Recorded: 1996
Lyrics
{On our own}
Everybody's drivin me to see what we mean
& I don't think that its my fault that I'm insane
I believe in the road I'm taking 'cause I took it
& it's different that it doesn't exist
You know it's different that I don't exist
I just jumped three flights of stairs
& I wish I could of caught up with #19
There's a girl like that in every town
& I think she sees just what I see
I think we say that life's too long
I'm so hung up on doing wrong
I got kicked out of my hometown
& I got hooked on goin' down
So the more I feel, the more I sink
'Cause I only know what I've been told to think.
BackStory
..To dive into a project like this you have to consider the potential to willingly embarrass yourself,,, which is a good thing if its communicating something simultaneously - The thing that made me start this project when I was a kid was hearing insane or potentially unflattering home recordings and being in awe of how much power raw honesty had when combined with enough just craft to create an atmosphere and get one's point across-- so, its kind of an obligation, in digging thru tapes that are 20 yrs old, to find things that come VERY close to embarrassing yrself in the quest to reveal what's at the core of all this,,, if you aren't doing that doesn't everything just tumble down toward the same old road of commercialism and produce the inevitably boring / cliche non-articulations we fill our lives with all too often? -- This song was recorded the first year I was in college,,, horribly depressed and spending most of my time hiding from people // I'd become fixated on a soccer player on the girl's team that wore the number 19... ...there's a faint influence from one of Barlow's masterpiece's in the intro in the way the guitars descend ::
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKJmvdrQbBo&feature=kp