but he stayed in the city/ and kept on changing clothes

I don't know about you but sometimes, there comes a point when it is easy to simply feel *tired*. Tired not from being physically pushed ( which the Army trains everyone well and isnt really anything special contary to what typical army guys would like you to believe), but more so tired from being just *drained*. Of what naturally it is different for everyone, for some it may be spiritually, or the mundanity of daily work, or it may even be something like maintaining a relationship and the like, but I never thought I would have to experience the kind of ****ing worried sickness so soon that comes when family and the prospect of death sit in the same room. The ICU in this case. If simply because although I know that such things happen, even know that my grandfather died of it, it did not really cross my mind ( more likely it was my mind not wanting to not think like this) that it would strike someone close just like that.

Neh but enough of that, I shall uphold my promise of keeping this blog soley on music, so here is today's post all done up and here for your enjoyment.

Quirky and melancholic may seem like an odd combination to many out there, heh but look it's stuff I like. 'Superman Song' is the whole package, like those moments that hit you at those times when you take a double take on things that happen around you and perspectives change. Possessing the same folksy lilt like other mid 90s college favourites like the Barenaked Ladies, 10 000 Maniacs and the Indigo Girls, the Crash Test Dummies from Canada sing a gentle yet bitingly sharp song about Superman's death. Yeh supe's dead and it is his eulogy. The song's a little dark, a little good natured, a little mildly laid back and a little smugly self conscious all bundled together. But before you think this song is a joke based simply on its premise, here's the lyrics:

Crash Test Dummies - Superman Song

Tarzan wasn't a ladies' man

He'd just come along and scoop 'em up under his arm

Like that, quick as a cat in the jungle

But Clark Kent, now there was a real gent

He would not be caught sittin' around in no

Junglescape, dumb as an ape doing nothing

[CHORUS]

Superman never made any money

For saving the world from Solomon Grundy

And sometimes I despair the world will never see

Another man like him

Hey Bob, Supe had a straight job

Even though he could have smashed through any bank

In the United States, he had the strength, but he would now

Folks said his family were all dead.

Their planet crumbled but Superman, he forced himself

To carry on, forget Krypton, and keep going

Tarzan was king of the jungle and Lord over all the apes

But he could hardly string together four words: "I Tarzan, You Jane."

Sometimes when Supe was stopping crimes

I'll bet that he was tempted to just quit and turn his back

On man, join Tarzan in the forest

But he stayed in the city, and kept on changing clothes

In dirty old phonebooths till his work was through

And nothing to do but go on home

here's the video too, which I think captures the whole song perfectly. Listen and watch it here rather than on radioblog.

" makes me feel all puzzled and mixed up" so says Xijie.