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April 8th Lyrics
Crawl across toward your window
I'm calling softly from the street
Always a lonely widow
Half awake and sleeping on my feet
I'm of age but have no children
No quarter phone booth calls to home
Just late television
Inside my bedroom all alone
There is no use in waiting
Offer up your steps so I can climb
Show me all your figure paintings
Etched in the middle of the night
Let me stretch upon your carpet
Let me hear the rain tap on your street
Knowing I am safe on the inside
Blankets wrapped and drifting off to sleep
I'm calling softly from the street
Always a lonely widow
Half awake and sleeping on my feet
No quarter phone booth calls to home
Just late television
Inside my bedroom all alone
Offer up your steps so I can climb
Show me all your figure paintings
Etched in the middle of the night
Let me hear the rain tap on your street
Knowing I am safe on the inside
Blankets wrapped and drifting off to sleep
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I know this may souind wierd, but when I hear this song I feel that it's not really there. It's like i'm imagining it or something. I feel like I've fallen asleep while the cd was still playing and I've just dreamed up the song.
Interesting, that's exactly how I feel. Thought I'd be alone in that.
Interesting, that's exactly how I feel. Thought I'd be alone in that.
I first heard this song years ago, but it came back to haunt me these last few days. It was just stuck in my head and I had to listen to it again.
I first heard this song years ago, but it came back to haunt me these last few days. It was just stuck in my head and I had to listen to it again.
I don't know why, but it reminds me a lot of that famous James Dean picture, where he's walking down the street on some rainy day. I think I may have been looking at it or thinking of it when I first heard the song, I don't know. They certainly share a theme of loneliness.
I don't know why, but it reminds me a lot of that famous James Dean picture, where he's walking down the street on some rainy day. I think I may have been looking at it or thinking of it when I first heard the song, I don't know. They certainly share a theme of loneliness.
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And they're very connected in my heart. I can't think of one and not the other. I just listen to the song and this image of a lonely James Dean pops up in my head. It makes me really sad.
Interesting, that's exactly how I feel. Thought I'd be alone in that.
Interesting, that's exactly how I feel. Thought I'd be alone in that.
I first heard this song years ago, but it came back to haunt me these last few days. It was just stuck in my head and I had to listen to it again.
I first heard this song years ago, but it came back to haunt me these last few days. It was just stuck in my head and I had to listen to it again.
I don't know why, but it reminds me a lot of that famous James Dean picture, where he's walking down the street on some rainy day. I think I may have been looking at it or thinking of it when I first heard the song, I don't know. They certainly share a theme of loneliness.
I don't know why, but it reminds me a lot of that famous James Dean picture, where he's walking down the street on some rainy day. I think I may have been looking at it or thinking of it when I first heard the song, I don't know. They certainly share a theme of loneliness.
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And they're very connected in my heart. I can't think of one and not the other. I just listen to the song and this image of a lonely James Dean pops up in my head. It makes me really sad.
April 8th is also the date of the last chapter in William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury.
lovely dreamy song. yes, I agree Christina, lonely is the best word I can think of to describe this song.
Well, aside from that, the date of April 8th was supposed to be a contrast to April 1st in the album - April 8th is exactly a week on from then...
I figured the title was supposed to be about how absolutely everything can change in just a week.
I'll probably be repeating what everyone else has said, but it's about loneliness, and the wanting and yearning and inability that comes with it. The hope that someone will just pick you up and make you safe, not lonely anymore. Wishing foolishly that someone would swoop down with some saving grace, and somewhere knowing it's impossible, but holding onto that slim chance with all the hope a lonely person can have.
am i the only one who thinks this song ends rather abrubtly?
still amazing, nonetheless.
ends abruptly cuz it goes into pree-sisters swallowing a donkey's eye
ends abruptly cuz it goes into pree-sisters swallowing a donkey's eye
@danj92 damn took you 7 years to reply and took me another 10. Yeah april 8th bleeds into Pree-Sisters swallowing a donkey's eye
@danj92 damn took you 7 years to reply and took me another 10. Yeah april 8th bleeds into Pree-Sisters swallowing a donkey's eye
ohh i lovelove this song. the eerie guitar. the amazing lyrics. but it's so lonely.
It's surprisingly straightforward for a band that later wrote about making fetuses with flesh licking ladies, and magic and medicine in one's ovaries
again...
This is weird. I've been a fan of NMH for a couple years, and I just decided to playlist.com some of their songs, and listened to this song for the first time ever, on April 8th. (Technically April 9th because it's 2am.) But it's also weird because I'm in bed wrapped in covers, watching late night tv and nobody else is up, I'm alone, and it has been raining all night and I can hear it tapping. I love this song.