Week five can be found here.

This week's song is
Pinch Me by The Barenaked Ladies.
( Lyrics )

First off, this song reminds me of growing up. It's in that group of songs that I find hard to classify as any specific genre, more songs that remind me of coming of age, of the 90's, of music that everyone likes. It calms me down, I can sing most of the lyrics save the part where he goes a million miles a minute which I never got down.

I think I listened to this song a lot this week for comfort reasons. This week was really rough in terms of academics and health issues, and this song talks a lot about thinking about life. Thinking about something bigger than ourselves. And also just some of the basic comforts of life: running through a sprinkler, driving instead of walking, forgetting about your worries for a second and just going with the flow, if you will.

It's like a dream - you try to remember but it's gone, then ya
Try to scream but it only comes out as a yawn, when ya
Try to see the world beyond your front door.

Part of this seems about the lethargy of my generation, being forced to yawn at world events and world suffering because it's just a generational attitude, that is, 'why should I care?' And also about remembering when you were young, or remembering why you started on your specific life journey in the first place, but like a dream that slips through your fingers you can't quite figure out how you got to your specific place in life.

I'm starting to ooze philosophical mumbo-jumbo so I'm going to cap it.
Basically I love this song, and I hope you have heard it.