Sunday

Daft Punk's Perfect Song For Life (& Fatherhood Too)

So, I got out of the house this morning without a hitch. And then on the train, the car I got on had another crazy preacher proselytizing. Only this time, a ~~Puerto Rican~~ Latino man, sitting right next to me, began screaming at him to shut up until he left our car. I felt his pain, but by the time it was over he had made himself just as much of a spectacle as the preacher.

Oh well.

Over the weekend I was looking up songs on iTunes and accidentally discovered Daft Punk's Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger. It's on their Discovery album and it's also the original Electronica song that Kanye West samples for his song Stronger. Being a native son of Chicago, the home of House Music, I was ecstatic and downloaded the song. The lyrics are beyond simple, repetitive and sung in an industrial, robotic voice.

Work it
Make it
Do it
Makes us

Harder
Better
Faster
Stronger

More than
Hour
Our
Never

Ever
After
Work is
Over

Work it
Make it
Do it
Makes us

Harder
Better
Faster
Stronger

Work it harder, make it better
Do it faster, makes us stronger

More than ever hour after
Our work is NEVER OVER.

Over and over again, these lyrics repeat until the music ends. As I listened to them, I began to think of the grind of life, the grind of being a father, the grind of being a human being. Of course this is boiled down to a very simplistic state, but no matter what your individual walk, place or station in life, isn't this (the repetitive nature of these lyrics) what's it's all about?

This is what I listened to when the ~~Puerto Rican~~ Latino man started screaming at the preacher. To see the Daft Punk video, click here.