Warren wanted a Beach Boys thing for this one, and Carl Wilson and Billy Hinsche came in, with Carl arranging the vocal parts. The other harmony vocalists (credited as the "Gentlemen Boys") were Jackson Browne, J.D. Souther, Zevon's longtime backers Waddy Wachtel and Jorge Calderon, and Linda Rondstadt/Stone Poneys guitarist Kenny Edwards.
This forest is growing faster than I can tell
Cell structure eats away at a massive swell
Seems, however, I'm a victim of circumstance
Hunt for ogres and dwarfs
Lion slicer
Run with death
Run with death
White faces coming closer with every step
Earth envelopes taking breath without happenstance
Carve my teeth out, ripping through the sheep's head curse
Hunter gatherer
Ridden from the cave
Run with death
Run with death
Gone away
My heart's gone away
Taking everything
My heart's gone away
Take it now
Run with death
Run with death
Gone away
My heart's gone away
Taking everything
My heart's gone away
Take it now
Cell structure eats away at a massive swell
Seems, however, I'm a victim of circumstance
Hunt for ogres and dwarfs
Lion slicer
Run with death
Run with death
White faces coming closer with every step
Earth envelopes taking breath without happenstance
Carve my teeth out, ripping through the sheep's head curse
Hunter gatherer
Ridden from the cave
Run with death
Run with death
Gone away
My heart's gone away
Taking everything
My heart's gone away
Take it now
Run with death
Run with death
Gone away
My heart's gone away
Taking everything
My heart's gone away
Take it now
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He reuses the verse melody from the previous album's "Dirty Little Religion", the topics of the verses are all over the place, and he packs too many words into one line (goes to show...) and too few in another (it's pretty hard to find), and rhymes "Henley Regatta" with "Persona non grata", but gets away with it all as only he could.
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He certainly did earn that reputation.
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Like a lot of the other comments are saying, I think this mainly about voyeurism. If the song was about his girlfriend, then why would he use the word spy. If you are a spy it means you shouldn't be caught, that is kind of the whole point, and if you are a voyeur, the whole point of the pleasure you get from it, is the fact that the other people don't know you are watching them. See a bit of a connection there?
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While I don't know much about the backstory to Blood Mountain, I got a cool LOTR storytelling vibe from this song. I was rather surprised to find out that Josh Homme (of Queens of the Stone Age and Eagles of Death Metal fame) had a vocal spot. I do wish he was more prominent, seeing as everything he does is really cool. From reading other comments, I surmise that the song is about a werewolf running from a colony of giant tree-people. Sounds completely ridiculous, I know. But that's why it's completely awesome.
I saw the video on MTV. MTV!?!? Why would that station play this video? It's not exactly begging for mainstream exposure, with all the hip-hop/R&B surrounding it. Maybe MTV is slowly turning back to its rock roots again. Wait a minute, MTV sucks. Fuck MTV!!