Song of the Day - The Story

iTunes has this cool thing going where every Tuesday they post a free song by an up-and-coming artist for you to download. Now if you're a rap fan, the country tune on offer may not appeal to you but sometimes there's a gem up for grabs. And hey--who can argue with FREE?!!!

One such free iTune turned out to be a gem for me--Brandi Carlile's The Story. It was featured on an episode of Grey's Anatomy a while back--but I won't hold that against her.

(Seriously, how annoying has Grey's gotten? And I don't care how much they're paying Ellen Pompeo--she'd better watch her step! Having the show named after your character is no guarantee of anything. Just ask Valerie Harper whose eponymous show was renamed Valerie's Family and then The Hogan Family after her salary dispute led to her character's demise.

Now that the Grey's producers have another "Grey" waiting in the wings in the form of Meredith's step-sister Lexie, it doesn't matter how many cardio-thoracic and neurosurgeon hotties are on call. The next time she's turning blue and they've charged the defibrillator as high as it will go, the producers will let her walk towards the light if she tries to hold out for more money.

Of course, the producers/writers are somewhat to blame for creating the dark and twisty "it doesn't matter that I'm a promising surgeon with a hottie boyfriend and my own house, I'm gonna let myself drown because my demented Mommy was mean to me" character. Oh please! Get over yourself. But Ellen Pompeo truly raises the bar for portraying the gratingly flat and whiny waif. Ugh. And she's looking a bit old to be an intern...)

Back to Brandi--at a mere 26 years-old, it might be hard to buy such lyrics as "All of these lines across my face, Tell you the story of who I am..." but damn does she ever sell it. Forget Amy Winehouse--she and her overdrawn eyeliner and tattoos can stay in rehab. Brandi Carlile is the real deal in my opinion. Her style on The Story is ragged whiskey and cigarettes morphing into a wailing blues crescendo.

Enjoy!


The Story

All of these lines across my face
Tell you the story of who I am
So many stories of where I’ve been
And how I got to where I am
But these stories don’t
mean anything
When you’ve got no one
to tell them to
It’s true
I was made for you

I climbed across the mountain tops
Swam all across the ocean blue
I crossed all the lines
and I broke all the rules
But baby I broke them all for you
Because even when I was flat broke
You made me feel
like a million bucks
Yeah you do
and I was made for you

You see the smile that’s on my mouth
Is hiding the words that don’t come out
And all of my friends who think that I’m blessed
They don’t know my head is a mess
No, they don’t know
who I really am
And they don’t know
what I’ve been through
but you do
And I was made for you

All of these lines across my face
Tell you the story of who I am
So many stories of where I’ve been
And how I got to where I am
But these stories don’t
mean anything
When you’ve got no one
to tell them to
It’s true
I was made for you

Oh yeah, it’s true
I was made for you