Song Review
This afternoon’s tune is coming from the brother/sister duo The Fiery Furnaces. Formed in Brooklyn in 2000, the indie-rock/pop band has released 6 full-length studio albums and 1 live album in their time. Ex-Guru can be found on the group’s 2007 release Widow City. Although the album garnered much critical acclaim, it has often been criticized for lacking a unified concept or central theme. Regardless of how the album was, or wasn’t, presented, Ex-Guru is a song that has no problem standing on its own.
One of those blond ladies had a certain hold on me.
I went to all her seminars by the Airport in the Double Tree.
I even let her use nephew’s seaplane in the Bahamas for free.
But she means nothing to me now.
I tell myself that everyday:
She means nothing to me now.
I tell myself every single day,
I’m quite convinced I escaped her sway.
I burned all my clothes with eucalyptus juice;
Ripped out the floors and painted all the platforms puce;
And I went so far as to sacrifice a second snake to Zeus,
So she means nothing to me now.
I tell myself that everyday:
She means nothing to me now.
I tell myself every single day,
I’m still convinced I escaped her sway.
But when she mopes in the moonlight on her mesa in March,
Does she kick up a thunderstorm
When she thinks of my betrayal?
She means nothing to me now
