As Tall as Lions – A Soft Hum

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Everyday,
it slips away.
Life becomes a soft hum
with no reason.
You're my rose, love.
Stop making love,
going through the motions.
Tell me how come
no one gets what they really want
and love only when it's convenient?
We act like we know more than we know.
We treat love like it's something you own,
that you own.

Yesterday,
I thought I heard you say,
"Who do you think you're kidding?
We're all pissing into the wind,
wearing sheepskin,
hiding from the same things
that our dads did."
But no one gets what they really want.
We love only when it's convenient.
We act like we know more than we know.
We treat love like it's something you own.

But maybe I'll find you.
Maybe I'll find something I love.
Baby, I've found you.
Maybe I've found something I love.

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    General Comment:"your mind grows numb" not "you're my rose love"....rhyming love with love?
    Flag whoatrishhon May 12, 2011   Link
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    General Comment:Great song, I love the modernized 80s feel to it throughout the first 2 verses
    Flag circa82on August 21, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:But no one gets what they really want.
    We love only when it's convenient.

    i love these lines.
    Flag juliasykeson September 10, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:aside from all the bickering about the title, this song is BEYOND amazing, it's probably my favorite as tall as lions song, and when i first heard this it was one of those songs that you're on the verge of sleeping and it comes on and you don't really notice it. well it was at the end of my "Maybe I'm just tired," since i dled it from limewire, and about eight months later, i was fastforwarding "Maybe I'm Just Tired" to a part i like, and went too far and found this and I fell in love with it, legit.
    Flag caitlin376on August 19, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:Whenever I listen to this song, i hear "Your mind grows numb" instead of "You're my rose, love."

    which is right? :X
    Flag stay2seewhatisayon May 05, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:oh hi. i signed up just to say that i asked dan what the song title was in Nov. 2006 and he told me that it was either "a soft hum" or "evening virgin cotton nymph." i don't think cricketsandcrows or tenoratlarge is wrong. that's the beauty of an UNTITLED TRACK....so just enjoy the song, because it's definitely amazing.
    Flag justforacommenton November 03, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:and i actually heard from dan himself that the song is called "a soft hum", as does my as tall as lions vinyl.
    Flag cricketsandcrowson July 24, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:Hate to break it to cricketsandcrows, but I heard it from Julio himself that the actual name of the song is "Cotton Nymph". There's actually a lengthy story about how they arrived on that title, but he said that the liner notes are a misnomer and the song is not called "Mariah" or "Mariah... You On Fire". The initial name was a joke because they couldn't think of a name for the song and they all said the chorus sounded like an early 90's Mariah Carrey song. When they submitted the name to the record label, they took the joke even further by quoting the Mariah Carrey song "Honey" in the title. By the time they had picked a real name for the song, the joke title had been printed on all of the art for the pressing. So the actual name of the song has ended up being "Cotton Nymph", and not "Mariah", "Mariah... You on Fire", or "A Soft Hum".
    Flag tenoratlargeon June 17, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:Next time, report it to be corrected then. I did so now, it has been fixed now.

    Great song of course, maybe the best on the album :-)
    Flag SoWhyXon May 21, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:this song is actually called "a soft hum".
    Flag cricketsandcrowson April 15, 2007   Link

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