Why?

The first time I heard Why? I was driving with Nate on the way back from Montaña de Oro. It was a song playing on KCPR and we wrote down the song on a random page in the back of my journal. Actually, Nate wrote it down. I think he wrote gemini birthday song, something of the sort. He also wrote down rjd2 which must have been the next song on the radio. And he drew a face with a very french looking mustache. I was driving. Later I think I tried to google or youtube the song, but I didn't think I found it. I'm not sure if I just didn't recognize it, or if I couldn't find the right song. It was when you gave me Why? on a cd mix that I thought I was hearing the artist for the first time. It's strange that you hooked me with that song because it was random and atypical of the ones usually on your mixes. How did you do that? Why? is one of my favorite artists.

I like Why? because I consider him very fatalistic. I'm not sure if I consider him pessimistic. The lyrics are often morbid, reference death, martyrs, pain, age. I always think they're spot on. Sometimes when I sing along I realize how morbid some of the lines are. I feel like singing along is a test or a dare to say it, to admit it might be true.

We love and hate like the tatooed fist,
We have to change if we're going to stay together
'Cause I say rain when it's only a drizzle,
I want to kiss like taffy-
Hump gentle on a bed of nails.
Do you still pray about me
in your quiet time?
When we're on different sides of the globe
I thought we'd keep our veins tangled
like a pair of mic cables,
I don't want to dance with your shadow no more.
There is no grace in act five
I wanna do the dirt
like the dead leaves do