Pavement’s “Old to Begin”, the fifth track off their 1997 album Brighten the Corners, is a relatively slow and quiet number, wedged alongside the similarly laid-back “Type Slowly” between the louder, more aggro-pop tracks of “Date w/ IKEA” and “Embassy Row”.
While singer-songwriter Stephen Malkmus...
[Verse 1]
Embrace the senile genius
Watch him reinvent the wheel
I don't need your summary acts, summary acts
To give into the narrative age
[Chorus]
Old to begin
I will set you back, set you back, set you
Old to begin
I will set you back, set you back, set you
[Verse 2]
You get to feeling like a fixture
Set in 1966
Time came that we drifted apart, drifted apart
Find an unidentical twin
[Chorus]
Old to begin
I will set you back, set you back, set you
Old to begin
I will set you back, set you back, fella
[Verse 3]
Searching for latent, 'cause
Blame it on menopause
Or perhaps stress and strain
Credit cards, lumbar pain
But I've seen your double dares
Everything extraordinaire
I know the things you do
Are gonna come back
Old to Begin was written by Stephen Malkmus.
Old to Begin was produced by Pavement & Bryce Goggin & Mitch Easter.
Pavement released Old to Begin on Tue Feb 11 1997.