Damo claims he doesn’t have just six songs in his iPod shuffle, but I seem to have heard Death Cab’s haunting Transatlanticism about 10 times during the two-hour run yesterday morning. Fine, I admit, three times of which I purposely repeated back-to-back. But with a tune so good, you can’t blame me baby. :-) My iPod, which I’d jumped into the pool with on Sunday and hence couldn’t use it yesterday, has been revived. But I think I might just use Damo’s six-song iPod for my hills sesh later. It also has Bell X1’s My First Born for a Song, another hauntingly delicious track.
Transatlanticism
by Death Cab for Cutie
The Atlantic was born today and I’ll tell you how…
The clouds above opened up and let it out.
I was standing on the surface of a perforated sphere
When the water filled every hole.
And thousands upon thousands made an ocean,
Making islands where no island should go.
Oh no.
Those people were overjoyed; they took to their boats.
I thought it less like a lake and more like a moat.
The rhythm of my footsteps crossing flatlands to your door have been silenced forever more.
The distance is quite simply much too far for me to row
It seems farther than ever before
Oh no.
I need you so much closer [x4]
[instrumental break]
I need you so much closer [x4]
So come on, come on [x4]
I can’t believe I didn’t enjoy myself as much as I should have at the Death Cab concert a couple of months back. I guess that’s what happens when you go to a concert without having heard the band on CD yet. Sorry baby, but can we go again next time please? :-)