March 8th, 2018 12:33pm
Hopes Or Holidays
The Breeders “Walking With A Killer”
“Walking With A Killer” is sung from the perspective of a girl who gets murdered by the end of the song, but it’s not a particularly scary song. A bit uneasy, sure, but the feeling of it is mostly quite calm and the lyrics describe the situation with a serene clarity. Her killing is presented as a sort of cosmic inevitability, this thing that she’s somehow aware of in spite of herself. “I didn’t know it was my night to die,” Kim Deal sings in a guileless tone at the top of her vocal range, “but it really was.” It’s unnerving, but also strangely beautiful.
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