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October 04, 2005
it's like Gattaca but with Roth IRAs instead of space ships
A Day in the Life of Everyone - Spring Break 2000
Unrelated: Liars and Blood Brothers are due to release a split EP of Doors covers (yes, Doors covers) on Hand Held Heart records, some time in the near future, as soon as the (reportedly splendid and lavish) artwork is completed. Although my dislike for the Doors is both long-lived and immutable (stemming from a childhood incident involving a weekend of fever, televised golf, and my dad's then-penchant for blasting "Best of the Doors" on repeat on our 9 cubic feet of stereo equipment), if any bands can make their songs not only palatable but good, it's Liars and Blood Brothers.
Semi-related: The band that made this song was also known simply as Dave Young, a guy from Fredericksburg, VA. Any other information about him was lost when my negotiations with the people of Fredericksburg went sour (I was going to buy their monstrosity of a mall, Central Park), and I was given a lifetime ban from the town.
Diagram:
Pt. 1: pinprickly notes
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Dave's hard-teen lyrics---//(slight caesura)
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______________[wounded harmonies] (unknown co-singer)
Pt. 2: (at 1:00 it snaps into the sweetest high school acoustic mush ever) The progression is nothing to write home about, but the guitar and mandolin (I think) and quasi-skillful harmonizing elevate the super-earnest break-up lyrics from mere 'your eyes are like pools of pain stabbing into my love cortex' melodrama into something that's more than a little charming. Plus how can you hate on a line like, "insomnia is back/again/I wish that you came with it". You can't. I've tried, it's really too much work.
Posted by Kevin at October 4, 2005 12:41 AM