This is a Winter playlist. I know it’s not officially here yet, but we can feel it coming. 

With the exception of the Holiday Season, no one really likes winter. I in fact, love winter. I love the anticipation of the cold as you step outside. I love leaving my window open just a crack as I sleep, and getting all warm beneath the covers. I love the smell of firewood and the way your nose tingles when you breathe in the freezing cold air. I love mittens. I love drinking hot chocolate outside with mittens on. I love candlelight on window ledges, flickering against the frosted glass. I love taking long walks down my street while puffs of snow fall gently to the ground. I’m romanticizing, I know. It’s one of my many talents. I can romanticize the fuck out of most things. 

Any who, this is a winter playlist for you all. Look them up, download, etc. 

Happy Winter.

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{intro} 

Mumford & Sons - Timshel 

i) Stars - What The Snowman Learned About Love

ii) Robyn - Stars 4-Ever

iii) The Antlers - I Don’t Want Love

iv) Cults - Go Outside

v) Ray LaMontagne - You Are The Best Thing

vi) Miike Snow - Burial

vii) Aphex Twin - Avril 14th

viii) Ingrid Michaelson - Snowfall

ix) Broken Social Scene - Lover’s Spit

x) Candi Staton - You’ve Got the Love

xi) Animal Collective - Winter’s Love

xii) Rufus Wainwright - Pretty Things

xiii) Sarah McLachlan - River

xiv) Snow Patrol - Open Your Eyes

xv) Travis - Love Will Come Through

xvi) R.E.M. - At My Most Beautiful

xvii) Sara Bareilles & Ingrid Michaelson - Winter Song

xviii) Brandi Carlile - The Heartache Can Wake

xix) John Lennon - Happy Christmas (War Is Over)

xx) Pink Martini - Auld Lang Syne 

xxi) Neko Case - At Last

{coda}

Dustin O’Halloran - Opus 36

time after time,

     you tell me I’m head over feet crazy for you,

don’t you remember the reason why?

don’t you remember the reason why?

     Sigh no more.

     Oh my love, sigh no more because

         I’m a soldier of love,

                     my sweet daydreamer,

                     saving all my love for you.

roll away your stone

and remember what the snowman learned about love:

that time can never kill the true heart,

                  my boy,

that love is a battlefield,

                  my boy,

that love will keep us together

                  my boy,

                  because, look up, rain is falling, looks like love.