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Can't Hardly Wait Lyrics
I'll write you a letter tomorrow
Tonight I can't hold a pen
Someone's got a stamp that I can borrow
I promise not to blow the address again
Lights that flash in the evening,
Through a crack in the drapes
Jesus rides beside me
He never buys any smokes
Hurry up, hurry up, ain't you had enough of this stuff
Ashtray floors, dirty clothes, and filthy jokes
See you're high and lonesome
Try and try and try
Lights that flash in the evening,
Through a hole in the drapes
I'll be home when I'm sleeping
I can't hardly wait
I can't wait. Hardly wait.
Tonight I can't hold a pen
Someone's got a stamp that I can borrow
I promise not to blow the address again
Through a crack in the drapes
He never buys any smokes
Hurry up, hurry up, ain't you had enough of this stuff
Ashtray floors, dirty clothes, and filthy jokes
Try and try and try
Through a hole in the drapes
I'll be home when I'm sleeping
I can't hardly wait
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Wow, how has no one caught on to this?
This song is about touring and how much it sucks. It's about sleeping on horrible floors, in terrible motels (when you're lucky) and being DRUNK all the time. "I'll write you a letter tomorrow, tonight I can't hold a pen."
Have any of you toured? It is exactly this song, especially when someone is waiting.
"Jesus rides beside me," in the van. Probably a slick reference to a tour manager or just a metaphor for driving straight.
This song is listed it the Wikipedia as a song about suidice.
After that context, you look at it with a different perspective.
i love the horns. great sound. great song.
@gogojessicat Darn right! In the documentary "Color Me Obsessed" there are a few comments from people about their love of the horns and someone asks a great rhetorical question of how could they go to Ardent Studios, work with Jim Dickinson and NOT have horns.
@gogojessicat Darn right! In the documentary "Color Me Obsessed" there are a few comments from people about their love of the horns and someone asks a great rhetorical question of how could they go to Ardent Studios, work with Jim Dickinson and NOT have horns.
I do also love the version that was released on the "Tim" reissue by Rhino. So desolate sounding and despairing.
I do also love the version that was released on the "Tim" reissue by Rhino. So desolate sounding and despairing.
@gogojessicat According to the 'Mats bio Trouble Boys..the horns were added by the producer unbeknownst to the band
@gogojessicat According to the 'Mats bio Trouble Boys..the horns were added by the producer unbeknownst to the band
I originally thought it was about suicide, or the acceptance of death.
However, it seems like the film named after the song takes a broader interpretation: acceptance of leaving something behind or a readiness to move forward.
I think I prefer that, because there is a paradoxical sense of optimism shining through.
@deevo the original lyrics seem to be about suicide--jumping off a water tower.
@deevo the original lyrics seem to be about suicide--jumping off a water tower.
@deevo The original version with Bob Stinson on guitar was about suicide..the version that made it onto the album..completely different lyrics and so much more poppier..I prefer the Bob Stinson version with the lyrics about suicide..with Bob everything packed more punch..too bad he was such a mess..sad end to a sad life..I was grateful to have met him after a show in NYC in 1986 at the Ritz
@deevo The original version with Bob Stinson on guitar was about suicide..the version that made it onto the album..completely different lyrics and so much more poppier..I prefer the Bob Stinson version with the lyrics about suicide..with Bob everything packed more punch..too bad he was such a mess..sad end to a sad life..I was grateful to have met him after a show in NYC in 1986 at the Ritz
@robwyattfan you nailed it. The line Jesus rides beside me, I always knew they were on a bus. Now I know it was a tour bus.
The last verse before the chorus gives it away. ‘I’ll be home when I’m sleeping.’ It’s a song about suicide. ‘Cant hardly wait’ for it all to end.
Lights through the drapes is about being distant from happiness. Jesus signifies death and ‘never bringing smokes’ means fate brings nothing for him in this life. The depression and wish for death stems from an unwillingness to express oneself - ‘cant hold a pen… blow the address again’.
Such a dark brilliant song. The chorus(in a major sounding key) feels happy because death is the only thing that will bring happiness.
Probably one of my favorite songs by the Replacements, it has such a mellow mood and leaves you with a good feeling inside. Rock on Replacements!!!
just about anticipation for the better things in life. hes underwent a lot of crap and is now thinking things can only look up
To me it's about hoping for the future, and like hpw said, he had a crappy life before but he's left behind his past, and is now going to start afresh. Nice song.
It sounds like it's about a swingin' party: "ashtray flooers, dirty clothes and filthy jokes"--have you ever, ever been to a party that didn't have at least two of those? I love the line, "I'll be home when I'm sleeping," which I originally took as some inspired nonsense, but now I'm realizing it's more along the lines of "anywhere I hang my head, I will call my home."