This Generation's Caroline Polachek
Switched on Pop
Caroline's High Register
It's a wistful and strange way to open a song that then takes us in a million different directions. From there, the song just keeps expanding and growing and changing. It doesn't have a proper chorus. We get very imagistically lyrics. Time is running out in it. Pity the Mayflies in the swimming pool at dawn. Their life is going to be so short. I would not have made that Tom's Diner connection, but I'm pretty persuaded. Back to the Paula Chuck.
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