lyrics thursday
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Hi, everyone.
Takes a dried up ballpoint, lemon juice and water. Keeps a diary invisibly. In the kitchen corner of a basement bachelor suite, there's a certain search for certainty you know we'll never see. Her hands touch her childhood home in photos that she took. It's one more omission from a high school history book, how whole lives get knifed and pushed aside.
To whom it may concern,
(To whom it may concern,)
There's a bus that's leaving half an hour from now. (This is too hard.) It won't take her where she really wants to go (Yours, sincerely yours.) so she sits there with her luggage at her side (Yours, sincerely yours.) in the empty stations of our empty lives.
Take a broken bottle, take a rafter beam or take a needle and a tarnished spoon, or just words to kill off one more unheard statement of another dying afternoon. She says she's leaving soon. So, so long to ten hour shifts and faking sympathies. Farewell to piles of bills, unpaid utilities, all rolled up and unfurled like a flag. Wake up and pack your bag.
To whom it may concern,
(To whom it may concern,)
There's a bus that's leaving half an hour from now. (This is too hard.) It won't take her where she really wants to go (Yours, sincerely yours.) so she sits there with her luggage at her side (Yours, sincerely yours.), leaving empty stations, leaving empty lives.
Locating MOG account...
Comments (10)
Well. You're still alive! That's good. The tune is.......
....I read the lyric....I was expecting slow & sad....but this rocks.
The lyrics trump the tune. Thanks for sharing with us.
hello yourself. Samson and co. are my lynchpin into a return to musical discovery and always welcome tones. "What force on earth can be weaker than the feeble strength of one?" What can be stronger?
Bartleby and Poe, kinda like Halley's Comet...
...coming twice in one week.
Whaaaat!
It's Thursday?
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I really need to get my shit together...
HOLY COW!! Bartleby!!
LOVE this. I've had this band on my radar but for some reason, kept them on the back burner. They've moved WAY up in priority--thanks to you.
XOXO
Her situation appears grave, which gives the song gravitas. Her destination is unknown and undescribed, which gives the song mystery. The lively music rocks, which gives the song irony.
has to be one of the best concerts I have ever been to when I got to see these guys. The openers, well a good friend was in that band and it was their first "big" show they got to play. Afterwards got to hang out with the weakerthans and of course talk about how much I love their music
poebegone, your sabbatical from MOG suggests that the title of this post's track is a subtle message to us Followers, preparing us for a woebegone future, with a variety of withdrawal symptoms. On the other hand [she wore a glove], a life that pulls you in different directions is a richly complex life.