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Be Two

Let us be two better
Let's pretend that are friends
Let's all go where the fruit flies lead us
They all have the key.

Something in your eyes,
Is it just a sty?
My oh my oh my
Are you now that guy?

Do you hold the key
to open every gate?
Can you pass through walls
or will you wait?

To say they open the sky,
You know that's just a fat lie,
To begin, to begin,
to begin on your way.

Let us be two gathered
let's pretend
that we are on two different ways.
Let us be two scattered,
let's pretend
that we are not using plays.
Let us be two bettered,
let's pretend
that we're two hearts in a haze.

Let us be two bettered,
let's pretend
that we're two hearts in a haze.

in a haze

in a haze.

I sang this song I wrote in a coffee shop last week and someone mentioned that the cadence and melody could also be interpreted in this way: That, of course, is Let's Pretend by Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman, Howe

Playlists Have Taken Over

Playlists Own Your Player

Or does one?

Ever since the advent of tape recorders, playlists have been taking over increasingly more space on the audiophile's shelf and brainwidth, or mindshare.

Well, here's one you might enjoy:

only indie playlist you will ever need from lindsaystyles on 8tracks Radio.

And now that you've hopefully enjoyed that music playlist, here's something you might like to know about playlists. Music Magn8 had nothing to do with 8tracks compiling or publishing that list. We just thought it was deserving of your ears for a moment, to listen and judge for yourselves.

So what's on your playlist?

Do share. We love hearing what you hear and knowing more about it.

Mumford & Sons - I Will Wait

Mumford & Sons: I Will Wait

The Most Interesting Man's Make on Mumford & Sons

The hipster band's mega hit that has fans listening around the world.

Hating Mumford & Sons Is Futile

Sure, it's easy to pick on Mumford & Sons and their legions of new fans. They're hipsters. The songs are sometimes so catchy, you feel like they're just an irresistible strain of the latest virus going around. If at all possible, you'd like to avoid them like the plague.

But you can't. And here's why. Not only have we just exposed you to one of the greatest songwriting bands of this generation (if you didn't already know them before), but now that you've hopefully listened to the band performing "I Will Wait" in their live music video, you know you want to know more about this group.

And don't tell me that before you knew who was in the band, you never thought the lead singer's voice sounds almost exactly like singer David Gray, of Babylon fame. Don't think so?

OK. Go ahead. Watch this clip, and let us know how crazy that comparison really is (or isn't).

Now here's an interesting story, or rather, stories, about Mumford & Sons in documentary form.

Now, if that hasn't inspired you or given you some insight into the story behind the people who are Mumfor & Sons, and their crew and fans, well, so be it.

On the other hand, if you've taken a liking to them, you might enjoy these two commercial plugs that we don't get anything to promote:

Hipster Clothes - where you can buy clothes that look like spent money on daddy's credit cart, so that you can look almost like you didn't buy them, but rather recycled them instead, in an ironic exclamation of privileged fake poverty and immaterialism.

Mumford & Sons online shop - where you can buy all the official stuff that the band sells to people who are too cool for school.