Sometimes all it needs is a little change
a little change can put you so far out of sync that it feels like a big change
and so one week instead of passing all the same people on the way to work
or rather
instead of passing them all at the same time
i started to leave the house at different times
just by a few minutes each day
just by a few minutes each day to see what would happen
and that's where i walked
i walked down, you know, across the bridges with the sunshine on both sides
and a little bit later i passed the ugly kid who goes to private school with his dad
and i passed the semi-stylish girl who always seems to be wearing the same clothes
even though i know she's not
but whenever i remember her she's always wearing the same clothes
and she never seems happy
and the strangest thing of all
is that when i pass the coffee shop where the little girl and her dad sit
they're not even there
because of the time that i left
and that's the strangest thing of all because i've watched that girl grow up
she sits every morning with her dad reading her book
and i feel invested somehow
because i've watched her grow up through the little books
the easy ones
through her Oxford Reading Tree and beyond
and now she's one proper novels and i feel a sense of pride
even though all i did was walk by regularly
and later, on the way home I walk past Jenners
and there's a man upside down
standing on his head with his head in a bucket
his arms folded across his chest
and a little box that said
"I didn't want to ask you for money -
and so I did this instead"
and there's an old Jenners Lady walking past
and she says
"You know that's the kind of thing that causes accidents"
and the gothy grungy kids are standing at the top of the stairs
talking about some guy whose girlfriend left him because he spent all his time just staring at a lightbulb
"aye and he said he was doing it just for her"
said the gothiest, grungiest looking one - did that make him the leader?
did these kids even have or believe in leaders
or was there some kind of socialist revolution happening here
hidden behind the clothes and the makeup and the wings
what were the wings for anyway?
did they signify something?
if they did then i didn't understand it
but i guess that's the point
and at the bottom of the street I'm standing and watching
it's early evening at the start of the Summer
and the sun and the sky and the bridges and the parks and the people and the streets and the sounds and the cars
they're all just there - lit perfectly
and I've been here so many times
and I could never quite out what it was that made it what it is
but today I get it
today I work it out for the very first time
and I'm feeling quite pleased with myself for doing it
but also a little bit ashamed that I didn't work it out before.
and here's what it is:
It's that the rich can't buy it
And the poor don't have to give it up
It's that the rich can't buy it
And the poor don't have to give it up
Krautrock meets ambient in the full-length from Youth Team, a lone producer twiddling knobs in one of Scotland's most remote locales. Bandcamp New & Notable Mar 5, 2021
Arab Strap take on the dangerous inanities of our modern interconnected life with their typically witty, dark humored indie. Bandcamp New & Notable Jan 30, 2024