Correspondence 7/18/09 9:42 - 18:10

   It took me the longest time to get Fur on a Wire right, but when I hit upon this, I knew I had something. You have no idea how satisfying I find this.

Comrade Helicopter
From POMegranate to Persomem   Jul 18, 2009 9:42 am
So, I more or less got the synopsis to "Fur on a Wire" from our album Birds Cracking Foxy:
Okay, so there's this guy, the Narrator, whose totally hot girlfriend, with whom things are starting to get pretty serious, mentions the song "Bird on the Wire" by Leonard Cohen to him, and the guy thinks she say "fur on a wire" and he says to her, you know, they say you shouldn't really put fur coats on wire hangers, because it's bad for the coat, and you should really use like wooden hangers instead. So then his girlfriend starts accusing him of animal cruelty and he's like what the heck are you talking about you're the one who brought it up and I'm just showing off my amazing depth and breadth of knowledge like you said you always liked me doing, but she'll have none of it, and the guy starts thinking that maybe she's not the right girl for him:
And I'm realizing now that she's like
Fur on a Wire
She's a Fur Coat
and she's on a Wire Hanger
And I know that there's probably
Out There, Somewhere
A nice Wooden Hanger
for her
But I can't stand to tell her...
Goodbye.

Re: Comrade Helicopter
From Persomem to POMegranate   Jul 18, 2009 2:41 pm
You have no idea how satisfying I find this.

Re: Comrade Helicopter
From Persomem to POMegranate   Jul 18, 2009 5:45 pm
Well it's a lot.

Re: Comrade Helicopter
From POMegranate to Persomem   Jul 18, 2009 5:57 pm
A lot of song synopsis?

Re: Comrade Helicopter
From Persomem to POMegranate   Jul 18, 2009 5:59 pm
Well yes that too. I was of course referring to satisfaction.

Re: Comrade Helicopter
From POMegranate to Persomem   Jul 18, 2009 6:01 pm
Oh, a lot of satisfaction.
I am happy that you are happy.
Why are you happy?

Re: Comrade Helicopter
From Persomem to POMegranate   Jul 18, 2009 6:02 pm
I am happy because I jumped from one rooftop to another yesterday.

Re: Comrade Helicopter
From POMegranate to Persomem   Jul 18, 2009 6:04 pm
And that makes you happy in my song synopsis?

Re: Comrade Helicopter
From Persomem to POMegranate   Jul 18, 2009 6:07 pm
It makes me happy about a lot of things.
But no, I like the normalcy of it, makes it somehow more profound.

Re: Comrade Helicopter
From POMegranate to Persomem   Jul 18, 2009 6:08 pm
Oh. Okay.
Sweet.
Now what?

Re: Comrade Helicopter
From Persomem to POMegranate   Jul 18, 2009 6:10 pm
Also it's quite humorous.
Um... I don't know.