I wanted to resist the Geese record and I’m still not sure I’m convinced by “Trinidad,” but let’s be fair, a whole lot of it is done right. “Cobra” and “Husbands” have the good guitars, and “Au Pays du Cocaine” (that’s Breugel’s Cockaigne, I guess) knows what nerve it’s hitting.
you can change and still choose me
you can be free and still come home
you can stay with me and just pretend I’m not there
“the male plot of ambition and the female plot of endurance”
Overnight on leave, half sleeping, the hemispheres take turns on watch. The hum of a strange furnace, a hymn. Breathing island, keep your arm around me; I know you’re in a dream but I’ll go under without you.
