Satisfied

====MP3 Link====
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====Credits====
Lyrics: Brni

Music: Brni, Charlie and Dan

====Notes (by Brni)====
It was payday, and I was walking to the bank through the pouring rain. The light was red, and I waited, and as I waited, a cab pulled up to the curb and a man got out, umbrella first. A man coming out of the bank recognized him.

"Hey, Phil!" he said.

"Hi," Phil responded.

Lovely weather, I imagined him saying.

"Lovely weather," the man said.

Yeah, if you're a duck, I imagined Phil answering.

"Yeah, if you're a duck," Phil echoed.

I started thinking, then, about all sorts of things. Of the structure of language, of Pavlovian conditioned response, of call-response song structure and it's corrolary linguistic patterns, of behavior patterns defining set linguistic phrasings, and existing linguistic patterns defining behavior, and of institutional structures that reinforce these patterns, the games of meeting and greeting, of establishing pecking orders, of mating, of the feedback loop between the dominant culture and the mass media.

That night, after work, I walked into Doobies, my favorite bar. The bartender saw me coming in and had a shot of Jamison's waiting for me, and we proceeded to have the same conversation we had every time we were both there at the same time, always the same, always pretending it was new. And in that moment, it seemed that way.

I had started thinking about time defined not as the tick of the second hand across a clock, but in terms of an individual's experienced events (if I remember correctly, I'd been reading Henri Bergson about that time, and also Giles Deleuze's interpretation of Bergson). The problem, then, was that for some reason, we seem to fall into repetitive patterns which structure our lives and how we experience our lives, and that in turn dramatically influences (I'm taking one step back from saying "dictating") our behavior in any given situation, and that means that effectively, time loops for us, running us through what are essentially the same events over and over.

I don't think I successfully explained all these nuances in the song.

I think Dan put it most succinctly. "What the hell is this song about?"

"Recursive time," I said.

"Uh. Yeah. Whatever. Who wants a beer?"

====Lyrics====
;it happens
;it happens once again
;it happens
;it happens once again
;one more time

;our movement in the dance of language

;the bartender looks you in the eye
;and hands you your favorite drink
;you complain about work
;he tells you about the girl he met last night
;it's all strangely familiar
;like the drink you hold

;you've been here before
;you've drunk this before
;you've said this before
;and you'll do it all again
;it's on the tv set

;satisfied by the instant
;don't think about it
;satisfied by the instant
;don't think about it