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January Twenty Something Lyrics
if you called, and i didn't answer,
there's a chance i'll get back to you
but if you're bald, fat, and go where my pants were,
then you know i'm breeding for two
january twenty something, let 'em line up and slide away
someone dialed up my line today
this song was a fever-dream,
first new year's greeting on my answering machine,
a suicide note from my late-teens,
put to this melody
and now my bike tire's flat,
i must have ran over some glass, in the dark
or it mighta got slashed,
'cause i was messing around with someone's, ex-girlfriend, again
january twenty something
let 'em line up and slide away
there's a chance i'll get back to you
but if you're bald, fat, and go where my pants were,
then you know i'm breeding for two
someone dialed up my line today
first new year's greeting on my answering machine,
a suicide note from my late-teens,
put to this melody
i must have ran over some glass, in the dark
or it mighta got slashed,
'cause i was messing around with someone's, ex-girlfriend, again
january twenty something
let 'em line up and slide away
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The verse about the bike tire is a reference to "A Little Titanic" from Oaklandazulasylum. I love how many references to older material are on Eskimo Snow.
what this song is off of?
it's on their upcoming album eskimo snow, which should be released in september
Didn't Yoni say the opening used to be his answering machine?
yeah he did
yeah he did
Where did he say that? I wanna read it XD
Where did he say that? I wanna read it XD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXv4aIk5c-4 he explains it briefly in the beginning.
I believe the part that was his answering machine ends at "someone dialed up my line today". the rest seems to kind of evaluate the current state of his life in comparison to when he wrote it.
This one's my favorite off the new album. The harmonies are so damn perfect.
Even though it's just a generic answering machine / voice mail greeting, I always thought the first couple lines were lifted/re-imagined from the Silver Jews song 'Advice to the Graduate'.