WHERE MUSIC LISTENS TO YOU

We have arrived

Posted over 2 years ago
"I leapt across three or four beds into your armsWhere I had hidden myself somewhere in your charmOur golden handshake has been smashed into this shape.It's taken magic to a primitive new placeWatch 'em run, although it's the minimum, heroicWe hunched together in one chair out on the deckIn snow that froze and fell down on the modern setIt looked as if I picked your name out of a hatNext thing you know you are asleep in someone’s lapWatch 'em run, although it's the minimum, heroicWe quit the roomQuit so our thoughts could restRest them, I'll never move?That's when we grab a holdOf whatever it is we fell intoLousy with your contentWith what the majestic cannot findIn business of your livesThe perception, it is wrong, mile after mileThe phantom taste drinking wine from your heelsWe have arrived too late to play the bleeding heart show"I want to take the last minute-and-a-half of this song, stretch it out into an endless reverberation, repeating the last line over and over, and give it to everyone I have ever known who has nursed misery for far too long. The music tiptoes around before breaking through a wall of sound into a communal joy so pure that it never fails to bring me to the verge of tears. Because at a certain point you just break through. How can I hand that feeling out?

Comments (4)

  1. jameson says I love you. ;) thumbs up. "Hey la, hey la"
    Permalink posted 02/19/2007
  2. kb says thanks for the gift.
    Permalink posted 02/20/2007
  3. EliasMeyer83 says Hey! I found your page randomly; a friend had given me a CD mix but had neglected to include the actual track titles on it, so basically, I heard this song for the first time a little while ago and just had to google some of the lyrics. I agree completely with you about the outro; I had to listen to it several times. :) Anyway, thanks for posting!
    Permalink posted 06/23/2007
  4. oldgoat says I love your comment! You must be a great person to want to lift everyone who can't shake off their melancholy and self-pity in such a dynamic way. It seems to be the band's point, but you capsulize it. Actually, it makes me feel the same way - and I'm a man - an older man. I just want it to go on forever. I want to drive down the road to oblivion - when my time comes - with that blasting away. That jubilant, firey ending somehow feels really 60s to me, like someone must have done it. But no, it's original - I was there so I know. Great band, great lyrics. Not sure about the name, however. Thank you for printing the lyrics.
    Permalink posted 06/27/2007

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