Nothing Better - The Postal Service

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Ok, this song took some thinking about because it's originally sung by a man and a woman (Ben Gibbard & Jen Wood). If you don't care about meaning and lyrics and my take on this song STOP READING NOW, I won't be offended!

I altered the lyrics so it is all coming from the man, and split it into three sections. The first is as it is in the original - in the moment, then (on Wood's first lines) it goes to the past tense - the guy telling the story, and finally it goes back to talking to the woman but it's still after some time.

I could go on but I'll spare you! If anyone cares let me know and I'll write you an essay!

Here's the lyrics as I sung them:

Will someone please call a surgeon
Who can crack my ribs and repair this broken heart
That you're deserting for better company?
I can't accept that it's over.
I will block the door like a goalie tending the net, in the third quarter of a tied-game rivalry

So just say how to make it right
And i swear i'll do my best to comply

Tell me am i right to think that there could be nothing better
Than making you my bride and slowly growing old together

She felt she must interject here "you're getting carried away feeling sorry for yourself with these revisions and gaps in history." So she helped me remember.
There were charts and graphs that could finally make it clear. She'd prepared a lecture on why I had to leave

So I backed away and let her go
But still my darling i love you so...

Tell me am i right to think that there could be nothing better
Than making you my bride and slowly growing old together
Don't you feed me lines about some idealistic future
Your heart won't heal right if you keep tearing out the sutures

I admit that i have made mistakes
and i swear I'll never wrong you again
You've got a lure i can't deny,
But I had my chance to say goodbye

Say goodbye



Thanks!
Dave. x

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[karlt10]

Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute..... "like a goalie tending the net in third quarter"? THIRD quarter? Uh..... Is that like 4 hours into a 3 hour show?

[MusicFromBlueSkies]

@karlt10 no... It's like 3 hours into a 4 hour show. What you said would be the fourth third.

[karlt10]

@MusicFromBlueSkies Exactly my point..... Hockey does NOT have FOUR QUARTERS. It has THREE periods. A goalie would NOT be tending 'the next' in the THIRD QUARTER.

In 20 years I've yet to see a league or division that played anything other than 3 periods.  Even peewees typically went 3 periods of 5 of 7 minutes each.

[MusicFromBlueSkies]

@karlt10 well then it's not hockey being referenced.

[Marixpress2]

@noahneonfoxx

LMAO

[noahneonfoxx]

How do I say this....... I want you inside me.

[nyguy88L71]

this kid really good

[shanaynay1241]

are you british?

[Ethertrogg]

@rileyvace IDK I assumed it was hockey because it makes the consequences of failure so much more dire. If he fails its OVER. He loses. Whereas another sport just goes on to the next quarter. Unless football (soccer) is sudden death once regulation game time is completed. I used to play soccer YEEEAARS ago but I'm afraid I've forgotten those nuances..

[DrunkNBrawlin]

Back when you had a mullet. Win. :D

[fatalwoot]

Brilliant interpretation of the lyrics! I am a huge fan of the Postal Service and wanted to play and sing this by myself, but couldn't think of how to pull it off without a girl. You really pulled it off.

[homicidalmaniac21]

@karlt10 Who said it was hockey? Field lacrosse has four quarters, a net and a goalie... So "Like a goalie tending the net in the third quarter" is a possible reference to lacrosse.