for the wheels to nullify

I'm really tired right now, but I'm feeling pretty decent I guess. I'm hoping that I did enough work today, got enough done. I feel like I did a bunch, but probably not as much as I was doing last semester - I guess I can't measure my productivity on a time when I felt like I was spread way too thin. I have no idea where I'm at in life right now - I'm pretty sure that I'm not bound like the song I've chosen describes - but I still think it is a masterfully written song. I think that I might choose the following few songs to write a paper about for that conference I was mentioning - they all relate to climate change somehow - if you have others that you think relate, send me an email: unintruder@yahoo.com

Radiohead - Idioteque
The Postal Service - Sleeping In
Modest Mouse - World At Large
Jack Johnson - The Horizon has been Defeated

This will allow me to describe a few other songs by these musicians, which will be good. But it will also make connections between popular culture studies and environmental literature. It should be fun. I'll write more on this later.

The following song is a well chosen extended metaphor. See if you can pick up on it.


The Shins - A Call to Apathy

Untie me, I've said no vows
The train is getting way too loud
I gotta leave here my girl
Get on with my lonely life

Just leave the ring on the rail
For the wheels to nullify

Until this turn in my head
I let you stay and you paid no rent
I spent twelve long months on the lam

That's enough sitting on the fence
For the fear of breaking dams

I found a fatal flaw
In the logic of love
And go out of my head

You love a sinking stone
That'll never elope
So get used to the lonesome
Girl, you must atone some
Don't leave me no phone number there
La dee da

It took me all of a year
To put the poison pill to your ear
But now I stand on honest ground, on honest ground

You want to fight for this love
But honey you cannot wrestle a dove
So baby it's clear

You want to jump and dance
But you sat on your hands
And lost your only chance

Go back to your hometown
Get your feet on the ground
And stop floating around

I found a fatal flaw
In the logic of love
And went out of my head

You love a sinking stone
That'll never elope
So get used to used to the lonesome
Girl, you must atone some
Don't leave me no phone number there
La dee da