Rehearsing Disasters
This week's song comes to you from the Owls. It's the same members that made up the influential Cap'n Jazz, minus Davey, who went from Promise Ring to Maritime.
i know what i have to do and do it. i know what i have to do and do it. but don't know what it is until it's done. i know it must be rough, you're so much smarter than your friends. come clean in jokes. integrity in tennis shoes. waiting thinking how'd i like to be call waiting. territory mutinies horizon. disease teaches immunity. a promise implied can't be broken. and even now in the sunlight with grapefruit juice and coffee bound and bountied to winter without end would you two like each other or are you too alike? i know what i have to do and do it. i know what i have to do and do it. but don't know what it is until it's done. i've been inventing you and continue inventing you. may we all make it home safely. i know it must be rough, you're so much smarter than your friends. rehearsing disasters and forecasting all your needs. i dance early then got shy and had to go home early. the mirage will fade as it unfolded. the plot's defamed it's own voltage. a promise at the time can't be beat. and even now as the snow is opening it's whole in pieces and wets each grieving hold of last year's trash it's not impossible to think of you thinking of me. may we all make it home safely.
4 comments:
Great song. I'm ashamed to admit that I was never really into Captain Jazz. Not because I didn't like the music, but because, for whatever reason, I never got into them. I guess I can only handle one indie pioneer at a time, so I went with Braid.
The Owls are great though. I remember being excited when they first hit the scene. Aren't they on that Michigan Fest DVD you picked up? (Along with an interview with their super-weird band-leander, the same guy from Joan of Arc)
I really never got into Cap'n Jazz either. I hated his singing, but it's better in the Owls. Plus I got used to it some. Yes, they were on the Michigan Fest DVD.
I've decided I'm going to make a mix of the songs you put up.
How sweet.
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