2:13
Off the Leash, 2008
Written by the Real McKenzies
I'm a sucker for fast Celtic punk with bagpipes! It doesn't really matter what Paul McKenzie is singing — one of my favorites is about the Loch Ness Monster. This song is a cry to carpe diem, a rumination on how the pendulum of time swings back and cultures refute then embrace the past. "If you hang around long enough / You'll see that everything starts to rust / Then shine it all up til it's tip-top /And old becomes new again." This belief, of course, is an old one, dating to even before Ecclesiastes ("there is nothing new under the sun"). Hey, that's what the song is saying!
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