Tuesday Tunes

So... sometimes I become a little obsessed about things - I know, i know. what else is new. - So right now I can't stop listening to people who were on American Idol. Right now it has been Blake Lewis, Brooke White, David Archuleta, David Cook, Michael Johns, Kris Allen, and Adam Lambert (i know right. The more I listen to adam the more i like him. *grrr* I'm also drinking diet PEPSI. I'm sick. just sick...) just to name a few. I 've downloaded most of their albums and listened to them over and over again. One song that I keep getting stuck in my head is David Cook's A Daily AntheM

Like I said before. David Cook was an American Idol contestant in 2008, and the Winner of Season 7's American Idol. He was one of my favorites from the beginning. I also loved the other David, Brooke, and Michael.

Prior to Idol David released an album called Analog Heart which is really good, and I have a few different songs on there that I love to listen to, but the song A Daily AntheM from his self titled album is one that gets in my head and just stays. It makes me feel good about music and how powerful and moving something can be. How inspirational and how listening to it as loud as I can handle it in my ears (have I mentioned that I've blown out yet another pair of earbuds) can make me feel good, and sing at the top of my lungs when I'm alone in the car is just fun. How hard work and determination can bring something really really good forward!

A Daily AntheM
Daivid Cook (2008)

Break your neck for some substance
This is temporary sanity, an exercise in vanity
So long, to the ordinary day wrought with fictitious tales
Of how there's any other way
Hold on to anything at all
It's a long way down between the summer and the fall
If I told you that you're everything,
Would you sing along?
Would you sing along?

It's a daily anthem
Would you sing my song,
At the top of your lungs?
And we'll all sing along,
We'll all sing along
It's a half-faith blessing
For the lessons I've learned,
Never deserved.
And we'll all sing along,
We'll all sing along

Now the verses take hold,
A gentle undercurrent of more years to grow old
Say goodbye to the cold
And try to forgive everything this night
As we sing your daily anthem,
Would you sing my song,
At the top of your lungs?
And we'll all sing along,
We'll all sing along
It's a half-faith blessing
For the lessons I've learned,
Never deserved.
And we'll all sing along,
We'll all sing along