12/26/2023 0 Comments Moment for life lyrics![]() LEWIS: Well, I have a cockapoo called Bobby Rhubarb and a truck. PARKS: I have to admit, I'm biased here because I also got a dog and a car in the last couple years, and they have made my life much better. If you feel like giving up, shut up get a puppy and a truck. LEWIS: (Singing) Like a shot of good luck, I got a puppy and a truck. PARKS: OK, let's turn now to, I think, my favorite song on the album called "Puppy And A Truck." And it just trips me out living against my own advice. LEWIS: (Singing) Giddy up, get on my pony and ride. And that song is actually about cognitive dissonance as well, where you know you have to get on your pony and ride, but maybe you're not ready to do it yet. You know, I made a conscious decision to be here. You know, I'm not the victim in these songs. And there's a sense of accountability as well. Is that an explicit decision to kind of write to chronicle how romance has changed as you've gotten older? I think it's on "Giddy Up" where you say, we're both adults. They're about, like, love as adults in a lot of different instances. ![]() PARKS: One of my favorite things about your last few solo records is the love songs, and the songs about relationships are not about young love. One type of relationship isn't necessarily better than another type of relationship, and there's joy in the failures as well as the successes. And then when I brought it into the fold for the batch of songs for "Joy'All," I updated the bridge, and I changed the sentiment, where it's neither-nor. LEWIS: Well, this is an interesting song because I started writing it before I recorded my last record, "On The Line." So it began out of an early breakup. And, like, so much of this record, it's kind of imbued with this sense of somebody who has, for lack of a better phrase, kind of gone through it. PARKS: So this song kind of compares two different relationships. He don't know the things about me that endure despite. LEWIS: (Singing) He don't kiss me in the morning. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "APPLES AND ORANGES") This is a song called "Apples And Oranges." ![]() PARKS: Well, let's listen to a little bit of the new album. And I think, you know, when you make art for a long period of time, you learn to appreciate the beginnings because they led you to where you are now. PARKS: (Laughter) That took time to kind of come to terms with? So some of those lines from the early Rilo Kiley records - there's a song called "Glendora" that was always a favorite, and people would yell it out at shows, but it's got some pretty embarrassing lyrics in there. LEWIS: Well, it's become less embarrassing over the years 'cause I've learned how to accept the former incarnations of myself. What is it like to have basically, like, a public diary of your entire adult life just kind of out there? And I was just thinking, like, you're a very personal songwriter, a very intimate songwriter. So I kind of wanted to start there, with, like, this idea that you have been making music for, like, 25 years, professionally. "Joy'All," her fifth and latest solo album, came out in June, and she joins us now. ![]() PARKS: And in the two decades since, she's put together an impressive solo career. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "PORTIONS FOR FOXES") And if you, like me, went to high school sometime between, say, 19, there's a good chance her voice appeared on a lot of your mix CDs. For most of her life, Jenny Lewis has been performing. ![]()
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