I’m in the mood for the Clash’s most pensive, hushed and melodic song. I also am doing that thing where I appoint myself an unhired DJ among my social media cohorts.
It’s “I’m Lost in the Supermarket,” off the band’s 1979 album London Calling.
I always marvel at the simplicity and depth of an autobiographical phrase in the song, “I wasn’t born so much as I fell out.” I wonder who wrote that particular line, Joe Strummer or Mick Jones. They get Lennon/McCartney-like co-credit for the song.
It seems to me to describes a life of benign neglect, the kind of rough-and-tumble childhood that forces a person to make something of themself.
You’ve got to forge a personality, because the alternative is to feel, metaphorically speaking, “all lost in the supermarket.” And ain’t nobody got time for that.
–Sarah Torribio
Listen to more songs of the day curated by Sarah Torribio HERE
Leave a Reply