Ashes Of Me
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Version 1 is a full studio recording, in stereo. The song is credited to Albert Ribisi
On We Wish You A Larry Christmas the stereo image is reversed |
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Version 2 is a full studio recording, in mono
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I Love You (Brazilian mono LP, T-2924)
I Love You, 7" EP, Capitol EP-21197 Apple Cider 7" Single, Capitol P2251 / 2251 Down Under [On Being, 2LP and special edition cassette versions] |
lyrics version 1 and 2
Make your distinctive statements good friends
Print all my features then print them again
All who find time to look through their hair
See only collages of me standing there
Ooh ooh
I’ve stopped short of reading my name on the wall
The name I was given is not mine at all
Run from your corners and smack into walls
Your one point of view just has no view at all
Stand up and brag to your neighbour, I’m free
But what does it matter, they’re deaf and can’t see
Ooh ooh oh woh
Make your distinctive statement good friends
Print all my features then print them again ooh woh
Signs on theatres invite you to see (Ah ah ah ah)
A colourless movie that’s featuring me (Ah ah ah ah)
Ha
La la la la la la la
Lalalalalala-eeh
[crow cries]
[primate howls]
[horse neighs]
Print all my features then print them again
All who find time to look through their hair
See only collages of me standing there
Ooh ooh
I’ve stopped short of reading my name on the wall
The name I was given is not mine at all
Run from your corners and smack into walls
Your one point of view just has no view at all
Stand up and brag to your neighbour, I’m free
But what does it matter, they’re deaf and can’t see
Ooh ooh oh woh
Make your distinctive statement good friends
Print all my features then print them again ooh woh
Signs on theatres invite you to see (Ah ah ah ah)
A colourless movie that’s featuring me (Ah ah ah ah)
Ha
La la la la la la la
Lalalalalala-eeh
[crow cries]
[primate howls]
[horse neighs]
Psychosis and paranoia will become more prevalent and illusions of grandeur or alternative realities will become very common among ordinary people - like this man. The loss of personal identity in an increasingly technological world will cause schisms in otherwise well, balanced people. Friend will turn against friend. At the end of the song we created a nightmare full of symbolism, including a horse which could carry this victim away to anywhere his mind would take him. It ends with Gene and l loudly whispering a staccato of "chuh chuh chuh . . . ".