My So-Called Chaos: Ribcage {Musical Mondays & Giveaway}

11.03.2014

Ribcage {Musical Mondays & Giveaway}

What is Musical Mondays?

Musical Mondays is a weekly linky party where we share a song we're into for the week, and talk about why we like it-or why it effects us. Along with talking about music, I host a month-long music related giveaway.

This week's song:

Ribcage

by Mary Lambert
ft. Angel Haze & K.Flay,

Living in the darkness, I wear it like a crown
Oh I've got tough skin, ready for my bow
All I've got is two hands, I tied 'em in the middle
Ready for the red tape-open up my ribcage.

I offer souvenir, a deaf tongue and blinded ears
Can you fill the shelves in here?
Come in come in

[Chorus]
Everybody look around
Everybody look around
I don't know how to fill the space
The invitation's on the page
Open up my ribcage

Want you to want me like I'm all you got
Mama she see it but can't make me stop
Tellin' the truth it might mean you get broken
But letting it hurt that's my method of coping
Daughter sees him like that smoke in my lungs
What they project on me what I become
Down on my knees unsure what to say
No I never learned how to pray
Don't know know who I've been foolin'
But you've got me runnin' in circles I'm ruined
Let you inside opened up all of my wounds
Taking my ribcage and ripped it in two

[Chorus]

Tie it from my tendons, watch how they stretch
Oh I've got the muscle, lord I'm spent
Knockin' down my sternum, again at a young age
Too much space between, open up my ribcage

I offer souvenirs, a deaf tongue and blinded ears
Can you fill the space in here?
Come in come in

[Chorus]

There's impenetrable silence inside of my head
There's nothing I can vibe when I'm practically dead
I get so tired of writing everything that I should of said
That maybe this time I put my pen down and just tell you instead
You see I opened up my ribcage and violins flew out
The organs softly played through my violin mouth
I've got a lifetime worth of love hidden beneath my tongue
Written on my skin it tells me you're the one

[Chorus]

Open up my ribcage (repeat x4)

First of all, I love Mary Lambert and her new album. This song is so hauntingly beautiful, and I can relate on so many levels right now. I've been feeling this a lot lately. I feel like my ribs are too far apart and there's a whole lot of empty space inside that I don't know how to fill. Maybe I don't want to fill it. Maybe I like feeling this way... Or I don't. Maybe I have a love/hate relationship with the ache? I don't know what to say, or how to feel differently.

What are you listening to this week?
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