One More Song You Have to Hear: "How it Ends" by DeVotchka

I am not in the habit of recommending so many things within such a short period of time, but when you strike gold, you gotta get yoself a grill made and smile so it can shine (shout out to Paul Wall, Lil Wayne, and kids in my class who smile and light up the room like a disco with the proppa amounts of bling on their teeth)!

Whatever you do with your gold and your teeth, you need to hear this song. I have a soundtrack that I've been compiling my whole life which, in the depths and dark corners of my metacognition, I have called "The Soundtrack of My Life -or- Who The Hell is Running The Jukebox?!?!" This song just made the playlist: "How It Ends" by DeVotchka (I think it falls somewhere in between "Rescue Is Coming" by DC*B and "Mathematics" by Mos Def on my soundtrack playlist).

The words to this song articulate things I believe and the score behind them makes me weep about these same things I believe. This is what art-- a good book, a powerful image, a gut-wrenching movie, or a song-- can do: it can turn us inside out. A lot of what I love about this song is probably associated to the other things which I have passion for that introduced me to this song. It was on the trailer for the film version of "Everything Is Illuminated" (a book, as I have mentioned, that I love) and the band sounds like a combination of U2 and an Eastern European band from the 20's (I love U2... and the Eastern European thing is just a bonus).

Go to your downloading medium of choice (they have it in the Apple iTunes store) and get "How It Ends" by DeVotchka.

Here are the words:

Hold your grandmother’s bible to your breast
Gonna put it to the test
You wanted it to be blessed
And in your heart
You know it to be true
You know what you gotta do
They all depend on you

And you already know
Yet you already know
How this will end

There is no escape
From the slave catcher’s songs
For all of the loved ones gone
Forever’s not so long
And in your soul
They poked a million holes
But you never let them show
Come on its time to go

And you already know
Yet you already know
How this will end

Now you’ve seen his face
And you know that there’s a place in the sun
For all that you’ve done
For you and your children
No longer shall you need
You always wanted to believe
Just ask and you’ll receive
Beyond your wildest dreams

And you already know
Yet you already know
How this will end

You already know (You already know)
You already know (You already know)
You already know
How this will end.