This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
The rent-a-cops are sleeping
There's nobody to watch me pass
And the trees have been weeping
Their tears are still upon the grass
You're the drink I could not swallow
You're the cinder in my eye
I walk among the stones again in the place we said goodbye
Why should I try to hang on?
When the world keeps shutting me out
I've done everything wrong
Since you fell off the face of the earth
Since you fell off the face of the earth
Now as the stars are dying
I hide my head behind the wall
There's seven kinds of sorrow
And darling I can name them all
You're the path I could not follow
To the place where no one cries
I walk among the stones again in the place we said goodbye
Why should I try to hang on?
When the world keeps shutting me out
I've done everything wrong
Since you fell off the face of the earth
Since you fell off the face of the earth...
There's nobody to watch me pass
And the trees have been weeping
Their tears are still upon the grass
You're the drink I could not swallow
You're the cinder in my eye
I walk among the stones again in the place we said goodbye
Why should I try to hang on?
When the world keeps shutting me out
I've done everything wrong
Since you fell off the face of the earth
Since you fell off the face of the earth
Now as the stars are dying
I hide my head behind the wall
There's seven kinds of sorrow
And darling I can name them all
You're the path I could not follow
To the place where no one cries
I walk among the stones again in the place we said goodbye
Why should I try to hang on?
When the world keeps shutting me out
I've done everything wrong
Since you fell off the face of the earth
Since you fell off the face of the earth...
Lyrics submitted by jt
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This song was originally written by a guy called Peter Gutteridge. He was one of the founders of the "Dunedin Sound" a musical scene in the south of New Zealand in the early 80s. From there it was covered by "The Clean" one of the early bands of that scene (he had originally been a member of in it's early days, writing a couple of their best early songs). The Dunedin sound, and the Clean became popular on american college radio in the mid to late 80s. I guess Yo La Tengo heard that version.
Great version of a great song,
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This is a sappy song, but not excessively so. It's incredible in its presentation, because, in spite of it's theme, it managed to make itself sound upbeat and yet self-scolding. I love the "Why should I try to hang on When the world keeps shutting me out I've done everything wrong" I'm sorry, I hate it when people copy and paste whole parts of the song in a post, but I can't help it here. I love that part.
Actually, I think I read on the band's label site that this song is about suicide!
I think it is about suicide, too, but the narrator's loved one seems to be the one who took their life. "I walk among the stones again" makes me think of a graveyard, "in the place we said goodbye". And also the part where he states "the path I could not follow", IE - Death.
When I hear this song it sounds like its about a guy regretting a break up with a girl. From the other replies it could be about suicide. But I like to imagine another possibility.
With a shift in perspective this sounds a whole lot to me like the lamenting that Judas Iscariot would have done after turning in Christ to be crucified. The whole song can be imagined this way but the lyric that locks that in for me is
"You're the path I could not follow To the place where no one cries"
Judas was unable to follow Christ to heaven. I'd love to run this by the band and hear what they think.