Young boys, young girls, ain't supposed to die on a Saturday night. And I know 'cause we were kids and we used to hang. I'm sorry I couldn't go, but I still know the song and the words and her name and the reasons. Chorus- C F Did you hear the '59 Sound coming through on Grandmama's radio? Am G F Did you hear the rattling chains in the hospital walls? C F Did you hear the old gospel choir when they came to carry you over? Am G F Did you hear your favorite song one last time? Verse- And I wonder were you scared when the metal hit the glass? See, I was playing a show down the road when your spirit left your body. 'cause the chains I been hearing now for most of my life. Am Em when we float out into the ether, into the Everlasting Arms, Am F I hope we don't hear Marley's chains we forged in life. Am F I hope it's something quiet and minor and peaceful and slow. Ya, this song encapsulates the lions share of the tragedy of love in 3 simple verses (and a couple bridges).E|-| B|-| G|5-5-5-7-7-7-7-4-4-4-4-5-5-5-5-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-| D|-| A|-| E|-| Verse- Am Em Well, I wonder which song they're gonna play when we go. 'Boys will be boys, and girls have those eyes' i.e., boys will fuck up a good thing, and girls will show you what you did, and it'll tare you to pieces for a long time to come - 'waiting by the moon'. down to the beach to be with all the loves who maybe the moon will send a message to for you. On the song High Lonesome you will hear references and familiar lyrics to the. It's the 'looking at you kid' when you walk away from a party you can't relate to. At the first listen to The Gaslight Anthems sophomore album The 59 Sound. Here's looking at you kid, I feel has more to do with the fact that he stills spends lots of time with them even though he can't talk with them, just call them up out of the blue. It's about giving someone a thousand chances to choose you, but having it stolen away from both of you in the meantime. It's about holding on and all the myths you create for the grandeur of your commitment to them, because as messed up as it is/was, it was still profound and defines your heart, the very way you feel. It's about feeling bad for hurting someone you love, and having to live with that, with yourself as you try to move on (even though you still want a way back to them, either through you mum, your sister, whoever, 'if she calls home, tell her what I don't have the right to say'). It's about feeling alone in the world, even at a party or where-have-you, without the one who still keeps your heart, even if they're not keeping it right, and you didn't keep theirs right. When you're not sure if you've given up on a Love, you want them still to want you, you want them to think of you as a great person so that maybe, just maybe you could give it a go again (if it weren't so fucked up) you want all your dreams to be true, so you'll be more attractive and could go back to them honorably. This song doesn't leave things so resolved, it's about feeling lost or unresolved in the tragic loss of love. It's the absolute quintessential lost love song. Goes crazy over that New York scene on 7th Avenue.īut I used to wait at the diner, a million nights without her,Īnd the waiter served my coffee with a consolation sigh. I heard she lives in Brooklyn with the cool, That a thief stole my heart while she was making up her mind. I would've gotten her a ride out of that town she despised.īut boys will be boys and girls have those eyesĪnd all you can do is just wait by the moonĪnd bleed if it's what she says you oughta do. That I'm drunk off all these stars and all these crazy Hollywood nights.Īnd that's a total deceit, but she should've married me.Īnd tell her I spent every night of my youth on the floor, When we were kids on the field of the first day of school.Īnd I would've sang out your name in those old high school halls. That I'm famous now for all of these rock and roll songs.Īnd even if that's a lie, she should've given me a try.
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