Tomorrow’s a big day. Super Tuesday. Mardi Grande. I’m voting for Obama. I think. I have my reasons. They have to do with Lincoln. Blah blah. Truth is, you don’t really care. Suffice to say that Honest Abe never got elected to the Senate in the two attempts and he was a one term congressman when he ran for highest office. He also presided over a civil war and held the country together and i think we are in a sort of civil war now with the whole red state, blue state thing. We need a president to bring us back together for a while. I think he’s the guy.
Oh. So, i guess I did give my reason.
But, talk about synchronicity. You know how I have been creaming all over the new Mountain Goats album? Well, APR asked Darniell and the Goats to write a song about Super Tuesday and they did. Funnily, for a band that sounds so sweet and folky, they use a lot of dark images. I, personally, enjoy the one about the “I Voted” sticker being a “mark” of some kind.
Update: Link is not available due to legal stuff. Go Here to hear it.
Update: Here are the lyrics at least
Down to the Ark”
The candidates met up in North Dakota
And they donned their black robes there in the chapel hall
They said a brief invocation to their cloven-hoofed prince
And they signed their names in blood on the vestry wall
In Christ you know there’s neither high nor low
And the void will claim all creatures small or bright
Seal up the borders or let everybody in
In the order of the serpent, there’ll be neither left nor right
And we pull down our blindfolds
And we reach out for the lever in the dark
Get a sticker for our shirts as we head into the sun
Proudly bearing the mark
Headed down to the ark
The applicants went down to Oklahoma
And they hired an accent coach to teach them the western twang
And several post-born babies learned the hard way:
Vampires only kiss you if they’ve sharpened up their fangs
And as Minnesota fell, so went Missouri
We met at VFWs in the snow
And we voted down the tax codes, and we voted down the war
So many names to choose from, just one way to go.
