Post by strabley on Mar 1, 2004 17:51:09 GMT
Yeah, I can even prattle on about this one! 
I know this song is easy to ignore and even forget it's there, but I've always been struck by its sensitivity. I can see the dining room for the last time, the smell of the attic for one more whiff, a memory of a dance in the hallway, that winding staircase that you've fallen down a couple times, the nick in the kitchen floor from your ice skates, the basement pole you used to spin around with your cousins, now all rusted out, the wainscotting. What makes this song so unique to me is that it ends on a note that you do not expect it to end on, it's a note that leaves us with no closure, a reminder that these memories will never go away. There is no closure in such a situation. Yet ironically the titile suggests that closure is being sought after, a suggestion that it may even be achieved, yet the music rings of quite the opposite
I know this song is easy to ignore and even forget it's there, but I've always been struck by its sensitivity. I can see the dining room for the last time, the smell of the attic for one more whiff, a memory of a dance in the hallway, that winding staircase that you've fallen down a couple times, the nick in the kitchen floor from your ice skates, the basement pole you used to spin around with your cousins, now all rusted out, the wainscotting. What makes this song so unique to me is that it ends on a note that you do not expect it to end on, it's a note that leaves us with no closure, a reminder that these memories will never go away. There is no closure in such a situation. Yet ironically the titile suggests that closure is being sought after, a suggestion that it may even be achieved, yet the music rings of quite the opposite
Did you notice that I ended it without punctuation to stress the no closure thing? 
Slooshy sloshy slooshy sloshy get that dirty shirty clean. Slooshy sloshy slooshy sloshy make those cuffs and collars gleam. Everything clean and shiny.