Some songs take you like a warm embrace, they wrap you with their sweet notes and weeping guitars and make you fantasize about another number of a John Lennon’s dream.
‘Good Dancers’ by the Sleepy Jackson, from their 2003 album ‘Lovers’, is this kind of little miracle, it sinks you in a pensive world, and with its short and weird lyrics sung with high pitch dreamy voices, it gives you the confidence of a good dancer and talks to your deeper self.
With their hypnotic melody, these kinds of songs are sensual like a living being, they have sad violin chords that arrive in waves like big sighs, covering a distant aching voice confessing ‘The war’s good and I’m so tired’. And finally, they bring this little comforting voice in the back of your mind that tells you there will always be a little place to escape to ‘When you think with your mind you’ve got a place to go now.
These songs help you find the way to an inside world and disclose you this aptitude you are unaware of, this ability to escape inside and find comfort despite the outer cruel world. This is your richness, your force, and you don’t need anyone else to go there.
‘Good Dancers’ is like a little secret you hardly want to reveal, just like the softly spoken lyrics mixed so low can barely be understood. But you can always keep it with you to soothe your mind, and this is no mind games.