My radio station is tuned to CKUA, an Alberta wide public radio station. It's a great station to listen to in the morning with great mix of morning music as well as news straight from the CBC. Yesterday, I was lucky to be woken up by the Barenaked Ladies' track Pinch Me, a very apt track to wake up to.
Listening to that song has re-awakened my love for that fantastic Canadian band and since then, Stunt's has been in repeat in CD player. My favorite track from Stunt is "Light Up My Room", a track that got no radio play. I've always imagined Light Up My Room to be a song for the mutants and the underpriviledged. Listening to the song,I see images of a nuclear family that has powers like we've seen in Powder. Ostrasized because of their difference, they look at the world from a far, enjoying the comforts their poverty gives them. One of the members in the family longs for someone, but knows that ultimately his love will never work, and so he laments his unrequieted love in the song.
"Light Up My Room" is amazingly evockative for me, reminding me of living in Taylor. I have seen almost everything in this song, from the "shopping cart in the ravine" that I saw in my youth, while living in Airdrie to "a field of tires that is always on fire" while I used to cycle competatively. More recently, after dealing with the disentragtation of my last relationshup, the final stanza of the song has more power than it's had in the past.
If you question what I would do
To get over and be with you
Lift you up over everything
To light up my room, my room
I think that I'll pick up Maroon later on today.
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