Pale September

Fall's my favorite season. When I start to feel it creeping close, I get all itchy for it to hurry up and show its face already. It makes me wanna sit outside and smoke while inhaling the deep earthy scent of leaves. It makes me think of cold cement and dead gray skies. It makes me think of Halloween's sad droop and pumpkins' mad grins. It makes me want to cuddle close with someone under soft fleece covers. It makes me want to press my forehead against a cold window pane while I look at the deepening dusk. It makes me want to scrape my shoes along the pavement as I head off to class. It makes me want to drink warm apple cider (even though I don't really care for it) and pull my hoody tight around me as I walk home in the dark. It makes me wanna sleep with my window cracked and then huddle beneath a mound of blankets and evade my alarm clock as the darkness rolls away to leave a slight chill draped across the morning.

It makes me want to fall in love. And then fall in love again. And then fall in love some more.

Songs That Remind Me of Autumn

Definites

Pink Bullets--The Shins

Done Wrong--Ani Difranco

November--Tom Waits

"November's cold chain
Made of wet boots and rain
And shiny black ravens
On chimney smoke lanes"

Pale September--Fiona Apple

Hey Kind Friend--Indigo Girls

Kissing Song--Dawn Landes (Click to listen)

How to Disappear Completely--Radiohead

Dear Chicago--Ryan Adams

You Said Something--PJ Harvey

This Mess We're In--PJ Harvey

Here Comes the Flood--Peter Gabriel

"Cool of a temperate breeze from dark skies to wet grass
we fell in a field it seems now a thousand summers passed
when our kite lines first crossed
we tied them into knots
and to finally fly apart
we had to cut them off."

Shine On You Crazy Diamond--Pink Floyd

Runner's-Up

I Am Trying to Break Your Heart--Wilco

Lonely 1--Robert Sean Leonard

3-Speed--Eels

Cold Cold Water--Mirah

Sorry Signs on Cash Machines--Mason Jennings

"the wind is ruthless
the trees shake angry fingers at the sky
the people hunch their shoulders
hold their collars over their ears and run by"

Lost Cause--Beck

Lover, You Should've Come Over--Jeff Buckley

Spies--Coldplay

Please Forgive Me--David Gray

Waiting on an Angel--Ben Harper

"Pale september, I wore the time like a dress that year
The autumn days swung soft around me, like cotton on my skin
But as the embers of the summer lost their breath and disappeared
My heart went cold and only hollow rhythms resounded from within"

Five-String Serenade--Mazzy Star

Lullaby in 3/4--Erin McKeown

Sweet Thing--Van Morrison

the American Beauty soundtrack

So what're some of YOUR favorite autumn songs?

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