Thursday, November 17, 2011

Year In Song

Politics / Identity

I.

Our careless lifestyle, it was not so unwise now.

Hey, buddy, can I borrow five grand? 'cause my dad's in chemo and they want to take him off his plan.

Your mommy suddenly becomes your daddy.

In Gothenburg we don’t have VIP lines – in Gothenburg we don't make a fuss about who you are.

What’s it like to be small town and gay?

How can I feel free when all I want to be is by your side in that municipality?

Alex has a band so who cares about war?

If it takes all summer long just to write one simple song – there’s too much to focus on – clearly that is something wrong.

I write poetry for myself.


II.

I once thought a good name for a band would be orgy
But that’s when I lived in the city
Then I thought a good name would be children
That’s when I looked out my kitchen window drinking
green and raspberry liquids and seeing for a moment
through the hedge a mom and her child
at play


Sources:
I.
Real Estate, "Green Aisles"
Jens Lekman, "Waiting For Kirsten"
M83, "Raconte-Moi Une Histoire"
EMA, "California"
Real Estate, "Municipality"
Girls, "Alex"
Real Estate, "Younger Than Yesterday"
Destroyer, "Blue Eyes"
II.
Thurston Moore, lost verses from
Demolished Thoughts

2 comments:

Aaron said...

liner notes have the lyric as "i write poetry for myself! i write poetry for myself..."

sorry to be so nit-picky, i guess that's the way things go these days

Geoff said...

If it counts for anything I thought about repeating it twice. Exclamation and ellipsis are hard to tell apart in Bejarian.