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.
You wake up
Soft denims on the floor
Spent nights last
Sleeping like two fours
We're tall neither
And the full fever
The dawn quakes
Haste back the seething den
Baby
This is not sin
Its nineteen ink-ings
Or one fresh inkling
On the hard nights
You're the ace right
And you would break down so gentle in my livery
Now you're levying
(Past the sediments)
Now you're leveling
(build up that benevolence)
Tiderays
Yeah, whatcha didnt film matters
Yeah, whatcha didnt feel flatters
Whatcha didnt find tonight
Wont honor them
(Watch you) cross the fast black platter
(Watch you) walk the plain, whats the matter?
Dont calm the evidence
Build up this benevolence
Sway for the tiderays
Brace for the tiderays
Soft denims on the floor
Spent nights last
Sleeping like two fours
We're tall neither
And the full fever
The dawn quakes
Haste back the seething den
Baby
This is not sin
Its nineteen ink-ings
Or one fresh inkling
On the hard nights
You're the ace right
And you would break down so gentle in my livery
Now you're levying
(Past the sediments)
Now you're leveling
(build up that benevolence)
Tiderays
Yeah, whatcha didnt film matters
Yeah, whatcha didnt feel flatters
Whatcha didnt find tonight
Wont honor them
(Watch you) cross the fast black platter
(Watch you) walk the plain, whats the matter?
Dont calm the evidence
Build up this benevolence
Sway for the tiderays
Brace for the tiderays
Lyrics submitted by menano, edited by splitintwo, toasterking, batsby, dgfischer, Winternoise, gazettier02, nannulars, Cyberghost, hollowsuns, deck, Bach0, csywlsh, Lender, Crane42, slartibardfast
Tiderays Lyrics as written by Daniel Thomas Spack Christopher Michael Rosenau
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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I don't know who submitted these lyrics, but they are completely wrong. These are the correct ones:
You wake up Soft denim on the floor spent nights last sleeping like 2 fours
We're tall neither and the full fever the dawn quakes haste back the seething den
baby, this is not sin it's nineteen ink-ings or one fresh inkling on the hard nights you're the ace right and you would break down so gently in my livery
Now you're levying (past the sediments) now you're leveling (build up that benevolence)
tiderays
Yeah, whatcha didn't film matters yeah, whatcha didn't feel flatters whatcha didn't find tonight won't honor them (watch you) cross the fast black platter (watch you) walk the plain, what's this matter? Don't calm the evidence build up this benevolence
Sway for the tiderays
brace for the tiderays
yes. thank you. <br /> i love this song (whole album really) <br /> great stuff. <br />