My loyal travel companion

Who’s been by my side this last month of traveling? None other than my trusty iPod. iPhone actually. Thanks to my dad, who I’m pretty sure just bought me one so I could teach him how to use his. Not that that matters.

I decided today, while fuming about the KLM debacle, that I needed a revised playlist. So I made it a mission, during the 5 hours from Asmterdam to Bahrain, to go through my entire iPod and pick out the songs that had to do remotely with traveling, or my feelings during my travels. And here ya go. (Disclaimer: travel songs are mostly sad, but I’m not. :-) the sleep stuff is true though. )

These are just from the songs on my iPod. Please don’t comment that I left off Steve Miller’s Jet Airliner.

1. The Beatles – Wait
“It’s been a long time, and now I’m coming back home, i’ve been away now, oh how, i’ve been alone.”

2. Snow Patrol w/ Martha Wainwright – Set the fire to the Third Bar
“I’m miles from where you are / i lay down on the cold ground / I pray that something picks me up / and sets me down in your warm arms.”

3. Okkervil River – Black Sheep boy
“Here i am back home again / I am here rest. All they ask is where i’ve been, knowing I’ve been West.”

4. Ben Folds – Golden Slumber
“Once there was a way to get back homeward, Once there was a way to get back home, sleep pretty darling, do not cry, and I will sing a lullaby.”

5. Ben Lee – Begin
“It’s ok for you to care, cuz i can feel you in the air. While you wonder how’s the gonna end, i only want it to begin.”

6. Benjamin Gibbard – You remind me of home
” you remind me of home / a broken bed with dirty sheets that creaks when i am shifting in my sleep.”

7. Billy Bragg & Wilco – Airline to Heaven
“you wanna ride this train, have your ticket in your hand, before it is to late. you can get a way to heaven, on this aeroplane. take this airline plane, it will take you home again.”

8. Black Keys – Aeroplane Blues
“i’m on an airplane, close to sea, going nowhere, i wanna be, distant lands, don’t know who I am, eyes are heavy, mind is shook, can’t feel, drugs I took, distant lands.”

9. BRMC – Berlin
pretty much just the title. and because they rock. hard.

10. Bob Schneider – Tokyo (i pretty much hummed this the whole way to and from Tokyo)
“tokyo’s not far enough, from where and when i wanna be, today.”

11. Brazilian Girls – Tourist Trap
“lining up at the pool, peeing into the ocean, peeling off, losing at the casino, drinking wine and tequila, throwing up TOURIST TRRRAAAAP!” this song makes me laugh every time i hear it.

12. Cat Stevens – The Wind
“i listen to the wind, to the wind of my soul, where i’ll end up, really God only knows.”

13. Centro-Matic – Huge in Every City
“you say you’re huge in every city, but not this one today.”

14. Chris Cornell – Wave Goodbye (yes, im the one person who bought his solo CD)
“when you miss somebody, you tell yourself a hundred thousand times, that nobody lasts forever, so you give in one more try to wave goodbye. wave goodbye.”

15. Counting Crows – Raining in Baltimore
“i need a phone call, i need a raincoat, i need a big love, i need a phone call.”

16. Gomez – See The World
“See the world, Find an old fashioned girl, And when all’s been said and done, It’s the things that are given, not won, Are the things that you want.“

17. I Am Kloot – No Direction Home
” Crawl upon the earth, scour the universe you know, Set my compass north, circumscribe the earth and go – no direction home”

18. James Taylor – My Traveling Star (thanks for the CD, momma!)
“Nevermind the wind, nevermind the rain, nevermind the road leading home again”

19. Joseph Arthur – Black Lexus
“You don’t know where you’re going, Almost anytime, Things lost just lighten up your load.”

20. Kings of Leon – Rememo (borrowed this one from MCA)
“On a plane, on a plane, off to see the city girls again, only bring them what i carry on, so you know i won’t be long”

21. M.IA. – Bucky Done Gun
“London, Quiet down I need to make a sound, New York, Quiet down I need to make a sound, Kingston, Quiet down I need to make a sound, Brazil, Quiet down I need to make sound.”

22. Morrissey – Hairdresser on Fire (the last time i was in london, i walked around Sloan Square just so I could listen to this song.)
“Here is london, giddy of london, Is it home of the free, Or what?”‘

23. My Morning Jacket – Bermuda Highway (fave MMJ song)
” sometimes I walk around town looking at faces
wonderin why their bodies go to silly places.
Walkin past the carpet mills looking in and takin stills,
your ass it draws me in like a Bermuda highway.
Don’t carve me out, don’t let your silly dreams, flal in between the crack of the bed and the wall.”

24. The Perishers – trouble sleeping
duh

25. Peter Sarstedt 0 Where do you goto my lovely
the ultimate paris song. best lyrics ever:
“When you go on your summer vacation
You go to Juan-les-Pines
With your carefully designed topless swimsuit
You get an even suntan, on your back…. and on your legs”

26. Ray Lamontagne – Three More Days
“3 more days, girl, you know i will be coming home to you darling, i no it’s wrong to be so far from home, i know it’s wrong to leave you so alone.”

27. Whisketown/Ryan Adams – 16 days
“got 16 days, one for every time i’ve gone away”

28. Ryan Adams – Nightbirds
i usually just use this melody to fall asleep

29. Snow Patrol – It’s beginning to get to me
” I tried to tell you before I left
But I was screaming under my breath
You are the only thing that makes sense
Just ignore all this present tense“

30. Son Volt – Highways and Cirgarettes
“can’t escape the smell cigarettes, still living out these american midnight blues.”

31. Son Volt – Windfall
“ Catching an all-night station somewhere in Louisiana
It sounds like 1963, but for now it sounds like heaven”

32. Tori Amos – Hotel (you didn’t think Tori wasn’t going to make an appearance, did ya?)
“met him in a hotel, met him in a hotel”

33. Tori Amos – Black Dove (January)
“but i have to get to TEXAS, yeah i have to get to TEXAS, and i’ll give away my blue, blue dress.”

34. U2 – Trying to throw your arms around the world.
yeah, i am.

35. Wilco – Dash 7
“Dash 7 in the air,
Dropped to the sun alone,
Jets hum
I wish that I was still there,
Props not a jet, alone,
Where the sun doesn’t come down
Because I’ve found the way those engines sound,
Will make it kiss the ground,
When you touch down”

36. Wilco – Do You Miss Me?
“I’ve been sleepin’ alone, out on my own
I’m sure it seems like I’m takin’ my time to get back to you
You been doin’ your part, working real hard
I’m not lying, sure it seems like I’m trying to get back at you
Do you miss me too?
Baby say I’ll miss you, just say you’ll miss me to.”

37. Zookeeper – Trumpets
“the jungle is filled with my friends
we sleep when and where we can
and i don’t know the last weekend
we saw”

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