I was really happy to see this section of his website, imagining that I could get accurate lyrics "straight from the horses mouth," however, these are clearly incorrect. If you listen to the song, he without a doubt says things that make way more sense, ie:
"this is a test of TRUST" (trust is very clear in the recording)
"we'll give them up" is said in some of the places where it says "just give them up"
"I'm gone as light as shot, whether you come or not"
"forget" not forge, and it also sounds like "path" not "past"
I think the logical nature of the recorded lyrics suggests that these edits aren't made by McCombs after the fact to "improve" the song, because in my opinion these alternate lyrics are far worse than the recording...
I understand this is a wiki, and I will make the obvious corrections.
It looks like these were taken off of cassmccombs.com here: http://cassmccombs.com/lyrics/
I was really happy to see this section of his website, imagining that I could get accurate lyrics "straight from the horses mouth," however, these are clearly incorrect. If you listen to the song, he without a doubt says things that make way more sense, ie:
"this is a test of TRUST" (trust is very clear in the recording) "we'll give them up" is said in some of the places where it says "just give them up" "I'm gone as light as shot, whether you come or not" "forget" not forge, and it also sounds like "path" not "past"
I think the logical nature of the recorded lyrics suggests that these edits aren't made by McCombs after the fact to "improve" the song, because in my opinion these alternate lyrics are far worse than the recording...
I understand this is a wiki, and I will make the obvious corrections.