Guster - Diane

If you know me at all, you know I like sad songs. Often, they are my catharsis, my release. This is one of those.

In a nutshell, this is a song about a doomed relationship where the couple’s only form of honest communication is through sleep-talking. He loves her, but she’s grown tired of the whole thing, and in fact, only smiles when she’s dreaming (“who were you just thinking of, Diane?”). But he remains (perhaps naively) optimistic. I have no idea why he thinks they’ll make it out together.

Why do I like this song so much? Perhaps some of it is that the drum beat reminds me of Tom Petty’s Breakdown. Well, much of it is probably due to the fact it’s pretty much biographical. I can relate to the unjustified optimism the narrator professes. Over some girl in London.