This is The Best Song In The World

No exaggeration.

Download The Strokes Live @ V Festival 2006, which includes “Ize of the World” which is The Best Song In The World.

I listened to it twice yesterday, and four times just now. After the second and third times just now, I said to myself whoa cowboy, your’re going to have to chill on that or you’ll overdo it, and then you won’t like it any more.

I call this The Backyard-Shovel Syndrome, where you have to go to your backyard and bury a song or album to keep it away from yourself. (Props to my friend CP for turning me on to that. Thanks C, wherever you are.)

After the third one I figured hell, I might as well do one more, this time following along with the lyrics. So I busted a fourth.

Someone have a shovel? I’ve just discovered The Strokes.

I think I know what you mean but watch what you say
’cause they’ll be trying to knock you down in some way
Sometimes it feels like the world is falling asleep
How do you wake someone up from inside a dream?

Your mind would wander and search for its place in the night
Your body followed this feeling like following light
Once that your music was born it followed you ’round
and then it gave your activities meaning and let you be loud

Your sad but you smile
It’s not in your eyes
Your eyeballs don’t change
It’s the muscles around your eyes

An egg to fertilize
A pulse to stabilize
A body to deodorize
A life to scrutinize
A child to criticize
Young adults to modernize
Citizens to terrorize
Generations to desensitize
You’re dreams are sweet and obsessed
And you’re overworked
You’re over taken by visions of being overlooked
How disappointed would D.I.D.I.P.P be
To see such our power in our hands all wasted on greed?
I am a prisoner to instincts
Or do my thoughts just live as free
and detached as boats to the dock?

Just like music was born
And detached from your heart.
Is your free time to free minds
or for falling apart?

Night after night
You turn off the light
You don’t fall asleep
Right away
“Are we…are we done?”

A desk to organize
A product to advertise
A market to monopolize
Movie stars you idolize
Leaders to scandalize
Enemies to neutralize
No time to apologize
Fury to tranquilize
Weapons to synchronize
Cities to vaporize

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