Can You Fly

This is the title track to the greatest album of all time. For those unfamiliar with this record, please reference renowned music critic Robert Chistgau’s review of this album where he describes it as “perfect”. Christgau, who revised music for the Village Voice for 35 years, was rarely complimentary.\n\nThis song is about a tornado, and the fear, confusion, chaos that ensues. Freedy, the greatest lyricist to ever live, was originally from Kansas (known for its frequent tornadoes), and he carefully crafts his words here to insinuate that surviving a tornado is akin to a biblical experience. Inanimate objects rise to the clouds, then sink into the frozen mud. Fences are pointless. While ghosts are fearsome, and the narrator is experiencing an epiphany where he is even referring to his own son as an “idiot”, fearing god, or ghosts, or your own past all becomes moot when a tornado suddenly instaneously becomes your primary threat. These lyrics are very mysterious and clever and can be open to many interpretations, all of which are morbid and reference death and the paranormal. Love you freedy