Song of the Day: Temper Trap--"Sweet Disposition"

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This song has just been all over the place. First, it was put to sweet use in the surprising (500) Days of Summer (which obvs should have beaten The Hangover for a Golden Globe). Now, it's being used pretty effectively to promote the new ABC legal drama The Deep End. The track succeeded on both counts, for me anyway. I was def psyched to see Summer and I'm now hooked on the promos for The Deep End, even feeling that law school might not be such a bad idea...

Maybe that's taking Temper Trap's infectious, grand single a little bit too far.

But, seriously, try not to be moved by that soaring falsetto which so effectively opens the track.

Sweet disposition

Never too soon

Oh reckless abandon

like no one's watching you

It just gives you license to throw yourself into all kinds of wild endeavors. It's a song that spends 4 minutes swelling and swelling without reaching a finite conclusion; the track effortlessly carries you along with the Joshua-Tree-influenced guitars.

(No but seriously, the opening bars are so damn close to Where the Streets Have No Name, it's eery).

Meanwhile, the lyrics press you toward an inconclusive abandon, a celebration of youth and youthful love and the things we'll do for that noble end.

So stay there

cause I'll be comin' over

and while our blood's still young

it's so young

it runs

and we won't stop til it's over

won't stop to surrender

It's so so good. Maybe the majority of American teens will spend this prom season making out to Use Somebody but I think Sweet Disposition is a real dark horse candidate for stealing hearts this year.

Get your lighters (or lighter apps) ready.