yeah, jenny

It Froze Me

I keep waiting for someone to say "Going to Port Washington" but no one has yet.

going to port washington!!

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See, I get an almost ominous feeling under the prettiness of Going to Port Washington. The bit of melancholy in the melody, and the "something on my mind." It's a bit deeper than that at least in my head haha, but I love that tune.



Oh, how about Going to Scotland? Outdoor love making of the kind Jonathan Coulton can approve of.

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We are the ones who don't slow down at all...

i always assumed the "something" was getting it on

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how about Going to Scotland? Outdoor love making of the kind Jonathan Coulton can approve of.

I think this is a good example. Something about the "we'd been given fair warning" makes it feel like it's something kind of temporary. But the line "I loved you so much it was making me sick" is one of my favorite JD lines, and perfectly sums up the emotion.

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Speaking of Going to Scotland, it's predecessor on the album, 1 Corinthians 13:8-10 is pretty straight-up love-y.

yeah sometimes the couple isn't doing horrible things to each other they're just having horrible things happen to each other

Genesis 30:3 feels like true love as well.

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Going to Marrakesh —

"Our love is like jesus, but worse.
though you seal the cave up where you've lain its body,
it rises."

There Will Be No Divorce is a pure, happy love song. I'm going to play it at my wedding.

Lyrics:

the rain fell all night and it kept me awake
it was still falling by morning.
it was hard to take.
and you were sleeping on the floor,
breathing free and even,.
if i ever want to drive myself insane,
all i have to do is watch you breathing
and at 5 AM, i turned the radio on,
and an old mans voice sang a short sweet song,
and then the static roared again hungry for blood
i heard the rain falling from the rain spout
down down into the sweet wet mud,
and you punched out all the windows
and the wind began to wail
and you gathered your hair behind your head
like god was gonna catch you by the pony tail,
and then the old voice crackled through the static.
and i felt young and alive
and the hair stood up on the back of my neck
we were rising from the grave, yeah yeah

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There Will Be No Divorce is a pure, happy love song. I'm going to play it at my wedding.

Lyrics:

the rain fell all night and it kept me awake
it was still falling by morning.
it was hard to take.
and you were sleeping on the floor,
breathing free and even,.
if i ever want to drive myself insane,
all i have to do is watch you breathing
and at 5 AM, i turned the radio on,
and an old mans voice sang a short sweet song,
and then the static roared again hungry for blood
i heard the rain falling from the rain spout
down down into the sweet wet mud,
and you punched out all the windows
and the wind began to wail
and you gathered your hair behind your head
like god was gonna catch you by the pony tail,
and then the old voice crackled through the static.
and i felt young and alive
and the hair stood up on the back of my neck
we were rising from the grave, yeah yeah

huh?

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The first thing that distinguishes a writer is that he is most alive when alone. - Martin Amis

Based on relatively good production value, I'd assume not on All Hail West Texas. Most of Tallahassee seems too bitter to be described as simple love songs, though I echo the possibility of International Small Arms Traffic Blues.

I wondered about something from Full Force Galesburg, perhaps. It has these long song names and genuine, not so fucked up, love songs. Twin Human Highway Flares, for instance, comes to mind.



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Going to Georgia seems like real love to me. The narrator is fucked up, but I get the idea that they love each other even though she pretty much needs to take care of him due to his psychosis.

And I second There Will Be No Divorce.