Every now and again you hear a song so sickeningly sweet that you’d like to think that even the most hardened criminal would take a listen and go “awwwww”. A few years back I discovered a song like that when my good friend Nomi made me listen to 39 Minutes of Bliss (In an Otherwise Meaningless World) by Caesars. Due to the inherent annoyance of “indie cred” or what have you I must say that this was well before the iPod Shuffle ad that featured “Jerk It Out”, while a good song in it’s own right this is the song that made me take notice.
As I am always a sucker for a good surf guitar this track definitely grabbed my attention straight off the bat but then that first line hit:
Baby you got ears just like dumbo, it’s so sweet
From that lyric alone you can see where this song is headed, the man is listing off all these attributes of his love which many would see as a complete turn off, but he sees this all as part of her charm. Though one could question if these things don’t really matter then why keep a mental list of them? I say bollocks to that, he loves that she has all these traits, this is all just a part of what makes her who she is, what matters most is that he loves her unconditionally and it is truly mutual, after all, they’ve synchronised their heartbeats!
Funny thing to me about that bit of the song is it’s in a verse where it seems that he won’t be listing off any of her quirks, but instead what matters most, their love. Sure people gawk at them, but what’s it matter? They have each other, and really, that’s all he truly cares about; but the way he sounds more excited about how they have the same size in shoes than the fact that they have true love tells me he is ecstatic that not only is he with the (im)perfect woman for him, but they can also share footwear, I’m sure even Dino could attest, that’s amore.
