Slow Fast

Version 1 is a live recording, performed solo with acoustic guitar

Version 2 is a live recording, performed solo with acoustic guitar during a concert in Northern Ireland

Note that on Rough Diamonds the applause at the end is faded out slightly earlier

Belfast Bootlegs [Pre-release versions]
Rough Diamonds, Precious Jewels

lyrics version 1

I'm on a slow fast
Wonder how much longer I should make it last
I'm on a slow fast
Waiting for a future to improve my past

I wrote this song twenty three years ago
I don't know the words
I started playing this here chord
The memory of that lyric, well that's what I heard

In my mind I heard I'm on a slow fast
I wonder how much longer I can make this last
I'm on a slow fast
Praying for my future to improve my past

Ah da da da da da da
Ah-din da da da
Sometimes you fast to get your prayers answered or
Remove your sin
I'll probably never sing this song again

I'm on a slow fast
Hmm-mm I wonder how much longer I can make this last
I'm on a slow fast
Wonder how much longer this song should last
I'm on a sl-hhhh

lyrics version 2

I'm on a slow fast
I wonder how much longer I should make it last
I'm on a slow fast
I'm praying for a future to replace my past

I've always had a hungry feeling
An appetite I could not deny
When life is ???, eat it
Life is ??? and breathing from the sky

I'm on a slow fast
I wonder how much longer I ca', should make it last
I'm on a slow fast
And I'm waiting, praying for a future to replace my past

Mmm hmm wa ah ah ETC

Slow fast
Hm slow fast
Since I'm in the country where people like real music
Instead o' leaping round
Dropping your clothes to the ground
Electrified, electrocuted on stage
Rock and roll death with a rage
But you all play, you got pianos at home
An' ocarinas
Tambourines
Little brothers that you know how to make them scream
Ireland, I've always loved you
I don't know why
Probably love you 'til the day I say goodbye