It’s hard to listen to a track like Just to Know What You’ve Been Dreaming, and not imagine yourself seemingly bemused, endlessly lost, and somewhere in between the birth of Model-T’s and the aridity of the dustbowl 30’s. Will Johnson’s over-zealous pleas, bargains, and promises expose a lone soul that yearns for a relationship of truly unrealistic proportions. Something has gone wrong and solitude brings endearing memories of what was lost. At the end of the song I’d love to play the part of hopeless romantic where reconciliation is achieved. Where sunsets exist solely so couples can ride endlessly towards them. But alas my dear friends, it is frustratingly impossible for me to believe in anything but empty, lofty promises where time is relative and love fails to exist.
This song is very simple, very American (and patriotic to boot!) and anti-math rock (if I knew what that meant). I hope you enjoy it’s simplistic melody and ambitious extents of hyperbole.
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4 comments:
it takes a bold man to post a five for fighting song as the "song of the day," especially when it features a guitar solo ripping off the wedding march. i think we should double up every song of the day and vote on the winner. in this case, sorry, but counting crows here is the mcgovern to willowz's nixon.
or is it pomp and circumstance?
Watsdawg, I am unfamiliar to the song but I enjoyed your review... you wordsmith you. I will check it out
Buttery Dave, if butter were the base of sarcasm and criticism, you would surely be the thickest stick of all. A thick, puddled stick of congealed butteryness. 5 4 fighting 4 ever!
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