Sunday, November 12, 2023

The Distance - Cake

The Distance - Cake
2:59
Fashion Nugget, 1996
Written by Greg Brown

With the usual guitar, drums, bass and deadpan vocal (and an electronic synthesizer whistle), this is a typical Cake song, but one of their most popular songs.  To me it's not up there with my favorites, but it's definitely got a driving beat impelling it along.  It seems to be a song about moving through success and failure and just trying to get there for yourself.  "No trophy, no flowers, no flashbulbs, no wine / He's haunted by something he cannot define."  Maybe doing your best for love.  "And thinking of someone for whom he still burns."

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