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we were just pretending

"I guess I like that idea that you could pretend yourself into new feelings and new relationships. Obviously I'm a big pretender. but the kind of leap where it's almost like some kind of science fiction thing happens. Like we were just pretending, and then what's this? We actually have new powers now, and we see each other differently, and in fact all of life has suddenly tilted. I'm going for that everyday, personally."
~ Miranda July

30 Days of Song

Day 16 - A song that you used to love but now hate

Dispatch - Flying Horses (via willy8293)

I don’t know that I’d say I HATE this song now—I can’t imagine completely despising anything I ever loved—but I have realized how shit-brick stupid it is. Dispatch helped get me through 12th grade and all, and I still really like “The General,” but man are their lyrics dumb. I mean, look at this crap:

“The river of doubt gave birth to a beautiful stone
And in my hand I held it and I knew I was on my own
So I picked it up and held it to the sky
And in my reflection, I knew I was all alone

Then I saw this girl with the most beautiful hair
She had it wrapped around her for clothes she did not wear
I asked her for a lock and she complied, after leaving
Gorgeous footsteps in the sand as if she didn’t care

Well, she was the prettiest girl I ever saw
The stones lay still without a flaw
The feelings I had defied the law
As I came to, I went to

And I took a look, a look down the road
To see a badger and a one eyed toad
They didn’t say a word, they just looked at me
With that wise old look of the old…”