my take on the lyrics... not meant to be the be all end all or anything, just what I heard across many many listens... the problems I have feed the song contraption swelling up slowly like a bad reaction all around what you do and say while the center falls further away you live inside it, but you can't describe it so what's the point in talking at all? your store-bought itch or your family pain just another boy bad at the game this is when you need a friend to keep you moving around cause all your thinking has made you slow you might be stopping, how'd you know? frustrated fireworks inside your head there's a life you've stolen, from god instead expelled your demons, but it's just a start waste of time since your problem is a poison dart and you act like I'm a cowboy, with arrows in my hat I'm a hard boiled hero, and I'm not so bad! I didn't know when to run from this... I got famous now you'll see me shatter I know, there really isn't anything the matter nothing is gonna be crying words they only want their voice to be heard they use it sometimes, to show that they're around or they build you up a theory like the walls of a town a tired and ancient ruler right now the neighborhood slaves are highly skilled open your parachute and drop your weight float down to the center and investigate I'll be myself, inquire within better walk on high, or leave right now get the feeling you love me, I felt it in my chest like the nighttime footsteps of an unknown guest I know it wasn't me, I wasn't moving! I felt thunder, the rain was pouring I know there must be something all of this is restoring you don't have to live in a lifeless state stay in the center and wait
Lyrics: A frozen tear melted here Between the man made lake And the ice that wouldn’t break A drowning note, fury wrote It caused the earth to quake And confidence to shake Sorry My Mistake The sun rose high and went screaming by And the moon surveyed the scene Silent and serene And I set cones around broken bones Saying for heaven’s sake What an obvious mistake Up came back down While I was sewing up my stitch Dreaming in a ditch Sooo Sick of my sweet self And everything I made The frozen tear melted here Between the man made lake And the ice that wouldn’t break A drowning note, fury wrote It caused the earth to quake And confidence to shake The sun rose high and when screaming by And the moon surveyed the scene Silent and serene And I set cones around broken bones Saying for heaven’s sake What an obvious mistake
Do any of the fills exactly the same and we won't have a comment but if you can't then go hide behind your keyboard please, perhaps the sound mixing wasn't the best but she's talented af
Why is the studio version so lowfi compared to the other songs on the same record? It literally sounds like a 1977 lost early tape, impossible as that may be. The higher tempo of that version should make it one of their most fondly remembered tracks, but it isn't, and I think that, had the instrumentation had that clear, clean bite to its production that they're known for, it would be a different story.
