Songs You Hear in Line at Your Bank
“Stairway to Heaven it’s not…”
I don’t listen to the radio or watch MTV or really follow what is popular in mainstream music…certainly not in adult contemporary.
So, I am waiting in line at the bank only half listening to the music they were playing.
First, it was
Then:
All fairly par for the bank music playing course. But then, surprisingly (for me):
[Of course, they played a shortened version because you know, Stairway to Heaven it's not...never mind that the full-length song has a nice build to it.]
There had been hints here and there that this song had gained some popularity, but I’d not paid much attention: a person whom I would not expect to know who Death Cab for Cutie was, did, and also I thought I saw “I Will Possess Your Heart” on that stupid video screen in the elevator but it flashed so quickly, I knew not what I had seen.
So…yay for Death Cab.
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