"Hey hey, I can't make you go round round, all you do's just put me down, when I'm nice you don't like me anyway" Joe Purdy
2010-02-20, 3:25 p.m.

Sometimes you hear a song, or see a part of a movie, or read something in a book, see a painting or a sculpture and it moves you. It speaks to you, inspires you, and you want to share that inspiration with someone.
Sometimes a piece of art just says something so much better, so much braver, more beautifully. It's kind of like wearing a half mask to a ball, or make-up I guess. Like coating a pill in sugar. It's not hiding the truth, it's dressing it up, making it easier to swallow.

Anyways, I've rediscovered Joe Purdy's "Sessions from Motor Ave" today. Well not so much rediscovered as much as I was obsessed with another of his albums and haven't really listened to this one yet. Particularly holding on to "You Don't Like me Anyway" as well as "It's a Wonder" and "Why you"

Joe Purdy's "It's a Wonder" from ilike is killing me slowly today- I love Joe Purdy so much. It's different music than I usually get passionate about. He's folkish which I love, but I'm not necessarily passionate about that sort of thing. This dude though, it's in his voice.

Joe Purdy, "It's a Wonder"
You pick me up and you set me down
You never give me no runaround
You don't mistreat me like those other girls do
Hell it's a wonder that I don't fall in love with you

You take the train and you come visit me
Sometimes I come drive to you
We speak of hearts broken and you lick my wounds

Hell it's a wonder that I don't fall in love with you
See the wrong ones coming from miles away
Dressed up in different clothes
You know when they get closer all their pieces are the same
It's a wonder I don't see through all their wicked ways

You lay me down and you kiss my mouth
Ain't nothing like the feel of a girl from the South
And you're everything I've come to know to be true
And it's a wonder that I don't run away with you

So you pick me up and you set me down
You never give me no runaround
You don't mistreat me like those other girls do
Hell it's a wonder that I don't fall in love with you"