in which i compare monsters and angels with being a petulant teen island

so, the rejectionist put a call out for sharing embarrassing journaling from childhood, and while one such journal does still exist, hell no am i ever going to publicly share anything from it. i seriously (and i mean that literally, i was pathetically serious) wrote about the stupidest things, thinking i was very urbane and witty and intellectually above others, when, in fact, i was as self-absorbed as every other teenager out there.

i will share that there is a very humiliating entry on how much i loved the kevin costner robin hood movie. yes, i journaled about that. why? BECAUSE I WAS LAME. and no, it will never see the light of day.



however, it got me thinking about my teen years and all the whatnot that goes along with it. and obviously, since this is a music blog, i'll share a song from those long ago (ahem) days.

i can't exactly remember why, or how i stumbled across it, but i was absolutely enamored with monsters and angels by voice of the beehive. my senior year of high school was somewhat turbulent - my parents decided to move us to another state in the middle of my junior year, and i was, how shall we put this...bitter. really, really bitter. this song didn't represent anything romantic (or, apparently, based on the lyrics, single-girl-powerish) to me, but it was more, i think representative of how i saw myself as an island. which is rather funny, because when i hear this song, the memory most closely tied to it is of me and a friend of mine, driving in a truck singing it at the top of our lungs (although, if questioned, he'd probably kill anyone who insinuated he'd sing such a song). ah well. such is the life of a contradictory teenager.



i'm nobody's wife and i'm nobody's baby,
i like it that way, well then again, maybe.
and i'm nobody's valentine and i'm nobody's pearl
when you get right down to it
i always seem to find just some girl

singin': there are monsters, there are angels,
there's a peacefulness and a rage inside us all.
there is sugar and there is salt
there is ice and there is fire in every single heart.
there are monsters, there are angels.

i'm nobody's promise and i'm nobody's chore
and i ain't got nobody that i feel i oughtta
live for
nobody to live for.
and i'm nobody's work and i'm nobody's company
and every time i turn around i always seem to find
just me

singin': there are monsters, there are angels.
there's a peacefullness and a rage inside us all
there is sugar and there is spice
there is ice and there is fire
in every single heart
there are monsters, there are angels

i'm nobody's wife and i'm nobody's baby
i like it that way, but then again, maybe
then again, maybe
i'm nobody's valentine and i'm nobody's pearl
when you get right down to it
i always seem to find some girl

singing: there are monsters and there are angels
there's a peacefullness and a rage inside us all
there is sugar and there is spice
there is ice and there is fire in every single heart
there are monsters, there are angels...

i'm nobody's wife and i'm nobody's baby

(mp3) monsters and angels by voice of the beehive