I got a new CD One Cell in the Sea by A Fine Frenzy, I really like it, my favorite lyrics so far are:

Just you put your mind at ease
you don't owe me anything
you paid me well in memories

So last week was fun, I went to a Griffin House concert at Jammin Java, and enjoyed it a lot.  Griffin House is similar to Damien Rice and put on a great show.  I will definitely be buying his CDs and seeing him again if comes back around to this area.  The concert itself was at a very cool coffee house sort of place, small and intimate, my kind of venue.  Later on in the week I went and saw Damien Rice in DC, he was pretty amazing.  I love the fact that he just came out and started playing, no opening band, which kept the concert shorter and you only saw what you came

A friend told me about Carbon Leaf many months ago, but I recently just acted on getting their CD's.  Their Indian Summer CD is pretty great.  One song I've connected with is "Raise the Roof", here are the lyrics I like from it:

The wisest advice to me, that I didn't teach
Was to lock up the heart, but keep the key in reach

Very true.

So I downloaded the song last week from iTunes, and other than being way too short, its a great song, heres the lyrics:

All I need is a bitter song
To make me better, much better
All I need to write is a bitter song
To make me better, much better

It found me, to hold me
But I don't like it at all,
Won't feed it, won't grow it
It's folded in my stomach
It's not fair, I've found love
It made me say that get back
You'll never, see daylight if I'm not strong
It just might

So a friend introduced me to, sort of, Regina Spektor, and wow, I love it.  I especially love her songs, Buildings, On The Radio, and Fidelity.  The following lyrics are from On the Radio:

No, this is how it works
You peer inside yourself
You take the things you like
And try to love the things you took
And then you take that love you made
And stick it into some
Someone else's heart
Pumping someone else's blood
And walking arm in arm
You hope it don't get harmed