Someone Great - LCD Soundsystem

I first heard this song while hunting for a pair of jeans at the Buffalo Exchange in Boulder, CO this spiring. I found myself bobbing my head, then saying "Wow" several times as the lyrics made it past my ears and into my brain. I went up to the counter and asked the clerk whose music we were listening to. I remembered the name "LCD Soundsystem" and the album "Sound of Silver". Then I came home and forgot about it for a while. A few months later, I realized (as often happens with me) that I already had the whole album on my computer - cuz I'd done one of those perilous itunes music exchanges that's several hundred songs with my fabulously hip cousin, Avery. And such exchanges always take me ages to get through. After that, the song lived on repeat in my car and my kitchen for a solid week. And I turned more attentively to the pile of songs Avery had given me - grateful to have found a gem among them - and eager to find more.

I was impressed by the music video of this one - not just cuz it's wickedly filmed, but because it really captures the hole created by the absence of this "someone great" just like the song does.

I wish that we could talk about it,
But there, that's the problem.
With someone new I could have started,
Too late, for beginnings.
The little things that made me harassed,
Are gone, in a moment.
I miss the way we used to argue,
Locked, in your basement.

I wake up and the phone is ringing,
Surprised, as it's early.
And that should be the perfect warning,
That something's, a problem.
To tell the truth I saw it coming,
The way, you were breathing.
But nothing can prepare you for it,
The voice, on the other, end.

The worst is all the lovely weather,
I'm sad, it's not raining.
The coffee isn't even bitter,
Because, what's the difference?
There's all the work that needs to be done,
It's late, for revision.
There's all the time and all the planning,
And songs, to be finished.

And it keeps coming,
And it keeps coming,
And it keeps coming,
Till the day it stops
(Repeat x3)
And it keeps coming,
(Repeat x7)
Till the day it stops.

I wish that we could talk about it,
But there, that's the problem.
With someone new I could have started,
Too late, for beginnings.
You're smaller than my wife imagined,
Surprised, you were human.
There shouldn't be this ring of silence,
But what, are the options?

When someone great is gone.
(Repeat x8)

We're safe, for the moment.
Saved,
For the moment