ANCORA IMPARO

Counting Crows - “Like Teenage Gravity”

You’re the kind of thing those sweetheart boys just talk about
Such a pretty flame, still burning when the bar lights all go out
Well everybody knows your name ’round here, but that’s alright
And everybody learned your game ’round here, but that’s alright
You told me if I stayed ’round here, you’d find a good enough place to hide
But I see you
I see you…

So come on out tonight

I had my courage up, but felt younger tryin’ to fight the words
So I put a record on, and you found something you ain’t never heard
Well, honey, everybody knows that song ‘round here, but that’s alright
Ain’t no such thing as waitin’ too long ‘round here, so that’s alright
And I told you if you stay down here you might wind up by my side
And that’s true
That’s true…

So come on out tonight

And all my friends told me,

“You don’t need laws to tell
that if it feels like fallin’, boy, you probably already fell
the whole table saw your hand, so you might as well just play it
and you ain’t fooling anyone, so you might as well just say it…”
So, I guess I’m in love
I guess I’m in love

This landed on a mixtape that was made for me last week (And when I say mixtape, I mean a for real, old school, Memorex style cassette tape. How cool is that?!) and I love it. A lot. Mainly because from the title to the lyrical content to the fact that it’s the damn Counting Crows who were huge the year we met it is  entirely too situationally appropriate and relevant and probably the greatest addition to a mixtape I’ve ever received.

I guess it’s time to turn of Big Head’s Born & Raised and dig out their new release, Underwater Sunshine (or what we did on our summer vacation), from the “To Review” pile it’s in and have a good listen.