Lambchop, “A Day Without Glasses”

The other day I didn’t wear my glasses all day, because I didn’t do anything or go anywhere that required them, and at the end of the day I sputtered, “Wow, a day without glasses!”, and then I thought, “Oh, that’s what the Lambchop song means.”

So sometimes when I post a song I want to post the lyrics along with it, for emphasis, as if that would compel anybody to pay attention to them. I fixate; in middle and high school I wrote lyrics in the margins of my textbooks. Maybe a kid who got my book learned to love Sebadoh during geometry class.

I love how slowly Kurt sings here:

It takes the sum of all the kindness
And the whole of all the guilt
I scramble our affection like some eggs

If I was in a band I’d be tempted to annotate the lyrics sheet. Like next to the end of this song I’d write: Hey did you notice this part is metaphorical, isn’t it good?

Let’s step out from the ghetto
Let’s stray too far from church
We should take this to the highest court in the land