in which great northern sings about metaphorical houses

so, i ABSOLUTELY LOVE the song i'm going to share with you today. houses, by great northern, is a song i've written to in not one, but two different books with radically different characters and plotlines, and yet...it still fits, because it's simply awesome. it's a bit dark, driven, and pretty all at the same time. the imagery talks about the destruction of a relationship, of how when it's over, we can't help but box things up. it's best suited to being listened to loudly:

the end begins just as it starts
and leaves me wondering what we left behind
told me not to talk but please explain
my thoughts that float around my mind

so take a step back will you
be alright, feel alright?
and now

all this time when we walk we won't feel
but sometime in a box it won't steal

up ahead i see it, i can find it but i feel alive
followed me inside of a place
i felt like things would still be alright
and now

all this time when we walk we won't feel
but sometime in a box it can steal
all this time when I talk it's not real
it's not real, not real, not real, it's not real

All this time when we walk we won't feel
But sometime in a box it won't steal
All this time when I walk I won't feel, I won't feel
All this time when I talk it's not real, it's not real

(mp3) houses by great northern (via eenie meenie records)

go HERE to buy remind me where the light is, the album houses is off of.