I wonder if my seeds will find purchase in your soil

[foxtongue]

About a mile past the bridge, my throat creaked, and something broke, and tears fled down my face.

Every highway exit closer to the border was like a stich sewn into my chest, black thread spun by the rolling tyres of the bus, that closed my heart back up, and kept anything else from spilling out.

I can't remember the last time I cried. Maybe when someone died. I don't actually know.

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[spaz-own-joo.livejournal.com]

Swimming In Your Ocean - Crash Test Dummies

"Swimming In Your Ocean"

When I'm sampling from your bosom
Sometimes I suffer from distractions like
Why does God cause things like tornadoes and train wrecks?

[CHORUS]
When I'm swimming in
When I'm swimming in your ocean
Floating aloft on creams
And scented lotions
I can get pretty side-tracked
I hope you'll understand

When I kneel before your bounty
Sometimes I wonder if there could be really
UFO's that come from other planets

And when you let me taste your fingers
I take them like fruit and as I linger I
Wonder if my seed will find purchase in your soil ...

[porphyre.livejournal.com]

Oooh. Those are some seriously good lyrics. I should track it down and have a listen.

[spaz-own-joo.livejournal.com]

It's from "God Shuffled His Feet", which is a fantastic album. Good road trip music.

[porphyre.livejournal.com]

I have that CD somewhere, possibly never opened. I've got a few songs off it on my computer, I love God Shuffled His Feet.

[spaz-own-joo.livejournal.com]

Dig it up and devote 45 minutes (or whatever) to it. Trust me.

[porphyre.livejournal.com]

I just went and put in a search for their entire discography. Wasn't hard to find.

[porphyre.livejournal.com]

Oh! and have you ever listened to Cinderellen? It's the solo album from the Crash Test Dummies female singer, and it's amazing.

[spaz-own-joo.livejournal.com]

On the list.

[themythicalman.livejournal.com]

I second that motion.

[porphyre.livejournal.com]

Just to double-check. Lunch tomorrow, yes? And when?

[blogtodiffer.livejournal.com]

Er, right, exactly what I was trying to say.

I have God Shuffled His Feet, and A Worm's Life, but A Worm's Life doesn't have nearly as many good songs.

Swimming In Your Ocean is one of my favourite songs, it's hilarious.

[porphyre.livejournal.com]

I think it might be a new favourite, but I find it rather tender and sweet, personally. Hilarity doesn't enter into it at all.

[blogtodiffer.livejournal.com]

If you go into interviews they've done about it, they were deliberately being sarcastic, making fun of all the sweet and sappy love/sex songs out there.

The joke is he's having sex with this fantastic girl, but he keeps going off on strange tangents.

I find it a tad odd that you don't know much about Crash Test Dummies as a group.

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

I liked the new direction they started going with Give Yourself A Hand.