Music Week: “I Crush Everything” by Jonathan Coulton
Welcome to Music Week! This week I will look at some of my favorite songs made for, about, and by cephalopods. (OK, maybe not by cephalopods, but you never can tell…)
We begin with “I Crush Everything” by the mighty Jonathan Coulton. If you haven’t heard of Jonathan Coulton (or JoCo, as he is known to his fans), he is a feral mountain man from the wilds of Brooklyn, NY. He specializes in a brainy brand of folk-pop that is sometimes tragic, often hilarious, and always brilliant.
“I Crush Everything” is a bitter love song of a Giant Squid that longs to embrace the object of his affection. Sadly, he cannot because, as the title suggests, he crushes everything. Here’s a sample of the lyrics…
Did the stars come out? Did the world spin round?
Does it matter that much when you’re ten miles down?
And in the light that filters down
Into my giant yellow eye
I can see the sails unfolding
Stretching white against the sky and I forgive them
I forgive and I let go
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“I Crush Everything” is originally from Where Tradition Meets Tomorrow, JoCo’s epic five song EP. Unfortunately, the CD is out of print at the time of this writing, but it is available for download on www.jonathancoulton.com and iTunes. It is also part of last year’s JoCo Looks Back compillation, available at CD Baby and Emusic.
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