The Postal Service...Clark Gable
This song is Clark Gable by The Postal Service. Their a small band that I've had a love affair with years. Have you ever found a band that just spoke to you? That is how The Postal Service is for me. I always felt that my ideals and thoughts on love...were jaded, too realist. I feel sometimes that people will never understand how I feel about love. It's not that I don't believe in love...I do. And I desperately want it..however...I also take a realistic out look on it, and that sets me apart from people sometimes. I've never felt like I ever had someone, or something that related to me and how I viewed love...until I found The Postal Service. Their words...are witty. Intelligent. Real. Delicate, romantic, tragic...and I relate to them, more then I can describe. The feeling that I feel when I listen to this band is like my heart swelling in my chest. I've never felt that I was understood in love...but almost every lyric to ever song from The Postal Service makes me feel....that I'm vidicated. Not alone. I do believe in love...they do too...but we aren't your streotypical romantics. We are maybe complicated and angst ridden, and analyze it too much...but even though we are cynical and destroyed by what we think is the 'ideal of love' we want love so badly.
People like me...we are desperate for love. "I want so badly to believe that there is truth, that love is real. And I want life in every word to the extent that it's absurd" There is no life without passion, and the Postal Service understands that too. They want life in every word, and that is exactly how I feel. I have a hard time expressing my views on love so that I dont sound angry or depressing over romance...but with songs like Clark Gable...I feel like I can try. This also explains why things like people spouting off....over and over and over...with poetry and flowery prose...anger me. Listen to the song, Read the lyrics, you'll understand.
"Clark Gable"
I was waiting for a cross-town train in the London underground when it struck me
That I've been waiting since birth to find a love that would look and sound like a movie
So I changed my plans and rented a camera and a van and then I called you
"I need you to pretend that we are in love again" and you agreed to
I want so badly to believe that "there is truth, that love is real"
And I want life in every word to the extent that it's absurd
I greased the lens and framed the shot using a friend as my stand-in
The script it called for rain but it was clear that day so we faked it
The marker snapped and I yelled "quiet on the set" and then called "action!"
And I kissed you in a style that Clark Gable would have admired (I thought it classic)
I want so badly to believe that "there is truth, that love is real"
And I want life in every word to the extent that it's absurd
I know you're wise beyond your years, but do you ever get the fear
That your perfect verse is just a lie you tell yourself to help you get by?
People like me...we are desperate for love. "I want so badly to believe that there is truth, that love is real. And I want life in every word to the extent that it's absurd" There is no life without passion, and the Postal Service understands that too. They want life in every word, and that is exactly how I feel. I have a hard time expressing my views on love so that I dont sound angry or depressing over romance...but with songs like Clark Gable...I feel like I can try. This also explains why things like people spouting off....over and over and over...with poetry and flowery prose...anger me. Listen to the song, Read the lyrics, you'll understand.
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I was waiting for a cross-town train in the London underground when it struck me
That I've been waiting since birth to find a love that would look and sound like a movie
So I changed my plans and rented a camera and a van and then I called you
"I need you to pretend that we are in love again" and you agreed to
I want so badly to believe that "there is truth, that love is real"
And I want life in every word to the extent that it's absurd
I greased the lens and framed the shot using a friend as my stand-in
The script it called for rain but it was clear that day so we faked it
The marker snapped and I yelled "quiet on the set" and then called "action!"
And I kissed you in a style that Clark Gable would have admired (I thought it classic)
I want so badly to believe that "there is truth, that love is real"
And I want life in every word to the extent that it's absurd
I know you're wise beyond your years, but do you ever get the fear
That your perfect verse is just a lie you tell yourself to help you get by?