Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Pedro the Lion - Discretion

Deciding which song to use, I completely got sidetracked off my original thought. Then I returned and remembered what I wanted to do. Stupid facebook...

Now the song. I recommend you hit play, then read on. If you have a strong adversion to amazing music, then maybe you should just sit this one out (And then delete lady gaga off your computer). So heres the jam. Its by the guy behind the band Pedro the Lion. His name, David Bazan.(Buh-Zon if you were wondering.) The song is oppropriately titled 'Discretion' and contains a single 'wordy-dird'.





Heres the lyrics so you can better understand the deal

Having no idea
That his youngest son was dead
The farmer and his sweet young wife
Slept soundly in his bed
In the shadow of the mountain
As the cattle hung their heads

Grazing only feet from
Where the broken body lay
It would lay undiscovered
For another several days
When the farmer would find vultures
At their banquet in the hay

The killer traveled eastbound
In a golden brown sedan
Weighing his most recent
Deviation from the plan
Counting down the hours
Until the sun came up again

Hired to hit the farmer
By the farmer's asshole son
He had not yet decided
Between poison or a gun
When suddenly, he realized
He would not use either one


Now if you cant quite 'get it', its a murder. My take is there are two sons. One being the 'Youngest son' and the other, the 'Asshole son'. The farmer/father, sees vulteres in the field where his cattle are grazing so he runs to check it out. Turns out its his dead 'youngest son'. So either due to the mourning process, or what have you, the farmer alienates his other son who then becomes 'asshole son'. That son feeling betrayed, hires a hit on his dad. The hitman, while figuring out how to kill the farmer, realizes that the best way would be by killing his other son, thus eliminating the rotten son, and emotionaly murdering the father. 

So thats my perception of the story so eloquently told by Mr. Bazan. Maybe my view is slightly less cynical then the others ive come across.... What do you think?

-Me

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