Song: "Carry the Zero"
Album: Keep it Like a Secret
Artist: Built to Spill
Year: 1999
Running Length: 5:44
Label: Warner Brothers
Album Rating: 9.3 (out of 10) on Pitchfork
(also appeared on the Carry the Zero EP, 1999)
From Jason Josephes' Pitchfork review (because I can't think of anything original to say about an 8-year-old song that I absolutely love)... "And what have we here? It's the downright pretty "Carry the Zero," which merges Cocteau Twins- esque guitars and melody with equal sigh and much more articulate lyrics, none of which I'm going to quote to you. "
Ah, but I will quote the lyrics in their entirety. Enjoy my #40 favorite song of all-time....
I'm not knocking your want to carry that home
Took it with you when you moved and got it broke
Found the pieces, we counted them all alone
Didn't add up, forgot to carry a zero
I can't be your apologist very long
I'm surprised that you'd want to carry that on
Count your blemishes; you can't, they're all gone
I can't see your response putting them back on
Like they're waiting for your guard to fall
So they can see it all
And you're so occupied with what other persons are occupied with
And vice versa
And you've become,
What you thought was dumb
A fraction of the sum
Yeah you've become
Yeah you've all become a fraction of the sum
The middle and the front
And now it's coming back; hasn't it come too far?
I was trying to help but I guess I pushed too hard
And now we can't even touch it
Afraid it'll fall apart
(Editor's Note: This is the first part of a 40-part series exploring in detail my favorite musical compositions of all time. I hope to finish sometime around Christmas - at which point they'll all be listed together... I was hoping to do it all at once, but it's taking much longer than I'd hoped. Sorry. You might get 35 to 39 soon, because that's finished already.)
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