Is It Any Wonder?
"If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience." ~ Robert Fulghum
My sister just returned Keane's second album ("Under the Iron Sea") to me after having it for, well, a long time (and it was only released last year!)...and before I go any further, yes, I listen to Keane. I actually can identify with a lot of the song lyrics because let's face it, Tom Chaplin must've had his heart ripped out by someone before/whislt writing those songs...but that's not why I listen to this band. I really like their combination of vox, percussion, and keyboards...the sound is just right and actually more pure on their first album than their second... While getting reacquainted with #2, I was reminded of these lines that express something I've felt for a long time:
"Sometimes I get the feeling that I'm
Stranded in the wrong time
Where love is just a lyric in a children's rhyme, a soundbite"
from "Is It Any Wonder?"
Just before you think I'm getting totally sappy, I'll say this: I dig the era I'm living in as far as technology, music, zombie movies, etc...but I always thought it'd be keen to be born a couple thousand years ago when you could get away with almost anything and there was no forensic science CSI shite to catch people...MWUAHAHAHAHAHA!!! And as much as I would like to believe in that thing you humans call love, maybe it really is just is a lyric...that 'nice' thing you say to make people feel good and to sell records, movies, and books... So on that note, here's the other cool line I heard from another CD my sister returned to me:
"The Devil's hungry and he's eating light!!!"
from "Hell's on Fire" on Metal Skool's "Hole Patrol"
My sister just returned Keane's second album ("Under the Iron Sea") to me after having it for, well, a long time (and it was only released last year!)...and before I go any further, yes, I listen to Keane. I actually can identify with a lot of the song lyrics because let's face it, Tom Chaplin must've had his heart ripped out by someone before/whislt writing those songs...but that's not why I listen to this band. I really like their combination of vox, percussion, and keyboards...the sound is just right and actually more pure on their first album than their second... While getting reacquainted with #2, I was reminded of these lines that express something I've felt for a long time:
"Sometimes I get the feeling that I'm
Stranded in the wrong time
Where love is just a lyric in a children's rhyme, a soundbite"
from "Is It Any Wonder?"
Just before you think I'm getting totally sappy, I'll say this: I dig the era I'm living in as far as technology, music, zombie movies, etc...but I always thought it'd be keen to be born a couple thousand years ago when you could get away with almost anything and there was no forensic science CSI shite to catch people...MWUAHAHAHAHAHA!!! And as much as I would like to believe in that thing you humans call love, maybe it really is just is a lyric...that 'nice' thing you say to make people feel good and to sell records, movies, and books... So on that note, here's the other cool line I heard from another CD my sister returned to me:
"The Devil's hungry and he's eating light!!!"
from "Hell's on Fire" on Metal Skool's "Hole Patrol"
posted by Scott at 1:01 AM
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