  There is something about showtunes, the Broadway kind, which absolutely make me swoon. “Light my Candle” is so fucking amazing. It’s from Rent, when Roger and Mimi meet during a blackout at their apartment. Mimi is a 19 year old exotic dancer and Roger is kind of a prick.
After he lights her candle (get your heads out of the gutter; it was not a metaphor), she accidentally drops her stash and comes back. She bends over, looking for it, and thus the best Broadway lyricism ever… They say that I have the best ass below 14th Street/ Is it true? What? You’re starring again… Oh no, I mean you do, have a nice- Yes? I mean, you look familiar Like your dead girlfriend? Only when you smile/ but I’m sure I’ve seen you somewhere else Do you go to the Cat Scratch Club/That’s where I work/I dance/ Help me look!
YES! They used to tie you up… It’s a living… I didn’t recognize you without the handcuffs ----------------------------- On the same subject of music lyrics that I pick apart and perhaps love more than the song as a whole… “The New Year” has become a bit of an anthem for me. There is this whole bridge where the guitar drops low and the Ben Gibbard sings over the beat. And the lyrics are awesome.
Everybody put your best dress or suit on Let’s pretend we are wealthy for just this once Lighting firecrackers off in the front lawn As thirty dialogues bleed into one I have always hated standing near fireworks (hence why we watched the Riverfront Park display from Corbin instead of Riverfront Park). But that night was different. We were dancing around with Sparklers and lighting off Roman Candles and I was having such a happy moment.
I guess sometimes I need things like illegal fireworks to make me realize how beautiful my life is. I have a Polaroid of that night. Anna is lighting off something called either a Busy Hornet or a Buzzing Bee, with her head turned, a second from giggling and running off. Her smile is huge and honest, her eyes are closed and sparks are flying up from the ground. It’s probably my favorite photograph I have ever taken. Affectionately… Anna 
