Little Miss Sunshine

It's been a long day. A really, really long day! I've been awake since 5:30am, and my day has been filled with research lectures, hiking up and down the hill at Wits to retrieve things from my car, bizarre conversations about LSD, an hour or so of swimming lengths in the Wits pool and teaching my first stats tut. And somehow, through all of this, I've had one song stuck in my head the entire day! It was the first song that I heard on the radio today, but I've been contemplating the lyrics all day - they're a little intimate, but I think that they're rather beautiful! I also quite like that the entire song is really just about one moment. Maybe I'm turning into a romantic... As such, here they are, presented - if nothing else - to get them out of my head!

Crack the Shutters - Snow Patrol

You cool your bed-warm hands down on the broken radiator
And when you lay them freezing on me,
I mumble "Can you wake me later?"
But I don't really want you to stop
And you know it, so it doesn't stop you
Run your hands from my neck to my chest

Crack the shutters open wide,
I wanna bathe you in the light of day
And just watch you as the rays tangle up around your face and body
I could sit for hours finding new ways to be awed each minute
'Cause the daylight seems to want you just as much as I want you

It's been minutes, it's been days, it's been all I will remember
Happy lost in your hair and the cold side of the pillow
Your hills and valleys are mapped by my intrepid fingers
And in a naked slumber, I'll dream all this again

Crack the shutters open wide,
I wanna bathe you in the light of day
And just watch you as the rays tangle up around your face and body
I could sit for hours finding new ways to be awed each minute
'Cause the daylight seems to want you just as much as I want you

Crack the shutters open wide,
I wanna bathe you in the light of day
And just watch you as the rays tangle up around your face and body
I could sit for hours finding new ways to be awed each minute
'Cause the daylight seems to want you just as much as I want you