How can I fly with these old doggy wings
While the magpie sings some shiny song
Old corn face row of teeth, she says sweetly to me
In the elevator
Everything seems like a dream
And life's a scream
Here come old Kerosene Hat
With his ear flaps waxed, a courting his girl
Come clattering in here on your old cloven skates
With that devilish spoon
Everything seems like a dream
And life's a scream
When you're submarine
So don't you bother me, death, with your leathery ways
And your old chaise lounge
Wickerman's fence of leathery tires
And the cook's gone mad, started several fires
Everything seems like a dream
When you're submarine
Head like a stream she says softly to me
From the rattling chair
Bring me a steak and my old pair of crows
My medicine lamp
Everything seems like a dream
So life's a scream
While the magpie sings some shiny song
Old corn face row of teeth, she says sweetly to me
In the elevator
Everything seems like a dream
And life's a scream
Here come old Kerosene Hat
With his ear flaps waxed, a courting his girl
Come clattering in here on your old cloven skates
With that devilish spoon
Everything seems like a dream
And life's a scream
When you're submarine
So don't you bother me, death, with your leathery ways
And your old chaise lounge
Wickerman's fence of leathery tires
And the cook's gone mad, started several fires
Everything seems like a dream
When you're submarine
Head like a stream she says softly to me
From the rattling chair
Bring me a steak and my old pair of crows
My medicine lamp
Everything seems like a dream
So life's a scream
Cracker
Cracker is an American rock band formed in 1990 by lead singer David Lowery and guitarist Johnny Hickman. The band's first album Cracker was released in 1992 on Virgin Records; it included the single "Teen Angst (What the World Needs Now)", which went to #1 on the U.S. Modern Rock chart. The band's follow-up, the 1993 album Kerosene Hat included the hit songs "Low", "Get Off This", and "Euro-Trash Girl".
Cracker has released nine studio albums and several compilations, collaborations, solo projects and live albums. The band mix influences and sounds from rock, punk, grunge, psychedelia, country, blues and folk.
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If I had a nickel for every time I've heard that phrase...
Sound check.
Hung out with these guys after a show in Winnipeg.
They love Neil Young.
That's because they have class, style, and respect for quality rock and roll. Very much unlike the Neil detractors to be found on these boards.
Hung out with these guys after a show in Winnipeg.
They love Neil Young.
Hung out with these guys after a show in Reno (Sparks).
They love Thai food.
Summertime baby! Time for live music.
Site of the old East Coast Gas Station in Gunsmoke. Cary and Meadow Richmond VA.
In some ways this is part of the inspiration for the song Kerosene Hat. The kerosene hat was the wool hunting cap with earflaps that I would have to wear when I walked to the gas station in the middle of the night to get more kerosene. This was sometimes a scary proposition because if it was too late and the local texaco by VCU was closed, we had to walk to the East Coast station up in the neighborhood known as “Gunsmoke”. Cary and Meadow st. This is still a sketchy area today. It was really quite dangerous in 1990.
The second part of the inspiration for this song was the simple fact that Johnny Hickman and I were older than many of our peers in the alternative and indie rock scene at that time. Also we were one of the few bands that was playing what would later be called Americana. So this is exactly what i’m talking about when I sing:
How can I fly with these old doggy wings
While a magpie sings some shiny song.
Finally the main body of the song is populated by characters that are similar to the broken down houses and people who populated the neighborhood at that time.
This is a fantastic song. When I first heard it, I thought that it must be inspired by Sparklehorse. Then I saw the date of release, and was blown away.
Right?
Could do without the creepy whispering near the end.
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