My Gen X Playlist: You and Me – Lifehouse

A few of the job opportunities I’ve seen are hybrid in Los Angeles. That’s an hour by car without traffic. Double that each way due to wonderful Southern California rush hour.

I started researching train schedules and learned that this may be a feasible option. I can take the train into Union Station in downtown Los Angeles. From there, jump on another train or subway. It may be feasible.

I actually love trains. Having lived in Japan for a year, that was my only mode of transportation. Music, books, people watching. There’s plenty to do enroute. It certainly beats road rage from sitting in the “parking lot” on the 405. Five lanes crammed with cars in a constant stop and go motion. No bueno.

Union Station is actually a wonderful building. It’s one of the largest train stations in the western United States and is often regarded as “the last of the great train stations”. I love the art deco style and learned many movies were filmed here as well – Blade Runner, Pearl Harbor and The Dark Knight Rises to name a few.

As I was catching up with my 90’s music, I also learned Lifehouse filmed the music video to You and Me there as well. This is a sappy love song, but I still like it. I like it even more after reading a little about the backstory.

This is an important song for Bryce Soderberg, who took over on bass for Lifehouse in 2004. “With ‘You and Me,’ it basically served as a resurrection of the band,” he told Jeff Gorra. “I had recently joined and we started touring. I got to experience the band breaking again. We put the song out, and it was the only ballad of its kind on that record. We didn’t have high expectations. We had just switched labels. I remember it stayed on the charts for a long period of time and reached a lot of people. It was overwhelming to see. It was the second chapter of Lifehouse and relaunched our career.”

Songfacts

Second chapters. Relaunching careers. I like the ring to that. That’s me right now.

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What day is it
And in what month?
This clock never seemed so alive
I can't keep up, and I can't back down
I've been losing so much time

'Cause it's you and me
And all of the people with nothing to do
Nothing to lose
And it's you and me
And all of the people
And I don't know why
I can't keep my eyes off of you

What are the things that I want to say
Just aren't coming out right?
I'm tripping on words
You got my head spinning
I don't know where to go from here

'Cause it's you and me
And all of the people with nothing to do
Nothing to prove
And it's you and me
And all of the people
And I don't know why
I can't keep my eyes off of you

There's something about you now
That I can't quite figure out
Everything she does is beautiful
Everything she does is right

'Cause it's you and me
And all of the people with nothing to do
Nothing to lose
And it's you and me and all of the people
And I don't know why
I can't keep my eyes off of you and me
And all of the people with nothing to do
Nothing to prove
And it's you and me and all of the people
And I don't know why
I can't keep my eyes off of you

What day is it?
And in what month?
This clock never seemed so alive