Tuesday, February 26, 2008

The C.A. in song

So for the last few months I've been driving around with this Spoon CD in my car (given to me by one of my two music gurus, Min), listening to it off and on and bugged by Track 9, which I could have SWORN was about a newspaper I used to work at. But then I thought, that's ridiculous, why would anyone sing about The Commercial Appeal.

But it turns out, that's exactly what they were singing about:

Spoon Lyrics
"Finer Feelings"

Memphis comes creeping down my back
Somehow this place tastes just like an attack
A hundred-yard-stare of a kiss
Lord, I know I'll never miss it

They told me stop scouting the field
They told me have a look in Commercial Appeal
And start getting that hair cut sharp

Sometimes I think that I'll find a love
One that's gonna change my heart
I'll find it in Commercial Appeal
And then this heartache'll get chased away

I was part-time at the Tasty Prawn
That and moving furniture and cutting lawns
Covered in newsprint, staying up real late
Just holding out for some fate

Sometimes I think that I'll find a love
One that's gonna change my heart
I'll find it in Commercial Appeal
And then this heartache'll get chased away
[x2]

I was dreaming in the driver's seat
When the right words just came to me
And all my finer feelings came up

Always out on some witch's hunt
For the one who never lets me want
Before you know it it's all fuss

Sometimes I think that I'll find a love
One that's gonna change my heart
I'll find it in Commercial Appeal
And then this heartache'll get chased away
[x2]

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