Introducing LotD/SotD

Lyrics of the Day/Song of the Day. Not much more to it. Do not expect a daily post. As with everything else in my life this will happen when the mood strikes. Some days, the mood strikes twice.

I've been listening to some Sunset Rubdown tracks for a few years now. Random ones downloaded off Pitchfork or music blogs. I've listened to them not knowing anything about the band. Today I found out that the band began as a solo project of Wolf Parade, a band I took quite a liking to a few years ago but due to my own laziness did not follow beyond their first album.

A need for new car music prompted listening to the random tracks downloaded recently.

Enter Sunset Rubdown's Idiot Heart:

Stay away from open windows, and put the telephone down. Can you run as fast as this house will fall when the alarm bell sounds? No, I was never much of a dancer, but I know enough to know you've got to move your idiot body around, and that you can't settle down until the idiot in your blood settles down. So move around... If I found you in this city called Paradise, I'd say, "I love you, but I hate this city, and I'm no prize." You want to walk around like you own the joint, the way that Icarus thought he might own the sky. I say, "You can't settle down until the Icarus in your blood, in your blood, drowns... And if I was a horse, I would throw up the reins if I was you."

But look at you go (into the fire-star). Look at you go (you are a meteor). Look at you go...

And you know your heart, and you know your heart... but it's an idiot heart. And you know your heart, and you know your heart... but you can't settle down. No, you can't settle down. So just move around...

I hope that you died in a decent pair of shoes, you've had a lot of long walking to do, where you're going to...

This song has inspired me to buy their newest album. The nicely titled Dragonslayer.

Ps. I do like my idiot so I'll keep moving around.