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It Can't Come Quickly Enough
Scissor Sisters
Scissor Sisters
2004

Like Metric's "Hustle Rose", I wasn't really into "It Can't Come Quickly Enough" until I saw it performed live.  I love that sometimes when you hear a song played live, it changes everything.  Maybe it's that I'm a more receptive listener when I'm at a concert, or that I'm falling in love (or even more deeply in love) with this band playing in front of me and I just want to soak up every single minute.

I think this song has great...atmosphere--especially the opening.  I like that the music sounds like the lyrics...like gliding in a darkness that is interrupted by the occasional flash of artificial light.  The music echoes movement...a floating forward-movement that you can't quite control.  That steady drumming leads to the chorus (I LOVE THE CHORUS); the combination of the words and the way they are intoned, the range of Jake Shears' voice, the faint melody of electric guitar twinkling underneath. 

That chorus sums up so many of the things I am afraid of...that all this waiting for something, all this looking-forward (in the sense of wishing time away) is sad.  I worry that I'll spend so much time plodding forward, wishing that I could get things done and over with so as to get to something undefinable, but better; and I'll miss it--that I will spend so much time thinking about living without actually doing it.