Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Til the night closes in

I realize that my favorite love songs are the ones where Death is never far away in the background, an ominous, black spectral-cloud, hovering above the lovers picnicking on the grass. The Grim Reaper standing with his sickle watching teenagers make out...

1 comment:

colleen said...

the chorus to a Raveonettes song:

I wanna ride with her
In uncertain times
I wanna go where my thoughts
Can take a nap
And if the atom bomb should end us both
I'll be happy to go to the stars with you

weep-worthy. have you heard it? it's so good.