Big Day Coming

Yo La Tengo: “Big Day Coming (version 1)” & “Big Day Coming (version 2)”
From Painful (Matador, 1993)

I was just down at the laundromat on the corner of all places, and even there you could feel the anticipation of something big happening. Every TV set was tuned to a different channel covering some aspect of the inauguration, and people were paying pretty rapt attention. My little brother is in DC with his girlfriend and I can only imagine the intensity of everyone preparing for the party of a lifetime. And of course Stone and EJ’s tweets aren’t helping as far as me wishing I could hop in a car and head down there this instant.

I don’t know if tomorrow will top the spontaneous street corner party that erupted in my neighborhood the night of the election, but I know that it will be a day I won’t forget. Here’s to a big day coming for our country, and hopefully for the world.