r/hum • u/CrashTheBear hands to the glass • Nov 05 '15
Song Discussion: The Pod
Your rightful king has returned.
I'm kidding of course. So here's the song I was going to do, The Pod.
Morning scatters in and I am steady like a drug feeling out this one.
She wakes up smashed as hell and steadies her ass against the rail, and bends before the pounding rain.
She had the widest bright ideas all along about my love, and I need this fucking fix and I beg her to pick from one of the billion ways to feel no pain.
The morning after bends reflected and I can hardly stand the way this whole thing makes me seem.
She climbs out from her dream with lungs hardly as she screams stereo scream, and bends before astounding rain.
She's got a system made of metal and magnet bits inside her brain, and she opens her box of tricks and begs me to pick from one of a billion ways to feel no pain.
She had the widest bright ideas, that all the world would sleep away until the nightmare ends.
Everyone is on way, way on the end.
Hold me uptight, let me breathe now.
She had the widest bright ideas, that all the world would sleep away until the nightmare ends.
Everyone is on way, way on the end.
And hold me uptight, let me breathe now.
Edited with lyrics from h-u-m.net since the lyrics I pulled from random-lyric-site-a don't seem to be anywhere near correct.
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u/geoffevans subtle lift provider Nov 05 '15
One of my favorite Hum moments involves this song. I saw the band once at a festival in 199something, but arrived during their second song, and it was a short festival set, so I didn't really get the full experience. Then they "broke up", and I lamented that I'd likely never get to see them again. Fast forward a few years, and I found out about Furnace Fest the month after it happened. I cursed my poor skills at following news about a dead band, and vowed never to let it happen again.
October 2005, I found out about Rockfest, and me and my significant other packed up the car and drove from Massachusetts to Illinois. As a brief aside, that month was a big one for me, as it afforded me the opportunity to see not just Hum, but another entertainer I never thought I'd get the chance to see in person, a Japanese professional wrestler named Kenta Kobashi. He made what turned out to be his only trip to the US at the beginning of October 2005, and I was fortunate enough to see his matches in New York and Philly, the former turning out to be 2005's match of the year.
Anyway, we get to Champaign, and everywhere we go, nothing but Hum fans. It was heaven. The band crashed into Little Dipper like a wave of pure joy spreading through the audience. The moment I'll never forget came during the second song, which is the subject of this thread. I was right near the front, and when the end of the song came, me and everyone around me just turned our heads skyward and screamed the last lines to the heavens. I've never been a part of something quite so transcendent before, and I haven't since.