Song of the Week - So Says I by The Shins

I have 5,076 songs on my iPod, this is one of them.

The Shins were a band I never heard of until my daughter introduced them to me a few years ago. Their first album, Oh, Inverted World, was released in 2001. This song is from their second album Chutes Too Narrow. Their third album Wincing The Night Away went to #2 in the US charts in 2007. This video is from an appearance they made on The Late Show with David Letterman.



An address to the golden door
I was strumming on a stone again
pulling teeth from the pimps of gore when hatched
a tragic opera in my mind...
and it told of a new design
in which every soul is duty bound
to uphold all the statutes of boredom therein lies
the fatal flaw of the red age.

Because it was nothing like we'd ever dreamt,
our lust for life had gone away with the rent we hated
and because it made no money nobody saved no one's life.

So we burned all our uniforms
and let nature take its course again
and the big ones just eat all the little ones
that sent us back to the drawing board.

In our darkest hours
we have all asked for some
angel to come
sprinkle his dust all around
but all our crying voices they can't turn it around
and you've had some crazy conversations of your own.

We've got rules and maps and guns in our backs
but we still can't just behave ourselves
even if to save our own lives, so says I, we are a brutal kind.

Cause this is nothing like we'd ever dreamt
tell Sir Thomas More we've got another failed attempt
cause if it makes them money they might just give you life this time.