::Names Week:: Guster - Ramona

Ahh, Guster. I used to listen to a lot of Guster in my high school days. I must have listened to this album, Keep it Together, 5 times a day for a few weeks during one stretch. I just remember loving their sense of not taking themselves so seriously and just making music because it was fun. Since then we've grown apart a little bit. I mean we still talk now and again and catch up over some coffee and assorted pastries, and its a lot of fun, but we're just so busy its hard to coordinate our schedules. I mean I've got Radiohead, and Wilco to take care of now on top of my numerous other favorite bands. And Guster's got its own thing going on now too. But we make time still and that's all that counts.

This song, was one of my favs from said album. "Ramona" is a soothing acoustic bongo-ey sing-a-long song that moves you to sway back and forth even though you hate it when people sway back and forth to a song, especially all those girls you see on the MTV that start swaying, close there eyes and stick their hand in the air shouting "OH my god, this is my song." Then they sing the first few lyrics of the song and completely forget about it and start making out with the nearest guy. But I digress. I guess I'm just mad because I'm never the nearest guy. I have lousy luck when it comes to proximity. Anyway. Its got a bluegrass vibe to it too that only adds to the tranquility. Ryan Miller and Adam Gardener have voices that fit so well together its like peanut butter on a playing card. I have no idea what that simile is supposed to mean.

Ramona, where have you been?
I couldn't go to sleep till you came in
Ramona, you're Miss Oklahoma
and you miss Oklahoma
I'll get you what you want
There were days when a refrain
Would brighten our corner of Hickory Lane
When you would sing that song for me
Just like your favorite singer
Why'd you have to be so nice?
A wink and a girlish smile
And why'd you have to punch my eye?
That was something
but I still want you to stay
When I was younger and thought of myself
[ From : http://www.elyrics.net/read/g/guster-lyrics/ramona-lyrics.html ]
I never dreamed I'd become like this
A snap of your fingers,
and end to the arguments
Anything for you, love
There were days when a refrain
Would brighten our corner of Hickory Lane
When you would sing that song for me
The only one you know
But I know now, not at the start,
We're going to pieces, we're falling apart
So won't you sing that song for me
just like your favorite singer?