tisdag 13 Jul 2010, 19:26

Look. I love The National. I love their lyrics. I love everything about them. But sometimes, because of Matt Berninger's deep bass voice, they make the mundane or downright ridiculous sound heavy. The following lyrics have made me chuckle:

10. Sometimes you get up and bake a cake or something, sometimes you stay in bed (Racing Like a Pro)
Commentary: This would make sense if there were sedatives baked into the cake, I guess, and you're eating it to go to sleep. But in that case, why go through all the trouble of baking? I also like that he knows the line is so ridiculous that he has to add an "or something".

9. Bees flew out and up their skirts 'cause they wanted to travel the world (Blank Slate)
Commentary: This sounds like a plot summary for the worst Pixar movie ever.

8. I don't have a hawk in my heart, no dumbass dove in my brain (Thirsty)
Commentary: Got it. There are no birds in any part of his body. Maybe a retarded sparrow in his kidney?

7. It's a common fetish for a doting man to ballerina on the coffee table, cock in hand. (Karen)
Commentary: Don't worry, it's totally common, I swear!

6. We'll play nuns versus priests until somebody cries (Little Faith)
Commentary: If only the kids on the playground were this imaginative when I was growing up.

5. They're going to send us to prison for jerks (Guest Room)
Commentary: I was really hoping they'd send us to the prison for misunderstood nice people.

4. They're all gonna be cool happy genius heroes (Santa Clara)
Commentary: I would be impressed with them just being heroes. But they're also cool, happy, and geniuses? Wow.

3. I'm a birthday candle in a circle of black girls (All the Wine)
Commentary: …

2. We'll run like we're awesome, totally genius (The Geese of Beverly Road)
Commentary: When I'm running, I ask myself, "How would an AWESOME person run?" And then i run that way.

1. I was afraid I'd eat your brains, 'cause I'm evil (Conversation 16)
Commentary: Why are you eating my brains? 'Cause I'm EVIL.