Friday Lyricals

Fridays will be song lyrics breakdowns.
Now, today, I'm getting started a little late. So next Friday might have a little more indepth.

This week's song is: Sun in an Empty Room - The Weakerthans. And it is from the Reunion Tour Album.

Now that the furniture's returning to its goodwill home
With dishes and last week's paper
Rumors and elections,
Crosswords, our unending wars
The black on our fingers smeared the ink on every door pulled shut
Now that the last month's rent is scheming with the damage deposit

Best line of this chorus is the last one. I always imagine the rent check "scheming" with the deposit like two crooks in a darkened bar.
Runner up is the first one. I have 99% goodwill furniture.

Take this moment to decide (sun in an empty room)
If were meant it, if we tried (sun in an empty room)
Or felt around for far too much (sun in an empty room)
For things that accidentally touch (sun in an empty room)

I think this is the prettiest part. The (part in parenthesis) is killer.
Also good is the "for things we accidentally touch. I can feel what he's saying there, but it isn't as clear as the next chorus.

Hands that we nearly hold with pennies for the GST
The shoulders we lean our shoulders into on the subway, mutter an apology
The shins that we kick beneath the table, that reflexive cry
The faces we meet one awkward beat too long and terrified

So good. I can sing this all day long.

Know the things we need to say (sun in an empty room)
And said already anyways (sun in an empty room)
By parallelograms of light (sun in an empty room)
On walls that we repainted white (sun in an empty room)

This makes me think of the car lights sliding across my childhood bedroom.

Sun in an empty room
Sun in an empty room
Sun in an empty room
Sun in an empty room
Sun in an empty room
Sun in an empty room
Sun in an empty room
Sun in an empty room

SUUNNNNNN IN AN EMPTY ROOOOOOOOMM!!!!!

Take eight minutes and divide (sun in an empty room)
By ninety million lonely miles (sun in an empty room)
Watch his shadow cross the floor (sun in an empty room)
We don't live here anymore (sun in an empty room)

This is the best part of the song. I remember well the first time I really listened to the words and realized that the sun is that far away, and it takes the light to get here.

This is one of my favorite Weakerthans songs. Which is saying a lot. Especially if you consider that this is off of their newest and 4th album. I can't speak highly enough of this band and the friends that I have that share the EXACT same sentiment.
You can check out the 'weakerthans' tag for more goodness.