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Thrill Seeking...

The Thrills are making a comeback on my desktop this afternoonI really cannot say enough about this particular collection of music and lyrics and songwriting approach in general. It kicks so many levels of ass it needs its own fight club.

I enclosed these lyrics in particular because they made me think of my old friend Blair and smile. He would like this band, I thought.

He would dig their irony and bittersweet sardonic wit.

He would get it and if we were still talking we would laugh about it and recollect our furious past for the nth time while relating it to the music dripping with incongruity from the speakers.

Thats rather ironic I guess, in that we used to have that kind of relationship where we could say a million things with just one glance and now we cannot even find one word to say to one another.



But you know crazy artists cannot be friends forever.

Eventually we evolve.

And become crazy parents and crazy marketing moguls and what not.

Or just
Batshit
Crazy
I prefer the former all things considered.



You Can't Fool Old Friends with Limousines



A hooker with a heart of gold
a cheap date that can't be sold
won't send you to an early grave

but Jesus looked down and said "son,
I know a doubter when I see one,
ambition stands out like a sore thumb"

you just laughed and said
no one here forgets your past


i don't love you

i just love myself


the meek had a meeting of minds
consistent hypocrisy..Hey! that's alright
let's overthrow this old guard

so hands off the virgin prom queen
you can't fool old friends with limousines
but it won't send you to an early grave



you just laughed and said
no one here forgets your past



your frat boy past

ooohhh

can't be president

your frat boy past

ooohhh

you're on your own



you just laughed and said
no one here forgets your past

i said hey baby you're right hey baby you're right



you just laughed and said
the city won't get off my back

so you ran baby ran baby ran baby ran baby ran



i don't love you

i just love myself



Not for All the Love in the World



You show your age,
when you drown your rage.
But I see past those laughter lines,
so baby, lets split tonight,
I got a tank full of gas to light.

Yeah we can drive for miles and miles
But you just said,
"Not for all the love in the world"
"Not for all the love in the world"

Cause she didnt realize, now thats a lotta love

Pipe dreams fade,
and all the underdogs get laid.
Left your heart in the hands of a jugglin clown.
And so you crave recognition,
but the keys to the city went missing

People aren't puzzles to be figured out
But you just said,
"Not for all the love in the world"
"Not for all the love in the world"

Cause she didnt realize, now thats a lotta love
Oh Oh
Whooooo

I guess that everybody,
Went to a better party, oh no
Not for all the love in the world
Not for all the love in the world
But she didnt realize, now thats a lotta love.



~Let's Bottle Bohemia The Thrills