M. Ward - Stars of Leo

M.Ward the lucky "Him" from She and Him. I say lucky because he gets to play music with the outrageously cute Zooey Deschanel.
I bought Hold Time on a whim because I liked the packaging which made me realize that you CAN judge a book by its cover. I was pleasantly surprised with this album. "Stars of Leo" really made me love this album though. Its a happy country-like ditty that has one of the coolest moments in recent music history. About halfway through the song a low rumbling begins. It slowly gets louder until you realize that its a chugging acoustic guitar that finally enters the song with a cymbal crash! Its almost like two separate songs collide into one like two trains crashing into each other and forming some kind of super-train. Brilliant! I listened to that part like 20 times in a row the first time I heard it.

I was born on the first day of December
That means the beginning of the end
Between the last in the line of an emotional time
And the patriarchal rash in the wind

And I'm overwhelmed at the range of emotion
I can ride in some high, lonesome sound
I get so low I need a little pick me up
I get so high I need a bring me down
I get so high I need a bring me down

And when I'm high above the sea of love
With the stars of Leo shining
Well, that's a long way to fall into the blue
But it's just a matter of time until I do, yeah

But now I'm under the ground in New York City
I miss the water from the wells back home
And that's exactly what the papers said would happen
If I keep boarding crowded subways alone

So I tried to surround myself with real love
You know, the kind that make them wheels go 'round
I get so low I need a little pick me up
I get so high I need a bring me down
I get so high I need a bring me down

Like when I'm high above that sea of love
With the stars of Leo shining
Well, that's the hardest way to fall into the blue
But it's just a matter of time until I do, yeah

Like when I'm high above the sea of love
With the stars of Leo shining