The Song I'm Loving Today

This Is the Life (Amy MacDonald)

I first heard this song on one of those Starbuck's CDs with collections of coffee-shop-appropriate songs by different artists.  Overall I'd give the CD a middling rating, but I fell in love with this song - which is great for singing along to!

I think what I like about it is the contrast between the lighthearted, party-life theme of the verses and  the darker "where are you going?" chorus and musical structure.  Amy MacDonald is Scottish, so a lot of her music has an appropriately minor sound to it, even if it's offset by a pop-type beat.



Oh the wind whistles down
The cold dark street tonight,
And the people they were dancing to the music vibe
And the boys chase the girls with the curls in their hair
While the shy tormented just sit way over there
And the songs they get louder,
Each one better than before.

And you're singing the songs
Thinking this is the life,
And you wake up in the morning and you're head feels twice the size.
Where you gonna go? Where you gonna go?
Where you gonna sleep tonight?

And you're singing the songs
Thinking this is the life,
And you wake up in the morning and you're head feels twice the size.
Where you gonna go? Where you gonna go?
Where you gonna sleep tonight?
Where you gonna sleep tonight?

So you're heading down the road in your taxi for four,
And you're waiting outside Jimmy's front door
But nobody's in and nobody's home 'til four.
So you're sitting there with nothing to do
Talking about Robert Riger and his motley crew,
And where you're gonna go and where you're gonna sleep tonight.

And you're singing the songs
Thinking this is the life,
And you wake up in the morning and you're head feels twice the size.
Where you gonna go? Where you gonna go?
Where you gonna sleep tonight? (x2)

Where you gonna sleep tonight?

And you're singing the songs
Thinking this is the life,
And you wake up in the morning and you're head feels twice the size.
Where you gonna go? Where you gonna go?
Where you gonna sleep tonight? (x4)

Where you gonna sleep tonight?