Hamilton Leithauser - Here They Come
In Our Headphones
KEXP
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2020
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Summary
Hamilton Leithauser - “Here They Come” from the 2020 album The Loves of Your Life on Glassnote Records.
Following his 2016 collaboration with Vampire Weekend's Rostam, Leithauser returns this year with The Loves of Your Life, an album produced, recorded, and written all by himself. “All of the songs on my new record are about people,” he explained in a press statement. “Individual, real people. Some are strangers I’ve met, but a lot are friends.”
In the case of today's Song of the Day, the friend in particular "tends to run from his problems. When the going gets tough, he tends to just cut and run. The song is about the specific moment when the lights are coming up in a movie theater where he’s been hiding out all day, and life’s complications are just coming back into focus.”
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| 0:00.0 | The lights are coming up and all your candy's gone |
| 0:18.0 | Spinning through the previous |
| 0:26.0 | flipping through the seats |
| 0:31.0 | popcorn nitty loafers |
| 0:35.0 | sugar in your teeth, you say, |
| 0:38.0 | the lovers in your life should listen to you more you can tell that to the |
| 0:47.0 | us here showing you the door |
| 0:56.0 | all the lights are all |
| 0:59.0 | and all my kin is gone. |
| 1:06.0 | I was a fool. |
| 1:08.0 | I was blind. |
| 1:10.0 | I kept my eyes |
| 1:12.0 | and you're half the turn. |
| 1:15.0 | All the lights one by one, here that come. |
| 1:30.0 | on a parking subway train breaking through a tunnel underneath Broadway |
| 1:34.0 | with women waving wild |
| 1:38.0 | that some kids on the other side |
| 1:42.0 | and one on. on the other side |
| 1:47.0 | and one on my shoulder |
| 1:55.0 | left to wrap my shoulder. I was a pool, I was blind. |
| 1:59.0 | I get my eyes shut half the time all the lights |
| 2:06.8 | one by one here they come |
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