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[miko2]

Today's Song: Split Needles by The Shins

I picked up the new Shins cd Wincing the Night Away a couple of weeks ago, and so far my favorite song on the cd is Split Needles. As usual, it's not just the beautiful melody, but also the strange lyrics and images that really attract me to the song:

They want you to decide,
Eventually, it happens,
Some gather on one side,
With all their pearly snapping,
They close the basement door,
It sets our teeth to chatter,
You never saw it before,
But now that hardly matters,

You're old enough, boy,
Too many summers you've enjoyed,
So spin the wheel,
We'll set you up with some odd convictions,
Because you're finally golden, boy

It's like I'm perched on the handle bars,
Of a blind man's bike,
No straws to grab, just the rushing wind,
On the rolling mind,

The chorus especially, "It's like I'm perched on the handlebars of a blind man's bike." That's just a wonderful image, it captures perfectly the feeling of having no control and heading for disaster. I don't necessarily know what the rest of the song is about, but I like that image and the melody quite a bit.

I found a video at Youtube, but it's not ideal. Here it is, Split Needles set to some stupid movie that I didn't care about, it just meant that people were talking over my favorite song... but that's the only link to the song I could find.

And of course I've linked to their myspace site and web sites before, but here they are:

http://www.myspace.com/theshins
http://www.theshins.com/