SpringSongs, Pt. I

Another season, another series to bore my three readers with...

I could just simply say listen to nothing but Talk Talk’s intimate and lush The Colour Of Spring and XTC’s career highlight, the flawless Skylarking (both of which were released in 1986), but I’m not going to cop out with such easy picks.

I know it's quite cliché, but for me a SpringSong can be compromised of tranquil and impenetrable lushness or can conjure up imagery of  frantic, sudden and  calamitous storms – the kind that would often send me and my classmates scurrying to the perceived shelter of a long inner corridor in my Central IL elementary school. Other Spring Songs are breezy and lilting, reminiscent of throwing open all of the house windows on a warm March afternoon. The first selection, Nature Boy by Chicago’s The Sea And Cake is from the latter.

And lyrically somewhat nonsensical, but alive with spring imagery.

Some play in the sun you're breathless

You're laughing

Rain is salt it's matchless

Stay on into the sun

It passes on

Came on into the sun

We lost we lost your name

We don't knot tied up and down

Knots tied up and down

Prickly right after sleep

Breathless here false of bloom

Throw me into the sun

I'm in love with the sun

Up and down I should care

When I'm into the sun

Here comes the reddening

Watching all of the blooms

Would I lie what's your name

What's your name

I built this song

Sleeping under a low bridge

Breathing a truck passes by

Several coins in my homely pocket

Some brave some not

I should care

Soft spoken disagreeable

Another shift rolling passes

I count the hours on my watch

Ah here comes the reddening