you're sending me smoke signals i know your secret code

I did this super long passionate paper on stephin merritt for chronicart
but it's not online yet
i'd like to put it here but i can't
in the meantime
i keep listening to "smoke signals", "you love to fail" and "100,000 fireflies" again
those very old songs
and i'm thinking

this record (the wayward bus & distant plastic trees) is the only one in the whole world that has the power of making me feel just
as
light
as a person in love
which is pretty ironic
considering the fact
that they're pretty straightforwardly
tragic
songs