Dan Mangan – The Indie Queens Are Waiting

If you’ve ever sat down and attempted to pen a song, you’re aware that it is significantly more challenging than Dan Mangan would have you believe.  Finding a balance between telling a story, engaging a listener, evoking thought and emotion, and presenting it all in a way more eloquent than a slap to the face is truly an art.  Every song I’ve heard from Dan Mangan’s 2009 sophomore full-length release “Nice, Nice, Very Nice” seems to create it’s own universe that you can explore while listening to; I believe that is me trying to say his songs have a noticeable depth to them.  The song I want to share from the album today is The Indie Queens Are Waiting; I’ve also posted Robots from the album here.

Down the road and on the right-hand side
There’s a place I sometimes like to dine
Coffee refills far as I can see
I’ll be waking
Are you watching me?
Are you watching, are you?
Are you watching?
Or just waiting to see
That your days are numbered?
‘Cause my days are numbered too

Are we cool now?
Are we cool now?
Are we cool now?
Are we cool?

Bus down to the local record store
Buy something to make you like me more
Indie queens and tatty east-side punks
They are listening
Always waiting
Are you watching, are you?
Are you watching
Or just waiting to see
That your days are numbered?
‘Cause my days are numbered too

Are we cool now?
Are we cool now?
Are we cool now?
Are we cool?

I’m sorry that I brought it up
It’s not nice to piss you off
And I know, I know, I know
That I was poking
And sort of prodding
And kind of hoping
And always watching
For a reaction
A reaction
A reaction
A reaction
Are you watching?
Watching, are you watching?
Or just waiting to see?

Related posts:

• Dan Mangan – Robots
• The Killers – Glamorous Indie Rock & Roll
• Joel Plaskett Emergency – Natural Disaster
• Joel Plaskett – Gone, Gone, Gone
• Brasstronaut – Requiem for a Scene

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