MVM #6.
Week five can be found here.
This week's song is
Pinch Me by The Barenaked Ladies.
Pinch Me
It's the perfect time of year
Somewhere far away from here
I feel fine enough, I guess
Considering everything's a mess.
There's a restaurant down the street
Where hungry people like to eat
I could walk, but I'll just drive
It's colder than it looks outside.
It's like a dream - you try to remember but it's gone, then ya
Try to scream but it only comes out as a yawn, when ya
Try to see the world beyond your front door.
Take your time the way I rhyme's gonna make you smile, when ya
Realize that a guy my size might take a while, just to
Try to figure out what all this is for.
It's the perfect time of day
To throw all your cares away
Put the sprinkler on the lawn
And run through with my gym shorts on.
Take a drink right from the hose
And change into some drier clothes
Climb the stairs up to my room
Sleep away the afternoon.
It's like a dream - you try to remember but it's gone, then ya
Try to scream but it only comes out as a yawn, when ya
Try to see the world beyond your front door.
Take your time the way I rhyme's gonna make you smile, when ya
Realize that a guy my size might take a while, just to
Try to figure out what all this is for.
Pinch Me
Pinch Me
Cos I'm still asleep.
Please God
Tell Me
That I'm still asleep
On an evening such as this (yo)
It's hard to tell if I exist
If I pack the car and leave this town
who'll notice that I'm not around?
I could hide out under there
I just made you say 'underwear'
I could leave but I'll just stay
All my stuff's here anyway.
It's like a dream - you try to remember but it's gone, then ya
Try to scream but it only comes out as a yawn, when ya
Try to see the world beyond your front door.
Take your time cos the way I rhyme's gonna make you smile, when ya
Realize that a guy my size might take a while, just to
Try to figure out what all this is for.
Try to figure out what all this is for.
Try to see the world beyond your front door.
Try to figure out what all this is for.
First off, this song reminds me of growing up. It's in that group of songs that I find hard to classify as any specific genre, more songs that remind me of coming of age, of the 90's, of music that everyone likes. It calms me down, I can sing most of the lyrics save the part where he goes a million miles a minute which I never got down.
I think I listened to this song a lot this week for comfort reasons. This week was really rough in terms of academics and health issues, and this song talks a lot about thinking about life. Thinking about something bigger than ourselves. And also just some of the basic comforts of life: running through a sprinkler, driving instead of walking, forgetting about your worries for a second and just going with the flow, if you will.
It's like a dream - you try to remember but it's gone, then ya
Try to scream but it only comes out as a yawn, when ya
Try to see the world beyond your front door.
Part of this seems about the lethargy of my generation, being forced to yawn at world events and world suffering because it's just a generational attitude, that is, 'why should I care?' And also about remembering when you were young, or remembering why you started on your specific life journey in the first place, but like a dream that slips through your fingers you can't quite figure out how you got to your specific place in life.
I'm starting to ooze philosophical mumbo-jumbo so I'm going to cap it.
Basically I love this song, and I hope you have heard it.
This week's song is
Pinch Me by The Barenaked Ladies.
Pinch Me
It's the perfect time of year
Somewhere far away from here
I feel fine enough, I guess
Considering everything's a mess.
There's a restaurant down the street
Where hungry people like to eat
I could walk, but I'll just drive
It's colder than it looks outside.
It's like a dream - you try to remember but it's gone, then ya
Try to scream but it only comes out as a yawn, when ya
Try to see the world beyond your front door.
Take your time the way I rhyme's gonna make you smile, when ya
Realize that a guy my size might take a while, just to
Try to figure out what all this is for.
It's the perfect time of day
To throw all your cares away
Put the sprinkler on the lawn
And run through with my gym shorts on.
Take a drink right from the hose
And change into some drier clothes
Climb the stairs up to my room
Sleep away the afternoon.
It's like a dream - you try to remember but it's gone, then ya
Try to scream but it only comes out as a yawn, when ya
Try to see the world beyond your front door.
Take your time the way I rhyme's gonna make you smile, when ya
Realize that a guy my size might take a while, just to
Try to figure out what all this is for.
Pinch Me
Pinch Me
Cos I'm still asleep.
Please God
Tell Me
That I'm still asleep
On an evening such as this (yo)
It's hard to tell if I exist
If I pack the car and leave this town
who'll notice that I'm not around?
I could hide out under there
I just made you say 'underwear'
I could leave but I'll just stay
All my stuff's here anyway.
It's like a dream - you try to remember but it's gone, then ya
Try to scream but it only comes out as a yawn, when ya
Try to see the world beyond your front door.
Take your time cos the way I rhyme's gonna make you smile, when ya
Realize that a guy my size might take a while, just to
Try to figure out what all this is for.
Try to figure out what all this is for.
Try to see the world beyond your front door.
Try to figure out what all this is for.
First off, this song reminds me of growing up. It's in that group of songs that I find hard to classify as any specific genre, more songs that remind me of coming of age, of the 90's, of music that everyone likes. It calms me down, I can sing most of the lyrics save the part where he goes a million miles a minute which I never got down.
I think I listened to this song a lot this week for comfort reasons. This week was really rough in terms of academics and health issues, and this song talks a lot about thinking about life. Thinking about something bigger than ourselves. And also just some of the basic comforts of life: running through a sprinkler, driving instead of walking, forgetting about your worries for a second and just going with the flow, if you will.
It's like a dream - you try to remember but it's gone, then ya
Try to scream but it only comes out as a yawn, when ya
Try to see the world beyond your front door.
Part of this seems about the lethargy of my generation, being forced to yawn at world events and world suffering because it's just a generational attitude, that is, 'why should I care?' And also about remembering when you were young, or remembering why you started on your specific life journey in the first place, but like a dream that slips through your fingers you can't quite figure out how you got to your specific place in life.
I'm starting to ooze philosophical mumbo-jumbo so I'm going to cap it.
Basically I love this song, and I hope you have heard it.