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You know a really good song? Blue Lights (Link to Spotify)by Pretty Girls Make Graves. It’s my song of the moment. You know, that song you love right now, it’s on loop for a few hours, the whole day, maybe a week and then maybe you’ll never listen to it again. I love this song. First words are, well no, I say give the song a listen first then read them. No real reason, I just think it feels good to hear the words as they come instead of expecting them. And that only works once, all other times you know what’s coming. Anyway, I hope you’ve given it a listen now. The first words are: “Hello, I’m neurotic, creating problems that don’t exist. Don’t believe me when I say it’s alright.”
I don’t love this band, I only like one of their albums, the only one I’ve listened to. I’ll get round to listening to the other two someday. This album The New Romance is one of my favourite albums. I’ve never really had favourite albums because I’ve never listened to albums. I never had a taste in music, but now I do and I think I can actually form a strong opinion on music now. So The New Romance is one of those albums I’d take on a desert island.
It’s the lyrics:
The Teeth Collector (Spotify)
“I’m unfolding little scraps of paper, dotting “I”s and crossing “T”s”
“This tooth is rotten, yank it out. Your words are cancer in my mouth.”
The New Romance (Spotify)
“Restless, fed up tough and clever
Wishing this would last forever
Is futile when, you know it won’t”

What do they even mean? I dunno, they just sound so good to me. Sad thing is, I first heard one of their songs (All Medicated Geniuses [Spotify]) in about 2004, but never listened to more than about 5 songs until a year ago when the band were no longer together. Looks like I just missed them.

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