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,
Well She looked right into my
Eyes and said to me
The hurt that you try to
Hide is killing me
You drink a thousand lies,
To freeze the past in time
I've tried to fill this
Silence up
But now it's back again
See the pain in my eyes
See the scars deep inside
My God, I'm down in this
Hole again
With the laughter I smile
With the tears that I cry
Keep going down this road
Called life
She says that I'm insecure
I guess she's right
'Cause just when I think
I'm sure, alone at night
The agonies come back, this
Pain won't let me be
I try to fill the silence up
But now it's back again
See the pain in my eyes
See the scars deep inside
My God, I'm down in this
Hole again
With the laughter I smile
With the tears that I cry
Keep going down this road
Called life
Don't need your sympathy
I just want for this silence
To stop killing me
It's deafening
It's deafening
This silence inside me
I try to fill the silence up
But now it's back again
It's empty like a suicide
This pain inside
See the pain in my eyes
See the scars deep inside
My God, I'm down in this
Hole again
With the laughter I smile
With the tears that I cry
Keep going down this road
Called life
Don't need your sympathy
I just want for this silence
To stop killing me
Eyes and said to me
The hurt that you try to
Hide is killing me
You drink a thousand lies,
To freeze the past in time
I've tried to fill this
Silence up
But now it's back again
See the pain in my eyes
See the scars deep inside
My God, I'm down in this
Hole again
With the laughter I smile
With the tears that I cry
Keep going down this road
Called life
She says that I'm insecure
I guess she's right
'Cause just when I think
I'm sure, alone at night
The agonies come back, this
Pain won't let me be
I try to fill the silence up
But now it's back again
See the pain in my eyes
See the scars deep inside
My God, I'm down in this
Hole again
With the laughter I smile
With the tears that I cry
Keep going down this road
Called life
Don't need your sympathy
I just want for this silence
To stop killing me
It's deafening
It's deafening
This silence inside me
I try to fill the silence up
But now it's back again
It's empty like a suicide
This pain inside
See the pain in my eyes
See the scars deep inside
My God, I'm down in this
Hole again
With the laughter I smile
With the tears that I cry
Keep going down this road
Called life
Don't need your sympathy
I just want for this silence
To stop killing me
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yeah this song is soo true in my life
everytime you feel ok after a recent breakup it just comes back to kick you in the neck and your back to where you started from where i hurts