Monthly Archives: January 2015

Favourite Songs

Okay so I just went through all my songs and I came up with a list of my favourite songs. These are subject to change because well they are all good and I tend to change my mind on a daily basis. So here goes.

1. Nirvana – Smells Like Teen Spirit
2. Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody
3. Three Days Grace – Last To Know
4. Simple Plan – Untitled
5. A Day To Remember – Breathe Hope In Me
6. Nirvana – In Bloom
7. Green Day – American Idiot
8. Metallica – Enter Sandman
9. ACDC – Back In Black
10. The Pretty Reckless – Make Me Wanna Die
11. Blink 182 – All The Small Things
12. Marianas Trench – All To Myself
13. The Sex Pistols – Anarchy In The UK
14. The Offspring – The Noose
15. Slash – Back From Cali feat. Myles Kennedy
16. Weezer – Say It Ain’t So
17. The White Stripes – Seven Nation Army
18. The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus – Your Guardian Angel
19. Foo Fighters – These Days
20. Green Day – Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)

With a special mention to Don McLean’s American Pie for being the first song I ever learnt all the words to. The short version, not the long one.

Ok, that was tough. I know I only have myself to blame because I set the challenge myself, but still…

Love
Roxanne

Teen Spirit

I know posting the video for Nirvana’s Smells Like Teen Spirit seems a bit cliche but I just got record player for Christmas and have been listening to Nevermind on vinyl. Also I’m learning to play guitar and I just learnt how to play the intro.
But aside from that it’s just a great song. A rock anthem. It’s the song that really got me into music and rock. Kurt Cobain’s voice is unbelievable and the film clip is so filled with teenage rebellion that you’d be hard pressed to find anyone in Gen Y that doesn’t relate to it.
It might be my favourite song ever, but that’s a big call. There are a lot of great songs. I might to think about it and get back to you.

Love
Roxanne

I’m Still There

It’s All Quiet Now is about something that happened to me recently. Well, more like happened adjacent to me. There was a hostage situation in the building I work in. I work on the ground floor and it happened in the cafe across the hall. I wasn’t technically a hostage, although I and the people I was with, couldn’t get out for a few hours. I could see the hostages and there wasn’t much than a bit of glass between me and a man with a gun.

This song is about how, although I escaped, I never really left. I can picture the events of that day like it just happened and it doesn’t exactly help that I still have to work in that building everyday. I made it out and life appears normal and quiet but it will never be the same. While the world moves on, I’m still there. Trying to get out.

Love
Roxanne

It’s All Quiet Now

It started the same
Just a normal day
But now who’s to blame
For the mess they made
There was yelling
We locked our door
There was no telling
If we’d make it out
But with a window
We found a way
We need no hero
To save the day
So down the ladder
To escape the man
We did scatter
Lest we see his gun

It’s all quiet now
But we’re still here
It’s all quiet now
Why do we still fear
When can we leave
Why can’t we escape
It’s all quiet now
What will be our fate

I made it out
But I’m still there
Every shout
Takes me back there
Back to that day
When we were hiding
Finding our way
Trying to break free
I can’t escape it
That day in my head
I try and fake it
But it’s there waiting
Panic starts to rise
Just as the sun sets
Cause I need the light
To fight the nightmares

It’s all quiet now
But we’re still here
It’s all quiet now
Why do we still fear
When can we leave
Why can’t we escape
It’s all quiet now
What will be our fate

Please let us out
You’re safe inside
But if he comes
We can’t hide
Please let us out
You’re safe inside
What if he comes
With his gun

It’s all quiet now
But we’re still here
It’s all quiet now
Why do we still fear
When can we leave
Why can’t we escape
It’s all quiet now
What will be our fate

Based On Me

Bad Girl is based on me. I have tattoos, wear a lot of black and I’ve always got on, what my friends like to call, my evil bitch face glare. But those are my walls, my defenses. Once you get passed them I’m loyal to and protective of my friends. Plus my friends get a kick out making fun of me for my glare and my short skirts. The name Roxanne actually came from one of my friends. One time I wore this really tight and short red dress so they started singing “Roxanne! You don’t have to put on the red dress” Basically calling me a whore. I thought it was funny and I guess it kind of stuck. But they know that thats not me on the inside. They don’t judge me on my looks, they accept me for who I am.

So I guess the moral of this song is that old saying, don’t judge a book by its cover. People don’t always project who they are on the inside, outside.

Love
Roxanne

Bad Girl

If you see me walking down the street
You are probably going to stare
I’m covered in black from head to feet
With tattoos and piercings here and there
I wear more leather than most you meet
With my standard evil bitch face glare
So my appearance doesn’t scream sweet
And any colour on me is rare

There’s more than one side of me

To you I’m a mystery
To them I am a bad girl
To my parents I am good
I’m not one thing in this world
A lot depends on my mood
As to which of these you get
The girl you get tomorrow
Could be one you’ve never met

If you don’t judge me after first sight
You’ll get to see a different me
You’ll see what I’m like on the inside
The part nobody bothers to see
I was taught to always be polite
And to be the best I could be
You’ll never see me with a powder that’s white
I don’t lose touch with reality

There’s more than one side of me

To you I am a mystery
To them I am a bad girl
To my parents I am good
I’m not one thing in this world
A lot depends on my mood
As to which of these you get
The girl you get tomorrow
Could be one you’ve never met

I am both the good and the bad
I have a lot of skirts that are short
And sometimes I’m more scantily clad
Than your average high class escort
But if you need I’ll give you a hand
Because sometimes that’s what friends are for
So I’d you stick around you’ll be glad
Because with me you’ll never bored

To you I’m a mystery
To them I am a bad girl
To my parents I am good
I’m not one thing to this world
A lot depends on my mood
As to which of these you get
The girl you get tomorrow
Could be one you’ve never met