I’m basically addicted to Blue October’s new album Foiled. In their opening song called You Make Me Smile, Justin sings:

My words, they pour
like children to the playground.

This guy knows how to write songs. This is great imagery. When I hear this verse I see highly excited children eager to taste that one hour of freedom recess grants them. As the children moves towards the door it creates a bottle necks and children begin to push and scramble to get out the door. They are clumsy and fall all over each other, but the anticipation of the playground makes them happy and eager and not angry and aversive and so they pour out of the building in a hurried stream.

This perfectly captures the event of excited children to the playground. But he is not talking about children.

Instead he is speaking of the delivery of his words when speaking with someone special to him. His words are clumsy and pushy, eager to make their point - eager to be understood. Yes, he expertly conveys this complex state of mind with the simple and utterly ridiculous original lines:

My words, they pour
like children to the playground.

This guy’s talent is breathtaking. He simply does not know the meaning of hackneyed. Seriously, how many songwriters do you know that can accomplish so much with so little?

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