A Crumbling Little City

Hank “Mover Mover Mover”

“Mover Mover Mover” moves briskly from hook to hook in two minutes without feeling at all rushed or busy – if anything, this feels remarkably light for a densely written piece of music. This is basically a bright and chipper song about real estate, one in which constantly changing residences is a neurotic impulse and a nomadic existence seems to be more of a drag than an adventure. There’s an aside in the second verse about an acquaintance who’s apparently flopped out in the house-flipping game, and that guy seems to standing in for everyone else who’s getting screwed one way or another by playing the real estate game. The song zips along like a lost Orange Juice or Josef K number but arrives at no conclusion besides shrugging off its own central question: “Why are you always escaping?”

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