The Day Nathan Saved the World
Updated: Sep 1
‘The greatest story never told’ starts with my old friend Rick and myself. We used to study together at the Purdue Undergrad Library a couple nights a week. This regularly resulted in, “let’s grab a couple beers and listen to music”. That turned into an 8 song album—Postcards, Para Postale. we recorded this album in one night the same way we wrote the songs...so they’re sloppy to say the least. A couple of great songs came out of it though, so FM revived them and whipped them into shape. I still remember painfully laughing while we bounced lyric ideas back and forth (so much fun).
There’s a story my father told me
His father’s, father’s grandfathers mom told him
That we should be grateful to a man
They called Nathan—his name was Matthew
But Nathan fit him best
The day Nathan saved the world—it was a beautiful thing
It was a wonderful, spectacular, marvelous, miracular thing
And we rejoiced—and we began to write a song against our choice
About that story my father told me
I’m sure it’s changed a million times, or that’s just what he said
Nathan in the town of Bismarck
Went around petting cows and pulling babies arms
He got arrested one Sunday morning
For selling prophylactics one day after church
Sorry that’s not the story
I swallowed and forgot my train of thought
The day Nathan saved the world—it was an edible thing
It was a delicious, delectable, scattered and collectable thing
And we retained—all the love from Nathan that remained
The day Nathan saved the world—it was a tangible thing
It was an absolutely traceable, impossibly erasable thing
And we confess—that we wrote this song under duress
About those condoms, whoops not again
I’m sure it’s changed a million times since then
That we should be grateful to a man
They called Matthew—whoops I mean Nathan
Because my father’s, father’s, father’s grandfathers mom told me so
The day Nathan saved the world—it was a beautiful thing
It was a wonderful, spectacular, marvelous, miracular thing
And we rejoiced—and the song is over, wrote against our choice
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