he's so whacky and not too sentimental/a weirdo/stalker yknow," but which is actually only serves to enhance these worries.
COURAGE IN YOUR CONVICTIONS MAN! full on crying "WHHHYYY ARE YOOU NOT HEEEERE WITH MEE NOOOW!" please
We're performing that live as pasrt of our college EL-OH-FUCKING-HELL.
'Far from me' by Nick Cave
yup
Frank Sinatra
All Alone
Home Thoughts From Abroad - Clifford T Ward
god I love that song.
i'd never heard this
it's lovely.
CHEEEZYYYYYYY
<3
I'm listening to it now on Spotify. It's one of those amazing Radio 2 songs like 'If I Could Read Your Mind' by Gordon Lightfoot.
Like Itchycoo Park
That blew me away, and is always on daytime R2
Just Like Heaven by The Cure
"Why are you so far away?" she said.
"Why won't you ever know that I'm in love with you"
<333
LIKE THIS
Gemini (Birthday Song)
Why?
HOW DID I NOT THINK OF THIS
A Hymn For The Postal Service - Hefner
and also Jude Law and a Semester Abroad - Brand New, except that one's more 'fuck you, how could you leave me?!!!'
Two lovely ones
Low - Over the Ocean
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWUQpvfRkVM
Akron Family - I'll be on the Water
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5biaguBAPnM
these are amazing, thank you.
omg that akron/family song is beautiful
i had forgotten just how so
Its a heartbreaker isn't it....
Glad to be of some help, two of my favourite songs right there.
:-)
wah
i love akron/family
The Battle Of Land and Sea - Six Days
^very, very good song
from a very good album
Yo La Tengo - Nowhere Near
The Pastels - Mandarin
Roddy Frame - The Sea is Wide
YES
especially to the pastels. wow, you guys are so good at this!
Al Green
Tired of Being Alone
maybe
Bright Eyes - June on the West Coast
i luv this song
i think i listened to like 2329900000 times in 2003/4
i luv this song
i think i listened to it a million times in 2003/4
lol
fayullll
come saturday
pains of being pure at heart
Call Me On Your Way Back Home
by Ryan Adams.
forever got shorter
by braid?
Half A World Away
REM
Also
(Don't Go Back To) Rockville
Even
better. Good call.
There's Slow Club - Sorry About The Doom
but I think that's about splitting up with someone too. May not be like, see how you interpret it. It's VERY sad though.
There's a Field Mice one too, but I can't remember it's name...they have Coach Station Reunion but that's about seeing someone tomorrow and being excited about it.
I realise this post is of little help but you're having it anyway. I like the songs suggested above :)
Also Chritmas TV by Slow Club
It's definatly about missing someone and is slightly seasonal too.
Boots of Spanish Leather by Bob Dylan
Ironically, the best song on the subject by about a million miles
Letter to Memphis -
The Pixies
^See also: Cactus
Transatlanticism by Death Cab For Cutie
It's possibly the greatest song that deals with this topic.
So Far Away by Carole King
If You See Her, Say Hello by Bob Dylan
Both perfect.
Camera Obscura - Country Mile
this this this this a thousand times this
I've listened to this song loads but it never occured to me
that's what it was actually about, top choice though.
Pet Shop Boys - Home and Dry
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhuAkHHmklI
Bright Eyes - You Will
Six By Seven - 100 And Something Foxhall Road
I'm So Tired - The Beatles
Sort of.
Electrelane - To The East
You went so far away
And I want to come there too
I want to be with you
I'm just waiting until you say these words :
"Come back, come back, come back, oh, to me..."
or maybe The Greater Times:
You say you don't know what love means anymore
Since I found you, I'm tearing down the walls without you
yep. electrelane is what you want.
Two wonderful songs.
holyyes
i guess i never listened to the lyrics properly.
YES
I came in here to stick this song out there.
Lav it.
Sleeping Is The Only Love by Silver Jews
Oh mummy.
Tom waits - shore leave
The Lucksmiths -
The Chapter in Your Life Entitled San Francisco
Cut Copy- Far Away
Rah Rah- My Guarantee
Erm, Wish...You...Were...Here...??
Richard & Linda Thompson - 'A Heart Needs a Home.' Nothing says I miss you like a divorced duet.
Wave Pictures - i thought of you again
Come Saturday
by the pains of being pure at heart.
Elbow - Fugitve Motel
'I blow you a kiss
It should reach you tomorrow
As it flies from the other side of the world'
Came on to post this
Bless you, Ctrl + F
i'm totally stealing this idea, and all these songs
and sending a mixtape to my girlfriend in australia. :)
Not quite sure what the song is about,
but Bobby Womack - If You Think You're Lonely Now is a lovely song,ideal for a mixtape like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbbZ_k1Z8gU
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Minus the Bear
Pachuca Sunrise
Get Up Kids
Holiday.
?
Surely it should be Out of Reach from the same album by the Get Up Kids.
One Armed Scissor by At The Drive-In
People don't tend to like him on here....
...but Frank Turner does these very well: Jet Lag, Front Crawl, Sea Legs, To Take You Home, A Love Worth Keeping, The Fastest Way Back Home. Yes there is more of an emphasis on touring here, of course, but the subject matter should suit nevertheless.
Hows about
The Bird That You Can't See - Apples in Stereo?
like this
thanks
Or...
Everything Beautiful is Far Away - Grandaddy
Daily I Will Calculate the Distance - Sounder
Far Away - Cut Copy
Distant Lover - Marvin Gaye
Of course I've never compiled a similar playlist.
herman dunne - wish i could see you soon
Tom waits - never let go of your hand
why are you not here? by david thomas broughton
You need to scrap this whole mixtape thing
and turn it to a video of you doing a striptease to the new Four Tet single (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YKOy8gn5yU). That'll get her attention!
Come Back From San Francisco
or Washington D.C. by the Magnetic Fields?
505
by the arctic monkeys, not a huge fan but quite a good song
'I Miss You' by Incubus.
Bit corny and obvious, but it's still a nice song.
people might disagree with me on meaning
but how about Maps - Yeah Yeah Yeahs. I always think it's about 'don't leave me and go far away, stay here' but I don't know.
Port O'brien - Stuck on a Boat
Vetiver - Been So Long
Vetiver - Rolling Sea
Actually, pretty much anything about Vetiver
Already made about five of these mixtapes
My girlfriend spent a year in Spain.
When Ye Go Away by The Waterboys is particularly devastating.
Scattered Black and White by Elbow - has that line which kills each time - "My sister buzzes through the room leaving perfume in the air/and that's what triggered this."
Obvious Crappy Pop Song #7295
Plain White T's - Hey There Delilah
Arguably a good song. It gets a bad, bad rap for being so goddamn overplayed and overhyped and "omigod sooooo deep" but, it's too simple to pass up. "I know you're so damn far away, but I still love you and we're going to be together."
Or I could go with "Knives Out" which kinda works with how Thom has described the meaning and all that...