Decline of the West (Expanded Edition)
Saccharine Trust
Recorded: 2005
Lyrics
Sun is up and I'm trailing down,, a twisted gift that I'm leaving out
and it's only on my mind...
Sick with dust//well on my way,, refuse that throne yet another day
and it's only on my mind...
I guess that I'd just lost my mind coming into this sobering kind,,
y'know that I had wrote and I write about those old dusty days
and their too many ways to be dissatisfied...
Praise and curse my memory,, it's something that's still making me
...it's only on my mind...
Curse this ____ I'm holding tight,, a criminal needs a haven tonight
...only on my mind...
I guess that I'll descend to this tune like a fucking firework over the moon
so you can salute me down and forever gaze upon this gold-plated frown
now you can remember me
BackStory
...feeling that this was a totally overt pop song it seemed good to give it a song title admitting that up front... thinking that "Saccharine Trust" was one of the greatest band names ever,, I used that... not long after that Jack Brewer, singer of Saccharine Trust, contacted me and said that his wife and him had been listening to the song a lot and felt it was a fitting tribute for the band... it was really out of the blue and awesome,, I'd mostly known them from hearing their rendition of 'Six Pack' from a classic SST compilation when I was a kid called 'Duck and Cover' which featured the unbelievable cover of 'Eight Miles High' by Husker Du (their best moment in my opinion), Dinosaur's cover of 'Just like Heaven' and the Descendents doing 'Wendy'... ...I still can't hear the original 'Wendy' as quite right because the Descendents version was the standard for skate-brats like me... I don't remember saying anything to Jack about Dinosaur being my favorite band in highschool but months later a single kodak picture appeared in my mailbox of a reflection of J Mascis staring blankly into an aquarium tank of stingrays...
...the song began as a tribute to the night before I had to go off to college and I stayed up all night with some friends trying to 'celebrate' until the dreaded moment I had to leave... the opening lyrics were built off of a memory of walking home with the sun coming up on the train tracks that led back to my house wearing my shirt on my head and carrying a huge chunk of red opium that my friend had given me as a going away present = twisted gift that I'm leaving out...
