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I swear, I love The Shins more and more each day. Their universality unceasingly amazes me. Is there anyone in the world who HASN'T felt like this:
Turn On Me
You can fake it for a while, Bite your tongue and smile, Like every mother does an ugly child. But the stars are leaking out, Like spittle from a cloud, Amassed resentment counting ounce and pound.
You're entertaining any doubt, Because you had to know that I was fond of you, Fond of Y-O-U, Though I knew you masked your disdain. I can see that change was just too hard for us, Hard for us. You always had to hold the reigns, But where I'm headed, you just don't know the way.
So affections fade away, And do adults just learn to play The most ridiculous, repulsive games? On the faith of ruddy sons, And the double-barreled guns, You better hurry, Rabbit, run, run, run. 'Cause meeting you was fun, And there's a lot of hungry howlers in this one cell. We're taking it over, Their brittle, thorny stems, They break before they bend, And neither one of us is one of them.
And the tails will never mend, 'Cause you had it in for me so long ago. Boy, I still don't know, I don't know why and I don't care, You don't hide me anymore, If you'd only seen yourself hating me. Hating me, When I've been so much more than fair. But then you had to lay those feelings bare, One thing I know still got you scared, You're all that cold iron, And never once aired of our dead.
You had to know that I was fond of you, Fond of Y-O-U. So I took your lips at the time, And to change like that is just so hard to do, Hard to do. Don't let it whip-crack your life, And bow out from the fight, 'Cause oh, how your sisters will write. The worst part is over, Now, get back on that horse and ride.
The Shins are under appreciated. I think I'm actually going to commit myself to the following statement: They are my favorite (non-defunct) band. I never wanted to be that committed, but they forced me. With the exception of some poor grammar here and there, I can find no fault with The Shins.
That's not the point. This is:
Girl on the Wing bothers me. I heard it a few years ago and was disturbed because I felt too connected to it. It was like hearing a soothsayer's warning of unfavorable things to come. I feared that one day I'd hear the song and I think about things in the past tense. Some songs do that. They carry me into the past or into the future. Girl on the Wing did that. I just wish it didn't wind up that way.
"We could have been so good-natured If I'd relented when you insisted, But we've been backed against All nature's walls far too long."
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Agree with your article ! Spread the word, get them to sign The Shins' guest book at http://www.theshins.co.uk
Mark Kozelek has a strange power over me. He turns my heart into a two-ton hunk of lead. And I almost always have a hard time shaking it off.
Even now. Even still.
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I'll have to go back and give this song an unpassive listen...I've never been a huge fan of the shins passed Oh, Inverted World, but these are some damn fine lyrics
haha, yeah it's too early, *past