salt - the wave pictures

their live performance of this was stunning.  it had been slowly becoming one of my favorites since i first got it, but hearing it live cemented that even more.  pretty much any song where dave sings the word “salt” is a good one.  how he has managed to make a simple word into something that for me has become quite sexual is impressive.  i hear it said anywhere now and i’ve gotta admit i get a little turned on.  you can put all that away in your TMI folder and just pretend you didn’t read it.

after we left the show that night it was late, finally leaving town around 1:30. i was tired and sweaty and emotional and i knew i had a long drive ahead of me (we got home at almost 6 in the morning).  so i set my ipod to play all of the wave pictures songs and tried not to cry (unsuccessfully).  i had done pretty well with holding it in for the most part during the concert.  i needed water and food, something salty to make up for all the sweating (and tears @.@).  i stopped and got some water and salty chips.  it was a tiring drive but the music (and singing at the top of my lungs and surprisingly not waking up samuel) and crunching on chips kept me awake.  at one point this song came on and when he sings “i thought the salt would wake me up” i just laughed (probably a little too much) because i had been thinking that while eating how the salty crunching was the only thing keeping me from dropping off.

okay so now you have seen a little more inside of my brain than you wanted or needed to.