JAKE CLELAND

Silver Jews

It’s always really confused me that on “Random Rules”, Berman sings, ”I asked the painter why the roads are coloured black / He said ‘Steve it’s because people leave and no highway will bring them back.’” Why Steve and not Dave? Is the painter being a dick and talking through Malkmus? Why isn’t there a RapGenius for rock songs?

  1. popcornnoises reblogged this from jakec and added:
    “Steve” rhymes with “leave,” which in the world of Berman/Malkmus (really more Malkmus than Berman but Berman does it...
  2. different-exotic-fishes reblogged this from jakec and added:
    I always thought that was you
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