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,
Pull me 'round
And tell me that you'll never let me drown
Touch me slow
Like your fingertips might never let me go
But you know
That I`m caught between the magic that you gave to me
And the fear that you might leave
Because it
Scares me
Stop this war
I wish that we could leave things at the door
These feelings don`t wash away
I wish there was more to me
More to say
More to say
But you know
That I'm caught between the magic that you gave to me
And the fear that you might leave
Because it scares me
That you could break my heart again so easily
Don`t let us fall apart
Because it scares me
That you could break my heart again so easily
Don`t let us fall apart
Run me through
Then pick me up and tell me what to do
Cut me
Then run away
I wish that there was more to this
Flesh to kiss
Flesh to kiss
And tell me that you'll never let me drown
Touch me slow
Like your fingertips might never let me go
But you know
That I`m caught between the magic that you gave to me
And the fear that you might leave
Because it
Scares me
Stop this war
I wish that we could leave things at the door
These feelings don`t wash away
I wish there was more to me
More to say
More to say
But you know
That I'm caught between the magic that you gave to me
And the fear that you might leave
Because it scares me
That you could break my heart again so easily
Don`t let us fall apart
Because it scares me
That you could break my heart again so easily
Don`t let us fall apart
Run me through
Then pick me up and tell me what to do
Cut me
Then run away
I wish that there was more to this
Flesh to kiss
Flesh to kiss
Lyrics submitted by liquidmercurial
It Scares Me Lyrics as written by Neil Taylor Mark Hockings
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
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I would love to know what bitch it was that inspired all these songs by Mesh. In a strange way...THANK YOU for being the horrible inspiration for songs like these that move me. But also, FUCK YOU. You obviously fucked with someone's head an awful lot to get all these songs out of them... The pain, the torment, the sadness...fuck you.
LMAO! WORD liquidmercurial WORD... Good point.
Anyone ever hear the term emotional vampire? It seems to me mark has had an experience with a ravenous emotional vampire, just as I've had. I can realte to mark's lyrics in so may ways. I fucking love Mesh.