| Blind Pilot – Oviedo Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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"four times is once too much for luck" "Cat dead drawls" is actually some foreign word either French or Spanish, Probably Spanish because Oviedo is in Spain. "and if you wanted to test that out ... well ... Yeah ... I guess you couldn't-a said. "the weight of my tongue" |
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| Blind Pilot – Three Rounds And A Sound Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Israel Once told me about a custom in some foreign coutry, where as a wedding gift you give the newly weds 3 rounds and a sound. "A clock, a spool of wire, a bicycle rim, and a transistor radio." I like to think of my wife and myself as those newly weds and that I'm the narrator singing to my wife, and that the wedding gift Israel gave us is the song "3 rounds and a sound". "Kept just like we were before you knew, you'd know me and you know me." |
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| Blind Pilot – The Story I Heard Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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There is really a man named Jojo. Nebeker met him twice at the same bus stop. -least that's the story I heard "because the story I heard, is that people are born and the measures you take to wrestle with your lord." (Israel's back handed biblical reference to himself - Jacob becomes Israel, or vise-versa, maybe the angels name was Isreal I forget it's been a long time since I've studied any of that history. Somebody wrestled with an angel and got a new name Aaron, Jakob, Israel- two of 'ems.) "All the money to take, All the memories you spill. Will HE measure your time? Will HE measure your will? Oh, now." (might actually be "oh, no" - depends on whether or not you choose to wrestle with your lord or not) I like, "Hell No." but I drink real heavy. |
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| Blind Pilot – The Bitter End Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| This song was written in a dream, about the dream. | |
| Blind Pilot – Go On, Say It Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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This song is a story about a man leaving his family. How it all shook out and how it all's gonna shake out. The narrator, played by Nebeker, hates what he's becoming but does it anyway. He's driving away, picks up a hitch hiker. He & the now former Mrs. Narrator have a daughter. The daughter thinks he's tops, but he knows better. |
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| Blind Pilot – One Red Thread Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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“The only way you get universal is by getting really, really specific, and avoiding universal clichés.” - Israel Nebeker Nebeker sometimes writes songs (melodies, words, ideas, sometimes partial, sometimes whole) in his dreams, wakes up and writes them down. It can lead to some pretty f-ed up S- that sux Ballz. It can also lead to some really good stuff that has meaning, but that only Israels subconscious knows the answer to, maybe yours does too. Nebeker once played the Role of Joseph in a high school presentation of Joseph and the Technicolor dream coat. Joseph was known for being a good interpreter of dreams, that's why he became the Pharaoh's right hand man. Maybe Nebeker is the opposite, maybe he's good at interpreting reality with his dreams. Who knows. |
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| Blind Pilot – One Red Thread Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I was told once by a dear friend he was in love with the place I was from. This was back when I had only written one song, it was about the first girl I ever kissed, her name was "the shine". I can't exactly remember how old we were at the time, I think our ages together it was less than thirty, but my recollection of the smells, sights and feelings are as clear as blood is red. This friend of mine, I sometimes think of him as an old man, because he always aspires to be old- it's a funny concept. He's like a brother to me, I call him my brother sometimes ... but he started it. Anyway, connections to people that go back that far are somehow sacred like an ancient hieroglyph. We got into an argument - had a misunderstanding. We all make mistakes in life sometimes you drift away from the people that mean the most to you. The thing is you can't make anyone do anything. Everyone makes their own choices. I told him that one day when he tried to blame me for making him wait around. - Don't know if he remembers but I said something like "You can do what you want - I don't make you do anything." He said something like, "You're right." And then he left. We're still friends. Sometimes he's the Tyler Durden, sometimes I'm the Tyler Durden. Sometimes we're not as good of friends to each other as we should be, but we try. It's a two way street. These mistakes they change the dynamic, we don't sit around all afternoon on the window sill, listening to Snoop Dogg, Cracker, Beck and the Grateful Dead. We don't hang out at the bowling alley and play Street Fighter II all day, and we don't try to hustle tourists at the pool table. This last time, I'm sorry, it was my fault. It's happened before, it'll happen again. Really its the people that we are closest to that matter. | |
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