‘Come
On Come Out’ is a song by the band Laugh, and it features a passage that is one
of the most gripping in pop music. For, about halfway through, the singer seems
at the end of his tether, and snarls in a dangerously low voice, through
clenched teeth no doubt, that we know he has no money, that it seems he has too
much time, but that doesn’t mean he has time for everybody, and it doesn’t mean
he doesn’t want to live his life. It is compelling, startling stuff.
Then it’s time to
lose it altogether, and he barks savagely that there’s too much time, with
echoes of the good Captain’s Clear Spot, coincidentally or not, and that
there’s too much space, and how everything he does is just one big disgrace,
and that everywhere he goes he just gets in a state and then, when he goes to
sleep, he has dreams that he hates. It’s a riveting performance, a graphic
depiction of how carefree dole dreams may mutate into doldrums and the darkest
of days.
