This guitar kills blogging on autopilot
I couldn't find a take I liked of Come Pick Me Up this morning, so Muppets and Legos were subs written in advance (shocker). But driving up the parkway, I got to feeling good about one clip I'd seen, even if it was muted for TV. Worth a five-minute break at my desk, probably tradeable for the hours they'll get from me later.
What I love about the song today is exactly what's undefinitive in the way people respond to it. Says Ryan Adams himself on the lyrics page: "I wrote this today. It probably sucks." Says a book blogger: "I don't know if this song will make you feel better after a break-up, it could make you feel a whole lot worse and perhaps even force you on a bender. It has that sort of bend. God, it hurts and I'm happy." Says a SongMeanings.net poster, "It is the song I want to dance to at my wedding." Says the next one, "Not a song I'd picture at a wedding." The song and all of these people leave me in a good mood.
The rest of that thread produces no agreement except around the classicism of life screwed up — whether that's a good thing, when that's a good thing, whether you're looking out or looking in — and around how the song's so good. Readers here may have their own perfected interpretations, but as Ryan says, they probably suck.
September 23rd, 2008 at 1:42 PM
I love this song. I envision singing it drunkenly on a fire escape to the oblivious people below. And throwing stuff at them now and again.
September 23rd, 2008 at 6:57 PM
You would. I'd hate to see you reacting to the Rock N Roll album. There would be casualties and arrests.
August 22nd, 2009 at 10:16 AM
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