Quote Originally Posted by Slosh
Track 5 on the legit album is "Armchairs" and is probably my favorite song on this album and maybe of his entire career.
What a beautiful song. Like some epic classic from Lennon-McCartney, when they moved in that direction. Or Harry Nilsson. I think he's singing better than ever on this song, sounds almost like Roy Orbison toward the end. Brilliant lyrics, really wraps up that whole "armchair for the apocalyse" imagery that has swept through the last few albums. Crisis? What crisis? Reminds me of that great short story that I often mention by Sam Delany, Time considered as a helix of semi-precious stones. OK, so he doesn't quite rise to those very lofty literary levels, where almost every line seems like it was written in your own thoughts, but good golly miss molly, Bird is gem. Man out of time....

The awkward pause
The fatal flaw
Time, it's a crooked bow
Time is a crooked bow
....

Fifty-five and three-eighths years later
at the bottom of this gigantic crater
an armchair calls to you
now this armchair calls to you
and it says that someday
we'll get back at them all
with epoxy and a pair of pliers
as ancient sea slugs begin to crawl
through the ragweed and barbed wire