"The Last Trick" - Anja Garbarek

Hello Everyone,

So it seems to be a trend that while I’m out of town that I won’t come out with a song until the end of a night or at least until after all the hooplas are done with. Tonight’s hoopla happened just a few minutes ago. I was hanging out with a friend who happened to have 3 hotel keys. After a few minutes I realized that she left her keys in my room so I called her to pick them up. I thought I was being nice because ordinarily I would just leave them straggling underneath my door while I’m whatevering. However, I decided to go meet her with all 3 keys at the elevator. I forgot my own hotel key. So I just ended up taking a 15 minute nap on the bench, in the lobby of the MGM Grand, waiting for security while I’m in a wifebeater, barefoot. I’m such a dumb fuck.

But alas, now I’m in my room and I have some free time to douse on some Clear Eyes and have a glass of some premium bottled water (CVS Natural spring water....maybe straight from the sewage treatment plants of El Porto). I sent out a track from this album before and yes, it’s the tried and true covers of Nouvelle Vague. This time they brought guests and I think this is their best album, yet. This will be the last song I send out from their album because I strongly encourage everyone to buy it (if you liked the other track). I label this as “chill” because I really enjoy them more for the mood than the genre. I would pair this album with a nice Vodka Martini (I call this genre “martini music”).

But this song really stood out for me. Just the melody and delivery is guaranteed, 30 minutes or less. Listen to this song when you feel like you’re stuck in a rut, or getting yourself into the same ol’ cyclic mess with your ex lover, or if you foresee yourself to be doomed to repeat the mistakes from your past. Or you can listen to this song when you allow him/her back into your life and then are like, “fuck it. What am I doing? Why?”

Geographically relevant. Nothing more. So, like I say to other people (and I need to heed my own advice sometimes). Like, let’s say there are 5 billion women out there in the world. Out of the 5 billion people, let’s say you have 2.5 billion that are actually possible mates (take out the children and old women and women that can’t stand listening to hip hop). Out of the 2.5 billion in the world, let’s say you have about a few thousand that you will meet in the course of your lifetime. So let’s say that right now, you’ve met a few hundred women that you would have loved to court. And out of the few hundred women, there were only a few dozen that you actually pursued and established something with. So let’s say out of them, you really only fall in love with a handful (or two handfuls, or if you’re tree sap, two handfuls and a foot) of them, you think they’re “the one.” So now, take a step back and see that out of the 2.5 billion potential mates, you really are stuck on that “soulmate.” Isn’t it convenient to think that out of 2.5 billion potential partners, you happened to live within a few miles/in the same job/in the same bar/happens to be friends with your friend/or whatever? Isn’t that nuts? It baffles me sometimes. To think that people exhaust their heart and efforts into a few women that are “the one.” Yes, plenty o’ fish get away but whoopty woo.

So, you mean to tell me, you met him, in college/work/Nebraska and that’s it for you? Cool, senorita.

But for those that are stuck in dead ends, hopefully this song will help you commit to your own rationale. And, if you can truly convince yourself of it, you’ll be fishing with dynamite.

Kaplooey.

-- Sonnyred


THE LAST TRICK

From standing to crouching
Silently falling
Falling from nowhere to nowhere
Nothing between
Nothing beyond
Nothing behind the stars

This is the last trick I'll do
Sound can be seen
This is the main title
Briefly shaking

This is the last trick I'll do
Sound can be seen
This is the main title
Briefly shaking

Remain for some time
Down here below
Allowing the doubt
to feed upon me
And even the ones
Who've never been
Are climbing the wail up ahead

I get up start crawling
Into the same
Over and over and over again
Smelling the plastic
Smelling the spit
And smelling my own breath

This is the last trick I'll do
Sound can be seen
This is the main title
Briefly shaking

This is the last trick I'll do
Sound can be seen
This is the main title
Briefly shaking

The presence convincing
The most of what I've
written is false
I mention this
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'Cause I'm talking in
the light of what's
known
I get out of the sun

This is the last trick I'll do
Sound can be seen
This is the main title
Briefly shaking

This is the last trick I'll do
Sound can be seen
This is the main title
Briefly shaking

This is the last trick I'll do
Sound can be seen
This is the main title
Briefly shaking

This is the last trick I'll do
Sound can be seen
This is the main title
Briefly shaking

This is the last trick I'll do
Sound can be seen
This is the main title
Briefly shaking

All together now
Everybody