Track 8: This is my sound

Hello friends. Well, I finally brought myself to turn off “The Engine Driver” and switch to a new song. I had been listening to this song occasionally before I started up this blog, but it was put on hold so that I could cater to the aforementioned temporary emotional spell with sadder melodies. Hence, “Konstantine” and “The Engine Driver” made it to this playlist first — but today, I switch to a happier tune (literally), with what I feel will be a Summertime classic.

The song is “Lessons Learned” by Matt & Kim, off the 2009 album Grand, and I’ve found myself listening to it a lot lately — in particular yesterday and today. I love everything about this song: the upbeat, electronic sound, the perfect harmony of the singers’ voices, the strangely contrasting hopeful and hopeless lyrics. One line in particular I love: “Thinking about tomorrow won’t change how I feel today.” Though this statement initially appears somewhat pessimistic, it comes out with such conviction and resonant truth that it becomes optimistic with its assurance that this is the case, and even if it isn’t the best case, at least now we know. Thinking about tomorrow won’t change how I or you feel today, but somewhere in that statement and the singer’s tone there is the implicit suggestion that although tomorrow won’t change today, it will eventually replace today. The strange paradox of these lines — the hope in giving up on forced hope and just accepting today’s sadness or misfortune — has helped me to get past the self-absorbed, One-Song-Looping depression of yesterday and move on to the happier melodies of Matt & Kim and of today. And I suppose that is the lesson to be learned here.

So, with that being said, here is “Lessons Learned”:

MATT & KIM – LESSONS LEARNED

Lyrics:

Da da da-da-da-da, da da da
Da da da-da-da-da
(repeat)

T-T-Tape holds things that cannot stick
And keep leftovers in the fridge
While lessons learned go down the drain
I can’t believe everything
And all the bad names gone
And the good ones were all wrong

And so I stayed up all night
Slept in all day
This is my sound
Thinking about tomorrow won’t change how I feel today.

Da da da-da-da-da, da da da
Da da da-da-da-da
(repeat)

Never let your mark erase
‘Cause broken legs can be replaced
Two steps to the finish line
Three sips till I finish mine
A straw will always suck it out
Close your eyes and use your mouth
And tell me about your song

And so I stayed up all night
Slept in all day
This is my sound
Thinking about tomorrow won’t change how I feel today.

Da da da-da-da-da, da da da
Da da da-da-da-da
(repeat)

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That’s it for now — I hope you enjoy this song as much as I do! Their other songs are really great too, so I recommend that you check them out on MySpace, especially the song “Daylight” which I absolutely love. But really, it is impossible to play favorites with this band — just when you think you love one song the most, another comes on and changes your mind. And no matter what song is playing, the melody is just so catchy that you can’t help putting aside your worries or your sadness and just singing along. So check them out, and sing along.

This is our sound.

-W-

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