4.25.2011

Day Nineteen: A Song from Your Favorite Album

It should not come as a shock to you, internet, that my favorite album is “Heartbreaker” by Ryan Adams.  There is literally not ONE song on this record that I could not listen to over and over again. I am not sure if my goal here is to pick my favorite song from my favorite album or just a random one, so I am going to just wing it. (I can’t really pick a favorite anyway, this album is really THAT good.)

I had to go with “Come Pick Me Up” here because it is so excruciatingly beautiful.  It’s true, it has the ability to make a well-adjusted person slit their wrists, but really in the best possible way. This whole album really is a Heartbreaker. A perfectly orchestrated Heartbreaker.

When they call your name
Will you walk right up
With a smile on your face
Or will you cower in fear
In your favorite sweater
With an old love letter

I wish you would
I wish you would
Come pick me up
Take me out
Fuck me up
Steal my records
Screw all my friends
They're all full of shit
With a smile on your face
And then do it again
I wish you would

When you're walking downtown
Do you wish I was there
Do you wish it was me
With the windows clear and the mannequins eyes
Do they all look like mine

You know you could
I wish you would
Come pick me up
Take me out
Fuck me up
Steal my records
Screw all my friends behind my back
With a smile on your face
And then do it again
I wish you would

I wish you'd make up my bed
So I could make up my mind
Try it for sleeping instead
Maybe you'll rest sometime
I wish I could

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