2:49
Glean, 2015
Written by John Flansburgh and John Linnell
This song seems to be about the creative process. The idea cited in the lyrics is akin to Pearl Jam's Backspacer, literally deleting old ideas to make room for new ones. "When it's as it someday is / It always will have been the case / When your ever-searching finger / Finds the button marked erase." But it might also be about, in a sort of science-fiction sense, erasing the memories of a loved one. Internet sleuths with a sharper eye than I have noted similarities to The Eternal Sunshine Of the Spotless Mind, which is literally about this. A lot of TMBG's songs are about this sort of time travel or fiddling with time, so it well could be. I love near-robotic, choppy, rapid delivery of Linell's vocals.
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