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Popular Lovers

by wilco

Member since 2004 · Posted 3 Dec 2005 · 11 comments

We've got a mill on the outskirts of town where rumors are made and circulate like hundred dollar bills among all our friends and popular lovers that made their escape from the carnival of bars and mistakes. A run down apartment on the East side of campus where we made love and talked about music and that stain on the carpet you said looked like Jesus or John Lennon was nothing but wine properly aged. Please, don't ask me to stay because you know I will We'll keep on growing older as we tread the open waters of another heart that's drowning peacefully. You said it's the best of the worst we could do even if we are hopeless but at least I'm romantic

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[9] zodiac 4-Dec-05/2:59 AM Reply
The second stanza is good, but not really a sentence. The last line should be that she's the romantic or you're not romantic. You're not the one who thinks the wine looks like Jesus.
[9] ALChemy 4-Dec-05/7:01 AM Reply
Send this to Bon Jovi.
[n/a] wilco › ALChemy 4-Dec-05/1:44 PM Reply
Bon Jovi?! Sir you have wounded me.
[n/a] wilco › wilco 4-Dec-05/2:06 PM Reply
In an unrelated comment...the new Sun Kil Moon album is amazing.
[9] ALChemy › wilco 4-Dec-05/2:26 PM Reply
I just heard some samples. I guess it's all covers.
Sounds like acid folk rock with a little Arab infuence. His voice reminds me of Presidents of the United States of America lead singer Chris Ballew.
[n/a] wilco › ALChemy 4-Dec-05/2:45 PM Reply
It's all Modest Mouse covers, or really interpretations is more the word. PUSA...a band I haven't thought about in a while.
[9] ALChemy › wilco 4-Dec-05/2:07 PM Reply
You mean you didn't rock out to "Livin' on a prayer" back in the day?
I hope the 9 I gave you helps mend the wound.
[n/a] wilco › ALChemy 4-Dec-05/2:46 PM Reply
Of course I did (and still do on occasion, but I don't think that Bon Jovi could rock his way out of a paper bag these days.
[9] ALChemy › wilco 4-Dec-05/10:09 PM Reply
All the more reason to send them a good song.
[8] Dovina 4-Dec-05/1:42 PM Reply
It seems you're comparing a mill (sawmill, gristmill) to a run down apartment, or vice versa. Other than that confusion, it's cool.
[n/a] wilco › Dovina 4-Dec-05/1:43 PM Reply
That is most definitely not what I'm doing.