Loving you should be easier, but say the word and I might have to stay

"Watching your chest rise and fall, the numbers don't add up at all when all we are is 100 trillion cells, 206 bones, 5 quarts of blood, 45 miles of nerves, nerves, nerves, and 100,000 hairs, and too many organs, and 60,000 miles of arteries...we must have been made by a man, because a woman would've made us more economically."

That song, as well as the album it comes from, is providing thoughts for the week...possibly (read: probably) much longer than that. The album is titled Our First Mistake and is a compilation of songs written by Kerrigan-Lowdermilk, a musical-writing pair that I fell in love with when I first heard my choir teacher sing Run Away With Me sophomore year of high school. Run Away With Me, from the musical The Unauthorized Autobiography of Samantha Brown, remains one of my favorite songs ever.

So...there are no decent YouTube videos of my favorite version (by Josh Young - iTunes it up, people!), but I just found this 3-part version! Aside from it not being the best recording, it's actually really good. Watch it watch it watch it...waaaaaaaatch iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit.

But back to the album. How to Return Home, Last Week's Alcohol, Not a Love Story...so much emotion, so many things to consider.

It's hard to describe it...but this is an album that you can't just listen and sing along with. You need to pay attention to it, digest it, let it impact you. It's so perfect. It's so wonderful. It's so...not for everyone. Just so you're aware. You might not like it. But maybe it'll surprise you how much Last Week's Alcohol's beat gets stuck in your head, how you remember the verse from Five and a Half Minutes so easily.

Give it a try. Prepare for a different musical experience.