Songs For Your Day

Near the end of summer the songs slow. Our bodies wade through the the heat, and the metronomes shift down in bpm’s. We return from vacation and life seems as congested as morning traffic.  ”Back to School Sale” signs go up outside of Target, Stables, and Office Max, insulting freedom everywhere, even after we’ve thrown our graduation caps.

Angus and Julia stone’s “Big Jet Plane” is what Au Revoir Simone’s “Backyards of our Neighbors” was to me a few years ago. Its melody is weighted down by the sun.  It’s the melancholy of peeling skin, knowing that soon you will be indoors, shivering beneath the blankets.