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