Wednesday, March 17, 2004

SOME PEOPLE ARE LYRICS, SOME ARE MUSIC AND MELODY

Some of us are right down the middle. That would be me. I like a good lyric, a song has to say something to me for me to really appreciate it. Then there are the songs that are lyrically uh, uniquely personal and open to interpretation. Alternately called "That persons crazy shit".
My favorite, hands down (at this moment) is Radiohead's "Fake Plastic Trees":

Her green plastic watering can- for her fake chinese rubber plant- in the fake plastic earth- that she bought from a rubber man
In a town full of rubber plans to get rid of itself
It wears her out
She lives with a broken man- a cracked polystyrene man- who just crumbles and burns
He used to do surgery for girls in the eighties- But gravity always wins- and it wears him out
She looks like the real thing- She tastes like the real thing- my fake plastic love
But I can't help the feeling
I could blow through the ceiling
If I just turn and run- and it wears me out.
If I could be who you wanted all the time.


What? It's nonsense, but not really, the way it's delivered, the music and the melody turn this word salad into one of the most heartfelt moving songs I've ever heard.

What song moves you and why?
I'm just askin'.

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