Although it was inspired by a failed relationship of some girl with a funny name and Dan Snaith’s, the mastermind behind projects Manitoba & Caribou, this track could just as well be the theme song of how both the right and left feel about the White House right now (and, perhaps, vice versa as well), “…melody day what have I done, now our hearts are locked up tight again, and when I pray it's all begun, and when you smile it melts away again… melody day where have you gone, all the hope I had has gone away, and what we had has come undone, and when you smile it melts away again…tell them, tell them I always knew why; so long, so long to say goodbye…” Admittedly, I concede that the status quo is indisputably better than what might have come forth under the tutelage of Capt. Grumpy Gramps & the Backwoods Bitch, but I do feel a bit sorry for all those weepy saps who actually thought this presidency was going to look different from other administrations in the past. For the record, I have never & will never register under any party affiliation, because with exceedingly few exceptions, politicians at the federal level are the absolute highest order of narcissists, selfish and bloated in every conceivable way; to be honest, I only vote avidly on local issues anymore, casting my federal votes merely out of my hatred for other competing options or, at the least, to allow me sufficient cover in order that I may continue to gripe on about “things today”.
