The World's Best Kisser

Darwin Deez has had his fill of artists recording songs with ambiguous meanings. On his fourth album, Ten Songs That Happened When You Left Me With My Stupid Heart he's determined there will be proper lyrics, not just a collection of words. "Ever since I bought my first CD - Last Splash by the Breeders - I've been internally railing against the kind of vague nonsensical stuff that passed for lyrics in the '90s," he explained. "It's not that it was objectively bad, but it was so cryptic and over my thirteen year old head that it infuriated me. Everyone is getting a free pass, lyrically". "I've always respected country songwriters because they're some of the last ones standing, lyrically," Deez added. "They're some of the last writers not to be getting away with murder out here. They don't mess around in Nashville."

This song, which contains light romantic lyrics, is a case in point. Deez said the words are "a reflection on the mystery of attraction and the attraction of mysteries." "After writing the song, I learned via Joseph Campbell of Thomas Mann's concept of 'erotic irony,'" he added. "That flaws/imperfections are what make a person identifiable within a piece of devotional art. And so to write a love song that is truly about a specific person is to write something that cuts the person down to size a bit. Which is paradoxical but true - that in order to glorify someone in a love song, you might point out their defects."