I haven’t been looking at my blog stats much in the last couple of months, mainly because I haven’t been doing anything online in the last couple of months besides working. But today, in a rare moment of lull-ness—rare and fleeting; I’ll be back up to my eyeballs in work again later this afternoon), I had a chance to glance at February’s. Blog stats are curiously fascinating things; who are all these people, and how did they find my silly little blog? (They’re also vaguely creepy sometimes—there are more little bots out there crawling endlessly through the blogosphere than I would have ever imagined.) When I first discovered them, I checked them almost daily, and ran whois searches on the IP addresses to see if I could figure out who the visitors were. (Sometimes I could, sometimes not. There are people reading this thing and/or the Twangblog in Europe, even, which is indescribably weird to me. In a good way, but still.) Lately, though, like everything else in my life that isn’t w-o-r-k, stat-checking has fallen by the wayside.
The thing that fascinates me most about the stats is keywords. It’s relatively rare that anyone gets here through a keyword search, but it’s really intriguing to see the search strings that do get them here. Intriguing to me, anyway. After all, that kind of thing is my life these days…plus it’s entertaining to see what random, improbable combinations of words lead people here. (Or sometimes not so entertaining—someone’s fetish for penny loafers brought them here yesterday. I’m glad they were thwarted, at least temporarily. To each his or her own and all that, but fetishes skeeve me out.) And one of the keyword searches that appears more than once in the stats is “since k got over me lyrics,” so apparently, someone or several someones are trying to find the lyrics to my current (yep, still) favorite song.
The new Rosanne Cash record has been in heavy rotation in my ears lately, and there’s finally a new Scott Miller record on the horizon—only a month away, in fact. (More, likely much more, about that to come. I don’t talk about Scott Miller nearly enough these days.) And I’ve been playing the Morning After Girls quite a bit lately, probably because they’re playing at SXSW and I’m wishing I could somehow see that show without actually having to go to SXSW. But the Clientele are still dominating my personal playlist in a big way. So on the off chance that anyone else Googles the lyrics to “that song,” and since there are some completely garbled lyrics out there on the Web at some of those cheesy lyric sites, I’m happy to provide them.
“Since K Got Over Me”
Juliet
I get on my knees
Speaking in tongues
In a washed-out sun in perfect clarity
But I get so delirious, I think my sides will split
Standing on the sidewalk
Sometimes it’s as if
I don’t think I’ll be happy anyway
Just scratching out my name
And everything’s so lucid and so creepy
Since K got over me
Since K got over me
All my senses sharp
My hands are fists
I’m pretty tired of making lists
It’s just this emptiness I can’t chase away
And when the evening paints the streets
When the evening paints the streets
It’s like walking on a trampoline
I don’t think I’ll be happy anyway
Just scratching out my name
But everything’s so vivid and so creepy
Since K got over me
Since K got over me
There’s a hole inside my skull
With warm air blowing in
Standing on the sidewalk
Where do I begin?
I don’t think I’ll be happy anymore
I guess I closed that door
But every night a strange geometry
Since K got over me
Since K got over me