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Green world, lovely chloroform
Front porch in the thunderstorm
Controlled chaos, confused energy
Stop reading the weather charts
Stop counting the playing cards
There's no system, there's no guarantee
That the love you feel you carry inside can be passed
You try I know you do you still talk to your plants
Ask, "How are you getting on alone?"
Some wander the wilderness
some drink cosmopolitans
Some cull science
some glean astral planes
I can't tell where the canvas stops
homesick as an astronaut
Just keep drifting, but still can't explain
How the love we feel we carry inside can be passed
See a brother in the gutter you reach out your hand
Ask, "How are you getting on alone?"
What guage measures miracles?
Whose heart beats electrical?
We feign sickness with our modern joy
Even Western medicine
it couldn't save Danny Callahan
Bad bone marrow, a bald little boy
But the love he feels he carries inside can be passed
He lay still his mother kissed him goodbye Said, 'Come back, where are you going to alone?'
Where are you going all alone?
Front porch in the thunderstorm
Controlled chaos, confused energy
Stop reading the weather charts
Stop counting the playing cards
There's no system, there's no guarantee
That the love you feel you carry inside can be passed
You try I know you do you still talk to your plants
Ask, "How are you getting on alone?"
Some wander the wilderness
some drink cosmopolitans
Some cull science
some glean astral planes
I can't tell where the canvas stops
homesick as an astronaut
Just keep drifting, but still can't explain
How the love we feel we carry inside can be passed
See a brother in the gutter you reach out your hand
Ask, "How are you getting on alone?"
What guage measures miracles?
Whose heart beats electrical?
We feign sickness with our modern joy
Even Western medicine
it couldn't save Danny Callahan
Bad bone marrow, a bald little boy
But the love he feels he carries inside can be passed
He lay still his mother kissed him goodbye Said, 'Come back, where are you going to alone?'
Where are you going all alone?
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This song was originally written by a guy called Peter Gutteridge. He was one of the founders of the "Dunedin Sound" a musical scene in the south of New Zealand in the early 80s. From there it was covered by "The Clean" one of the early bands of that scene (he had originally been a member of in it's early days, writing a couple of their best early songs). The Dunedin sound, and the Clean became popular on american college radio in the mid to late 80s. I guess Yo La Tengo heard that version.
Great version of a great song,
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This was published in "The Independent" on July 18, 2008.
----Article--- His songs can be touchingly compassionate, and it takes skill to honour the life of a child cancer patient with the kind of grace and surety Oberst manages on the new song "Danny Callahan".
"I was walking to this liquor store and pharmacy in Nebraska with a friend of mine," he recalls when asked about the song. "Suddenly, she was like, 'Oh my God! Look at that old man sitting in that car, look at how small he is!' Of course, when we got closer we realized it was actually a little boy. It turned out he was waiting in line with his mom to get medicine, and we were there to buy vodka or something. My friend started crying, and we just went home.
"It was just one of those life experiences that begs to be written about. It's partly about Danny, but it's also about whether or not you can transmit your experience of love to another person and whether that message remains intact when it arrives."
Link: independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/conor-oberst--songs-of-love-and-death-870570.html
wow, that's really touching
thank you! that's been driving me nuts.