"I Hear the Bells"

12 March 2018:

"I hear the bells, they are like emeralds, and
Glints in the night, commas and ampersands
Your moony face, so inaccessible
Your inner mind, so inexpressible" --Mike Doughty, "I Hear the Bells"

I have loved this song since I first heard it on Veronica Mars. With its just-barely-controlled-and-then-it's-not-controlled-at-all energy and its youthful exuberance ("let's go make out/up in the balcony" always makes me smile) expressed through a mature voice, it felt like the right song for the first day of Spring Break. Let's just say that some days--including today--I can relate.