[Jandek] The downfall of our dreams

[Joe Henry]

Thanks a lot to Seth for his quick and dilligent
transcription of the Gateshead lyrics. I really
appreciate it. 

--- Seth Tisue <seth at tisue.net> wrote:
> 
> And here's some of the lyrics from the Sunday show.
> 
> 1. 
> 
> Depression
> There's no way out
> 
> 2.
> 
> We got it too good to walk away from each other
> I walked away
> You walked away
> 
> I was sitting at the barstool
> And I gave her my seat
> 
> Everybody looks better than me
> That's how my life is these days
> 
> 3.
> 
> Every morning when I get up
> I want the day to end
> 
> Black night fall over me
> 
> 4.
> 
> You hurt me
> You hurt me bad
> I'm saying (singing?) my last words
> I'm sinking low
> Allowing echos to be heard
> I'm seeing white light all around
> 
> You hurt me
> You hurt me bad
> 
> 5.
> 
> I got two feet on my left
> Two feet on my right
> Walkin' me down to the electric chair
> All I did was kill my mother, father, brother,
> My sister too
> Why do I have to die?
> 
> Don't you come around me
> Ohhhh-eeee whyyyyyy must I die
> 
> 6.
> 
> Let's put it up my mind (?)
> Put it on the shelf
> It's the same kind of stare
> Lookin' up over there
> I see your hope breaking down again
> Mama, mama
> Instead of talking to myself
> I should be talking to you
> 
> 7.
> 
> You can eat worms, I don't care
> You can be a clown at the fair
> 
> You don't exist
> But I've gotten used to that
> 
> I'll shoot you in the head
> I'll blow smoke and walk away
> 
> Be my friend, tell me you like me
> I know when to kill you,
> Dirty rotten skulking beast!
> 
> I'll not be beholden at the teeth of a beast
> 
> 8.
> 
> When I was a little boy
> I would play with a toy
> 
> I went to ??? in the woods
> 
> Didn't have nothing I would lack
> Jack of trades to pay the rent
> Career somehow heaven sent
> 
> I got a black hole in the light
> 
> 9.
> 
> The telephone's getting hazy
> Molecules are spreading apart
> It's a ghost of a telephone
> Not ringing now
> I maybe don't need the teleophone
> It's making a ghost out of me
> So disintegrate your molecules
> 
> 10.
> 
> All I had to do was say no
> I could have stayed on the edge
> I quit, I quit
> I can't keep it up
> What's the use, nobody cares
> I turned my back away
> 
> Find a cottage in the rain
> Get me fired if you want
> What's wrong with me
> 
> 11.
> 
> The Queen of Sheba
> Doesn't have nothing on you
> Dancing on my necktie
> Like it was your tattoo
> I'm as soft as a snowman
> On a warm afternoon
> 
> You can tell me to do that
> Just make it known
> 
> The Queen of Sheba
> Doesn't have nothing on you
> You dance on my necktie
> Like it was your tattoo
> 
> 12.
> 
> We're in the shadow of the clouds
> All there is is brown and blue
> And when I think about it all
> I can't forget the downfall
> And all the pieces of the (place?)
> The rain upon my hungry face
> I got to go, I got to go
> It's just my mind won't let me free
> 
> The shock of knowing you are gone
> Long term life that I must give
> To the downfall of our dreams
> Now all I see is brown and blue
> In the shadow of the clouds
> 
> -- 
> Seth Tisue - seth at tisue.net - http://tisue.net
> "We have some ontological problems and now I think
> a whole pile of shit is coming from the cosmos." -
> Bela Tarr
> 
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