Week Two: The Jesus & Mary Chain - "Happy When It Rains" - Darklands

Growing up, listening to songs such as "Happy When It Rains", I was so convinced that I would know that I had met the love of my life when he spoke to me in cryptic phrases that I could fully understand, such as those used in JAMC songs, and when he vowed to me simple promises like that we would "[live] our lives in black".  I wanted him to fantasize about "[plugging] into my electric cool", and anyone who would have referred to my "[lips speaking] gold and honey" basically would have "had me at 'hello'"!

Even now, if anyone would compose something so elegantly phrased and so obviously a dark love ballad, I would pledge eternal loyalty, just to receive more words transformed into art and inspired by moi.  Alas, I'm not sure what most boys do with their time these days, but I am still waiting for my poet to sweep me off my feet.  I suppose I will be waiting for quite some time - until then, I still have JAMC to instill hope that boys like this do exist - just maybe not in my world...

Step back and watch the sweet thing
breaking everything she sees
she can take my darkest feeling
tear it up till I'm on me knees
plug into her electric cool
where things bend and break
and shake to the rule
talking fast couldn't tell me something
I would shed my skin for you
talking fast on the edge of nothing
I would break my back for you
don't know why, don't know why
things vaporise and rise to the sky
and we tried so hard
and we looked so good
and we lived our lives in black
but something about you felt like pain
you were my sunny day rain
you were the clouds in the sky
you were the darkest sky
but your lips spoke gold and honey
that's why I'm happy when it rains
I'm happy when it pours
looking at me enjoying something
that feels like feels like pain
to my brain
and if I tell you something
you take me back to nothing
I'm on the edge of something
you take me back
and I'm happy when it rains