It's a Shoreline

You know. Life seems like it's on repeat sometimes. One day you wake up and decide to change. You try to be a good and decent person and treat people well and do the right thing. You meet like-minded people and suddenly your faith in humanity is restored. You feel good about people again and life is great. Hey, people aren't so bad after all? Maybe it was just my attitude that needed adjusting?

And then these people you get to know, well they don't exactly live up to who you thought they were. And suddenly you realize they are just full of shit. Now what do you do? Push rewind and start over? Or just fuck it and be a bitter person again?

Right now I'm listening to Broken Social Scene - 7/4 (Shoreline). What an amazingly uplifting song. Just listening to the opening riffs has a calming affect on me and makes me smile. It's like feeling a cool breeze on my face while driving down the pacific coast highway. If people can make music this beautiful, maybe there's hope?

It's a shoreline.

This is the type of song of song to listen to with your eyes closed, headphones on, and on repeat.




I never paid attention to the lyrics before, but now that I've read them clearly, this song is even more amazing.

It's a shoreline
And it's half speed
It's a cruel world and
And it's time

And you're walking away
But where to go to?
And you're walking alone,
But how to get through?
If you wanna get it right
You can own what you choose
But you wanna live a lie
And love what you lose

It's a shoreline
And it's half speed
It's a cruel world and
It's time

While you're walking away
And I'm trying to get through
But you've gotta know their lies
From the lies they've told you
If you try to do it up
It all will leave you
If you try to steal the beat
The beat will steal you

It's coming
It's coming in hard
It's coming
It's coming in hard
It's coming
It's coming in hard
It's coming
It's coming in hard
it's coming
It's coming in hard
It's coming
It's coming in hard
It's coming
It's coming in hard
It's coming
It's coming in-

It's a shoreline
And it's halfspeed
It's a cruel world
And it's time

It's coming
It's coming in hard

I feel good again.