Since I’m friggin’ awful at posting things, I’m jumping on the themesong bandwagon. Themesong is a music meme started by inthefade. See here for details. The theme for today is (and here’s the calendar of themes) goodbye to you.

I’m not in a “goodbye” kind of mindset these days. In fact, I just got married, so breakup songs in general aren’t exactly resonating with me right now. That said, Mountain Goats, always and forever. Michele picked “No Children,” which is an angry-goodbye song, but for me the ultimate goodbye song is “Woke Up New.” It’s devastating. I have to be really fucking happy when I listen to it or I can’t take the scraped-raw sadness of it. 

On the morning when I woke up without you for the first time
I felt free and I felt lonely and I felt scared
And I began to talk to myself almost immediately
Not being used to being the only person there

The first time I made coffee for just myself, I made too much of it
But I drank it all just cause you hate it when I let things go to waste
And I wandered through the house like a little boy lost in the mall
And an astronaut could've seen the hunger in my eyes from space

And I sang 'Oh, What do I do? What do I do? What do I do?
What do I do without you?'  

On the morning when I woke up without you for the first time
I was cold so I put on a sweater and I turned up the heat
And the walls began to close in and I felt so sad and frightened
I practically ran from the living room out into the street

And the wind began to blow and the trees began to pant
And the world in its cold way started coming alive
And I stood there like a business man waiting for the train
And I got ready for the future to arrive

And I sang 'Oh, What do I do? What do I do? What do I do?

What do I do without you?'

(Source: mountain-goats.com)