Peruvian Nights and Jamaican Days

Though it has been almost 4 years now, I am still not over the fact that Hum broke up. My Launchcast station just played The Inuit Promise. Lyrics, for those who haven't heard it (possibly - nay, definitely, my favorite song of all time):

The Inuit Promise

I took a worn out strand of your cellophane hair and stretched it sideways
and oh my, my slip though between the seam with me
My brain stopped working from the cold
I sort of strayed from what we know

*

So I'll be like you and do what's right
and win a love I don't deserve out on the ice tonight
Teach me the bluest song you know
The moon ain't comin' up
and I swear to God tonight it feels like snow

*

I'm glad we got your hands warm so my arms can feel like trust again
I can promise true waves when the summer comes
the world still fits the same form we engraved when it all began
Maybe catch a new wave

Feels right

Feels right

*

So we ride whales and drag race time
and I draw fires from the traces of trilobyte hives
You sleep like I'm inside her womb
And you see clearly to
the silicon wasteland they left inside my mind

*

I'm glad we got your hands warm
so my arms can feel like trust again
I can promise true waves when the summer comes
The world still fits the same form we engraved when it all began
Maybe catch a new wave

*

We've lost the road now
Injecting charms
And we care for all of ours
We stand in rows now
Transfer alarms
Just like the Inuit with the promise song
to come down and see
To come down and see
To come down and see
To come down and see
*

(Your solvents frozen here on the petal rung)
(is all we have to see)
(Enlarged inside as we espy)
(the warming sea)
(Your breath diffused and never realized)
(aside from where the panicked hide)
(And I)
(just a subtle lift)
(provider on the other side)


Yowzah.. And remember, this is set to some of the most creative, most ass-kicking rock music of the 90's. My #2 favorite band of all-time.

I've had a productive night at work.

-m