"It Can't Come Quickly Enough"

One of the best albums I have heard in a very long time, Scissor Sisters (by the group of the same name), 2004. Buy it, love it. At least five of the 11 songs made it huge on the radio and made this group the top selling act in the UK for 2004; the kicker, they are an American band! They are probably too queer looking to get the time of day in the US (and two of them are actually queer), but I can hope America embraces them by the time I return home.

Here's the lyrics to one of my favorites--and, ironically perhaps, one of the six that did not make radio play.

It Can't Come Quickly Enough

Sailling through the tunnels In the morning by yourself
There's a very special feeling
True sensation all is well
If you stand and reach your arms out wide
Close your eyes and try to fly
It's an underground illusion
Tricking you from side to side

We knew all the answers
And we shouted them like anthems
Anxious and suspicious
That God knew how much we cheated

It can't come quickly enough
And now you've spent your life
Waiting for this moment
And when you finally saw it come
It passed you by and left you so defeated

Skyscrapers rise between us
Keeping me from finding you
If the concrete architecture
Dissapeared there'd be so few
Of us left to navigate and
Defend ourselves from the tide
It's an underground illusion
Tricking you from side to side

There's no indication of
What we were meant to be
Sucking up to strangers
Throwing wishes to the sea

It can't come quickly enough
And now you've spent your life
Waiting for this moment
And when you finally saw it come
It passed you by and
Left you so defeated