There is an unresolved mystery that has been plaguing this great country for TOO LONG now (12 YEARS) and it’s time for us to just face it and deal with it and own up to the fact that it is a huge, huge problem.
As you know, in his perfectly good song “Nothing Better,” from the 2003 album Give Up, Postal Service singer Ben Gibbard sings the following lyrics as part of a metaphor for a broken relationship:
I can't accept that it's over...And I will block the door like a goalie tending the netIn the third quarter of a tied-game rivalry