I don’t hate this. Probably the best version to date of the song I’ve written that has the best lyrics I’ll ever do. Explicitly Mundane. He & Him. Album “Someday We’ll Put a Jew in Space”. Tell your friends.
(I wrote this song originally, I shit you not, on a legal pad while working my first post-college job at an asbestos litigation law firm. This was before I had a piano to play, and before I had even tried teaching myself guitar. Think early 2009. I based the melody in my head between two songs- the first half mirrors Okkervil River’s “Girl at Port” while the second half is like a meth’d-up “Powder” by Bedhead. The lyrics have intentional meter, and there is literally no line that is thrown in for no reason. Everything alludes to everything else in the song. Best way to describe it? Someone feeling trapped in an apartment and smashing it’s windows from the inside in a cathartic fit. That’s what actually happens in the song, the only instance of “plot” really but of course it’s all metaphorical. It includes the best line I will ever write about sex- “White thighed earnest capitulations/ give us this day, forgive us our sins” and my best line intended for people in a rough patch to let them know things will get better- “No longer green with jealous rage/ and what you lost makes you feel saved” and a whole slew of lines that I independently love and would quote to people often if I didn’t have that little voice that tries to make sure I only use my narcissism on the internet- “The Snow fell down and burned your skin/ thank GOD it’s falling UP again.” Again. I don’t hate this)
