![]() ” Black Postcards“ begins with a meaningless rhyme: “ice man, ice man/ candy man, sand man/ all the things I wanted for/ someone else took them.” ” Renee Is Crying“ is whimsical, and not much more: “salt and pepper squid/ and Singapore noodles/ I could look at your face/ for oodles and oodles.” These lyrics owe more to Dr. I Wont Grow Up Lyrics by Mary Martin from the A Childs Celebration of Showtunes album - including song video, artist biography. But there is no second level to these songs. On Romantica, Wareham displays a similar knack for childish wordplay. ![]() Over a simple, repeated two-note guitar line, Wareham sings, “Breakfast in cemetery/ Boy tastin wild cherry/ Touch girl, apple blossom/ Just a boy playin possum.” It’s a Freudian banquet. Stop This Train By John Mayer Shedding his rock-star persona, John Mayer assumes an introspective one on Stop This Train. The band’s first hit (to the extent that such a thing exists in college radio) was a 1993 cover of Beat Happening’s “Indian Summer,” a song that used innocent imagery to dark effect. Lyrical and playful, I Won’t Grow Up is easy to sing along to and inspires a naive and youthful attitude in anyone who hears it. Anyone who wants to try And make me turn into a man, Catch me if you can. I wake up to the sounds of the silence that allows. ![]() And at first, this appears to be Romantica’s organizing logic-exploiting the gap between appearance and meaning. Not I, Not me So there Never gonna be a man, I wont Like to see somebody try And make me.
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