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We have one of those multi-CD jukebox’s in our car. \u00a0So after we load it up and drive off, specifics will elude us and songs will often later waft over the airwaves as oral apparitions. \u00a0We may in fact have no idea what we are listening to (hey, hey, quiet over there!). \u00a0We’ve been driving around recently with a semi-anonymous stack and one such ghost-song has been haunting us every time we hear it. \u00a0Others too have asked about this ghost, usually inquiring, “Is that the new Brandon Flowers or some Killers b-side”? \u00a0Not wanting to appear senile, we have guessed\/lied (guilty, your honor) and said, “new Brandon Flowers.” \u00a0We finally pulled the ghost-box out recently to switch CDs and discovered to our amazement and amusement that the “new Brandon Flowers” is in fact Wolf Parade’s great new and poignant break-up song,\u00a0What Did My Lover Say (It Always Had To Go This Way), <\/em>off their latest phenomenal record, “Expo 86”.<\/p>\n Wolf Parade is the ridiculously talented and prolific band from Montreal (again, what’s in the water up there?). \u00a0In addition to having put out three CDs of their own, the members of Wolf Parade are also key planks in a raft of other great bands (Frog Eyes, Sunset Rubdown and, our favorite, Handsome Furs). \u00a0More on the Handsome Furs another day.<\/p>\n We have heard keyboardist Spencer Krug give some inspired vocal deliveries in Wolf Parade’s past, some of which smacked of Modest Mouse’s Isaac Brock and at other times of interpolated Interpol. \u00a0But this is the first time we’ve heard him come out and take on Brandon Flowers directly and de-flower him completely.<\/p>\n This song has given us a serious case of lupus (canis, that is).<\/p>\n We love the chorus at 1:38 and after, and then we hang on the bolded stanza below that begins at 2:42 and finishes perfectly with the “la la lala la la lala” bit at 2:53. \u00a0And what’s not to like with the howling chant that ends the song beginning at 4:59? \u00a0Lyrically, this is the usual fine job by the band, but we especially like “giant shining earrings against the cheek of the sea.”<\/p>\n “What did my lover say I don’t think I should be sorry I got a sandcastle heart I wonder if all the beaches, Just like my lover said, It always had to go this way. I sleep all night with the light on, I got a friend who’s a genius I don’t think I should say sorry It always had to go this way. Wolf Parade–What Did My Lover Say? (It Always Had to Go This Way)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n[audio:https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/07-What-Did-My-Lover-Say-It-Always-Had-To-Go-This-Way.mp3|titles=07 What Did My Lover Say (It Always Had To Go This Way)]\n We have one of those multi-CD jukebox’s in our car. \u00a0So after we load it up and drive off, specifics will elude us and songs will often later waft over the airwaves as oral apparitions. \u00a0We may in fact have no idea what we are listening to (hey, hey, quiet over there!). \u00a0We’ve been driving […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nwhen she was driving with you?
\nI could not see her face
\nfrom my new bed.<\/p>\n
\nfor things I do in dreams.
\nJust like the tumbling birds come tumbling down.<\/p>\n
\nmade out of fine black sand.
\nSometimes it turns into glass
\nwhen shit gets hot.<\/p>\n
\nin all your holiday towns,
\nwill turn to giant shining earrings against the cheek of the sea
\nWhen finally this supernova goes down.<\/p>\n
\nsee,<\/p>\n
\nIt always had to go this way.
\nIt always had to go this way.
\nIt always had to go this way.<\/p>\n
\nand dream about the sun.
\nMaybe because of the light,
\nMaybe because of the sun.<\/p>\n
\nnobody listens to him.
\nI got some friends that got famous,
\nla la lala la la lala.<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nfor things I do in dreams.
\nSome people live like they’re falling,
\nsome people die in their sleep.<\/p>\n
\nIt always had to go this way.
\nIt always had to go this way.
\nIt always had to go this way.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Wolf_Parade_2_by_kreeningsons1-700x525.jpg\" "\\"Wolf_Parade_2_by_kreeningsons\\"")
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