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Asa Phelps Is Dead Lyrics
hey brother can you spare a dime
skin and bones that's melting in a backwards way to grow
out of heart and out of mind
snd kiss me in the rearview when you go
dying at twenty-three, i'm trying on my apathy
with a tired conversation floating in this ether sky
tried again too many times, and doesn't it get worse
sit and stare
seems like we're running out of dimes
bodies that we burn as fuel, irreversible decline
pocket lint and turpentine
warm my insides, wash these ashes from my eyes
death with an attitude, i'm putting on my sunday suit
tired as a conversation held one too many times
a year or two or three or ten or twenty more
waiting
skin and bones that's melting in a backwards way to grow
out of heart and out of mind
snd kiss me in the rearview when you go
with a tired conversation floating in this ether sky
tried again too many times, and doesn't it get worse
sit and stare
bodies that we burn as fuel, irreversible decline
pocket lint and turpentine
warm my insides, wash these ashes from my eyes
death with an attitude, i'm putting on my sunday suit
tired as a conversation held one too many times
a year or two or three or ten or twenty more
waiting
Song Info
Submitted by
allstarme On Apr 28, 2002
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What is said during the speaking part?
I'm not really sure, but this is what I can make out: "So close to , my mom must have felt free then and ready to live it all again. Nobody, nobody had the right to cry over her, and I felt ready to live it all again too. __ blind rage would wash me clean, rid me of hope for the first time. And that night alive with the signs and stars. I open myself to the gental indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself, so like a brother, really. I felt that I had been happy, and I was happy again. __ . For me to feel less alone __ ."
That is hard to make out
Great Simpsons reference.
So close to dying, my mom must have felt free then and ready to live it all again. Nobody, nobody had the right to cry over her, and I felt ready to live it all again too. As is all that blind rage would wash me clean, rid me of hope for the first time. And that night alive with the signs and stars. I open myself to the gental indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself, so like a brother, really. I felt that I had been happy, and I was happy again. Happy that I was consimated. For me to feel less alone [??????]
"So close to dying, maman must have felt free then and ready to live it all again. Nobody, nobody had the right to cry over her. And I felt ready to live it all again, too. As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope for the first time. And in that night, alive with the signs and stars I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself - so like a brother, really - I felt that I had been happy, and I was happy again. For everything to be cunsimmated, for me to feel less alone, I had only to wish that there be a large crowd of spectators at my funeral, and that they greet me with cries of hate."
It's taken from the end of a novel titled The Stranger, by Albert Camus. You shopuld chek it out, it's one of the best books I've veer read. The Cure song Killing An Arab is about the same story. (Brendan is one of the most well read artists I've come across.)
Awesome reference to the Depression era song "Brother Can you Spare a Dime?"
Awesome reference to the Depression era song "Brother Can you Spare a Dime?"
I just finished the novel The Stranger last night and it was pretty cool seeing that Brendan incorparated the last lines of the book into this song. As Mr Marx has pointed out, it's defiantly worth a read.