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Water keeps rising, like cartoonish. Like pouring over walls and making whitecaps with its own force a little down the street. In their garage, these kids keep playing. The water pools around their feet, soaks their shoes and the bottoms of their amps, but this is one of those pop songs. You don't stop those pop songs - not for anything. If you've ever started playing one in a garage, you know. The shitty reverb off the garage door and the car next to the space you cleared out start to work.

The water reaches the high E, this kid lays off it. But, you know, this is cartoon-quick. The whole guitar's swamped. But you don't stop these pop songs. The strings rust and rattle, you know, cartoon-quick. But physics has never stopped a pop song. The strings rattle and the sound moves a bit slower, thicker, numb-tongued thru the water. It smooths the whitecaps.

And this pop song, you know, it's one of those. If you've ever played one, you know that a split finger, broken string, missed 2 or 4, isn't going to stop it. These kids play a little harder, a little faster, to break up the water. When they float up and run out of room at the ceiling, flat on their backs, like a lazy jam session on the floor. The cello takes a few breaths. The violin takes a few breaths. The guitar's gonna make it, but just barely. He finishes up with his last little bit.

That's the way to go: for one of those pop songs. Those pop songs can beat anything, even death. Especially death.

Ride - Vapour Trail

Buy it here. And what a fucking cover.