30 Days of Song: day 03 - A song that makes you happy
Ani DiFranco's 'Little Plastic Castle' is a song that never fails to make me feel happy.
I've never really got into Ani, but this one takes me straight back to the early days of my relationship with Andy when everything was new and exciting. At the time, I was pretty worn out from a rough couple of years and it really was like coming back to life again. The first couple of years of our relationship also involved coffee shops, feminism, the odd self-administered haircut, general giddiness and ridiculous levels of optimism, so this song just kind of sums it up.
'Little Plastic Castle'
In a coffee shop in a city
Which is every coffee shop in every city
On a day which is every day
I picked up the magazine
Which is every magazine
Read a story, then I forgot it right away
And they say, "Goldfish have no memory"
I guess their lives are much like mine
And the little plastic castle
Is a surprise every time
And it's hard to say, if they're happy
But they don't seem much to mind
From the shape of your shaved head
I recognized your silhouette
As you walked out of the sun and sat down
And the sight of your sleepy smile
Eclipsed all the other people
As they paused to sneer at the two girls from out of town
I said, look at you this morning
You are, by far, the cutest
But be careful getting coffee
I think these people want to shoot us
Or maybe there's some kind of local competition here
To see who can be the rudest
And people talk about my image
Like I come in two dimensions
Like lipstick is a sign of my declining mind
Like what I happen to be wearing
The day that someone takes a picture
Is my new statement for all of womankind
And I wish they could see us now
In leather bras and rubber shorts
I've never really got into Ani, but this one takes me straight back to the early days of my relationship with Andy when everything was new and exciting. At the time, I was pretty worn out from a rough couple of years and it really was like coming back to life again. The first couple of years of our relationship also involved coffee shops, feminism, the odd self-administered haircut, general giddiness and ridiculous levels of optimism, so this song just kind of sums it up.
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In a coffee shop in a city
Which is every coffee shop in every city
On a day which is every day
I picked up the magazine
Which is every magazine
Read a story, then I forgot it right away
And they say, "Goldfish have no memory"
I guess their lives are much like mine
And the little plastic castle
Is a surprise every time
And it's hard to say, if they're happy
But they don't seem much to mind
From the shape of your shaved head
I recognized your silhouette
As you walked out of the sun and sat down
And the sight of your sleepy smile
Eclipsed all the other people
As they paused to sneer at the two girls from out of town
I said, look at you this morning
You are, by far, the cutest
But be careful getting coffee
I think these people want to shoot us
Or maybe there's some kind of local competition here
To see who can be the rudest
And people talk about my image
Like I come in two dimensions
Like lipstick is a sign of my declining mind
Like what I happen to be wearing
The day that someone takes a picture
Is my new statement for all of womankind
And I wish they could see us now
In leather bras and rubber shorts