Bless the Postal Service

I'm in love again, or some more, or... whatever.

It comes from The Hype List, which this time gave me The Postal Service's Nothing Better (Styrofoam Remix).

Oh, wow.

First, the beautiful. Check this chorus lyric:

Tell me am i right to think that there could be nothing better
Than making you my bride and slowly growing old together?

Also, the melody is gorgeous, and the harmony, the 'oh oh'...

But, to complicate matters, dude's a little obsessive and obstructive:

Will someone please call a surgeon
Who can crack my ribs and repair this broken heart
That you're deserting for better company?
I can't accept that it's over
I will block the door like a goalie tending the net
In the third quarter of a tied-game rivalry

So just say how to make it right
And i swear i'll do my best to comply

Tell me am i right to think that there could be nothing better
Than making you my bride and slowly growing old together

I feel must interject here you're getting carried away feeling sorry for yourself
With these revisions and gaps in history
So let me help you remember.
I've made charts and graphs that should finally make it clear.
I've prepared a lecture on why i have to leave

So please back away and let me go
I can't my darling i love you so...

Tell me am i right to think that there could be nothing better
Than making you my bride and slowly growing old together
Don't you feed me lines about some idealistic future
Your heart won't heal right if you keep tearing out the sutures

I admit that i have made mistakes and i swear
I'll never wrong you again
You've got a lure i can't deny,
But you've had your chance so say goodbye
Say goodbye

(Small baby quibble: if we're talking hockey, which has only 3 periods, it's not a third quarter, right?)

This song quickly evoked for me 'Don't you want me baby'. It's got the broken relationship, the back and forth male and female voices and harmony.

Beautiful.

I just put their Give Up album in my Amazon wishlist last night. This song clinches it.