Poverty Playlist: “Mushaboom” by Feist

I actually do have a yard. But it’s full of knee-deep snow at the moment. Hence, my inclusion of the second stanza…

Two additional notes– I was devastated that I couldn’t find the video with the flying toast for this song with embedding enabled. It’s adorable.

Second, I understand that this song is on the soundtrack for a certain Joseph Gordon-Levitt/Zooey Deschanel indie chickflick and I must defend my cred by letting you know that I heard it long before that. Like, 500 years. At least.

[In fact, I have not even seen said film because (true story) I went to see it alone one night in Chicago and I followed a cute boy in Ray-Bans into the wrong theater and ended up seeing In The Loop instead. I spent the first 30 minutes trying to figure out why everyone was British and how they managed to get a PG-13 rating with that much cursing…

“But in the meantime I’ve got it hard
Second floor living without a yard
It may be years until the day
My dreams will match up with my pay

Old dirt road
Knee deep snow
Watching the fire as we grow old”

-Feist

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