Saturday, August 21, 2010

Top 100: #42

Number 42: Jens Lekman - Into Eternity
Album: Night Falls Over Kortedala, 2007.
Added 3/18/08, 50 plays.



Crazy love. Doomed love.

Jens is in that nebulous period during a breakup where they're still... not... something. He says it best when he compares his love with dry grass and a magnifying glass; something that will ignite and burn us all down. A disaster. Something that just can't last.

But it still feels good. You still want it.

I played this for a friend of mine yesterday, who immediately said it sounded like something out of a Disney movie. Maybe. This is one of those great songs I love with an upbeat melody and really depressing lyrics. But what, a guy can't play a recorder and not have it compared to Pocahontas?

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