Baby, why'm I worried now, did someone make a fool of me? 'fore I could show 'em how it's done

Artist- Neko Case
Song of the day- Middle Cyclone

Why is Neko Case so awesome? I ponder this question often, especially when she writes songs like this that make you just go, "yes. totally." And is pretty, and simple but incredibly complex at the same time and can use a music box in a total non ironic or overly themed way. It gives it that sad adult lullabye feel, reminiscent of ones your mom used to sing to you and then you realized later there were about depressing subjects like babies being rocked on treetops only to fall from them do to being windy. how is that comforting? I have no idea, but it is, just like Neko Case. So here's some depressing but true comfort for you today



Baby, why'm I worried now,
did someone make a fool of me
'fore I could show 'em how it's done?
Can't give up actin' tough,
it's all that I'm made of.
Can't scrape together quite enough
to ride the bus to the outskirts
of the fact that I need love.

There were times that I tried,
one for every glass of water
that I spilled next to the bed,
wretching pennies in a boiling well
in a dream that it once becomes
a foundry of mute and heavy bells.
They shake me deaf and dumb
say, "Someone made a fool of me
'fore I could show 'em how it's done."

It was so clear to me
that it was almost invisible.
I lie across the path waiting,
just for a chance to be a spiderweb
trapped in your lashes.
For that, I would trade you my empire for ashes.
But I choke it back, how much I need love...