Man and Wife, the Latter (Damaged Goods) Lyrics
I'm sure everyone knows Conor is a genius. This is no exception, I think the "Man and Wife" set of songs work very brilliantly together. In "The Former" he takes the Husband's point of view...How their relationship started out and they began planning for life, like what they were planning to acheive was the middle class american dream. To the point where all he became concerned with was financially supporting his wife to make her happy. And The Latter takes the wife's point of view where all she wants is his attention and love, and that the money doesn't matter. This is an all too familiar scenario in middle class america today, and Conor put the two sides of the story together to paint a vivid picture of how people really act and feel. Not quite as emotionally deep as his Bright Eyes endevours, but genius none the less.
There you go, you put all this stuff up for them and they leave you high and dry. You've changed so much just to suit her needs and she wants nothing to do with you. It doesn't make any sense, yet it still happens. What a horribly wonderful world to live in.
conor is jesus. no questions, really.
I love this song! the guitar intro and outro are addicting. They lyrics, as always, are genious. Conor is outstanding as always. I replaced Greater Omaha with this song in my top 20 playlist recently. Such a good song, the whole album is very awesome indeed.
all i can say is i dig everything about this song. my friends think it sucks. but i think they can lick it.
yeah...i dig this desa song too...though it probably is not their strongest; i love the music in it regardless.
oh, yes, the music is great.
vocals sound like springsteen a bit, anyone else hear that?
this is a beautiful song, the lyrics are very moving and the guigtar work, particularly the spiral at the beginning are very nice
"I’m a bill you pay I’m a contract you can’t break" damn right
this song is awesome the beat and everything. I love to listen to it while jogging and um cutting the grass haha