Quarter Life Crisis, Embodied in Lyrics

Today I listened to a song on Itunes that I don't think I had ever heard before. That's kind of strange, because my Ipod/laptop almost always plugged into my head. It's just another addiction to add to the list which now include caffeine/the internet/the shield/heroin. Well, not heroin. Regardless, very rarely do lyrics catch my ear these days. Generally, when I'm listening to music I'm focused on reading something or focused on zoning out staring at the city lights on the bus ride home. Today though, a Dismemberment Plan song came on and I seriously fucking loved it. The Dismemberment Plan has been an up and down band for me. Sometimes I really like them, sometimes I think they're a bit obnoxious. At the very least, they have humorous, insightful, and thought provoking lyrics. Sometimes the thought they provoke goes something like "wow, i've never thought of that" or "wow, that's sad." Sometimes it's "what the hell was he thinking dropping that terrible lyric." This song though, this song really made me think of a million people I know now and a million people I used to know. So...I listened to it like 8 times today. I think there are elements of this song I used to be able to relate to. Not so much anymore, but it brought back some memories.

It should be noted that I feel like every twenty something feeling kind of lost should listen to this song and feel better. It's a phenomenal song to represent those days that you don't remember the specifics of-just that you remember being great. At the same time, it reminds you that life moves on after those days, things change, and you gotta move with them. We should not be static. We should change as the things around us stay the same. Simple, but great:

"The only thing worse than bad memories
Is no memories at all
From the age of 20 to 22 I had five friends
None of whose names I can recall
And as I would walk down K Street to some temping job
As winter froze the life out of fall
Yeah, I must've been having a ball
Different scene outside your window now
Same VCR, same cats
Different people at the very same job
Similar alley, different rats
The trash goes out on a Tuesday now
You got to make a note about that
Yeah, this time you're where it's at
You can't say it but I know it's in there
You don't know it but I know that you're scared
Obvious and lonely, a spider in the snow
Now you find the very same pit still yawns
Deep down within the very same gut
The very same ghosts still seem to haunt you down
Down those lines you always tried to cut
You thought you just might need a little change
And now you find you got nothing but
How can a body move the speed of light
And still find itself in such a rut?
You can't say it but I know it's in there
You don't know it but I know that you're scared
Obvious and lonely, afraid to not let go
You can't say it but I know it's in there
You don't know it but I know that you're scared
Obvious and lonely, a spider in the snow."

Take heed. The Dismemberment Plan Spider in the Snow