5/13/08: They're Yours

0 Kudo

<< Previous Topic Next Topic >>

Started By

Comment

Katchik99

5/13/08: They're Yours

Lead

[-]

Posts: 2743

(05/13/08 07:13 PM)

it's all hips baby, it's all hips!

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

They're Yours.

The songs; Take them. Share them. Own them. Make love to them. Cook to them. Eat with them. Buckle them up in the car and blast them during your busy city commute. Sleep with them on in the background. Send them to your dreams' ideal setting. Maybe steal a little of me for those moments. I love traveling. With the songs' new life I'll imagine myself being spread around like a good flu.

I've said it in a million interviews already. The songs don't belong to me. They are bigger than I'll ever be and they will certainly live a lot longer than I will. That's why this album is less about me and more life in general. It's an album about awesome times, celebrated by real people, sexy people, and waking up to smell their sweet sweat still lingering in the air.

Someone once passed me a stack of books and said enjoy. And when you are done, pass them on for they do not belong to you. They belong to the world. And that is what I am doing with these songs. They are of the world and for the world.

Even the personal songs about my family and factual love stories, I will not take credit for writing them. It is my duty to simply sit and listen to a frequency that anyone can hear; A station perhaps from space, commercial free, broadcast in the clouds. I don't ask. I sing-a-long to that station nonetheless, and happen to record the phrases and melodies from time to time, and still they are not my own. Maybe I am a receiver, but just an instrument in that sense. My body is just hardware. Some other wonderful force is playing the song.

Whatever "being" is to the human. Whatever air is to the bird, or what water is to the fish. Whatever force decides to make our hearts beat and food digest. That mad divine scientist is who is responsible for these songs. They are a gift for all of us.

And so I am grateful and so I project and we share the sweetness.

I'm glad you are listening too. Enjoy the new album.

~Kat~

well all I really want to do is love you
a kind much closer than friends use
but I still can't say it after all we've been through

and all I really want from you is to feel me

as the feeling inside keeps building
and I will find a way to you if it kills me, if it kills me

Last Edited By: Katchik99 05/13/08 07:15 PM. Edited 1 time.

maree1

[-]

Posts: 231

(05/13/08 11:44 PM)

That's lovely

MoKat72

[-]

Posts: 2415

(05/14/08 06:54 AM)

mo like wo for governor

Yeah, but what'd he do with the stack of books?

mrazluv

[-]

Posts: 115

(05/14/08 12:01 PM)

Yeah he should spread the love and share those books with his adoring fans. That would be cool. If he just passes one out at every show. Anyways, I love this blog. You can really see how happy he is with this album. And why this theme of we sing, we dance, we steal things is so true and important to him/us. Yay, fro new album and blog!

rocketcat

[-]

Posts: 8211

(05/14/08 01:08 PM)

RKOP Abuser

^He already did a blog about the books he loved. I figured that counted...

-- Cat

what kind of love is shared between fools and kings

mrazluv

[-]

Posts: 116

(05/14/08 04:50 PM)

^ True that. He did give us a list of the titles of those books didn't he? Or were those just favorites throughout the years? I'll go check that blog later to find out for sure (I am at work right now and really shouldn't be on RKOP!!). Anyways, I just liked the idea of Jason physically passing the books on to other people.

curlinote

[-]

Posts: 576

(05/14/08 07:03 PM)

HE gets me high-minded.
That mraztastic cat.

^^I went to check out a couple of books he recommended, i'm now a fan of paolo coelho

speaking of j's songs, i walked past a record store yesterday, HMV to be more specific, and i heard Only Human coming out of the store!! I stopped right in my tracks and go, "How is that possible??" and then..., "Right, J's record was just released yesterday, maybe they're playing his entire album?" Then i hung around the store, singing to it and waited for the next song, but they played another song by another artiste.

it was a pretty cool J experience though.

PS: I haven't bought the CD yet cuz I'm broke. but I DID saw his CD cover was such a stark-white in colour, and that they didn't come in your usual jewel-boxes (yay, save the earth!). it was packaged without them. like what you would get from free samples of CDs.

This might be the opportunity
To finally make some sense...
...Bottle some hurt and fill in the dirt
And take them old marigolds away. ---All Dialed In--- (Jason Mraz)

daffodil

[-]

Posts: 431

(05/15/08 06:39 AM)

mrazluv wrote:
^ True that. He did give us a list of the titles of those books didn't he? Or were those just favorites throughout the years? I'll go check that blog later to find out for sure (I am at work right now and really shouldn't be on RKOP!!). Anyways, I just liked the idea of Jason physically passing the books on to other people.

i noted a few instances. there's the list of his favorite reads in a blog and there's some place where this exists:

"I was in Australia and a package was left for me at the hotel, full of books and CDs: Books on Buddhism, books on the Bhagavad Gita, on Christianity, Sai Baba's teachings and 'Autobiography of a Yogi.' All these sort of worldly religious books just appeared, no note-other than 'when you finish reading them, pass them along.'" Mraz dove into the books and world music, which led to his going to India and "just writing things I never thought I would write. To this day, I have no idea who sent me the package."

i recommend the Power of Now by E.Tolle also.

peace to your baby toe~

- kid ::: my whole world is made up of the love that you are ~

myspace.com/inherview | off the pages | cousin kid | drivinggreen | www.kiva.org/

MoKat72

[-]

Posts: 2417

(05/15/08 06:57 AM)

mo like wo for governor