This song was originally written by a guy called Peter Gutteridge. He was one of the founders of the "Dunedin Sound" a musical scene in the south of New Zealand in the early 80s. From there it was covered by "The Clean" one of the early bands of that scene (he had originally been a member of in it's early days, writing a couple of their best early songs). The Dunedin sound, and the Clean became popular on american college radio in the mid to late 80s. I guess Yo La Tengo heard that version.
Great version of a great song,
Can't sleep in the city, you're far away
Cigarettes keep you skinny
And your mind off the rain
Sometimes, sometimes
Sometimes, sometimes
Feelings are distant, I know guilt by name
It was the hardest thing, watching you slip away
Sometimes, sometimes
Sometimes, sometimes
Sometimes it happens feeling die
Whole years are lost in the blink of an eye
We once had it all but event conspired
Sometimes
Good morning sweet thing you're safe in my hand
I am no saint, but I understand
Sometimes, sometimes
Sometimes, sometimes
Sometimes it happens feeling die
Whole years are lost in the blink of an eye
We once had it all but event conspired
Sometimes
Now that it's over, it is through
It gets me every time I think of you
Sometimes It happens, feelings die
Sometimes
I miss your warm skin, beside me at night
I miss your flesh, in the dawn light
Sometimes, sometimes
Sometimes, sometimes
Sometimes it happens feeling die
Whole years are lost in the blink of an eye
We once had it all but event conspired
Sometimes
Saturn's decline in my star sign
Seasonal adjustments, stars realign
Sometimes it happens feeling die
Sometimes, sometimes
Cigarettes keep you skinny
And your mind off the rain
Sometimes, sometimes
Sometimes, sometimes
Feelings are distant, I know guilt by name
It was the hardest thing, watching you slip away
Sometimes, sometimes
Sometimes, sometimes
Sometimes it happens feeling die
Whole years are lost in the blink of an eye
We once had it all but event conspired
Sometimes
Good morning sweet thing you're safe in my hand
I am no saint, but I understand
Sometimes, sometimes
Sometimes, sometimes
Sometimes it happens feeling die
Whole years are lost in the blink of an eye
We once had it all but event conspired
Sometimes
Now that it's over, it is through
It gets me every time I think of you
Sometimes It happens, feelings die
Sometimes
I miss your warm skin, beside me at night
I miss your flesh, in the dawn light
Sometimes, sometimes
Sometimes, sometimes
Sometimes it happens feeling die
Whole years are lost in the blink of an eye
We once had it all but event conspired
Sometimes
Saturn's decline in my star sign
Seasonal adjustments, stars realign
Sometimes it happens feeling die
Sometimes, sometimes
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This is a bloody great song. It is basically about how it feels to know that a relationship is dead and it just needs to be vocalised, it isn't a sad song at all, it is just like "this is the way it is..."