Artist: The Smiths
Song: William, It Was Really Nothing
Album: Hatful of Hollow
Mood: Regretful
I had the day off from work today, and I had all these grand illusions of tying up loose ends: finalizing the screenplay I’ve been working on, vacuuming my apartment, figuring out a new place to live, etc. But now it’s 4:30, and I’ve only just taken a shower (a step in the right direction, albeit a very small one). Days like this are bittersweet: on one hand, it’s great to have a day off, especially when everyone else is at work. But on the other, I know I’ll invariably end up doing just enough of what I need to do that when I go to bed tonight I’ll be saying to myself “I NEED MORE DAYS OFF TO COMPLETE MY TASKS!” because I have piss-poor time management skills.
These days off do give me time to listen to a bunch of music, however; today was a Smiths kind of day. As I’ve previously stated, I hate fall, but to prepare myself I spent the day listening to dreary music- “William, It Was Really Nothing” qualifies as such a song. The drums and bass are fast-paced, and the lyrics are full of half-thoughts and incomplete ideas; as a whole, the song makes the listener feel like The Smiths were trying to lay this track down on a dreary day as quickly as possible so they could leave before it started raining. There’s a sense of eleventh-hour urgency in the song; it feels complete while leaving the listener with the idea that, if they’d had more time, so much more could have been done with the record. Kind of like me on my days off.
(Note: That video is not my favorite version of the song, but it was the only one that wasn’t live and that had good sound quality. See if you can find it on iTunes instead.)
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