Friday May 09, 2008 at 16:38
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Simple Kid - Serotonin
I really like Simple Kid. Not for the music, particularly, which is pleasant and kind of comfortably derivative, but more for his lyrics. Thoughtful and confused and resonant. They remind me of being a teenager when it felt like all the songs in your tape collection were written especially for you.
When I get well I’m gonna move to the country, breathe clean air man, turn the televisions off for a while, Eskimo style. Gotta just breathe in, breathe out, breathe. In the city you know, get paid, you get laid, go pretty, can you listen as the doc says: “Don’t drink, don’t smoke, work hard, be fun, don’t eat no junk” ain’t it just enough to make you wanna go get drunk? that’s what I done. Well anyway the drink got me thinking what a friend had said, guess what he said: “Happiness is nothing but the flow of serotonin in your head” got nothing to do with Jesus Christ, nothing got to do with wrong or right, oh help me out friend, can it be right? that it all boils down to how the chemicals flow to your soul?
Serotonin
…into my soul.
I really like Simple Kid. Not for the music, particularly, which is pleasant and kind of comfortably derivative, but more for his lyrics. Thoughtful and confused and resonant. They remind me of being a teenager when it felt like all the songs in your tape collection were written especially for you.
When I get well I’m gonna move to the country, breathe clean air man, turn the televisions off for a while, Eskimo style. Gotta just breathe in, breathe out, breathe. In the city you know, get paid, you get laid, go pretty, can you listen as the doc says: “Don’t drink, don’t smoke, work hard, be fun, don’t eat no junk” ain’t it just enough to make you wanna go get drunk? that’s what I done. Well anyway the drink got me thinking what a friend had said, guess what he said: “Happiness is nothing but the flow of serotonin in your head” got nothing to do with Jesus Christ, nothing got to do with wrong or right, oh help me out friend, can it be right? that it all boils down to how the chemicals flow to your soul?
Serotonin
…into my soul.