Subject: Golden Smog - Weird Tales Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 21:37:43 +0100 From: "Gunnar Hedlund" To: "Hans Settler" Thanks Gunnar! @ARTIST: Golden Smog @ALBUM: Weird Tales @SONG: All The Same To Me met a man on a train near Santa Fe who was dead a minute as a child fell off a dock he couldn't swim and his heart stopped a gold snake slid from the sky and swallowed him up he disappeared inside he disappeared inside the train stopped in a field of oil wells a blind girl needed help getting on the man was drunk from a flask half full of rum I shook my head when he offered me some que sera, he said and took another swig the train roared up a hill of sickly pines a small boy chased a ball up the aisle as the black mouth of a tunnel swallowed us up we disappeared inside we disappeared inside here we go @SONG: Fear Of Falling I am not a shadow I am flesh and blood meet me in the middle if you think you could if you think you could if I'm walking in the dark I'm whispering if I'm walking in the dark I'm whispering follow my whisper and I will see you through if I make three wishes one is not to fall the other two will follow beyond the wall if the world spins faster on my knees I crawl if the world spins faster on my knees I crawl on my knees I crawl straight on back to you if I make three wishes one is not to fall the other two will follow beyond the wall I am not a shadow I am flesh and blood meet me in the middle if you think you could if you think you could I will see you through if you think you could I will see you through @SONG: I Can't Keep From Talking hey ain't it great for us to be alive I've been lying in wait for you to come outside I know you don't know me but I know a lot about you you're the one who knows me better than I do when I get back home I'm gonna put your records on I play 'em way too loud and I'll sing along I know all the words to every song and I don't really care but tonight you sang one wrong and I can't keep from talking I can't keep from talking about you and I just wanted to thank you thank you for doing what you do I wanted to tell the world a little bit about myself realize my feelings and put them on a shelf then jump out the window so you'd all know what it's about 'cause I can't be there to help you figure it out and I can't keep from talking I can't keep from talking about you and I just wanted to thank you thank you for doing what you do @SONG: If I Only Had A Car if I only had a car wouldn't be here in this bar trying to get to you time takes toll, the hours I'd roll is it a blessing or is it a curse seems this love makes matters worse I'm stuck in this cafe lost along the way moving to keep strong when I'm feeling myself burn it don't matter let it hurt it tells me I'm alive when you saw me in California I was lost in a dusty haze now that I know you you feel so far away if I only had a car wouldn't be here in this bar trying to get to you as I'm waving you goodbye following the line trying to get to you still the echos fill the void your eyes rolled in your head as you slowly disappeared still hard to rearrange the distance made it strange I'm still trying to get to you if I only had a car wouldn't be here in this bar trying to get to you @SONG: Jane she came from a wealthy family there were walls inside the walls she walked the widow's walk so all alone she watched from every window darkened every door saw her reflacetion in every wave that hit the shore Jane, why don't you give a damn Jane, why don't you stay Jane, why don't you give a damn Jane, why don't you stay wandered off into the night one eye closed, the other blind reading the silver side of signs don't worry it's to late some rain don't come down straight everything you had, you lost before Jane, why don't you give a damn Jane, why don't you stay Jane, why don't you give a damn Jane, why don't you stay and when her scattered thoughts had died the sand upon her feet had dried among chandeliers and sweet perfume Jane, why don't you give a damn Jane, why don't you stay Jane, why don't you give a damn Jane, why don't you stay @SONG: Jennifer Save Me Jennifer save me, Jennifer save me I'm sick of all the faces staring back as if to say I know that you're half crazy but I wish you would go all the way I'm driving your friend's car 'cause I ain't got my own and if I leave today, see you tomorrow and if I leave today, see you tomorrow it's time to face the music but they never taught me how to dance I'd give you everything I've got if you'd only give me half the chance, yeah I'm driving your friend's car 'cause I ain't got my own and if I leave today, see you tomorrow and if I leave today, see you tomorrow Jennifer save me, Jennifer save me need not fight for sunlight the ashes and the elms grow tall fences bent gunmetal sunlight wrapped from here to Montreal, yeah I'm driving your friend's car 'cause I ain't got my own and if I leave today, see you tomorrow and if I leave today, see you tomorrow Jennifer save me ... @SONG: Keys she had a Nova that was tinted green he took a Greyhound that was a bus from the city of New Orleans the only light that shined in their eyes was that of a simple screen In a one Bal Harbour bedroom apartment with a vision and a dream feeling like they sunk already feeling like they're done knowing what's been done already has been done by everyone deep in Nevada they played it straight they stayed in Reno inside a casino with a two, four rate the only life that was in their eyes was burning like the sun it is this sundowner hellroom confinement where they remained as one feeling like they sunk already feeling like they're done knowing what's been done already has been done by everyone back in Miami back in Miami, back to the sand he took to running that was illegal she ran a peanut stand the only night he closed his eyes was his last one in a one Bal Harbour bedroom apartment where his drean begun feeling like they sunk already feeling like they're done knowing what's been done already has been done by everyone now they're living in Miami trying to get down to the Keys is it lost, is it such a cost when you try to aim to please down for the dirt now they took it down for the dirt now they took it ... @SONG: Looking Forward To Seeing You looking forward to seeing you in the sunshine of my time in a station off the coastline coming in view looking forward to seeing you in that one room down the hallway with two doorways and a window without a view it all comes in threes I purchase six and I still got three looking forward to seeing you where the sun shines off the coastline in a station on your time coming in view looking forward to seeing you in that one room down the hallway with two windows and a doorway we can't get through it all comes in threes I purchase six and I still got three looking forward to seeing you ... @SONG: Lost Love lost love in the desert lost love on the sea if you can put it behind you but it's still beyond me 'cause hearts break in the summer and they meet me in the spring broken hearts all around me but I don't feel a thing lost love on the highway lost love on the phone lost love with a suitcase heading back home where hearts break in the summer when they meet in the spring mines still wrapped inside me but I don't feel a thing you're my lost love, I can't see that you're coming back for me you're the travel I can't find and it's only a matter of time should've taken it all so hard should've taken it all so hard my lost love ... @SONG: Making Waves saw your eyes light up the horizon just like the sun, still it's new bodies being hung for drying now there's one, guess they're through making waves in the bathroom the time it saves, it's the last room hearing sirens on the street getting closer, please don't stop race won't be with these feet even closer comes the drop making waves in the bathroom the time it saves, it's the last room ooh don't leave me now ooh don't leave me now ooh don't leave me now ooh don't leave me now in the chair I thought you were sleeping your eyes rolled back, your lips blue it was a drag to be dragging you down the hall 'til you came to making waves in the bathroom the time it saves, it's the last room are you in there hello, hello, hello I'll be out it a while are you dying, hello ooh don't leave me now ... @SONG: Please Tell My Brothers please tell my brothers I love them still over the mountains on their phone bill I should call more often but they know I never will please tell my brothers I love them still please tell my sister I miss her too my nieces and nepfews and their swimming pools when I think about her her skies are blue please tell my sister I miss her too please tell my father I love him still forget the railroad and all those bills head for the cooler and drink your fill please tell my father I love him still listen dear mother I miss you the most and as I travel from coast to coast I feel your love and I feel your ghost listen dear mother I miss you the most listen dear mother I miss you the most @SONG: Reflections On Me if we were just a little smarter wouldn't be such a fire starters then you wouldn't have to put me out if times were just a little kinder carry you as a reminder as is, you say you've got some doubts you say you're looking through me you don't like what you see but I swear it's only reflections on me seeing through a two-way mirror looking back it's all a little clearer or just the line up of your life all day long you put 'em through their paces late at night haunted by their faces darkness fades into the morning light you say you're looking through me scared of the things that you see but I swear it's only reflection on me one more time for old times, come with me just one last time for old times seeing things the same way, differently could have been a little smarter shouldn't have been such a fire starters fires they always burn out you say you're looking through me scared of the things that you see but I swear it's only reflection on me @SONG: To Call My Own blowing through my losing streak bought the farm on a dead end street nothing ever grows under your sun filling voids with emptiness and driving past your old adress loneliness two has turned into one they welcome you with open arms tell you they don't mean no harm do they mean anything at all feeling crowded by my company you can't hate but parts of me I know there's a new myth on your floor staying up in 409 the day are yours the nights are mine burned out everything except the door it's like breaking out of broken homes they tell you they don't eat their own searching for one thing to call my own to call my own there's a goldmine in the local scene get nine lives you need thirteen paid the price landed on all four you used to mean the world to me scared to death of what that means so we don't mean anything at all I welcome you with broken arms you know I don't mean no harm do I mean anything at all and they all come from broken homes they tell you they don't eat their own searching for a thing to call my own @SONG: Until You Came Along sometimes you're up, sometimes you're down don't let your feet ever thouch this ground comfort me in times of doubt in deep dispair, lies and cares and a falling out with my friends I used to follow nearly evevrybody's daughter that's until you came along in a bar-room patrons singing but I just sat there drinking that's until you came along your star-crossed eyes and your troubled mind seems you were left just for me to find sweet lady lay your hands in mine upon my face laid to waste by years of wine with my friends I used to follow nearly evevrybody's daugther that's until you came along in a bar-room patrons singing but I just sat there drinking that's until you came along sweet lady lay your hands in mine upon my face laid to waste by years of wine with my friends I used to follow nearly evevrybody's daugther that's until you came along in a bar-room patrons singing but I just sat there drinking that's until you came along with my friends I used to follow nearly evevrybody's daugther that's until you came along but the darkness just got darker this heart of mine got harder that's until you came along @SONG: White Shell Road the wheels are spinning inside of my head the wheels are spinning inside of my head they don't know, they don't know the leaves listen to what I say the leaves listen to what I say they don't know, they don't know it's a stab in the dark the light slept on the riverbed the light slept on the riverbed slipped into the shadows and landed like a figurehead the moral night is the darkest night the moral night is the darkest night they don't know, they don't know I cut my feet on the white shell road I cut my feet on the white shell road they don't know, they don't know it's a stab in the dark the light slept on the riverbed the light slept on the riverbed slipped into the shadows and landed like a figurehead then I saw her running down, down in the garden her hair was flowing round and brown tumbled and stumbled to the ground and died the leaves listen to what I say the leaves listen to what I say they don't know, they don't know I cut my feet on the white shell road I cut my feet on the white shell road they don't know, they don't know it's a stab in the dark the light slept on the riverbed the light slept on the riverbed slipped into the shadows and landed like a figurehead they don't know ... it's a stab in the dark