I've recently revisited Boxer after listening to mostly their new stuff and for some reason this particular section is currently hitting me hard:
"Hold ourselves together with our arms around the stereo for hours
While it sings to itself or whatever it does
When it sings to itself of its long lost loves"
This screams to me of feeling apathetic and powerless but finding common ground with your significant other through songs. The imagery of two people draped motionless over a stereo, avoiding the outside world and lazily connecting to the music is a fantastic one. No matter what, they're both music freaks and they can speak to one another through that medium. At the same time, they're on fragile ground and not really talking and connecting with one another because the stereo has become a sentient being and is singing about its past troubled loves. "It can't be us, it's that damn stereo again."
The lovers are connected but distant, either because mutual fatigue has led them there or because the circumstances (the outside world) are out of their control. Still, there's that lingering connection where they can communicate to one another in music. I love that. Mix-tape love.
The lyrics here are classic National: clever, weird and sensical in an entirely non-sensical way. You can never quite pinpoint what the hell the song is about but you relate to the mood it creates. Whatever you're going through, the lyrics just fit. This - along with the amazing music and genuine personalities - is why I love them so much.
I've recently revisited Boxer after listening to mostly their new stuff and for some reason this particular section is currently hitting me hard:
"Hold ourselves together with our arms around the stereo for hours While it sings to itself or whatever it does When it sings to itself of its long lost loves"
This screams to me of feeling apathetic and powerless but finding common ground with your significant other through songs. The imagery of two people draped motionless over a stereo, avoiding the outside world and lazily connecting to the music is a fantastic one. No matter what, they're both music freaks and they can speak to one another through that medium. At the same time, they're on fragile ground and not really talking and connecting with one another because the stereo has become a sentient being and is singing about its past troubled loves. "It can't be us, it's that damn stereo again."
The lovers are connected but distant, either because mutual fatigue has led them there or because the circumstances (the outside world) are out of their control. Still, there's that lingering connection where they can communicate to one another in music. I love that. Mix-tape love.
The lyrics here are classic National: clever, weird and sensical in an entirely non-sensical way. You can never quite pinpoint what the hell the song is about but you relate to the mood it creates. Whatever you're going through, the lyrics just fit. This - along with the amazing music and genuine personalities - is why I love them so much.
nice comment. thanks.
nice comment. thanks.