Running Out
Scissor Sisters
“Running Out,” Scissor Sisters. Beneath the most exhilarating track on Scissor Sisters’ remarkable Night Work is a sense that everything the band loves about club life is about to end — the dancing, the sex, and worst of all, the drugs. It’s a song that begins with a man panting over a throbbing-headache beat and ends abruptly, in a kind of sonic overdose. Jake Shears is in full Bowie drag here, presiding over the dance floor with effortless cool. And yet the more you listen the more you’re hit with a sense of despair — Shears’ hedonism has run aground on a rocky shore, and he has no idea where to go next. Night Work is a fascinating document about a particular kind of gay life, and “Running Out” is the song that best captures it in all its joyful, terrifying contradiction.
(track via itsmecoreyb)
