Post #606: The Shins - "New Slang" - Oh, Inverted World

So, I've owned the film, Garden State, for years and years now, but I finally got around to watching it a few weeks ago.  I wasn't terribly impressed by the film, but it wasn't awful either.  There is a scene where Sam, the lead female character, says to Andrew, the lead male character: "You gotta hear this one song — it’ll change your life; I swear."

I can't assert that listening to this song changed my life, by any means, but I do really like it!

I often enjoy seeing if I can find the intended meaning behind a song from the perspective of the individual who wrote it.  Wikipedia claims the following with regard to the meaning of the song according to lead singer, James Mercer:

"The song was born out of frustration regarding his personal life and future. 'It's definitely a moment in my life, that sort of angst and confusion about what my future was going to be,' he remarked."

Life can be and definitely has been quite frustrating, but I feel like good things, amazing things even, are on the horizon for me.  I can't explain it exactly, but it's just a feeling that I have.  For the first time, I don't even feel scared about whatever changes my future may hold for me.  Despite my tough girl facade and the air of confidence with which I carry myself, I tend to be afraid of everything!!!  Regardless, as a result of a recent chain of events, I do know that having someone to go through this crazy world with would be way more fun and a definite source of comfort, but I'm also not frightened to go it alone if that's how it ends up happening for me...  I'll just continue to figure it out as the days unfold, I suppose.

I know that the upcoming move I intend to make will be very refreshing for me.  I cannot wait to have White Rock Lake as my back yard!!!  Being near bodies of water is so comforting to me.  Scorpios are water signs, right?  That totally makes sense! 

Enough rambling for now... 'cause it's time for you to hear the song that will "change your life" ;-)

Until next time...

XOXOXO

Anastasia 

Gold teeth and a curse for this town were all in my mouth
Only, I don't know how they got out, dear
Turn me back into the pet I was when we met
I was happier then with no mind-set

And if you took to me like a gull takes to the wind
Well, I'd 'a jumped from my trees
And I'd a danced like the king of the eyesores
And the rest of our lives would 'a fared well

New slang when you notice the stripes, the dirt in your fries
Hope it's right when you die, old and bony
Dawn breaks like a bull through the hall
Never should have called
But my head's to the wall and I'm lonely

And if you took to me like a gull takes to the wind
Well, I'd 'a jumped from my trees
And I'd a danced like the king of the eyesores
And the rest of our lives would 'a fared well

Godspeed, all the bakers at dawn
May they all cut their thumbs
And bleed into their buns 'til they melt away

I'm looking in on the good life I might be doomed never to find
Without a trust or flaming fields, am I too dumb to refine?
And if you took to me like
Well I'd a danced like the queen of the eyesores
And the rest of our lives would 'a fared well