Tom Catmull and the Clerics: noise and words

• MP3 play whole song, hi-fi (broadband)
• MP3 play whole song, lo-fi (modem)
• MP3 download whole song, hi-fi

This song is basically about the moment when the place you live becomes the place you are from.

you know, it always seems to me

no matter when or where you go

you hear the noisy downtown streets

of  a city with this town in tow

don't ask me about a thing that I don't know

and don't tell me about the world cause I won't go

out to seattle or to north of mexico

might as well be rome.  might as well be rome

 

between the smoke and rumbling sounds

of wheels rollin' for the great divide

you hear the engines in this town

you hear them pausing for a place to hide

 

i'm telling you if nothing is all I got

i'll piss into the wind and this empty

until the lessons of the world have been forgotten or misplaced

you know i sit and think of it all the time

after 10 or 20 years of the easy rhymes

all the words and all the melody all forgotten or erased