The List (My Favorite Song) - Ariel Pink

This is my favourite song

The list

When this song became my favourite song

I wrote the list it sat on top

For weeks it pushed the others down down

But I never reached the bottom of the list

And I would cry and cry

Cause it would lie and lie

And I would cry and cry

Cause it would lie and lie

Fast forward one month

When this song became my favourite song

I wrote that list with it on top

For weeks it pushed my favourite song down

Second third and fifth

But I never reached the end of that list

Time has torn that list to pieces I know

And I would cry and cry

Cause it had lied and lied

And I would cry and cry

Cause it had lied and lied

Why did that song have to lie to me

Why couldn’t it be just another

It was the wrong song as long as this went on

For years I put my faith in print

As if the truth could be discovered there

My list could hold my soul intact

Like paintings like

Photographs

Why did my song have to lie to me

Why couldn’t it be just another

It was the wrong song as long as this went on

I never should have put my favourite song on the list