Waking Ear

"So Says I"/ The Shins
Mine is more of a Waking Line today...throughout the course of my sleep last night, I kept waking up with one line from this song in my ear:
"Tell Sir Thomas More we've got another failed attempt..."

There are a number of topics that could come from this, but as I drove to work this morning what stands out in my mind is how I can listen to this song, and this entire album, and have no idea what is being said half the time. Still, I enjoy it tremendously. Trying to figure it out the words without looking at the liner notes...it's like a game. I find in most cases, I'm waaaay off the mark, but then I have a good laugh at myself.

As has been stated before, I'm not very good at deciphering lyrics, especially when it comes to The Shins. So when my ear picks up a line such as this one, it holds on to it with all its might - careful not to lose it among the rest of the lyrics.

Unfortunately, waking up to the same line of a song over and over is not always the best of times, esp when I know if I could just figure out the rest of the line, I'd sleep soundly the rest of the evening. But there's no way my tired arse is going to get up on a cold Dec. night to look at the liner notes - one day I may be tormented enough, but not quite yet. So until then, Sir Thomas More is going to keep popping in until morning.