The Silver Jews

There Is A Place

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There is a place past the blues
I never want to see again
THere is a place past the blues
I never want to see

Black planet
Black freighter
Black sea

Police conversation 1783

I saw God's shadow on this world
I saw God's shadow on this world
I saw God's shadow on this world
I saw God's shadow on this world

I could not love the world entire
There grew a desert in my mind
I took a hammer to it all
Like an insane medieval king

I saw God's shadow on this world
I saw God's shadow on this world
I saw God's shadow on this world
I saw God's shadow on this world

I could not love the world entire
There grew a desert in my mind
I took a hammer to it all
I took a hammer to it all

I saw God's shadow on this world...

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eyecoof On Sep 27, 2006

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by enjoymywaffles

19y ago

This song fucking rocks, what a great anthem for a man who seems to hang on to life by a single thread. This whole album is just an ode to self-destruction, from the first words of the first song ("There's a paper bag that holds the liquor, just in case I feel the need to puke") to the last words of this one. David Berman went through some hard times before and during the making of this album, I read an interview where he said he was barely making $10,000 a year and couldn't pay his rent or his bills, became addicted to crack (!!!) and booze and went to treatment for it. With the success of this album I think he began to turn his life around, and it's almost too bad because I enjoy the lows of this album as much as the highs of American Water.

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by thuglifeforevs

18y ago

i took a hammer to it all...

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by PhilipWithOneL

17y ago

the build up of the whole "I saw god's shadow on this world." is amazing as hell. On repeat for an hour at least haha.

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