rows of houses all bearing down on me
I can feel their blue hands touching me
all these things in all positions
all these things are one to swallow whole
and fade out again and fade out
this machine will not communicate
these thoughts and the strain I am under
be a world child form a circle before we all go under
and fade out again and fade out again
cracked eggs dead birds
screaming as they fight for life
I can feel death
can see its beady eyes
all these things into frution
all these things are one to swallow whole
and fade out again and fade out again
immerse your soul in love
IMMERSE YOUR SOUL IN LOVE
About Street Spirit
*Thom:
"'Street Spirit' is our purest song, but I didn't write
it.... It wrote itself. We were just its messengers... Its
biological catylysts. It's core is a complete mystery to me...
and (pause) you know, I wouldn't ever try to write something that
hopeless... All of our saddest songs have somewhere in them at
least a glimmer of resolve... 'Street Spirit' has no resolve...
It is the dark tunnel without the light at the end. It represents
all tragic emotion that is so hurtful that the sound of that
melody is its only definition. We all have a way of dealing with
that song... It's called detachment... Especially me.. I detach
my emotional radar from that song, or I couldn't play it... I'd
crack. I'd break down on stage.. that's why its lyrics are just a
bunch of mini-stories or visual images as opposed to a cohesive
explanation of its meaning... I used images set to the music that
I thought would convey the emotional entirety of the lyric and
music working together... That's what's meant by 'all these
things are one to swallow whole'.. I meant the emotional
entirety, because I didn't have it in me to articulate the
emotion... (pause) I'd crack.... Our fans are braver than I to
let that song penetrate them, or maybe they don't realize what
they're listening to.. They don't realize that 'Street Spirit' is
about staring the fucking devil right in the eyes... and knowing,
no matter what the hell you do, he'll get the last laugh...and
it's real...and true. The devil really will get the last laugh in
all cases without exception, and if I let myself think about that
to long, I'd crack. I can't believe we have fans that can deal
emotionally with that song... That's why I'm convinced that they
don't know what it's about. It's why we play it towards the end
of our sets. It drains me, and it shakes me, and hurts like hell
everytime I play it, looking out at thousands of people cheering
and smiling, oblivious to the tragedy of it's meaning, like when
you're going to have your dog put down and it's wagging it's tail
on the way there. That's what they all look like, and it breaks
my heart.
I wish that song hadn't picked us as its catalysts, and so I
don't claim it. It asks too much. (very long pause). I didn't
write that song."
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