Foo Fighters- Times Like These

This week I got my act together and actually managed to post this on Monday. So, for this week’s Music Monday, an offering from the inauguration coverage last week. Dave Grohl starts with a shout out to teachers, including his mother and the new first lady, and then they play a particularly apt rendition of ‘Times Like These’. Great stuff!

I am a one way motorway
I’m the one that drives away
then follows you back home
I am a street light shining
I’m a wild light blinding bright
burning off alone

it’s times like these you learn to live again
it’s times like these you give and give again
it’s times like these you learn to love again
it’s times like these time and time again

I am a new day rising
I’m a brand new sky
to hang the stars upon tonight
I am a little divided
do I stay or run away
and leave it all behind?

it’s times like these you learn to live again
it’s times like these you give and give again
it’s times like these you learn to love again
it’s times like these time and time again

Songwriters: Taylor Hawkins, Nate Mendel, David Grohl, Chris Shiflett

Wolf Alice -Space and Time

Music Monday is a weekly meme by Drew @ The Tattooed Book Geek and it’s such a fab idea that I am going to give it a go too.

I realise that my first ever Music Monday has ended up being posted on a Thursday, but hey, that’s what you get with an ADHD blog. I started the draft of it on Monday so that counts, right?

Looking back at 2020, there was probably one album I listened to most, and that’s Visions of a Life by Wolf Alice. It’s tricky to pick one track to highlight as they’re all good but this is a firm favourite. It wakes me up every time I hear it and has been great at keeping me going when having restless ADHD days, a particular problem whilst working from home in lockdown.

The words really resonate with me too, as does anything that seems to be about anxiety, loss of control and not being fully in the time and space you’re supposed to be in.

I hadn’t seen the video until I went looking for it for this blog and I have to say I love it. Brides running away is a favourite theme of mine!

Space & Time

Wolf Alice

Hope my body gets better
Do I mean my body or my mind?
I hate the word “forever”
I hate the word “change”
I just need time
Give me time
Space and time

Take me out to the future
Just so I can look back into the past

I hope my body gets better
Do I mean my body or my mind?
I hate the word “forever”
I hate the word “change”
I just need time
Give me time
Space and time

Oh God I was strange now weren’t I?
I hope that when I look back I will laugh

I feel I’m losing control of my body
Control of my moods and my decisions and my money
I don’t want to come undone
I am set to self-destruct

I hope my body gets better
Do I need my body or my mind?
I hate the word “forever”
I hate the word “change”
I just need time
Give me time

Songwriters: Ellen Ciara Rowsell, Joel Donald Scott Amey, Jonathan David Oddie, Theodore Joseph Ellis
Publisher: Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.