TV on the Radio- Playhouses
we posted something by these guys a while back, so i won’t say too much here. i am posting this particular song because this is what solidified my interest in them. the first actual song i heard was ‘wolf like me’. i’d heard of them before that single was released, but i hadn’t checked them out. i liked what i heard, but it still didn’t spurn me on to listen to the rest of the album or any of their previous albums. this song did. i was eager to hear it because two friends of mine talked about it all the time. the three of us are kindred spirits musically, so i thought that endorsement enough to find the song. as fate would have it, i first heard the song while riding in the car with them and a few other friends. i liked the song immediately. this and ‘i was a lover’ are still two of my favorite songs. enjoy.
Playhouses
Swept away by the river now
Confound me
Sound it out now
Vodka cran in your hand
And whos little girl are you now?
Oh, I’d ask for this dance
But I know you play like you don’t know how
What your coy smile exposes
A recent memory of when we shit our bed of roses
And I know the moon above is shining down
But not for our love
So for who?
So for who?
Beneath the cigarettes and sugar shit of alcohol breath
I can taste the ocean on your tongue
Remember when we sat on the side walk
Of your old block
Against the wall
Under the stars
Talking about love’s meaning
Well, I wasn’t dreaming
I meant every word
Just didn’t know your demons
Do you know mine, babe?
Are we wasting time, babe?
Playhouses
Haunted by
Broken spirits
Just trying to get high
Well we chose this course but
The weather changed
And the river froze
And went it thawed it was running
Backwards and dry now
I suppose it’s appropriate to cry now
Over wasted time
And naked lies
Still get wasted sometimes
-the skinny miracle
