Pedro The Lion - June 18, 1976

You were born in K.C. Missouri
To a girl who wasn’t married
After your birth she brought you to the nursery
Kissed your head and told you not to worry
And then quietly she turned and slipped away 

In the elevator her heart began to pound
To the rooftop in her slippers and her gown
On the edge she took one last look around
Then closed her eyes and pushed away

Speeding toward the ground
Through the air without a sound
So gracefully 

12 flights down, nearly naked on the ground
Skin and tragedy always attract a crowd
And so it was when the policeman came around
He took more than fifty eye witness accounts

Each one in awe
For they’d never seen a girl so sad and beautiful

Speeding toward the ground
Through the air without a sound
So gracefully 

Pedro The Lion covering Radiohead’s Let Down

A favorite band doing an excellent job of covering my favorite Radiohead song.  Also known as: three guys doing what it takes a different band five guys to do.  Many of my favorite covers are of the less-is-more variety.

edp:

Pedro the Lion - Never Leave a Job Half Done

Sunday morning, bed head, a pocket full of change rattling around in my jean shorts, taking a walk to get a cup of coffee music.

Really people? Eric only gets 2 hearts for this amazing post (1 from me, and 1 from Bailey, which is one of the 50 brazilian reasons I love her)?

Pedro The Lion - Arizona

For Jack:

Arizona curled up with California,
then she tried to hide the whole thing from New Mexico -
who knew before he saw them making out in Yuma
that she had been loving someone new.
But California… Not California… how could you?

The bully loved her cactus,
the underdog her pine,
but she would only love one at a time.
New Mexico had always hated California
and, though he knew that Arizona wore the pants,
he got loaded, then he started throwing punches.
The poor injun never had a chance.

Scissors cut paper.
Paper covers rock.
Rock crushes scissors.
Scissors fall apart.

Foregone Conclusions - Pedro The Lion