Found Words/Found Music – Javier Mendoza

“I’m awake to see with my heart
The light that floods the night in Cusco
I’m awake to see with my hands
The faces that save
I know I love you
They are truth
They are love
They are God
And I am at their feet
Forever
Forever I am changed”

-Night in Cusco

Found Music – Mariano Mores

Tanguera for Orchestra.

Found Music — Eric Whitacre

This is from Eric Whitacre’s opera “Paradise Lost: Shadows and Wings” (no relation to the book, as far as I can tell.) Here is another song from it.

Found Words/Found Music – Mat Kearney

“Holding the line from the back of the car
Miles and miles from where you are
Maye the hardest things are the dreams that we’ve been given
And you scream and you sing and you shout
There one way in and there’s one way out
Help me to find my way back down”

-Annie

Found Music – Robbie Seay Band

New day:

And if you’re like me
You need hope, coffee, and melody

Found Words/Music – Electric President

Insomnia:

There’s a light bulb dangling from string
It’s slowly swaying up over my head now
As I jot down the words that’ll never be sung
And wait for my headache to numb
And the wind sounds as if the world’s sighing
And the moon’s just a torn fingernail
As the TV flickers and hums by the wall
And I wait for my eyesight to fade

So, So, So
It’s so damn slow
So, So, So
It’s so damn slow

And the bright-eyed choke on ambition
And the old folks circle their graves
And the young ones are busy destroying their names
And you’re still just wasting away.
I sit and watch the screen for a message
Some kinda sign that says we’re OK
But the screen stays blank till I turn the thing off
And wait for my conscience to break.

So, So, So
It’s so damn slow
So, So, So
It’s so damn slow

I hope you’re learning to listen
And I hope you’re learning to stay
And I hope you find what you’re missing
And I hope that you’re making your way
I’m a headcase if I don’t keep moving
And my head hurts if I don’t sit still
It’s an itch that I’ll never stop scratching
It’s a hole that I’ll never quite fill

So

Found Music — Verdi (as played by Epica)

Over the summer, I performed Verdi’s Requiem with my chorus in Prague. Last night I stumbled across the Dies Irae from the aforementioned Requiem, as played by a metal band.

Found Music — Taken by Trees

To Lose Someone was written by Swedish pop singer Victoria Bergsman after she went to Pakistan. It is a really cool blending of sounds. Check it out.

Found Words/Music – Iron & Wine

“Some days her shape in the doorway
Will speak to me
A bird’s wing on the window
Sometimes I’ll hear her when she’s sleeping
Her fever dream
A language on her face”

-”Fever Dream,” Iron & Wine

\\hat tip: CS

Found Music — Matt Moore

I found out about this Matt Moore listening to one of my favorite podcasts. His music is kinda alt-rock Christian. Not bad at all. You can download his album for free by telling five people.