day twenty one | song

prompt: song

What were your favourite songs? (Author: Kaileen Elise) 

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I really enjoy listening to music with my kids so the radio stations - usually SiriusXM Alt Nation in the truck and Galaxy 134 in the house - are dialed in to alternative rock. 

Occasionally we hear some Top 40 or some Country, but it is mostly songs by: AWOLNATION, The Killers, Jack White, M83, Queens of the Stone Age, The Lumineers, Metric, Florence + the Machine, The Black Keys, Gomez, Grouplove, Jimmy Eat World, Oberhofer, Two Door Cinema Club, Manchester Orchestra, Band of Sculls, Arkells, We Are Augustines, Muse, Linkin Park, 311, Stars, Walk the Moon, Weezer, Arcade Fire, Billy Talent, Of Monsers and Men, Death Cab for Cutie, Atlas Genius, Incubus, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Mother Mother, The Maccabees, Teagan and Sara, Passion Pit, Finger Eleven, The Temper Trap, Mumford & Sons, Kings of Leon, Silversun Pickups, City and Colour, Coldplay, Gotye, The Joy Formidable, Low Level Flight, The Trews, Imagine Dragons, Foo Fighters, The Naked and Famous, MGMT, The Shins, A Silent Film and fun.

Recently, the one song - by fun. - that has me stop what I'm doing and turn up the volume:

"Carry On"

Well I woke up to the sound of silence
the cars were cutting like knives in a fist fight
and I found you with a bottle of wine
your head in the curtains
and heart like the Fourth of July

You swore and said
"We are not
We are not shining stars"
This I know
I never said we are

Though I've never been through hell like that
I've closed enough windows
to know you can never look back

If you're lost and alone
Or you're sinking like a stone
Carry on
May your past be the sound
Of your feet upon the ground
Carry on

Carry on, carry on

So I met up with some friends
at the edge of the night
At a bar off 75
And we talked and talked
about how our parents will die
All our neighbours and wives

But I like to think
I can cheat it all
To make up for the times I've been cheated on
And it's nice to know
When I was left for dead
I was found and now I don't roam these streets
I am not the ghost you are to me

If you're lost and alone
Or you're sinking like a stone
Carry on
May your past be the sound
Of your feet upon the ground
Carry on

Whoa
My head is on fire
But my legs are fine
After all they are mine
Lay your clothes down on the floor
Close the door
Hold the phone
Show me how
No one’s ever gonna stop us now

Cause we are
We are shining stars
We are invincible
We are who we are
On our darkest day
When we’re miles away
Sun will come
We will find our way home

If you're lost and alone
Or you're sinking like a stone
Carry on
May your past be the sound
Of your feet upon the ground
Carry on

Carry on, carry on 

This is brilliant! The words, the melody, all of it.