We took a great walk beside Lake Michigan this morning and when I came back to shower Jonathan Richman’s “The Morning of Our Lives” came on my shuffle mix:
Our time is now,
we can do anything
we really believe inOur time is now
here in the morning
of our lives
This song has been of great comfort to me lately. (A lot of Richman’s songs comfort me — “That Summer Feeling,” “City vs. Country,” “Dignified and Old,” etc.)
The Strokes used the song as their opening music on their first tour. Here’s Rob Sheffield in Meet Me In The Bathroom:
…but just the end of it, where Jonathan’s saying, “We’re young now . . . now’s the time . . . to have faith in what we can do.” The Strokes just played the final minute of the song as their entrance music. It was so unbelievably exciting. It was the kind of moment that made me grateful to be alive.
If you put it on a playlist, it sounds really good followed by “Modern Age.”