\koh-puh-SET-ik\
adjective
: very satisfactory
the word COPACETIC is inseparable from a song i just spent at least eight minutes trying to track down on the internet. the song is "bound for the floor" by a band from the mid-90's called Local H. according to my high school concert log, i saw them in august of 1996 at the all-day RADIO 104 BIG DAY OFF! they played last after the likes of Poe, Goldfinger, Superdrag AND The Violent Femmes. they must have been kind of a big deal. but i only remember The Violent Femmes.
the lyrics are as follows:
Born to be down
I've learned all my lessons before now
Born to be down
I think you'll get used to it
And you just don't get it
you keep it copacetic
And you learn to accept it
You know it's so pathetic
Born to be down
I think that I've said this before now
Born to be down
What good is confidence?
And you just don't get it
You keep it copacetic
And you learn to accept it
You know it's so pathetic
And you don't
I've learned all my lessons before now
Born to be down
I think you'll get used to it
And you just don't get it
you keep it copacetic
And you learn to accept it
You know it's so pathetic
Born to be down
I think that I've said this before now
Born to be down
What good is confidence?
And you just don't get it
You keep it copacetic
And you learn to accept it
You know it's so pathetic
And you don't
epic. truly. i guess i just don't get it. and i don't.
but alas, COPACETIC always reminds me of this song. it's a word that is integrated into the zeitgeist of 1996. i feel the same way about the word CUMBERSOME—forever bound with the song by that band Seven Mary Three. what is it with post-grunge bands trying to use such big vocab words in their songs? i mean, does gavin rossdale even know that glycerine is a colorless, odorless, syrupy, sweet liquid, C3H8O3, usually obtained by the saponification of natural fats and oils: used for sweetening and preserving food, in the manufacture of cosmetics, perfumes, inks, and certain glues and cements, as a solvent and automobile antifreeze, and in medicine in suppositories and skin emollients?
i'm gonna guess probably not.
YES!!!! i was hoping you would quote local h!!! and i agree- this lady at my work uses the term "cumbersome" all the time and i think of seven mary three. but for some reason when i hear that word "cumbersome" i get "i went down to the water's edge" stuck in my head. which is often. ugh.
ReplyDeleteThis post is amazing. I love the very last sentence oh so much. hahaha.
ReplyDeleteAND, before I even opened this post (it goes into a feed reader) I saw the title and thought "oh shit, that song!!!!" and sure enough, you mentioned the song.
Also, that concert sounds amazing and you are so lucky to have gone. *jealous!!*
It's kinda funny because you wouldn't think that good ol' Gavin would know what glycerine is, and yet I remember in my high school there where countless "hip" kids into the indie sounds of NOW (or then, in this case) who would secretly indulge their guilty pleasure by listening to that colorless, odorless, syrupy, sweet hit. You're a sly fox Gavin Rossdale...
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