Mid-Week Song: The National

 

The Grammy-award winning alternative rock quintet The National was formed in Brooklyn, New York in 1999 by two sets of brothers (the Dressners and Devendorfs) and vocalist Matt Berninger. They've been gaining bigger and bigger audiences and more acclaim since. Their latest and ninth album, "First Two Pages of Frankenstein," is due out on April 28. Our song today is a cut from that album, "New Order T-Shirt," with its Leonard Cohen-esque / Dylan-esque lyrics and aesthetic. Enjoy.

"How you tapped on a box of blue American Spirits 

At Anyway Cafe a little under a month 

Before the ashes and management capital files filled the streets

How we wove through the cones walking home 

To the place on Atlantic you shared with your hilarious sister

Kicking off your black flats, demolished and laughing

I keep what I can of you

Split second glimpses and snapshots and sounds

You in my New Order t-shirt 

Holding a cat and a glass of beer"