This was off of one of the first releases by the Screaming Trees called Clairvoyance,...
The song kinda starts out as the typical acid rock song with soft vocals and the erratic guitar in the background not neccisarily playing an organized riff but just kinda of playing,...
But then comes the chorus where Lanegan lights this song up!
Standing on the edge of the wall
Sometimes I get too close and I fall, yeah!
Lanegan's vocal IS what makes this song spectacular,...
I like the depth of the lyrics as well,..
It implys that the writer is trying to traverse a wall (figuritively, like the kind of wall an isolated kid will put up against the world)
and in the process of trying to get over the wall, something happens that sets him back,...
There's an extraordinary amount of depth to the lyrics here, especially considering that Lanegan was only about 18 or 19 when this song was recorded...
This was off of one of the first releases by the Screaming Trees called Clairvoyance,...
The song kinda starts out as the typical acid rock song with soft vocals and the erratic guitar in the background not neccisarily playing an organized riff but just kinda of playing,...
But then comes the chorus where Lanegan lights this song up! Standing on the edge of the wall Sometimes I get too close and I fall, yeah!
Lanegan's vocal IS what makes this song spectacular,...
I like the depth of the lyrics as well,..
It implys that the writer is trying to traverse a wall (figuritively, like the kind of wall an isolated kid will put up against the world)
and in the process of trying to get over the wall, something happens that sets him back,...
There's an extraordinary amount of depth to the lyrics here, especially considering that Lanegan was only about 18 or 19 when this song was recorded...
@N0 C0DE 79 These lyrics are likely Gary Lee Conner\'s, not Lanegan\'s, like most early Screaming Trees songs, though he probably wrote a few lines.
@N0 C0DE 79 These lyrics are likely Gary Lee Conner\'s, not Lanegan\'s, like most early Screaming Trees songs, though he probably wrote a few lines.